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Georgia law targeting Democratic counties draws lawsuit over ‘political redlining’ https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/georgia-law-targeting-democratic-counties-draws-lawsuit-over-political-redlining/

Take that, RFK. A national nonprofit founded in Cleveland aims to shift the conversation about vaccines, not by debating skeptics, but by sharing grandparents’ memories of life before immunizations were widely available. https://www.cleveland.com/metro/2026/06/as-us-vaccine-rates-plummet-one-cleveland-nonprofit-is-using-a-powerful-tool-grandparents-love.html

#politics #uspol #democracy #freedom #worldpol

Three Lebanese hospitals hit by Israeli forces in under a week

Airstrikes in south of country kill nine people and wound another 150, most of them medical staff

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jun/03/lebanese-hospitals-hit-by-israeli-forces

#BibiIsAWarCriminal #WorldPol #USPol #Lebanon #Israel #IsraeliWarCrimes

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Disney’s ABC files early broadcast licenses renewal ‘under protest’ against the FCC. Finally they show some courage. https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/28/disney-fcc-broadcast-licenses-renewal.html

A federal judge in Virginia has temporarily blocked the Trump administration from moving ahead with plans to create a nearly $1.8 billion fund Trump wants to use to pay the terrorists that attacked our capitol. https://www.cnn.com/2026/05/29/politics/federal-judge-halts-work-on-trumps-anti-weaponization-fund

A federal judge ordered the Trump administration to move faster to fulfill an information request from Democrats seeking documents detailing possible plans to deploy immigration agents or military personnel to the polls this fall. https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/judge-trump-troops-voting-democrats-information-request/

Judge probes whether Trump defrauded the court to create $1.8 billion “anti-weaponization” fund. https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/judge-probes-whether-trump-defrauded-the-court-to-create-1-8-billion-anti-weaponization-fund/

Gov. Kathy Hochul on Friday signed into law a set of sweeping regulations to protect people from ICE. https://gothamist.com/news/hochul-signs-new-protections-for-ny-immigrants-amid-pushback-from-trump-officials

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“It’s About People Feeding Their Families”: #Indigenous-Led #AntiAusterity Protests Rock #Bolivia

#DemocracyNow, May 29, 2026

"Protests in Bolivia are demanding the resignation of #RodrigoPaz, the country’s first #RightWing president in decades. Since #Paz took office in November 2025, the country has been placed under austerity measures that have led to a surge in poverty rates for much of Bolivia’s rural and working-class population. We speak to Kathryn Ledebur, director of the #AndeanInformationNetwork in #CochabambaBolivia, about the monthlong protests. 'Bolivia is a country where, for 19 years, #IndigenousPeople and social movements enjoyed equal rights and political inclusion,' she explains. 'There’s a huge break between what Paz promised and what he’s done in practice, which is select a white, upper-middle-class Cabinet with only two women, reject any genuine dialogue, reject interaction with the Bolivian social movements, or even have any empathy for people and what they’re going through day to day.'

"Ledebur also discusses the Paz administration’s growing ties with the Trump administration as the U.S. seeks to expand its so-called war on drugs throughout Latin America."

View / listen / read transcript:
https://www.democracynow.org/2026/5/29/kathryn_ledebur_bolivia_andean_information_network

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#Europe strengthens its bonds w/ #Mexico, Canada & other countries around the world, while the US destroys relationships w/ allies so Dotard Tumor can receive bribes from the most vile & corrupt countries around the globe

way to go maga, you f'ing morons. any more "winning" & we're going to be a 3rd world country

the difference a leader can make

https://youtu.be/DM9uzkdxGdg?si=p7k2TyJ2mTO99D0Y

#uspol #worldpol #trade #sheinbaum

Don't go back to "normal" this time.

https://buttondown.com/impureleftist/archive/dont-go-back-to-normal-this-time/

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Federal judge dismisses Trumped-up case against Kilmar Abrego Garcia. https://abcnews.com/US/federal-judge-dismisses-tennessee-criminal-case-kilmar-abrego/story?id=133232491

Jan. 6 prosecutor, Trump administration targets sue over ‘weaponization’ fund. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/jan-6-prosecutor-trump-administration-targets-sue-weaponization-fund-rcna346523

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Companies join a #DeepSeaMining rush after Trump executive order, as regulators fast-track permits

Trump’s order suggests the U.S. will decide for itself when to mine the global seabed, reversing the decision of previous administrations to honor the seabed authority’s rules.

By HELEN WIEFFERING
Updated 3:11 PM UTC, May 22, 2026

WASHINGTON (AP) — "In the year since President Donald Trump signed an executive order promising to create a deep-sea mining industry from scratch, businesses have raised millions of dollars from investors, stock prices have soared and federal regulators have raced to fast-track a permitting process.

"At least nine companies are in talks with the government for access to seabed minerals, according to an Associated Press review. Sections of the seafloor from #AmericanSamoa to #Alaska could be auctioned for offshore mining this summer and through the fall.

All the action suggests the U.S. may soon give the green light for companies to commercially mine the seabed — something that’s never been done in international waters.

"But a close look at some of the companies involved reveals uncertain track records and histories spattered with legal disputes, while major questions about how the minerals would be processed and refined remain unanswered. Watchers of the nascent industry are skeptical the promised riches will ever materialize."

Read more:
https://apnews.com/article/trump-deepsea-mining-executive-orders-oceans-environment-399faab6fc32922b4c533d3bad9c1ca5

Archived version:
https://archive.ph/MGqWh

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#WorldPol #NoDeepSeaMining
#RecycleMetals #TrumpSucks #DeepSeaMiningMoratorium
#OxygenSource #Extinction
#PlanetEarth #LockheedMartin
#TheMetalsCompany #DeepSeaMineralsCorp #Allseas
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Israel’s arrogance is becoming the evidence in the case against it

"Ben-Gvir’s video of abused flotilla activists reveals a state so accustomed to impunity that it documents its own cruelty, even against Westerners."

"In the footage, Ben-Gvir is heard taunting activists, who are forced to kneel with their foreheads to the floor and their hands tied behind their backs. At one point, a female activist who tried to speak up was grabbed by the back of the neck and forced violently to the ground.

Disturbing as it is, the video will not surprise anyone who has followed Israel’s treatment of either Palestinian detainees or foreign activists and aid workers.

Earlier this month, veteran New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof published a detailed account of Israeli abuses, including allegations that dogs are used to sexually abuse Palestinian detainees.

These reports follow an August 2024 video leak showing Israeli officers gang-raping a Palestinian prisoner at the Sde Teiman detention facility, as well as a 2024 United Nations Special Commission report, which found that sexual abuse had become part of Israel’s “standard operating procedures”.

Israeli soldiers and officers have also targeted foreign nationals. Activists, journalists, aid workers, medics and humanitarian personnel have routinely been killed, attacked or abused without consequence.

In 2003, 23-year-old American activist Rachel Corrie was crushed to death by an Israeli bulldozer in Gaza as she tried to prevent the demolition of a Palestinian home.

In May 2010, Israeli commandos intercepted a Gaza-bound flotilla in international waters and killed nine activists on board the Mavi Marmara. Autopsies found that the victims had been shot at close range..."

#IsraelIsATerroristState

https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2026/5/21/israels-arrogance-is-becoming-the-evidence-in-the-case-against-it

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Democratic district attorneys in major cities around the country are promising to prosecute federal agents suspected of attempting to intimidate people at polls during the midterms. https://www.politico.com/news/2026/05/18/district-attorneys-voter-intimidation-00927460

Democrats are taking on Trump's Slush Fund for violent terrorists in multiple ways. https://newrepublic.com/post/210740/democrats-force-republicans-vote-record-trump-slush-fund

An investigation is in progress of the Slush Fund. https://democrats-waysandmeans.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/democrats-waysandmeans.house.gov/files/evo-media-document/1wm-and-jc-letter-to-doj-and-treasury-regarding-settlement-fund-final.pdf

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