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NEWS: An AFP fact-check reveals that a video posted by Donald Trump and the White House depicting "chaos" in Chicago as justification for deploying the national guard features old footage of incidents in other states including Florida, Texas, South Carolina and Nebraska.

"It is not a stretch to say some will die."

Watch & share: As the #TrumpShutdownDragsOn, healthcare professional Jackie Bush Holcomb tells Congress how hospitals and clinics are being pushed to the brink.

Fully corrupt SCOTUS to dismantle Voting Rights Act to steal 20+ House seats so a 34x convicted white supremacist felon can retain House majority by silencing Black voters (left). The chief architect of white power & sexual predator (right).

“Free speech” only counts if you’re a white bigot.

More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days. The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...

Extraordinary NEW story: We Found That More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days. @nicolefoy.bsky.social w/ photos by @sbmaneyphoto.bsky.social

BREAKING: Trump commutes sentence of disgraced former congressman George Santos.

“I just signed a Commutation, releasing George Santos from prison, IMMEDIATELY. Good luck George, have a great life!”

If anyone's wondering how this is possible, the answer is these strike teams are moving terrifyingly fast. Grab first, ask questions later. We were about 8-15 minutes behind them today for several hours. They're jumping out of vans, chasing people across lawns, taking them from bus stops, etc

Top US Army general says he’s using ChatGPT to help make key command decisions

dawg we are gonna lose a war because ChatGPT has this guy mobilizing divisions that don't exist and tasking real troops with holding mountain passes and ports an LLM hallucinated

Since we appear to be back in 2009/10, it is worth noting that it took the addition of 600,000 jobs over 14 years from 2009 to 2023 to get the number of unemployed people down by 52,000. [1/2]

🚨 Driving drunk with your kids in the car and thinking that is okay because you are an ICE agent answers all the unasked questions.

My husband’s ballot came in the mail. Mine did not. I looked into why and…

I was purged from the voting roll.

PLEASE CONFIRM YOUR VOTER REGISTRATION.

YouTube video by WESH 2 News Palm Bay councilman censured for conduct and controversial rally

GOP Councilman Chandler Langevin of Palm Bay, Florida was censored tonight following a 3-2 vote by the city council after he posted a series of racist comments on social media attacking the Indian American community, including “Deport every Indian immediately” and “Indians are destroying the South.”

When a White House press secretary uses dehumanizing language like this - labeling millions of Americans as “terrorists” or “criminals” - it crosses a line that should matter to everyone, regardless of party.

This should never be acceptable from the people who speak for the President of the USA.👇

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Hey @nytimes.com, did you change your headline, and change "Islamophobic attacks" on Mamdani to just "attacks," because Elise Stefanik and the GOP bullied you into it? Really? Why are they no longer Islamophobic attacks, as your headline originally and correctly stated?

This morning, I was hit in the face by a baton.

I’m going to have a pretty gnarly bruise but we need to remember why this is happening: Trump and ICE are rounding up our neighbors, treating them as subhuman, and shipping them off to labor camps in foreign countries. It has to end.

there’s quite literally no purpose in continuing to pay taxes if they’re going to weaponize them against a majority of people paying them like this

I am planning on going to No Kings gathering this weekend in central Texas. And since I was terminated by MSNBC a few weeks ago, can someone let me know where to pick up paycheck that GOP keeps talking about. I have asked many folks going to No Kings, and none are getting paid.

The Border Patrol agent who shot a woman after their vehicles collided in Brighton Park this month has since driven his vehicle to Maine, preventing her defense attorney from examining it as he prepares for trial “as soon as possible,” the attorney told a judge Thursday. The car is the “centerpiece” of the dispute over the Oct. 4 incident involving Marimar Martinez and Anthony Ian Santos Ruiz, attorney Chris Parente explained to U.S. District Judge Georgia Alexakis. Now Parente said he intends to ask for sanctions in the hot-button case. In the meantime, Alexakis told prosecutors, “I think you need to get the car back.” She ordered it returned to Chicago on a flatbed trailer, at Parente’s request. Related Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims agent said, ‘Do something b----' before shooting Parente, who represents Martinez, also raised concerns about potential evidence tampering. The car at issue is the agent’s personal vehicle, a prosecutor told the judge.

Holy shit. The Chevy Tahoe Border Patrol used to slam Marimar Martinez before shooting her was the personal vehicle of the officer involved, not a rental and not CBP's--and he drove it back to Maine.

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North Carolina Elections Chief Demands Voters’ Full Social Security Numbers From DMV Read more here.

🚨BREAKING: North Carolina’s top elections official is pressing the state’s Division of Motor Vehicles for unprecedented access to voters’ full Social Security numbers — a move that could erode voter privacy protections and lay the groundwork for mass voter purges

shh! don’t wake the elderly golfer. his own press conferences put him to sleep. scenes from another batshit presser

here's today's post: "shh! don’t wake the elderly golfer. his own press conferences put him to sleep." — scenes from another batshit presser
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“.. It’s to the point now where .. I could lose everything ... Being a small business owner isn’t worth it when your country turns on you,” said Jared Hendricks, the CEO of Village Lighting, a small business selling Christmas products.

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I just can’t with calling these horrible humans “kids.”

Ever notice when it’s a Black 18-year-old male, he’s a “man,” but when it’s a white 27-year-old male, he’s a “kid.”

It’s painfully clear. By refusing to swear in Adelita Grijalva, Speaker Johnson’s covering up Jeffrey Epstein’s global sex-trafficking ring.

Hey GOP: Bring back the House, cancel your health care cuts, reopen the government and release the files.

All right, that's it. Pack it in, America.

Wow, Republicans are outraged at Karoline Leavitt calling half the country d̶e̶p̶l̶o̶r̶a̶b̶l̶e̶s̶ terrorists

"Stephen Miller is clearly ordering people to break the law."

Gov. JB Pritzker

LONDON (AP) — Buckingham Palace says Prince Andrew to stop using titles and honors, including the Duke of York.

I never again want to hear House Republicans disparage people they claim are too lazy to work