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Let Them Fly First Class: Kristi Noem’s DHS Luxury Jet Scandal Inside Noem's flying palace. Plus: Pentagon demands obedient, deadly AI. The race to deploy untested nuclear reactors. Lawmakers move to rein in presidential pardons. And remembering Robert Duvall.

The interior of Kristi Noem’s new billionaire-class luxury jet is complete with two bidets and a wet bar with a wine chiller. It will be purchased on our dime from the slush fund Congress approved in the One Big Beautiful Bill.

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William Kelly after his arraignment and not guilty plea.

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If you're a GOP voter, you have to explain to me why pedophilia is okay, and if you can't finish three sentences before I yell "BIIIIIIITCH HOUUUUSE," you're chemically sterilized

HHS encourages faith-based addiction recovery orgs to apply for federal funding Just over a week after U S Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr announced that faith-based organizations that meet evidence-based addiction recovery standards can apply for federal

HHS is now inviting faith-based groups to apply for billions in addiction & behavioral health grants under Trump’s EO expanding their “autonomy.”

Public funds must serve the public, not subsidize discrimination or proselytizing.

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California's wealth tax doesn't fix the real problem: Cash-poor billionaires who borrow money, tax-free, to live on | Fortune Billionaires live under "buy, borrow, die," and California's wealth tax wouldn't touch that. An estimated $1 trillion of wealth has already fled.

Another absolute necessity: outlaw the billionaire strategy of dodging taxes by living off of tax-free loans against their stocks/real estate holdings. No more "buy-borrow-die."

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To the Students of Synergy Quantum Academy and their teacher, Mr. Lopez You did the right thing by protesting ICE and protecting students.

NEW writing: a letter to these brave Angelenos

"I see your efforts to oppose the terrible actions of la migra, which has terrorized our Black and Brown communities in Los Angeles for generations, as part of a proud tradition of STEM students and practitioners who refuse to shut up and calculate."

SAVE Act:
Asks for naturalization papers which US birth citizens do not have.
Or
REAL ID which requires your last name match that of your birth certificate, which disqualifies married women who are US citizens.
Or
passport which poor rural Americans usually don’t have.

SAVE Act is anti American

Ian McKellen performs “The Strangers’ Case” speech from “Sir Thomas More” on Colbert.

Looking at the mug shots Bondi posted of folks who allegedly impeded ICE officers... I'm reminded me of some of the iconic 1960s images of 'criminals' from counter sitins and freedom rides

In solidarity with today's ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA blackout, MinnMax is donating $1 to the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota for every share of this Bluesky post for the next hour.

Photo of a round cuneiform tablet with 4 lines of text enclosed with lines on the top and bottom. The identifier in black ink at the bottom of the tablet reads "U.E.T. 6/260"

"When a liar enters the city gate,
at his back is a finger,
at his front is a finger."
- Sumerian proverb

The fingers, presumably, are pointing at the liar, who has lied to those behind him and will lie to those in front of him.

Source: cdli.earth/artifacts/34...

Hearing ICE will be in Shelbyville KY starting Monday and the incursion will last 3 weeks. Se ha informado de que el ICE estará en Shelbyville, Kentucky, a partir del lunes, y que la operación durará tres semanas.

A Roosevelt - Poemas de Rubén Darío

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Paigyn Meester of Landman...I am obsessed with the kinds of strawmen Taylor Sheridan thinks up to justify his sadistic fantasies about vegans and like...any working woman.

Taylor Sheridan makes great shows and movies, but this last episode of Landman made me sign off for an over the top derogatory portrayal of a throwaway trans character concocted from the worst stereotypes create by the rightwing podcasting assholes.
Add to it, he portrays their "victims" as...

I would write a poem
about what it makes you
if you look Good in the face
and fire your gun
But she was the poet who wrote about making room for wonder
And you are the one who took her words

给支持ICE当街杀人的华川基分享一段中文圣经：

就是你们多多地祈祷，我也不听。
你们的手都满了杀人的血。
你们要洗濯、自洁，
从我眼前除掉你们的恶行，
要止住作恶，
学习行善，
寻求公平，
解救受欺压的；
给孤儿伸冤，
为寡妇辨屈。
(以赛亚书 1:15-17 和合本)

US protester arrested after TV interview says she was targeted due to Venezuela trip Plichta faces misdemeanor charges, which locals say is a tactic of Grand Rapids police to suppress protests

new @us.theguardian.com

A 22 y/o organizer + teacher was arrested on camera during an interview after speaking at a Mich. protest over Maduro's abduction

Jessica Plichta says her arrest seems tied to her recent trip to Venezuela as part of an internationalist peace delegation amid Trump's blockade

Honestly think that if you pulled twitter from the App Store and shut it down it would fuck up the entire right wing ecosystem at that point. Like the entire media apparatus would fall apart.

the fastest growing gofundme I’ve seen in my life.

The strangest things As we’re culturally reeling from the finale of Stranger Things, it’s hard not to point out how weak the writing was. Many of the show’s flaws sat right on

As we’re culturally reeling from the finale of Stranger Things, it’s hard not to point out how weak the writing was. Many of the show’s flaws sat right on the surface.
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A Mole Infiltrated the Highest Ranks of American Militias. This Is What He Found. Outraged by the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, a wilderness survival trainer spent years undercover climbing the ranks of right-wing militias. He didn’t tell police or the FBI. He didn’t tell family or friends....

Our most-read story of 2025:

Outraged by the Jan. 6 riot, a vigilante spent years undercover climbing the ranks of right-wing militias. He didn’t tell police or the FBI. He didn’t tell family or friends. The one person he told was a ProPublica reporter.

The pawpaw: America's forgotten native fruit finds new popularity Apples, oranges and bananas are sold in abundance in supermarkets throughout the country. But some say the most American fruit is one you'll likely never see in the produce department, and it's one you've probably never heard of. Deema Zein bites into t...

Apples, oranges and bananas are sold in abundance in supermarkets throughout the country. But some say the most American fruit is one you’ll likely never see in the produce department, and it’s one you’ve probably never heard of. https://to.pbs.org/4o9epsl

heads up that bluesky doesnt show posts from other languages by default on your timeline, and its cutting you off from a lot of the community

go to bsky.app/settings/lan... and deselect any language from this setting, or else you might not see any of the new japanese users at all!

It's a shit time to be alive if you can empathise with people you've never known