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Bargaining (and Striking) for the Common Good Works!
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Bargaining (and Striking) for the Common Good Works!
Local unions in four Massachusetts communities wield the power of social justice unionism for the good of educators, students, and communities
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NEWS: Trump Spreads Unfounded Conspiracies on Tylenol, Pregnancy, and Autism
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NEWS: Trump Spreads Unfounded Conspiracies on Tylenol, Pregnancy, and Autism
The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists blasted the Administration's decision today.
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Iryna Zarutska Was Not A âWhite Womanâ
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Iryna Zarutska Was Not A âWhite Womanâ
Terrell J Starr Official is a reader-supported publication.
https://terrellstarr.substack.com/p/iryna-zarutska-was-not-a-white-woman?r=gvv2y&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
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Hit the Streets: We Need the First Amendment To Defeat ICE, Stop Gaza Genocide, and Fight for All the Rest
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Hit the Streets: We Need the First Amendment To Defeat ICE, Stop Gaza Genocide, and Fight for All the Rest
By Carl Davidson
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4 days ago
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1,800 Men Went Into Alligator Alcatraz. Only 600 Came Out?
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1,800 Men Went Into Alligator Alcatraz. Only 600 Came Out?
They were not released. They were not deported. They have simply vanished from the camp, and no one will say where they went.
https://open.substack.com/pub/dissentinbloom/p/1200-men-went-into-alligator-alcatraz?r=gvv2y&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
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Immigrant Defense is the Frontline of the Fight for Democracy
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Immigrant Defense is the Frontline of the Fight for Democracy
Fascism Rises, but Multiracial, Worker-Led Resistance Can Defeat It
https://open.substack.com/pub/liberationroad/p/immigrant-defense-is-the-frontline?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
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An Israel-Funded Campaign to Link Qatar to Campus Antisemitism
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An Israel-Funded Campaign to Link Qatar to Campus Antisemitism
ISGAP is attempting to shape policy in Washington, at a time when the Trump administration is looking to justify a broader crackdown on opposition to the war on Gaza.
https://open.substack.com/pub/dropsitenews/p/qatar-funding-campus-antisemitism-israel-isgap?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
10 days ago
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George Takei
16 days ago
The pettiest man alive.
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Trump Ripped After Celebrating Cancellation Of West Point Award Ceremony For 'WOKE' Tom Hanks
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Pentagon Official: Trump Boat Strike Was a Criminal Attack on Civilians
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Pentagon Official: Trump Boat Strike Was a Criminal Attack on Civilians
A current DoD official and many military legal experts say the U.S. attack on a boat in the Caribbean near Venezuela broke international law.
https://theintercept.com/2025/09/05/pentagon-official-trump-boat-strike-was-a-criminal-attack-on-civilians/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=The%20Intercept%20Newsletter
16 days ago
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That was exactly what I thought when I saw the picture of "Caligula" after the tournament ended.
add a skeleton here at some point
18 days ago
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Oval Office Fascism Keeps Lashing Out, Learn How To Defeat It!
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Oval Office Fascism Keeps Lashing Out, Learn How To Defeat It!
By Carl Davidson
https://open.substack.com/pub/carldavidson/p/oval-office-fascism-keeps-lashing?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
18 days ago
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âItâs Time for a National Mobilization Against Fascism
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âItâs Time for a National Mobilization Against Fascism | Common Dreams
If we do not rise up in unprecedented, unified, coordinated resistance now, it will very soon be too late.
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/national-movement-against-fascism
18 days ago
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The Associated Press
19 days ago
Thousands of protesters marched in Chicago on Saturday against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and President Donald Trumpâs plan to send National Guard troops and immigration agents to the city.
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Photos capture Chicagoansâ protest against ICE and Trumpâs intervention plans
CHICAGO (AP) â Thousands of protesters marched in Chicago on Saturday against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and President Donald Trumpâs plan to send National Guard troops and immigration agents to the city.
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Trump Deporting Russian Asylum Seekers -
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The Empty Trauma of Whiteness: How Colonialism Stole Europeâs Soul
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The Empty Trauma of Whiteness: How Colonialism Stole Europeâs Soul
Christian ZacaTecho Ortiz
https://open.substack.com/pub/christianortiz/p/the-empty-trauma-of-whiteness-how?r=gvv2y&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
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Fascists
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Fascists
Notes from a frontline factory in eastern Ukraine
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18 days ago
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ICE acquires Israeli spyware capable of hacking phones and apps
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ICE acquires Israeli spyware capable of hacking phones and apps
ICE has reactivated a $2M contract for Israeli spyware Graphite, sparking fears of civil liberties after previous cases of misuse
https://www.newarab.com/news/ice-acquires-israeli-spyware-capable-hacking-phones-and-apps
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DSA's 2025 Convention: Can We Meet the Moment?
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DSA's 2025 Convention: Can We Meet the Moment?
In the face of rising fascism, the nation's largest socialist group is torn between mass politics and sectarian paralysis
https://open.substack.com/pub/liberationroad/p/dsas-2025-convention-can-we-meet?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
22 days ago
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What a strange position. Trump is kicking our rear and you want to fabricate reasons we should go it alone? Not a winning strategy.
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23 days ago
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Trump's Labor Day Assault on American Workers
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Trump's Labor Day Assault on American Workers | Common Dreams
This self-anointed man of the working people has waged an all-out attack on the unions that make workersâ lives better, thrashing away at workersâ rights and unionsâ ability to organize.
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/trump-s-labor-day-assault-on-american-workers
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George Takei
24 days ago
This says it all.
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MAGA Congressman Caught On Hot Mic Admitting Trump Is In The Epstein FilesâAnd Whoops!
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Self-Determination for Ukraine, Not a Deal Between Trump, Putin, and European Leaders -
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24 days ago
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Chaos Builds a Path to Fascism.
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Chaos Builds a Path to Fascism.
Abolition Democracy Blocks it and Makes a Better Path
https://open.substack.com/pub/carldavidson/p/chaos-builds-a-path-to-fascism?r=gvv2y&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
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The Left and the Question of Defence, by Hanna Perekhoda â 24 August 2025
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The Left and the Question of Defence, by Hanna Perekhoda â 24 August 2025 â Left Renewal Blog
https://leftrenewal.org/articles-en/perekhoda-question-of-defence-en/
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The Fire That Will Never Die
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The Fire That Will Never Die
Poetry to Honor the 1970 Chicano Moratorium
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27 days ago
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Zinn Education Project
28 days ago
"Teaching about the March on Washington presents a series of challenges precisely because it involves counteracting sanitized textbooks & demythologizing not only the march, but also the Black Freedom Struggle." --
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#TeachTruth
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Claiming and Teaching the 1963 March on Washington
By Bill Fletcher Jr. August 28 marks the anniversary of the historic March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. Publicly associated with Dr. Kingâs famous âI Have a Dreamâ speech, this march brought mo...
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BREAKING: Denmark Summons U.S. Envoy Over Alleged Covert Ops in Greenland â Does This Brush Up Against NATOâs Article 5?
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BREAKING: Denmark Summons U.S. Envoy Over Alleged Covert Ops in Greenland â Does This Brush Up Against NATOâs Article 5?
Looks like Trump is employing Putin's ENTIRE Playbook...
https://open.substack.com/pub/deanblundell/p/breaking-denmark-summons-us-envoy?r=gvv2y&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
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The last two recessions have hit low-income families of color hard: Trumpâs economic agenda will expose millions to even more pain when the next recession strikes
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The last two recessions have hit low-income families of color hard: Trumpâs economic agenda will expose millions to even more pain when the next recession strikes
The Great Recession and the pandemic recession hit low-income families of color especially hardâpushing many into unemployment, poverty, and housing insecurity. The swift and bold policy response to t...
https://www.epi.org/publication/the-last-two-recessions-have-hit-low-income-families-of-color-hard-trumps-economic-agenda-will-expose-millions-to-even-more-pain-when-the-next-recession-strikes/
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Meet the MAGA Americans who moved to Russiaâto hilarious results
There is a genre of MAGA conservative so right wing, so brain dead, that they go through the immense hassle of moving themselves and their family to Russiaâwhere gay and transgender people ...
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/8/18/2337788/-Meet-the-MAGA-Americans-who-moved-to-Russia-to-hilarious-results
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 Can empathy lead to sin? Some conservative Christians argue it can HUH?
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Can empathy lead to sin? Some conservative Christians argue it can
Some voices on the Christian right are arguing the virtue of empathy has become a vice. Those Christians claim empathy can manipulate people into accepting what they see as sins, like abortion access ...
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The Paths That Brought Me to Marxism: A âSort Ofâ Response to Michael Albert
It is a difficult task responding my friend, Michael Albertâs recent polemic against Marxism. His lengthy look at the weaknesses of Marxism
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Alberta Separatists Say Trump Regime Offered Them $500,000,000 âLoanâ To Break Up Canada
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Alberta Separatists Say Trump Regime Offered Them $500,000,000 âLoanâ To Break Up Canada
Albertaâs separatist circuit is bragging about a half-billion-dollar âtransition loanâ they say was discussed with Trumpworld in Washington. Seditious if true...
https://open.substack.com/pub/deanblundell/p/alberta-separatists-say-trump-regime?r=gvv2y&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
about 1 month ago
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Trumpâs War on Black History: Why the Smithsonian (and Black History) Are in His Crosshairs
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Trumpâs War on Black History: Why the Smithsonian (and Black History) Are in His Crosshairs
From railing that museums dwell âon how bad slavery wasâ to threatening their funding, the White House has turned centuries of suffering into poltical theater
https://open.substack.com/pub/deanblundell/p/trumps-war-on-black-history-why-the?r=gvv2y&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
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Morning Briefing: Proud Boys Purchase Billboard Advertisement in Illinois
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Morning Briefing: Proud Boys Purchase Billboard Advertisement in Illinois
In Breese, Illinois, billboard has appeared advertising the far right violent extremist group the Proud Boys, and includes a version of Donald Trump's infamous quote: 'Stand Back Stand By.'
https://www.radicalreports.org/p/morning-briefing-proud-boys-billboard?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
about 1 month ago
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Imprisoned Palestinian leader Marwan Barghouti threatened in cell, Trump meets Putin in Alaska, and mercenary Erik Prince's plans for Haiti.
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Popular Palestinian resistance figure Marwan Barghouti faces down a sadistic threat in jail, Trump goes to Alaska to meet Putin, and mercenary Erik Princeâs plans for Haiti.
Drop Site Daily: August 15, 2025
https://open.substack.com/pub/dropsitenews/p/marwan-barghouti-trump-putin-erik-prince-haiti-israel-gaza-genocide-west-bank-prisoners?r=gvv2y&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
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Iâve Seen How the Neo-Nazi Movement Is Escalating. You Should Worry.
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Iâve Seen How the Neo-Nazi Movement Is Escalating. You Should Worry.
After unmasking extremist groups, reporter Jordan Green got a first-hand look at how the âmilitant accelerationismâ movement operates.
https://www.theassemblync.com/media/neo-nazi-militant-accelerationism-movement-north-carolina/
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Israel assassinates âvoice of Gaza,â Al Jazeera journalist Anas al-Sharif
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Israel assassinates âvoice of Gaza,â Al Jazeera journalist Anas al-Sharif
The Israeli army killed Al Jazeera correspondent Anas al-Sharif and five of his colleagues in a targeted strike on a journalistsâ tent outside al-Shifa Hospital. The attack has effectively wiped out a...
https://mondoweiss.net/2025/08/israel-assassinates-voice-of-gaza-al-jazeera-journalist-anas-al-sharif/
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Myopia on the Left: Let's Not Do the Billionaires' Work for Them
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Myopia on the Left: Let's Not Do the Billionaires' Work for Them | Common Dreams
Misguided attacks on progressive leaders like Ocasio-Cortez and Sanders are not only wrong-headedâthey are a-political.
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/intra-left-fighting-aoc-bernie-sanders
about 2 months ago
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Members of Educators Union Say Its Capitulation to ADL Betrays Workers, Students
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Members of Educators Union Say Its Capitulation to ADL Betrays Workers, Students
Member educators who oppose the Anti-Defamation Leagueâs aims plan to resist anti-Palestinian interference in schools.
https://truthout.org/articles/members-of-educators-union-say-its-capitulation-to-adl-betrays-workers-students/?utm_campaign=Truthout+Share+Buttons
about 2 months ago
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Notes on Assadism, Zionism, Fascism and Hope
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Notes on Assadism, Zionism, Fascism and Hope
Some thoughts
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about 2 months ago
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Israelâs international isolation has begun
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Israelâs international isolation has begun
U.S. and global politics surrounding Israel are shifting rapidly as the world recoils in horror at Israelâs starvation of Gaza. Here are several lessons the left should take note of.
https://mondoweiss.net/2025/08/israels-international-isolation-has-begun/
about 2 months ago
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The Killing of Awdah Hathaleen by a West Bank Settler
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The Killing of Awdah Hathaleen by a West Bank Settler
Israeli authorities are refusing to release the body of the beloved Palestinian activist while the Israeli settler who shot him walks free.
https://open.substack.com/pub/dropsitenews/p/awdah-hathaleen-killing-israeli-settler-masafer-yatta-west-bank?r=gvv2y&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
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Fascists Are Using Antisemitic Tropes to Target Other Groups
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Fascists Are Using Antisemitic Tropes to Target Other Groups
Fascists and other far right groups have found new ways to gain the benefits of antisemitism without the consequences that can come with it. This is their latest iteration.
https://open.substack.com/pub/eladnehorai/p/fascists-are-using-antisemitic-tropes?r=gvv2y&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
about 2 months ago
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The Génocidaires Can Never Rest
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The Génocidaires Can Never Rest
We must haunt them and confront them wherever they go
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about 2 months ago
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Bill Fletcher Jr
ProPublica
2 months ago
NEW: Nathan Albers once co-owned a company that schemed to hire and conceal undocumented workers. Now his company could make hundreds of millions from work on the nation's largest detention camp. âThe irony is thick,â said a former DHS official.
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His Former Company Got Caught Employing Undocumented Workers. Now Heâs Profiting Off an Immigrant Detention Camp.
Disaster Management Group is one contractor behind the nationâs largest detention camp, to be built at Fort Bliss. Itâs run by Nathan Albers, who previously co-owned a company that pleaded guilty to a...
https://www.propublica.org/article/nathan-albers-fort-bliss-immigration?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=propublica-bsky&utm_content=7-25
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The Art of the Really Stupid Deal
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The Art of the Really Stupid Deal
What the heck were the Trumpists thinking?
https://open.substack.com/pub/paulkrugman/p/the-art-of-the-really-stupid-deal?r=gvv2y&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
2 months ago
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Why MAGA Won't Bail on Trump
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Why MAGA Won't Bail on Trump
And how Speaker Mike Johnson plans to protect him from the Epstein fallout
https://open.substack.com/pub/terrymoran/p/why-maga-wont-bail-on-trump?r=gvv2y&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
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New Danger Rising: ICE Growing Beyond Anything We Had In Mind
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New Danger Rising: ICE Growing Beyond Anything We Had In Mind
By Carl Davidson
https://open.substack.com/pub/carldavidson/p/new-danger-rising-ice-growing-beyond?r=gvv2y&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
2 months ago
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Ann Coulter Wants to Kill Native Americans (So Do Some on the Left) -
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3 months ago
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From Autoworker Heaven to Immigration Hellscape
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From Autoworker Heaven to Immigration Hellscape
Fighting Trump's ethnic cleansing agend
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3 months ago
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