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Victor Ray
3 days ago
Headlines saying this Supreme Court decision "curtails the use of race" in voting are going to make me have a stroke. It empowers white supremacy. It does not curtail the use of race.
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Mother Jones
11 days ago
Democrats should get louder in championing clean energyâs affordability and resilience from global shocks, according to some of the partyâs leading voices on the climate. From our friends at
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As fuel prices soar, climate leaders urge Democrats to equate clean energy with affordability
âI donât think theyâve grasped the political opportunity yet.â
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/04/iran-war-gas-diesel-prices-opportunity-clean-energy-climate-affordability-democrats-political-messaging/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=slack
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Hunter
12 days ago
I am 100% certain that some of the usual big names in journalism are already preparing books admitting "everyone knew" that Trump was suffering from dementia and governing by irrational impulse. They'll all want to be seen as in the knowâbut only after they no longer need access to his admin.
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Andrew Weinstein
12 days ago
A mass shooting that took the lives of eight children should stop this country in its tracks. Instead, the Shreveport tragedy disappeared from the headlines in a day. We cannot allow this level of violence to fade into background noise. Ending Americaâs gunâviolence epidemic is a moral oblligation.
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Sherrilyn Ifill
15 days ago
This is crazy. Just open-air larceny.
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Timothy Snyder
18 days ago
We are deciding right now if we are to be a nation of concentration camps and ethnic cleansing. And there is much citizens can do!
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Simon Marks
24 days ago
Impossible to disagree with a single word that Ben Rhodes (Obama era NSC official) is saying here:
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emptywheel
25 days ago
It would not hurt if you called your GOP MoCs to tell them they are legally complicit with the war crimes Trump is committing. Might not prevent armageddon, but couldn't hurt. (202) 224-3121
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Timothy Snyder
26 days ago
We are seven months away from the most consequential midterm election in US history. Meanwhile, we are fighting a war. These are the structural conditions for a coup attempt in which a president tries to nullify elections and take permanent power as a dictator.
snyder.substack.com/p/the-next-c...
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The Next Coup Attempt
And How to Stop It
https://snyder.substack.com/p/the-next-coup-attempt
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Puff the Magic Hater
about 1 month ago
I read the NYT piece, and I am holding onto the words of a woman who fended off inappropriate advances from a 60-year-old Cesar Chavez at the age of 19. âIt makes you rethink in history all those heroes,â Esmeralda Lopez said. âThe movement â thatâs the hero.â
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Timothy Snyder
about 2 months ago
If we made the green energy transition this war would be unthinkable and these authoritarians wouldnât be in power â not in the US, not in Iran, not in Saudi Arabia, not in Russia. Hydrocarbons are killing our freedom and just plain killing us.
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Will Bunch
2 months ago
What's more shocking than ICE's plan to cram as many 8,500 humans into massive, soul-crushing warehouses? Seeing the actual DHS floor plan that echoes slavery ships and history's worst gulags with no rec space but a gun range for guards My new column on the camps
www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-...
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The hidden ICE blueprint that should horrify every American | Will Bunch
An internal Department of Homeland Security document shows how ICE plans to cram thousands of detained human beings inside a Georgia warehouse.
https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-detention-centers-georgia-dhs-noem-trump-20260222.html
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Tim Dickinson
2 months ago
Don't look away. It is happening here
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Inside Trumpâs ICE Concentration Camps
âThis system is designed to punish, not protectâ
https://open.substack.com/pub/contrarian/p/inside-trumps-ice-concentration-camps?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=bswr
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick
3 months ago
If youâre tracking the warehouse developments,
@projectsaltbox.bsky.social
is a must-follow. Doing great work!
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Tim Dickinson
3 months ago
"I never want to see a child run away from our own government ever again"
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Timothy Snyder
3 months ago
We are deciding right now whether we want to be a country with ethnic cleansing and concentration camps.
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Max Berger
3 months ago
I think this is super smart.
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Clara Jeffery
3 months ago
This is a really incredible piece. Share it widely đhttps://www.theatlantic.com/politics/2026/01/minneapolis-uprising/685755/?gift=C-rzmQ8PsUHt15odxTKJDn7xrpPNxSpotkNz_P27oI0
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Welcome to the American Winter
In the frozen streets of Minneapolis, something profound is happening.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/2026/01/minneapolis-uprising/685755/?gift=C-rzmQ8PsUHt15odxTKJDn7xrpPNxSpotkNz_P27oI0
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Clara Jeffery
3 months ago
Holy shit. Like Tiananmen Square levels of bravery.
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Prisonculture
3 months ago
I think a lot of us get hope wrong. Hope, I do not believe, is an emotion. In fact, hope makes space for lots of emotions to exist alongside it. You can DO hope scared, angry, sad etc... Hope doesn't find us. We make hope through action and struggle. It's a practice of living and is re-made daily.
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Timothy Snyder
3 months ago
Abolish ICE, abolish DHS, redistribute the other agencies, prosecute actual criminals, such as people who commit execution-style murders of Americans in broad daylight.
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Max Berger
3 months ago
The federal government is executing American citizens in the middle of the street for exercising their constitutional right to freedom of speech. This is tyranny. No free people can accept this kind of government. We need to bring an end to the Trump regime.
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Jonathan Ladd
3 months ago
Itâs hard to accurately describe what is happening in Minneapolis without sounding crazy. Unmarked rental vans all over the city, with people in military gear and no id jumping out of them to take captive anyone who looks nonwhite or who makes political speech they disagree with.
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Bill McKibben
4 months ago
So moved by the people of Minnesota whoâdrawing on LA, Portland, Chicago, DC etcâare writing a shining new chapter in the history of nonviolent resistance. The rest of us need to be taking notesâand helping them!
www.standwithminnesota.com
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Stand With Minnesota
A directory of places to give to as Minnesota defends itself from ICE occupation
https://www.standwithminnesota.com/
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Ryan Goodman
6 months ago
It begins. Clearly incriminating evidence against president of the United States. Epstein to Maxwell, April 2, 2011: "i want you to realize that that dog that hasn't barked is trump. [VICTIM] spent hours at my house with him ,, he has never once been mentioned. police chief. etc."
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jamelle
7 months ago
âthe constitution forbids race conscious remediesâ would be news to the people who wrote the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments
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Ben DâAvanzo
7 months ago
The film "NO" about the plebiscite that took down Pinochet has definitely influenced my advocacy. The lesson was, if you seem fun and upbeat, even in very serious times, the public is much more likely to stand with you. These folks are doing it right!
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Carl Quintanilla
7 months ago
â.. no modern American president has positioned his family to make so much money while in the White House. Already, since the early days of his reelection campaign, heâs more than doubled his net worth to about $5.4 billion.â
@bloomberg.com
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Clara Jeffery
9 months ago
The reason they donât want to show their faces is that they are engaged in illegal and amoral acts
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Sherrilyn Ifill
9 months ago
STOP conceding that Trump can legitimately expand grab by deploying baseless claims of âemergency.â There was NO EMERGENCY to justify tariffs. There was NO âINVASIONâ to justify this migrant crackdown. And there is NO âEMERGENCYâ that justifies military takeover of local law enforcement in D.C.
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emptywheel
10 months ago
One thing that will become increasingly clear as DHS starts spending the billions they got in the Big Ugly is that a lot of this will go to pay off favored contracts.
@hunterw.bsky.social
lays out how Florida did that here.
talkingpointsmemo.com/news/contrac...
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Contracts Show Millions of Dollars and Diverted Disaster Resources Were Used to Build DeSantisâ âAlligator Alcatrazâ
TPM has obtained and analyzed over a dozen contracts and invoices related...
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/contracts-desantis-alligator-alcatraz
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Sherrilyn Ifill
10 months ago
I have no words. Everyone prepared for the constitutional crisis of the President defying the SCOTUS. The crisis is the SCOTUS being fully aligned with Trumpâs vision of presidential power. So here we are.
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Sherrilyn Ifill
10 months ago
This.
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Kevin M. Kruse
10 months ago
Remember, this new normal -- in which gangs of masked armed gunmen are causing chaos in the streets, pulling weapons and assaulting innocent people, and no one can say if they're crooks or cops -- was all sold to Americans as a way to make us feel safer.
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Sherrilyn Ifill
10 months ago
I didnât have the Supreme Court destroying the authority of federal district courts on my bingo card. But in retrospect thatâs perhaps where all this shadow docket decision-making was going all along. Really scary stuff.
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Mark Joseph Stern
11 months ago
The Supreme Court's bias toward corporate interests is persistent, pervasive, and exhaustively documented. But it is still extraordinary to hear a sitting justice bluntly call it out and castigate her colleagues for consistently twisting the rules in favor of big business.
slate.com/news-and-pol...
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In a Stunning Critique, Ketanji Brown Jackson Nails One of This Courtâs Worst Traits
The court is contorting the law to favor big business while locking out the most vulnerable, the newest justice wrote.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/06/supreme-court-corporate-bias-ketanji-brown-jackson.html
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Chris Hayes
11 months ago
Twenty years ago the Republican party stood for huge tax cuts for the rich and wars of choice in the middle east, but then Donald Trump totally remade the party and realigned American poltiics, and now the Republica party stands for...huge tax cuts for the rich and wars of choice in the middle east.
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Kevin M. Kruse
11 months ago
The Tea Party protests in April 2009 had about a third of a million people involved, and the political media treated it like a game changer for the Obama presidency. The No Kings rallies were AT LEAST ten times bigger than the Tea Party protests. Will the press keep pretending Trump is popular?
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Liza Goitein
11 months ago
No president has ever federalized the National Guard for purposes of responding to potential future civil unrest anywhere in the country. Preemptive deployment is literally the opposite of deployment as a last resort. It would be a shocking abuse of power and the law. 15/19
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Timothy Snyder
11 months ago
Best read as a reasoned call to action, not a question. And we will need vivid terms for where we are going â oligarchy and fascism â as well as what we are seeking â freedom and equality.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/o...
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Opinion | How Will We Know When We Have Lost Our Democracy?
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/opinion/trump-authoritarianism-democracy.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
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Timothy Snyder
about 1 year ago
"the president defied a Supreme Court ruling to return a man mistakenly sent to a gulag... and spoke of sending Americans to foreign concentration camps. This is the beginning of an American policy of state terror, and it has to be identified as such to be stopped"
snyder.substack.com/p/state-terror
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State Terror
A brief guide for Americans
https://snyder.substack.com/p/state-terror
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Josh Marshall
about 1 year ago
Oh dear youâre going to want to read this. Looks like DOGErs were caught exfiltrating NLRB data, likely on unions, for private (seemingly Elony) use. This is must read. What weâve all suspected. But now details.
www.npr.org/2025/04/15/n...
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A whistleblower's disclosure details how DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data
A whistleblower tells Congress and NPR that DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data and hid its tracks. "None of that ... information should ever leave the agency," said a former NLRB official.
https://www.npr.org/2025/04/15/nx-s1-5355896/doge-nlrb-elon-musk-spacex-security
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Jeff Sharlet
about 1 year ago
Harvard stepping up for the fight with fascism is big news. Even bigger news is Trump's declaration that he won't comply with court orders and that he plans to start imprisoning U.S. citizens abroad based on "evidence" his DOJ says it doesn't have to and won't reveal.
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Kate Starbird
about 1 year ago
The only way forward, that I can see, requires both courage and collective action. If weâre not going to fight for our students and our scholarship, then what the hell are we doing anyway?
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Jared Holt
about 1 year ago
60 Minutesâcould not find criminal recordsâ for 75% of the 238 men the Trump admin sent to a Salvadoran prison. Of the 22% that had records, the âvast majority are for non-violent offenses.â Trump admin still insists theyâre âterrorists.â
www.cbsnews.com/news/what-re...
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U.S. sent 238 migrants to Salvadoran mega-prison; documents indicate most have no apparent criminal records
The U.S. sent 238 Venezuelan migrants to a Salvadoran mega-prison. The Trump administration says they're all gang members, but 60 Minutes could find no criminal records for 75 percent of them.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/what-records-show-about-migrants-sent-to-salvadoran-prison-60-minutes-transcript/
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Signs of hope: The small, hand-painted sign hammered into the grass underneath a big Trump billboard in rural Tennessee, reading âTRUMP IS TOXIC.â
about 1 year ago
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