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Governor Jay Inslee
8 months ago
In the Guardian today I posed the question - why is the U.S. sleeping as autocracy approaches? Please have a read, then join me in waking her up!
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Why is the US sleeping as autocracy approaches? | Governor Jay Inslee
The country’s future depends on law firms, universities and media companies – as well as everyday Americans – breaking their silence
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/apr/29/why-is-america-sleeping-as-autocracy-approaches
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Hakeem Jefferson
8 months ago
A colleague at Stanford’s business school used The Stanford Daily to argue—poorly—against DEI. The piece was riddled with historical errors and left one searching for fact, so I broke my public writing hiatus to respond. I hope you’ll read and share the piece.
stanforddaily.com/2025/04/22/w...
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What DEI threatens isn’t merit. It’s monopoly.
Political science professor Hakeem Jefferson argues for DEI's importance to de-monopolizing universities.
https://stanforddaily.com/2025/04/22/what-dei-threatens-isnt-merit-its-monopoly/
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Senator Chris Van Hollen
8 months ago
I just landed in San Salvador a little while ago, and I look forward to meeting with the team at the U.S. embassy to discuss the release of Mr. Abrego Garcia. I also hope to meet with Salvadoran officials and with Kilmar himself. He was illegally abducted and needs to come home.
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Just landed in El Salvador to discuss release of Kilmar Abrego Garcia
YouTube video by Senator Chris Van Hollen
https://youtube.com/shorts/e2MfhRBoZfc?feature=share
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Jane Mayer
8 months ago
History is warning us:
snyder.substack.com/p/state-terr...
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State Terror
A brief guide for Americans
https://snyder.substack.com/p/state-terror?publication_id=310897
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Sherrilyn Ifill
8 months ago
I pray you’ll read my latest. We are being challenged as a nation and this is a test we must pass.
open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...
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Americans Must Prepare to Fight for the Citizenship Rights of U.S. Prisoners
Trump's Plan to Render U.S. Citizens to Foreign Jails Seeks to Exploit Americans' Disinterest in the Rights of Prisoners
https://open.substack.com/pub/sherrilyn/p/americans-must-prepare-to-fight-for?r=1sqa3e
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Nicole Micheroni
8 months ago
Some personal news: the Department of Homeland Security has given me, an immigration lawyer born in Newton, Massachusetts, seven days to leave the U.S. Does anyone know if you can get Italian citizenship through great-grandparents?
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jamelle
8 months ago
they are segregationists, it has been obvious from the jump, and i think that pundits who dismissed the charge as hyperbolic should explain why they couldn’t see the fact pattern
add a skeleton here at some point
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Anne Applebaum
8 months ago
Trump has done the same damage to our health, environment and security as to our markets, it's just that there isn't a stock ticker that measures the impact so clearly
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Acyn
9 months ago
Carney: The system of global trade anchored on the United States.. is over. Our old relationship of steadily deepening integration with the United States is over. The 80 year period when the United States embraced the mantle of economic leadership… is over.
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Carmen 📚 Latinx Book Influencer 📚
9 months ago
When you look at the list of institutions they want to defund: libraries, museums, the Smithsonian, public schools, PBS, NPR, archives, you can clearly see that the real threat to an authoritarian regime is an informed and educated public
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The Onion
9 months ago
Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage
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Matt Novak
9 months ago
None of these Democrats should enjoy a moment's peace. Cortez Masto (NV) Durbin (IL) Fetterman (PA) Gillibrand (NY) Hassan (NH) Peters (MI) Schatz (HI) Schumer (NY) Shaheen (NH) They've effectively just voted for Donald Trump's agenda without putting up a fight. Never let them hear the end of it.
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Connie Schultz
9 months ago
Ruth Marcus, unsilenced.
www.newyorker.com/news/essay/w...
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Why I Left the Washington Post
Owner Jeff Bezos wants to transform the Opinions section of the paper, where I worked for forty years. After the publisher killed my column disagreeing with that move—it appears here in full—I decided...
https://www.newyorker.com/news/essay/why-ruth-marcus-left-the-washington-post
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Tom Scocca
10 months ago
Come ON
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Senator Patty Murray
10 months ago
Tonight, I tried to pass an amendment to have a nonpartisan watchdog, GAO, conduct a basic review and audit of DOGE. Everyone should be for more transparency but every Republican in our committee markup voted NO. What are they scared of finding out?
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danah boyd
11 months ago
As the EOs and orders keep coming, I keep thinking of the exhibit in the Berlin Jewish Museum that displays the 962 anti-Jewish laws and policies in order as they came down. These kinds of drumbeats are designed not just to oppress but to normalize oppression.
www.jmberlin.de/en/jmb-journ...
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Monteiro
11 months ago
We’ve all seen the nazi salute. They do the nazi salute because they know you will repost the nazi salute. I know it is hard, but the only way to stop a narcissistic sociopath is to starve them of the attention they crave.
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Ana Marie Cox
11 months ago
If you live in an abortion-restricted state, order your abortion pills now.
PlanCPill.org
will direct you to a provider who delivers to your state. If you live in Texas, you'll need to go through
AidAccess.org
. Legal jeopardy is on the provider, not the recipient--for now. So order them now.
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PLAN C: Abortion pills by mail in every state
Plan C is an information resource for self-managed, at-home abortion with pills. Learn how people in the U.S. are accessing abortion pill options online.
https://PlanCPill.org
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Deb Chachra
11 months ago
Occasional reminder that there’s no, “it’s too late, its over” for anthropogenic climate change. Every molecule of CO2 that doesn’t go into the atmosphere makes a difference. Preventing 0.1 degree of warming makes a difference. Every bit of climate resilience we build together makes a difference.
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