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Truth. Justice. Cumberbatch. Daredevil. Most things Marvel. And probably cats. LGBTQIA+ Ally. 🌊🌻🇺🇦

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

This is why we can't have nice things in America. GREED!

[Rep. Zoe Lofgren @RepZoeLofgren]

It’s heartbreaking to see little kids appearing all alone in immigration court, without a lawyer. This week, I led 15 of my colleagues to introduce the Fair Day in Court for Kids Act, to ensure that unaccompanied minors get legal representation during immigration proceedings.

[Gianl1974 @Gianl1974]

BREAKING: IT'S MURDER! Death of a 31-year-old woman dropped by ICE at a Pittsburgh bus stop in freezing weather with no coat ruled a homicide!

The Allegheny County Medical Examiner’s office has ruled the death by hypothermia of Haitian immigrant Daphy Michel, who spent more than 30 hours shivering at a Pittsburgh bus stop after being dumped by ICE, a homicide.

Three days earlier, Michel had been in Washington County Jail on misdemeanor charges that a judge dismissed. Her family was waiting to pick her up in Charleroi – just a 40-minute drive away.

But because ICE had placed a detainer on her, instead of releasing her to loved ones, authorities handed her over to immigration enforcement.

ICE fitted her with an ankle monitor, put her in their “Alternatives to Detention” program, and then dropped her off on the South Side of Pittsburgh, far from home, in February cold, wearing only light clothing. She never made it back.

“When you release someone like that that far from home, it’s a recipe for disaster,” Her attorney Joseph Murphy said. “She would have been in her own environment. She wouldn’t have been sitting around a bus stop [with no coat] in February, and she’d be alive now.”

The death at the hands of ICE was no accident. It was the direct result of cold, bureaucratic cruelty, with immigration officials choosing enforcement theater over basic human decency.

County Executive Sara Innamorato said the death was “a tragedy that appears that with a little humanity, it could have been completely avoidable.”

After the death, friends and family gathered at the bus stop where she died and held a vigil for her (photo, right).

This horror is part of a pattern under Trump’s ICE that hasn’t dissipated since the agency has fallen from the headlines: they still treat people as disposable, and appear to get perverse satisfaction making life as difficult as possible for the people they harass, like dropping vulnerable individuals in unfamiliar places with no support.

Michel didn’t deserve to die alone in the cold on a bench because the system cared more about optics than people. Her death should haunt every official who signed off on this cruel process. Each one should be worried about the pendulum of justice swinging in their direction now that the ruling is official.

If this preventable, heartbreaking tragedy makes you furious, like and share this post.

No one should die abandoned in brutal winter's cold because ICE decided their life didn’t matter.

[Rear Admiral Eileen Laubacher @EileenforCO]

I've served under seven presidents — from Reagan to President Biden — so I know that service is about more than self, it's about patriotism. We need a true patriot representing Colorado's 4th district. Help me defeat Lauren Boebert this fall. Chip in $25 today.

[Reggie B. @reggiebblue]

@atrupar He's also lying about Obama giving them hundreds of billions of dollars when he's about to give them $300B

[Nishant Nihar @nishant_nihar]

@atrupar All for the same thing that JCPOA was doing anyway. Absolutely insane. Held up the world, killed hundreds, ruined businesses - for the very thing that was already in place.

[Lauren Underwood @LaurenUnderwood]

RFK Jr. called Medicare and Medicaid "scams."

Tell that to the senior in Aurora rationing $800 insulin.
Tell that to the mom in Joliet whose kid gets lifesaving care because of Medicaid.

RFK Jr. is the HHS Secretary AND the biggest public health threat in our nation.

[Marco Setaccioli @marsetac]

I droni ucraini hanno attaccato il più grande stabilimento industriale dell'Europa orientale, situato nella regione di Armensk in Crimea, attualmente di proprietà di "Russian Titan" (requisito, come tutto il resto, al momento dell'occupazione illegale della Crimea), che produce(va) biossido di titanio per le munizioni dell'esercito dell'aggressore senza sosta, ma anche altre materie prime di base per la fabbricazione di polveri, carburante per missili ed esplosivi. L'intero stabilimento è stato distrutto. Ci sono stati 23 attacchi aerei. Tutti i reparti sono stati danneggiati. L’impianto è in fiamme, i dipendenti sono stati evacuati.

[Fifty Shades of Whey @davenewworld_2]

A federal judge struck down a Trump policy that made it harder for wind and solar projects to qualify for tax credits. This is the most recent setback in the Trump admin's efforts to sabotage any competition for fossil fuels.

I know it's a win for renewable energy, but private tax incentives that were vulnerable to legal challenges was never enough to tackle this problem in the first place. This was always a bad compromise with greedy freaks in a death cult who are saying that the climate crisis is a hoax.

We need an efficient transition AWAY from fossil fuels and TOWARD renewable energy, and this should be treated as a major national security priority and essential public infrastructure.

With the uptick in energy prices, you'd think this would be universally agreed-upon as common sense, and not another political football we have to toss back-and-forth with lobbyists.

[Jesus Freakin Congress @TheJFreakinC]

🚨BREAKING: ICE agents, working with state police, pulled over a vehicle, in Ogden, Utah… and smashed their car window because he wouldn’t roll it down all the way.

Watch the shift… because this is where it goes from aggressive to completely out of control.

The driver already has the window partially open. The ICE agent is yelling, giving a countdown, threatening to break the window… while another officer is trying to open the door from the other side.

No explanation, or clear threat… Just escalation.

Then, someone inside says, “I’m a U.S. citizen… you pointed a gun at me.”

And that’s the moment everything changes.

Instead of pulling back… instead of correcting… instead of even acknowledging it…

The ICE agent snaps.

“I don’t give a shit who you are, I don’t know you.”

And then he immediately escalates further… raises the metal bar… and starts hitting the window… doubling down on force.

A person says you pointed a gun at them… and your response is not to de-escalate…

It’s to get MORE aggressive.

That’s retaliation.

They call them “non-compliant”… and within seconds, the window is smashed and the driver is dragged out.

And it doesn’t stop there.

The passenger… who is recording… gets told to “stay there” while the officer puts his hand on his gun.

He responds, “I’m recording for my safety.”

The officer shuts the door on him anyway.

When he opens it again and steps out… and then the officer physically shoves him back into the car.

This is what needs to be understood…

The escalation didn’t come from a threat.

It came the second someone spoke up…
the second someone said, “you pointed a gun at me”…

The second someone started documenting it.

That’s when it got worse.

That’s when it turned physical.

That’s when the window broke.

And that’s what should alarm people… because that’s not about safety anymore.

That’s about being challenged… and responding with more force.

[Congresswoman Madeleine Dean @RepDean]

For 27 years, the Bipartisan Women’s Caucus laid a wreath for our women veterans.

This year, it was cancelled.

The generations of women who have fought, died, and sacrificed for our freedom will not be erased.

[P a u l ◉ @SkylineReport]

🚨 BREAKING

Trump drove his motorcade across the drained Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool while resurfacing work was still underway.

As someone who constantly reminds us he's a "builder," he should have known exactly what that means.

If leaks, blisters, delamination, cracking, or coating failures appear later, the contractor now has an obvious response:

"You drove armored vehicles across our work."

That's not a political argument.

That's a warranty argument.

Pool coatings and waterproofing systems typically come with cure requirements, traffic restrictions, and exclusions for owner-caused damage.

In construction, documented heavy vehicle traffic on a freshly resurfaced system is the kind of thing contractors point to when they deny warranty claims.

The irony is hard to miss.

A project intended to stop leaks now has documented coating defects.

And the owner created a highly public record of driving a motorcade across the very surface that was supposed to keep the water in.

[Annie @AnnieForTruth]

It’s true!

[Democratic Wins Media @DemocraticWins]

BREAKING: Governor Wes Moore has suspended all local police cooperation with ICE. Good.

[Christiane Amanpour @amanpour]

In Kyiv, a new opera is tackling one of the most traumatising aspects of Russia’s invasion: the abduction of Ukrainian children. In the new work called “Mothers of Kherson”, music tries to give voice to that unspeakable pain, here’s my report:

[Daniel Mayakovski @DaniMayakovski]

En Reino Unido, los jueces sionistas condenaron a más de 25 años de prisión a 4 activistas de Palestine Action, por luchar contra el genocidio en Gaza y lograr boicotear las fábricas de drones Elbit de "Israel".

Vivimos en un sistema donde si luchas para que no maten más niños eres un "terrorista"... mientras los que ponen las bombas a esos niños son ovacionados en la Casa Blanca.

[Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen]

The 10 hours of erecting scaffolding wasn’t to strip the letters (something that 30 minutes in a boom lift could accomplish), it was to conceal the view with a curtain because Trump couldn’t handle the optics of the letters of his name being plucked off the building.

[Ramy Abdu| رامي عبده @RamAbdu]

Suleiman Obeid, known as the “Pelé of Palestine,” was killed by an Israeli tank while standing in line trying to secure food for his five children.

[Anonymous @YourAnonNews]

Elon vowed to cure world hunger if the World Food Program could outline a plan to do so for 6 billion. They did, and Elon did absolutely nothing, and has become the world's first trillionaire.

This man also systematically dismantled the US' foreign aid programs after this time. So not only did he not fulfil his promise, he actually deprived millions more of food, emergency healthcare and other life saving supports.

With less than .5% of his net worth he could save 10s of millions, real human lives.
He spends his days shitposting on Twitter and he was even stupid enough to tank his companies in valuation by literal 100s of billions just to call some guy a pedo, and people applaud him.
We shouldn't live in a world where millions die of hunger while others have more money than most countries. Humans have their priorities screwed up.

[Patrick Skinner @SkinnerPm]

The feng shui of ferns after the rain, atop the green layers