Alex Haynes

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[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

BLUMENTHAL: Was the Capitol attacked on January 6?

BERTHIAUME: Uh. We had activity outside the Capitol, protests and such

BLUMENTHAL: Was the Capitol attacked? You're supposed to be the inspector general

BERTHIAUME: There was protest activity

[LanaQuest aka RosaSparks @LqLana]

So whenever white people are uncomfortable Black people have to leave. This is fucking ridiculous. They should have come back w/ parents. Fuck racist fragility comfort. #DemsUnited

[Sammi🦋 @StoriesBySammi]

Fifty years of rules keeping off-road vehicles on designated trails — GONE.

Lifted trucks, ATVs, dirt bikes, snowmobiles.

Anywhere they want. On your public lands.

Nixon protected it. Carter protected it. Trump just erased both quietly on a Friday afternoon.

A grizzly bear will abandon its habitat when there's just one mile of road per square mile. One mile. Now there's no limit on where these vehicles can go.

In the Mojave, desert tortoises have already lost 96% of their population in some monitored areas - partly because off-road vehicles crush their burrows. A federal judge just ordered 2,200 miles of trails closed to protect what's left.

Then Trump signed this.

No designated trails. No boundaries. No framework at all. When vehicles go off trail they shatter habitat into pieces too small for wildlife to survive in. They destroy stream banks. They push predators toward humans. And when that happens, the animals always lose.

There was no vote. No public comment. Just a signature.

Now the agencies tasked with writing replacement rules are the BLM, the Forest Service, and the National Park Service - all under an administration that has spent months dismantling every protection they had.

The Interior Department, led by Doug Burgum, is in charge of most of it. The same Doug Burgum who has opened public lands to drilling, mining, and grazing at every turn.

Don't hold your breath.

When the last quiet place is gone, what do we tell the children who never got to hear it?

#DemsUnited

[scha·den·freu·de  @BlisterPearl]

NINETY. hours. every. week.

[Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes]

I’d you cut the top of a pineapple off, plant it into dirt, after about 2 years you’ll have grown a pineapple

Major food brands in America are starting to remove the tops of pineapples so you can’t do this and grow your own. If they have a patent on the pineapple, they’ll remove the top so you can’t grow it at home

It should take about 30 months to have full grown pineapples

We should not be allowing companies to engineer and patent food

[Jesus Freakin Congress @TheJFreakinC]

🚨BREAKING: The FBI just announced charges against multiple people, in Minnesota, describing them as part of two “Antifa-affiliated groups,” accused of conspiring to “interfere with immigration enforcement.”

The charges allege coordinated activity, around immigration enforcement operations, in the Minneapolis area.

This includes communication, planning, and actions, which prosecutors say, were meant to “disrupt or interfere with federal officers.”

But, this isn’t just about the charges themselves…. It’s about how this is being framed, and what that framing does.

When the government uses a label like “Antifa-affiliated,” it turns a broad political term into a category. That category is then used to group different people under one umbrella.

This case doesn’t only involve alleged conduct. It also involves people who observe, document, organize, and speak out about immigration enforcement in their communities.

The indictment also references online chats, and communications, as part of the alleged conspiracy.

And this is where things get more complicated…

Talking, organizing, and discussing protests, or government activity, is not the same as committing a crime.

But, in conspiracy cases, those same communications can be used to argue intent and coordination.

That is where First Amendment concerns come in.

For almost a year, I’ve shared hundreds of videos documenting ICE/Border Patrol agents violating people’s rights, in real time.

When people can actually see what is happening… it creates transparency, and accountability.

And when a government doesn’t want to be held accountable…

Watching and documenting the government starts being treated as “suspicious.”

So, if you believe in the Constitution, this should be alarming.

[Suzie rizzio @Suzierizzo1]

This is a FIFA World Cup Australian Var Supervisor/Referee Shaun Evans and he’s accused of making the White Power Gesture! People are calling for him to be removed immediately.

[New Direction AFRICA @Its_ereko]

🚨 Absolute madness in the US right now as the Uruguay national team gets pulled to the side of the road and treated like straight-up suspects.

​They literally just landed for the World Cup and security is already ripping their luggage open on the tarmac with sniffer dogs everywhere

​Qatar and Russia hosted without this level of paranoia but the "land of the free" is handing out pure humiliation to Global South athletes before a single match is even played, the double standards are screaming.

[Jürgen Nauditt 🇩🇪🇺🇦 @jurgen_nauditt]

Russia has also attacked the "Mystetsky Arsenal" in Kyiv.
For context: The "Mystetsky Arsenal" is a national cultural, art, and museum center.

Russia: We never attack civilian targets.

Reality: Russia attacks almost exclusively civilian targets.

[Nadira Ali🇵🇸 @Nadira_ali12]

Message from a Zionist to Americans:

“Anyone who criticizes Israel is our enemy.

We will monitor you with Google, find your weaknesses, get you fired… if you have a business, we will bankrupt it.”

[Anonymous @YourAnonNews]

FTP: LAPD killed her dog. He was wearing his Knicks jersey.
His name was Jameson. A golden doodle. One of the sweetest, most gentle breeds alive.
A neighbor called a noise complaint. That's it.
20+ officers showed up. Then a helicopter. For a noise complaint in an apartment complex.
And they shot Jameson dead. In front of his owner. In front of her child.
No warning. No de-escalation. Nothing.
The media is barely covering this. No headlines. No outrage.
Like it never happened.
If this was your dog... your child watching... how would you feel?
Jameson deserved better. That little boy deserved better. His mama deserved better.

[The Vigilant Fox 🦊 @VigilantFox]

Joe Rogan watches in disbelief as a video reveals America’s “nonprofit” hospitals actually rake in $45,000,000,000 in profit every year.

ROGAN: “Motherf*ckers.”

One CEO at NYU Langone paid himself $15,300,000 a year.

Other CEOs paid themselves $4,500,000 while nurses made about $70,000 a year.

P. DAVIS JONES: “A congressman recently described some nonprofit hospitals as ‘hedge funds with hospital beds,’ and I was like, ‘I bet they are.’”

“The total revenues of nonprofit hospitals in America in 2023 was $1.3 trillion. Nonprofit hospitals were making $45 billion worth of profit.”

“A study that looked at almost 1,500 nonprofit hospitals found that 86% of them provided LITTLE TO NO charity.”

“It goes to executives, these CEOs getting paid about $4.5 million a year. Meanwhile, their nurses make about 70K.”

“Here’s a guy, Robert [Grossman], at a hospital in New York who paid himself $15.3 million a year. Nonprofit hospital.”

[Tim Miller @Timodc]

“Michelle Obama is a man” shouted on the White House lawn in a ring sponsored by Bud Light only available on Larry Ellison’s Paramount Plus. What a way to celebrate America 250 and the twilight of liberal democracy.

[𝗫𝗮𝘃𝗲 🇦🇺 @WonderbreadMMA]

Holy fuck he hit Pereira in the back of the head like 15 times �

[Emoluments Clause @Emolclause]

#BREAKING: Hayes: “According to the NYTimes, the USPS has proposed a new rule that would allow it to REFUSE to deliver mail ballots in states that don’t turn over voter rolls to the federal government. That vaguely written rule released last week calls on states to compile lists of mail voters that postal service employees would use to screen ballots for eligibility. And if states refuse to comply, the post office could refuse to send their mail ballots. Can you imagine postal workers deputized by the Trump administration just refusing to deliver mail ballots to Californians? What about states that comply? Imagine postal workers at some place reviewing a state’s voter roll to determine who can vote and who can’t? Its unconstitutional, its chaotic, It’s maybe the wildest attempt yet to interfere in free and fair elections, short of course, of using federal agents to criminally investigate voting rights activists, to raid their office, maybe even perp walk them in for charges. That of course has been a classic old school tactic of election-rigging autocrats for generations around the world.” 😳

[Craig Baird - Canadian History Ehx @CraigBaird]

For decades, both Denmark and Canada claimed Hans Island in the High Arctic. During what became known as The Whisky War, each side planted their flag and left alcohol for the other nation.
On June 14, 2022, the 49-year-old Whisky War finally came to an end.

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

Blue bags up.

Japan 2, Netherlands 2 — an absolute thriller in Arlington. And then the real show started.

The Japanese end pulls out thousands of bright blue bags. First they wave them like flags, bouncing and chanting until the whole section is one giant wall of blue. Then — same bags, new mission. They fan out across the stands and scoop up every bottle, wrapper and cup till the seats look brand new.

And who's right in the middle of it, grinning with a bag in his hand? Jameis Winston. Giants QB. Heisman winner. Out there cleaning up with the Samurai Blue like it's the best gig of his summer.

No chore. No lecture. Just a party that cleans up after itself.

Best fans on the planet. 🇯🇵💙

[Kate from Kharkiv @BohuslavskaKate]

Russians have struck the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra and are burning down one of Ukraine's oldest Orthodox churches‼️

The roof of the Dormition Cathedral is ablaze. The cathedral itself is a significant part of our history, it is older than Moscow. It was already there when russian neanderthals were building shacks made of sticks and shit.

Fucking barbarians!

[Police The Police 2.0 @PoliceThePolic1]

⚠️Four cops have a man face‑down on the pavement… then spot a bystander, punch him in the face, tackle him, and arrest him too. Public safety, apparently.