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A tweet from the official Department of Homeland Security account tags @SenatorDurbin and reads: “.@SenatorDurbin, this is SHAMEFUL. Want to talk about TERRORIZING? How about condemn the terrorist attacks and mass assaults against our law enforcement.” It continues: “Our @ICEgov officers are PROTECTING our communities from illegal alien gang members, rapists, and child sex offenders—that YOU are supporting. You should be thanking our brave men and women of @ICEgov instead of demonizing them.”

Senator Dick Durbin posts: “Your agents arrested a young cancer patient’s dad. She’d just returned from chemotherapy. No criminal record. Immigrants aren’t the threat here. You are.” Below the tweet is a photo showing a man wearing a cap and an American flag t-shirt sitting next to a smiling young girl in a sombrero at a restaurant, with food and drinks on the table in front of them.

Sen. Durbin isn’t taking Kristi Noem’s crap. Nor should he!

Japanese print of a single ghostly bat

REV. BLACK (who was shot in the head with a pepper ball): “If this is what they’re doing to pastors, journalists, teachers, mothers, and the elderly gathered to sing and pray outside ICE facilities… what might they be doing to our neighbors who are behind those walls?”

FACT: In July, Marsha Blackburn voted for the largest cut to SNAP in the history of the program.

Now, 700,000 TN children, seniors & people w/ disabilities are going to miss meals and she’s pretending to care b/c she’s running for Governor.

She thinks your too dumb to remember

The reality the regime wants to push us back to.

Congressional candidate @katmabu.bsky.social, who was indicted today for protesting outside the Broadview ICE facility: "We've been punched, dragged, thrown, shot with pepper balls, tear gassed, rubber bullets from snipers on roofs going into local businesses windows."

I could definitely get behind this, no work, you don't get paid! But I have a feeling that they probably wouldn't vote it through 🫤
#motiontovacate
#governmentshutdown

Is it any wonder why so many think the system is rigged?

Here's Rep. Gregory Meeks, top Dem on the House Foreign Affairs Cmte, after a briefing with DOD officials about Trump's now-routine killings of people on supposed "drug boats":

"Incredible" for "how completely absent any credible legal rationale was for the admin's" strikes.

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...

www.propublica.org/article/immi...

BREAKING: Furloughed employees at CDC just received an email about the shutdown, but has REMOVED language about backpay that appeared in a similar email sent out a month ago. On the left is the Oct 1st email with the backpay language, on the right is the email they received today.

Retired couple (teacher & union carpenter) on ACA premiums skyrocketing — from $443/month to $2,224/month: “It's like buying another house and trying to pay for two houses at the same time… without the subsidy we honestly don’t know what we’re gonna do.” #TrumpShutdown

National Guard troops briefly deployed to Portland despite judge’s order, federal trial reveals The revelation came to light today in federal court in Portland, where U.S. District Court Judge Karin Immergut will decide if President Trump acted lawfully or violated the state’s rights by trying t...

Repeatedly lying in court and defying court orders. Why no charges for contempt?

The current homepage of USDA. This is deeply and profoundly fucked up. And illegal. People need to go to jail.

America’s super-rich are running down the planet’s safe climate spaces, says Oxfam Data shows wealthiest 0.1% of the US burn carbon at 4,000 times the rate of the world’s poorest 10%

The wealthiest 0.1% emit an average of 2.2 tonnes of #CO2 every day, equivalent to the weight of a rhinoceros

At the other, a citizen of #Somalia burns off just 82 grams barely the mass of a single tomato

The average for everyone on the planet is 12kg a day

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

This was just posted by a CBS News producer on their Instagram stories.

MAKE THIS IDIOCY STOP!

Posted by Mike Pence’s former Chief of Staff.

ARE YOU PAYING ATTENTION YET? HE'S SAYING EXACTLY WHAT HE INTENDS TO DO. WAKE UP!

‘My Living Nightmare’: What’s Lost in the East Wing Demolition A historian of first ladies laments Trump’s destruction of the East Wing.

“My living nightmare”: A historian of first ladies says destruction of the East Wing will have long-lasting consequences.

Why fallout from Trump’s demolition job may linger👇

I agree....

Amnesty International is calling a U.S. strike in April on a prison in Yemen that killed dozens of detained African migrants a war crime. It followed a similar strike on the same prison compound back in 2022 by a Saudi-led coalition targeting the Houthis.