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I may be feral after decade on the bird app, but it feels like “passionate” to me. Feedback is generally appreciated.

Big Balls gets thumped for sexually harassing an underage girl: Flood the streets with armed troops!

School children gunned down while at church: Thoughts and prayers

Top CDC leaders leave as the director is pushed out. They say RFK Jr. and the Trump regime are “weaponizing public health” and “generating materials that do not reflect scientific reality” www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
#COVID 💉

CDC epidemic.

1/… There’s been an update. See next post in 🧵

Keep 'em coming

WIN: The 9th Circuit just upheld a fairer map for Yakima Valley, rejecting bad-faith appeals that tried to dilute Latino voting power in Washington state.

The remedial map stands — and Latino communities in central WA will get a real chance to elect candidates of their choice.

https://www.democracydocket.com/cases/washington-legislative-redistricting-challenge/

Soto Palmer v. Hobbs

Learn more.

Democracy Docket

2/ Oh! UPDATE:

Via Mark Zaid:

Abbe Lowell and I represent CDC Director #SusanMonarez. Contrary to govt statements, Dr. Monarez has neither resigned nor yet been fired. She will not resign. We have issued the following statement:

(WaPo) Refugees that a federal judge had ordered the Trump administration to admit are being barred from entry under the president’s travel ban even as Afrikaners are allowed in. (and their set to bring in 1,000 white folk by the end of September) https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2025/06/27/trump-afrikaners-refugees-travel-ban/
Trump officials plan to resettle 1,000 Afrikaners while blocking other refugees

Refugees that a federal judge had ordered the Trump administration to admit are being barred from entry under the president’s travel ban even as Afrikaners are allowed in.

The Washington Post

@rbreich

Since there's no inspectors anymore...

Walmart has adopted the practice of advertising items such as 10 lbs of chicken for $14 dollars. Greedflation.

Once weighed, there's only 8 lbs in the package

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-05-29/walmart-files-show-wrong-prices-charged-at-1-600-stores-for-days

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/04/19/walmart-shoppers-could-claim-up-to-500-dollars-in-class-action-lawsuit.html

Most stores no longer have weigh scales to verify weight

Canned fruit; mostly water. Packaging; mostly air. Condensed soups; corn starch

The size of cans, containers, & packages continues to shrink while prices increase. Shrinkflation

#News ‘Where is the evidence?’ CNN anchor presses DHS spokesperson on claim of genocide on White South Africans https://w.st/HfRV
‘Where is the evidence?’ CNN anchor presses DHS spokesperson on claim of genocide on White South Africans | CNN Politics

During a heated exchange with CNN’s Victor Blackwell, Tricia McLaughlin, Asst. Secretary for Public Affairs at the Department of Homeland Security, defended the Trump administration moving to grant and expedite refugee status for White South Africans while broadly suspending most other refugee programs. A flight carrying a group of 59 Afrikaners who were granted refugee status by the Trump administration arrived in the US Monday, a State Department official told CNN that day.

CNN

Republicans have ruined the economy for the working and poor classes in every Republican administration since Nixon.

Why don’t people get that before elections?

https://apple.news/ACsDARE-kQDigbSt3JqF0iQ

US consumer sentiment plummets to second-lowest level on records going back to 1952 — CNN

Americans are rarely this pessimistic about the economy.