The tale of veterans being evicted to make housing available for immigrants is entirely false. The veteran who spread this false story and blamed Biden's policies as a way to raise funds for her charity has been charged with stolen valor and fraud.
12:20 PM - May 02, 2024
Trump: Will “root out” the “vermin within the confines of our country.” Steve Bannon: Trump should "turn the guns on to Biden." MTG: “If Bannon and I had organized (Jan 6), we would have won...we would’ve been armed.”
Maya Angelou: "When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time."
Maya Angelou: "When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time."
11:46 AM - May 02, 2024
Mike Johnson, facing a challenge to his speakership, intends to unite the party behind him by cracking down on student protests. Expect to see more college presidents brought in for hearings, more Republicans like Lauren Boebert paying visits to the encampments, more attacks on higher ed.
10:29 AM - May 02, 2024
2 Threaded Spouts
"Too nice": In a Time interview, Trump says he will use the military to detain and deport millions of undocumented immigrants, and that states with abortion bans could monitor pregnant women to ensure they don’t terminate their pregnancies. Said he was "too nice" during his first term.
11:40 PM - May 01, 2024
Across the country, campus protestors are being arrested, many of whom are non-students. At Tulane, where at least 14 have been arrested, the university says only two are students there. At Columbia, those who broke into Hamilton Hall were led by individuals not affiliated with the university.
09:42 AM - May 01, 2024
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Across the country, campus protestors are being arrested, many of whom are non-students. At Tulane, where at least 14 have been arrested, the university says only two are students there. At Columbia, those who broke into Hamilton Hall were led by individuals not affiliated with the university.
09:42 AM - May 01, 2024
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A journalist covering the protest at UT-Austin was violently arrested and charged with felony assault on an officer. He denies assaulting the officer and the arrest has been condemned by press freedom organizations including Committee to Protect Journalists as an attempt at intimidating reporters.
10:20 AM - Apr 30, 2024
Last year, 99 reporters were killed in conflict zones, the highest toll since 2015, most due to the war in Gaza. In Mexico, at least 15 journalists were killed in 2022. Certain regions and subject matter have become so unsafe that "zones of silence" are now emerging where stories go unreported.
09:26 AM - Apr 30, 2024
2 Threaded Spouts
Microplastics in our food, water, and air cause cancer, diabetes, and cardiovascular and neurodegenerative diseases. We could reduce plastic pollution by making plastic reusable and removing fossil fuel subsidies. But there's the rub. Plastics are the new growth area in the fossil fuel industry.
11:00 AM - Apr 29, 2024
Jewish students at Colombia protesting Israel's war: "We chose to be arrested in the movement for Palestinian liberation because we are inspired by our Jewish ancestors who fought for freedom 4000 years ago." https://thehill.com/opinio...
12:32 PM - Apr 28, 2024
Indigenous peoples throughout the world are cultivating crops, curating seed banks and planting forests to promote and preserve biodiversity. In fact, they play an outsized role in protecting the environment. Yet they are seldom included in conservation plans.
06:24 PM - Apr 27, 2024
Noem's dog story is chilling. The desire to display the ability to kill helpless victims without remorse is the single most disturbing trend on the right. 17-year-old killing unarmed protestors, TX officials allowing children to drown -- lack of empathy has become a point of pride.
02:12 PM - Apr 27, 2024
After cancelling their valedictorian's address, USC then cancelled all outside speakers leaving graduates with only their university president to listen to at graduation. “My own university – my home for four years – has abandoned me." - Asna Tabassum, USC valedictorian
01:44 PM - Apr 26, 2024
2 Threaded Spouts
Last year, FL passed a law punishing those who hired or assisted undocumented workers and preventing them from having a driver's license. Since then, these workers have been leaving Florida in droves. One farmer: "The govt doesn't seem to care. Maybe they think the crops are gonna pick themselves."
10:36 AM - Apr 26, 2024
All the one-use plastic containers in this world should give us chills
10:06 AM - Apr 25, 2024
The “coolest dictator in the world", El Salvador's Nayib Bukele, is conducting a mass arrest of over 1% of the pop through the suspension of Constitutional rights. Recently, he spoke at CPAC urging the next president to do "whatever it takes" to combat the "dark forces" trying to take over the US.
apnews.com
El Salvador's president gets rock-star welcome at conservative gathering outside Washington | AP News
El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele has received a rock-star welcome at a conservative gathering outside Washington as he urged people to “unapologetically fight” against what he called “dark forces.”
07:00 PM - Apr 24, 2024
The “coolest dictator in the world", El Salvador's Nayib Bukele, is conducting a mass arrest of over 1% of the pop through the suspension of Constitutional rights. Recently, he spoke at CPAC urging the next president to do "whatever it takes" to combat the "dark forces" trying to take over the US.
apnews.com
El Salvador's president gets rock-star welcome at conservative gathering outside Washington | AP News
El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele has received a rock-star welcome at a conservative gathering outside Washington as he urged people to “unapologetically fight” against what he called “dark forces.”
07:00 PM - Apr 24, 2024
2 Threaded Spouts
Earlier this month, Don Wilson, CO Republican state rep, left his loaded gun in the Capitol men’s bathroom, which was later discovered by the maintenance crew. In 2022, Republican state Rep Richard Holtorf’s gun fell off as he was going to vote. Responsible gun owners.
09:58 AM - Apr 23, 2024
"The 49 migrants flown to Martha’s Vineyard under false pretenses by the DeSantis administration can now legally work in the U.S. and are protected from deportation due to being considered victims of a potential crime."
06:58 PM - Apr 22, 2024
SD’s Gov Kristi Noem, top contender for Trump VP, has been banned by four Lakota tribes for having accused them of being linked to drug cartels, promoting the Keystone Pipeline on sacred lands, delaying critical winter storm assistance, and accusing them of not caring properly for their children.
lakotatimes.com
Noem fight gets worse - Lakota Times
WEST RIVER—It is hard to find a specific dateline for South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem’s escalating battle with four West River Indian reservations because the conflict has spread all across West River. First, the Oglala Sioux Tribe (OST) banned her in February 2024 for remarks the governor made ab..
09:39 AM - Apr 22, 2024
The heavily armed CBP, Texas National Guard, and state troopers from Florida, Missouri, and elsewhere have been deployed to Eagle Pass to fend off a supposed “invasion” at the border. Instead they're finding a handful of migrants and little to do.
12:10 PM - Apr 21, 2024
Contrary to international guidelines, Nestlé company is adding sugar to its baby foods sold in Asia, Africa, and Latin America. Yet in European markets, the same products have no sugar added. Added sugar in childhood can lead to obesity, high blood pressure, and other preventable diseases.
09:14 AM - Apr 21, 2024
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Ten years before Trump openly mocked a reporter with a disability, Rush Limbaugh imitated Michael J Fox on air by flailing his arms and accused him of faking his symptoms. Fox said he took no personal offense and was only concerned about the effect on the larger community of people with disabilities
11:20 AM - Apr 20, 2024
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In Brazil, former president Jair Bolsonaro had promoted rapid and widespread exploitation of the Amazon, much of it illegal and detrimental to indigenous groups. Now Lula is making good on his pledge to designate new indigenous territories. Indigenous people benefit, the planet benefits.
04:26 PM - Apr 19, 2024
Hello Spoutibles! I'm new here from Post with interests in indigenous rights, environmental justice, our neighbors to the south, and stories from the good hearts and minds here. I look forward to participating and getting advice on how to navigate.
02:58 PM - Apr 19, 2024
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