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“We don't get a democracy because God handed it down from the sky, we get a democracy because we demand it and we defend it and we insist on it.” Sarah Chayes

[Wokey @wokeyisover]

@JoyceWhiteVance He was the senate majority leader.

[Wokey @wokeyisover]

@allenanalysis I’m tired of her talking crap about Dems. What is she doing?

[Wokey @wokeyisover]

@JDVance Trump pardoned George Santos.

[Wokey @wokeyisover]

@samstein Yes, that would be best.

[Wokey @wokeyisover]

@TaylorPopielarz Ice cream capital of Texas!

[Wokey @wokeyisover]

@mmpadellan Their coverage will lead to low ratings.

[Wokey @wokeyisover]

@WajahatAli Trump?

[Rod (Izzy) 🇺🇸🦅 @1zzyzyx1]

JD Vance’s brother is running for mayor of Cincinnati, and they share many similarities. Here is part of the debate with current Mayor @AftabPureval, who is having none of his nonsense.
#DemsUnited

[EU says Elon should not lie abt my blue check @emptywheel]

Now @KristiNoem and @stephenm are kidnapping 13-year olds with asylum claims.

https://t.co/uKJXyR2xZn

[Van Lathan Jr @VanLathan]

This is why JD Vance is poor Trump successor. He tries to “Trump” GS Here, to bully him. George, very easily and succinctly puts stuffs him in a locker then goes to break. 😂😂😂😂😂😂

[Acyn @Acyn]

Doocy: Does this help get you into heaven?

Trump: I don’t think there’s anything that’s going to get me into heaven. I think I’m not heaven bound.

[MoonBeam2025 @beam2025]

@Acyn

[Wokey @wokeyisover]

@Acyn 😂

[Isaiah Martin @isaiahrmartin]

Am I the only one who finds it absurd watching a bunch of Repubs with ten-figure bank accounts tell grandmas they don’t need their Social Security checks?

They can jet around on your dime, but you receiving the Social Security you paid for is “wasteful.”

Get out of our face!

[POLITICO @politico]

More on Smith's final report: https://t.co/11rXzNLS2z

[Jerry Mitchell @JMitchellNews]

Last summer, a Mississippi police officer approached Vivian Burks as she sat in her car at a local park reading the Bible.

He was cordial at first, offering to help Ms. Burks replace her expired tags with the new ones she had in her car. But the encounter changed quickly after the officer, Blaine Musgrove, said he smelled marijuana and a second Carthage police officer demanded to search the vehicle.

When Ms. Burks, a 65-year-old great-grandmother with no criminal record, tried to get back into her car, the officers grabbed her and ordered her to place her hands behind her back, body camera footage shows. When she did not immediately comply, Officer Musgrove pressed his Taser into her back and shocked her, sending her to the ground in a heap.

Over the next 30 seconds, the video shows, Officer Musgrove shocked her three more times as she twisted her hands to avoid being handcuffed and begged the officers to stop, repeatedly shouting, “I’m sick!” The officers called an ambulance and then left her moaning for help until the paramedics arrived.

“I couldn’t breathe,” Ms. Burks told reporters in an interview. “I just thought that they were going to kill me.”

In many places across the nation, the repeated shocking of Ms. Burks — who was not acting aggressively and was largely under the officers’ control — would be considered an improper and dangerous use of a Taser by the police.

Not in Mississippi.

Here, police agencies set their own rules about Taser use, and many departments have held on to vague, outdated policies that allow officers to shock virtually anyone, for any behavior they see as threatening, with little fear of repercussions. As a result, cases like Ms. Burks’s have occurred all over the state without raising alarms, an investigation by The New York Times and Mississippi Today found.
https://t.co/8YkMWhjGx7

[Kevin McKenzie @KMcknz]

@JMitchellNews The DOJ can't investigate every police department. In Memphis, the Black mayor is refusing a consent decree. Progressive DAs who hold police accountable are being attacked. Trial lawyers may be the best hope. I hope she sues. @AttorneyCrump

[Susan Glasser @sbg1]

Sources tell my colleague ⁦@JaneMayerNYer⁩ that the FBI failed to interview several key witnesses about Hegseth, including the woman who alleged she was a victim of sexual assault. https://t.co/aIHizcwese

[Seth Abramson @SethAbramson]

I'll say this however many times people need to hear it: Elon Musk doesn't support H-1B visas because it gets him the best employees, or because he has no other options, or because he can't find qualified U.S. workers.

He needs workers who are visa-insecure so he can abuse them.

[The Associated Press @AP]

Chinese workers found in 'slavery-like conditions' in Brazil taken to hotels as probe gets underway https://t.co/zlaZ8bJJFe