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Horrifying story, and yet horrifyingly understated. This is a five-alarm fire. These are war crimes. This is murder. Trump should go to prison for this. Servicemembers should have refused their orders.
Trump Claims the Power to Summarily Kill Suspected Drug Smugglers
The move to treat criminals as if they were wartime combatants escalated an administration pattern of using military force for law enforcement tasks at home and abroad.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/04/u...
The move to treat criminals as if they were wartime combatants escalated an administration pattern of using military force for law enforcement tasks at home and abroad.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/04/u...
Trump Claims the Power to Summarily Kill Suspected Drug Smugglers
www.nytimes.com
September 4, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Horrifying story, and yet horrifyingly understated. This is a five-alarm fire. These are war crimes. This is murder. Trump should go to prison for this. Servicemembers should have refused their orders.
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Florida removed St. Petersburg's Progressive Pride street mural Sept. 2, one day after LGBTQ+ advocates gathered at the landmark to chalk and share messages of inclusivity.
Read more and view photos at WatermarkOutNews.com.
Read more and view photos at WatermarkOutNews.com.
September 3, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Florida removed St. Petersburg's Progressive Pride street mural Sept. 2, one day after LGBTQ+ advocates gathered at the landmark to chalk and share messages of inclusivity.
Read more and view photos at WatermarkOutNews.com.
Read more and view photos at WatermarkOutNews.com.
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Vance follows a coterie of online Nazis on X, has described Curtis Yarvin as a major intellectual influence, and openly attacks immigrants in blood and soil terms. The response of most of the political press? "Doesn't look like anything to me."
For the last couple of years much of the media has had the most incredible unwillingness to learn literally anything about JD Vance. Never seen anything like it. Active resistance to learning anything about his ideas.
jesus man, tell me you have no idea who Claremont is or JD Vance's record as a postliberal
September 2, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Vance follows a coterie of online Nazis on X, has described Curtis Yarvin as a major intellectual influence, and openly attacks immigrants in blood and soil terms. The response of most of the political press? "Doesn't look like anything to me."
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Every American should read this ACLU lawsuit about what is happening in Los Angeles and California. It is the stuff of dystopian nightmares. This is not immigration enforcement. It is positively stuffed with videos and articles documenting racial profiling on a scale unseen since Jim Crow.
July 9, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Every American should read this ACLU lawsuit about what is happening in Los Angeles and California. It is the stuff of dystopian nightmares. This is not immigration enforcement. It is positively stuffed with videos and articles documenting racial profiling on a scale unseen since Jim Crow.
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I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy.
I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.
I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.
July 3, 2025 at 8:00 PM
I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy.
I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.
I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.
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The massive size of the march, which the government for months had insisted would not be tolerated, was seen as a major blow to Orbán's prestige, as the European Union's longest-serving leader's popularity slumps in polls where a new opposition force has taken the lead.
www.npr.org/2025/06/28/n...
www.npr.org/2025/06/28/n...
Around 100,000 march in Budapest Pride event in defiance of Hungary's ban
Marchers gambled with potential police intervention and fines to participate in the annual Budapest Pride, which was outlawed by a law passed by Prime Minister Viktor Orbán's right-wing governing part...
www.npr.org
June 30, 2025 at 1:03 AM
The massive size of the march, which the government for months had insisted would not be tolerated, was seen as a major blow to Orbán's prestige, as the European Union's longest-serving leader's popularity slumps in polls where a new opposition force has taken the lead.
www.npr.org/2025/06/28/n...
www.npr.org/2025/06/28/n...
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none of the democrats claiming that the left is dragging the party down could replicate this in their wildest dreams
June 29, 2025 at 5:05 PM
none of the democrats claiming that the left is dragging the party down could replicate this in their wildest dreams
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Nearly 12 million Americans will lose health care coverage under the current iteration of the so-called Big Beautiful Bill www.statnews.com/2025/06/29/1...
11.8 million to lose health insurance under Senate Republican tax bill, CBO projects
Senate GOP version of the tax bill would strip 11.8 million people of health insurance over the next decade, CBO estimated.
www.statnews.com
June 29, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Nearly 12 million Americans will lose health care coverage under the current iteration of the so-called Big Beautiful Bill www.statnews.com/2025/06/29/1...
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I cannot emphasize this enough, an Israel-Western regime change operation against Iran would lead to hundreds of thousands of deaths. We have seen this play out before, several times in the past decades. Anyone who tries to justify this madness will have blood on their hands.
June 18, 2025 at 7:54 PM
I cannot emphasize this enough, an Israel-Western regime change operation against Iran would lead to hundreds of thousands of deaths. We have seen this play out before, several times in the past decades. Anyone who tries to justify this madness will have blood on their hands.
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"Today, multinational corporations continue to move freely around the world, while people seeking a better life continue to face restrictive borders enforced by state violence." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
America had open borders until 1924. Racism and corporate greed changed that | Daniel Mendiola
The primary justifications for early immigration laws were xenophobia, eugenics, and overt racism. Understanding the history of immigration is essential
www.theguardian.com
June 17, 2025 at 12:20 PM
"Today, multinational corporations continue to move freely around the world, while people seeking a better life continue to face restrictive borders enforced by state violence." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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political press is doing a real disservice by basically not reporting the nuances of public opinion on deportations, and creating the appearance that most americans support the stephen miller-style gestapo tactics
Should we deport people who have lived here for many years without committing any crimes? 61% no, 24% yes.
Should we should deport people as quickly as possible even if it means more mistakes, or do our best to make no mistakes even if it takes longer?
Quickly: 19%
Minimize mistakes: 74%
Should we should deport people as quickly as possible even if it means more mistakes, or do our best to make no mistakes even if it takes longer?
Quickly: 19%
Minimize mistakes: 74%
June 15, 2025 at 8:58 PM
political press is doing a real disservice by basically not reporting the nuances of public opinion on deportations, and creating the appearance that most americans support the stephen miller-style gestapo tactics
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May 28, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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they are really going for it with mass detention and that means concentration camps, that means mass deaths, that means plenty of citizens rounded up too, especially political dissidents. if you still can’t see where this train is headed idk what to tell you anymore
If this bill becomes law, ICE will become the best-resourced law enforcement agency in the history of the country, with more funding for detention than the entire federal Bureau of Prisons.
WASHINGTON (AP) - Republican-led House approves tax bill after grueling all-night session, taking a major step forward for Trump's agenda.
May 22, 2025 at 4:42 PM
they are really going for it with mass detention and that means concentration camps, that means mass deaths, that means plenty of citizens rounded up too, especially political dissidents. if you still can’t see where this train is headed idk what to tell you anymore
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Governor @gavinnewsom.bsky.social’s May Revise for the 2025-26 budget proposes to eliminate two major initiatives from the California Department of Public Health’s Office of Health Equity.
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#California #healthcare #immigration
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#California #healthcare #immigration
LGBTQ leaders urge state lawmakers to restore $31 million in healthcare budget cuts - Watermark Out News
Governor Gavin Newsom’s May Revise for the 2025-26 budget proposes to eliminate two major initiatives from the California Department of Public Health’s Office of Health Equity.
watermarkonline.com
May 22, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Governor @gavinnewsom.bsky.social’s May Revise for the 2025-26 budget proposes to eliminate two major initiatives from the California Department of Public Health’s Office of Health Equity.
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#California #healthcare #immigration
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#California #healthcare #immigration
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Absolutely insane headline. This is what genocide looks like. This is what our ruling classes have decided will be normal.
May 20, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Absolutely insane headline. This is what genocide looks like. This is what our ruling classes have decided will be normal.
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The price tag is equal to
-50,000 live saved through USAID
-hundreds of thousands of cases of HIV prevented through PEPFAR
-1-10 years of space telescope operations, depending on the 'scope
-a year of the federal Narcan program that saves thousands of lives
-500,000 MMR shots
But muh efficiency!
-50,000 live saved through USAID
-hundreds of thousands of cases of HIV prevented through PEPFAR
-1-10 years of space telescope operations, depending on the 'scope
-a year of the federal Narcan program that saves thousands of lives
-500,000 MMR shots
But muh efficiency!
Again Republicans would have a field day with this.
May 4, 2025 at 7:14 PM
The price tag is equal to
-50,000 live saved through USAID
-hundreds of thousands of cases of HIV prevented through PEPFAR
-1-10 years of space telescope operations, depending on the 'scope
-a year of the federal Narcan program that saves thousands of lives
-500,000 MMR shots
But muh efficiency!
-50,000 live saved through USAID
-hundreds of thousands of cases of HIV prevented through PEPFAR
-1-10 years of space telescope operations, depending on the 'scope
-a year of the federal Narcan program that saves thousands of lives
-500,000 MMR shots
But muh efficiency!
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Thinking about how many people had to willingly help — or just not stop and say “hang on, really?” — to “deport” a US citizen child with cancer.
April 26, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Thinking about how many people had to willingly help — or just not stop and say “hang on, really?” — to “deport” a US citizen child with cancer.
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The Department of Education: too inessential for the Trump administration to maintain in existence, but important enough for Republicans to switch on its wage-garnishing machine.
The Education Department will begin collecting student loan debt in default next month, including garnishing wages for potentially millions of borrowers.
Student loans in default to be referred to debt collection, Education Department says
The Education Department will begin collection next month on student loans that are in default, including the garnishing of wages for potentially millions of bo
kutv.com
April 21, 2025 at 8:35 PM
The Department of Education: too inessential for the Trump administration to maintain in existence, but important enough for Republicans to switch on its wage-garnishing machine.
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These stories landed today, within 11 hours of each other.
This presidential administration is a clear and present danger to the American people.
This presidential administration is a clear and present danger to the American people.
April 17, 2025 at 8:29 PM
These stories landed today, within 11 hours of each other.
This presidential administration is a clear and present danger to the American people.
This presidential administration is a clear and present danger to the American people.
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New preprint finding that eliminating US global health funding over the next fifteen years would cause:
- 15.2m deaths from AIDS
- 2.2m deaths from TB
- 7.9 additional child deaths
- 15.2m deaths from AIDS
- 2.2m deaths from TB
- 7.9 additional child deaths
April 17, 2025 at 8:32 PM
New preprint finding that eliminating US global health funding over the next fifteen years would cause:
- 15.2m deaths from AIDS
- 2.2m deaths from TB
- 7.9 additional child deaths
- 15.2m deaths from AIDS
- 2.2m deaths from TB
- 7.9 additional child deaths
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A reminder that there is no human being in the United States whom it would be legal to disappear to a Salvadoran prison without due process of law.
April 16, 2025 at 8:32 PM
A reminder that there is no human being in the United States whom it would be legal to disappear to a Salvadoran prison without due process of law.
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These are the same people that were willing to let their grandparents die so they could eat at Arby's again without a mask
April 3, 2025 at 7:48 PM
These are the same people that were willing to let their grandparents die so they could eat at Arby's again without a mask
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the entire political project of the american right is to create a hierarchy with protected in-groups and punished out-groups. there is no moral nor political upside in meeting them half way on any of those out-groups. the only people in a bubble are those who deny that hierarchy is their agenda
March 30, 2025 at 2:30 PM
the entire political project of the american right is to create a hierarchy with protected in-groups and punished out-groups. there is no moral nor political upside in meeting them half way on any of those out-groups. the only people in a bubble are those who deny that hierarchy is their agenda
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I know this is super obvious, but: The United States government threatening foreign students with disappearing them to prison camps in El Salvador because they exercised their constitutionally guaranteed right to freedom of speech and assembly is so incredibly dark, disgusting, and dangerous.
March 30, 2025 at 2:13 AM
I know this is super obvious, but: The United States government threatening foreign students with disappearing them to prison camps in El Salvador because they exercised their constitutionally guaranteed right to freedom of speech and assembly is so incredibly dark, disgusting, and dangerous.
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"Unmarked and unidentified law enforcement abducting a lawful migrant, seemingly in retaliation for First Amendment-protected speech, is the sort of attack on civil liberties that we would not hesitate to label as authoritarian in another country."
www.vox.com/politics/406...
www.vox.com/politics/406...
A clarifying moment for democracy
The shocking arrest near Boston shows how Trump’s immigration policy has become an assault on freedom.
www.vox.com
March 27, 2025 at 10:40 PM
"Unmarked and unidentified law enforcement abducting a lawful migrant, seemingly in retaliation for First Amendment-protected speech, is the sort of attack on civil liberties that we would not hesitate to label as authoritarian in another country."
www.vox.com/politics/406...
www.vox.com/politics/406...