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Remember the horrifying text messages that caught a Border Patrol agent bragging about shooting someone in Chicago last month?
Well, it seems that those texts are now prompting feds to move to dismiss charges against the woman, who was accused of assaulting an officer.
Well, it seems that those texts are now prompting feds to move to dismiss charges against the woman, who was accused of assaulting an officer.
The feds suddenly want to drop charges against a woman shot by a Border Patrol agent
The move avoids the release of more messages from a Border Patrol agent whose previous texts showed he had bragged about shooting her.
www.motherjones.com
November 20, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Remember the horrifying text messages that caught a Border Patrol agent bragging about shooting someone in Chicago last month?
Well, it seems that those texts are now prompting feds to move to dismiss charges against the woman, who was accused of assaulting an officer.
Well, it seems that those texts are now prompting feds to move to dismiss charges against the woman, who was accused of assaulting an officer.
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Remember the horrifying text messages that showed a Border Patrol agent bragging about shooting someone in Chicago last month?
The government just abandoned their charges against the woman who was shot to avoid even *more* embarrassing texts being released, it seems. New @motherjones.com
The government just abandoned their charges against the woman who was shot to avoid even *more* embarrassing texts being released, it seems. New @motherjones.com
The feds suddenly want to drop charges against a woman shot by a Border Patrol agent
The move avoids the release of more messages from a Border Patrol agent whose previous texts showed he had bragged about shooting her.
www.motherjones.com
November 20, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Remember the horrifying text messages that showed a Border Patrol agent bragging about shooting someone in Chicago last month?
The government just abandoned their charges against the woman who was shot to avoid even *more* embarrassing texts being released, it seems. New @motherjones.com
The government just abandoned their charges against the woman who was shot to avoid even *more* embarrassing texts being released, it seems. New @motherjones.com
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The President of the United States just called for my arrest and execution.
In these moments, fear is contagious, but so is courage:
In these moments, fear is contagious, but so is courage:
November 20, 2025 at 7:15 PM
The President of the United States just called for my arrest and execution.
In these moments, fear is contagious, but so is courage:
In these moments, fear is contagious, but so is courage:
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The fundamental divide of the Democratic Party is between those who believe Donald Trump is an existential threat to democracy and those who think he is very bad, but survivable.
August 29, 2025 at 8:26 PM
The fundamental divide of the Democratic Party is between those who believe Donald Trump is an existential threat to democracy and those who think he is very bad, but survivable.
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We won’t notice it at first
Maybe an outbreak of cholera in southwest Kansas goes undetected
Perhaps the number of flu related deaths ticks up just a bit each year
But-ultimately, inexorably-the destruction of the CDC will lead to countless deaths
All because of two men
Trump and RFK, Jr
Maybe an outbreak of cholera in southwest Kansas goes undetected
Perhaps the number of flu related deaths ticks up just a bit each year
But-ultimately, inexorably-the destruction of the CDC will lead to countless deaths
All because of two men
Trump and RFK, Jr
August 30, 2025 at 2:10 PM
We won’t notice it at first
Maybe an outbreak of cholera in southwest Kansas goes undetected
Perhaps the number of flu related deaths ticks up just a bit each year
But-ultimately, inexorably-the destruction of the CDC will lead to countless deaths
All because of two men
Trump and RFK, Jr
Maybe an outbreak of cholera in southwest Kansas goes undetected
Perhaps the number of flu related deaths ticks up just a bit each year
But-ultimately, inexorably-the destruction of the CDC will lead to countless deaths
All because of two men
Trump and RFK, Jr
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I stand with Chicago. I stand with Mayor Johnson.
🚨 NEW: Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson just signed an executive order to resist Trump’s federal invasion and occupation of the city.
Details in 🧵
🚨 NEW: Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson just signed an executive order to resist Trump’s federal invasion and occupation of the city.
Details in 🧵
August 30, 2025 at 5:58 PM
I stand with Chicago. I stand with Mayor Johnson.
🚨 NEW: Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson just signed an executive order to resist Trump’s federal invasion and occupation of the city.
Details in 🧵
🚨 NEW: Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson just signed an executive order to resist Trump’s federal invasion and occupation of the city.
Details in 🧵
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Donald Trump incited a violent coup to overthrow the 2020 election and hold onto power. It will never be ok that he was not held accountable, including banning him from ever again holding public office.
August 30, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Donald Trump incited a violent coup to overthrow the 2020 election and hold onto power. It will never be ok that he was not held accountable, including banning him from ever again holding public office.
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He may be alive, but he’s definitely not well.
August 30, 2025 at 7:24 PM
He may be alive, but he’s definitely not well.
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CBS reporter Scott Pelley:
This is a warning that I fear many will look back on in five or six years and think “he was so right”.
If you haven’t already shared this, please do.
This is a warning that I fear many will look back on in five or six years and think “he was so right”.
If you haven’t already shared this, please do.
May 27, 2025 at 12:20 PM
CBS reporter Scott Pelley:
This is a warning that I fear many will look back on in five or six years and think “he was so right”.
If you haven’t already shared this, please do.
This is a warning that I fear many will look back on in five or six years and think “he was so right”.
If you haven’t already shared this, please do.
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No spin. Just cold, hard facts. Under the Republican budget bill, the poor will get poorer and the rich will get richer.
May 21, 2025 at 5:15 PM
No spin. Just cold, hard facts. Under the Republican budget bill, the poor will get poorer and the rich will get richer.
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500K Mexican-Americans served in the U.S. armed forces in WWII, as did millions of 1st and 2nd-gen immigrants, and 109K noncitizens.
Mexican immigrant Macario Garcia won the Medal of Honor in Normandy. When he returned to the US, he was was arrested for trying to eat at a segregated restaurant.
Mexican immigrant Macario Garcia won the Medal of Honor in Normandy. When he returned to the US, he was was arrested for trying to eat at a segregated restaurant.
May 16, 2025 at 6:04 PM
500K Mexican-Americans served in the U.S. armed forces in WWII, as did millions of 1st and 2nd-gen immigrants, and 109K noncitizens.
Mexican immigrant Macario Garcia won the Medal of Honor in Normandy. When he returned to the US, he was was arrested for trying to eat at a segregated restaurant.
Mexican immigrant Macario Garcia won the Medal of Honor in Normandy. When he returned to the US, he was was arrested for trying to eat at a segregated restaurant.
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Art of the deal.
For those confused by the China tariff news:
• Trump caved and got zero in return
• No manufacturing moved back to the USA
• 30% tariff is still a huge tax on Americans
• 90 day pause still causes uncertainty
• Trump lost all negotiating leverage
• Trump caved and got zero in return
• No manufacturing moved back to the USA
• 30% tariff is still a huge tax on Americans
• 90 day pause still causes uncertainty
• Trump lost all negotiating leverage
May 12, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Art of the deal.
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“This bill confirms what we’ve been saying all along, Trump and Republicans have been lying when they claim they aren’t going to cut Medicaid and take away people’s health care,” Frank Pallone Jr. (D-N.J.), the ranking Democrat on the Energy and Commerce Committee, said.
GOP unveils sweeping, brutal Medicaid cuts
At least 8 million people would lose coverage, with hundreds of billions slashed from the federal health budget.
www.motherjones.com
May 12, 2025 at 6:31 PM
“This bill confirms what we’ve been saying all along, Trump and Republicans have been lying when they claim they aren’t going to cut Medicaid and take away people’s health care,” Frank Pallone Jr. (D-N.J.), the ranking Democrat on the Energy and Commerce Committee, said.
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The same people who went apoplectic when asked to wear a mask to *protect people* in a pandemic eagerly wear one to *kidnap people* in Gestapo cosplay.
May 10, 2025 at 4:50 PM
The same people who went apoplectic when asked to wear a mask to *protect people* in a pandemic eagerly wear one to *kidnap people* in Gestapo cosplay.
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"All I can hear are the screams—the deafening desperate screams, from a mother, from her daughter, from the woman holding the daughter’s baby." www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
“They’re trying to kidnap someone”
On the scene of a brutal ICE arrest in Worcester, Massachusetts.
www.motherjones.com
May 10, 2025 at 6:25 PM
"All I can hear are the screams—the deafening desperate screams, from a mother, from her daughter, from the woman holding the daughter’s baby." www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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This cover of “America” is quite touching.
A #BlueskyLullaby for tonight: A few days ago, the young folk duo Jack & Daisy (they're British but live in Spain) put out this cover of Simon & Garfunkel's "America." See you around.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nq3S...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nq3S...
America - Simon & Garfunkel (Cover by Jack & Daisy)
YouTube video by Jack and Daisy
www.youtube.com
May 5, 2025 at 3:05 AM
This cover of “America” is quite touching.
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Trump's measure of trade-war success seems to be whether some foreign leader called him in a panic asking wtf is going on. That is...not a deal
April 27, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Trump's measure of trade-war success seems to be whether some foreign leader called him in a panic asking wtf is going on. That is...not a deal
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Trump administration has shown signs of enthusiasm for a pronatalist agenda. DOGE head Elon Musk, a father of 14, posts regularly on social media about the need for Americans to have more babies; he has also promoted NatalCon on X.
Trump may soon offer a motherhood medal, an idea popularized in Nazi Germany
He wants to be known as the 'fertilization president.'
www.motherjones.com
April 21, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Trump administration has shown signs of enthusiasm for a pronatalist agenda. DOGE head Elon Musk, a father of 14, posts regularly on social media about the need for Americans to have more babies; he has also promoted NatalCon on X.
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Karoline Leavitt is a liar, propagandist & accomplice to a criminal regime. “There is never going to be a world in which [Kilmar Abrego Garcia] is going to live a peaceful life in MD because he is a foreign terrorist & MS-13 gang member,” she said w/o evidence about a man who's committed no crime.
April 15, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Karoline Leavitt is a liar, propagandist & accomplice to a criminal regime. “There is never going to be a world in which [Kilmar Abrego Garcia] is going to live a peaceful life in MD because he is a foreign terrorist & MS-13 gang member,” she said w/o evidence about a man who's committed no crime.
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If senators can’t execute their official duties where influencers are allowed to film TikToks, perhaps the senate needs to freeze everything until it’s considered a branch of government again.
We were just denied entry into CECOT — the notorious prison in El Salvador where Mr. Abrego Garcia is being illegally held.
We were there for one simple reason: to check on his well-being, which his family and lawyers have not been allowed to do. We won’t stop fighting.
We were there for one simple reason: to check on his well-being, which his family and lawyers have not been allowed to do. We won’t stop fighting.
Van Hollen denied entry to CECOT, notorious El Salvador prison where Abrego Garcia is illegally held
YouTube video by Senator Chris Van Hollen
youtube.com
April 17, 2025 at 5:06 PM
If senators can’t execute their official duties where influencers are allowed to film TikToks, perhaps the senate needs to freeze everything until it’s considered a branch of government again.
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April 17, 2025 at 5:55 PM