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Once Donald Trump gets the citizens of this nation comfortable with the current atrocities committed under the color of law – what comes next?

“You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.” ~Ray Bradbury

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Frey: And don't just say, this is about thoughts and prayers right now. These kids were literally praying. It was the first week of school. They were in a church.

I don’t know why anyone is surprised by this. The most famous off-cycle redistricting was the Texas GOP in 2003.

Dems left the state to prevent a quorum then, too.

The GOP always uses the “rules for thee but not for me” playbook.

Health Experts Speak Out After RFK Jr. Eliminates $500 Million In mRNA Vaccine Contracts He is a danger to us all.

This man is a danger to us all.

Parts of the Constitution were erased from the Library of Congress website, including the section featuring the foreign emoluments clause.

The removal was blamed on a "coding error."

Here's a reminder of what the clause says, just in case Congress ever decides to enforce it...

Love me some big twist!

Ghislaine Maxwell has been barred from participating in service dog training while in prison because of her crimes.

I feel like if prison officials don't trust you around dogs, you shouldn't be eligible for a pardon under any circumstances.

Virginia Giuffre’s brother: Calling it a hoax is a complete disgrace to everything that my sister has worked for, everything these survivors have worked for and continue to fight for… And that feels very uncompassionate coming from somebody that’s the leader of our country.

When public media disappears, so do the stories that bring us together.

With federal funding eliminated, millions may lose their last trusted source of news and connection.

If that matters to you, now’s the time to act. Donate: n.pr/458sOhq

'I don't care about Direct File': IRS chief says agency plans to end free filing program Internal Revenue Service Commissioner Bill Long said the agency will end its Direct File program.

The IRS's free Direct File tool is now "gone," according to Trump's IRS chief.

This comes after tax prep companies like Intuit, the maker of TurboTax, lobbied the for years to block it.

Intuit donated $1M to Trump’s inauguration.

See how this works?

Oh no, we missed caturday! Simba sends a day late pic!

Breaking from the Office of Pres. Obama:

"Our office does not normally dignify the constant nonsense and misinformation flowing out of this White House with a response. But these claims are outrageous enough to merit one. These bizarre allegations are ridiculous and a weak attempt at distraction.

Pictured are four reasons not to zero out the U.S. Forest Service’s State & Private Forestry funds.

When the evidence is dangerously truthful.

#ProudBlue #DemVoice1 #Pinks

American consumers have paid $106 billion in new Trump Tariffs so far this year

That's $106,000,000,000 in new taxes on U.S. consumers in these inflationary times

Tariffs are expected to cost avg U.S. households another $2,000 - $4,000 this year

sources: Karoline Leavitt, Peter Navarro

See! He totally does!

we almost missed #caturday!
@simbaroodevonrex is great at helping with work zooms when I'm on camera!

July 12, 2025 On July 5, the day after the Texas floods hit, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) received 3,027 calls from survivors and answered 3,018 of them, about 99.7%, according to Maxine Joselow o...

July 12, 2025

YouTube video by Senator Chris Van Hollen Marco Rubio admitted the Admin ignored intelligence while dragging us into the conflict in Iran

Yesterday Secretary Rubio admitted the administration ignored its own intelligence reports while illegally dragging us into the conflict in Iran. He literally said "forget about intelligence."

That's the type of "leadership" that started the Iraq War.

WATCH: “He was cutting grass.”

Soboroff & Wallace on the sickening beating of the father of 3 Marines, and how @joerogan says he wouldn’t have signed up if he had know it would be like this, “tearing the fabric of the community”. (But he should have known)

Tech execs are joining the Army — no grueling boot camp required Tech leaders from Palantir, Meta, and OpenAI have joined the Army Reserve, bypassing traditional training to chase transformation.

Every veteran should be outraged, even MAGA.

I'm a vet and worked hard to earn every goddamn rank!

I thought the elimination of DEI was to promote people based on merit.

This is bullshyt!😡

#ProudBlue
#ResistanceUnited
#USDemocracy
#Voices4Victory

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Remember that video of the masked men who grabbed a man working as a landscaper, was pepper sprayed, violently pinned to the ground and repeatedly struck by unidentified masked men?!

His name is Narciso Barranco, and he’s the father of three United States Marines.

His sons are very upset.

SIXTY federal agents kitted out like they were taking on Osama Bin Laden to raid a swap meet.

The ONLY people they ended up arresting were to people already going through immigration court proceedings, seemingly rearrested because ICE agents didn’t want to go home empty-handed.

That’s exactly what this is about.
Distraction. For all of this and that lame duck, low energy spectacle

Dozens of heavily armed ICE agents swarm popular L.A. County swap meet With a Department of Homeland Security helicopter circling, several dozens of heavily armed, masked ICE agents dressed in military tactical gear raided one of the most popular swaps meets in Southe…

Helicopters.

Armed troops wearing masks.

All for a freaking military-grade raid at a flea market that appears to have resulted in two measly arrests.

DHS and ICE are out of control.

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Donald Trump does NOT want you to share this footage of his pathetically tiny birthday parade crowd.

Over 250 Photos From Around the Nation and the World From the Historic “No Kings Day” Protests Almost no one showed up to Donald Trump’s surprisingly timid, depressing, and generally lackluster birthday party in Washington, but protests against him were bursting at the seams across the globe.

(🧵) I’ve never—in 30 years in journalism—published a report like this: one that could genuinely bring hope. I spent the last 15 hours curating and labeling photos from hundreds of No Kings Day protests. It’s the largest archive of its kind and it has *lots* of Easter eggs (memes, an essay and more).

Gilead in FORT WORTH, TX

#NoKingsDay