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[Charlotte Clymer 🇺🇦 @cmclymer]

I want to be the first to congratulate the reporter(s) who are feverishly gathering intel on Mitch McConnell's status right now that will be published in a bestselling tell-all book in about a year.

[Old Man Lefty @OldManLefty1]

Susan Collins accepted donations from several known Jeffrey Epstein associates, including Casey Wasserman. She voted against releasing Epstein files while taking campaign money from implicated individuals.. https://t.co/n37qklCfzW

[MeidasTouch @MeidasTouch]

Financial disclosures show that Susan Collins was taking checks from some of the men named in Epstein Files. https://t.co/7urlNsb3rf

[no_licky_licky @LickyNo]

Where can I watch the hearing?

[no_licky_licky @LickyNo]

JC. Run the hearing. Do the fucking heads later.

[The Hormuz Report @HormuzReport]

BREAKING: Iran sent a private message to JD Vance during Switzerland talks, warning that Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff were "abusing" negotiations — more interested in profiting from insider knowledge than reaching a deal, per Drop Site News.

Iran calculated $9 billion in profits from market manipulation by "individuals close to Trump" — and formally requested $4.5 billion of that sum be allocated to Iran through intermediaries. The Iranian official added: "The exchanged texts will ultimately become part of the historical record."

Iran also raised concerns that Kushner and Witkoff "talk almost every day to Netanyahu" and the Mossad chief — feeding Israeli intelligence with inside information from the negotiations.

The Trump administration denies the claims. Iran says the evidence will be made public. If confirmed, this is one of the most significant financial scandals in modern diplomacy.

[BythePeople @BythePeople18]

Lindsey Graham died Friday & his sister has already been sworn in. Remember when Mike Johnson refused to seat Adelita Grijalva for 50 days after she was elected? That is what we are fighting for in the midterms, a return to democracy & fairness and to remove fascist Republicans.

[Home of the Brave @OfTheBraveUSA]

Sen. Booker: "I was stunned earlier by your conversation with one of my colleagues that you wouldn't even commit to meeting with the survivors, but you did meet with Ghislaine Maxwell. Your claim that you can't meet with these victims because they're represented by counsel is utter nonsense…But you're a lawyer. You know this. That was not truthful."

[MeidasClips @MeidasClips]

Harry Litman on Jeanine Pirro's comments on the Reflecting Pool vandalism case: "If she can't prove those statements in court, to me, that is an absolutely overwhelming case for ethics violation. A U.S. attorney to stand up, talk beyond the record, say all these prejudicial things, and they're lies, man oh man."

[Jesus Freakin Congress @TheJFreakinC]

🚨This is exactly how ICE agents create the very situations they later use to justify murdering citizens.

In the video, they box in the vehicle of a U.S. citizen. They approach with guns already drawn, and try to open her car door… while repeatedly ordering her to unlock it, and ignoring anything she says.

And notice how they don’t identify themselves. They don’t explain why she’s being detained. They don’t tell her what crime they suspect her of committing.

To the person inside the car, it’s just a group of masked, armed men surrounding her vehicle and trying to force their way in.

That’s how panic starts.

And when people panic, move their car, or try to get away from what they reasonably perceive as a violent threat, ICE agents open fire, and later claim the vehicle was “used as a weapon.”

Law enforcement cannot detain people without legal justification. The Fourth Amendment protects people from unreasonable searches and seizures, and officers are expected to clearly communicate their authority, and the basis for their actions.

They are supposed to de-escalate situations.

Instead, they use tactics to create fear and confusion… making it more likely someone will panic, and easier for agents to claim deadly force was necessary, while they violate the person’s constitutional rights.

When these tactics become standard practice, accountability becomes nonexistent.

[ᒪᗩᑎE @lanechanged]

Hello?
Is this thing on?

**taps mic**

Please don't forget that 1,200-1,800 people who were held at Alligator Alcatraz before it shut down dropped entirely off the grid or had their tracking data wiped.

Plus, 800 vanished altogether from the ICE online locator system, with no record of their existence or current status.

Part of me thinks this administration's running a human trafficking or ransom extortion racket.

[no_licky_licky @LickyNo]

Josh Hawkeye is a dick

[Michal Tal, PhD @ImmunoFever]

Last year some regrettable cost cutting decisions were made about foodborne pathogen testing, ending 28 years of screening for cyclosporiasis and quickly catching and quenching several outbreaks. Now we still have no idea what the source of this outbreak is. This is the price!!!

[no_licky_licky @LickyNo]

I have zero f’s to give to R-supreme court justices. The rhetoric comes from their crazy leader.

No one wants harm to anyone, but I don’t want to hear R’s whine.

If our government has no money for the regular workers, we have none for this.

If you don’t feel safe, quit.

[Sammi🦋 @StoriesBySammi]

These 31 monuments make up every single BLM-managed monument in the country. If the Supreme Court sides with this administration, all of them are on the table next.

[Buckhead Atlanta 🏅 @iBuckhead]

tRump is a HUGE LOOSER!
COVID-19 response:
National debt increase: $8 trillion
Family separation policy:
Two impeachments:
Trade wars:
January 6 Capitol attack:
Tariff policies
Government efficiency efforts:
@TMZ @SecDuffy @POTUS @VP @SpeakerJohnson @ATLNewsFirst

[Jack Hopkins @thejackhopkins]

There is exactly ONE active criminal investigation into Epstein's ranch.
It's stuck.
Not for lack of evidence...because the DOJ won't hand it over.
New piece.
https://t.co/LIUmDCCI3Y

[Peter Morley @morethanmySLE]

I'm going to KEEP talking about how Florida Senator Rick Scott, the RICHEST man in all of Congress DEFRAUDED Medicare & is trying to CUT Social Security.

Will you join me?🤚

[Sammi🦋 @StoriesBySammi]

The government just handed a private company control over the DNA of every endangered species in America.

Colossal, a company valued at $10 billion, has just made a deal with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to collect and store DNA from every species protected under the Endangered Species Act.

Over 2,300 species. Worldwide.

Doug Burgum celebrated the deal, saying "the marvel of 'de-extinction' technology can help forge a future where populations are never at risk."

Is that what they want us to believe? That this is a 2026 Noah's Ark, freeze the DNA, and the animals are safe, no matter what happens to their homes?

Because right now, this same administration is expanding drilling, mining, and habitat destruction on the exact land these species need to survive.

If a species disappears from the wild, this technology gives the government an easy answer: point to a freezer in Dallas and say the DNA is safe.

That could make extinction feel less permanent. Something to wait out, instead of something to prevent.

But that would be a dangerous logic to accept. A species vanishing from the wild is still a real loss, no matter what's sitting frozen in a warehouse.

A real ark saves the animals, but that's only half the story. Even if a species could be brought back someday, what happens if the land it needs is already gone?

DNA in a freezer doesn't rebuild a forest. It doesn't restore a wetland. It doesn't undo a mine or an oil well.

You can't release an animal back into a home that no longer exists.

Is this really conservation? Or is it just permission to destroy the habitat now, and worry about the animals later?

#DemsUnited

📷 Colossal Bioscience

[FactPost @factpostnews]

Gov. Pritzker has signed a landmark AI regulation bill, which will:

— Require annual independent audits for AI megadevelopers
— Order AI companies to lay out how they will mitigate "catastrophic risk"
— Mandate that all safety incidents be reported to the state within 24 hours
— Fine noncompliant companies millions of dollars for violations