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NEW: The Justice Department just released an 800+ report on how President Joe Biden's administration weaponized the FACE Act against pro-life Americans and Americans of faith. It's worse than we thought. 🧵

This kid walked right up to the Hollywood legend Sylvester Stallone and delivered the full Rocky speech in person. Pretty wholesome. (via RoKnowsWrestling)

She is Dr. Aida Rostami, a 36-year-old Iranian physician who was secretly treating wounded protesters in Tehran's Ekbatan neighborhood and other western districts during the nationwide Woman, Life, Freedom uprising sparked by Mahsa Amini's death in custody. After tending to several injured people and realizing she needed more supplies like sterile gauze, she left to buy them. She called her mother from Chamran Hospital earlier that evening, asking if she needed anything on her way home. She never arrived. The next day, police contacted her family claiming she had died in a "car accident" (some reports mention a fall from a bridge or overpass). They directed the family to collect her body from the forensics office. What they found instead was undeniable evidence of extreme brutality: a smashed face, broken arms/hands, fractured shoulders, severe bruising on the lower torso (with some accounts indicating signs of sexual assault), and her left eye completely enucleated (gouged out). The official forensics report vaguely cited death from being "hit by a hard object," but medical examiners reportedly told the family privately that they had been ordered to conceal the real cause that she had been tortured and killed by security forces. Her family refused demands to appear on state television and falsely claim it was an accident or suicide. Aida is one of the thousand woman who was killed by brutal anti-women Khameini regime