“The liberty of a democracy is not safe if people tolerate growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than the democratic state itself.” FDR

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Tennessee is sending letters to immigrant parents of disabled and terminally ill children enrolled in a last-resort public health program — kids on ventilators, kids with cancer, kids in wheelchairs - telling them that if their child keeps receiving medical care after June 30, the state will report them to ICE. This program has existed for over 50 years. It has never required immigration status. Until now. Children's Special Services is Tennessee's last-resort public health insurance program for low-income kids with the most severe disabilities and life-threatening illnesses - kids with no other coverage, no other options. The state just sent letters to at least 90 Nashville families giving them an impossible choice: keep your child alive, or stay invisible. One mother, Gabriella, has a 10-year-old son born with spina bifida who requires near-monthly emergency care. They're six months from a final ruling on their asylum case. She said if they're sent back to Honduras, "he's not going to make it." Here's the part that should make your head explode: the law Tennessee is using to justify this explicitly applies only to people 18 and older. These are children. Pediatricians, advocates, and lawmakers are all saying the state is misapplying its own law to reach kids it was never meant to cover. The Tennessee Justice Center says the directive is unlawful and is preparing a legal challenge. But families are afraid to come forward as plaintiffs. Because coming forward means being seen. The state health department has not responded to a single press request for comment. What kind of government sends a letter to the mother of a child on a ventilator and calls it immigration enforcement? 📷 Jose Carlos Cerdeno/Getty #DemsUnited
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The U.S. government just made a land deal with the world's first trillionaire. Not a sale. A trade. Because apparently that's how we do things now. 715 acres of the Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge - built by Congress in 1979 to protect one of the most biodiverse wildlife corridors left in North America - handed to SpaceX. Endangered ocelots. Aplomado falcons. Piping plovers. Land the Carrizo/Comecrudo Nation of Texas has called sacred since long before there was a United States. SpaceX built a rocket launch site next door. Then came the explosions. Concrete and metal hurled six miles across refuge land. A 2024 study found that after one launch, every single monitored shorebird nest near the site suffered egg damage or loss. The Fish and Wildlife Service's response was not enforcement. It was a land swap. FOIA documents show internal planning for this transfer started as early as April 2025 - while Musk was running DOGE and threatening to fire federal workers who didn't justify their jobs to him. The agency developed what they called "the most expedited schedule possible" to get it done. Part of what's being handed over includes the Palmito Ranch Battlefield - the site of the last battle of the Civil War. A National Historic Landmark. Once transferred, SpaceX can restrict public access whenever they want. 25,000 people submitted public comments. Most opposed the deal. The government moved forward anyway. A coalition of tribal and conservation groups filed a federal lawsuit this week to stop it. Because someone has to. Why are we cutting real estate deals with a trillionaire when we could have just made him pay for it? #DemsUnited
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Mary Coates ⚖️ retweeted
FTP: LAPD killed her dog. He was wearing his Knicks jersey. His name was Jameson. A golden doodle. One of the sweetest, most gentle breeds alive. A neighbor called a noise complaint. That's it. 20 officers showed up. Then a helicopter. For a noise complaint in an apartment complex. And they shot Jameson dead. In front of his owner. In front of her child. No warning. No de-escalation. Nothing. The media is barely covering this. No headlines. No outrage. Like it never happened. If this was your dog... your child watching... how would you feel? Jameson deserved better. That little boy deserved better. His mama deserved better.
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Insurance Companies will loan you money to help you pay your health bills next year, thus by doing so it may increase your deductible. x.com/politicsusa46/status/2…

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A cat took to the stage during the final scene of a Romeo and Juliet ballet performance by the Imperial Russian Ballet Company in İzmir
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California Gov. Newsom says he's under investigation by the Justice Department #Axios twp.ai/4hsW5B
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BREAKING: New Mexico's Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham has signed the nation’s first universal child care into law. This is how you put working families first. Let's go!
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Mary Coates ⚖️ retweeted
BREAKING: In a stunning moment, the former US Ambassador to NATO just exposed Trump's Iran deal for what it is: a temporary plan that doesn't end Iran's nuclear ambitions or its permanent hold on the Strait of Hormuz. This is horrific for the U.S.
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Curious of how many Republicans and how many are Democrats. Either or, they are all guilty.
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This AI just exposed the BIGGEST legal insider trading operation in America. A platform called GovGreed built a seven-layer machine learning system that cross-references every stock trade disclosed by every sitting politician against the bills their committees control, the campaign donations they receive, and the companies their votes directly impact. It scored all 540 politicians currently in Congress. And the numbers are crazy: 56% of every stock purchase made by Congress in the last 16 months was on a stock directly affected by a bill the buyer later voted on. That is 6,170 out of 11,016 total purchases. More than HALF of all congressional stock buys are on companies whose fate that same politician is about to decide. 343 of 540 Congress members actively trade stocks while holding access to nonpublic legislative information. That is 63.8% of the entire legislature making market bets with an informational edge that would put any hedge fund manager in prison. The AI identified 752 active "Triple Signals" in the current Congress. A Triple Signal fires when three conditions line up at once: The politician sits on the committee controlling a bill, they traded stock in a company affected by that bill, AND they received campaign contributions from that same industry. Bills carrying these insider indicators pass at 5.4 TIMES the normal rate. Now look at the individual leaderboard: - Nancy Pelosi's estimated portfolio sits at $194 million with a Greediness score of 98.1 out of 100 - Ro Khanna made 13,231 trades across 800 different tickers - Michael McCaul made 32,302 trades and filed 6,670 of them late - Thomas Suozzi filed 86.4% of his trades late with an average delay of 396 days, meaning his disclosures landed over a YEAR after he made the trade And then there is Lisa McClain, the fourth-ranking Republican in the House. She has made 1,443 trades in three years, more than 98% of all politicians tracked. She violated the STOCK Act twice in a single year, disclosing up to $900,000 in trades months after the legal deadline. Her husband bought up to $250,000 in Elon Musk's xAI, which quietly converted into SpaceX equity before last Friday's $2 trillion IPO. The penalty for all of this? A $200 fine. The number of Congress members ever prosecuted under the STOCK Act since it passed in 2012? Zero. And the cruelest part is this: A bill to ban congressional stock trading was introduced in January 2026. It has bipartisan support. Over 80% of American voters want it passed. But Congress is sitting on it, because the people who would have to vote yes are the same people making millions from the system staying exactly the way it is. They write the insider trading laws, they exempt themselves from enforcement, they trade on the information those laws generate, and when they get caught, they pay a fine that is basically nothing. The AI didn't discover anything Congress was hiding. It just organized what was already public into a pattern so obvious that nobody can pretend it isn't there anymore.
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Trump is giving the autocrats in Tehran $25 billion to reopen the Strait of Hormuz? Am I reading this right? reuters.com/business/energy/…
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🇮🇱🇺🇸 BREAKING: Netanyahu just told Trump Israeli forces will NOT withdraw from Lebanon, and Israel does NOT consider itself bound by the Lebanon clause in the US-Iran MoU. Directly rejecting of a core pillar of the deal. This could blow up the entire Memorandum before the ink is even dry. Source: Maariv / Writer: Oliver
🇺🇸🇮🇷 Vance about the deal with Iran: “What the president has done is created the real space to transform that region, cooperation between the Gulf Arab allies and the Israelis, and now hopefully a new era with the Iranians!" He also talked about driving down energy prices long-term and building prosperity in the Middle East. Could've been done without a war, but ok, at least there's an agreement now. Writers: Lucas, Oliver x.com/ericldaugh/status/2066…
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‘The Chosen’ has declared not to have peace, and declare they will continue to fight to the end. Cut them off @HouseDemocrats @SenateDems -not one more dollar from U.S. Taxpayers! Enough is enough! #NOTOURWAR!
🇮🇱🇮🇷🇺🇸 Israeli Finance Minister Smotrich: "We will use every tool at our disposal to topple the murderous Iranian regime. We will not allow it to become a threat on our border." This comes right after the US-Iran ceasefire deal that Israel has slammed as "bad for Israel and the free world." Smotrich is making it clear: Israel has zero intention of playing along with the Trump-brokered agreement and will keep pushing for regime change on its own. Israel obviously doesn't want peace with Iran. Their endgame is, and will always be, the total elimination of Iran. Smotrich is just ballsy enough to admit it. Writer: Jamie x.com/clashreport/status/206…
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Replying to @FurkanGozukara
LMAO Vance just admitted it out loud — the 'tough guy' Iran policy that ripped up the JCPOA, started a war, and closed the Strait of Hormuz has now circled all the way back to giving Tehran sanctions relief and a rebranded version of the same deal. Truly historic: Trump managed to turn 'no more cash for the mullahs' into 'cash for the mullahs, but this time with extra steps and dead people.' Art of the deal, baby.
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Which in the end, was a needless war, that cost US taxpayers billions, and everyone paid the price for no good damn reason. Everything Trump touches ends up costing taxpayers MORE MONEY!
🚨 LMAO! Vice President JD Vance accidentally exposes absolute humiliation for the White House. He desperately tries to defend Trump's new Iran deal, but completely admits it is just a rebranded version of Obama's JCPOA that Trump disastrously ripped up!
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Mary Coates ⚖️ retweeted
Trump and Secretary McMahon are pushing millions of student borrowers off a default cliff. They’ve gutted Federal Student Aid and buried repayment applications. This is an economic catastrophe. I’m pushing for answers.
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