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[Chris Murphy 🟧 @ChrisMurphyCT]

My floor speech yesterday:

1/ The rules change Republicans are pushing through the Senate - to confirm dozens of Trump nominees with one vote - is another sign of our vanishing democracy, as the legislative branch voluntarily bends the knee to the executive.

[Chris Murphy 🟧 @ChrisMurphyCT]

Insurers in Connecticut just announced that rates will go up 16.8% - the highest increase in years.

The reason for the huge jump? Simple - the Trump/Republican budget bill that slashed health care. Incredibly, the same bill that gave billionaires a juicy tax cut.

[Lika @808lika]

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[Lika @808lika]

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[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

🚨Holy shit. Someone made a new ad for Trump’s ballroom and it’s absolutely perfect. Trump would hate if this went viral…

[Gavin Newsom @GavinNewsom]

I was just informed Trump is deploying another 2,000 Guard troops to L.A.

The first 2,000? Given no food or water. Only approx. 300 are deployed — the rest are sitting, unused, in federal buildings without orders.

This isn’t about public safety. It’s about stroking a dangerous President’s ego.

This is Reckless. Pointless. And Disrespectful to our troops.

[Kaiser Kuo @KaiserKuo]

Beijing or bust! This summer will be epic. Musical retreat in an alpine idyll in Yunnan with my band Chunqiu (Spring & Autumn)

[Pod Save America @PodSaveAmerica]

BREAKING: In a new interview tonight, California Gov. @GavinNewsom calls Trump's latest moves “blatantly unconstitutional.”

“We’re on the other side of the red line.” Watch the full interview on Pod Save America’s YouTube channel.

[Andrew Solender @AndrewSolender]

@axios Rep. Mikie Sherrill, one of Baraka's opponents in the Democratic primary for New Jersey governor, calls his arrest an "absolute outrage" and says he "needs to be released immediately."

[Andrew Solender @AndrewSolender]

DHS confirms to @Axios that they are considering arresting Reps. Bonnie Watson Coleman, LaMonica McIver and Rob Menendez.

Watson Coleman's office says they reviewed the body cam footage and that it proves "nobody 'assaulted' any agents."

More here: https://t.co/JnJipRrng1

[Lika @808lika]

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[Gaza Notifications @gazanotice]

🚨 Footage of the Israeli army occupying Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza…

In the last images of the hospital director, Dr. Hossam Abu Safiyeh, and the doctors, they are seen with their hands raised, wearing their coats, as they are detained along with the hospital staff.

Injured patients, their relatives, and other civilians are also seen raising their hands as they exit the building.

[Ghassan Abu Sitta, Chair of Conflict Medicine AUB @GhassanAbuSitt1]

Last photograph of Dr Hussam Abu Safiyeh as he walked towards the Israeli tank .

[Nour Odeh 🇵🇸🍉 #FreePalestine @nour_odeh]

An Israeli channel has quoted the Israeli army as saying that Dr. Husam Abu Safiyeh is disappeared in the notorious Sde Teiman torture camp. If you haven’t heard about the atrocities that happen in that, here’s some information that might be helpful. A short 🧵

[Farah Nabulsi @farah_nabulsi]

My film, set & shot in Militarily Occupied & Colonized Palestine that was the hardest thing I have ever done in my life, releases in cinemas across the UK & Ireland September 27th. At a time when Palestinians have been so severely dehumanized, now more than ever a deeper, personal context is needed. Here is where you can find all cinemas that have programmed our pertinent film so far: https://t.co/vRH5uiKG06 . This is the site to share with everyone & anyone. Some cinemas have yet to put up actual ticket sales…so check back on those. Plenty of locations and date options and times. Please - Show it love when you can, where you can, with everyone you can. Take friends, family, go with work colleagues. I need you to help me share it with the world.

[Native Stories @nativexstories]

✊🏽 Join us on Sept 28 for the Life After Occupation: Liberation Art Show!

Experience art that envisions a future rooted in aloha ʻāina.

#LāhuiLiberationArtShow #MālamaMākuaValley #CollectiveLiberation #KānakaMaoliArtists

[David Hogg 🟧 @davidhogg111]

Dear Dad,

After you passed, I went outside and saw the most beautiful night sky I have ever seen and felt an overwhelming sense of gratitude to the universe for giving me the best father anyone could ever ask for. Every time I cry it feels good because I know that my sadness and gratitude is proportional to the love I have for you and you had for me.

Thank you for your service to our country, risking your life flying in pitch black of night over the ocean ready to save the lives of your fellow sailors as a navy helicopter pilot, thank you for saving the lives of others at as an FBI agent at LAX in 2013 when there was a mass shooting and your directed people to safety as you ran towards the shooter with your colleagues and for saving the lives of countless others who will never know they ever were in danger from some of the things you prevented.

Thank you for your most important service to Lauren and I as an incredible father. Even though you might not have had the energy to put pants on most Saturday mornings after getting called in to respond to the latest bomb threat or crime scene the night before- you still got up and made us pancakes. Thank you for your incredible sense of humor and thank you for teaching me that no matter what our number one obligation as a member of our family is to help other people.

I’m sorry you and mom had to spend so much time in your final years trying to get your disability benefits that you still haven’t got from VA. (I’m still working on that to take care of mom and after working to make sure vets who get Parkinson’s and other neurological diseases because of their toxic exposure in the military get their full disability- rest assured the most powerful people in the country are well aware of the problem now) no vet with early onset Parkinson’s should be denied their benefits when we know there’s a connection between jet fuel exposure and Parkinson’s.

The last thing I told you was that I will take care of mom and Lauren and I will until the day I die. I hope that when my time comes I’ve fulfilled my promise to you to be as good as a son and brother as you’ve been a dad.

Fair Winds and following seas,

David

[Richard Medhurst @richimedhurst]

"My olives, my olives"

Israelis uprooting olive trees with chainsaws and bulldozers.

Only a colonizer with no attachment to the land could be so cruel.

[Linda Mamoun @mamoun_linda]

A lot of people in the US don’t seem to know what Israel did to Palestinians before Oct 7. Here is a quick rundown.🧵

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

Fox News carries part of Tim Walz's speech to a firefighters union in Boston where he attacks Trump and highlights the dangers of Project 2025