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“Look at these scumbags — in the car with guns with a baby in the back.”
What are we doing?
What are we doing?
November 5, 2025 at 2:04 PM
“Look at these scumbags — in the car with guns with a baby in the back.”
What are we doing?
What are we doing?
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RFK Jr and his GOP enablers are determined to undermine safe, effective mRNA vaccine technology that offers our best defense against future pandemics.
RFK Jr. pulls $500 million in funding for vaccine development
The Department of Health and Human Services plans to cancel contracts and pull funding for some vaccines being developed to fight respiratory viruses like COVID-19 and the flu.
apnews.com
August 6, 2025 at 1:06 AM
RFK Jr and his GOP enablers are determined to undermine safe, effective mRNA vaccine technology that offers our best defense against future pandemics.
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When you strip away humanity
July 26, 2025 at 11:31 AM
When you strip away humanity
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Let's play "spot the outlier" on four different LLMs from the major labs:
July 8, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Let's play "spot the outlier" on four different LLMs from the major labs:
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Nestled up against the steps of City Hall in LA is a large placard with missing posters for the recently disappeared in the city.
July 4, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Nestled up against the steps of City Hall in LA is a large placard with missing posters for the recently disappeared in the city.
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NEW: SCOTUS shoots down a federal judge’s effort to protect eight men from being expelled—without due process—to South Sudan, where they face torture and death.
Dissenting, Sotomayor says the court’s “indefensible” decision makes it complicit in “lawlessness.” www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
Dissenting, Sotomayor says the court’s “indefensible” decision makes it complicit in “lawlessness.” www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
July 3, 2025 at 8:39 PM
NEW: SCOTUS shoots down a federal judge’s effort to protect eight men from being expelled—without due process—to South Sudan, where they face torture and death.
Dissenting, Sotomayor says the court’s “indefensible” decision makes it complicit in “lawlessness.” www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
Dissenting, Sotomayor says the court’s “indefensible” decision makes it complicit in “lawlessness.” www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
Good day to cancel a paramount+ subscription
July 2, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Good day to cancel a paramount+ subscription
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sometimes as a nation you just have to choose between funding free school lunch or concentration camps for day laborers
July 1, 2025 at 3:13 PM
sometimes as a nation you just have to choose between funding free school lunch or concentration camps for day laborers
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“He stole money from the bank, which is at odds with a law that bars people from stealing money.”
“The Department of Homeland Security has formally instituted a new requirement that members of Congress and their staff provide a week of notice before they visit immigration detention facilities, a policy that is at odds with a federal law that allows lawmakers to make unannounced oversight trips.“
ICE to require lawmakers to give a week’s notice before detention visits.
www.nytimes.com
June 30, 2025 at 11:55 PM
“He stole money from the bank, which is at odds with a law that bars people from stealing money.”
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Wild fact: The U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003 was more popular among Iraqis than the U.S. military invasion of California is among Americans today
June 12, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Wild fact: The U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003 was more popular among Iraqis than the U.S. military invasion of California is among Americans today
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It's incredible these people are trying to set up a military dictatorship with 40% approval ratings in the oldest democracy in the world.
Good luck, motherfuckers!
Good luck, motherfuckers!
Kristi Noem: "We are not going away. We are staying here to liberate the city from the socialists and the burdensome leadership that this governor and that this mayor have placed on this country and what they have tried to insert into the city."
Sen. Alex Padilla is then forcibly removed!
Sen. Alex Padilla is then forcibly removed!
June 12, 2025 at 6:47 PM
It's incredible these people are trying to set up a military dictatorship with 40% approval ratings in the oldest democracy in the world.
Good luck, motherfuckers!
Good luck, motherfuckers!
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Every day that this horror continues, I think of Omar El Akkad's tweet: "One day, when it’s safe, when there’s no personal downside to calling a thing what it is, when it’s too late to hold anyone accountable, everyone will have always been against this."
June 1, 2025 at 10:51 AM
Every day that this horror continues, I think of Omar El Akkad's tweet: "One day, when it’s safe, when there’s no personal downside to calling a thing what it is, when it’s too late to hold anyone accountable, everyone will have always been against this."
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"The head lawyer of a human rights group representing the families of Venezuelan migrants imprisoned in El Salvador after being deported from the United States has been arrested.
Ruth López, an outspoken critic of Bukele, was detained under an order which accused her of “embezzlement”."
Ruth López, an outspoken critic of Bukele, was detained under an order which accused her of “embezzlement”."
Lawyer for Venezuelans deported to El Salvador prison arrested
Ruth López held without access to lawyers at secret location accused of ‘embezzlement’ a decade ago
www.theguardian.com
May 19, 2025 at 7:31 PM
"The head lawyer of a human rights group representing the families of Venezuelan migrants imprisoned in El Salvador after being deported from the United States has been arrested.
Ruth López, an outspoken critic of Bukele, was detained under an order which accused her of “embezzlement”."
Ruth López, an outspoken critic of Bukele, was detained under an order which accused her of “embezzlement”."
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In addition to sharing beautiful images from her science, the Harvard scientist Trump jailed, Kseniia Petrova, has this to say about doing science in Russia and the US.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/13/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/13/o...
May 13, 2025 at 10:50 PM
In addition to sharing beautiful images from her science, the Harvard scientist Trump jailed, Kseniia Petrova, has this to say about doing science in Russia and the US.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/13/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/13/o...
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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...
@financialtimes.com
www.ft.com/content/bdd9...
May 8, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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...
@financialtimes.com
www.ft.com/content/bdd9...
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If the Trump Admin was able to illegally abduct Kilmar Abrego Garcia and send him to El Salvador in 72 hours, then they can sure as hell bring him home in less than that.
Their foot-dragging on complying with court orders is unacceptable. They need to bring Kilmar home NOW.
Their foot-dragging on complying with court orders is unacceptable. They need to bring Kilmar home NOW.
The Trump Admin must bring Kilmar Abrego Garcia home NOW
YouTube video by Senator Chris Van Hollen
youtube.com
April 12, 2025 at 12:26 AM
If the Trump Admin was able to illegally abduct Kilmar Abrego Garcia and send him to El Salvador in 72 hours, then they can sure as hell bring him home in less than that.
Their foot-dragging on complying with court orders is unacceptable. They need to bring Kilmar home NOW.
Their foot-dragging on complying with court orders is unacceptable. They need to bring Kilmar home NOW.
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Vandalize a library?
Take over a campus?
Do all kinds of crazy things?
Take over a campus?
Do all kinds of crazy things?
April 10, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Vandalize a library?
Take over a campus?
Do all kinds of crazy things?
Take over a campus?
Do all kinds of crazy things?
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Immigrants allegedly getting disappeared by Trump based on accusations that they are gang members without any due process, under an act that hadn’t been used since Japanese internment camps. 👇🏽🧵
This is what @RepTimBurchett is blindly defending.
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This is what @RepTimBurchett is blindly defending.
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March 17, 2025 at 12:53 AM
Immigrants allegedly getting disappeared by Trump based on accusations that they are gang members without any due process, under an act that hadn’t been used since Japanese internment camps. 👇🏽🧵
This is what @RepTimBurchett is blindly defending.
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This is what @RepTimBurchett is blindly defending.
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Update from today in the NYT:
"The judge said there was reason to believe U.S. Customs and Border Protection had willfully disobeyed his previous order to give the court notice before expelling the doctor. He ... ordered the federal agency to respond to what he called 'serious allegations.'”
"The judge said there was reason to believe U.S. Customs and Border Protection had willfully disobeyed his previous order to give the court notice before expelling the doctor. He ... ordered the federal agency to respond to what he called 'serious allegations.'”
Brown University Professor and Doctor Is Deported to Lebanon Despite a Judge’s Order
Dr. Rasha Alawieh, a kidney transplant specialist and Brown University professor who had a valid visa, was expelled in apparent defiance of a court order.
www.nytimes.com
March 17, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Update from today in the NYT:
"The judge said there was reason to believe U.S. Customs and Border Protection had willfully disobeyed his previous order to give the court notice before expelling the doctor. He ... ordered the federal agency to respond to what he called 'serious allegations.'”
"The judge said there was reason to believe U.S. Customs and Border Protection had willfully disobeyed his previous order to give the court notice before expelling the doctor. He ... ordered the federal agency to respond to what he called 'serious allegations.'”
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"Yesika Palma sobbed as she spoke about her brother Jose Daniel Simancas, a 30-year-old construction worker, and how it felt to think of him being treated like a terrorist when all he’d done was attempt to come to the United States in pursuit of a decent job." www.propublica.org/article/trum...
U.S. Claims Immigrants Held at Guantanamo Are “Worst of the Worst.” Their Families Say They’re Being Unfairly Targeted.
ProPublica and The Texas Tribune have identified nearly a dozen immigrants who have been flown to Guantanamo Bay. Government officials have refused to release the names of detainees or provide details...
www.propublica.org
February 13, 2025 at 9:12 PM
"Yesika Palma sobbed as she spoke about her brother Jose Daniel Simancas, a 30-year-old construction worker, and how it felt to think of him being treated like a terrorist when all he’d done was attempt to come to the United States in pursuit of a decent job." www.propublica.org/article/trum...