The U.S. government just banned five people from entering the country because it doesn’t like their speech. This ban, according to the State Department, is necessary to protect free speech.
If that sounds insane to you, congratulations on your reading comprehension.
Woman comes to US at age 6. Graduates nursing school. Work permit. No criminal record. Snatched and imprisoned by ICE for 6 months now. About to be forced back to Honduras. A life destroyed and one less nurse. Merry Christmas.
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When survivors reacted to this so-called Epstein Files transparency, they didn’t sound shocked. They sounded validated.
Because even with a law, even with a deadline, even with the entire country watching, this pedocracy behaved exactly the way it always has.
“I'm crying for two reasons. I want everyone to know that I am shedding tears of joy for myself, but also tears of sorrow for all the other victims that the FBI failed.” END/
This used to be Tulsi Gabbard.
Those look so delicious I had to follow you just for the recipe! ❤️
925k+ tons of greenhouse gases/yr. Tons of toxic air pollutants. This is what Transco's supercharged nat gas compressor stations will emit in Lexington & Mooresville, already beset by bad air insideclimatenews.org/news/2805202...
It’s problematic because (I believe) the cuts are put off by a year or more. People won’t remember when it all hits.
Here’s a lesson in infrastructure: DC streets weren’t built for 67-ton tanks. Roads buckle, curbs crack, and the substructure can collapse. But we’re risking all of it to re-stage a war victory because a big boy is turning 79. (1/4)
They’re madly posting about it on Twitter. It’s all over X.
They stole land, lives, and legacy—then erased the truth.
From burning Black towns to redlining ghettos, Erased tells the brutal Black history they buried.
This isn’t a lesson. It’s your truth.
📚 Read it now: stan.store/gxldsociety/...
“I’m a transgender service member and today was my last day in uniform. After 11 years, eight months and 1 day I’m taking the uniform off for good.
I will always be yours bc this rank, these skills, this name will always be me.”
~Technical Sargent Altesse Aurum
#TransInMilitary 🫡 🏳️⚧️
@altessaurum
Pay workers what they’re WORTH!
Not the minimum amount you can get away with.
Here are the Top 5 Dogs of the week!
A visual analysis shows the U.S. likely bombed a migrant detention center in Yemen on April 28. At least three U.S.-made GBU-39 bombs at the site of the attack, which killed 68 African migrants, according to the Houthis, a militant group that controls northern Yemen.
We hadn’t won World War II by May 8th. I know because my family and I were still in an internment camp in Tule Lake, California.
And there you have it.
Booker: "What this president is doing is violating our constitutional principles, violating the fundamental rights of people in order to punish them to carry out his own retribution plan ... Donald Trump is saying, 'ask not what your country can do for you. Ask what you can do for Donald Trump.'"
🚨 “Teachers are PISSED” —Randi Weingarten, AFT President joins us IN-STUDIO and speaks out about the dismantling of the Department of Education—it gets emotional for all of us.
Plus, our EXCLUSIVE ‘Hands Off’ footage from Portland & Seattle.
WATCH NOW:
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To the world:
We are fighting back. Our movement has been silenced by the media here—but we are not backing down. This is what our streets looked like across multiple cities. Tomorrow, there will be more of us! Raise a glass to freedom.
—With love,
Your American allies.
BOOM!! Bluesky now has more than 34 MILLION users! Share the good news!! 💙 🦋
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Who pockets the money we pay in tariffs? Is this for Trumps crypto slush fund?
Twitter is down or I’ve been booted off for cussing too much. 😂
I don't want Canada or Greenland…
I want PBS, Social Security, and The Smithsonian.
CAN YOU SAY THE SAME?! 🤚
People were mean to him on Twitter, so he bought Twitter.
People were still mean to him, so he bought the US government.
And he is going to use it to hunt down those bad people!
Just in NIH grants, It looks like beautiful Iowa City, home of the U of Iowa, will lose $71m in funding. That's almost $1k per resident. And that's before all the other cuts to SSA, FDA, etc.
Anyone in Iowa City that can offer more insight?
scienceimpacts.org
H/T to Prathima !
