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🚨🇺🇸 BROOKLYN DAYCARE SCAMMERS PLEAD GUILTY TO $68M MEDICAID FRAUD Two women in Brooklyn just admitted to running a $68M scam billing Medicaid for adult daycare services they never provided. Paid kickbacks to patients, laundered the money through shell companies. This is the same playbook as Minneapolis - fake care centers billing taxpayers for phantom services. The program they hit: CDPAP, where people with minimal healthcare experience get paid by Medicaid to care for relatives. Hundreds of "middleman" firms act as payroll agents with almost zero oversight. It's basically a government ATM if you know how to game it. They're forking over $1M, facing 10 years max. That's $68M stolen, $1M returned. Math works if you don't get caught. Source: DOJ, New York Post

The last worker in the US who knew how to make Tubas is having his union job shipped to China by hedge fund billionaire and Trump advisor John Paulson who made the TV rounds to defend tariffs as a way to bring jobs back to US

Since Trump doesn't want this portrait of President Obama displayed in the White House, let's make this photo of our President go viral here! RETWEET if you love @BarackObama!

The man did his job, and did it well, under extremely stressful and hostile circumstances. I hope he can find some peace...

- $11 insulin - $20 minimum wage for fast food workers - $25 minimum wage for healthcare workers - Universal Pre-K - Free school meals - 600,000 new apprenticeship programs - Largest civil service program in the country - Universal healthcare - Improved test scores across the state California is proving there is a better way forward than Donald Trump’s recipe of fear, chaos and increased costs.

Retired 4-Star Navy Admiral and former Navy SEAL William McRaven on Donald Trump: "Through your actions, you have embarrassed us in the eyes of our children, humiliated us on the world stage and, worst of all, divided us as a nation." RETWEET if you stand with Admiral McRaven!

Since Trump doesn't want this portrait of President Obama displayed in the White House, let's make this photo of our President go viral here! RETWEET if you love @BarackObama!

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE detention facility this morning; he says: I had the privilege this morning of leading a Eucharistic Procession from St. Eulalia Church in Maywood, IL to the ICE Detention Center in Broadview. We went to pray and have a few of us clergy and religious women bring Holy Communion and the love of the Christian community to the men and women detained there under inhumane conditions. Over 1,000 Catholics and other Christians marched in peaceful prayer and song, facilitated by the Maywood and Broadview Police Departments and the Illinois State Police. I cannot speak more highly of these public safety officers in providing us safe passage. Upon arrival, it was a different story. There were no ICE or Federal representatives there. When requesting to talk with a representative from Homeland Security and ICE, the State Police reached out on our behalf to make the request over the phone, After a brief wait, the answer came back very clearly: NO, YOU CANNOT BRING A HINT OF COMPASSION AND PRAYER INTO THIS PLACE! NO, YOU CANNOT OFFER ANY SOLACE TO THE MEN AND WOMEN FEARFUL AND SUFFERING INSIDE! NO, YOU CANNOT BRING JESUS, THE SON OF GOD, THE LOVE OF GOD, INTO THIS PLACE! No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ. What we have been able to do for detainees for the past several years, which is written into Illinois law, was refused by this current Federal Government. "Father, forgive the ones who do not know what they are doing." "Have mercy on the souls of those who know exactly what they're doing. Touch their hearts and transform them from stony hearts into fleshy, life-giving hearts." "Only through, with and in God will hearts be changed!" The battle for hearts and minds, compassion and mercy, continues... Please pray especially for the children, for the mothers and fathers who are being treated inhumanely. Please step up and speak out. Silence is supporting this abuse of these members of God's family. Peace! Fr. Larry Dowling

More proof of Portland in peril

BREAKING: Portland Frog receives Nobel Peace Prize.

I am in continued shock at the complete incompetence by this admin. #TrumpEpsteinShutdown

🚨NEW: Pope Leo calls out the Trump Administration and reaffirms his support for immigrants: “The Church cannot stay silent before injustice. You stand with me. And I stand with you.” RETWEET if you stand with Pope Leo against Trump!

Nearly 12,000 people braved the 'war ravaged' streets of Portland, Oregon to run in today's Marathon.

🚨NEW: Federal Judge Karin Immergut has blocked Trump’s deployment of troops in Portland, Oregon. RETWEET to thank Judge Immergut for standing up for our democracy!

Another one of the many high profile military departures since Trump took office. Gen. Thomas Bussiere, a top Air Force General who was nominated by Trump to become the next Air Force Chief of Staff, resigned after Hegseth/Trump’s farce of a military meeting this week.

Here are last night's stats for federal citations at the ICE facility in Portland. We continue to work with our partners to investigate instances of violence and destruction of property and hold those individuals accountable.

BOOM! Chicago priest Fr. Michael Pfleger just DROPPED a holy firebomb on Trump—slamming the tyrant-in-chief in 10 brutal ways over his illegal National Guard threats! "The state of emergency is in AMERICA, not Chicago. It's birthed from this president & his admin's reign of terror." MLK nailed it: "I could never raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed without first speaking to the greatest purveyor of violence: my own government." Time to rise up—truth over tyranny!

So much for free speech. You talk out of line to the state you get pepper sprayed or tear gassed.