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Secular Jen 🫘
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Stay secular, friends. Keep religion for the religious. Cherish public education. It's how we find our true geniuses and give kids a window to the world. We belong among the wildflowers. Stay safe. #Leguminati 🫘
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Three years since the Dobbs decision.
(Based on Sting's "Russians".)
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Defense is now questioning Lairmore on cross-examination. They show a video still of the sandwich and wrapper on the ground, post-throw.

"Do you recognize that sandwich?" the attorney asks.

Lairmore won't confirm.

"I did not go back to collect it," he says.
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Lairmore testifies that other agents gave him a plush sandwich toy, which he placed on the shelf in his office, and a patch that said "Felony Footlong," which he put on his lunch box.

Lairmore has chuckled with the rest of us at times. Defense really trying to underscore the unseriousness of it all
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Big day at U.S. District Court in D.C. where Sean Dunn, the D.C. Sandwich Guy, is on trial for misdemeanor assault of a federal officer.

Border Patrol agent Gregory Lairmore is on the stand narrating surveillance video of the sammie toss.

'Now he’s struck me with the sandwich,' Lairmore says.
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The defense team presses Lairmore on whether the sandwich really 'exploded.' They return to the photo of the sandwich and wrapper on the ground.

"That sandwich hasn't exploded at all, has it?" defense asks.

"It looks like a little bit is coming out towards the bottom," Lairmore replies.
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LECTER: What became of your sandwich, Clarice?
STARLING: It kind of exploded.
LECTER: You still wake up sometimes, don't you? You wake up in the dark and smell the onions and the mustard.
STARLING: [choking up] Yes.
Border Patrol agent Lairmore testifies that he was not injured by the sandwich, but he felt the impact through his ballistic vest.

The sandwich came apart and "kind of exploded" on his chest upon impact, he says.

"I could smell the onions and mustard."
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ICE officers reportedly shot a 25-year-old named Carlos Jimenez.

He was shot after getting out of his car to tell the agents, who had pulled over a vehicle, that children would soon be gathering in that spot for the school bus.
Report: ICE shot a US citizen trying to help kids
According to his lawyer, immigration officers shot Carlos Jimenez after he warned them that children would soon gather for the bus where they had pulled over a vehicle.
www.motherjones.com
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Newsom: They did not expect California. They did not expect all of you. They thought we were going to write an op-ed, have a candlelight vigil, maybe do a rally. They poked the bear and the bear is poking back
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Multiple senior Trump officials are moving onto military bases.

That’s not normal behavior. So ask yourself, is it really about their safety, or is the stage being set for something bigger?
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My predictions for Tuesday's elections is a clean sweep for Democrats and democracy:

NJ: Sherrill wins.
VA: Spanberger wins.
NYC: Mamdani wins.
CA: Prop 50 passes.
ME: Q1 fails.
PA: SCOPA Justices are retained.
There is absolutely nowhere in the world I want or need to travel to that badly.
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Air travel during the Trump administration:

"Photos from Houston's Bush Intercontinental airport show TSA lines at Terminal E extending outside the building and down the sidewalk Sunday night.

At 6:15PM, new photos showed the same long lines hours later..."

www.click2houston.com/news/local/2...
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Alright I'll give him some credit for this one
Jeffries: "The Trump administration and Mike Johnson are running a pedophile protection program. That's the reason they refuse to swear in Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva."
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1/ This week, SCOTUS will hear Trump’s tariffs case, arguably one of the most important all term. It’s important to understand that this is not a case about tariffs in general or whether they are good policy. It’s about whether Trump had the authority to impose them.
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Republicans continue to postpone the swearing-in of Adelita Grijalva, the newest Democrat elected to Congress, for a 34th day.

She holds the record for the longest wait to be sworn in of any special House election winner in decades.
SNAP recipients are real Americans who need help, and everyone needs help sometimes.
"Some of the steps insurers such as UnitedHealth and CVS are taking include eliminating certain plans, trimming benefits, raising out-of-pocket costs and pulling back from offerings such as PPO plans that give members more choice."

www.wsj.com/health/healt...
In Medicare, Less Is Now More for Big Insurers
UnitedHealth and CVS are pruning their Medicare Advantage businesses to favor profit over size.
www.wsj.com
Ratings poison. I used to love that show.
Haven't we run out of ways to pander to the wealthy? How about giving them some incentives to spend money to help people with food, childcare, medical care, career prospects, and infrastructure instead of on weird doomsday bunkers and trips to Mars? How about they pay their fair share of taxes?
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This is the essence of the emerging fascist state.

Access to resources and programs designed to make our lives better is being stolen from us so that the oppressors can use, hoard, and distribute them to friends and hold them ransom in order to force compliance.
Healthcare but only for my friends