Veronica Platt
@itsvnow
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The right wants us to believe that a teen who showed up at a Wisconsin rally with an AR-15 and shot three people is a peacekeeper who deserves to be celebrated, but an unarmed mom driving away from a Minnesota rally was a domestic terrorist who deserved to die.
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Stephen Colbert on the ICE murder of Renee Good: “The message from this administration is clear. Only they determine the truth. And when their forces come to your city, obey or die. And if you die, you clearly didn’t obey. This should be an alarm bell for the entire country.”
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Pastor: I saw ICE agents circling a young woman who appeared to be Hispanic. I said to this ICE agent, 'Take me, stop harassing her.' The agent got in my face, pointed a gun at me, and said, 'Are you afraid now?' To which I said, 'I am not afraid.' The next thing I knew, they
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Among the #UN organizations that the Trump Admin. is withdrawing from are offices that combat sexual violence and protect children in armed conflict. https://t.co/JyQdEUf0j5
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AOC: This has now become what we feared most about ICE for a long time—that it would be used as an anti-civilian force with no accountability. At the end of the day, what we saw today was a murder, and murders in cold blood need to be prosecuted.
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This is Renee Good. She was a mother of a six-year-old child. She was an American citizen. She described herself as a “poet and writer and wife and mom and shitty guitar strummer from Colorado.” And she was gunned down in cold blood and broad daylight by Trump’s ICE agents.
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CNN is both-sidesing today’s execution by saying that maybe “both sides” were panicked. To live in America today is to be constantly told not to believe anything you see with your own fucking eyes.
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Is Iran any better today than 1953? Is Guatemala any better today than 1954? Is Cuba any better today than 1961? Is Cambodia any better today than 1970? Is El Salvador any better today than 1982? Is Nicaragua any better today than 1984? Is Afghanistan any better today than
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YEAR ONE MAHA: 1. Measles returns to America 2. Pertussis returns to America 3. Chronic hepatitis liver cancer returns 4. Pandemic preparedness gone 5. Swung & missed on autism 6. CDC disassembled 7. Biotech industry shutting down 8. Brain drain underway
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Media just casually adopting this new name even though the Center's board's ability to unilaterally add Trump's name is legally murky (at best) and people wonder why democracy is withering on the vine in the good old US of A
The Trump-Kennedy Center, led by President Trump's appointee Richard Grenell, says it is planning to file a $1 million lawsuit “after the holidays” against jazz musician Chuck Redd. https://t.co/NzmKRz4kj9
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25 years ago, Bill Clinton had America on the path to being debt-free by 2010. Bush then got us us into two wars and crashed the economy. Since then, Trump has destroyed the economy twice after Presidents Obama and Biden fixed it. Want a good economy? Elect Democrats.
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NEW: House Dems want DCCC to back Latino candidates in 2026 BOLD PAC’s Linda Sanchez said she “made my point to [DCCC] several times” “Let’s see if they take that to heart or not,” she added DCCC has declined to support Hispanic candidates in the past https://t.co/S8DRdR7Aqa
notus.org
“The DCCC’s inclination was always to go for a safe moderate, white suburban mom, or something of that nature, and not … a Latino candidate,” Sen. Ruben Gallego said.
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If you are trying to understand what happened in 2025, start here. Kara Swisher names the pattern: tech money stopped orbiting DC and started moving in. Sharp, funny, and uncomfortably accurate. Watch this one.
Today’s pod: @karaswisher on 2025, the year the tech oligarchs made their move on DC. Plus: AI boomers v doomers, why are “founders” like this, Pluribus, how she heard about RFK/Nuzzi, a modified FMK for the All-in Podcast, & much more! https://t.co/s6hxIsihNd
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There are now more people in ICE detention than ever before — 68,440 people. Most have never committed a crime. Many are being held in facilities with horrific conditions. It’s cruel and inhumane, and it must end. https://t.co/rHWUsWr4As
theguardian.com
ICE held more than 68,400 people as of 14 December, breaking previous high set at beginning of December
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White men are 98% of Presidents, 98% of US senators, 94% of the Supreme Court, 90% of the House of Representatives, 90% of CEO’s while making up only 30% of the population… YOUR OPPRESSION IS NONEXISTENT.
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