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MainelyK
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Here for the political and legal analysis. Do not engage. 🫏💙
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And now, if you read the devastating piece about what Venezuelan deportees endured at the El Salvador torture prison, read what incarcerated U.S. citizens endure in Alabama prisons.

State prisons in the U.S. that are massive systems of human rights violations.
www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...
‘How is this possible?’: a new film looks inside the appalling abuses of the Alabama prison system
In the year’s most shocking documentary, The Alabama Solution, prisoners share astonishing footage in a plea for help
www.theguardian.com
November 9, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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Dems have spent the past two months saying they're fighting to address the crisis of spiking healthcare costs and now they're caving for a deal that does nothing to address healthcare costs ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
November 10, 2025 at 12:52 AM
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He’s the one who filed for divorce. They had twins together, and he kept most of his assets, including a $13 million car collection.

The money he’s talking about was part of an equalization payment related to the sale of their home.
November 10, 2025 at 3:27 AM
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The fact that none of the 8 Dems are up for re-election in 2026 is a pretty good sign @schumer.senate.gov engineered the surrender
November 10, 2025 at 3:30 AM
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People comply with tyranny... and offer obedience... until one day they don't

Your senators are complying

Your reps are complying

Phone them
Fax them
Send a @resist.bot

Be heard
resist.bot/petitions/PI...
Stop the betrayals! Support Ukraine. No cuts to Medicare or Medicaid
Text SIGN PIFTCY to 50409 to send this to your officials.
resist.bot
February 25, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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It’s action time! Fire up the @resist.bot and call your critters, they’re planning to gut Medicaid today to fund their tax cuts.
Looks like tomorrow will bring votes on a Republican plan to fund tax cuts for the rich by slashing Medicaid.

So this is a great time to contact your Member of Congress.
February 25, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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🖋️ “Stop the betrayals! Support Ukraine. No cuts to Medicare or Medicaid” hit 100 signers!
Stop the betrayals! Support Ukraine. No cuts to Medicare or Medicaid
Text SIGN PIFTCY to 50409 — Yesterday was a day of infamy. The US sided with Russia (and Belarus and North Korea) in UN Resolutions marking the 3rd anniversary of Russia's hostile invasion of Ukraine. We have betrayed our allies, betrayed NATO, abandoned Ukraine and the foreign policy of Trump and Vance and Rubio embraces former foes and Nazis. Please put forward & pass house and senate resolutions to declare our support for Ukraine. Please publicly speak against Trump's lies about Ukraine. As a member of Congress, you have a voice and platform. Be inspired by some words from Zelensky: "I do not want my picture in your offices. The president is not an idol an icon or a portrait Hang your kids photos instead and look at them each time you are making a decision." You will be accountable as a steward and protector of our democracy, our national parks, our health, our rights, even our lives. Trump/Musk policies are going to cause death, misery, and chaos. Look at the photos of your kids and grandchildren and ask yourself: how will you explain Congress voting to slash Medicare and Medicaid in order to fund tax cuts for billionaires? How? What about gutting cancer research and food safety? What will your children think when they know you preferred to let children here and abroad go hungry so techbro super rich could have lower taxes? Vote NO on the budget that puts oligarchs and corporations before our lives and health. Do not cut social security and Medicare, Medicaide or Snap. Look at the pictures of your children and commit to leaving them a fairer kinder world not a dictatorship of cruelty. Please reply in writing to assure me you will support Ukraine, call out potus lies, and not snatch access to food and medical care from those who need jt.
resist.bot
February 25, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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November 13, 2024 at 3:35 PM
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Fox News, which treated Joe Biden's son selling his paintings as a major White House ethics scandal, just put Donald Trump's daughter-in-law on the payroll.
February 5, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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Fox News’ hiring of Lara Trump is almost comically corrupt.

No credible news outlet would employ the president’s relative as a host.

But Fox doesn’t function like a normal news outlet.

www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
Opinion | Fox News’ hiring of Lara Trump is almost comically corrupt
No credible news outlet would employ the president’s relative as a host. But Fox doesn’t function like a normal news outlet.
www.msnbc.com
February 6, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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Recap:

One side wanted statehood for Palestine.

The other side didn't recognize Palestine or Palestinians. They wanted them gone. To steal their land and turn it into a riviera for their rich friends. To make the Palestinians refugees forever.

Guess which side the pro-Palestine crowd voted for?
February 6, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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February 6, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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"Lindy Li said that nobody is paying her for telling the truth. What is unsaid is she is getting paid to tell lies."
- Jesse A. Briggs
The Curious Case of Lindy Li
How did a “Blue MAGA” influencer and fundraiser turn on Democrats so fast?
www.thebulwark.com
January 16, 2025 at 8:35 AM
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When RFK talks do we all see the bug guy from Men in Black or is that just me?
January 29, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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An appeals court rejected an Arizona official’s argument that felony charges against him for delaying certification of his rural county’s 2022 election results should be dismissed because he has legislative immunity.
www.stripes.com/theaters/us/...
Arizona official who delayed county’s 2022 election certification didn’t have immunity, court says
www.stripes.com
December 31, 2024 at 10:55 PM
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Ladies and gentlemen, the 47th President of the United States. ( ° ͜ʖ͡°)
November 23, 2024 at 4:49 PM
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He promised everyone for 18 months that he would end the war in Ukraine less than 24 hours after taking office, so I guess there is only 3 more weeks left until it’s all over.
December 31, 2024 at 2:09 AM
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Today we published a story that took months to report & starts with a judge questioning an insurance company lawyer about how he could stand by a defense that “seems to be not true”

Read about how insurers rely on doctors when denying coverage & what judges said

www.propublica.org/article/ment...
Insurers Continue to Rely on Doctors Whose Judgments Have Been Criticized by Courts
In dozens of cases ProPublica reviewed, judges found that some doctors working for these companies engaged in “selective readings” of medical evidence and “shut their eyes” to medical opinions opposin...
www.propublica.org
December 30, 2024 at 9:24 PM
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This is something
December 31, 2024 at 2:17 AM
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"Man accused of attacking TV reporter, saying ‘This is Trump’s America now’

The details of this story just keep getting more disgusting: This Trump supporter chased the news reporter for FORTY MILES then tried to strangle him outside the TV station.
apnews.com/article/tv-r...
December 28, 2024 at 10:16 PM
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China has now hacked 9 telecom companies and is spying on Americans. Meanwhile, Trump wants to stop the ban on China’s Tik-Tok: apnews.com/article/unit...
A 9th telecoms firm has been hit by a massive Chinese espionage campaign, the White House says
A top White House official says a ninth U.S. telecoms firm has been confirmed to have been hacked as part of a sprawling Chinese espionage campaign that gave officials in Beijing access to private tex...
apnews.com
December 28, 2024 at 1:57 PM
Brilliant @rwpusa.bsky.social essay on how to whip SCOTUS decayed ethics into shape

PS please give Richard a follow—you will be glad you did!
My response to the Chief Justice and his colleagues is here. Enough is enough.

SCOTUS House: Can a Supreme Court Ethics Lawyer and Inspector General Help Get this Fraternity under Control?, By Richard W. Painter.
www.law.georgetown.edu/legal-ethics...
December 29, 2024 at 3:08 AM
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Also Tom Homan: But if you can code and are willing to work 16 hours a day without complaining we can make an exception.
December 29, 2024 at 2:51 AM
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Trump, DECEMBER 28, 2024: "I have always been in favor of the visas... I’ve been a believer in H-1B... It’s a great program"

Trump, MARCH 15, 2016: "I know the H1B very well... We shouldn’t have it. Very, very bad for workers... it’s unfair for our workers. And we should end it."
December 29, 2024 at 1:49 AM