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The Social Security Administration (SSA) has always been a nonpartisan agency focused on serving the public, until now.
July 6, 2025 at 9:53 PM
The Social Security Administration (SSA) has always been a nonpartisan agency focused on serving the public, until now.
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There have been claims that NOAA/NWS did not foresee catastrophic TX floods--but that's simply not true. This was undoubtedly an extreme event, but messaging rapidly escalated beginning ~12 hrs prior. Flood Watch mid PM, "heads up" outlook late PM, flash flood warnings ~1am.
WPC issued as many as six MPDs for the deadly flash flooding in the TX Hill Country starting yesterday evening and lasting through much of today. The first MPD generally set the stage for what was to come, while the next three shown were as the event unfolded.
July 5, 2025 at 3:50 PM
There have been claims that NOAA/NWS did not foresee catastrophic TX floods--but that's simply not true. This was undoubtedly an extreme event, but messaging rapidly escalated beginning ~12 hrs prior. Flood Watch mid PM, "heads up" outlook late PM, flash flood warnings ~1am.
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Your government is stripping health insurance from poor people to redistribute billions of dollars to ICE and local law enforcement agencies so they can arrest and cage your neighbors.
NEW from me: The GOP megabill will add $171 billion to immigration enforcement and ICE, a gigantic sum that'll pour funds into a vast network of detention + hire thousands of ICE agents and fund sheriffs.
I talked to an expert on just what to expect:
boltsmag.org/how-the-gop-...
I talked to an expert on just what to expect:
boltsmag.org/how-the-gop-...
How the GOP Megabill Would Turbocharge Local Immigration Enforcement - Bolts
Congress is poised to pour tens of billions of dollars into more immigration detention, private jails, and border operations, plus new ICE partnerships with local police and sheriffs.
boltsmag.org
July 3, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Your government is stripping health insurance from poor people to redistribute billions of dollars to ICE and local law enforcement agencies so they can arrest and cage your neighbors.
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Laura Loomer is advocating in very direct terms for genocide.
The entire Latino population in the U.S. is 65 million. She means all of us.
July 2, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Laura Loomer is advocating in very direct terms for genocide.
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Trump is heading to the grand opening of a new immigrant detention site (concentration camp)—because nothing says “freedom” like cages surrounded by alligators.
Worse, his team is eyeing the Florida National Guard to serve as immigration judges. Seriously, WTF?! 🤬
Worse, his team is eyeing the Florida National Guard to serve as immigration judges. Seriously, WTF?! 🤬
July 1, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Trump is heading to the grand opening of a new immigrant detention site (concentration camp)—because nothing says “freedom” like cages surrounded by alligators.
Worse, his team is eyeing the Florida National Guard to serve as immigration judges. Seriously, WTF?! 🤬
Worse, his team is eyeing the Florida National Guard to serve as immigration judges. Seriously, WTF?! 🤬
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Personally I am using the phrase "Everglades Detention Camp," which I think is a good middle ground.
Note that apparently Florida has declared that "Alligator Alcatraz" is the *official* name of the facility, which is clearly designed to force media orgs to call it that.
Note that apparently Florida has declared that "Alligator Alcatraz" is the *official* name of the facility, which is clearly designed to force media orgs to call it that.
"Alligator Alcatraz" is wrong and media should not use it. It's propaganda. Alcatraz held people convicted of crimes, particularly violent crimes.
The Florida camp holds people *not* convicted of any crime. If they had been, they'd be in prison elsewhere.
The site is a textbook concentration camp.
The Florida camp holds people *not* convicted of any crime. If they had been, they'd be in prison elsewhere.
The site is a textbook concentration camp.
I know the media is going to unthinkingly start using “Alligator Alcatraz,” but it’s disgusting and sadistic and I intend to call it what it is, a fucking concentration camp, and fuck those people who are doing this and giving it a cutesy name.
July 2, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Personally I am using the phrase "Everglades Detention Camp," which I think is a good middle ground.
Note that apparently Florida has declared that "Alligator Alcatraz" is the *official* name of the facility, which is clearly designed to force media orgs to call it that.
Note that apparently Florida has declared that "Alligator Alcatraz" is the *official* name of the facility, which is clearly designed to force media orgs to call it that.
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Johnny Noviello moved from Canada to Daytona Beach when he was 10 years old. He grew up in Florida and became a lawful permanent resident.
On Monday, June 23, he died at the Federal Detention Center in downtown Miami, after six weeks in immigration detention.
www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
On Monday, June 23, he died at the Federal Detention Center in downtown Miami, after six weeks in immigration detention.
www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
Canadian man awaiting deportation dies at detention facility in downtown Miami
The cause of death for the 49-year-old man is still under official investigation.
www.miamiherald.com
June 29, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Johnny Noviello moved from Canada to Daytona Beach when he was 10 years old. He grew up in Florida and became a lawful permanent resident.
On Monday, June 23, he died at the Federal Detention Center in downtown Miami, after six weeks in immigration detention.
www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
On Monday, June 23, he died at the Federal Detention Center in downtown Miami, after six weeks in immigration detention.
www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
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The U.S. Senate is currently considering a budget reconciliation bill that quietly includes language that could devastate our public lands. It would:
- Make over 250 million acres of public land eligible for sale
- Mandate the sale of at least 2 million acres of Forest Service and BLM land
- Make over 250 million acres of public land eligible for sale
- Mandate the sale of at least 2 million acres of Forest Service and BLM land
June 21, 2025 at 5:51 PM
The U.S. Senate is currently considering a budget reconciliation bill that quietly includes language that could devastate our public lands. It would:
- Make over 250 million acres of public land eligible for sale
- Mandate the sale of at least 2 million acres of Forest Service and BLM land
- Make over 250 million acres of public land eligible for sale
- Mandate the sale of at least 2 million acres of Forest Service and BLM land
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I traveled to Oxnard the day after immigration raids caused chaos in farming communities. Organizers say they know of at least 35 people arrested, many Indigenous farmworkers.
Organizers are reeling and staying on high alert, unclear of what happens next.
www.latimes.com/california/s...
Organizers are reeling and staying on high alert, unclear of what happens next.
www.latimes.com/california/s...
Eerie silence hangs over Central Coast farm fields in wake of ICE raids
Community organizers say at least 35 people were arrested as federal immigration agents swept through Ventura County farms and packinghouses this week.
www.latimes.com
June 12, 2025 at 4:32 PM
I traveled to Oxnard the day after immigration raids caused chaos in farming communities. Organizers say they know of at least 35 people arrested, many Indigenous farmworkers.
Organizers are reeling and staying on high alert, unclear of what happens next.
www.latimes.com/california/s...
Organizers are reeling and staying on high alert, unclear of what happens next.
www.latimes.com/california/s...
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These are crimes. They're committing crimes. And when people understandably protest the fact that they're committing crimes, they're shooting flashbangs at them.
🚨NEW: @cbsnews.com reports ICE is arresting people who can't even legally be deported and holding them without enough food or water in a federal building BASEMENT in Los Angeles.
Families dutifully attending check-ins with ICE are being arrested and held for days, forced to sleep on the floor.
Families dutifully attending check-ins with ICE are being arrested and held for days, forced to sleep on the floor.
June 7, 2025 at 10:46 PM
These are crimes. They're committing crimes. And when people understandably protest the fact that they're committing crimes, they're shooting flashbangs at them.
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Your safety is the top priority. Peaceful protesters have already been harmed for doing nothing. The story they’re selling isn’t legit. Please film everything, document everything.
June 8, 2025 at 2:17 AM
Your safety is the top priority. Peaceful protesters have already been harmed for doing nothing. The story they’re selling isn’t legit. Please film everything, document everything.
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Good morning New York. While you were sleeping, this was the most-read story www.ft.com/content/9019...
May 15, 2025 at 11:11 AM
Good morning New York. While you were sleeping, this was the most-read story www.ft.com/content/9019...
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Hidden deep in the Republican tax bill is a $1.4B gift to the NRA: a repeal of the 90-year-old tax on gun silencers. Just 12 lines in a 400-page bill. A huge win for gun lobbyists and a dangerous loss for public safety. They buried it for a reason.
US Republican budget proposal has removal of gun silencer tax in its sights
U.S. Republican tax writers pushing through President Donald Trump's signature tax cut priorities proposed to eliminate a customer tax on firearm silencers, a tax potentially undoing the almost 100-year-old tax.
www.reuters.com
May 16, 2025 at 3:50 AM
Hidden deep in the Republican tax bill is a $1.4B gift to the NRA: a repeal of the 90-year-old tax on gun silencers. Just 12 lines in a 400-page bill. A huge win for gun lobbyists and a dangerous loss for public safety. They buried it for a reason.
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Trump said again he’s open to sending U.S. citizens to a Salvadoran prison. There is no constitutional basis for this—such an act would be a direct violation of the Constitution.
April 14, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Trump said again he’s open to sending U.S. citizens to a Salvadoran prison. There is no constitutional basis for this—such an act would be a direct violation of the Constitution.
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To arrest someone under the guise of a citizenship interview that they have waited 10 years for is beyond cruel.
This is a further attack on free speech — and it won't stop on our college campuses.
theintercept.com/2025/04/14/i...
This is a further attack on free speech — and it won't stop on our college campuses.
theintercept.com/2025/04/14/i...
Palestinian Student Leader Was Called In for Citizenship Interview — Then Arrested by ICE
Palestinian Columbia student leader Mohsen Mahdawi was called in for a citizenship interview. Instead, ICE arrested him for deportation.
theintercept.com
April 14, 2025 at 6:03 PM
To arrest someone under the guise of a citizenship interview that they have waited 10 years for is beyond cruel.
This is a further attack on free speech — and it won't stop on our college campuses.
theintercept.com/2025/04/14/i...
This is a further attack on free speech — and it won't stop on our college campuses.
theintercept.com/2025/04/14/i...
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Ok what’s going on here?
Yields are going up which means bond prices are going down.
Fewer buyers of the world’s safest asset.
Normally when the economy slows, there’s a flight to safety, not away from it.
Means the world may be abandoning America.
We are flirting with a true crisis.
Yields are going up which means bond prices are going down.
Fewer buyers of the world’s safest asset.
Normally when the economy slows, there’s a flight to safety, not away from it.
Means the world may be abandoning America.
We are flirting with a true crisis.
10-year yield going vertical here. Something’s gonna break.
April 9, 2025 at 2:36 AM
Ok what’s going on here?
Yields are going up which means bond prices are going down.
Fewer buyers of the world’s safest asset.
Normally when the economy slows, there’s a flight to safety, not away from it.
Means the world may be abandoning America.
We are flirting with a true crisis.
Yields are going up which means bond prices are going down.
Fewer buyers of the world’s safest asset.
Normally when the economy slows, there’s a flight to safety, not away from it.
Means the world may be abandoning America.
We are flirting with a true crisis.
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This is the literal destruction of knowledge.
Mississippi libraries are being ordered to remove academic research on race and gender from library databases.
mississippitoday.org/2025/04/08/m...
Mississippi libraries are being ordered to remove academic research on race and gender from library databases.
mississippitoday.org/2025/04/08/m...
Mississippi libraries ordered to delete academic research in response to state laws - Mississippi Today
The two research collections state officials ordered for deletion included material from professional journals, conference papers, books, student dissertations, periodicals and newspaper articles.
mississippitoday.org
April 9, 2025 at 1:36 AM
This is the literal destruction of knowledge.
Mississippi libraries are being ordered to remove academic research on race and gender from library databases.
mississippitoday.org/2025/04/08/m...
Mississippi libraries are being ordered to remove academic research on race and gender from library databases.
mississippitoday.org/2025/04/08/m...
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If a junior enlisted service member did what Hegseth did, they’d be in custody. But the White House shrugs, and Congressional Republicans stay silent. Disgraceful hypocrisy.
The War Group Chat Fiasco Revealed Something No One Talks About Enough
The glaring disparity of how leakers are treated comes into view as some of the highest-ranking members of the Trump administration reel from the group text scandal.
www.huffpost.com
April 9, 2025 at 3:10 AM
If a junior enlisted service member did what Hegseth did, they’d be in custody. But the White House shrugs, and Congressional Republicans stay silent. Disgraceful hypocrisy.
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Even as the stock market crashed, President Trump was in Florida at his Doral golf resort and Mar-a-Lago club helping pump up family businesses, evidence that Trump continues to monetize the presidency. A NYT behind-the-scenes look with Theodore Schleifer and Zolan Kanno-Youngs nyti.ms/3XPqyIa
Trump Family’s Cash Registers Ring as Financial Meltdown Plays Out (Gift Article)
The party was on at a Saudi-backed LIV Golf tournament at the president’s Doral resort in Florida and a fund-raiser at Mar-a-Lago, even as markets tumbled.
nyti.ms
April 5, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Even as the stock market crashed, President Trump was in Florida at his Doral golf resort and Mar-a-Lago club helping pump up family businesses, evidence that Trump continues to monetize the presidency. A NYT behind-the-scenes look with Theodore Schleifer and Zolan Kanno-Youngs nyti.ms/3XPqyIa
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When Trump imposed tariffs during his first term, companies who contributed to Republicans were more likely to be granted tariff exemptions.
Trump's corporate donors won't shoulder the cost of his trade wars — working class Americans will.
It's crony capitalism at its worst.
Trump's corporate donors won't shoulder the cost of his trade wars — working class Americans will.
It's crony capitalism at its worst.
April 5, 2025 at 11:00 PM
When Trump imposed tariffs during his first term, companies who contributed to Republicans were more likely to be granted tariff exemptions.
Trump's corporate donors won't shoulder the cost of his trade wars — working class Americans will.
It's crony capitalism at its worst.
Trump's corporate donors won't shoulder the cost of his trade wars — working class Americans will.
It's crony capitalism at its worst.
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In the middle of a measles outbreak, we are closing clinics?! 🤦♀️💔
Dozens of free #measles vaccine clinics close in Texas as federal funding is cut by the Trump administration. Many clinics had been planned at schools with low vaccination rates as measles continues to spread rapidly.
www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
Dozens of free measles vaccine clinics close in Texas as federal funding is cut
Many clinics had been planned at schools in the Dallas area with low vaccination rates.
www.nbcnews.com
April 2, 2025 at 4:24 AM
In the middle of a measles outbreak, we are closing clinics?! 🤦♀️💔
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The breakdown of the ceasefire and resumption of bombardments and ground operations in the Gaza Strip has reportedly left at least 322 children dead and 609 injured – a daily average of more than 100 children killed or maimed over the past 10 days. www.unicef.org/press-releas...
At least 322 children reportedly killed in the Gaza Strip following breakdown of ceasefire
www.unicef.org
March 31, 2025 at 7:46 PM
The breakdown of the ceasefire and resumption of bombardments and ground operations in the Gaza Strip has reportedly left at least 322 children dead and 609 injured – a daily average of more than 100 children killed or maimed over the past 10 days. www.unicef.org/press-releas...