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Shirley Chisholm – “If they don’t give you a seat at the table, bring a folding chair.”
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Biden: "Today, an oligarchy is taking shape in America of extreme wealth, power, and influence that literally threatens our entire democracy, our basic rights and freedoms, and a fair shot for everyone to get ahead"
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FactPost
10 days ago
Gov. Pritzker: The only invasion that's occurring is because the of the Trump administration. We had ICE agents rappelling out of a military helicopter. 130 people had their doors broken down. They took innocent people out and zip tied their hands, and a number of these people were US citizens
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Denise Wheeler
13 days ago
Reuters photographer Jonathan Ernst noticed that Bondi flipped open a file during the Senate hearing and he zoomed in. Inside were her crib notes for attacking the senators. The GOP now practicing Cliff's Notes Fascism In other words, under oath Bondi was purely a performance.
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Joyce White Vance
12 days ago
Christian minister attacked by ICE agents. Waiting for the outrage from MAGA.
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
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Pastor shot in the head by ICE agents sues over First Amendment threats
David Black joins journalists and protesters in lawsuit to stop ‘pattern of extreme brutality’ from federal agents
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/ice-chicago-lawsuit-minister-shot-first-amendment-b2841941.html
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God
13 days ago
Pritzker is right. They want to normalize troops in cities so they can steal every election just like Putin does.
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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸
14 days ago
Love this. Superbly done. Please send this far and wide.
@donwinslow.bsky.social
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Chicago Sun-Times
17 days ago
In a video taken by a witness and shared with the Sun-Times, cars could be seen blocking the white, unmarked SUV before a masked agent rolled down his window and dropped the canisters. Smoke spread around the vehicle and passersby began to scream.
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Masked federal agent throws chemical irritants outside Logan Square grocery store: 'My eyes are burning'
Video taken by several witnesses captured the moments where the agent can be seen dropping a canister from a white SUV.
https://trib.al/KX0EDH2
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Aaron Rupar
17 days ago
Leavitt: "When an illegal alien goes to the emergency room, who's paying for it? The American taxpayer."
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Pete Buttigieg
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Dr. Vin Gupta
18 days ago
On Monday, RFK posted a rambling video on the HHS X account showing a series of graphs and directly stating that vaccines have had minimal impact on human health and saving lives. Today, in response, we brought our own graphs. We will not let his dangerous nonsense go unanswered.
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Dean Obeidallah
18 days ago
Trump recession coming: Report shows hiring at lowest since 2009
www.cnbc.com/2025/10/02/r...
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Report shows hiring at lowest since 2009 as economists turn to alternative data during shutdown blackout
The data points fill in some gaps on information that usually comes from the Labor Department but are delayed because of the shutdown.
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/02/report-shows-hiring-at-lowest-since-2009-as-economists-turn-to-alternative-data-during-shutdown-blackout.html
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Bill Madden
19 days ago
After Trump addressed hundreds of senior U.S. military officials in a bizarre, insulting, incoherent, and rambling speech in Virginia — for the first time in modern history, generals and admirals are questioning the sanity of the commander-in-chief. 😳👇
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'What on earth is wrong?' Analyst claims 'confused' military now asks if Trump is 'sane'
President Donald Trump addressed hundreds of senior U.S. military officials Tuesday in Virginia, speaking for more than an hour — though some critics are sounding the alarm on what appeared to be a “q...
https://tinyurl.com/bdhns76p
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#TuckFrump
30 days ago
Why conservatives hate free speech
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www.dailykos.com
Why conservatives hate free speech
https://twp.ai/4iqI4K
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The New York Times
30 days ago
Tom Homan, who was later named President Trump’s border chief, was recorded in September 2024 accepting a bag with $50,000 in cash in an undercover FBI investigation, according to people familiar with the case, which was later closed by Trump administration officials.
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Trump Justice Dept. Closed Investigation Into Tom Homan for Accepting Bag of Cash
Mr. Homan came under scrutiny after he was said to be recorded last year taking $50,000 in cash from undercover F.B.I. agents.
https://nyti.ms/46IpASJ
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Lesley Abravanel🥂🪩
about 2 months ago
Florida saw more mass shootings in 2024 than previous year, but textbook Freudian bigot DeSantis uses law that never mentioned crosswalks to erase street art in Florida
www.tallahassee.com/story/news/l...
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DeSantis uses law that never mentioned crosswalks to erase street art in Florida
There was no mention of crosswalks when a bill passed in the Legislature that's now being used to justify a crackdown on street art.
https://www.tallahassee.com/story/news/local/state/2025/09/01/desantis-crosswalk-bill-florida/85885312007/
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Congresswoman Chellie Pingree
about 2 months ago
The chaos at the CDC should alarm everyone. One former staffer said it's become a “death cult.” They’re purging health experts, undermining public trust, and jeopardizing our preparedness for future pandemics. The damage they’re doing will cause immeasurable suffering. We can’t let that happen.
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White House fires CDC director who says RFK Jr. is ‘weaponizing public health’
Susan Monarez was confirmed as the CDC’s director in July. Three top agency officials announced resignations as the Trump administration moved to oust her.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/08/27/susan-monarez-cdc-director-ousted/
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The New York Times
about 2 months ago
News Analysis: It is not clear what evidence the authorities have that John Bolton mishandled classified information, but President Trump’s efforts to punish rivals immediately stoked questions about the investigation.
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Search of Bolton’s Home Shows Uneasy Mix of Retribution and Law Enforcement
It is not clear what evidence the authorities have that John Bolton mishandled classified information, but President Trump’s efforts to punish rivals immediately stoked questions about the investigation.
https://nyti.ms/4oNqxQH
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#TuckFrump
about 2 months ago
Donald Trump Said He Told Pam Bondi 'Give Them Everything' On Epstein Files
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www.newsweek.com
Donald Trump said he told Pam Bondi 'give them everything' on Epstein files
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Afra Kroon 🇳🇱
2 months ago
@jesseduquette.bsky.social
Cartoon by Jesse Duquette.
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David Corn
2 months ago
Trump said he would end the war in 24 hours…and Putin increased the intensity of his attacks.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers
2 months ago
Inviting the former head of the KGB into your presidential limo smacks of sloppy security. It's not as if Putin is a stranger to bugging devices. And what if Trump gets an emergency military/intelligence call? Does he ask his boss, Putin, to stick his fingers in his ears?
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The New Republic
2 months ago
When Trump seized D.C., he said these forces could do “whatever the hell they want.” They took the directive seriously. According to residents, a gaggle of federal agents took a photo around a pro-immigration banner, before tearing it down and leaving a dildo in its place.
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Reuters
2 months ago
Exclusive: Trump administration weighing refugee cap of 40,000 with focus on white South Africans
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Exclusive: Trump administration weighing refugee cap of 40,000 with focus on white South Africans
Trump's focus on resettling Afrikaners could upend the precedent around the refugee program, which for decades had bipartisan support.
https://reut.rs/4lzOEQb
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Lauren Ashley Davis
2 months ago
Bondi’s order formalized the federal government’s control of DC police and directed DC Mayor Muriel Bowser and the Metropolitan Police Department to end the capital’s sanctuary city policies.
www.cnn.com/2025/08/14/p...
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DC mayor and attorney general rebuke Bondi’s order appointing emergency police commissioner | CNN Politics
Attorney General Pam Bondi on Thursday evening ordered DC’s mayor and police department to accept Terry Cole, the head of the Drug Enforcement Agency, as the district’s “emergency police commissioner”...
https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/14/politics/pam-bondi-dc-sanctuary-city-policies-emergency-police-commissioner?cid=android_app
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Negan
2 months ago
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CBS News
3 months ago
The federal government is calling off around $500 million worth of vaccine development projects that use mRNA technology, Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced Tuesday.
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RFK Jr. halts $500 million for mRNA vaccine research
HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. says the federal government is calling off around $500 million worth of vaccine development projects that use mRNA technology.
https://cbsn.ws/3J2Q8Vm
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Robert Reich
3 months ago
FEC records show Elizabeth Fago donated $1M to Trump's super PAC in April. What happened next? Three weeks later Trump pardoned her son, a nursing home executive who pleaded guilty to withholding millions from his workers' paychecks (while buying a luxury yacht). Everything is for sale.
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Edward A. Rowe
3 months ago
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Newsweek
3 months ago
Republican lawmakers have spent the past six months introducing a steady stream of bills designed to honor Donald Trump—and, in some cases, his family.
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Full list of GOP efforts to put Trump's name or face on things
https://www.newsweek.com/full-list-gop-efforts-put-trumps-name-face-things-2105146?utm_term=Autofeed&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Bluesky#Echobox=1753716533
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Robert Reich
3 months ago
Much of Trump's authoritarian power grab has been green-lit (at least temporarily) by the Supreme Court's "shadow docket." This allows justices to effectively make rulings in secret without explaining their decisions. Is it any wonder why so many do not trust the Roberts court?
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Keith Olbermann
3 months ago
With Trump's confession today that he broke with Epstein not over child rape but over Epstein hiring away his employees, a reminder Trump is on a confession jag Friday, he admitted there IS an Epstein Client List and he could reveal it
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Mueller, She Wrote
3 months ago
There’s your new ad, Dems.
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PatriotTakes 🇺🇸
3 months ago
Trump’s golf trips cost taxpayers millions. Why don’t Republicans cut those instead of the National Weather Service?
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Raw Story
3 months ago
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Trump warned by lawyer he's on the verge of 'pushing a big bomb to blow himself up'
Any thought that Donald Trump might have about issuing a pardon to convicted human sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell should be squashed immediately if he wants to have a chance of surviving the Jeffrey Epstein files firestorm according to one lawyer.During an appearance on MNBC's "The Weekend," conse...
https://bit.ly/4lhyF9n
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The Tennessee Holler
3 months ago
Endless grift.
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Mother Jones
3 months ago
He’s suing his girlfriend’s doctor for prescribing abortion pills. Could this gut access everywhere?
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He’s suing his girlfriend’s doctor for prescribing abortion pills. Could this gut access everywhere?
Texas lawyer Jonathan Mitchell is going after a California doctor, Here’s why that’s terrifying.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/07/jonathan-mitchell-texas-hes-suing-his-girlfriends-doctor-for-prescribing-abortion-pills-could-this-gut-access-everywhere/
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NBC News
3 months ago
President Trump and his aides have settled on silence as a strategy to stamp out criticism of his refusal to release files detailing the federal government's investigation of Jeffrey Epstein, according to sources familiar with the White House's thinking.
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White House tightens its grip on Jeffrey Epstein messaging
White House aides have made it clear that no one in the administration is allowed to talk about Epstein without high-level vetting as Trump attempts to change the subject.
https://nbcnews.to/46ms7Ct
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Adam Keiper
3 months ago
I know that amid all the other Trump horrors it's easy to pass this by, but can we please all pause for a moment to acknowledge how CRAZY it is that the president of the United States is baselessly accusing a predecessor of treason and threatening him with prison?
www.thebulwark.com/p/how-many-o...
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How Many Obama Arrest Threats Does It Take to Change a Storyline?
We don’t know yet, but Trump seems keen to find out.
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/how-many-obama-arrest-threats-does-it-take-change-storyline-trump-epstein-arrest
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CajunBlue 🇺🇸 🇺🇦
3 months ago
He told them he was a US citizen, that he had a SS card… it was not until a supervisor showed up that he was released. He suffered injuries from being taken down for being brown while grocery shopping.
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US citizen detained after federal agents show up at SoCal supermarket
YouTube video by ABC7
https://youtu.be/iW9m5uhvfHM
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Chris Murphy
3 months ago
There is likely no trade deal with Japan. There's no agreement to review. No text. Even in this article, the author notes that Japan hasn't even confirmed the existence of an agreement. So why report that there's a trade deal if we know Trump lies and there's no agreement?
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Trump announces trade deal with Japan
The two countries had been at an impasse on trade talks for months.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/07/22/trump-claims-new-trade-deal-with-japan-00468891
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Gail Waldby ❌👑
3 months ago
US House Speaker Johnson sees no immediate Russia sanctions action | Reuters
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/us-house-speaker-johnson-sees-no-immediate-russia-sanctions-action-2025-07-22/
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US House Speaker Johnson sees no immediate Russia sanctions action
U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Mike Johnson said on Tuesday he does not think the U.S. Congress should consider sanctions on Russia until after President Donald Trump's 50-day deadline for Moscow to end the war in Ukraine.
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/us-house-speaker-johnson-sees-no-immediate-russia-sanctions-action-2025-07-22/
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Human☮
3 months ago
Repost if you want to see an investigation into President Trump over his involvement with Jeffrey Epstein. If you believe every victim deserves to see him or any other person involved faces justice regardless of party, status or power.
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Kyle Griffin
3 months ago
Sen. Dick Durbin is demanding answers from Pam Bondi, Kash Patel, and Dan Bongino after he says his office was told that FBI agents looking through the Epstein files "were instructed to 'flag' any records in which President Trump was mentioned."
tinyurl.com/39s8rtfv
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Congressman Gabe Amo
3 months ago
Check out this quiz from New York Times to see how the 900+ page big, ugly law impacts you. *Spoiler alert: it only really pays off if you’re a whaling captain in Alaska or are ultra-wealthy
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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How Will Trump’s Big Bill Affect Your Wallet?
The wide-ranging domestic policy legislation could impact your taxes, clean energy choices, health care access and more.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/business/trump-tax-bill-personal-finances.html
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Dr. Jack Brown
3 months ago
Trump wants the world to have more Jeffrey Epsteins. There is NO other logical reason to do this. None.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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The State Department guts its office combating human trafficking
The cuts come as Trump reels from MAGA anger over sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/07/human-trafficking-state-department-jeffrey-epstein/
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Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal
3 months ago
Democrats worked to remove medical debt from credit reports — because getting cancer or going to the ER doesn’t make you financially irresponsible. A Trump judge just threw out our rule, hurting millions who have debt just from getting sick.
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Federal judge reverses rule that would have removed medical debt from credit reports
A federal judge in Texas removed a Biden-era finalized ruled by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau that would have removed medical debt from credit reports.U.S.
https://apnews.com/article/cfpb-medical-debt-credit-reports-41f212ee6b89f9902deb267d75ab8443
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The Guardian
3 months ago
US House speaker Mike Johnson calls for release of Epstein files amid backlash
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US House speaker Mike Johnson calls for release of Epstein files amid backlash
Trump has faced growing resentment over the decision of his attorney general, Pam Bondi, to withhold information Mike Johnson, speaker of the House, called for the justice department to make public documents related to the disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein, breaking with Donald Trump over an issue that has roiled the president’s rightwing base. It was a rare moment of friction between Trump and the speaker, a top ally on Capitol Hill, and came as the president faces growing backlash from conservatives who had expected him to make public everything known about Epstein, who killed himself in 2019 while in federal custody as he faced sex-trafficking charges. Continue reading...
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/15/epstein-files-republicans-mike-johnson?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=bluesky&CMP=bsky_gu
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Qasim Rashid, Esq.
3 months ago
Today the Israeli military hit a water distribution point in Nuseirat refugee camp. They murdered 6 Palestinian children & injured 17 more people. This will barely make mass headlines because Palestinian blood is expendable & the Israeli Govt is apparently exempt from international human rights law.
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Mueller, She Wrote
3 months ago
Surprise, surprise. All roads lead to Putin.
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The New Republic
3 months ago
With the stroke of a pen, Missouri Governor Mike Kehoe signed off on legislation repealing the paid sick leave provision of a ballot measure that roughly 58 percent of Missourian voters approved in November.
https://trib.al/Q8mhk0I
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Republican Governor Overturns Voters and Repeals Paid Sick Leave
Missouri Governor Mike Kehoe defied his constituents and proudly repealed paid sick leave just after it went into effect.
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