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Absolutely despicable.  There seemingly is no limit to the depths of depravity the administration will go to cover for their propaganda machine.  We need to arrest and prosecute the federal agent that murdered Renee Nicole Good. And we need trials for those involved. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/13/u...

32 people died in ICE custody last year — the agency’s deadliest year in over two decades. Meanwhile, private prison corporations that are building and overseeing ICE detention centers are raking it in. Cashing in on cruelty.

70% of ICE detainees have no criminal convictions, according to govt data. Don’t fall for Trump’s lies about targeting the “worst of the worst.” As ICE terrorizes cities to fill up detention centers, remember that some of Trump's major donors are private prison corporations.

“If the Federal Reserve loses its independence, the stability of our markets and the broader economy will suffer.”

OPINION: If we truly want to reestablish our national "greatness," then we, and especially those who represent us in government, must all recommit to the fundamental and simple proposition that America is a nation of laws, not men, writes a group of Wyoming attorneys and retired judges.

AIPAC spends hundreds of millions buying primaries across the country. Now they’re trying to buy mine.

New York City turned OUT. @handsoffnyc.bsky.social ✊❤️

The president of the United States is extorting the Federal Reserve Board Chairman by threatening criminal prosecution if he doesn't lower interest rates. DOJ is compromised, legacy media is cowed and Big Law is AWOL. As I wrote last year: "We are on our own."

The struggle of our day is no longer about Democrats versus Republicans or left versus right. The choice right now is democracy or dictatorship. Everyone must choose which side they’re on.

This is a corrupt, politically motivated attack on the Federal Reserve. The strict independence of the Fed has been paramount to the stability of the global economy for over a century, which will collapse if Trump moves to seize control of it.

Isn't it odd that the United States has enough money to suddenly run Venezuela, but not enough to run our own country? There is always cash in the piggy bank for bombs to kill people, but never for healthcare to keep them alive.

It would be so cool if the United States Congress still existed.

Unconstitutional force. Civilians dead. Congress bypassed. Oil interests front and center. We’ve seen this movie before and it ends in blood. But we don’t have to do it again.

Socialism is what they called public power. Socialism is what they called social security. Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations. Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people. —Harry Truman, 1952

This Day in History... October 28, 1886: The Statue of Liberty is dedicated in New York Harbor by President Grover Cleveland. Notably absent from Cleveland's remarks were references to "shithole countries", "migrant crime" and immigrants "poisoning the blood of our country."

What do Amazon, Microsoft, Google, Comcast, Meta, and HP have in common? They all once pledged to stop donations to anyone who tried to overturn the 2020 election. And now they're all donors to Trump's White House ballroom. https://popular.info/p/these-corporations-stopped-worrying

The 100 lowest-paying US corporations spent $644B on stock buybacks from 2019 to 2024. Buybacks artificially boost share prices and inflate CEO pay. The typical worker at these companies earned $35k last year. Meanwhile, the average CEO was paid $17.2M See the problem?

We love our Marines and owe a debt of gratitude to Camp Pendleton, but next time, the Vice President and the White House shouldn’t be so reckless with people’s lives for their vanity projects. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/u...

July 24, 2024

I did this before and I will do it again. If our military, TSA workers and so many others won’t get paid, then I won’t get paid either.

There's no excuse for the Vice President of the United States to use a heinous killing as an occasion to baselessly frame political opponents as accomplices to murder while threatening to use the power of the government to attack them. This dangerous rhetoric will only fan the flames.

Wonderful new photo mailed to me by a very thoughtful and generous Bluesky follower!

“These are choices we can make”

Epstein survivor Teresa Helm: "I saw framed photos of Ghislaine Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein with presidents in their homes."

Newsom: They play by a different set of rules . And we can sit back and act as if we have some moral superiority and watch this almost 250 year experiment be washed away. We are not going to allow that to happen. We have agency. We can shape the future

This is truly insane. We are witnessing one of the most corrupt cover-up schemes in history—and it's all playing out in plain view.

2 points here: 1) There's no statute of limitations in New York for Ghislaine Maxwell's crimes (maybe also options in New Mexico and Florida). A pardon can't stop state prosecutions. 2) We just got another reason to release the Epstein files: so the public can test Maxwell's truthfulness.

North Carolina’s unbelievable and embarrassing disinvestment in public education ncnewsline.com/2025/07/21/n... (Commentary) via @publicedworks.bsky.social

"Questioning is the way of learning," Encourage your children to ask questions, not to accept existing answers.

Elderly and disabled people told Congress that cutting Medicaid could kill people and in response, they were arrested in their wheelchairs. What the hell are we doing?

Touché.

House Republicans want to slash funding for the Government Accountability Office — a nonpartisan watchdog that investigates wrongdoing at federal agencies — by nearly half in the next fiscal year. So much for reining in waste, fraud, and abuse.

This time-lapse video of protesters marching down Broadway in Oakland for No Kings Day gives an idea of how many people turned out today @sfchronicle.com

This all comes down to policy choices. Do we want a nation with policies rooted in cruelty and punishment? Or do we want a nation with policies rooted in kindness and compassion? This is the choice before us.

Dystopian.

May the anti-ICE movement continue to spread nationwide! This is the Los Angeles spirit your news broadcast isn’t showing…

Remember: Almost all of us are the descendants of immigrants who fled persecution, or were brought to America under duress, or sought better lives for themselves and their descendants. Politicians who stoke fear and hatred over immigration want you to forget this. Do not.

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My campaign office in Rogers Park is a safe place that welcomes everyone, EXCEPT ICE. We are here to help. If you're in the area and need clothes, food, or any other resources, come in and take them, no questions asked. And if you hear about ICE in the neighborhood, let me know. We'll be there.

BREAKING: A few minutes ago, a vehicle of three people was rammed by a truck belonging to federal immigration authorities in Boyle Heights, CA. According to security footage shown to me, they deployed chemical munitions & detained the driver at gunpoint. All are US citizens according to the wife.

Ousted CDC vaccine adviser says RFK Jr.’s message is clear: ‘Scientific expertise is no longer of use’ www.statnews.com/2025/06/10/c...

"An incompetent warning shot or the act of a coward, either way it needs to be properly investigated... how is it okay for your police force to be firing at unarmed Australian journalists?" Karl Stefanovic, an anchor for the Australian broadcast channel that @laurentomasi.bsky.social works for.

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