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The Hiroshima anniversary is a good time to consider how lucky we've been, and the sheer madness of keeping these terrifying arsenals around. I highly recommend Schlosser's book "Command & Control" and the more recent "Nuclear War: A Scenario," by Annie Jacobsen.
If we don't slash our nukes, "a major city is going to be destroyed"
Author Eric Schlosser on America's terrifying history of nuclear mishaps.
www.motherjones.com
August 6, 2025 at 6:33 PM
The Hiroshima anniversary is a good time to consider how lucky we've been, and the sheer madness of keeping these terrifying arsenals around. I highly recommend Schlosser's book "Command & Control" and the more recent "Nuclear War: A Scenario," by Annie Jacobsen.
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This is going to keep happening.
DOGE was never about efficiency. It will go down as one of the biggest scams in history. A taxpayer-funded political stunt, and now we’re paying twice to fix it.
DOGE was never about efficiency. It will go down as one of the biggest scams in history. A taxpayer-funded political stunt, and now we’re paying twice to fix it.
August 6, 2025 at 6:37 PM
This is going to keep happening.
DOGE was never about efficiency. It will go down as one of the biggest scams in history. A taxpayer-funded political stunt, and now we’re paying twice to fix it.
DOGE was never about efficiency. It will go down as one of the biggest scams in history. A taxpayer-funded political stunt, and now we’re paying twice to fix it.
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I think it's really worth noting that this concentration camp was opened one month and three days ago.
This woman saw enough horror in that time to quit and tell the public what she saw.
Which suggests that it's not as bad as we think, or as bad as we can envision from her description—it's worse.
This woman saw enough horror in that time to quit and tell the public what she saw.
Which suggests that it's not as bad as we think, or as bad as we can envision from her description—it's worse.
A former “Alligator Alcatraz” worker says detainees are subject to “inhumane” conditions — packed by the hundreds into cages without sunlight, with overflowing toilets and limited access to showers.
Former 'Alligator Alcatraz' worker describes 'inhumane' conditions inside
In an exclusive report, NBC6 spoke with a former corrections officer who says she saw hundreds held in cages with no sunlight, backed up toilets and little access to showers.
nbcnews.to
August 6, 2025 at 4:10 PM
I think it's really worth noting that this concentration camp was opened one month and three days ago.
This woman saw enough horror in that time to quit and tell the public what she saw.
Which suggests that it's not as bad as we think, or as bad as we can envision from her description—it's worse.
This woman saw enough horror in that time to quit and tell the public what she saw.
Which suggests that it's not as bad as we think, or as bad as we can envision from her description—it's worse.
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Nebraska Could Be Next to Redistrict
https://politicalwire.com/2025/08/06/nebraska-could-be-next-to-redistrict/
https://politicalwire.com/2025/08/06/nebraska-could-be-next-to-redistrict/
August 6, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Nebraska Could Be Next to Redistrict
https://politicalwire.com/2025/08/06/nebraska-could-be-next-to-redistrict/
https://politicalwire.com/2025/08/06/nebraska-could-be-next-to-redistrict/
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Conditions in ICE concentration camps are already horrific. But with Trump/Miller trying to lock up hundreds of thousands more people, it's going to get much worse:
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
ICE plans to build more tent jails for immigrants. What could go wrong?
A brief recent history of "soft-sided" facilities and their many faults.
www.motherjones.com
August 6, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Conditions in ICE concentration camps are already horrific. But with Trump/Miller trying to lock up hundreds of thousands more people, it's going to get much worse:
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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The average person does not realize this is happening. You have to tell them. You have to underline that public education is a material and net good for all of us and we have to do whatever we can to help the least of us.
The attack on three- and four-year-old children and their right to free public education is part of a multi-agency effort to strip immigrants of all federally funded social services.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
Trump bans undocumented children from Head Start
The Trump administration has issued a new rule banning undocumented children from Head Start in an outright violation of <em>Plyler v. Doe</em>, the landmark Supreme Court ruling upholding the right o...
www.wsws.org
July 14, 2025 at 4:06 PM
The average person does not realize this is happening. You have to tell them. You have to underline that public education is a material and net good for all of us and we have to do whatever we can to help the least of us.
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horror after horror in US-backed plan for food aid.
"More than 500 people have been killed...and thousands injured."
www.ft.com/content/6c74...
"More than 500 people have been killed...and thousands injured."
www.ft.com/content/6c74...
Inside Gaza’s ‘death traps’
A US-backed scheme forces hungry Palestinians to trek kilometres for food aid. Many never make it back
www.ft.com
July 14, 2025 at 4:59 PM
horror after horror in US-backed plan for food aid.
"More than 500 people have been killed...and thousands injured."
www.ft.com/content/6c74...
"More than 500 people have been killed...and thousands injured."
www.ft.com/content/6c74...
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Hotline callers were saying, “I do not want to be part of pointing a gun at US citizens and maybe shooting it.”
Is the US military poised to experience a new surge in conscientious objectors?
For troops experiencing ethical dilemmas, following one's conscience can be costly.
www.motherjones.com
July 14, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Hotline callers were saying, “I do not want to be part of pointing a gun at US citizens and maybe shooting it.”
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Your reminder again that Ms. Sheahan has effectively no law enforcement background. She's a 28-year-old who was a close personal aide to Kristi Noem in South Dakota, then parlayed her connections into getting appointed as head of the Louisiana Fish & Wildlife Service at 26.
ICE Deputy Director Madison Sheahan: "I think we all know that criminals tend to hang out with criminals. And so as we start to build a case, we're gonna be going after everyone that's around them, because these criminals tend to hang out with like-minded people who also happen to be criminals."
July 14, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Your reminder again that Ms. Sheahan has effectively no law enforcement background. She's a 28-year-old who was a close personal aide to Kristi Noem in South Dakota, then parlayed her connections into getting appointed as head of the Louisiana Fish & Wildlife Service at 26.
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So they took away state Medicaid expansion and replaced it with state concentration camp expansion.
Awful: Stephen Miller is urging red states to build their own versions of "Alligator Alcatraz." And guess what: Buried in the budget bill is funding that states can try to tap for exactly that.
This could become a route to MAGA glory for young GOPers. 1/
(new piece)
newrepublic.com/article/1978...
This could become a route to MAGA glory for young GOPers. 1/
(new piece)
newrepublic.com/article/1978...
The Young GOPer Behind “Alligator Alcatraz” Is the Dark Future of MAGA
Sunshine State Attorney General James Uthmeier is the real brains behind this notorious migrant detention camp in the Everglades. The more barbarities that emerge, the brighter his star will no doubt ...
newrepublic.com
July 14, 2025 at 2:20 PM
So they took away state Medicaid expansion and replaced it with state concentration camp expansion.
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“My grandfather wrote, ‘A song ain’t nothing but a conversation you can have again and again.’ It keeps this conversation in the narrative. … And unfortunately, it needs to be had again and again and again.”
www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...
www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...
Woody Guthrie's 'Deportee,' an Ode to Deported Workers, Has Never Been More Relevant
Woody Guthrie's 'Deportee,' about the death of Mexican migrant workers, has never been more relevant; hear a recently unearthed recording.
www.rollingstone.com
July 14, 2025 at 1:39 PM
“My grandfather wrote, ‘A song ain’t nothing but a conversation you can have again and again.’ It keeps this conversation in the narrative. … And unfortunately, it needs to be had again and again and again.”
www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...
www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...
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Stand against fascism
July 13, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Stand against fascism
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The interesting thing about peaches in the United States is the masked domestic terror paramilitary forces assigned to hunt, jail and deport the people that pick them.
Enjoy your cobbler.
#Fascism #Authoritarian #Autocracy #Dictatorship #Dictator #HumanRights #GEOGroup
Enjoy your cobbler.
#Fascism #Authoritarian #Autocracy #Dictatorship #Dictator #HumanRights #GEOGroup
July 14, 2025 at 4:12 PM
The interesting thing about peaches in the United States is the masked domestic terror paramilitary forces assigned to hunt, jail and deport the people that pick them.
Enjoy your cobbler.
#Fascism #Authoritarian #Autocracy #Dictatorship #Dictator #HumanRights #GEOGroup
Enjoy your cobbler.
#Fascism #Authoritarian #Autocracy #Dictatorship #Dictator #HumanRights #GEOGroup
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“We are up against an ideology that has given up not only on the premise and promise of liberal democracy but on the livability of our shared world... The forces we are up against have made peace with mass death. They are treasonous to this world and its human and non-human inhabitants.”
The rise of end times fascism | Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor
The governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them
www.theguardian.com
July 14, 2025 at 11:46 AM
“We are up against an ideology that has given up not only on the premise and promise of liberal democracy but on the livability of our shared world... The forces we are up against have made peace with mass death. They are treasonous to this world and its human and non-human inhabitants.”
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OK, Secretary Noem, then show us the receipts that you extended those contracts.
Turn over documents detailing exactly when you renewed those contracts.
There needs to be bipartisan oversight and Congressional hearings over these truly unacceptable failures.
Turn over documents detailing exactly when you renewed those contracts.
There needs to be bipartisan oversight and Congressional hearings over these truly unacceptable failures.
WELKER: The NYT is reporting that thousands of calls from flood victims to FEMA calls centers went unanswered in the middle of this ongoing disaster because you didn't renew contracts to keep call center staff in place until nearly a week after the floods.
NOEM: False reporting. Fake news.
NOEM: False reporting. Fake news.
July 14, 2025 at 4:07 PM
OK, Secretary Noem, then show us the receipts that you extended those contracts.
Turn over documents detailing exactly when you renewed those contracts.
There needs to be bipartisan oversight and Congressional hearings over these truly unacceptable failures.
Turn over documents detailing exactly when you renewed those contracts.
There needs to be bipartisan oversight and Congressional hearings over these truly unacceptable failures.
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Just give me one reporter with the stones to say, “man, what the fuck are you even talking about right now?”
Trump: "Biden was never for transgender for everyone. So I think the radical left took over the White House."
July 14, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Just give me one reporter with the stones to say, “man, what the fuck are you even talking about right now?”
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#BlueskyResistance #Voices4Victory #ProudBlue
ICE IS BOUGHT & PAID FOR… they are Proud Boys, Oath Keepers, and any number of private militias. They are trump’s version of the Brown Shirts/SS (Google it).
It’s time to stop getting offended by the comparisons to Hitler.
ICE IS BOUGHT & PAID FOR… they are Proud Boys, Oath Keepers, and any number of private militias. They are trump’s version of the Brown Shirts/SS (Google it).
It’s time to stop getting offended by the comparisons to Hitler.
July 14, 2025 at 4:18 PM
#BlueskyResistance #Voices4Victory #ProudBlue
ICE IS BOUGHT & PAID FOR… they are Proud Boys, Oath Keepers, and any number of private militias. They are trump’s version of the Brown Shirts/SS (Google it).
It’s time to stop getting offended by the comparisons to Hitler.
ICE IS BOUGHT & PAID FOR… they are Proud Boys, Oath Keepers, and any number of private militias. They are trump’s version of the Brown Shirts/SS (Google it).
It’s time to stop getting offended by the comparisons to Hitler.
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Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem delayed FEMA search and rescue by 72 hours.
Approving that shouldn’t take longer than 72 seconds.
Texans deserve answers.
Approving that shouldn’t take longer than 72 seconds.
Texans deserve answers.
July 14, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem delayed FEMA search and rescue by 72 hours.
Approving that shouldn’t take longer than 72 seconds.
Texans deserve answers.
Approving that shouldn’t take longer than 72 seconds.
Texans deserve answers.
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A Confederacy group is suing a Georgia state park, claiming officials broke state law by planning an “truth-telling” exhibit exploring ties to slavery & segregation
Sons of the Confederacy Sue over Slavery Exhibit - Capital B News - Atlanta
The Georgia Division of the Sons of Confederate Veterans contends the proposed exhibit violates state law.
atlanta.capitalbnews.org
July 9, 2025 at 6:22 PM
A Confederacy group is suing a Georgia state park, claiming officials broke state law by planning an “truth-telling” exhibit exploring ties to slavery & segregation
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The ICE camps are concentration camps. They should be called concentration camps.
It is, of course, important to distinguish between concentration camps and death camps, but also, I am not sure we will know when or if we undergo the transition from concentration camps into death camps.
It is, of course, important to distinguish between concentration camps and death camps, but also, I am not sure we will know when or if we undergo the transition from concentration camps into death camps.
July 9, 2025 at 5:16 PM
The ICE camps are concentration camps. They should be called concentration camps.
It is, of course, important to distinguish between concentration camps and death camps, but also, I am not sure we will know when or if we undergo the transition from concentration camps into death camps.
It is, of course, important to distinguish between concentration camps and death camps, but also, I am not sure we will know when or if we undergo the transition from concentration camps into death camps.
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If churches are allowed to endorse political candidates, then they must also pay taxes.
July 9, 2025 at 5:45 PM
If churches are allowed to endorse political candidates, then they must also pay taxes.
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This Prime Day I am reminded that Jeff Bezos makes $8 million an hour off the backs of workers who have to piss in bottles in his warehouses.
July 8, 2025 at 5:17 PM
This Prime Day I am reminded that Jeff Bezos makes $8 million an hour off the backs of workers who have to piss in bottles in his warehouses.
Emil Bove has shown again and again that he can’t be trusted to serve as a fair, impartial judge. Use @standupamerica.com’s tool to urge the Senate to vote NO on his nomination: act.standupamerica.com/letters/cte-...
Stop Trump loyalist Emil Bove’s federal judge nomination!
From burying evidence to pushing the DOJ to ignore court orders, Emil Bove has shown again and again that he can’t be trusted to serve as a fair, impartial judge. Urge the Senate to vote NO on his nom...
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July 9, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Emil Bove has shown again and again that he can’t be trusted to serve as a fair, impartial judge. Use @standupamerica.com’s tool to urge the Senate to vote NO on his nomination: act.standupamerica.com/letters/cte-...
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Congressional Republicans just betrayed their constituents to give a tax break to their ultra-wealthy donors.
Voters will remember next year.
Voters will remember next year.
July 3, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Congressional Republicans just betrayed their constituents to give a tax break to their ultra-wealthy donors.
Voters will remember next year.
Voters will remember next year.