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[crème de la crème @naylashay_]

It’s so irresponsible to not go through your kids phones as a parent.

[⊹ ࣪ pam ˖✦ @pamvonhadder]

*uterus sheds its lining and REGENERATES itself every month*
“a human organ that can self-regenerate - hmm… that’s not interesting at all, let’s never study this.”
- the medical community -

[Joe Walsh @WalshFreedom]

MAGA: “If you’re here legally, you have nothing to worry about.”

Also MAGA: “Just comply and show your ID.”

The reality:

A U.S. citizen. Born in Colorado. Mother of four. Stopped in Lafayette, Louisiana. Shackled. Detained in an ICE facility anyway.

She showed agents her state-issued ID and Social Security card. ICE reportedly called them “fake,” handcuffed her, chained her ankles, interrogated her, and transported her to a detention center. She was released hours later only after legal intervention.

The lesson is not “show your papers.”

The lesson is that papers don’t protect you when power decides not to read them.

This is not “law and order.”
This is state abuse.

Fight Trump. Fight ICE: https://t.co/VXiWmshWgj

[Albatross @albatross_216]

And the bill did not pass! Louisiana is not losing 2 congressional districts.

[Zoom Afrika @zoomafrika1]

There is an ongoing genocide in Congo.

There is an ongoing genocide in Congo.

There is an ongoing genocide in Congo.

There is an ongoing genocide in Congo.

There is an ongoing genocide in Congo.

[Isaac Hayes III @IsaacHayes3]

Black people hear me…

There is a national obsession with harming, disrespecting, diminishing, and emasculating Black people.

The fixation is no longer subtle.

I do not care to understand the hatred anymore because at this point it’s undeniable.

They’re infatuated with breaking Black confidence, Black unity, Black masculinity, Black femininity, Black success, Black identity and honestly Black existence.

And if this doesn’t make you stand up, lock in, unify, and fight for our future, then nothing will.

[Ricardo @Ric_RTP]

Trump is about to lock 157 million Americans out of their own bank accounts.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent confirmed an executive order forcing every US bank to collect proof of citizenship is "in process."

And he just doubled down: "If Treasury and the banking regulators say it's their job, it's their job."

This sounds irrelevant but here's what this really means:

Per the Congressional Research Service, only 48% of Americans hold a US passport.

That leaves over 170 million Americans without one.

REAL IDs don't count. Driver's licenses don't count. Social Security cards don't count.

Per Wall Street Journal reporting, banks will need a passport or birth certificate.

The Brennan Center found 21.3 million voting-age US citizens don't have documents proving their citizenship easily available.

These are Americans who are about to lose access to their own bank accounts.

And here's the thing:

The order applies to new AND existing customers. Banks could be forced to close accounts of people who can't produce documents.

Your 78-year-old grandmother born at home in 1948. Your naturalized dad who lost his papers 30 years ago. Your cousin mid-passport renewal.

The official story is that this stops illegal immigrants from accessing banking.

But the actual reality:

Illegal immigrants can't open US bank accounts anyway. Know Your Customer rules already require SSNs or ITINs. The existing system ALREADY blocks what this order claims to block.

So who does this actually target?

The half of Americans without a passport. Rural Americans. Elderly Americans born before centralized record-keeping. Black Americans in Southern states where birth records were historically unreliable. Low-income Americans who can't afford $225 for an expedited passport.

The American Action Forum, a center-right think tank, estimates this adds 33 to 73 million paperwork hours and $2.6 to $5.6 billion in compliance costs.

Guess who pays those costs?

You do. Through fees. Through closed accounts. Through denied loans.

Bessent's defense quote: "I have a place in the UK, they want to know who lives in every apartment."

Bessent's net worth: $600 million.

He has a "place in the UK."

He will not be affected by this.

So this isn't really about immigration.

For the first time in American history, access to the banking system would be conditioned on proving citizenship to the federal government. That creates a permanent database linking every American's finances to their citizenship status.

Once that database exists, it gets used by ICE, voting enforcement, tax enforcement, Social Security, and future administrations for purposes nobody has announced yet.

Every future government gets the keys to decide who has a bank account based on paperwork.

And Wall Street's reaction tells you everything:

Bank execs privately called it "unworkable" and "a complete nightmare." One researcher called it "a way to weaponize the banking system to achieve political ends."

They're not pushing back because they love immigrants. They just KNOW the compliance costs are catastrophic and half their customers will walk.

Tom Cotton also introduced a companion bill in March making it a federal crime for any unauthorized person to "open or maintain a US bank account." Maintain. Meaning existing accounts.

These things are literally being drafted right now.

I'm surprised that all of this went under the radar.

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

Faith does not separate the spiritual from the social. It gives Christians the strength to interact with the world and to respond to the needs of others, especially the weakest. What is needed for the salvation of a community is a communal commitment, which integrates the spiritual and moral dimensions of the Gospel in the heart of local institutions and structures, making them instruments for the common good, not places of conflict, self-interest, or sterile struggles. #ApostolicJourney #Cameroon

[rose @wynrosei]

The first person ever executed for treason in the “United States” was put to death for freeing enslaved people. Let that sink in.

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

God does not bless any conflict. Anyone who is a disciple of Christ, the Prince of Peace, is never on the side of those who once wielded the sword and today drop bombs. Military action will not create space for freedom or times of #Peace, which comes only from the patient promotion of coexistence and dialogue among peoples.

[Your Girl, Teri ✨ @TeriAmour]

The Common Black College App allows you to apply to 67 HBCUs at once, and sometimes when applying individually application fees are waived by the university. For select colleges guidance counselors can provide fee waivers. Tell the youths!

[Headquarters @HQNewsNow]

Trump is seeking to pay for his new $1.5 trillion military budget by cutting the following:

$510 million - Grants for farmers and agricultural research
$82 million - Loans for rural small businesses (Fully eliminated)
$61 million - Support for farmers and food markets (Fully eliminated)
$240 million - School meals and food education for children abroad (Fully eliminated)
$659 million - Community building grants
$47 million - Support for minority-owned businesses (Fully eliminated)
$449 million - Economic development grants for communities
$1.6 billion - Weather forecasting, fisheries, and coastal protection (NOAA)
$993 million - Scientific research and technology standards
$150 million - Support for American exports and trade
$2.2 billion - Broadband and internet access programs
$8.5 billion - Funding for public schools
$1.5 billion - Vocational training and adult education (Fully eliminated)
$2.7 billion - College access and higher education support
$15.2 billion - Roads, bridges, and infrastructure projects
$1.1 billion - Home energy efficiency and clean energy programs (Fully eliminated)
$1.1 billion - Scientific research funding
$386 million - Environmental cleanup programs
$150 million - Cutting-edge clean energy research
$4 billion - Help paying home heating and cooling bills for low-income families (Fully eliminated)
$768 million - Refugee resettlement assistance
$819 million - Care and shelter for migrant children
$775 million - Local anti-poverty programs (Fully eliminated)
$5 billion - Public health programs, mental health services, and disease prevention
$5 billion - Medical research (NIH)
$129 million - Healthcare quality and safety research
$356 million - Emergency preparedness and disaster response
$1.3 billion - FEMA community disaster preparedness grants
$707 million - Cybersecurity protection for critical infrastructure
$52 million - Airport and transportation security
$40 million - Protection against chemical and biological weapons threats
$53 million - Funding for homeland security operations
$3.3 billion - Community development block grants for local neighborhoods (Fully eliminated)
$1.3 billion - Affordable housing construction grants (Fully eliminated)
$393 million - Programs to reduce homelessness
$529 million - Housing assistance for people living with HIV/AIDS (Fully eliminated)
$489 million - Housing and services for Native American communities
$50 million - Grants to help communities build more housing (Fully eliminated)
$60 million - Enforcement of fair housing and anti-discrimination laws
$58 million - Homebuyer and renter counseling services (Fully eliminated)
$45 million - Renewable energy development programs (Fully eliminated)
$1.7 billion - Grants for local law enforcement and public safety
$20 million - Civil rights mediation and legal access programs (Fully eliminated)
$1.6 billion - Job training for at-risk youth (Fully eliminated)
$395 million - Jobs program for low-income seniors (Fully eliminated)
$234 million - Worker safety and labor protection programs
$101 million - Enforcement of equal pay and workplace anti-discrimination laws
$46 million - Programs to combat child labor and forced labor abroad
$2 billion - International humanitarian aid
$1.2 billion - Food aid for hungry families abroad (Fully eliminated)
$4.3 billion - Global health and disease prevention programs
$2.7 billion - Funding for the United Nations and international partnerships
$642 million - International economic and treasury programs
$315 million - Democracy and anti-corruption programs abroad
$486 million - Grants for public transit projects
$4.2 billion - Electric vehicle charging infrastructure
$372 million - Airline service for rural and small communities
$145 million - Grants for sustainable and equitable infrastructure
$204 million - Loans and investment for underserved communities
$1.4 billion - IRS taxpayer services and enforcement
$100 million - Air pollution monitoring and reduction programs (Fully eliminated)
$1 billion - EPA grants to states for environmental protection
$2.5 billion - Clean drinking water and wastewater infrastructure funds
$90 million - Grants to reduce diesel pollution (Fully eliminated)
$3.4 billion - NASA space and earth science research
$297 million - NASA technology innovation programs
$1.1 billion - International Space Station operations
$143 million - STEM education programs
$309 million - Small business development and entrepreneurship programs
$170 million - Small Business Administration operations
$158 million - Loans for small businesses

[g. @GeauxGabrielle]

Black people handed you the most impactful anti-police movement in generations and yall told everyone to STFU and sided with your oppressor

[Yves ౨ৎ @yvessirae]

If you continued pursuing sex after she said she wasn't up to it, you've attempted to rape her. If you tried to make her feel like she owes it to you, you're guilty of coercion. If you haven't stopped the moment she gave you a sign of discomfort and unwillingness to go on, you raped her. It only makes it worse if you later called it "talking her into it." It means you’ve not only raped her, but manipulated her so she can't tell anyone what you did. No matter who you try to convince otherwise, you will keep being guilty of these crimes.

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

Ring paid somewhere between $8 and $10 million for a 30-second Super Bowl spot to tell 120 million viewers that their cameras now scan neighborhoods using AI.

The math is wild. Ring has roughly 20 million devices in American homes. Search Party is enabled by default. The opt-out rate on default settings in consumer tech is historically around 5%. So approximately 19 million cameras are now running AI pattern matching on anything that moves past your front door. Today the target is dogs. The same infrastructure already handles “Familiar Faces,” which builds biometric profiles of every person your camera sees, whether they know about it or not.

Ring settled with the FTC for $5.8 million after employees had unrestricted access to customers’ bedroom and bathroom footage for years. They’re now partnered with Flock Safety, which routes footage to local law enforcement. ICE has accessed Flock data through local police departments acting as intermediaries. Senator Markey’s investigation found Ring’s privacy protections only apply to device owners. If you’re a neighbor, a delivery driver, a passerby, you have no rights and no recourse.

This tells you everything about Amazon’s actual product. The customer paid for the camera. The customer pays the electricity. The customer pays the $3.99/month subscription. And Amazon gets a surveillance grid that would cost tens of billions to build from scratch, with an AI layer activated by default, and a law enforcement pipeline already connected.

They wrapped all of that in a lost puppy commercial because that’s the only version of this story anyone would willingly opt into.

[Yama @YamaShuma]

@tvbzify I mean... Why not? $yamashuma

[Yama @YamaShuma]

@tvbzify Thank you!

[Wendy @teachthemx3]

Teachers: Please remove the disruptive student so others can learn.

Admin: Everyone needs seat time, so we sent him back after a restorative conversation.

Teachers: Johnny has only been here 5 days this semester. He’s going to fail with a 20.

Admin: Seat time doesn’t matter. Just give him a 70. We don’t want him to drop out.

Teachers: We have to stop passing students along. I have students on wildly different levels.

Admin: It’s okay, you can differentiate.

Teachers: It’s impossible to differentiate for 30 kids across 10 levels. Can you come show me how?

Admin: (After a 10-minute walk-through) Email: Try discovery-based learning and really focus on student discourse. Also your objective was not written on the board.

Admin: We have a lot of open positions on campus. Please be prepared to cover classes during your conference period if we can’t find long term subs. Also, make sure your lesson plans are uploaded, 504/Sped accommodations are documented, parent contact logs are updated, and grades are posted in a timely manner.

Schools: We don’t know why there is a teacher shortage.