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NEW: After further analysis, metadata shows 2 minutes and 53 seconds were removed from the Epstein jail video. www.wired.com/story/the-fb...

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.

This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.

It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

Lunacy. They just funded Trump’s private army.

The best throw blankets have a snuggly pup underneath.

Trump’s Gestapo is not protecting, they’re terrorizing

Hear, hear!

Third Place Books :)

There is one place, however, where Musk, with the help of his minions, achieved his goals. He did indeed shred U.S.A.I.D. Though a rump operation is now operating inside the State Department, the administration says that it has terminated more than 80 percent of U.S.A.I.D. grants. Brooke Nichols, an associate professor of global health at Boston University, has estimated that these cuts have already resulted in about 300,000 deaths, most of them of children, and will most likely lead to significantly more by the end of the year. That is what Musk’s foray into politics accomplished.

Musk should be asked about this in every interview he does now and forever. To ignore it is a dereliction of duty.

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Your daily reminder that the U.S. Postal SERVICE is a service that is designed to benefit taxpayers and not a business that should be expected to turn a profit.

Out of Service: How Wall Street Turned Fire Trucks, Fabric Stores, and Public Safety into Collateral Private equity rolls up America’s lifelines while BlackRock quietly funds the collapse with your retirement savings

New on Substack: “Out of Service” Joann’s is gone. Fire trucks sat idle as California burned. This is the business model. Private equity bleeds communities dry, and #BlackRock funds it all with your pension. #privateequity
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Dear senators who think you can’t do anything,

Today, Senator Van Hollen - through diplomatic pressure - got a meeting with Abrego Garcia in El Salvador. So that thing you’re thinking about doing? DO IT.

~ All of Us

Tulips at sunset … and tulips at sunset with Ziggy!

Members of Congress should never be allowed to trade stocks. Period.

Does anyone remember Signalgate?

sometimes I feel like a dinosaur, cause no one looks anything up anymore 🦕

I had legit completely forgotten this.

I'm not saying anything novel here but it really is just truly despicable to watch them use THEIR OWN COLOSSAL SCREW UP to slander the reporter THEY INCLUDED ON THEIR CLASSIFIED GROUP CHAT

Tyrants view educated citizens as their greatest enemy.

Slaveholders stopped the enslaved from learning to read. Nazis burned books. Dictators censor media.

That’s why Trump is attacking education, science, museums, and the arts – to prevent us from learning.

It's Fascism 101.

Love it!

Is it at all surprising that a convicted felon would ignore a judge's order?

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I figured it out after the third try, but then wanted to make a pattern.
Might the answer be related to a recent announcement?

the stock market is crashing so hard today it resembles a SpaceX rocket

🚨 EMERGENCY PRESS CONFERENCE

Columbia/Barnard faculty, Jewish community leaders, immigrant advocates, and rabbis are demanding the immediate release of Mahmoud Khalil from ICE custody.

We will not be silent or cower in the face of American Fascism. #FreeMahmoud

A coworker and friend made this for Ziggy—too cute not to share. My shy, timid little 5 lb. senior dog!

Some of my favorite signs from yesterday’s International Women’s Day March in Seattle.

As Trump tells us how great everything is going, here are the headlines on the Wall Street Journal site right now