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I am at the other place…where the sky is blue. Don’t let anyone tell you who you are. #Equalityforall. #mybodymychoice

[ً @prinkasusa]

For everyone who doesn't know, this man followed a 6 year old girl into the toilets in a restaurant in South Africa and r*ped her. The media is trying to protect his identity because he is white.

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

This is a very dark time for America. Mainstream Republican politicians speaking like old-school racists about a minority community while an all white crowd cheers and hoots.

[Fred Wellman @FPWellman]

This is the most corrupt words to come out of a Speaker's mouth imaginable. The job of Congress isn't to protect the President and his family. It's to provide checks and balances on the Executive Branch. You're damn right we will investigate crimes and corruption. Who moved $180 million in oil futures 15 minutes before Iran announcements? Who has gotten sole source contracts because of their connections to the Trump family? Where did our social security data go when DOGE downloaded it into portable hard drives? Where are the rest of the Epstein files? On and on this Congress has chosen covering up crimes instead of stopping them. That ends in November. @WellmanForMO

[Pete Buttigieg @PeteButtigieg]

This week someone targeted my family for harm with a false report. We’re physically OK, but that doesn’t mean we weren’t harmed. I am beyond furious.

Whatever your politics, this is awful, wrong, and can never become normal. https://t.co/72wxaVLzVT

[Sen. Bernie Sanders @SenSanders]

Compensation Last Year
CEO of Tesla & SpaceX: $158 billion
CEO of Warner Brothers: $165 million
CEO of Blackstone: $126 million

They pay the same amount into Social Security as someone making $184,500.

Let's end that absurdity, scrap the cap and raise Social Security benefits.

[Sarrah Bellus @sarrah_bellus]

President Obama said Trump’s tone changes completely when they meet face-to-face: “When he’s in front of me, he doesn’t talk like that because he knows better.” 😂

[lizzie @ancientsaltdepo]

i think people from the US officially lost their right to being smug and mock chinas authoritarian surveillance state the past decade or so

you have AI flock cameras, palantir, massive surveillance state, being slave to billionaires, cant even touch a pool of water

[PoliticsVideoChannel @politvidchannel]

BREAKING: The death of Virginia Giuffre is now being investigated

[Spencer Hakimian @SpencerHakimian]

Those pilots were never rescued.

Trump lied.

Thousands of American soldiers died in Iran.

[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.

[Ally Sammarco @Ally_Sammarco]

This is what Elon Musk could do if he wasn’t a complete and total cretin

[Bill Madden @maddenifico]

I'm still gobsmacked that Republicans in congress have allowed a pedophile to remain president. The credibility of America has never been lower.

[Brian Gaar @briangaar]

None of them want to live in the places they champion to the marks. Joe Rogan and Kill Tony had all of Texas to choose from and they picked the most liberal spot.

[💗 @ma1ybe]

Men.
You can't get pregnant.

Sit down when abortion is discussed.

[Joyce Carol Oates @JoyceCarolOates]

typical of an early stage of a dictatorship when the dictator hasn't fully grasped how he is loathed & if he wants the masses to attend his rallies he will have to give orders for every seat to be filled under threat of death.
so maybe things are not so dire, yet: this is still an early stage.

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[Daniel Mayakovski @DaniMayakovski]

Mientras tanto en Francia, a la misma vez que el pais sufre el día más caluroso de su historia y la gente se asfixia en sus pisos, Louis Vuitton organizó un desfile para ricos con una ola de agua residencial en la Ciudad Universitaria de Paris.

La distopía capitalista, donde los ricos gastan agua por capricho mientras a ti te dicen que ahorres agua en la ducha para salvar al planeta.

[Willie Ross Jr. Knee Deep @RossKneeDeep]

I think it was just hate.

By Sincerely, American:

"Trump supporters say, 'We suffered 8 years under Barack Obama.'

Fair enough. Let’s take a look.

The day Obama took office, the Dow closed at 7,949 points. Eight years later, the Dow had almost tripled.

General Motors and Chrysler were on the brink of bankruptcy, with Ford not far behind, and their failure, along with their supply chains, would have meant the loss of millions of jobs. Obama pushed through a controversial, $80 billion bailout to save the car industry. The U.S. car industry survived, started making money again, and the entire $80 billion was paid back, with interest.

While we remain vulnerable to lone-wolf attacks, no foreign terrorist organization has successfully executed a mass attack here since 9/11.

Obama ordered the raid that killed Osama Bin Laden.

He drew down the number of troops from 180,000 in Iraq and Afghanistan to just 15,000, and increased funding for the Department of Veterans Affairs.

He launched a program called Opening Doors which, since 2010, has led to a 47 percent decline in the number of homeless veterans. He set a record 73 straight months of private-sector job growth.

Due to Obama’s regulatory policies, greenhouse gas emissions decreased by 12%, production of renewable energy more than doubled, and our dependence on foreign oil was cut in half.

He signed The Lilly Ledbetter Act, making it easier for women to sue employers for unequal pay.

His Omnibus Public Lands Management Act designated more than 2 million acres as wilderness, creating thousands of miles of trails and protecting over 1,000 miles of rivers.

He reduced the federal deficit from 9.8 percent of GDP in 2009 to 3.2 percent in 2016.

For all the inadequacies of the Affordable Care Act, we seem to have forgotten that, before the ACA, you could be denied coverage for a pre-existing condition and kids could not stay on their parents’ policies up to age 26.

Obama approved a $14.5 billion system to rebuild the levees in New Orleans.

All this, even as our own Mitch McConnell famously asserted that his singular mission would be to block anything President Obama tried to do.

While Obama failed on his campaign pledge to close the prison at Guantanamo Bay, that prison’s population decreased from 242 to around 50.

He expanded funding for embryonic stem cell research, supporting ground breaking advancement in areas like spinal injury treatment and cancer.

Credit card companies can no longer charge hidden fees or raise interest rates without advance notice.
Most years, Obama threw a 4th of July party for military families. He held babies, played games with children, served barbecue, and led the singing of “Happy Birthday” to his daughter Malia, who was born on July 4.

Welfare spending is down: for every 100 poor families, just 24 receive cash assistance, compared with 64 in 1996.

Obama comforted families and communities following more than a dozen mass shootings. After Sandy Hook, he said, “The majority of those who died today were children, beautiful little kids between the ages of 5 and 10 years old.”

Yet, he never took away anyone’s guns........

He sang Amazing Grace, spontaneously, at the altar.

He was the first president since Eisenhower to serve two terms without personal or political scandal.

He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

President Obama was not perfect, as no man and no president is, and you can certainly disagree with his political ideologies. But to say we suffered?

If that’s the argument, if this is how we suffered for 8 years under Barack Obama, I have one wish: May we be so fortunate as to suffer 8 more."

[LPC @landpalestine]

Mark ruffalo has joined Ms. Rachel in boycotting The New York Times after refusing to describe what is happening in Palestine is genocide

[Mark Slapinski @mark_slapinski]

BREAKING: Members of the Russian military are preparing to overthrow Vladimir Putin, according to reports.

[TheeCodingQueen 🪷🦋 @ChildPleez007]

They'll investigate this, but won't investigate Black people that were hanged. This country is so unserious