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ACLU
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President Trump's sanctions against the International Criminal Court are preventing Americans from helping the court prosecute the gravest international crimes. Our clients are suing the Trump administration because the First Amendment protects speech that aids the ICC's work.
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How sanctions imposed by Trump are taking a toll on the International Criminal Court
The International Criminal Court, or ICC, only intervenes when national courts can't or won't prosecute crimes like genocide and crimes against humanity. But after the Trump administration sanctioned several members of the court this year, Americans trying to prosecute some of the world's worst crimes at the ICC are discovering those sanctions are preventing them from doing that. Kira Kay reports.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/how-sanctions-imposed-by-trump-are-taking-a-toll-on-the-international-criminal-court
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ProPublica
about 2 months ago
Internal documents and former company executives revealed how Cigna doctors rejected patients’ claims without opening their files. “We literally click and submit,” one former company doctor said. (Published March 2023 w/
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How Cigna Saves Millions by Having Its Doctors Reject Claims Without Reading Them
Internal documents and former company executives reveal how Cigna doctors reject patients’ claims without opening their files. “We literally click and submit,” one former company doctor said.
https://www.propublica.org/article/cigna-pxdx-medical-health-insurance-rejection-claims?utm_campaign=propublica-sprout&utm_content=1763087402&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky
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ProPublica
about 2 months ago
Like the Koch brothers and other conservative billionaires, Dunn and Wilks want to slash regulations and taxes. Their endgame, however, is more radical: not just to limit the government but also to steer it toward Christian rule. (Published Oct. 2024)
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A Pair of Billionaire Preachers Built the Most Powerful Political Machine in Texas. That’s Just the Start.
Tim Dunn and Farris Wilks are poised to take their Christian nationalist agenda nationwide.
https://www.propublica.org/article/tim-dunn-farris-wilks-texas-christian-nationalism-dominionism-elections-voting?utm_campaign=propublica-sprout&utm_content=1763092807&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky
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NYCLU
about 2 months ago
"When you’re choosing between groceries and a cellular plan, personal internet access isn’t a given—and that makes rebuilding your life nearly impossible." In our modern lives, wifi isn't a luxury - it's a necessity. New York must prioritize providing wifi to people staying in shelters.
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Opinion: Wi-Fi Isn't a Luxury - City Limits
"Every step we need to take to get out of the shelter system involves using the internet to access resources, apply for jobs, and submit rental applications. You might think shelters would provide us ...
https://citylimits.org/opinion-wi-fi-isnt-a-luxury/
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Qasim Rashid, Esq.
about 2 months ago
Vote out Schumer, Gillibrand, and every Establishment Corporate funded Democrat. They've failed us repeatedly and have no idea how to lead. The Democratic Party will either die or transform into new leadership. It cannot survive in its current state.
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HarBooYa
about 2 months ago
100%. This is his handy work.
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Qasim Rashid, Esq.
about 2 months ago
More Senate Democrats folded to let Trump gut our healthcare than House Republicans folded to release the Epstein files. This is example of why we can't have nice things.
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Qasim Rashid, Esq.
about 2 months ago
AOC needs to primary Schumer.
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Mother Jones
about 2 months ago
Zohran Mamdani was elected mayor of New York City on Tuesday, defeating Andrew Cuomo for the second time in five months and capping a stunning rise from obscurity to the helm of the nation’s largest city.
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Zohran Mamdani drags the Democratic Party into the future
This was a local race with national implications, whether the party's leaders liked it or not.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/11/zohran-mamdani-wins-mayor-new-york-city-nyc-cuomo-democratic-party-schumer-jeffries-kicking-dragging-future-silwa/
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NYCLU
2 months ago
btw 👇
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LorennaCleary.bsky.social
2 months ago
I spent the last hour on the phone with my son who’s prepping for his trip here: “You won’t find them in my town but you might run into them in Columbus. Keep your head down. They’re grabbing people for yelling. Be invisible, son.” My son: “They really are Gestapo, aren’t they?” “Yes. They are.”
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Corey O'Neill
2 months ago
Speaking of SNAP:
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Christopher Webb
2 months ago
This is such a great callout… Does your Christian church have a plan to help the community when SNAP benefits don’t go out in November? If not, you’re at the wrong church.
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Chris Morran
2 months ago
🚨 JOURNALISM JOB ALERT 🚨 Attention, emerging photojournalists!
@propublica.org
is looking for our latest photojournalism fellow. It's a two-year deal with full salary and benefits. Deadline to apply is Dec. 1. All the details and application here👇
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Photojournalism Fellowship
New York City, United States
https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/propublica/jobs/4607550006?gh_src=ovm8p2356us
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Senator Bernie Sanders
2 months ago
Here’s what’s at stake in the shutdown: If Republicans get their way, 50,000 Americans will die unnecessarily every year. 15 million will lose their health care. 20 million will see their premiums double. All so they can give a trillion dollar tax break to the 1%.
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Angry American Guy
2 months ago
The article has contact information for the various companies and individuals involved if you want to tell them how abhorrent it is to tear down the WH.
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Angry American Guy
2 months ago
This is an important reminder that we are in fact the majority.
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ACLU
2 months ago
Spotted on our way to court to challenge President Trump’s targeting of Mahmoud Khalil for his protected speech. President Trump thinks he can disregard our rights guaranteed by the First Amendment — we’re here to remind him he cannot. 📍Philadelphia, PA
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Jacobin
2 months ago
United Auto Workers president Shawn Fain lays out the union’s vision for rewriting trade rules, raising wages across North America, and challenging the race to the bottom.
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Shawn Fain: “Solidarity Doesn’t Stop at the Border”
United Auto Workers president Shawn Fain lays out the union’s vision for rewriting trade rules, raising wages across North America, and challenging the race to the bottom.
https://jacobin.com/2025/10/shawn-fain-solidarity-doesnt-stop-at-the-border?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign&utm_content=ap_kn4g5bhjkx
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Angry American Guy
2 months ago
This kind of thread is important for people to see. While shit is bad, we aren't losing on the grand scale. We will make it through this regime and the data bears this out.
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God
2 months ago
Thou shalt not support a man who bulldozes the White House to build himself a golden ballroom whilst the government is shut down because he doesn’t want the financial records tying him to Jeffrey Epstein to come out.
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Damn Trump For Destroying The White House
Imagine their reaction if Obama had done this.
https://www.thegodpodcast.com/p/damn-trump-for-destroying-the-white
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Mother Jones
2 months ago
“When they come for one of us, they come for all of us. We stand with them.” The federal workers who showed up at “No Kings” are not the villains in this story.
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The federal workers who showed up at "No Kings" are not the villains in this story
A shutdown, mass firings, political hacks aiming to traumatize them: It's been a rough year for dedicated civil servants.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/10/federal-workers-no-kings-protest-russell-vought-mass-firings-layoffs/
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ACLU
2 months ago
Military troops shouldn't be policing our communities.
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Jacobin
2 months ago
As Washington shuts down and safety nets vanish, Donald Trump is sending billions to rescue Argentina’s far-right government. Argentine pensioners, driven into poverty by Javier Milei’s cuts, are in the streets demanding survival.
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Donald Trump Is Bailing Out Javier Milei’s Austerity Regime
As Washington shuts down and safety nets vanish, Donald Trump is sending billions to rescue Argentina’s far-right government. Argentine pensioners, driven into poverty by Javier Milei’s cuts, are in the streets demanding survival.
https://jacobin.com/2025/10/argentina-milei-trump-bailout-austerity?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign&utm_content=ap_dhk3r4ax5u
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NYCLU
2 months ago
We're in court today to ensure the Trump admin cannot re-detain or deport our client, Mahmoud Khalil, as punishment for his protected speech. Ideas are not illegal. No administration should be able to weaponize immigration law or unilaterally incarcerate people for sharing opinions they don't like.
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Audrey Dutton
3 months ago
Schools in South Carolina recently sent home unvaccinated kids, to stem a growing measles outbreak. Turns out 5 of them were infected and, if they'd been at school, could've unwittingly infected their classmates for days. That kind of precaution is now illegal in Idaho.
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Idaho Banned Vaccine Mandates. Activists Want to Make It a Model for the Country.
The Idaho Medical Freedom Act makes it illegal to require anyone to take a vaccine or receive “medical intervention.” Leslie Manookian, the activist behind the law, hopes to make it a “societal norm” ...
https://www.propublica.org/article/idaho-vaccine-bill-medical-freedom-act-maha
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani
3 months ago
Shubh Deepavali! Wishing everyone a very happy Diwali. Across our city, families are lighting diyas and celebrating the triumph of light over darkness and hope over despair. New York shines brighter tonight because of the people who bring their light and traditions home.
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ACLU
3 months ago
In 1967, we represented legendary drag queen Sir Lady Java when the LAPD threatened to arrest the owner of the club where she danced. This case was just one small part of her lifelong advocacy of queer expression. We carry her legacy with us today as we defend our communities in joy and style.
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Mother Jones
3 months ago
“No actual plan”: Why the ceasefire does not mean peace
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“No actual plan”: Why the ceasefire does not mean peace
"It is also being claimed that we have a historic peace deal. That is absolutely fictitious.”
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/10/ceasefire-israel-hamas-peace-will-war-end-hostages-release-daniel-levy-interview/
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Senator Bernie Sanders
3 months ago
In the middle of all Trump’s distractions, pay attention to the fundamental issue: While the richest people are getting richer, tens of millions of people are struggling to pay for rent & groceries. Now 15 million Americans are going to be thrown off health care. Unacceptable.
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Shutdown Day 20 | Sen. Bernie Sanders
YouTube video by Senator Bernie Sanders
https://youtu.be/7Sz_liFrVug?si=EOtPhVf5cFT859s-
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Mother Jones
3 months ago
The official voice of the US government is cruel, gross, and weird. What is that doing to us?
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The official voice of the US government is cruel, gross, and weird. What is that doing to us?
Joking memes about imprisonment, deportation, and death by alligator are designed to radicalize and desensitize.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/08/trump-administration-propaganda/
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Steve Hofstetter
3 months ago
Shows in Charlotte, Huntington WV, Columbus GA, Augusta, Memphis, Tulsa, OKC, Manchester TN, Little Rock, San Antonio, Bentonville, Chattanooga, Greenville, and more. Tickets on my website, as always.
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Steve Hofstetter
3 months ago
I know No Kings was a success because MAGA has spent the last 48 hours desperately trying to convince us it was a failure.
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Caitlin Kelly
3 months ago
"Current and former national security officials…describe the legions of masked immigration officers operating in near-total anonymity on the orders of the president as the crossing of a line that had long set the US apart from the world’s most repressive regimes."
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
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How Trump is Building a Violent, Shadowy Federal Police Force
Trump’s DHS appointees have dismantled civil rights guardrails, protected agents’ anonymity and encouraged them to wear masks, threatened groups that stood in their way, and overwhelmed legal challeng...
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-dhs-ice-secret-police-civil-rights-unaccountable
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani
3 months ago
The program pairs students living in shelters with school staff, who hold daily check-ins with children and weekly meetings with their parents.
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Mamdani education plan would focus on helping NYC homeless students
Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic front-runner in the New York City mayoral race, said Wednesday he wants to double the size of a program for homeless students at public schools in a plan shared exclu…
https://www.nydailynews.com/2025/10/08/mamdani-education-plan-would-focus-on-helping-nyc-homeless-students/
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani
3 months ago
The scale of the homelessness crisis among the youngest New Yorkers is staggering. We have to tackle it head on. In addition to building significantly more affordable housing and bringing down the cost of living, I'll double funding for "Every Child and Family Is Known."
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154,000 New York City Students Were Homeless Last Year, a Record Number
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/nyregion/homeless-students-new-york-record-number.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
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Dan Friedman
3 months ago
"We believe that the president is not a monarch...We believe he has no more business dispatching troops to Portland or Chicago or Los Angeles than King George had dispatching troops to Lexington.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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I returned to the site of the original "No Kings" protest
A letter from Lexington’s Battle Green.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/10/i-returned-to-the-site-of-the-original-no-kings-protest/
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Angry American Guy
3 months ago
Tell your coworkers how great it was to protest, hook up with your local indivisible chapter, organize in your own communities. Protests aren't the end, they are just the beginning. We can have a better country, but nobody is going to give it to us, each of us has a responsibility to each other.
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Angry American Guy
3 months ago
I know how depressing it is to see our government dismantled, but it does mean that we get to build it right this time. A blank slate offers so much more freedom, and we need to be fighting for that future every single day. We need to do the real work now. 1/2
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Mother Jones
3 months ago
“I tried to get a Portland frog outfit and they were sold out until November!” Frogs, axolotls, and at least one giant pink hippo made its way through Manhattan on Saturday, alongside thousands of others, part of the nationwide “No Kings” rallies. Follow for more No Kings coverage!
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“I tried to get a Portland frog outfit and they were sold out until November!” Frogs, axolotls, and a hippo take Manhattan to deflate Trump’s “antifa” slur.
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Frogs, axolotls, and a rhino take Manhattan to deflate Trump’s “antifa” slur.
“I tried to get a Portland frog outfit and they were sold out until November!"
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/10/no-kings-nyc-inflatable-antifa-trump-video/
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NGaines
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This is from Albany NY
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Denise Wheeler
3 months ago
No Kings protests outside of the US were massive today. 👍🔥
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ACLU
3 months ago
We won’t back down from the fight to protect our civil liberties.
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NYCLU
3 months ago
From Buffalo to New York City and all over the state, we took to the streets today to reject the Trump administration’s abuses of power.
#NoKings
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani
3 months ago
New York is not for sale.
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Ron Filipkowski
3 months ago
Looks like the Russians like his Russia tie. It’s not red-white-blue either. It’s red-blue-white. Like the Russian flag. For a meeting with Zelensky.
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