This shutdown was about to turn on the Dems. I work with food pantries and it was mass panic. I don’t like what happened but they made the right decision. Keeping the government open wasn’t going to continue to be in the Dems favor.

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Canceled and sold off my stock

Reporters from across newsrooms in Chicago are collaborating to collect visual evidence of federal agents detaining people & using force in Chicago. Send videos to tinyurl.com/chicagojournalists, or get in touch via email chicagojournalists@protonmail.com.

This would explain a lot.

STATEHOOD FOR D.C.

Oh, so that’s what this was about in Concord, NH this weekend. I hadn’t realized Trump was losing the Neo-Nazi vote.

Masked group with swastika flags marches on State House lawn in Concord Videos show the group tussling with passersby in downtown Concord. Police say they are investigating the incident

Masked Nazis marching and assaulting people in Concord. #NHPolitics www.nhpr.org/nh-news/2025...

Border agent charged with child sex trafficking, fraud in Cochise County A Tucson Sector Border Patrol agent has been indicted on 24 felony charges, the latest in a series of sexual-misconduct convictions or charges against CBP employees in Arizona.

tucson.com/news/local/b...

Since 1980, there have been over 400 weather disasters in the US, with total damages over $1 billion.

These disasters have cost $2.9 trillion in total and killed nearly 17,000 people.

Don't tell me we "can't afford" to address the climate crisis.

The truth is we can’t afford not to.

Andry José Hernández Romero, I remember you, even if I do not know how to articulate my horror, rage, & sorrow at your treatment by my government.

No one has heard from you in 113 days.

As vigil, I’m posting a photo or video of you every day until you are returned from El Salvador.

Andry José Hernández Romero in the mountains.

Andry José Hernández Romero, I remember you, even if I do not know how to articulate my horror, rage, & sorrow at your treatment by my government.

No one has heard from you in 110 days.

As vigil, I’m posting a photo or video of you every day until you are returned from El Salvador.

Republicans want 1.1 *trillion* dollars in cuts to Americans' health care.

www.nytimes.com/2025/06/29/u...

100 days. 💔

The U.S. Senate is currently considering a budget reconciliation bill that quietly includes language that could devastate our public lands. It would:
- Make over 250 million acres of public land eligible for sale
- Mandate the sale of at least 2 million acres of Forest Service and BLM land

An Afghan man who worked as a translator for the U.S. military during the war was detained by ICE after showing up for a hearing inside of a federal courthouse in San Diego, his attorney says. He fears that if he returns to Afghanistan, he would be tortured or even killed, @nbcsandiego.com reports.

"We are devastated and heartbroken at the loss of our parents, Melissa and Mark. They were the bright lights at the center of our lives, and we can't believe they are gone. Their love for us was boundless. We miss them so much. "We want everyone to know that we are both safe and with loved ones. We are grateful for the outpouring of love and support we have received, and we appreciate your respect for our family's privacy as we grieve. "Our family would like to thank law enforcement for their swift action that saved others and for the coordination across communities that led to the arrest of the man who murdered our parents. We especially would like to thank the officers who were first on the scene to our parents' home and their heroic attempts to rescue our mom and dad. "Our parents touched so many lives, and they leave behind an incredible legacy of dedication to their community that will live on in us, their friends, their colleagues and co-workers, and every single person who knew and loved them. "If you would like to honor the memory of Mark and Melissa, please consider the following: • Plant a tree. • Visit a local park and make use of their amenities, especially a bike trail. • Pet a dog. A golden retriever is ideal, but any will do. • Tell your loved ones a cheesy dad joke and laugh about it. • Bake something — bread for Mark or a cake for Melissa, and share it with someone. • Try a new hobby and enjoy learning something. • Stand up for what you believe in, especially if that thing is justice and peace. "Hope and resilience are the enemy of fear. Our parents lived their lives with immense dedication to their fellow humans. This tragedy must become a moment for us to come together. Hold your loved ones a little closer. Love your neighbors. Treat each other with kindness and respect. The best way to honor our parents' memory is to do something, whether big or small, to make our community just a little better for someone else."

Please read and share this statement from Sophie and Colin Hortman, children of Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark.

(via WCCO reporter Caroline Cummings on X)

#ObamaAppreciationDay #ObamaAppreciationDay #ObamaAppreciationDay #ObamaAppreciationDay

The L.A. protesters have really gone too far this time… 🌼

Tattoos are not a crime. Being gay is not a crime. Seeking asylum is not a crime.

Why is Andry in a mega-prison in El Salvador?

#DisappearedInAmerica #AbductedByTrump

So I don’t have to plan a trip to Canada to get my Covid shot? Totally planned on the 3 hour drive.

Graphs showing 25 years of budgets for the National Institute of Health, NASA, and the NSF. In all cases, the proposed budget for next year is far, far below any year of the previous quarter century.

There are 2 previous historical cases of countries destroying their science and universities, crippling them for decades: Lysenkoism in the USSR and Nazi Germany. The Trump administration will be the 3rd.
It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.

The House budget is a health care cataclysm for America.

15 million Americans will lose their health care.

#HealthCareCutsKill

The very definition of evil is incarcerating for life in one of the worst hellholes on Earth men who did everything right.

But it’s beyond evil—beyond demonic—to then not try to do anything to save the men you consigned to Hell, *and* to in fact libel and slander them daily when they cannot reply.

💯

Andry José Hernández Romero, putting a client’s hair in rollers, now in a jail for terrorists where not only is he held in complete isolation, but where no one will confirm if he’s alive.

Andry José Hernández Romero, I remember you, even if I do not know how to articulate my horror, rage, & sorrow at your treatment by my government.

No one has heard from you in 63 days.

As vigil, I’m posting a photo of you every day until you are returned from El Salvador.

Before vaccines, 1 in 5 babies didn’t survive a year. -Dr. Neil Stone

@drneilstone.bsky.social

I'll just take this moment to point out that the US Institute of Peace, just a few weeks ago, contained one of the finest concentrations of US expertise on India and Pakistan, and crisis management in South Asia.