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Abolish Palantir and ICE!
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Terra Field
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Saw Indigo Girls at the Castro Theater tonight and for the encore Joan Baez came out, read a poem and then sang one of her songs? What the hell that was amazing.
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Jenny Cohn
about 9 hours ago
“Trump name-drops Palantir by ticker symbol, 1st president to hype a stock. It surged $10B in minutes amid a 16% freefall” 4/11/26
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Trump name-drops Palantir by ticker symbol, 1st president to hype a stock. It surged $10B in minutes amid a 16% freefall
Critics are calling it market manipulation. Michael Burry is betting against it. Here's what investors should know.
https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/stocks/articles/trump-name-drops-palantir-ticker-154500129.html
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Once they’re on their knees they can get a close look at a sharp blade
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Eric Feigl-Ding
about 16 hours ago
LET THIS SINK IN—the U.S. now has no confirmed CDC director, no FDA commissioner, no Surgeon General, an NIH director with no medical license, and the last Acting CDC Director was a George Bush speechwriter. In fact—the only doctor/scientist we have in the White House is… Dr Oz.
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Scott Dworkin
about 22 hours ago
The Trump regime actually let two guys with zero government experience use ChatGPT to cancel $100M in grants—including Holocaust education. A federal judge just humiliated them, called it unconstitutional, and reversed every single cut. Read how she did it:
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Matthew Cortland (they)
about 14 hours ago
I want to be very clear about what's happening at FDA: The Trump Regime pushed out the most incompetent fuckup of a Commissioner in the agency's history so that they can install someone who **will be even worse for the health of America's children**
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Abolish billionaires, data centers, AI and the Army
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Trump’s vision of who gets to vote
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Jesse Eisinger
about 13 hours ago
This would constitute one of the most brazen, most appalling acts of corruption in U.S. history. I know we’re numb to all of this but this is a seven-alarm fire.
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Justice Dept. Officials Consider Settling Trump Suit Against I.R.S.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/12/business/trump-suit-irs.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
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Kevin M. Kruse
about 23 hours ago
It's the exact same playbook that segregationists ran against the NAACP in the 1950s. They sued to get membership lists in Arkansas during Little Rock, hoping to single them out for retribution. Meanwhile, Alabama -- this same state below -- just outlawed the organization entirely.
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Anthony Michael Kreis
about 14 hours ago
The Tennessee Speaker of the House will remove all Democratic Caucus members from standing committees and subcommittees as punishment for their redistricting protests. Democracy dies in Nashville.
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Someone please show this to Mayor Daniel Lurie
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Zach Everson
about 18 hours ago
New: Trump's $13.1M no-bid paint job at the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool. 7x what he publicly promised. His "pool guy" got it. Just filed FOIAs for @publiccitizen.org to get to the bottom of it.
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Let’s Get to the Bottom of Trump’s Expensive, No-Bid Contracts for the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool - Public Citizen
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, Public Citizen filed Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests regarding the Trump administration’s contracts to paint the base…
https://www.citizen.org/news/lets-get-to-the-bottom-of-trumps-expensive-no-bid-contracts-for-the-lincoln-memorial-reflecting-pool/
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Brian Finucane
about 16 hours ago
Presumably there's an OLC memo blessing these operations (as there is for boat strikes), including b/c targeted killings may implicate 18 U.S. Code § 956 and the Assassination Ban (EO 12333). And I expect any such memo likely relies on the theory direct action is in a NIAC and lawful under LOAC.
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We need to redraw our government
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Real talent goes to waste while AI slop gets recycled
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The gold standard of corruption
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The Conversation U.S.
1 day ago
ICE detention runs through a fragmented network of county jails, private prisons and federal facilities. A law professor working with immigrant rights groups explains what’s known about where ICE is holding people as of May 2026:
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What to do if someone you know in Philadelphia or elsewhere is detained by ICE
Pennsylvania’s patchwork of ICE detention centers makes it difficult to track loved ones.
https://theconversation.com/what-to-do-if-someone-you-know-in-philadelphia-or-elsewhere-is-detained-by-ice-281406
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Jenny Cohn
1 day ago
I feel like we are living in the “Thiel and Andreessen Show”, and too many people have no idea. 1/
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Charles Keener
1 day ago
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US Surveillance Flights Over Cuba Have Increased Since Early February
Similar actions were carried out in Venezuela and Iran prior to US military actions in those countries.
https://truthout.org/articles/us-surveillance-flights-over-cuba-have-increased-since-early-february/
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OneThousandBooksLater
1 day ago
A little history lesson very worthwhile 5 minjues of your time. "I want to once again push back on the idea that the Republican Party was a revolutionary political party." That Time The Chinese And The Irish Built The American Railroad!
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That Time The Chinese And The Irish Built The American Railroad!
May 10, 1869, in labor history!
https://open.substack.com/pub/wonkette/p/that-time-the-chinese-and-the-irish?r=2rqcr&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans)
1 day ago
the Democrats retaking the House and Senate, on its own, will not destroy the Republican project. The only way to do that is a broad, years-long cross-ideological commitment to break American conservatism's power base TL;DR congressional Dems must be forced into war with the used car salesmen.
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Best to avoid the lies, propaganda and bullshit
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He spent his teenage years decapitating sperm
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Bobby Kogan
2 days ago
And it wouldn't even lead to lower prices at the pump! Here's the legendary
@pkrugman.bsky.social
writing in 2000.
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Robert Cruickshank
2 days ago
This is true of nearly every elected Democrat in nearly every elected office. Very few Democrats anywhere want good things as intensely as the other side wants bad things.
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David Roberts
2 days ago
"The vacuum left after the U.S. abandoned its humanitarian commitments has destabilized some of the most fragile locations in the world and thrown refugee camps further into unrest..." Gee, wonder if this will ever come back to bite us.
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Death, Sexual Violence and Human Trafficking: Fallout From U.S. Aid Withdrawal Hits the World’s Most Fragile Locations
Exclusive State Department records show: As the Trump administration abandons its humanitarian commitments, diplomats are reporting that the cuts have led to violence and instability while undermining...
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-usaid-malawi-state-department-crime-sexual-violence-trafficking
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Asawin Suebsaeng
4 days ago
We are ostensibly a free country and the degree to which we don’t know what is actually going on in a vast network of “camps” on our own soil in the year 2026 is….. something we are probably never going to come close to actually grappling with as a country
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Someday the oligarchs and warmongers will suffer the consequences of their greed
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Well, they probably won’t be secluded and affordable much longer
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Extreme Court squashes the vote
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Dr M
3 days ago
My mom who lives in South Africa asked if ICE was still doing their thing. I was like yes, the media has got bored with it and we really don’t know how bad it is. Her response: ‘Oh’ She grew up under apartheid. I have a feeling she understands what that all means.
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Dogs growl and cats hiss when he walks through the store
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Support moms with reasonable, practical, necessary solutions
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Tom Cox
3 days ago
The reasons I despise them just keep piling up.
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Noah Berlatsky
3 days ago
I will say that I don't know that I was fully aware of just how corrosive flattery could be before AI came along. Just watching AI suck people into this whirlpool of motivated reasoning and cognitive collapse has really been something.
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Forbes
3 days ago
Anxiety Over Social Security Benefits Grows As Funding Cliff Looms
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Anxiety Over Social Security Benefits Grows As Funding Cliff Looms
The 90-year-old retirement income program is marred by confusing rules, administrative snafus and uncertainty over what benefit cuts and tax hikes are to come.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/janetnovack/2026/05/09/anxiety-over-social-security-benefits-grows-as-funding-cliff-looms/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=forbes
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Cozca
3 days ago
There are 86 pregnant mothers locked up in ICE concentration camps. Pregnant immigrants in detention for months despite rules against it - Los Angeles Times
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Pregnant immigrants held for months in detention despite rules against it
With the immigration crackdown, more pregnant women are being detained. The ACLU alleges a woman was shackled while miscarrying and others were denied prenatal care.
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Charles Johnson
3 days ago
Yep, he’s going to start another war. Blood for the blood god.
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Police are a plague upon our nation
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Lisa Song
4 days ago
4/ Another officer fired pepper spray through a car window, hitting a 1-year-old girl in the back seat. A bystander filmed her in tears. DHS called the incident a “hoax.” But, as a local pastor at the scene testified later, “there’s literally video evidence.”
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We do not need anything made by Tesla
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Incarceration is a crime
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Prisonculture
3 days ago
I loved reading Mary Jones's reflections on John Brown. They inspired a project I've been working on. I hope to release it as a zine in 2027. We also feature Mary in our guidebook "Lifting As They Climbed."
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Helen Kennedy
4 days ago
Rubio doesn’t come across as the biggest monster in this administration, but there’s a valid argument that he is. Demolishing USAID was a slow moving atrocity. He must never be freed of responsibility for it.
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Yes I will!
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