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Sunday, July 6, 2025

This GOP bill is the mother of all attacks on the American people

With President Donald Trump’s July 4 deadline looming, Republicans are set to sell out working class families by passing Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” — all to please their billionaire backers. Inside this devastating bill are a host of tax cuts for the ultra-wealthy, paid for with cuts to Medicaid, SNAP, and other essential programs. It would also effectively eliminate the middle class in America as we know it. MORE

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Alligator Alcatraz: American history from the dark side

I don’t mean that we are trapped in an inflexible pattern of endlessly repeating historical cycles, as in the more esoteric propositions of Vico and Nietzsche. (“Time is a flat circle,” as some lowlife says in the first season of “True Detective,” moments before getting murdered by cops.) But too many of us, including a large proportion of liberals who ought to know better, are indeed trapped in the delusional one-way narrative of progress known as American exceptionalism, leading us to announce in horrified tones, with every new outrage of the Trump administration, that this is “not who we are.” more

Saturday, July 5, 2025

American dystopia: The cruel spectacle of Trump’s ‘Alligator Alcatraz’

Jan. 6 federal prosecutor fired by Pam Bondi quotes Theodore Roosevelt in passionate farewell letter

One of three career federal prosecutors fired by Attorney General Pam Bondi last week has written a passionate goodbye to his colleagues, praising them for their willingness to “enter the arena” and encouraging them to not be timid amid ongoing threats to their work. more

"How Much Time Is Left Until the End of Trump ( Must Watch )

Here are the Declaration of Independence’s Grievances Against King George III. Many Apply to Trump.

When Thomas Jefferson was writing the Declaration of Independence in the weeks leading up July 4, 1776, he wanted to not only rely on just high-falutin enlightenment ideals to justify the case for separation from Great Britain. His aim was also to present a slam-dunk indictment of King George III—to prove that the royal was a “tyrant” and that he and Parliament had forfeited their right to rule the Americans by breaking their own laws and trampling on the rights of their people. This is why about half of the Declaration is a list of 27 specific grievances lodged against the King and his regime. MORE

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'Authoritarian Theater' Meets 'Pure F*cking Idiocracy' as Trump Promises White House UFC Match

"Americans, you won't have healthcare, Medicaid, public schools, nursing homes, rural hospitals, or SNAP," said one critic. "But, you'll get UFC fights on the White House lawn. America F-Yeah!" MORE

ICE Violence SKYROCKETS, Communities are FIGHTING Back

“An Absolute Moral Failure”: Disability Advocates React to GOP Medicaid Cuts

On Thursday, House Republicans voted to enact a spending bill that will strip close to one trillion dollars from federal Medicaid funding across a decade—an attack expected to cause tens of thousands of preventable deaths each year, disproportionately among the one in three disabled people on Medicaid in the US. more

LIVE From PROTEST Outside Florida ICE Prison Where Haitian Immigrant Died

Will Democrats TAKE BACK Florida From Trump & Republicans?

What July 5th Taught Me That July 4th Never Did

The U.S. celebrates independence while denying it to others; Venezuela fights for sovereignty while being punished for it. more

Friday, July 4, 2025

'Overwhelming enthusiasm': Inside Zohran Mamdani’s stunning victory

Tech Giants Were Pledged Immunity By Pam Bondi To Ignore TikTok Ban, Letters Show

U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi sent letters to 10 U.S. tech companies, including Google and Apple, earlier this year, making clear that they wouldn’t be prosecuted for ignoring a TikTok ban approved by Congress and upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court. more

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Mystery surrounds the Jeffrey Epstein files after Bondi claims ‘tens of thousands’ of videos

It was a surprising statement from Attorney General Pam Bondi as the Trump administration promises to release more files from its sex trafficking investigation of Jeffrey Epstein: The FBI, she said, was reviewing “tens of thousands of videos” of the wealthy financier “with children or child porn.” more

Trump's Alligator Alcatraz ALREADY FLOODING, ZERO Hurricane Plan to Evacuate ICE Prisoners

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Kristi Noem said cannibal tried to eat himself on ICE deportation flight

A claim went viral in early July stating that US Immigration and Customs Enforcement sought to deport a cannibal who tried to eat himself while on board a deportation flight.

An X user @nicksortor posted a clip of Noem making the statement during a press conference. The user captioned the post, "WTF?! Kristi Noem just revealed one of the illegals they arrested was a cannibal who began to EAT HIMSELF on a deportation flight THIS is why we need mass roundups. These people are ANIMALS." more