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Trump proposes tyrannical, extreme policy proposals for a second term in terrifying interview
Donald Trump sat down with TIME Magazine to give two interviews in which he laid out his plans for America should he weasel/cheat his way back to the White House, and they are worse than anything we could have feared. Trump casually proposed using the military to hunt down illegal immigrants and put them in concentration camps, floated the idea of political violence should he lose the 2024 election ("If we don't win, you know, it depends"), and made it clear he would stand back and allow red states to prosecute women for getting abortions ("I think they might do that"). It was beyond obvious before, but there no longer can be any shred of doubt about how high the stakes of this election are. Bodily autonomy, the rule of law, the wellbeing of millions of hard-working people unfortunate enough to have been born on the wrong side of an arbitrary line on a map, our actual democracy — all of these things are on the chopping block if Trump manages to make it back into the White House.

Take Action: Demand Clarence Thomas recuse himself from Trump’s disqualification case!

VIDEO OF THE DAY: Jamie Raskin drops worst news on Trump
Democratic Rep. Jamie Raskin absolutely obliterated the rightwing fallacy that as commander-in-chief, the president has both the power to do whatever he wants and absolute immunity from any legal consequences for criminal actions...which could spell disaster for Trump at his last-ditch Supreme Court case.

Take Action: Tell the Biden administration to ban deep sea mining now!

Supreme Court crosses the line in Trump immunity hearing
Community Change Action The right-wing extremists on the Supreme Court appear set to give Donald Trump immunity from prosecution, putting our democracy at risk and undermining the justice system which holds our nation together. Community Change Action is hard at work mobilizing Americans in every state to let the Supreme Court know this is beyond unacceptable. Will you chip in to fuel their movement and fight to hold Trump accountable?

Trump held in contempt for violating gag order in porn star hush money trial
Mr. Incapable-of-showing-restraint-for-one-second-even-during-a-freaking-criminal-trial finally provoked the ire of Judge Merchan, who's clearly had enough of Trump constantly violating his gag order. Merchan fined Trump $9,000 and ordered him to delete the offending posts from Truth Social, which Trump eventually, begrudgingly did. Merchan bitterly complained that New York law prevents him from fining Trump more but ended the hearing by warning the disgraced ex-president that he "must therefore consider whether in some instances, jail may be a necessary punishment." It's definitely necessary. How many times can the serially indicted cult leader thumb his nose at the law before seeing REAL consequences?

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Biden administration moves to ease US marijuana restrictions
In a very, very, very long-awaited move, the Biden team has announced plans to move marijuana from a Schedule I to a Schedule III drug, clearing the last regulatory hurdle for a major policy change. It would recognize the medical uses of marijuana, finally admit that cannabis has less potential for abuse than other drugs, and pave the way for the legal cannabis industry to access the US banking system. Now it's time to legalize it on a federal level. Puff, puff, pass!

65-year-old professor hospitalized after brutal arrest at Palestinian human rights rally in St. Louis
Shocking video shows the St. Louis police brutally abusing a 65-year-old Southern Illinois University Edwardsville history professor so badly that the victim, Steven Tamari, was hospitalized with multiple broken ribs. Tamari said he was "body slammed and crushed by the weight of several St. Louis County Police officers and then dragged across campus by the police. As a result of police brutality, I am now in the hospital with multiple broken ribs and a broken hand." One doctor told Tamari he is lucky to be alive, he said: "My lungs could have been punctured and I could have died on the ground as they abused me." There needs to be a full investigation into the SLPD for this appalling and entirely unnecessary display of violence towards an old man standing up for human rights — and a general reassessment of American policing at large, as this is anything but an isolated incident.

New York police have cleared Hamilton Hall and the encampment at Columbia University
After students occupied Hamilton Hall, Columbia University administration called in the NYPD, which deployed hundreds of officers and an armored vehicle to forcibly remove the protesters from the building. "Myself and many other students have just felt horror seeing the swiftness with which the NYPD came and deployed themselves onto our campus," said one Columbia student, who didn't give her name due to concerns about reprisal from the university. The students were charged with burglary in the third degree, criminal mischief, and trespassing.

Take Action: Tell President Biden to NOT send the National Guard to college campuses!

Trump suddenly faces NEW punishment
No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen: Uh oh.

Netanyahu vows to invade Rafah "with or without a deal" as ceasefire talks with Hamas continue
Israeli Prime Minister and regular-criminal-turned-war-criminal Benjamin Netanyahu vowed to invade the southern Gazan city of Rafah, even if officials reached a hostage release deal with Hamas, conveniently timed just as US Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrived to help oversee badly needed and long-overdue negotiations. Netanyahu's words effectively remove any incentive for Hamas to make a deal and make it clear that the safety and well-being of the hostages are not his top priority. More than 1.5 million people are sheltering in Rafah, many of them having fled the indiscriminate onslaught of the IDF, which has killed more than 34,000 people in Gaza, including more than 13,000 children. Israeli airstrikes have already hit the beseiged city; the most recent strike killed 22 people, including six women and five children. The US officially opposes any invasion of Rafah until "Israel presents a credible plan for evacuating and protecting the estimated 1.5 million people seeking shelter there," but nothing we have seen so far indicates that the Biden administration is willing to exercise the leverage required to halt Netanyahu's current plans.

Mob of 200 pro-Israeli supporters violently attacked Palestinian protest at UCLA
Pro-Israeli counterprotesters attacked a makeshift anti-war encampment on UCLA's campus yesterday, screaming "Second Nakba!" — a bone-chilling reference to the mass displacement and dispossession of Palestinians during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war. Aerial footage showed counterprotesters wielding sticks and poles to attack wooden boards being held up as a ramshackle barricade to protect pro-Palestinian protesters, some holding placards or umbrellas. At least one firework was thrown into the camp. It remains to be seen whether this appalling behavior from pro-Israel protesters will provoke a fraction of the hand-wringing, pearl-clutching, tut-tutting, and general hysteria that the people protesting the slaughter of 34,000 Palestinians has triggered.

Tyson Foods dumps millions of pounds of toxic pollutants into US rivers and lakes
Nitrogen, phosphorus, chloride, oil, and cyanide are among the 371 million pounds of pollutants released into American waterways by just 41 meat processing plants in five years. According to research by the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS), the contaminants were dispersed in 87 billion gallons of wastewater — which also contains blood, bacteria, and animal feces – and released directly into streams, rivers, lakes, and wetlands relied on for drinking water, fishing, and recreation. The water pollution from Tyson, a Fortune 100 company and the world’s second largest meat producer, was spread across 17 states but about half the contaminants were dumped into streams, rivers, lakes, and wetlands in Nebraska, Illinois, and Missouri. The EPA and the Biden administration needs to take immediate and decisive action to punish Tyson for its willful polluting and poisoning of the environment and pay for the massive cleanup.