They were bribed financially and emotionally; made to believe that their 'hard work' was earning them an easy life complete with assets and security. In exchange they agreed to let absolutely everything that future generations would need to be sold off, and are now bewildered by the results.

They said they’d rather die from violence than hunger.

A year after USAID was cut, the outlook and death toll is the most brutal of Trump’s achievements to date.

The following 3 part video from @propublica.org looks deeper.

Part one/

21-Year-Old's Body Found In Wooded Area Of Georgia Park The unidentified 21-year-old man was found Feb. 14 in Fair Oaks Park in Marietta, Georgia, northwest of the city of Atlanta.

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Black man found hanging in Marietta ga. a couple of days ago. No news coverage again. Likely not a suicide as they are again trying to say. Statistically speaking Black people don’t hang ourselves from trees. Any guess of who would do this?!

Again you’re beating up children. For who? An octogenarian monster who will be dead within this decade?

Trump will be dead by 2030. Anyone who thought fighting children was worth defending his short reign should spend the rest of this century in prison.

Opinion | One Man Stole $660 Million. He’ll Never Pay It Back.

“Illiberal governments tend to live or die by their ability to sustain corruption. They rely for support on a network of oligarchs, who in turn are tied to the administration’s success. It happened in Hungary, Turkey, Russia and increasingly, it is happening here.”

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Donald Trump, a profoundly corrupt individual, twice impeached, demanded that the Supreme Court provide him immunity protection for his misdeeds. Despite the obvious threat posed by a man favored to retake the Presidency while attacking democratic processes and promising retribution to his political opponents, the Republican majority granted his demand.

On news that the President of South Korea was sentenced to life in prison for insurrection, a good time to remember that real democracies do not hand their leaders immunity for actions in office.
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Journalists Arrested in Cameroon While Reporting on Trump’s Secretive Deportation Program

"An Associated Press reporter was beaten by the police and detained along with three other journalists on Tuesday in Cameroon while reporting on a secretive Trump administration program to deport migrants to the Central African country, according to two of the people detained." (gift link)

Bright TV screen, mostly white with blue corners on top sides, with small dark figures in center. In front of the screen, sitting on the TV stand, is a small black cat watching closely the path of the yellow stone moving on the ice.

Olympic update:

Blink has discovered curling. She's a fan!

She occasionally tries to help the rock. I'll have to get her a broom

BREAKING: The Department of Education has ended its directive that attempted to restrict diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts in schools nationwide.

This is a victory for academic freedom and education equity.

Oversight Democrats are not backing down.

If Les Wexner claims he doesn’t remember, then he needs to turn over his financial records and let the money tell the story.

Survivors deserve justice. It’s time for the cover-up to end.

I don’t know who needs to hear Jesse Jackson leading the kids on Sesame Street in this beautiful call-and-response reminding them that every child is somebody, but here it is

How is it possible that Kristi Noem still has this job. Imagine if you’re a family member or a shipmate of this guardsman.

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Don’t forget about the boycott of Trump’s State of the Union next Tuesday. MoveOn and MeidasTouch announced today that they’ll host a “People’s State of the Union” rally at 8:30 p.m. ET near the Capitol!

Robert Duvall, Star of ‘The Godfather’ and ‘The Great Santini,’ Dies at 95 Robert Duvall, who won an Oscar for "Tender Mercies" and was nominated for “The Godfather,” “Apocalypse Now,” and “The Great Santini,” has died.

Our consigliere, oberst, Marine Lieutenant Colonel and Commander of the 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry Regiment is no more.
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Ghislaine Maxwell, a convicted child sex trafficker, gets gardening time, sports, therapy dogs, and spa products in prison.

Migrant children in custody are sleeping on concrete floors without enough food or clean water.

Our priorities are so fucked.

You aren't going to believe what's coming out about this ICE warehouse in Georgia!

Bigots, blacks and Cadillacs, let's talk about it.

Yesterday morning kids were sent running from their bus stop in panic because ICE showed up. This guy at today’s ICE Out of Lindenwold protest is a must watch 😭. @maddow.bsky.social

Let’s face facts!
DHS is using our tax dollars to terrorize us!
Let me explain further!
We the citizens of this USA are paying for them to kill and terrorize us!
Not clear enough!
Why are we paying people to terrorize and kill us?

Anyone currently involved in federal immigration enforcement, every officer, every bureaucrat, every lawyer, every judge, is a member of the most evil group of people this country has seen since Reconstruction. Darkness personified, every one. Doing this to children is beyond depraved.

Minnesota is still under attack.

Federal thugs swarmed Roosevelt High School in Minneapolis. Witnesses report tear gas used on students and staff. At least two school employees were handcuffed. Video evidence is circulating. DHS is denying it happened 🤬

Schools should be safe havens!

He's right, but also it's not just Trump, it's the whole damn rotten neoliberal capitalist system. If we don't stop these nihilists with matches who smirk as they watch the world burn, they will take all of us with them.

Illinois introduces bill that would bar ICE agents hired in Trump’s second term from becoming Illinois law enforcement any time in the present or future.

Day after day, they walk out anyway. Teenagers choosing conscience over comfort, courage over fear. They keep showing up to protest ICE, cages, and inhumanity. In surprising places like Oklahoma, young people persist.

History moves because they refuse silence.
Never give up on young people.

YouTube video by AdditionaLily Alexandre I don't care about the economy (and neither should you)

And furthermore

Border Patrol boss Gregory Bovino tossed from Las Vegas bar Former U.S. Border Patrol Commander-at-Large Gregory Bovino was reportedly asked to leave a Las Vegas bar out of safety concerns for the venue’s customers.

nazi bitches get kicked out of bars

He's disabled. They're going to murder him because he's disabled.

Denúncia nos EUA associou Jeffrey Epstein aos abusos na Casa Pia em Portugal Documentário da Netflix sobre o caso Madeleine McCann levou denunciante a alertar, em 2019, as autoridades dos EUA para uma possível ligação entre Jeffrey Epstein ao escândalo da Casa Pia.

"A complaint sent to U.S. authorities in July 2019 called for the investigation of Jeffrey Epstein's connection to an alleged child abuse scheme by U.S. American millionaires" who flew to Portugal in private jets "for the purpose of abusing children" at the institution of Casa Pia."