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Homeland Security @DHSgov Which way, American man? http://JOIN.ICE.GOV photo of uncle sam with his hat off at a crossroads with title "America Needs You, Join ICE Now"

DHS is recruiting using a not-so-subtle reference to a 1978 book from white nationalist William Gayley Simpson, Which Way Western Man?

Simpson's book was released under an imprint associated with the National Alliance, founded by Turner Diaries author William Luther Pierce.

@DHSgov on X: We’re taking father/son bonding to a whole new level. JOIN.ICE.GOV 06 Aug 25 [Young man and old man in ICE gear]

Wehrschiessen des Deutschen Volkes 1944 [Young man and old man sharing a rifle]

Oh look, ICE is copying literal Nazi recruiting propaganda again. The poster on the right is for the Volkssturm, the Nazi militia of older men and boys established during the final months of World War II.

The billionaire CEO of the third richest company on the planet gives the President an actual block of gold so his company is exempted from US Government tariffs. And the whole thing is broadcast live on TV.

Anyone who can't see what is happening to this country is unsalvageable at this point.

Mastering the art of talking out both sides of one’s mouth

It’s clear that 47’s final solution is for vulnerable populations to die

What could possibly go wrong with this plan? 🌏 💥 ⚛️ 🌒

There’s nothing that screams FUCK SAFETY FIRST more than putting a potentially Earth-killing technology in a hard-to-reach place like the god damned moon.

Fundamental immunology 101: the basics of an immune response Tackling infections

I thought it might be helpful to do a more general immunology explainer which I can then build on for example when I discuss specific papers or political actions. Do let me know if its useful and other topics if so. This first one is a general one about how we tackle infections... 🧪 #ImmunoSky

Chronically Ill? In Kennedy’s View, It Might Be Your Own Fault - KFF Health News In their zeal to “Make America Healthy Again,” top Trump administration officials depict patients and the doctors who treat them as partly responsible for whatever ails them.

Chronically Ill? In Kennedy’s View, It Might Be Your Own Fault

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YouTube video by Democracy Now! Fmr. Green Beret Who Worked at Gaza Food Sites Reveals Rampant War Crimes

They were also interviewed on @democracynow.org youtu.be/57htMYk4UqM?...

Democrats Try Obscure Rule to Force Epstein File Release Senate Democrats invoked a century-old law as they demand the Justice Department release the Epstein files.

“The public has a right to know who enabled, knew of, or participated in one of the most heinous sex trafficking operations in history.”

The Epstein Cover-Up at the FBI Inside the chaotic review process of the Epstein and Maxwell files at the Bureau

EXCLUSIVE: Not only does an Excel spreadsheet of Trump mentions in the Epstein files exist, but so do training videos explaining how to flag the files for Trump mentions. Plus, the number of people who had access is larger than previously known. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/the-epstei...

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Your periodic reminder that the estimated cost to end hunger in the U.S. is $25 billion.

The cost to end homelessness in the U.S. is also only $10 billion a year with a housing-first approach.

Billionaires are directly stealing from all of us.

J.D. Vance endorsed book that calls progressives “unhumans” and praises Jan. 6 rioters The GOP veep candidate embraced the extreme view that today's left is part of a centuries-long effort to "destroy" civilization.

It’s plausible that the wealthy elite class is convinced that they can thrive if they kill off the most vulnerable and marginalized. Their minions are following a dark playbook www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Abolition and Environmental Justice - Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Craig Gilmore, Judah Schept, & Lydia Pelot-Hobbs - Inquest Solidarity between abolitionist and environmental justice organizers doesn’t just happen. It results from careful, long-term work to unearth a shared set of goals.

"The prison fight should rightly be understood as a fight against environmental injustice." —Ruth Wilson Gilmore inquest.org/abolitio...

The ugly truth is front page news in Scotland

This image features two women standing on either side of a man (from left to right) Melania Knauss (now Melania Trump), Donald Trump, and Ghislaine Maxwell. 

A photographer snapped a pic of a casual moment when Melania Knauss, Donald Trump, and Ghislaine Maxwell were chilling with Mr. Epstein at the Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach, Florida, on February 12, 2000 when Melania was Donald Trump's girlfriend. 

How many non g-rated versions of this photo exist?

Trump Wants to Cut Tribal College Funding by Nearly 90%, Putting Them at Risk of Closing ProPublica found that Congress was underfunding tribal colleges by a quarter-billion dollars per year. Rather than fixing the problem, proposed federal funding cuts unveiled this week would devastate ...

NEW: A nearly 90% funding cut proposed by the Trump administration would likely shut down and devastate the 37 tribal colleges and universities created to serve the students disadvantaged by the nation’s historic mistreatment of Indigenous communities.

By @mattkrupnick.bsky.social

What motivates officials who craft legislation that will inarguably result in increased wealth inequality, homelessness, illness, and death?

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The divine right of kings ended because human beings did things. In a bunch of places.

Because things got so bad that that's what had to happen. How that happened, how that change happened, went differently in different places.

There's not one answer.

Louisiana hospitals warn Mike Johnson of 'devastation' from megabill

Every major health system in Louisiana is warning Speaker Mike Johnson and the rest of the state’s congressional delegation that the Senate GOP’s planned Medicaid cuts “would be historic in their devastation.”

They grow super sized, equal opportunity fascists down there

In today’s episode of What Are They Thinking: “If you don’t see a hurricane coming… does it really exist?”

🚨 The Dept of Defense is shutting down its weather satellite program. No more data. No more updates. Meteorologists are scrambling—and we’re heading into peak storm season.

Brilliant timing.

It was never just about undocumented people. The cruelty is snowballing.

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Holy Crap. Just straight up looting at this point. Or like was already looting. But just bringing in a semi to haul out the loot faster.

A screenshot of a tweet that reads “GOP negotiators looking at expanding the enhanced FMAP rate to at least three more states in addition to Alaska and Hawaii in order to pass muster with parliamentarian. Enhanced FMAP would be based on state population density and include North Dakota, South Dakota and Wyoming. Big effort being made to woo Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski.”

Republicans are about to decimate Medicaid across the country and their top two Senate leaders are trying to get their states exempted from the cuts at the 11th hour.

Is Donald Trump About to Launch a Denaturalization Purge? Mass denaturalization could be used to move the country toward the MAGA movement’s larger goal of a white Christian nationalist United States.

“Naturalized citizens are the obvious next category to be added to the purge, and, unlike some of Trump’s other brash eviscerations of due process that his administration is considering, the legal architecture for stripping people of their citizenship already exists.“

Senate Republicans are calling to cut Medicaid and CHIP by over $1 trillion, growing to an 18% cut by 2034.

This would be at least four times the size of the largest Medicaid cut in history.

A child dies of malnutrition every 15 seconds, as close to 200 THOUSAND boxes of special food specifically for starving children sit idle in Rhode Island due to Trump’s funding and aid cuts. They are spending significantly MORE taxpayer money to do this than to just distribute the food.