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An 18-year-old U.S. citizen was violently detained by Border Patrol and told he had no rights here.
He happened to record the encounter, which captured immigration agents joking about using stun guns and getting bonuses.
It was always about cruelty. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
He happened to record the encounter, which captured immigration agents joking about using stun guns and getting bonuses.
It was always about cruelty. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Immigration agents told a teenage US citizen: ‘You’ve got no rights.’ He secretly recorded his brutal arrest
Video from Kenny Laynez-Ambrosio, 18, puts fresh scrutiny on the harsh tactics used to reach the Trump administration’s ambitious enforcement targets
www.theguardian.com
July 29, 2025 at 10:16 PM
An 18-year-old U.S. citizen was violently detained by Border Patrol and told he had no rights here.
He happened to record the encounter, which captured immigration agents joking about using stun guns and getting bonuses.
It was always about cruelty. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
He happened to record the encounter, which captured immigration agents joking about using stun guns and getting bonuses.
It was always about cruelty. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Do you ever just get sad about how many people have fully embraced anti-intellectualism?
July 29, 2025 at 3:12 AM
Do you ever just get sad about how many people have fully embraced anti-intellectualism?
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Can we all stop saying the word 'should' when referring to Trump's actions? He will never do the right thing. He's not interested in it and, more importantly, he's constitutionally incapable of it. He's a horrible person, and what he 'should' do is never going to happen. Ever. Get past it.
July 29, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Can we all stop saying the word 'should' when referring to Trump's actions? He will never do the right thing. He's not interested in it and, more importantly, he's constitutionally incapable of it. He's a horrible person, and what he 'should' do is never going to happen. Ever. Get past it.
Scotland, I love you 💙🏴💙
Meiselas: Donald Trump is being protested all across Scotland... You saw a protest in Edinburgh. There are protests in communities across Scotland...Let me show you this, where the speaker says, “As for Mr. Trump, we could smell your stink the moment that you landed”...
July 26, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Scotland, I love you 💙🏴💙
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Today marks 16 years since the federal minimum wage was last raised.
Guess how much the wage would be today if it kept up with worker productivity over the years?
Guess how much the wage would be today if it kept up with worker productivity over the years?
July 24, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Today marks 16 years since the federal minimum wage was last raised.
Guess how much the wage would be today if it kept up with worker productivity over the years?
Guess how much the wage would be today if it kept up with worker productivity over the years?
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I’m not interested in the lies that Trump’s corrupt DOJ bribes Ghislaine Maxwell into telling. I’m interested in the truths that the victims and witnesses told investigators years ago, which are in the files that Trump’s DOJ refuses to release.
Release the files.
Release the files.
July 24, 2025 at 2:34 AM
I’m not interested in the lies that Trump’s corrupt DOJ bribes Ghislaine Maxwell into telling. I’m interested in the truths that the victims and witnesses told investigators years ago, which are in the files that Trump’s DOJ refuses to release.
Release the files.
Release the files.
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I will take "Blame Obama" and if that fails, "Start a War"
July 23, 2025 at 12:55 PM
I will take "Blame Obama" and if that fails, "Start a War"
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To be clear, this now a massive cover up involving the President, the Attorney General, the FBI Director, and the GOP Congress.
July 23, 2025 at 8:36 PM
To be clear, this now a massive cover up involving the President, the Attorney General, the FBI Director, and the GOP Congress.
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Lots of confusion around Epstein. Hope this helps!
July 23, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Lots of confusion around Epstein. Hope this helps!
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Freedom from kings.
Freedom from fascism.
Power to the people forever. ♥️
Happy Independence Day 🇺🇸
Freedom from fascism.
Power to the people forever. ♥️
Happy Independence Day 🇺🇸
July 4, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Freedom from kings.
Freedom from fascism.
Power to the people forever. ♥️
Happy Independence Day 🇺🇸
Freedom from fascism.
Power to the people forever. ♥️
Happy Independence Day 🇺🇸
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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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Patriotism isn't about building walls, punishing immigrants, cutting taxes for the rich, attacking the press, or dividing us by race & faith.
True patriots don't pander to divisiveness or hate. They work to confirm the "WE" in "We the People of the United States."
True patriots don't pander to divisiveness or hate. They work to confirm the "WE" in "We the People of the United States."
July 4, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Patriotism isn't about building walls, punishing immigrants, cutting taxes for the rich, attacking the press, or dividing us by race & faith.
True patriots don't pander to divisiveness or hate. They work to confirm the "WE" in "We the People of the United States."
True patriots don't pander to divisiveness or hate. They work to confirm the "WE" in "We the People of the United States."
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A lot of rich New Yorkers are threatening to leave the city if Mamdani wins. To quote Mel Robbins: Let them.
July 4, 2025 at 3:06 PM
A lot of rich New Yorkers are threatening to leave the city if Mamdani wins. To quote Mel Robbins: Let them.
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What, exactly, are we celebrating this Fourth of July?
Our cutting off healthcare to the needy to enrich the greedy?
Our new concentration camps?
Our dying economy?
Our ditching due process?
Our corruption?
Our broken Congress?
Our corrupt Supreme Court?
Our ridiculous buffoon President?
Our cutting off healthcare to the needy to enrich the greedy?
Our new concentration camps?
Our dying economy?
Our ditching due process?
Our corruption?
Our broken Congress?
Our corrupt Supreme Court?
Our ridiculous buffoon President?
July 4, 2025 at 4:03 PM
What, exactly, are we celebrating this Fourth of July?
Our cutting off healthcare to the needy to enrich the greedy?
Our new concentration camps?
Our dying economy?
Our ditching due process?
Our corruption?
Our broken Congress?
Our corrupt Supreme Court?
Our ridiculous buffoon President?
Our cutting off healthcare to the needy to enrich the greedy?
Our new concentration camps?
Our dying economy?
Our ditching due process?
Our corruption?
Our broken Congress?
Our corrupt Supreme Court?
Our ridiculous buffoon President?
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Researchers Train Mice To Choose Between Life-Saving Medications And Other Essentials theonion.com/researc...
July 2, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Researchers Train Mice To Choose Between Life-Saving Medications And Other Essentials theonion.com/researc...
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Nothing more “Christian” than giggling through your photo-op in front of cages where immigrants seeking asylum will be separated from their families.
July 2, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Nothing more “Christian” than giggling through your photo-op in front of cages where immigrants seeking asylum will be separated from their families.
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While the rest of the world, especially China, continues to invest in the modernization of their electrical grids with clean, renewable energy technologies, our dipshit dumbass and his moronic cult are taking us back a century to near complete dependence on coal and fossil fuels.
July 1, 2025 at 1:26 PM
While the rest of the world, especially China, continues to invest in the modernization of their electrical grids with clean, renewable energy technologies, our dipshit dumbass and his moronic cult are taking us back a century to near complete dependence on coal and fossil fuels.
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“Depriving adults and their kids of healthcare and saddling our grandkids with crippling debt is ‘immaterial’ as long as we get to keep kidnapping people with darker skin.”
What sick bastards.
What sick bastards.
July 1, 2025 at 12:34 PM
“Depriving adults and their kids of healthcare and saddling our grandkids with crippling debt is ‘immaterial’ as long as we get to keep kidnapping people with darker skin.”
What sick bastards.
What sick bastards.
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Imagine if Joe Biden was posting pitch videos selling cologne while threatening his biggest supporter with deportation …
Oh never mind. Why bother.
Oh never mind. Why bother.
July 1, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Imagine if Joe Biden was posting pitch videos selling cologne while threatening his biggest supporter with deportation …
Oh never mind. Why bother.
Oh never mind. Why bother.
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What was Trump doing as Senate Republicans plotted to kick millions off healthcare to extend tax breaks for the ultra-wealthy?
Golfing at his club with three GOP Senators.
Add it to the $26M (and counting) golf tab taxpayers have already fronted since Trump's inauguration.
Golfing at his club with three GOP Senators.
Add it to the $26M (and counting) golf tab taxpayers have already fronted since Trump's inauguration.
Donald Trump's Golf Spending Spree
YouTube video by Robert Reich
www.youtube.com
June 30, 2025 at 7:17 PM
What was Trump doing as Senate Republicans plotted to kick millions off healthcare to extend tax breaks for the ultra-wealthy?
Golfing at his club with three GOP Senators.
Add it to the $26M (and counting) golf tab taxpayers have already fronted since Trump's inauguration.
Golfing at his club with three GOP Senators.
Add it to the $26M (and counting) golf tab taxpayers have already fronted since Trump's inauguration.
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Lisa Murkowski cuts a last minute deal solely to benefit Alaska, exempting it from some of the more odious parts of the bill to secure her vote and sell out the rest of the US. Yeah this stuff sucks and hurts a lot of people, but I got Alaskans exempted so the hell with you.
June 29, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Lisa Murkowski cuts a last minute deal solely to benefit Alaska, exempting it from some of the more odious parts of the bill to secure her vote and sell out the rest of the US. Yeah this stuff sucks and hurts a lot of people, but I got Alaskans exempted so the hell with you.
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Lots of Republicans are going to lose their seats over this budget - federal, state, and local.
It will not cost Trump anything, other than finally some House oversight his last 2 years maybe.
Which is how these things always go with Trump - others always pay for his sins.
It will not cost Trump anything, other than finally some House oversight his last 2 years maybe.
Which is how these things always go with Trump - others always pay for his sins.
June 29, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Lots of Republicans are going to lose their seats over this budget - federal, state, and local.
It will not cost Trump anything, other than finally some House oversight his last 2 years maybe.
Which is how these things always go with Trump - others always pay for his sins.
It will not cost Trump anything, other than finally some House oversight his last 2 years maybe.
Which is how these things always go with Trump - others always pay for his sins.
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Actually what Americans just saw today was a prominent Republican US Senator announce he is quitting because he knows this budget is going to hurt millions of people and he was repeatedly threatened by the president and his cult for telling the truth about it.
June 29, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Actually what Americans just saw today was a prominent Republican US Senator announce he is quitting because he knows this budget is going to hurt millions of people and he was repeatedly threatened by the president and his cult for telling the truth about it.
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It’s a shame that so many Republicans vote for something they know will hurt their constituents & the country simply because they are afraid that Trump will threaten them if they don’t go along with it, & they are more concerned about his vindictiveness than they are about them.
June 30, 2025 at 12:57 AM
It’s a shame that so many Republicans vote for something they know will hurt their constituents & the country simply because they are afraid that Trump will threaten them if they don’t go along with it, & they are more concerned about his vindictiveness than they are about them.