Doesn't matter how we feel about immigration, undocumented folks or anything else. This is happening in your name & w your dollars. You good with that?
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
#USDemocracy
#Voices4Victory
Various missing pet posters with contact info
If you’ve seen any of these pets in Evanston, here’s some info to help them get home. ❤️❤️
🧵This is a massive scandal.
The Herzog Foundation is a billion dollar “school choice” organization in Missouri. They have repeatedly harassed two St Joseph School District board employees…the Herzog Foundation is working in tandem with elected Republicans to…
www.kcur.org/education/20...
Sandy Hook parent says tragedies are inherently political: “You may not believe in climate change, but insurance companies absolutely do.”
Ice get a young pregnant Women
Hawthorne, Ca
No money for Medicaid or SNAP or museums or schools or sidewalks or gun violence prevention or art or libraries.
Always money for war.
MURRAY: Will you allocate the $220m for literacy programs that Congress appropriated?
McMAHON: We're looking at the unallocated dollars to determine which of those programs we can best spend on
MURRAY: Those funds were appropriated. It looks to me like the dept is illegally impounding funding
PRO PUBLICA: Of the 238 men sent to an El Salvador mega prison, only 6 had prior violent crime convictions.
0 were on the gang member list.
130 had no criminal history.
32 had minor offenses.
All 238 thought they were being sent back to Venezuela. www.instagram.com/p/DKcjM7FPhz...
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Map of local National Weather Service office "areas of responsibility" modified (using polygons with black outlines and red fill) to indicate where recent/expanding cuts to NOAA/NWS have resulting in understaffing so extreme that some offices can not longer operate on a 24/7 basis.
I just created a quick map depicting which portions of the United States are now (as of today) or will imminently be (by early June) without 24/7 local National Weather Service coverage (per Washington Post reporting). #CAwx #CAfire #CAwater #ORwx #AKwx #WYwx #KSwx
Just got word that Secretary Noem is asking for an addition to her budget - a new private Gulfstream 5 jet for her personal national photo op tour. She's already got a private plane but wants a tricked out new one.
All while she supports kicking 13 million people off Medicaid.
Justice Jackson nails where we are right now:
“Your argument turns our justice system into a catch me if you can kind of regime from the standpoint of the Executive where everybody has to have a lawyer and file a lawsuit in order for the government to stop violating people’s rights.”
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GOP plans to increase the tax rate by 74% by 2031 for people earning $15,000 yearly.
Sounds like Gabbard fired them for telling the truth.
Not much “intelligence” going on here…
www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...
Bribery in plain sight.
BILL GATES: “The picture of the world’s richest man killing the world’s poorest children is not a pretty one.”
@financialtimes.com
www.ft.com/content/bdd9...
MERKLEY: Are you gonna launch an investigation of the reported violation of the due process of several hundred people?
P: It is not for me to call the balls & strikes
M: You haven't read the Constitution? It says 'all persons'...it concerns me you're not familiar w/the core concept of due process
1/ For ProPublica’s “Life of the Mother” series, winner of the 2025 Pulitzer Prize for public service, we reported on five pregnant women who died after not receiving timely medical care in states with strict abortion bans.
These are their stories 🧵
NEW: Tulsi Gabbard, now the US director of national intelligence, used the same easily cracked password for different online accounts including a personal Gmail account and Dropbox over a period of years, leaked records reviewed by WIRED reveal.
Mark Warner: "That cabinet meeting earlier this week where everyone went around and basically paid kudos to the great leader -- it was something that frankly I would've expected out of North Korea, not out of a cabinet meeting in America."
"I do solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States."
Duckworth on if she's open to voting to confirm Mike Waltz: "I think everybody on that Signal chain needs to be fired ... he's failing up ... I'm not open to voting for him, no, because he's already demonstrated he's incapable of doing the most basic thing, which is handling classified information."
White House budget fact sheet, proposing unprecedented cuts to programs related to international aid, research, education, health, human services, labor, commerce, small businesses, and more, while dramatically increasing the budget for defense and homeland security.
They're dismantling (what remains of) the social safety net and replacing it with a dragnet instead.
Some great advice on protesting
Trump has ordered criminal investigations into more than 50 federal employees so far, including former intelligence officials, political rivals, and even members of his own administration. He has declared some “guilty of treason,”
