Bettina Pearl
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PA Senate staffer. Hiker, biker, rower, traveller.
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Timothy Snyder
1 day ago
Reporter seeking freedom of speech in the US arrested for exercising freedom of speech in the US
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Hopeful in AZ
4 days ago
Not electing Kamala Harris has got to be the most colossal fuck up America has ever made .
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Deeros
4 days ago
If the government dropped a bomb that took my kid from me, I wouldnāt be thinking about politics or strategy. Iād be thinking about who did it, and how far Iād have to go to make them feel what I felt. People act surprised when the world gets more dangerous, but this is exactly how it happens.
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News Eye
4 days ago
BREAKING: The US has bombed Tehranās main refinery and burning oil is now flooding down the streets into the cityās sewers. This is a vision from hell, unleashed by the US tonight. (š„ Vahid Online)
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Timothy Snyder
4 days ago
Iranās people were facing a horrible shortage of water before the war began. If we are destroying desalination plants and setting fire to Teheran we are committing unfathomable crimes.
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Blue Wave
5 days ago
And this is all he had to replace Noem.
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Mountain Mama
4 days ago
āMoms told me that their kids had lost their appetites after finding worms and mold on their food, had trouble sleeping on the facilityās hard metal bunk beds in rooms shared by at least a dozen other people, and were constantly sick.ā
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The Kids Trump Sent to ICEās Dilley Detention Center
ProPublica went inside the immigrant detention center for families in Dilley, Texas. Children held there told us about the anguish of being ripped from their lives in the United States and the fear of...
https://www.propublica.org/article/life-inside-ice-dilley-children
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Mel Buer
5 days ago
God this shit is so ugly, just so, so ugly
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Aaron Rupar
5 days ago
The killing of Iranian children during an illegal war is an impeachable offense (not to mention a grave crime) and Congress should really act like it. 15 Republicans in the Senate could end this nightmare before it somehow gets even worse.
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Noah Berlatsky
6 days ago
Republicans used to say "judeo-christian" in situations like this, to try to soften the antisemitism. they don't bother any more.
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Max Berger
6 days ago
This is honestly one of the most anti-Jewish things Iāve ever seen from the United States government.
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Chris Hayes
6 days ago
I continue to be gobsmacked at 1) how common this formulation is 2) how antisemitic and generally bigoted it is 3) and how for all the talk of anti-semitism this is never cited as an example even though itās quite literally the original incarnation.
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Emissary Of Night | ŁŁŁŁ
6 days ago
It was funny to see, I don't even remember which US newspaper it was anymore, but an obit of Ali Khamenei said something to the effect of "he lived a paranoid life in which he believed the US and Israel were out to kill him, which eventually happened"
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Chuck Schumer
6 days ago
Iāve been asked if I would support Sen. Mullin as Noemās replacement. The answer is a resounding NO. The rot in DHS is deep, much deeper than any individual. Itās a question of policy not personnel. The Senate should not consider any DHS Secretary nominee until DHS and ICE are reined in.
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Amras, A Werewolf Story Īøā
7 days ago
A couple things⦠The āconflictā in Iran *IS* a war. It is a war of choice. It is warfare without conscious. It was unprovoked. And Iām sick and tired of people suggesting & implying the only tragedies herein are that US Service Members have died. The people of Iran are innocents in this conflict!
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Urban
9 days ago
Orwell at his very best could never come up with some of this. Proactively in a defensive way is basically a line from a coen bros film.
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Tea Pain
9 days ago
Rubio just said a president doesn't have to get Congressional Authority to send us to war. This entire administration is lawless, top to bottom.
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Timothy Snyder
9 days ago
Trump seems lost as to which lie he wants to tell. We are in a war on truth; but truth can win ā if it finds friends.
snyder.substack.com/p/losing-the...
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Losing the War on Truth
Iran and what to make of it
https://snyder.substack.com/p/losing-the-war-on-truth
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Will Bunch
10 days ago
You know who else did medical experiments on prisoners?
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Jen Rubin
10 days ago
saying he wants to negotiate with the new faces of the old regime show the utter moral and political incoherence of this unconstitutional war
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Chris Murphy
10 days ago
The costs of this Iran war debacle will likely be more than the cost of extending the ACA health insurance subsidies. If you asked Americans, which do you want: another war in the Middle East or lower health care costs at home, is the margin 90 to 10? 95 to 5?
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Will Bunch
11 days ago
My instant reaction at 3 a.m. yesterday was not whether Khamenei would be killed or oil prices or anything else but this This undeclared, unexplained war is illegal. Full stop 28 hours later, it is still the worse abuse of power in U.S. history. Impeach My column
www.inquirer.com/opinion/trum...
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A mad kingās illegal war on Iran is a cry for regime change...in Washington | Will Bunch
Democracy really did die in darkness as Donald Trumpās unconstitutional war on Iran stamps America as a dictatorship.
https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/trump-iran-war-illegal-20260228.html
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David Rothkopf
12 days ago
If and when dust settles in Iran after this operation is over and declared the greatest military victory in history, most likely outcome is a settlement (if there is any) inferior to the deal Obama struck in 2015ā¦from which Trump recklessly and illegally withdrew. Write it down.
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Ashley DeAzevedo
12 days ago
New research from CLASP & Univ. of Colorado finds increased immigration enforcement is pushing U.S.-born teens in mixed-status families to work more & enroll in school full-time less. Enforcement policies donāt just affect immigrants; they reshape outcomes for American children.
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ICE Activity in Trump 2.0 is Increasing Employment and Decreasing Full-Time School Enrollment for Teens in Mixed-Status Families | CLASP
This report finds that heightened immigration enforcement is harming U.S.-born teenagers in mixed-status households today and setting them up for worse long-term outcomes.
https://www.clasp.org/publications/report/brief/ice-activity-in-trump-2-0-is-increasing-employment-and-decreasing-full-time-school-enrollment-for-teens-in-mixed-status-families/
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Jill Filipovic
12 days ago
It is both outrageous and very representative of this administration and the entire conservative movement that women are responsible for menās crimes, and that women who challenge men must be made to suffer in perpetuity.
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Peter Morley āæļø
15 days ago
F**K RFK Jr. and every Senator that voted for his confirmation. He lied about everything and needs to be held accountable and removed NOW!
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The Measles Surge Is Just the Beginning
Federal changes to the childhood vaccine schedule are making preventable diseases harder to stop, writes Sophia Newcomer.
https://time.com/7380102/rfk-jr-vaccine-schedule-measles-rsv/
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Abraham Gutman
12 days ago
Yesterday, NJ District Judge Zahid Quraishi issued a blistering opinion calling out ICE and DOJ for ignoring the hundreds of court ruling against mandatory detentions of immigrants residing in the U.S. "It ends today," he wrote. It didn't. Five new release petitions were filed in NJ today.
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Kelly
12 days ago
The Dilley facility has a measles outbreak. One toddler needed to be hospitalized in the ICE. A 13 year old tried to kill herself. They draw pictures & write letters about how horrible it is. They scream ālet us outā. This is a moral stain on the entire nation.
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911 calls capture kids burning with fever, struggling to breathe at ICE detention center
EMS crews were called to the Dilley Immigration Processing Center in Texas at least 11 times since September for children in medical distress, records show.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/911-calls-kids-struggling-breathe-ice-detention-texas-immigration-rcna260595?cid=sm_npd_nn_tw_ma&taid=69a1bad36a41fe0001bdafb2&utm_campaign=trueanthem&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter
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Karl Bode
13 days ago
There you go. An overt technofascist Trump ally will now own CBS, CNN, HBO, Paramount, Warner Brothers, Discovery, and a big chunk of TikTok
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Will Bunch
13 days ago
This refugee wanted liberty in America, but got death The refuge promised when Nurul Amin Shah Alam and family came to America on Christmas Eve 2024 became a Kafkaesque nightmare - a police encounter gone wrong, then left for dead by Trump's CBP goons My new column
www.inquirer.com/opinion/alam...
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A Rohingya refugee wanted freedom. America left him for dead in frigid Buffalo. | Will Bunch
The U.S. Border Patrol abandoned a blind, disabled Rohingya refugee to die in frigid Buffalo, a new low for the Trump regime.
https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/alam-dead-buffalo-border-patrol-20260226.html?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=ios&utm_campaign=app_ios_article_share&utm_content=YS6LMIIMKRGA3AHXGNID3USRCA
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Gabrielle A. Perry, MPH
14 days ago
A white woman who is not a doctor & doesnāt believe in science is currently undergoing Senate confirmation hearings to be the US Surgeon General. Black people, donāt EVER let these people tell you that you are a ādiversity hireā or donāt deserve the roles you have so richly prepared for & earned.
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Steven Beschloss
15 days ago
Trump is a sickening sadist pleasurably reveling in tales of bloody violence and murder.
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Will Bunch
15 days ago
Coming soon to a warehouse near you
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Anat Shenker-Osorio
15 days ago
In competitive authoritarianism (US right now) there's often a "loyal opposition" that's essential to the regime. They are so wedded to "decorum," they go along with rites & rituals that help regime prop up veneer of normalcy, undermining clear view of regimes actions & aims.
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Jen Rubin
15 days ago
Democrats should snap out of it. Until legal and political accountability can be imposed on Trump, the response to his shredding the Constitution and perpetuating a pedophile coverup must be consistent, unceasing moral opprobrium.
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MeidasTouch
15 days ago
Lee: We live in a country where we have one reality for everyday people and another for the rich and the well-connected and the well-protected. We have to change that. Thatās why earlier today I announced that I'll be introducing articles of impeachment against Pam Bondi.
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CJ Fogler
15 days ago
4 Minnesota guys
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Wajahat Ali
15 days ago
This entire State of the Union is basically a reboot of The Emperor Has No Clothes. Just lies upon lies and Republican Reeks surrounding their aging King with fake smiles and applause.
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Emissary Of Night | ŁŁŁŁ
15 days ago
Not lost on me that a piece ostensibly about rising antisemitism in the Democratic Party focuses almost entirely on Zohran Mamdani, Uncommitted, AOC and Mejia and not, like, the guy with the Nazi tattoo.
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Aaron Rupar
15 days ago
Trump: "In one year, we have lifted 2.4 million Americans -- a record -- off of food stamps" (In other words, Republicans cut food stamps)
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Max Berger
15 days ago
The State of the Union: the president is a corrupt demented sex criminal who tried to overthrow the constitution.
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Aaron Rupar
15 days ago
Aliya Rahman, woman who was dragged out of car by ICE in Minneapolis: "I've spent the last month learning the names of the tendons in my shoulder, because both of my shoulders are torn -- cartilage and tendons. But what I haven't learned is the names of the people who did this to me."
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Mother Jones
15 days ago
āTelemedicine has been a game changer for abortion access since Roe v. Wade was overturned, which is exactly why Louisiana wants to eliminate it.ā Red states are doing what Trump wonāt: Going after abortion pills in court:
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Red states are doing what Trump won't: Going after abortion pills in court
A new case in Louisiana tests how far courts will go to restrict access in a post-Roe landscape.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/02/the-next-major-abortion-case-is-hitting-louisiana-court/
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The Bulwark
16 days ago
Former ICE lawyer Ryan Schwank: āI received secretive orders to teach new cadets to violate the Constitution.ā
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Taniel
16 days ago
important thread on what's happening in states right now, with growing organizing to give women who are incarcerated for what they did to their abuser a path out of prison.
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Matt Novak
16 days ago
We murdered three more people in boats today
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Colin Brown
16 days ago
Kids are at home for the snow day after being home for school vacation week, cat is resorting to desperate camouflage measures
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick
16 days ago
The mass deportation of 13-14 million people has impacts on millions and millions more people, either millions of their loved ones who are US citizens or millions more coworkers, friends, and associates.
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Tim Onion
16 days ago
Interesting post about the coordinated anti-AOC smear campaign. It's 2016 again! Fake local news outlets on Facebook getting picked up until eventually it winds up in the Washington Post.
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I Caught POLITICO and the New York Times Laundering Pink Slime "News"
How the sexist backlash to AOC and Gretchen Whitmer at the Munich Security Conference led me to a scammy "local news" outlet pushing a coordinated right-wing narrative
https://spinclass.substack.com/p/spin-class-case-study-i-caught-politico?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
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