rozcalvert

rozcalvert

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Wee Jared. No wonder he always looks guilty.

Angry@angrystaffer.bsky.social

This is fucking insane. It reads like a bad spy novel. The corruption is almost cartoonish at this point. www.vanityfair.com/story/jared-...

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🚨"We want ICE the f*ck out of our neighborhood! I am pissed off, I am outraged, ICE does not belong in the Bronx or anywhere in this city!" -Vanessa Gibson, Bronx Borough President, after ICE shot man in the Bronx with his 5-year-old in the back seat. WE'RE LIVE NOW🔽

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Our highest state courts decide 96% of all cases — but their benches still lack basic representation. - No Black justices in 24 states - No Latino/a justices in 39 states & DC - No Asian American justices in 40 states - No Native American justices in 47 states & DC Read more: bit.ly/4r0D7xH

brennancenter.orgState Supreme Court Diversity - September 2026 UpdateAcross the United States, states have shown little progress with respect to racial, ethnic, gender, and professional diversity among state supreme court justices.

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Fun fact: Dolly Parton spent decades quietly funding band uniforms and instruments at Black high schools across the South - never once putting her name on it. No headlines, no fanfare — just help, given because it was needed. Wonderful Heart ♥️ RIP Dolly ❤️

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It's hard to fathom that anyone thinks ICE can be reformed or retrained. ICE needs to be dismantled and then cauterized so it can't grow back. #AbolishICE

Chris⚖️Justice@chrisjustice01.bsky.social

💥 ICE drag mom & teen daughter out of hospital room—in middle of being treated after car accident. Still wearing hospital gowns. Both victims of car collusion, with asylum case pending in good standing & valid work permit. Grace Calero 39, & Giulianna Carriel 19, from Ecuador.

Dear God. May she get home safe and well. May they drop dead.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social

What a picture from cheney orr of @reuters.com — a Black woman on a train surrounded by masked white supremacists, emboldened in Trump’s America. One for the history books.

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There are over 98K TPS holders in NY state. That's 98K neighbors, family members, friends and coworkers at risk of being deported and having their lives upended because of our leaders' xenophobia. ENOUGH—they deserve a path to citizenship, now! gothamist.com/news/nonstop...

gothamist.com'Nonstop calls and community panic' in NY after Supreme Court immigration rulingTears and questions flow after the justices allow the Trump administration to end immigration protections for Haitian and Syrian immigrants.

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When Republicans passed their One Big Beautiful Bill they said it wouldn’t impact our most vulnerable. Now they’re eating their words. At a time when prices are out of control, 770,000 children have lost food assistance, all so billionaires & corporations can pay less in taxes.

propublica.orgMore Than 770,000 Children Are No Longer Receiving SNAP Benefits After Trump Changes Federal Food ProgramRepublican backers of Trump’s signature domestic policy bill repeatedly claimed that revisions to the food benefits program wouldn’t affect the most vulnerable. But reports from a dozen states show ch...

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Note to anyone angry that Trump’s name came off the Kennedy Center: you can find his name in THE EPSTEIN FILES over 38,000 times

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NEW: The FBI reportedly raided the offices of an Ohio pro-democracy organization that helps register voters and organizes political activities for progressive causes in the state. The raids represent a major escalation in the DOJ's attempts to crack down on pro-voting groups before the midterms.

democracydocket.comFBI raids Ohio voter registration nonprofit in latest attack on progressive orgsThe raids represent a major escalation in the Justice Department's crackdown on pro-voting and progressive groups.

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Billionaire Knicks owner, James Dolan, cancelled the NBA finals watch party outside Madison Square Garden last night, for game 4. So mayor of New York fuck'n City turned the whole city into one gigantic watch party! Watch the reaction from real Knicks fans.

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STATEMENT by Gov. Mikie Sherrill: "My request for access to Delaney Hall was formally denied this morning, raising serious questions about what they are trying to hide from public view." "In New Jersey, we believe in the rule of law and that everyone deserves to be treated with basic dignity."

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A history of the top marginal tax rates on the wealthiest Americans: 1940: 81% 1950: 84% 1960: 91% 1970: 72% 1980: 70% 1990: 28% 2000: 40% 2010: 35% For 50 years, corporate backed politicians in Congress have slashed taxes to line the pockets of their wealthy donors.

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REP. @aoc.bsky.social: "This is the drinking water in Morgan County, Georgia. This is what it looks like next to that Meta data center.” (As Fisk University welcomes a data center to their Nashville campus as part of their billion-dollar renovation with an unclear funding source)

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In the aftermath of 2020 election we saw a slow-motion coup attempt. Now we’re watching a white supremacist slow-motion coup. Not an “attempt”; it’s happening.

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So happy to hear this.

Anne Applebaum@anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu

Orban concedes defeat. The support of Trump, Vance, Putin, Lavrov, Weidel, Milei, Le Pen, Fico, Babis and many others could not overcome Hungarian anger at a stagnant, corrupt regime www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

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In Turkey, an elderly man who earns his living by shining shoes is visited every morning at the same time by a cat that asks to have its fur brushed. The man never turns down this little friend.😍👍💙

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This is outside our normal DHS contracting 'beat,' however: we cannot in good conscience ignore the fact that the president is threatening to exterminate an entire country. This is genocidal and evil. The time is RIGHT NOW for congress to act.

Marisa Kabas@marisakabas.bsky.social

God help us.

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Raskin tears Kristi Noem a new one: "Apparently when your blankie was left on one of the govt jets and not transported to the new one, your special govt employee, Corey Lewandowski, chivalrously stepped forward to fight the pilot -- mid air!"

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I am pro Iranian people. I stand with them against their own government’s repression AND against the imperial violence in the form of bombs dropped from the sky from Israel & the US who have already killed hundreds. I support neither imperialism or dictatorship. Sahar Delijani said it best:

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MFA student Zeke Caligiuri writes a @literaryhub.bsky.social "Letter from Minnesota" Caligiuri is the author of the memoir This is Where I Am, published by UMN Press, a finalist for the Minnesota Book Award. Most recently he co-edited and contributed to American Precariat: Parables of Exclusion

University of Minnesota Press@uminnpress.bsky.social

"The unspoken part of divisive rhetoric and propagandized fear is how much work the presence of barbarians—real and imagined—does to solidify the status quo." Zeke Caligiuri in @literaryhub.bsky.social : lithub.com/letter-from-...

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A former ICE agent is blowing the whistle: Academy training is "deficient & broken." He claims he was ordered to teach cadets to bypass the Constitution & enter homes without warrants. ICE reportedly cut 240 hours of legal, firearms, and use-of-force training.