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11 years ago today, Ken Paxton surrendered at the Collin County Jail on felony securities fraud charges. This is his mugshot.
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Pro-democracy, pro-sanity, pro-people’s well-being. Anti-disinformation, anti-bigotry, anti-aggression.
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Q: Mr Paxton, did you commit voter fraud? KEN PAXTON: *walks away* (This is at least the third time just this week he's literally run away from questions of this sort)
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Lorenzo Salgado Araujo Joan Sebastian Guerrero Ruben Ray Martinez Alex Pretti Renee Good Dozens of other innocent lives. These deaths aren’t mistakes. They’re the result of choices. Policy choices. Funding choices. Choices to not hold this Administration accountable. It’s time to SHUT. IT. DOWN!
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Epstein survivors released this video today urging senators to block the confirmation of Todd Blanche for Attorney General. They’re trying to get to 20,000 signatures on their petition to send a message to the Senate. ujoin.co/campaigns/45...
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He also owns major stock holdings in the detention & deportation companies contracted by the administration.
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The Downtown Seattle Association claims taxing high earners is driving down employment in Seattle, and they point to high vacancy rates and lower total *downtown* employment to prove the point. A look at the data shows this is total BS. Here is how it works: www.theurbanist.org/op-ed-the-da...
Op-Ed: The Data Says Seattle’s High Earners Tax Is Working, Despite Whining from Big BusinessThe Downtown Seattle Association recently released a “report” that was meant to convince us that taxes on high earners are smothering the Seattle economy. Here’s why their analysis is flat wrong.www.theurbanist.org
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A bombshell FOIA request has revealed how the FBI and Department of Justice trained its investigators to scrub the Epstein files clean. trib.al/dNbUbM3
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UCLA police own sonic weapons capable of 160 decibels. Permanent hearing damage begins at 120. They deployed them 71 times last school year. All 71 times: protests and demonstrations. San Jose State owns tear gas grenades not authorized under state policy. CalMatters, July 9.
‘We will never use them’: the California universities stockpiling AR-15s, grenades and submachine gunsA 2021 state law allows campus police to own military equipment for civilian safety – students fear it may be used to quash dissentshare.google
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Kaepernick is the best of everyone ever affiliated with the NFL.
resistersister🌻🩸💴Former NFL star Colin Kaepernick helped fund the independent autopsy for 18 year old Nolan Wells. His foundation stepped in to cover the costs so the family could have the examination conducted outside Mississippi, amid concerns over a lack of transparency and trust with local authorities.
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This "tweet" from a year ago has been deleted by its author. I'm posting here now on BlueSky as a reminder and as a public service, for anyone, should they ever need it. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
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Garnet Smith, a 44-year-old U.S. military veteran has been detained at the Northwest Detention Center (NWDC) in Tacoma for over nine months, and recently reported to several groups that a guard employed by the GEO Group sexually assaulted him. More below
Northwest Detention Center guard reportedly sexually assaulted detainee who is a veteranBy Hannah Saunders Garnet Smith, a 44-year-old U.S. military veteran has been detained at the Northwest Detention Center (NWDC) in Tacoma for over nine months, and recently reported to several grou…throughthestatic.org
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Anyone near Panorama City who can go and witness?!
Bex 🖤🏴I was given permission to share this. Video shows masked agents and vehicles in various locations surrounding apartment buildings at Cedros and Parthenia in Panorama City. #WhistlesUp #FuckICE #LosAngeles
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A few days ago, parents of regime prisoners distributed the newspapers "The Voice of Freedom from Prison" and "Cell 101" at the Tsalenjika market. 1/2 📷 Ketevan Khutsishvili | Netgazeti Post largely copied from @netgazeti.org
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800,000 dead. @jackohman.bsky.social on Elon Musk’s USAID cuts. Make a former trillionaire cry. Share this cartoon everywhere.
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Going down the Who Is From Maine list to see who will answer the call. Is Anna Kendrick ready to serve? How about uh former Orioles utilityman Ryan Flaherty?
Phil LewisActor Patrick Dempsey penned an op-ed: Why I’m not running for US Senate
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Meanwhile in DeSantisstan: I got records showing how officials launched a threat investigation into an elderly Florida man for sending a postcard to Florida CFO Blaise Ingoglia that just read: "You lack values." Ingoglia's office was flooded with similar postcards after the man went public.
77-year-old Florida veteran investigated for sending an official a postcard saying 'you lack values'High-level state officials launched a threat investigation over a harmless postcard to Florida's chief financial officer.reason.com