The Mean Progressive
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I’m mean to fascists. Otherwise, I’m lovely.
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Rachel Maddow
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"The Trump Administration plans to abruptly eliminate as many as 35,000 health care positions at the Dept of Veterans Affairs this month... "The cuts come after a reorganization effort already resulted in the loss of almost 30,000 V.A. employees this year..."
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VA plans to abruptly eliminate tens of thousands of health care jobs
Strains on the Veterans Affairs system could grow with the elimination of as many as 35,000 mostly unfilled health care positions, including doctors and nurses.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/12/13/va-veterans-affairs-job-cuts-trump/
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Rachel Maddow
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“There’s power in numbers, and now that people have seen we’ve successfully stopped abductions, I hope they can get out there too...”
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‘There’s power in numbers’: New Yorkers are banding together to protect street vendors from ICE
With ICE targeting vendors and fear rising, community groups are organising fast to keep New Yorkers working on the streets safe
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/12/new-york-street-vendors-ice-national-guard
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Taniel
about 3 hours ago
CONFIRMED: Progressive newcomer Alejandra Salinas has won an at-large seat on the Houston city council, beating moderate former councilmember Dwight Boykins. (Campaign was rocked earlier this year when Boykins said his website platform was generated by AI after Salinas accused him of plagiarism.)
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The Tennessee Holler
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“It’s a made up term, ‘AFFORDABILITY’ — the economy’s strong. Everyone’s fine, from the billionaires all the way down to the poor, poor millionaires who we’re praying for every night.”
#SNL
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Rachel Maddow
about 3 hours ago
"The virus can lead to brain swelling, which can cause lasting damage, including blindness, deafness and intellectual disabilities..."
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Rachel Maddow
about 5 hours ago
"A second agent then joins them and appears to help restrain him, who can be heard repeating 'I’m a citizen' and screaming. Several people then come into the hallway from outside and begin filming the interaction and whistling before the agents pull him outside..."
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This US citizen went on his lunch break and ended up in a chokehold by a masked federal agent and detained, video shows | CNN
Mubashir had just stepped outside into the snowy Minneapolis winter weather to take his lunch break when he says he saw a masked federal officer running toward him “at full speed.”
https://www.cnn.com/2025/12/13/us/ice-minneapolis-us-citizen
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Congresswoman Sarah McBride
about 6 hours ago
2/ I'm praying for the families of those killed and all those injured and impacted by this senseless act of gun violence. It doesn't have to be this way in America.
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Taniel
about 6 hours ago
what left victories in local elections can mean: local officials in different cities feeling empowered by each other
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Taniel
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2/ And in the mayoral runoff in Pflugerville, the Dem-backed candidate Doug Weiss leads 55% to 45% so far. These are the two elections on my guide of December races:
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More when we know the final results!
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Taniel
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Election returns are coming in from Texas (yup, it’s Election night). 1/ In Houston’s at-large city council race, progressive newcomer Alejandra Salinas leads the more moderate former councilmember looking for a comeback, 57% to 43% with all early and mail in.
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Rachel Maddow
about 10 hours ago
"They said they weren’t sure why ICE would want to build a facility so close to a community so opposed to it. "Asked about the 'possibility of local protests or road blockages,' the government told them, 'I would not count on local authorities for support'...”
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ICE Wants to Build an Oregon Detention Facility. Contractors Say Construction Plans Are Alarming.
“How many of their own standards are they going to waive away?” one contractor told NOTUS.
https://www.notus.org/immigration/ice-oregon-detention-facility-detainees-coast-guard
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Phil Williams
2 days ago
Thanks for amplifying my latest hate investigation, Rachel. Hope you will also check out this recent report, as well!
youtu.be/pU3GJwNadeE?...
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Marc Elias
4 days ago
🚨BREAKING: More than 300,000 Missourians have signed a petition demanding that the gerrymander be put to a statewide referendum, advocacy organization People Not Politicians announced as it delivered those signatures to the state government Tuesday.
www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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300,000 Missouri Voters Sign Petition To Put GOP Gerrymander to Statewide Vote
Read more here.
https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/300000-missouri-voters-sign-petition-to-put-gop-gerrymander-to-statewide-vote/
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MaddowBlog
4 days ago
Has your member of Congress been exercising their right to inspect ICE detention facilities? Your state representative?
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David DeWitt
5 days ago
Survivors of sexual abuse at the hands of a former Ohio State University doctor protested outside the school’s Board of Trustees meeting this past Thursday
ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/12/08/s...
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Strauss survivors protest outside Ohio State Trustees meeting • Ohio Capital Journal
Survivors of sexual abuse at the hands of a former Ohio State University doctor protested outside the school’s Board of Trustees meeting Thursday.
https://ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/12/08/strauss-survivors-protest-outside-ohio-state-trustees-meeting/
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Ron Filipkowski
6 days ago
Update on one of the 29 wars Trump says he personally ended.
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Rachel Maddow
6 days ago
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Marc Elias
6 days ago
Jonathan Turley is obsessed with me to the point that it's creepy. I suppose I can't expect more from a guy who is essentially just Mike Lindell with tenure.
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The Guardian
6 days ago
Look again at the Nuzzi affair. Because when our politics and media are so debased, the joke’s on us | Nesrine Malik
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Look again at the Nuzzi affair. Because when our politics and media are so debased, the joke’s on us | Nesrine Malik
There is a bread and circuses feel to this scandal. A wise public would see red flags; instead it sees entertainment, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/dec/08/olivia-nuzzi-rfk-politics-media-degradation?utm_term=Autofeed&CMP=bsky_gu&utm_medium=&utm_source=Bluesky#Echobox=1765174085
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JJ in DC
6 days ago
“Massport owes the Commonwealth information about these operations, and the fact that they lied…shows that they are afraid of public reaction”
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Local activist catches Massport in ICE-related lie
Emails between Massport and an airfield operator at Hanscom show Massport has gotten advanced notice of ICE flights out of Hanscom. Massport has repeatedly denied getting such notice when asked.
https://lexobserver.org/2025/11/12/lexington-activist-catches-massport-in-ice-related-lie/
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Phil Lewis
6 days ago
New Mexico launched a state pilot program offering monthly $500 payments to teens who are homeless, to stay in school “When you invest in people, they respond”
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Rachel Maddow
7 days ago
"The group rallied amid frigid conditions at the Target store on East Lake Street, alleging it allowed agents to stage raids in the parking lot. 'You cannot celebrate our communities on your commercials while letting ICE stalk them in your parking lot'...”
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Rachel Maddow
6 days ago
"As masked agents dragged the woman from her car, wrestled her to the ground and forced handcuffs on her, she yelled, 'I’m a US citizen. Please help me! This is unfair. Why are you doing this to me?' She was wearing scrubs and appeared to be on her way to work."
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Woman forcefully detained in Keys was driving ‘illegal’ boyfriend’s car, feds say
The woman in medical scrubs, who was a U.S. citizen, was yanked from her car and wrestled to the ground by federal immigration agents in a Key Largo traffic stop Wednesday before she was released.
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/immigration/article313401263.html#storylink=cpy
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Rachel Maddow
6 days ago
"The small figures huddled together at Miami's airport carried backpacks, stuffed animals and suitcases. One wore a silver cross necklace. Families of the travelers – ages 3 to 15 – have been torn apart this year by Trump's deportation campaign..."
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‘A sad, cruel moment’: 58 Florida children leaving US amid parent deportations
“The only losers are the children.”
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/immigration/article313401512.html#storylink=cpy
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I’d apologize for being obnoxious but that’d be a lie. I’m not sorry. I’m just pissed. Anyway. Please refer to the 17,452 times I warned that we were going to become junior members of the axis.
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JJ in DC
7 days ago
🧊✈️ SOUTH AMERICA ⛓️🌎 👉 An Eastern 777 departs Louisiana to transport chained humans to Bogotá 🇨🇴
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ProPublica
7 days ago
Jimmie Duncan walked out of prison and into his parents’ arms after 27 years on death row. He spent Thanksgiving with his family, then celebrated his 57th birthday. “We thank God for Jimmie coming home,” his stepmom said. But Duncan's journey to freedom is far from over. W/
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A Death Row Inmate Was Released on Bail After His Conviction Was Overturned. Louisiana Still Wants to Execute Him.
Months after a judge tossed out his 1998 murder conviction, Jimmie Duncan is free on bail. But prosecutors have asked the Louisiana Supreme Court to reinstate the death penalty for Duncan, even as the...
https://www.propublica.org/article/jimmie-duncan-louisiana-death-row-inmate-released?utm_campaign=propublica-sprout&utm_content=1765080005&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky
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The Tennessee Holler
8 days ago
FEED KIDS, BILL: “24+ county mayors across Tennessee sign a letter urging @GovBillLee to opt into the federally-funded food program for school-aged children, Summer EBT, before time runs out.” Stop 🛑 normalizing 🛑 suffering 😳 Full story:
www.wate.com/news/tenness...
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Ohio Capital Journal
8 days ago
A bipartisan group of U.S. lawmakers is pressing Attorney General Pam Bondi for a briefing this week to review the contents of the Epstein files ahead of the Justice Department’s legally binding public release date later this month
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Lawmakers press for Epstein files briefing, as Dems release photos of his private island • Ohio Capital Journal
WASHINGTON — A bipartisan group of U.S. lawmakers is pressing Attorney General Pam Bondi for a briefing this week to review the contents of the Epstein files ahead of the Justice Department’s legally…
https://ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/12/04/repub/lawmakers-press-for-epstein-files-briefing-as-dems-release-photos-of-his-private-island/
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ProPublica
8 days ago
📽️ WATCH: As her health declined during a high-risk pregnancy, Tierra Walker asked doctors for an abortion. They assured her she didn’t need to worry. Then she died of preeclampsia. Listen to her aunt Latanya Walker recount Tierra's story. More:
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The Tennessee Holler
8 days ago
INCREDIBERRY: "It's kind of hard to convince people you're at war with drug traffickers while pardoning drug traffickers… It makes perfect sense if you don't think about it."
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Everyone clap your hands and celebrate! George has been awarded the IHOP Peace Prize (which is very much a thing - like the FIFA prize)! He’s not just the handsomest boy in the world who gets stuck in mommy’s delivery bag, he’s bringing world peace.
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The Tennessee Holler
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Kimberley Johnson
8 days ago
It's very upsetting to donald that we keep posting these humiliating photos of him decaying in front of us. He's very angry about it. He wants us to stop.
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Acyn
8 days ago
Biden: So, folks, that's my message to all of us today, to all who love our country, to all of us are dismayed by the present state of the union: it's time to get up, get up and fight back. Get up. Continue to fight. What's the fight all about? Protecting the constitution.
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Prism
9 days ago
BREAKING: Trump administration plans to end prison rape protections for trans & intersex people, memo says. A DOJ memo says certain standards under the Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) do not align with Trump’s Jan. 20 anti-trans executive order,
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Trump administration plans to end prison rape protections for trans and intersex people
A Department of Justice memo says certain standards under the Prison Rape Elimination Act do not align with Trump’s executive order
https://prismreports.org/2025/12/04/prison-rape-elimination-act-trans-intersex-trump-doj/
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19thnews
9 days ago
Across the country, incarcerated women, trans and nonbinary people are punished for having periods. Formerly incarcerated people have reported male correctional staff and supervisors being oblivious to how menstruation works.
https://bit.ly/48RIOq2
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Punished for bleeding: How periods in prison become a trap
Many incarcerated women and trans people are forced to choose between maintaining their dignity and health — or facing penalties.
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Christopher Webb
9 days ago
Wow! The Supreme Court basically just said, if you want to do racial gerrymandering, have at it. Let’s be clear, what Texas did was racial gerrymandering, plain and simple. SCOTUS just opened the floodgates.
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Ashton Pittman
11 days ago
Please help us close out
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strong. Our journalism is 100% paywall free at the Mississippi Free Press. So we really count on y'all to donate to support our nonprofit newsroom. And today is the best time to give because everything you donate is double-matched!
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Ashton Pittman
11 days ago
Please help us at the Mississippi Free Press close out
#GivingNewsDay
strong. Our journalism is 100% paywall free at Mississippi Free Press. So we really count on y'all to donate to support our nonprofit newsroom. Thanks for your support! Give here:
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Give Now to Grow MFP Journalism in 2025!
Help us grow our newsroom in Mississippi and our systemic reporting to make a difference for our home state and beyond.
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Taniel
11 days ago
TN07 is a story about gerrymandering: the GOP cracked Nashville into 3 districts when it redrew the 2022 map, destroying the Dem seat there. Fast-forward: a section of Nashville, which just 5 years ago had a Dem representative, is now voting Dem by huge margins but it's been designed to not matter.
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Jenny Cohn
11 days ago
Please read to the end. This kind of blew my own mind.
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Taniel
11 days ago
First counties that are done in TN: —Wayne: Van Epps wins it by 70%. (Green had won it by 74%.) —Decatur: Van Epps wins it by 65%. (It was Green by 65%.) —Perry: Van Epps (R) wins it by 55%. (It was Green by 63%.) Early vote was much less red in each. This is really not enough for Dems.
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Taniel
11 days ago
Annnd the red shift has begun in TN. Perry County was +41% for the GOP in the early vote, but now +51%. Hickman County went from +42% GOP to +47% GOP.
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Senator Ed Markey
11 days ago
In April, I visited the ICE detention facility in Basile, LA, and heard directly from women detained there. We need answers from the Trump admin about reports of inhumane conditions, medical neglect, and miscarriages at Basile. Pregnant women deserve dignity, not cruelty.
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Jenny Cohn
11 days ago
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Rep. Aftyn Behn
12 days ago
TODAY IS THE DAY! GET OUT AND VOTE. Polls are open 7 AM - 7 PM WE GOT THIS!!!!!!
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Judd Legum
12 days ago
As Jared Kushner prepares to meet with Putin today on behalf of Trump, REMEMBER: After taking billions from the Saudis and other foreign governments, Kushner explicitly said he would not have a foreign policy role in this administration.
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Ron Filipkowski
12 days ago
Pete Hegseth on Sept 3 talking about the strike on boats where 2 survivors were later killed in a second strike: “I watched it live.”
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Charles Johnson
12 days ago
These racist throwback creatures are flying around the world in their luxury private jets, treated like movie stars everywhere, billions of dollars at their disposal, and they’re absolutely drunk with power and unearned wealth. Do I need to add “seems bad?”
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