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Glad ICE is getting called out for plate swapping in Illinois, but this has been happening in California from the jump.
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🚨 Give this man a microphone. Speaking truth to power! ✊🏼
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That’s a lot of money to sit on. Interest income on the reserves alone would cover that gap and then some. Starbucks has $2billion in gift card money that sits in accounts and sbux uses it to generate millions in interest income
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🔥 Mount Holyoke College Prez: "DEI is not separate from excellence. It is the engine of it."

"Mount Holyoke was forged in dissent, against exclusion and against complacency; not to mention, against the belief that only some people deserve a seat at the table."

www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open...
I’m a college president. Universities can’t retreat as Trump attacks DEI programs
OPINION: President Trump’s attacks on DEI programs threaten to reverse decades of progress for women, people of color, disabled people, LGBTQ+ communities and immigrants.
www.sfchronicle.com
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Just a gentle reminder why my old man and my grandad went to war.
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News in Colombia reports that Alejandro Carranza, a career fisherman pictured below, was one of the people Trump killed when he blew up his boat.
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In the UK: "new species and overwintering birds are more than curiosities – they are climate change made visible," writes Jenny Rhodes. See which species are regularly taking the risk to stay put and what the pros and cons are.

@eastangliabylines.co.uk @jennyrhodes42.bsky.social
The truth about migratory birds and the climate emergency
Both the warming climate and wilder weather systems are disrupting birds’ natural migration patterns
eastangliabylines.co.uk
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"It is imperative that we make it clear that war powers reside with Congress, not the president."

--- Rand Paul

#ONEV1
#Pinks 🌸
#Voices4Victory
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KARL: “Why haven’t you sworn in Adelita Grijalva?”

SPEAKER JOHNSON: “I’m following the Pelosi precedent with Letlow.”

KARL: “But that was the date Letlow requested.”

SPEAKER JOHNSON: 🤷🏼

#EpsteinFilesCoverUp
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Cory tried it and that white lady said “oh, absolutely not!” And read him DOWN. I had to watch it twice.
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“And how, when black men—famous and everyday guys alike—die at any age, ‘he was so young’ is actually an acknowledgement of theft. It’s the same reason Miss Major living to 78 was miracle because it was a miracle she endured as long as she did in a country built on theft of black and queer life.”
“The question of who gets to live as long as they should isn’t moral but systemic.

We often say that death is the great unifier as it’s the one thing that we all have in common. But sometimes, I look around and wonder if even the after-life is segregated.”
Diane Keaton, Miss Major, D'Angelo...
Who gets to live a "long" life in America?
open.substack.com
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“When a Salesforce account executive posted in the company’s Slack channel dedicated to discussing “sales and business development for ICE” that this document was “out the door,” her colleagues responded with fire emojis and the word “amazing,” according to a screenshot of the conversation.”
Salesforce Offers Its Services to Boost Trump’s Immigration Force
www.nytimes.com
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A 200-person homeless encampment in Gainesville, GA, is being cleared this week. Many of those living in tents have jobs but can't afford rent.

One woman estimated she's been forced to move 20 times. "There's a lot of people who get checks that don't have enough money to get places," she said.
200-person homeless camp on community soccer field to be cleared
Many work full time but still can't afford housing.
www.wsbtv.com