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YouTube video by Hank Green 1% of Georgia Needs to Watch This Video

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Solid explainer on why the Public Service Commission elections in Georgia this fall matter!

The First Amendment explicitly guarantees:

-the right of the people peaceably to assemble
-to petition the Government for a redress of grievances
-the free exercise of religion
-freedom of speech

If this priest had also been press, ICE would have violated all five 1A freedoms at once.

wrote this line yesterday:

"If President Trump were, in other words, trying to instigate some kind of national divorce, it is hard to imagine what he would be doing differently than this."

Random business idea: re-poppable ball for dogs that love popping kids’ basketballs/footballs/etc.

I was sent this by a Georgian this morning. 2025 premiums vs 2026 premiums for someone making $65k a year.

Republicans in Washington did this.

This is what I'm fighting to stop. This is what’s at stake in this shutdown fight.

Rodrick Johnson, 67, is one of many residents who were detained by federal agents during the South Shore raid. A U.S. citizen, he said agents broke through his door and dragged him out in zip ties. Johnson said he was left tied up outside the building for nearly three hours before agents finally let him go. “I asked [agents] why they were holding me if I was an American citizen, and they said I had to wait until they looked me up,” Jones said. “I asked if they had a warrant, and I asked for a lawyer. They never brought one.”

What DHS pulled in Chicago on Tuesday is wildly unconstitutional. They smashed down almost every door in the building, dragged entire families into the street, and detained people for hours ("Kavanaugh stops").

Ms. Fisher was held for five hours and another senior citizen was held for three hours.

Zohran Mamdani calling it a genocide on The View and getting applause.

Did you cancel your Disney+ subscription because you’re sick of the Regime violating the 1st Amendment?

Then sign this petition to free Mario Guevara, an Atlanta journalist who is about to be illegally deported because his reporting on immigration and law enforcement is "dangerous." 👇

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Random business idea: vending machines / kiosks at EV charging stations. Carpooled in a friend’s EV en route to a frisbee tournament over the weekend and we stopped to charge several times but, without a gas station, I wasn’t picking up my typical road trip delights - Gatorade, gum, etc.

i have said this before but when “getting rid of race in admissions” for the administration means “you can’t even try to reach out to underrepresented communities and encourage them to apply and if you do it is illegal discrimination against white people” then the actual goal here is segregation

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ICE killed a single dad at a traffic stop here on Friday

Today they are disappearing people again in broad daylight, they are everywhere

If you have any national platform at all

Chicago is fucking begging you, please help us

It's not even worth mentioning that these Korean workers are here legally, ICE is just torturing any non-white person they can get their hands on

Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

As someone who enjoys puzzles, I’ve recently discovered and become obsessed with these things called cryptics!

Minute Cryptic - 11 September, 2025
"Blank white squares in a box? The first of tricky problems" (7)
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I scored: 3 under par
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Worth getting through or around the paywall

CDC employees standing up and walking out in light of the mass shootings, firings, and *waves hands in the air* everything else.

#USAnotRFK

Lets gooooo

Something very very weird happened during the Hugos award ceremony... It's been on my mind for days, and so I wrote this blog: "When People Giggle at Your Name, or the 2025 Hugo Awards Incident"

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#Worldcon

The White House is mobilizing red state military forces to occupy a Democratic stronghold and let me tell you: No one has ever pretended something isn't happening harder than Democratic leaders are pretending this isn't happening right now.

THIS IS NOT CONSTITUTIONAL.

They cannot commandeer state and local law enforcement because they want to.

THIS IS NOT LAWFUL.

They cannot use federalized guard or military personnel for civilian law enforcement absent rebellion and insurrection.

this is just straight-up dictatorship and it’s repulsive and pathetic our newspapers and TV stations still won’t say so. there is no emergency. there is no precedent for this in US history. Trump is establishing military and paramilitary control of the capital

I’ve gone from my door in Kirkwood through security to the gate in 60 minutes using MARTA! It’s awesome.

This column was published well before the news from overseas that journalists from Al Jazeera were killed by Israeli forces in Gaza. Harming journalists (and otherwise documentarians and witnesses) conceals truth, and that's unacceptable.

Archived link here: archive.is/pr9HN

in a functioning political and media ecosystem, both the fbi meddling in the tx dems’ gambit and the president openly stating his intention to meddle with election results and population counts would be two independent but obviously connected five alarm fires

US health agency to wind down mRNA vaccine development The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services said on Tuesday it would wind down mRNA vaccine development activities under its biomedical research unit.

I think they’ve turned against vaccines for the same reason they’ve turned against weather forecasting & broadband access & childcare tax credits: it’s an area where government investment has an obvious benefit for the public and thus must be eliminated to reduce trust in government’s abilities.

This is such a damning video. You should watch it if you haven’t.

Senate Democrats urge U.S. to stop funding GHF, resume support for U.N. food distribution in Gaza as more starve Senate Democrats told the secretary of state they have "grave concerns" about the U.S. role in financing GHF, the main group distributing aid in Gaza.

Families in Gaza are starving to death. Meanwhile, Trump & Netanyahu are using US taxpayer dollars to replace international aid orgs in Gaza with mercenaries — leading to even more deaths.

ENOUGH.

I led 20 Senators in calling on Trump to stop supporting this barbarity:

I just don’t have it in me to even think about strategic ways to pressure anyone at this point. It’s been two years of an ongoing genocide and now children are so weak from starvation they can’t even cry. Imagine starving a child to the point you silence them. 1/

In recent days, I operated on two women who were shot by quadcopters while sheltering in their tents near one of the locations, according to the people who brought them in. One was breastfeeding her child when she was hit; the second was pregnant. Thankfully, both have survived their injuries so far. These women weren't even seeking aid - they were simply sheltering in areas that are supposedly "safe" but exposed to indiscriminate fire from the IDF's weaponised hunger apparatus.

What is left to say? www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The songs are all great! Feel like songs of the summer for frisbee things perhaps

The press is a threat to fascism.

They’ll attempt to silence journalists any way they can.

Some are silenced by their networks (like Colbert & CBS)

Some are silenced with violence like the Brit & Aussie journalists shot with less lethal ammo

Some are detained by ICE

Speak out for all of them