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[L.A. TACO🌴🌮 @LATACO]

Continue supporting Venezuela's earthquake victims with L.A. TACO's list of donation requests, drop-off locations, and charities.

The full guide: https://t.co/31Oyg1eovE

By Cecilia Cisneros

[Renée Saldaña @copuchenta]

@SheaSerrano I lived in Buenos Aires for a year. They do not think very kindly of Mexicans in general. A lot of them, including my old roommate, really believed they were Europeans who got “stuck” on the Latin American continent as he put it.

[Talkin' Baseball @TalkinBaseball_]

Dodgers catcher Eliezer Alfonzo Jr. is making his MLB debut on the same day that it was reported his sister and stepmother were found dead from the devastating earthquakes in Venezuela

Alfonzo and fellow Venezuelan Miguel Rojas are honoring them with messages on their hats 💙

[Ben Norton @BenjaminNorton]

The world's richest oligarch is the biggest Welfare recipient in history, by orders of magnitude.

[dan d @DanJDeBrak]

I'm always for being open about mental health, but important context is that Kean, as a state rep, voted against the New Jersey Paid Sick Leave Act, which established 40 hours of sick leave for employees a year.

Kean just took *4 months* of paid sick leave.

[Prem Thakker @prem_thakker]

Here are the 22 Democrats who voted with Republicans to protect Trump's ability to get militarily involved in Lebanon:

[Pop Base @PopBase]

A Palestinian father is mourning his 3-year-old son that was shot and killed by Israeli soldiers.

Bahaa Abu al-Ajeen says IDF soldiers fatally shot his son Rayan in the head, while simultaneously wounding Bahaa as well.

(https://t.co/c3ajZtuT8q)

[Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein]

8 "Antifa" members just got a combined 450 years in federal prison. The prosecution leaned heavily on an "expert" witness who has never spent a day in government or academia - but who spent years at pro-Israel advocacy orgs:
https://t.co/85UNhD5xQU

[Inequality Media Civic Action @imcivicaction]

Google co-founder Sergey Brin is accidentally making the argument for a billionaire wealth tax better than anyone else could.

[Sentient @Sentient_Media]

The largest privately held company in the United States is refusing to concede to workers’ demands for more dignified workplace conditions, including protected bathroom breaks. https://t.co/9LYAAVDXOB

[The Hill @thehill]

The remains of at least 117 dogs were found unearthed at a 'no-kill' animal shelter in California, many of them with gunshot wounds, authorities said.

The Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office said that it also discovered 21 canine skulls, and hundreds of bones during searches across 50 acres at Miranda’s Rescue Animal Sanctuary.

[More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS]

NEW: Peter Thiel is funding a plan to build privatized city-states everywhere from Gaza and Venezuela to small towns in California.

The goal is to replace governments with for-profit companies.

We investigated how Thiel's scheme is already reshaping democracy across the world.

[Nicholas Kristof @NickKristof]

.@elonmusk says that no one can name a person who died from his aid cuts. In fact, I've met the kids who are dying, and I've talked to the families who lost children. In my columns, I've cited many, many names of people who have died because of Musk's aid cuts. A few examples:
*Yamah Freeman was a 23-year-old woman who died in childbirth because Musk cut funding for the diesel for ambulances in her part of Liberia. She couldn't get to a hospital and died as people were carrying her there. I talked to her parents and sister in their village.
*Gbessey Kiadu, age 1, died of malaria because of his cuts to malaria medication in Liberia. I talked to his mom in her village.
*Ibrahim Koroma, an infant, died of AIDS in Sierra Leone after he interrupted HIV supplies. I talked to health workers who cared for him.
*Achol Deng was an 8-year-old girl with HIV in South Sudan who died when Musk cut funding for the health care worker who provided her medicines. I talked to the healthcare workers.
I could go on and on. In almost every village you go to in South Sudan, Uganda, Liberia, Sierra Leone or other countries I reported in, you find people dying because of aid cuts. I challenge Musk: Come with me on a reporting trip, and we'll talk to these moms and dads, and you'll see the dying children themselves. I think if you see the kids whose lives are at stake, maybe you'll change your mind.

[David Sirota @davidsirota]

The misdirect here is that @GavinNewsom is opposing a WEALTH tax on billionaires in his own state & insisting he supports a new national INCOME tax on billionaires — but billionaires make money off non-income sources.

Read his Substack post carefully — he’s talking about income taxes and closing a few loopholes but not a national version of the WEALTH tax on the ballot in California.

So this is Newsom thinking he can fool everyone and going to bat for billionaire donors who could fund his presidential campaign.

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

Students were arrested for protesting this.

[Volcaholic 🌋 @volcaholic1]

Rescue teams are also saving pets that are under the rubble from the earthquake that hit Venezuela 😭🐕

[David Wallace-Wells @dwallacewells]

“A group of Texas protesters convicted of terrorism charges received unusually harsh sentences of at least 50 years in prison on Tuesday in a closely watched case widely seen as a test case of the Trump administration’s efforts to crack down on dissent.” https://t.co/DAm8myilBx

[The Daily Beast @thedailybeast]

EXCLUSIVE | Two pet dogs were left locked in an apartment without food or water for around a week after ICE agents detained their owner and told no one the animals were inside.
https://t.co/tdZ6wrqLlg

[L.A. TACO🌴🌮 @LATACO]

Use this guide to eat your way through all of Los Angeles in real solidarity and keep coming back to support these businesses and chefs.

The full guide: https://t.co/NSHA5dSlCd

By Karina Soriano

[The Washington Post @washingtonpost]

Families in Tennessee with critically ill or severely disabled children who are undocumented are being asked to leave the state program that pays for lifesaving medication and treatment or stay and have their child reported to immigration authorities. https://t.co/7tR4xgfo64