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Senator Patty Murray
about 3 hours ago
There’s no telling how many similar stories are not being told for fear of retaliation. By now, everyone should realize Trump is not going after violent criminals or the worst of the worst—he is terrorizing everyone, including U.S. citizens, and their loved ones.
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Senator Murray Condemns Egregious Use of Force by ICE as Constituent is Mauled by Attack Dog, Demands Release from NWIPC to Receive Appropriate Medical Care - Senator Patty Murray
***(WARNING: Graphic Content) Photos of Wilmer’s injuries, photos of Wilmer and his children, and partial video of his detainment are available to the press HERE*** Washington, D.C. – Today, U.S. Sen...
https://www.murray.senate.gov/senator-murray-condemns-egregious-use-of-force-by-ice-as-constituent-is-mauled-by-attack-dog-demands-release-from-nwipc-to-receive-appropriate-medical-care/
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Holiday Ryan
3 days ago
They should invent a university that prioritizes teaching and research
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Mondoweiss
5 days ago
An Israeli attack on her shelter caused the amputation of both of Nebal's hands, forcing her to lose the thing she held most dear: the ability to hold her young daughter. Her story is one of hundreds of amputee women in Gaza.
mondoweiss.net/2025/12/the-...
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The genocide in Gaza cost this Palestinian woman her hands. She lost so much more than her limbs.
An Israeli attack on her shelter caused the amputation of both of Nebal’s hands, forcing her to lose the thing she held most dear: the ability to hold her young daughter. Her story is one of hundreds...
https://mondoweiss.net/2025/12/the-genocide-in-gaza-cost-this-palestinian-woman-her-hands-she-lost-so-much-more-than-her-limbs/
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Also, the articles in this issue are 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 11/10s the whole lot
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Tressie McMillan Cottom
14 days ago
Again, I don’t want to get too personal but the most tepidly political, structurally vulnerable people in my life were protesting ICE all week. The juxtaposition here is just wild.
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NOH8 Campaign
16 days ago
We must never forget the lives lost to anti-transgender violence & discrimination. 🏳️⚧️ Share to support the
#TransgenderDayofRemembrance
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#NOH8
#TDOR
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Rich Raho
16 days ago
Pope Leo in new book: “We must look at our world, directly: we can no longer tolerate structural injustices in which those who have more always have more, and, conversely, those who have less become increasingly poor.”
www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news...
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Pope Leo XIV: Recognizing each other as brothers is antidote to all extremism - Vatican News
The Vatican Publishing House (LEV) releases Pope Leo XIV’s new book, entitled “The Power of the Gospel: Christian Faith in 10 Words.” Edited by ...
https://www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news/2025-11/pope-leo-xiv-power-gospel-christian-faith-10-words.html
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Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal
16 days ago
NEW:
@warren.senate.gov
and I just introduced our EXPERTS Act — legislation to ensure that bills passed into law actually work for Americans and don’t get warped by corporations working for their own bottom lines. We’re taking the fight to Trump’s corruption.
jayapal.house.gov/2025/11/19/j...
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Jayapal, Warren Introduce Legislation to Curb Corporate Influence on Federal Regulation, Restore Deference to Experts - Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal
WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S Representative Pramila Jayapal (WA-07) and U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (MA) are introducing the Experts Protect Effective Rules, Transparency, and Stability (EXPERTS) Act to r...
https://jayapal.house.gov/2025/11/19/jayapal-warren-introduce-legislation-to-curb-corporate-influence-on-federal-regulation-restore-deference-to-experts/
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Ms Hooper
19 days ago
Thousands of indigenous leaders in education have gathered in Auckland for the World Indigenous Peoples’ Conference on Education, the event returning to New Zealand for the first time in 20 years.
#nzpol
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'Wonderful experience': Global indigenous groups gather in Auckland
Thousands of indigenous leaders in education have gathered in Auckland for the World Indigenous Peoples’ Conference on Education, the event returning to New Zealand for the first time in 20 years.
https://www.1news.co.nz/2025/11/17/wonderful-experience-global-indigenous-groups-gather-in-auckland/
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Happy
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Charlotte Clymer
25 days ago
I'm thinking today of all my fellow veterans but especially the more than 5,000 trans service members and their families who were kicked out of the military this year despite being highly qualified and serving honorably. This injustice will be a stain on our nation's history.
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Charles Keener
29 days ago
www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...
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Top U.S. climate polluters named in UMass Amherst’s ‘Greenhouse 100 Polluters Index’ report
AMHERST, Mass. — Researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst’s Political Economy Research Institute (PERI) today published a new Greenhouse 100 Polluters Index, reporting 2023 greenhouse ga...
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/11/6/2352479/-Top-U-S-climate-polluters-named-in-UMass-Amherst-s-Greenhouse-100-Polluters-Index-report
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Sheila Liming
about 1 month ago
Mamdani got a humanities degree. His win helps to illustrate that one of the central forces driving higher ed’s dissolution of the humanities is the fear that teaching people how power works can also lead to their interest in seizing it on behalf of the less powerful.
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Katie Wilson for Seattle
about 1 month ago
Lost your ballot? Never received it? Don’t worry, you can go to
kingcounty.gov
and print out a new one or vote in person at Lumen Field or the UW Hub by 8pm. Let’s win this, this is your city!
#thisisyourcity
#seattle
#vote
#wilsonforseattle
#ballot
#missingballot
#katiewilson
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Bookshop.org
about 1 month ago
Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House. Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity. They are not the same.
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Mx. James Pennington, LPC 👩🏻🎤🏳️🌈
about 1 month ago
My semi-annual reminder to all teachers that even when the system does fuck all to support you, your students will still be in their therapy sessions years after they’ve graduated telling their therapist (me) how much you changed their lives. Y’all are amazing, and you don’t hear it enough.
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Marc Elias
about 1 month ago
Rachel Maddow and I discuss a shocking new move by the Trump administration: sending Department of Justice “poll monitors” — handpicked by Pam Bondi — to California and New Jersey just days before the November elections and why this poses a grave threat to free and fair elections.
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Rachel Maddow & Marc Elias Break Down Trump's DOJ Poll Monitor Scheme
YouTube video by Democracy Docket
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wIUFctqkVFI
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Dan Golding
about 1 month ago
As the single most important news story this year, I can't wait to see the detailed and central coverage this will get in every media outlet we have
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‘Change course now’: humanity has missed 1.5C climate target, says UN head
Exclusive: ‘Devastating consequences’ now inevitable but emissions cuts still vital, says António Guterres in sole interview before Cop30
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/oct/28/change-course-now-humanity-has-missed-15c-climate-target-says-un-head
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James Talarico
about 1 month ago
Three men — Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, and Jeff Bezos — now own more wealth than 165 million Americans combined. They own the media. They own the algorithms. They own politicians in both parties. The system is rigged — but We the People can take it back.
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Aaron Rupar
about 1 month ago
Walz: "We have a federal system that we're all in it together, we help other states when they need it, but we have a situation where they're trying to divide us & provide specific aid to states that they like at the moment, which is absolutely unconscionable... either that or give us our money back"
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So at what point do states realize that the federal government is failing the basic tenets of federalization and begin to withhold their federal taxes to care for their own states’ needs? This is a genuine question.
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Robert Reich
about 1 month ago
Major disasters caused $101 billion in damages in the first half of 2025 — the costliest six month period on record. How do we know? A nonprofit had to take over NOAA’s work tracking disasters, which Trump gutted. What else doesn’t he want us to know?
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Climate disasters in first half of 2025 costliest ever on record, research shows
LA wildfires and storms this year cost $101bn, new study by non-profit resurrecting work axed by Trump says
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/oct/22/climate-disasters-2025-cost
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Extinction Rebellion Global
about 1 month ago
One of the last truly wild places on Earth, sacred to the Gwich’in Nation, home to irreplaceable wildlife, wilderness and cultural values. Now, the entire coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, 1.5 million acres, has been opened up for oil and gas leasing.
vimeo.com/247917667?fl...
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Save the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
This is "Save the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge" by Alaska Conservation Foundation on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.
https://vimeo.com/247917667?fl=pl&fe=sh
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Mueller, She Wrote
about 1 month ago
WOW: The White House says the president's MAIN PRIORITY is his BALLROOM. SNAP is ending. Subsidies for health care are gong to double and in some instances quadruple plan premiums. The government is shut down. The cost of living is through the roof. And his priority is his ballroom.
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Marisa Kabas
about 1 month ago
he's knocking down the literal white house and illegally murdering people by dropping bombs on international boats and the government has been shut down for weeks and it's just like....yep
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ProPublica
about 2 months ago
Americans have been dragged, tackled, beaten, tased and shot by immigration agents. They’ve had their necks kneeled on. They’ve been held outside in the rain while in their underwear. At least three citizens were pregnant when agents detained them. By
@nicolefoy.bsky.social
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More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.
The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...
https://www.propublica.org/article/immigration-dhs-american-citizens-arrested-detained-against-will?utm_campaign=propublica-sprout&utm_content=1760930100&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky
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Proud of you, Seattle.
@jayapal.house.gov
says this is our “if you can keep it” moment. We showed up all across this country to show up for democracy, for our liberty, our rights, and our neighbors—all our neighbors. We stand together, or we won’t stand at all.
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Nearly 90,000 join Seattle’s ‘No Kings’ march
Rep. Pramila Jayapal called the moment a test of whether America can keep its republic.
https://www.king5.com/article/news/local/seattle-no-kings-march/281-b39a6ac5-93cf-4542-902b-e1bfd8c31f9d
about 2 months ago
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Today is a good day to stand for democracy, march for solidarity and liberation, and nap for everything else! Happy
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about 2 months ago
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David Sirota
about 2 months ago
This is the best political news I’ve seen in a very long time — so please pass it on👇 Each state can limit Citizens United in their own state & they don’t have to wait for other states to do it. Our new
@rollingstone.com
piece based on our new book MASTER PLAN. Get the book at
LeverNews.com/book
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derek guy
about 2 months ago
heartbroken to learn the pope sympathizes with the poor. how can i continue to believe in god
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Acyn
about 2 months ago
AOC: And they are able to radicalize a generation of young boys in particular, away from healthy masculinity and into an insecure masculinity that requires the domination of others who are poorer, browner, darker, or a different gender than them.
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I’m starting to think those folks who are against antifa are just…fa
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Mx. James Pennington, LPC 👩🏻🎤🏳️🌈
about 2 months ago
Sad to lose such a powerful voice. May we all follow her example of fighting for the safety and rights of ourselves and our community.
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This is a point that I don’t hear enough. Maybe some jobs benefit from genAI, but I have yet to experience a single benefit. It has, however, made my work much more laborious and annoying. Cool.
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about 2 months ago
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What’s more perfect than a Golden Spiral? Double Kitten Spirals! Happy
#Caturday
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about 2 months ago
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani
about 2 months ago
UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion. As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.
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Elizabeth Warren
about 2 months ago
Donald Trump wants to sell YOUR student loan debt to Wall Street. He's not looking out for you — he's looking to make his CEO buddies more money off of your back.
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Trump administration considers sale of federal student loan debt
The discussions have taken place among senior Education Department and Treasury Department officials.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/07/trump-administration-selling-federal-student-loan-portfolio-00595456
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Robert Reich
about 2 months ago
BlackRock is seeking to buy Aligned Data Centers, a data center construction company. It’s also going to buy AES, one of the major power providers for Big Tech data centers. While these data centers drive up your electricity costs, wealthy financiers are going to make a killing.
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jamelle
about 2 months ago
i desperately want everyone involved in the destruction of USAID to have to, st the very least, answer to the american people for the suffering and misery they have caused
apnews.com/article/myan...
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Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.
https://apnews.com/article/myanmar-usaid-thailand-trump-rubio-aid-7f6919a1863ceea2ddf6708e47bb88f0
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The Bulwark
2 months ago
Pritzker: “The Trump administration is following a playbook: Cause chaos, create fear and confusion, make it seem that peaceful protesters are a mob by firing gas pellets and tear gas canisters at them. Why? To create the pretext for invoking the Insurrection Act.”
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Monica Maalouf, MD
2 months ago
My husband was detained by ICE today Juan Muñoz, an American citizen, father of 2, and local government official, was peacefully protesting w. other elected officials. He was assaulted and taken away I have had zero contact or updates since
#SOS
@duckworth.senate.gov
@durbin.senate.gov
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The Bulwark
2 months ago
"We have entered a period in which it is becoming important to ask: What happens when our leaders and the people who work for them see immigrants not as human beings but as scum?"
www.thebulwark.com/p/the-moral-...
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The “Moral Monsters” Among Us
Immigrants are dying now. Will people of good conscience speak up?
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/the-moral-monsters-among-us-immigration-ice?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=The+Bulwark&utm_campaign=publer
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NPR
2 months ago
Today marks the first day in public media’s history without federal funding. And we’re not going anywhere. Listeners like you keep our mission alive. Protect one of the last places where America comes together to hear itself. Stand with us today. Donate at this link:
n.pr/46wamAj
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Dr. Lucky Tran
2 months ago
"If we lose hope, we're doomed." We must continue Dr. Jane Goodall's mission and all fight for the future of the planet.
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Rep. Jimmy Gomez
2 months ago
Trump just called American citizens “the enemy within,” encouraging the men and women of the armed forces to use OUR cities as military training grounds. It’s time to wake up, put aside our differences, and create a united front to oppose Trump’s unconstitutional and illegal abuse of power.
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The Bulwark
2 months ago
Pritzker: “ICE is running around the Loop harassing people for not being white. Just a year ago, that was illegal in the United States. Now, ICE is making it commonplace.”
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MeidasTouch
2 months ago
It certainly appears the United States murdered an innocent fisherman who was a husband and father to four children, claimed he was a "narco-terrorist," posted a video of the execution, and then made jokes about it
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