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Working to strengthen democracy and build learning systems that equip every Kentuckian to flourish.
A candle for Minnesota.
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie
7 days ago
This just pissed me off even more than the re-handcuffing The notion that these motherfuckers were the ones showing grace, that the women should be appreciative and speak well of the agents, that substandard treatment is conditioned on the women's portraying then as benevolent Fuckin disgusting
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Tim Onion
26 days ago
Rough vibes on this website today, likely because people feel Hopeless and Helpless Because Can't Stop It and No One Who Is Supposed To Is Trying To So Now We're Fighting Each Otherā¢. I recommend activities such as book, or potentially instrument if you like instrument, or even do talk on phone.
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Sherrilyn Ifill
about 2 months ago
@npr itās not a principle. It is a constitutional guarantee.
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Firmly, respectfully, the people organizing in these places LIVE here. We love our neighbors, our places, and our country. We have mobilized ourselves.
wagingnonviolence.org/2025/10/resi...
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The resistance reaches into Trump country
As organizers for No Kings 2 seek historic turnout on Oct. 18, the broader pro-democracy movement has already broken new ground.
https://wagingnonviolence.org/2025/10/resistance-reaches-into-trump-counties/
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Kimberly Atkins Stohr
4 months ago
Kavanaugh really, really wants a time limit on remedies for racial discrimination. I really, really want a time limit on racial discrimination in America. But guess what
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Bill Kristol
5 months ago
It should be needless to say, but it is perhaps at this moment worth saying, that transgender individuals have the same right as anyone else to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
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Athul K. Acharya
5 months ago
"Harvard can't use race as a factor in admissions, but ICE can use race as a factor in detentions" is a retrenchment essentially to a pre-Civil War understanding of the Constitution. It's vanishingly few steps removed from "Latinos have no rights which the white man is bound to respect."
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Kim Masters
5 months ago
Ladies, I think the message of this whole grotesque saga is that not only do they want to control our bodies, but they think they are entitled to rape our babies.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/09/u...
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A Phony Trump Check and a āDepreciatedā Woman in Epsteinās Birthday Book
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/09/us/epstein-trump-birthday-book.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
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Roosevelt Institute
6 months ago
Childcare is a public good. It's time to build a universal, public childcare system that protects workers, supports families, and resists corporate capture. Dive into the case studies and interviews that support this forward-looking framework ⤵ļø
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When any of us, the people of the USA, want to see the government records of our own country, weāre minding our own business. Our inquiries are per se legitimate.
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Rep. Ted Lieu
7 months ago
Trump has turned his back on the worldās most vulnerable people by banning refugees and cutting foreign aid programs. Today, we stand up. Introduced a resolution to honor World Refugee Day and reiterate our moral responsibility to help those fleeing unimaginable circumstances.
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Claire Willett
8 months ago
the world is just better with trans, nonbinary, and genderqueer people in it full stop
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AuntRen šŗšøš³ļøāšššā®ļø
8 months ago
Genuine Question because I Do not understand⦠so if these men roll up in plain clothes and masks, grab a human being⦠even a child, and throw them in an unmarked vehicle I am just supposed to look the other way and say nothing ?? Ask Nothing ?
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Lupita Nihongo
8 months ago
We are like six months from them outlawing seatbelts.
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"Ours is the vision and ours the growing reality of a great society in which the accidents of race and color, parentage and poverty, location and geography, will not be allowed to dim the light of human hope and to cripple the possibilities of human growth." Ned Breathitt of Ky.
#Altcitizen
#AllofUs
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Working Families Party šŗ
9 months ago
Mayor Barakaās arrest during an oversight visit to an ICE facility in Newark is shocking overreach of power, even by Trump standards. This is straight from the authoritarian playbook. Trump and his people want to silence anyone who seeks to hold them accountable.
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Celina Stewart, Esq.
9 months ago
Finally! A win for NC voters, but unfortunately, the damage has been done. Judge Griffinās refusal to accept the results of this election for more than 6 months ā and his attempt to disenfranchise tens of thousands of voters ā was absolutely shameful.
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Republican Jefferson Griffin concedes N.C. Supreme Court race after months of legal battles
The announcement, which comes six months after the final votes were cast, brings an end to the final unresolved contest from the 2024 election.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/republican-jefferson-griffin-concedes-nc-supreme-court-race-rcna205358
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Stand in the shame, y'all.
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Center for American Progress
9 months ago
Generations of Americans have trusted the Social Security Administration with their private information. Yet, in a few short months, the Trump administration and DOGE have shattered trust that took decades to earnātrust that may never be regained. New from
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DOGEās Data Digging at the Social Security Administration Puts Millions of Americans at Risk
Under the Trump administration, Americansā private Social Security data could be stolen, distorted, or even actively used against them.
https://www.americanprogress.org/article/doges-data-digging-at-the-social-security-administration-puts-millions-of-americans-at-risk/
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League of Women Voters of the US
9 months ago
On April 25, 2025, federal agents arrested Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Hannah Dugan at her courthouse for allegedly obstructing the unlawful arrest of Eduardo Flores-Ruiz. Read the League's statement:
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Clara Jeffery
10 months ago
Bukele would have him on a plane within an hour of Trump asking
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Exactly so. And the human being in question would be on a plane in an hour if the Secretary of State made a single call to ask for that happen.
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Danville, Kentucky, in the pouring rain!
#HandsOff
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Mehdi Hasan
10 months ago
"SCOOP: ICE Revoking Studentsā Immigration Statuses Without Their or the Universityās Knowledge" āNever seen something like this,ā say university officials about the secret targeting of Middle Eastern students.
@premthakker.bsky.social
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SCOOP: ICE Revoking Studentsā Immigration Statuses Without Their or the Universityās Knowledge
āNever seen something like this,ā say university officials about the secret targeting of Middle Eastern students.
https://zeteo.com/p/ice-manually-revoking-university-students-residency-status-middle-east
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The 2022 USA fertility rate is 1.7 per 1,000 women. Russiaās is 1.4, Chinaās is 1.2, and he spoke without truth.
data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP...
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Molly Weston Williamson
10 months ago
The website is crashing. The phones are ring off the hook without enough staff to answer them. SSA is under attack--putting the Trump Admin & Elon Musk's DOGE between you & your Social Security benefits.
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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Long waits, waves of calls, website crashes: Social Security is breaking down
A flood of cuts led by Elon Musk has sent the agency into chaos as a new commissioner prepares to take charge.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/03/25/social-security-phones-doge-cuts/
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NPR
10 months ago
A Pentagon-wide advisory that went out one week ago warns against using the Signal, the messaging app, even for unclassified information.
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A Pentagon-wide email recently went out warning about Signal's vulnerability
A Pentagon-wide advisory that went out one week ago warns against using the Signal, the messaging app, even for unclassified information.
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/25/nx-s1-5339801/pentagon-email-signal-vulnerability
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Watched twice for another reason: the officers moved with quick, adequate, controlled strength, protecting the attacker even as they restrained him. Thatās how I want my government to operate.
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Sherrilyn Ifill
10 months ago
It will never be enough. The goal is to break the University, not have them meet demands. Taunting Columbia with the hope of compliance just sweetens the pot with humiliation.
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@sifill.bsky.social
is essential reading. Here's her latest. It Is Not Enough to Fight. You Have to Meet the Moment
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It Is Not Enough to Fight. You Have to Meet the Moment
āThere is never time in the future in which we will work out our salvation.
https://open.substack.com/pub/sherrilyn/p/it-is-not-enough-to-fight-you-have?r=1z7pgh&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
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āIn 1912, measles became a nationally notifiable disease in the United States, requiring U.S. healthcare providers and laboratories to report all diagnosed cases. In the first decade of reporting, an average of 6,000 measles-related deaths were reported each year.ā Fun!
www.cdc.gov/measles/abou...
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Aaron Rupar
11 months ago
GOP Rep. Don Bacon: "Why is a White House official, that's not even elected, why is that person belittling the Polish foreign minister? It's not appropriate. It's not right. We need more discipline in the White House."
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Asha Rangappa
11 months ago
The writ of habeas corpus exists to protect against arbitrary detention and confinement. Of course, the writ meaning anything depends on an executive branch that is willing to 1) respond to a legal action; 2) tell the truth in court; and 3) obey a court order. Otherwise this is 1973 Chile
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Mississippi Free Press
11 months ago
OPINION: "The Stephen D. Lee bust guards over a tradition of keeping a real manās history quiet," Donna Ladd
writes. buff.ly/3QGDZpC
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Brad Heath
11 months ago
From
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: President Donald Trump's sweeping foreign aid freeze has stalled a United Nations program in Mexico aimed at stopping imported fentanyl chemicals from reaching the country's drug cartels, according to eight people familiar with the situation.
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Erin Reed
11 months ago
Every time I fly, I always pick a window seat. I stare out of it and watch the world go by. We live in such a beautiful world. Itās big enough for all of us.
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Shooti
11 months ago
#ResistanceRoots
#Voices4Victory
#BlackHistoryMonth
Today in history, 1979: Frank Peterson becomes the first African American general in the Marine Corps. Told when he enlisted that heād make a great steward, Peterson vowed to become a combat pilot and entered the Naval Aviation Cadet Program. /1
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āWe are deeply troubled by reports from educators and chaperones in the Las Cruces Public Schools who reported agents assigned to a federal checkpoint north of Las Cruces boarded a chartered bus carrying student athletes and demanded documentation. ā
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American Federation of Teachers New Mexico, National Education Association-New Mexico, and Classified School Employees Council-Las Cruces Condemn Reports of Federal Agents Boarding School Bus
Reports via Social Media Claim Agents Boarded Bus and Demanded to See Documentation Paperwork of Students
https://www.nmaft.org/press-releases-2/american-federation-of-teachers-new-mexico%2C-national-education-association-new-mexico%2C--and-classified-school-employees-council-las-cruces--condemn-reports-of-federal-agents-boarding-school-bus
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The Constitution of the United States States of America, which I have sworn to defend.
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The Constitution of the United States: A Transcription
[get-content name="print-page-left" include-tag="false" /] Note: The following text is a transcription of the Constitution as it was inscribed by Jacob Shallus on parchment (the document on display in...
https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/constitution-transcript
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Iām in.
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The SAVE Act will burden every citizen registering to vote. Call your Representatives to oppose this fast-moving, harmful bill.
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Aaron Feis Christopher Hixon Scott Beigel Respect Forever
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Beau Weston
12 months ago
In 1938, Neville Chamberlain went to Munich to appease the dictator. He gave away part of Czechoslovakia to bring peace. Today, Neville Trump is sending his Secretaries of State and Defense to Munich to appease the dictator. They will give away parts of Ukraine to bring peace.
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What Amy said.
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Please help if you can.
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This matters. Itās nothing like the end of the battle to get back to constitutional governance, but itās a real step in slowing down Musk and his pirates.
www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...
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US Treasury temporarily agrees to limit DOGE access amid privacy lawsuit
The U.S. Treasury Department has agreed not to give Elon Muskās government efficiency agency access to its payment systems while a judge hears arguments in a lawsuit alleging the billionaire adviser to U.S. President Donald Trump illegally searched them.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-treasury-temporarily-agrees-limit-doge-access-amid-privacy-lawsuit-2025-02-06/
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This is the way.
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Jon Cooper
12 months ago
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In this whole list, I haven't spotted a program in which the federal government pays benefits directly to individuals. The ordered "pause" includes all financial assistance except those direct benefits.
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