Corri
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CARTOON OF THE DAY
December 5, 2025 at 10:09 PM
CARTOON OF THE DAY
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🧵Trump didn’t just bulldoze the East Wing of the White House.
He bulldozed the line between government and corporate bribery
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The thugs funding his ballroom just happen to control nearly $300 billion in federal contracts and have poured $1.6 billion into right-wing politics and lobbying.
He bulldozed the line between government and corporate bribery
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The thugs funding his ballroom just happen to control nearly $300 billion in federal contracts and have poured $1.6 billion into right-wing politics and lobbying.
Corporate Donors to Trump’s White House Ballroom Beset by Conflicts, Received $279 Billion in Government Contracts in the Past Five Years - Public Citizen
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The corporate and billionaire donors to Donald Trump’s gaudy ballroom project are beset by conflicts of interest,…
www.citizen.org
November 4, 2025 at 8:35 PM
🧵Trump didn’t just bulldoze the East Wing of the White House.
He bulldozed the line between government and corporate bribery
.
The thugs funding his ballroom just happen to control nearly $300 billion in federal contracts and have poured $1.6 billion into right-wing politics and lobbying.
He bulldozed the line between government and corporate bribery
.
The thugs funding his ballroom just happen to control nearly $300 billion in federal contracts and have poured $1.6 billion into right-wing politics and lobbying.
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At least 3,000 people who have been detained in Chicago ICE raids are missing from official DHS records.
We still don’t know what happened to the 1200 people who went missing from the Everglades facility.
They’re disappearing people.
No due process. No accountability.
We still don’t know what happened to the 1200 people who went missing from the Everglades facility.
They’re disappearing people.
No due process. No accountability.
Could ICE have 'lost' 3,000 immigrant arrestees in Chicago?
At least 3,000 jailed immigrants have vanished from federal records, according to human rights attorneys and organizations.
www.nbcchicago.com
October 30, 2025 at 5:46 AM
At least 3,000 people who have been detained in Chicago ICE raids are missing from official DHS records.
We still don’t know what happened to the 1200 people who went missing from the Everglades facility.
They’re disappearing people.
No due process. No accountability.
We still don’t know what happened to the 1200 people who went missing from the Everglades facility.
They’re disappearing people.
No due process. No accountability.
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For folks asking if they've made it *inside* a Home Depot yet as the business has clearly just continued letting agents do whatever they want in their lots, the answer is yes. This is from yesterday in Evanston.
October 22, 2025 at 6:33 PM
For folks asking if they've made it *inside* a Home Depot yet as the business has clearly just continued letting agents do whatever they want in their lots, the answer is yes. This is from yesterday in Evanston.
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Ethics Watchdog Group Seeks Investigation Into Border Czar and Contracts
The nonpartisan Campaign Legal Center has called on the Homeland Security inspector general to investigate potential conflicts of interest and ethics violations by border czar Tom Homan and his senior adviser Mark Hall.
The nonpartisan Campaign Legal Center has called on the Homeland Security inspector general to investigate potential conflicts of interest and ethics violations by border czar Tom Homan and his senior adviser Mark Hall.
Ethics Watchdog Group Seeks Investigation Into Border Czar and Contracts Following ProPublica Report
The nonpartisan Campaign Legal Center has called on the Homeland Security inspector general to investigate potential conflicts of interest and ethics violations by border czar Tom Homan and his senior...
www.propublica.org
October 22, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Ethics Watchdog Group Seeks Investigation Into Border Czar and Contracts
The nonpartisan Campaign Legal Center has called on the Homeland Security inspector general to investigate potential conflicts of interest and ethics violations by border czar Tom Homan and his senior adviser Mark Hall.
The nonpartisan Campaign Legal Center has called on the Homeland Security inspector general to investigate potential conflicts of interest and ethics violations by border czar Tom Homan and his senior adviser Mark Hall.
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History faculty at Columbia & Barnard decrying the harassment of @mark-bray.bsky.social: "This is the first case in recent memory of a historian who has fled the country after receiving death threats on account of the history that they teach."
October 14, 2025 at 2:48 AM
History faculty at Columbia & Barnard decrying the harassment of @mark-bray.bsky.social: "This is the first case in recent memory of a historian who has fled the country after receiving death threats on account of the history that they teach."
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Military families are waiting in long lines at food banks. Shame on Trump, Mike Johnson, John Thune, & the other Congressional Republicans who are responsible for this shutdown. #RepublicanShutdown #MAGAshutdown #TrumpShutdown
October 10, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Military families are waiting in long lines at food banks. Shame on Trump, Mike Johnson, John Thune, & the other Congressional Republicans who are responsible for this shutdown. #RepublicanShutdown #MAGAshutdown #TrumpShutdown
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I'm sorry, did Temu Mel Gibson here just sat that the baby is *in* the placenta?
Is there any aspect of human biology this lumbering science experiment of a man can't get wrong?
Is there any aspect of human biology this lumbering science experiment of a man can't get wrong?
RFK Jr: "Somebody showed me a TikTok video of a pregnant woman at 8 months pregnant -- she's an associate professor at the Columbia Medical School -- and she is saying 'F Trump' and gobbling Tylenol with her baby in her placenta. The level of Trump Derangement Syndrome is now a pathology."
October 9, 2025 at 5:13 PM
I'm sorry, did Temu Mel Gibson here just sat that the baby is *in* the placenta?
Is there any aspect of human biology this lumbering science experiment of a man can't get wrong?
Is there any aspect of human biology this lumbering science experiment of a man can't get wrong?
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Brunkow, Ramsdell and Sakaguchi win 2025 Nobel medicine prize reut.rs/4o4XAP6
Brunkow, Ramsdell and Sakaguchi win 2025 Nobel medicine prize
Scientists Mary Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi won the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for "their discoveries concerning peripheral immune tolerance", the award-giving body said on Monday.
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October 6, 2025 at 9:50 AM
Brunkow, Ramsdell and Sakaguchi win 2025 Nobel medicine prize reut.rs/4o4XAP6
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Dr Houry is an emergency physician. “I resigned because CDC leaders were reduced to rubber stamps and the safety of Americans health was at risk.”
September 17, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Dr Houry is an emergency physician. “I resigned because CDC leaders were reduced to rubber stamps and the safety of Americans health was at risk.”
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Illinois State Senator Karina Villa sprang into action to protect her community from ICE raids, alerting neighbors to their rights and chasing off masked agents. This is how you stand up to authoritarianism. We should all be inspired by Sen. Villa's courage.
September 16, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Illinois State Senator Karina Villa sprang into action to protect her community from ICE raids, alerting neighbors to their rights and chasing off masked agents. This is how you stand up to authoritarianism. We should all be inspired by Sen. Villa's courage.
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according to an immigration attorney representing several arrested workers, ICE agents chose to arrest the Korean workers to fulfill the quota of 3,000 daily immigrant arrests set by Stephen Miller www.forbes.com/sites/stuart...
Stephen Miller’s Quota Likely Drove Korean Arrests In Immigration Raid
When ICE agents arrested over 300 Korean workers at a Georgia battery plant, a daily immigrant arrest quota was likely on their minds.
www.forbes.com
September 17, 2025 at 2:42 AM
according to an immigration attorney representing several arrested workers, ICE agents chose to arrest the Korean workers to fulfill the quota of 3,000 daily immigrant arrests set by Stephen Miller www.forbes.com/sites/stuart...
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Ooof, even John Yoo knows how insane the extrajudicial execution proclivity of Trump is. That should be startling to pretty much anybody.
“.. There has to be a line between crime and war,” said John Yoo, a former deputy assistant attorney general under President George W. Bush.
@politico.com
www.politico.com/news/2025/09...
@politico.com
www.politico.com/news/2025/09...
September 17, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Ooof, even John Yoo knows how insane the extrajudicial execution proclivity of Trump is. That should be startling to pretty much anybody.
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Some personal news:
I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting.
Thread incoming.
substack.com/@karenattiah...
I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting.
Thread incoming.
substack.com/@karenattiah...
The Washington Post Fired Me — But My Voice Will Not Be Silenced.
I spoke out against hatred and violence in America — and it cost me my job.
substack.com
September 15, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Some personal news:
I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting.
Thread incoming.
substack.com/@karenattiah...
I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting.
Thread incoming.
substack.com/@karenattiah...
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That got us wondering: How would those governors feel if National Guard troops from other states were ordered onto their streets, perhaps to patrol one of the 53 cities in those states with a higher murder rate than Washington’s?
So, we asked them.
www.democracydocket.com/analysis/the...
So, we asked them.
www.democracydocket.com/analysis/the...
The States Sending Troops to DC Have Way Worse Crime Problems. Most Didn’t Want to Talk About It.
The States Sending Troops to DC Have Way Worse Crime Problems. Most Didn’t Want to Talk About It.
www.democracydocket.com
August 23, 2025 at 7:47 PM
That got us wondering: How would those governors feel if National Guard troops from other states were ordered onto their streets, perhaps to patrol one of the 53 cities in those states with a higher murder rate than Washington’s?
So, we asked them.
www.democracydocket.com/analysis/the...
So, we asked them.
www.democracydocket.com/analysis/the...
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🚨BREAKING: Hours after Texas passed its new map, my law firm has challenged it in federal court. In addition to violating the VRA, HB 4 violates the 14th Amendment because it unjustifiably considers race and partisanship as part of a voluntary, mid-cycle redistricting. @redistrictfdn.bsky.social
🚨 League of United Latin American Citizens v. Abbott
Learn more.
www.democracydocket.com
August 23, 2025 at 12:56 PM
🚨BREAKING: Hours after Texas passed its new map, my law firm has challenged it in federal court. In addition to violating the VRA, HB 4 violates the 14th Amendment because it unjustifiably considers race and partisanship as part of a voluntary, mid-cycle redistricting. @redistrictfdn.bsky.social
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Unfortunately, Bluesky is unavailable in Mississippi right now, due to a new state law that requires age verification for all users.
While intended for child safety, we think this law poses broader challenges & creates significant barriers that limit free speech & harm smaller platforms like ours.
While intended for child safety, we think this law poses broader challenges & creates significant barriers that limit free speech & harm smaller platforms like ours.
August 22, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Unfortunately, Bluesky is unavailable in Mississippi right now, due to a new state law that requires age verification for all users.
While intended for child safety, we think this law poses broader challenges & creates significant barriers that limit free speech & harm smaller platforms like ours.
While intended for child safety, we think this law poses broader challenges & creates significant barriers that limit free speech & harm smaller platforms like ours.
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WIN: A federal court rules that Alabama’s state Senate map unfairly dilutes Black voting power in Montgomery, violating Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act. The state must now draw a new map that complies with Section 2.
🚨 Chandler v. Allen
Read the latest filing in Chandler v. Allen.
www.democracydocket.com
August 22, 2025 at 5:49 PM
WIN: A federal court rules that Alabama’s state Senate map unfairly dilutes Black voting power in Montgomery, violating Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act. The state must now draw a new map that complies with Section 2.
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From the same people who, without evidence, routinely accused Biden of weaponizing the FBI...
FBI searches home of former Trump national security adviser John Bolton, AP source says
The FBI is searching the Maryland home of ex-Trump national security adviser John Bolton as part of an investigation into the handling of classified documents.
apnews.com
August 22, 2025 at 12:19 PM
From the same people who, without evidence, routinely accused Biden of weaponizing the FBI...
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the American The American Dream
August 21, 2025 at 4:03 AM
the American The American Dream
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August 20, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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WOW. @marcelias.bsky.social goes off on the failures of legacy media: "We have an absolute collapse and failure by the institutions that have promised us that democracy would not die in darkness, that in fact, they stand for the proposition that democracy will die in plain sight of daylight."
August 18, 2025 at 9:13 PM
WOW. @marcelias.bsky.social goes off on the failures of legacy media: "We have an absolute collapse and failure by the institutions that have promised us that democracy would not die in darkness, that in fact, they stand for the proposition that democracy will die in plain sight of daylight."
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TX State Senator Roland Gutierrez
is speaking up about Dustin Burrows (TX Speaker of The House) 🐂💩!
is speaking up about Dustin Burrows (TX Speaker of The House) 🐂💩!
August 19, 2025 at 9:22 AM
TX State Senator Roland Gutierrez
is speaking up about Dustin Burrows (TX Speaker of The House) 🐂💩!
is speaking up about Dustin Burrows (TX Speaker of The House) 🐂💩!
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Throwing a sandwich at a cop: felony.
Beating a cop unconscious with a flag pole: tourist behavior.
Beating a cop unconscious with a flag pole: tourist behavior.
August 15, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Throwing a sandwich at a cop: felony.
Beating a cop unconscious with a flag pole: tourist behavior.
Beating a cop unconscious with a flag pole: tourist behavior.