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[Kerry Kennedy @KerryKennedyRFK]

Last year, protesters took to the streets outside an ICE jail in Texas. This week, nine of them were sentenced to decades-long prison terms. Elizabeth Soto received a 50-year sentence for owning a "printing press” used to print leaflets for the protest and "being part of a leftist book club." This is outrageous.

This case was the first tried and convicted under the Trump DOJ’s “counter-terrorism” initiatives. But Elizabeth and her husband Ines weren't even at the protest by the time the situation escalated and guns were drawn.

When we see members of this administration and its loyalists weaponizing the law to target protestors, what message are they trying to send to the American people? That dissent against its policies, dissent protected by the First Amendment, will be met with extraordinary punishment? It appears to be so.
https://t.co/9A7JST4WqH

[Bill Madden @maddenifico]

Christian Nationalists, white supremacists, and Republican MAGA bigots seem to have NO FUCKING CLUE about what makes America so special.

[LPC @landpalestine]

BREAKING: 8 people have been sentenced combined 450 years in prison for peacefully protesting outside ICE Facility

More years than any American has been sentenced over the Epstein Files

[Martín Dandach @MartinDandach]

El capitán de la Selección de Irán, Mehdi Taremi, explotó contra la FIFA y la organización de Estados Unidos.

“Esta es una Copa del Mundo desastrosa. Como jugadores profesionales no podemos jugar una competición en estas condiciones, no está bien ni es justo. Si la FIFA piensa que esto es justo, tema de ellos, pero no lo es. ¿Quién debería solucionar este problema por nosotros? ¿La FIFA? ¿EE.UU.? ¡No sé! Díganme un nombre. El presidente de la FIFA, Gianni Infantino, vino a nuestro vestuario después del primer partido contra Nueva Zelanda y dijo que iba a resolver todos los problemas, pero en realidad, la FIFA no hizo nada. Respondiendo la pregunta de: "¿Sienten que los organizadores de la Copa del Mundo, incluidos la FIFA y los funcionarios estadounidenses, prefieren que Irán sea eliminado de la competencia?", digo: Tenemos que luchar contra absolutamente todo. No podemos quedarnos en el país, viajamos y nos sometemos a controles migratorios cada vez que queremos jugar, ahora no podemos quedarnos en Seattle y tenemos que volver a Tijuana. Han hecho todo lo posible para eliminarnos, entonces desde nuestra perspectiva, sí, creo que lo quieren así, nos quieren afuera”.

[The Green Dragon Tavern @greendragonhq]

So Mamdani got landlords to fix their properties, balanced the city budget, lowered crime, froze rent, taxed the rich, and launched a free day care program and y’all still saying socialism will fail.

Ignorance.

[sean @_sn_n]

the average red state is closer to Sharia Law than Zohran’s NYC

[Cate Brown @catebrown12]

SCOOP: Trump’s Board of Peace plans to grant itself sweeping immunity to shield its members, security forces and contractors from potential prosecution for work in Gaza

@AramRoston and I obtained a draft of the unsigned resolution —>
https://t.co/vyl2rczCf7

[MAGA Cult Slayer🦅🇺🇸 @MAGACult2]

Do you know who Kelsey Pfendler is? I didn’t—until today. She’s 37 days into a solo, unsupported row from Monterey to Oʻahu: 2,400 miles, no motor, no support boat, chasing history as the first American woman to do it—and even the men’s record is in sight. Try not to cry.

[Adam Cochran (adamscochran.eth) @adamscochran]

At 4PM the $SPY and $ES had one of the largest 1 minute sell offs we’ve seen all year.

BILLIONS of dollars dumped in seconds.

Later we learn the US performed another strike on Iran.

But it’s pretty clear the insiders knew at least an hour beforehand.

[Acyn @Acyn]

Talarico: They have been shrinking Texas for three decades now, but that ends this year, in this election.

In November, we can make Texas big again. We can make Texas friendly again. We can make Texas Texas again.

We have the chance to take back our state from those billionaire mega-donors and their puppet politicians who stole it from us.

[Special Ops Magazine @specialopsmag]

DEVGRU (Seal Team 6) and the 160th SOAR conducting MOUT training in New Orleans.

Landing helicopters on a city street, close to trees, signs, and tall buildings may seem crazy, but these are the best helicopter pilots on the planet.

[Seth Abramson @SethAbramson]

Pete Hegseth is removing or blocking the promotions of all military officers who he has determined would not participate in an illegal pro-Trump self-coup (auto-coup) in 2028.

You can believe me now or believe me in 2028.

Either way, stop seeing what Hegseth is doing as random.

[The Bulwark @BulwarkOnline]

Trump can't deport everyone, but he is trying to hide those he can't deport out of the public eye.

Today's "Receipts" from @crampell explains a recent DOJ memo which allows states to institutionalize people with disabilities, and what it means beyond what was published.

[Ford News @FordJohnathan5]

BREAKINGNEWS Technically if you're looking for the exact word "separation of church and state," Dan Patrick is correct. However, Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof. 🚨

[Dr. Sheila Nazarian @sheilanazarian]

🚨 The US is striking an Iranian targets right now. Sending a strong message to the regime. Not a symbolic strike. Taking out drone sites that are being used on ships in the Strait of Hormuz.

[Chuck Pfarrer | Indications & Warnings | @ChuckPfarrer]

THIS JUST IN: Pete Hegseth has decided to take away the rank from all military Chaplins- because they're not ‘warfighters’. Since WW One, US Chaplins have won 5 Medals of Honor, 26 Distinguished Service Crosses, 1 Navy Cross, 45 Silver Stars and 719 Bronze Stars for valor.

[Norm Eisen @NormEisen]

Still marveling: a fed. judge ruled DOJ has conceded it's violating the Epstein transparency law--the one Trump signed

@KatiePhang sued to force compliance & won

& Acting AG Blanche's silence was treated as admission

DOJ now has one week to release the redacted names

[Laiken Jordahl @LaikenJordahl]

DHS is preparing to blast canyons & bulldoze roads through thousands of years of human history along the Rio Grande in Big Bend National Park—where virtually nobody is crossing.

In Arizona, just a month ago, they destroyed a 1,000-year-old sacred site and faced no consequences.

[Ron Filipkowski @RonFilipkowski]

Trump claimed that he was going to personally pay for the new polished African granite walkway carved in Italy he had installed at the WH. But in fact taxpayers paid all $689,232 for Trump’s vanity project.

[MW4Liberty @MW4Liberty]

If a government has to spy on everyone to preserve itself, it’s no longer defending the people from threats.

It has become the threat the people need defending from.