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Chaotic Mongrel
@doesnt-cope.bsky.social
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If you’re in a point in life where you’re looking at this account, idk what to tell you

Go do jumping jacks on a pile of Legos if you don’t believe that every human deserves food, water, shelter, and medical care.
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Chaotic Mongrel @doesnt-cope.bsky.social · May 3
Swallowing is now considered voluntary manslaughter and punishable by up to 20 years in prison.
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chadloder.bsky.social
Easily over 1,000 people outside the federal detention center in LA, with another 2,000+ at City Hall.
aerial view of thousands of protesters outside the federal detention center in LA
June 8, 2025 at 10:18 PM
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aclu.org
Today marks three months since masked federal agents unlawfully took our client Mahmoud Khalil into ICE custody in retaliation for his pro-Palestinian advocacy.

Every day Mahmoud is detained is another day that his civil liberties — and all of our First Amendment rights — are under attack.
June 8, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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aclu.org
People in ICE detention are being denied health care and adequate nutrition, often given spoiled food or nothing at all.

Our government’s cruelty to immigrants is a moral failing — not a policy solution.
In recorded calls, reports of overcrowding and lack of food at ICE detention centers
ICE detentions have surged, but deportations have not. In the past month, NPR spoke to dozens of detainees, families and lawyers who spoke of overcrowded centers in Florida lacking food and medicine.
www.npr.org
June 7, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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katmabu.bsky.social
If you want to do something to help those in Gaza, please consider donating to Doctors Without Borders.

Read more about their work in Gaza (and donate) here: www.doctorswithoutborders.org/msf-operatio...
MSF operations in Gaza
Last updated on May 14, 2025Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has been working in Gaza for decades and our teams have been providing lifesaving medical aid throughout the devastat...
www.doctorswithoutborders.org
June 7, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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mollyjongfast.bsky.social
The people at @msnbc.com helped me make this video
June 7, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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evanstonnow.bsky.social
Abughazaleh takes campaign to CNN

Candidate for Congress turning national spotlight on IL9.
Abughazaleh takes campaign to CNN
Candidate for Congress turning national spotlight on IL9.
evanstonnow.com
June 7, 2025 at 12:42 AM
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aclu.org
The Trump administration is considering deploying the National Guard for immigration enforcement, including for “night operations” or to target unaccompanied immigrant children.

This move would be unprecedented, dangerous, and put all our rights at risk.
DHS memo details how National Guard troops will be used for immigration enforcement
The memo obtained by NPR says troops would be used in activities, including in "night operations and rural interdiction," as well as "guard duty and riot control" inside detention facilities.
www.npr.org
June 6, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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aclu.org
This has confirmed what we always knew: The government can bring back people they illegally deported.

Every single person has a right to their day in court. It's past time for President Trump to bring back everyone who was unlawfully deported and guarantee their rights to due process.
Kilmar Abrego Garcia has been returned to the United States to face criminal charges | CNN Politics
Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the Maryland man mistakenly deported to El Salvador in March, has been returned to the United States to face federal criminal charges, Attorney General Pam Bondi said Friday.
www.cnn.com
June 6, 2025 at 11:06 PM
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sanders.senate.gov
On June 6, 1944, 81 years ago, the US and allied troops landed on the beaches of Normandy to liberate Europe from Hitler’s tyrannic rule. These brave soldiers gave their lives to defend democracy.

We must honor them by continuing the fight against authoritarianism and fascism in all its forms.
June 6, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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georebekah.bsky.social
wtop.com/dc/2025/06/f...
Flights at Reagan National will be suspended for Army’s 250th anniversary parade - WTOP News
Flying into or out of Reagan National Airport on June 14? Check your flight. The Va. airport is suspending flights during a planned military parade through D.C.
wtop.com
June 6, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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daveyh39.bsky.social
The beautiful Breonna Taylor should have celebrated her 32nd birthday today. Never forget her. ❤️🕊️
June 6, 2025 at 3:46 AM
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katmabu.bsky.social
Your bill is going to cut coverage for 11 million Americans and it’ll still cost more than universal healthcare.

Healthcare is a human right, you absolute ghouls.
Tweet from @RNCResearch that says: IL Democrat Candidate for Congress @KatAbughazaleh says criminal illegal aliens should be on Medicaid. This is the madness President Trump is trying to stop with the One, Big, Beautiful Bill. Medicaid is for AMERICANS!
June 6, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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junlper.beer
how do we live in a world where saying “i believe no one should die due to lack of healthcare” is controversial
thetnholler.bsky.social The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · Jun 6
WATCH: @katmabu.bsky.social blows Jennings’ mind by saying “everyone deserves health care”

Reminder: this is how it is in every other developed nation, where the cruelty of the Republican Party has not killed universal health care on behalf of the insurance companies. #MedicareForAll
June 6, 2025 at 4:35 AM
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katmabu.bsky.social
I can't believe any Democrat would THINK of allying with Elon Musk.

I won't take money from the guy who does a Hitler salute. It's really that simple.
June 6, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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aclu.org
We cannot arrest our way out of homelessness.

Solving homelessness requires improving access to affordable housing, mental health care, and addiction services. People need housing, not handcuffs.
Brown graphic reading "77% of agree: We need to address homelessness as a resource issue, not a public safety issue." There is an image of keys at the bottom of the graphic.
June 5, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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theonion.com
Rift Widens Between Elon Musk, Anyone Who Ever Met Him
Rift Widens Between Elon Musk, Anyone Who Ever Met Him
AUSTIN, TX—Stressing that the billionaire’s completely erratic behavior had strained the already fraught relationships, sources confirmed Thursday that a rift was widening between Elon Musk and anyone...
theonion.com
June 5, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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mollyjongfast.bsky.social
It’s like veep but much much much stupider
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Jun 5
DEAN: What's the tariff on bananas?

LUTNICK: Generally 10%

DEAN: Walmart has already increased the cost of bananas by 8%

LUTNICK: If you build in America, there is no tariff

DEAN: We cannot build bananas in America
June 5, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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joshsteinnc.bsky.social
My job is to represent the people of North Carolina – not Democrats or Republicans – the people.
June 5, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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4taxfairness.bsky.social
via @epi.org www.epi.org/publication/...
The upside-down priorities of the House budget: Adding significantly to debt while reducing incomes for the bottom 40%
As economists who have devoted our careers to researching how economies can grow and how the benefits of this growth can be translated into broadly shared prosperity and security, we have grave concer...
www.epi.org
June 4, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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4taxfairness.bsky.social
LETTER: Six Nobel economists just SLAMMED the Republican budget.

They warn that tax breaks for the rich and cuts to Medicaid and SNAP are "an extremely large upward redistribution of income."

They also say the bill will create "upward pressure" on inflation and interest rates.
As economists who have devoted our careers to researching how economies can grow and how the benefits of this growth can be translated into broadly shared prosperity and security, we have grave concerns about the budget reconciliation bill passed by the U.S. House of Reps on May 22, 2025. The most acute and immediate damage stemming from this bill would be felt by the millions of American families losing key safety net protections like Medicaid and Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits. The Medicaid cuts constitute a sad step backward in the nation’s commitment to providing access to health care for all. Proponents of the House bill often claim that these Medicaid cuts can be achieved simply by imposing work reporting requirements on healthy, working-age adults. But healthy, working-age adults are by definition not heavy consumers of health spending, so achieving the budgeted Medicaid cuts will obviously harm others as well. Medicaid provides health insurance coverage for low-income Americans, but this includes paying out-of-pocket health costs for low-income retired Medicare recipients and providing nursing home and in-home care services for elderly Americans. Medicaid also covers 41% of all births in the United States, including over 50% of all births in Louisiana, Mississippi, New Mexico, and Oklahoma. Work reporting requirements will obviously yield no savings from these Medicaid functions. Besides providing affordable health care to families, Medicaid is also crucial to state budgets and hospital systems throughout the country—particularly in rural areas. In 2023, the federal government sent $615 billion to state governments to cover Medicaid spending; this federal contribution accounted for over 75% of total state Medicaid spending in more than 19 states. Rural hospitals in states that accepted the Medicaid expansion that was part of the Affordable Care Act were 62% less likely to close than rural hospitals in non-expansion states. In addition to Medicaid, the House bill also significantly cuts SNAP. These steep cuts to the social safety net are being undertaken to defray the staggering cost of the tax cuts included in the House bill, including the hidden cost of preserving the large corporate income tax cut passed in the 2017 tax law. But even these sharp spending cuts will pay for far less than half of the tax cuts (not even including the cost of maintaining the corporate income tax cuts of the 2017 law). U.S. structural deficits are already too high, with real debt service payments approaching their historic highs in the past year. The House bill layers $3.8 trillion in additional tax cuts ($5.3 trillion if all provisions are made permanent) on top of these existing fiscal gaps—and these tax cuts are overwhelmingly tilted toward the highest-income households. Even with the safety net cuts, the House bill leads to public debt rising by over $3 trillion in coming years (and over $5 trillion over the next decade if provisions are made permanent rather than phasing out). The higher debt and deficits will put noticeable upward pressure on both inflation and interest rates in coming years. The combination of cuts to key safety net programs like Medicaid and SNAP and tax cuts disproportionately benefiting higher-income households means that the House budget constitutes an extremely large upward redistribution of income. Given how much this bill adds to the U.S. debt, it is shocking that it still imposes absolute losses on the bottom 40% of U.S households (if some of the fiscal cost is absorbed in future bills with extremely high and broad tariffs, the share of households seeing absolute losses will increase rapidly). The United States has a number of pressing economic challenges to address, many of which require a greater level of state capacity to navigate—capacity that will be eroded by large tax cuts. The House bill addresses none of the nation’s key economic challenges usefully and exacerba…
June 4, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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sanders.senate.gov
Creating a world free of bigotry, where everyone — no matter their sexual orientation — can live and love as their true selves is something I have fought for since I was Mayor of Burlington.

Happy Pride month to everyone in the LGBTQ community.
June 4, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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4taxfairness.bsky.social
BREAKING: Billionaires in America now hold a record $7 TRILLION in wealth.

That's a $4.1 TRILLION increase since the last Trump tax scam.

Republicans are now pushing a budget to give billionaires more tax breaks, paid for by cuts to healthcare and food assistance.

Insanity.
June 4, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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aclu.org
Long-time activist Randy Wicker celebrated his friends and former roommates, Marsha P. Johnson and Willie Brashears, with a homemade quilt square for our Freedom to Be monument on the National Mall.

This Pride Month, we honor all three for their contributions to queer liberation.
June 4, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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sanders.senate.gov
Oligarchs are addicted to greed.

In 1982, there were just 13 US billionaires worth $14 billion.

Today, while 60% of Americans live paycheck to paycheck, there are 903 US billionaires worth $6.8 trillion.

Enough is enough. We need an economy that works for all, not just the top 1%.
June 4, 2025 at 5:04 PM