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Concerend citizen,
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alum. "The spiral light of Venus rising first and shining best"
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Your daily reminder that those opposed for diversity, equity, and inclusion are in favor of sameness, inequity, and exclusion.
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Aaron Rupar
about 19 hours ago
Wow! What sounded like the entire AEW Dynamite audience in Las Vegas tonight chanted "Fuck ICE! Fuck ICE!" in unison before the main event
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Sarah Longwell
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"The Post as it existed last week, has ceased to exist…This is a story about incompetent leadership that destroyed the paper’s economic viability. It’s a story of self-mutilation."
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on WaPo and Bezo's civic vandalism in The Triad
@thebulwark.com
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www.thebulwark.com/p/the-washin...
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The Washington Post Dies in Daylight
Civic vandalism and the mutilation of a great paper.
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/the-washington-post-dies-in-broad-daylight-bezos-lewis-layoffs
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Amee Vanderpool
2 days ago
Not a single Republican member of Congress showed up to the public forum on the violence inflicted by ICE agents, featuring testimony from the brothers of Renee Good, who was shot and killed by ICE agent Jonathan Ross in Minneapolis last month.
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https://www.c-span.org/program/public-affairs-event/house-and-senate-democrats-examine-dhs-immigration-and-enforcement-tactics/672732
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BrooklynDad_Defiant!
2 days ago
HELL. YEAH. Give it up for Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson for putting ICE on notice by signing an order to ensure that trump's violent thugs are held accountable for their aggression. MORE OF THIS!!!
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Governor Tim Walz
2 days ago
They’re taking children from Minnesota and locking them up like criminals in detention camps in Texas. For the love of God, send our kids home and bring an end to this nightmare.
www.startribune.com/walz-demands...
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Walz demands DHS stop detaining Minnesota children
In a letter to Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, Walz demanded details about how many Minnesota kids are in detention facilities.
https://www.startribune.com/walz-demands-dhs-stop-detaining-minnesota-children/601575923
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SkoobyRüe
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you need to keep ice away from voting locations
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This is the simplest way for Democrats to impede the facist takeover, and it only requires a single individual senator. And yet, they're not doing it.
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Governor Tim Walz
5 days ago
They’re taking kids from Minnesota and sending them to detention camps. They’re shooting American citizens in the street and locking investigators out of the crime scenes. The world is watching what happens next.
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Matthew Budman, book guy
8 days ago
If you're in New York & assumed you'd waited too long to buy opening-day tickets for MELANIA, no worries: Here's the 10:30pm Friday screening at the Regal Union Square theater, with one (1) ticket sold. You have even more options for the 10:30am, 1:30pm, and 4:40pm shows, with zero (0) tickets sold.
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Parker Molloy
10 days ago
Pro Football Hall of Famer John Randle posted a statement about ICE as text overlays on various portraits of himself and I kind of love it
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ProPublica
13 days ago
More than 2 million oil and gas wells sit unplugged in the U.S., many leaking contaminants into waterways, farmland and neighborhoods. Time and time again, oil companies have walked away — leaving taxpayers to pay for cleanup. Here’s how. (Published Dec. 2024)
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The American Oil Industry’s Playbook, Illustrated: How Drillers Offload Costly Cleanup Onto the Public
Oil executive Tom Ragsdale walked away from his old wells, making the pollution left behind the state of New Mexico’s problem. His tactics, however, are ubiquitous in the industry.
https://www.propublica.org/article/oil-orphan-wells-cleanup-playbook-siana-tom-ragsdale?utm_campaign=propublica-sprout&utm_content=1769216413&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky
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Brian Tyler Cohen
15 days ago
Ted Cruz has been caught on camera flying to Laguna Beach, California as Texas is expected to experience another dangerous winter storm.
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Brian Cardone
22 days ago
Pete Buttigieg always has the best takes on Donald Trump. Trump giving the middle finger to that Ford worker is what he has been doing to the working class for a long time. Like Pete I stand with the worker and not the petulant two year old that is Trump. Check it out👇👇
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Syth'thys
23 days ago
Guess where Ross was working in 2014.
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That’s alright with me
26 days ago
...Just Say'n... Did you see that! ..the Gun?... Pull'd while ..tje other agent pull'n on the door.. and car Stand'n Still!...
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Michael J. Stern
24 days ago
BREAKING: Mark Kelly is suing Pete Hegseth. We are all Mark Kelly at this moment.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/u...
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Kelly Sues Pentagon Over Threats of Punishment From Hegseth
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/us/politics/mark-kelly-pentagon-hegseth-suit.html
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You're so right. Ironically, the Epstein Files are becoming a distraction from Trump's fascism and quest for absolute, dictatorial power.
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Democracy Docket
27 days ago
BREAKING: In a major win for voters, a federal court blocked key parts of Trump’s anti-voting executive order. The judge ruled Trump had no authority to rewrite election rules, target mail-in ballots or force new barriers to voter registration.
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Federal court blocks key parts of Trump’s anti-voting order, restores states’ control over elections
Read more here.
https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/federal-court-blocks-key-parts-of-trumps-anti-voting-order-restores-states-control-over-elections/
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Sherrilyn Ifill
30 days ago
FYI: In 1916 the U.S. signed an agreement for control of St. Thomas, St. John & St. Croix, known as the “Danish West Indies,” in exchange for $25 million & a declaration that the U.S. would “not object to the Danish Govt extending their political & economic interests to the whole of Greenland.
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Katie Phang
about 1 month ago
Jack Smith: “Our case was built on, frankly, Republicans who put their allegiance to the country before the party.” Trump also had a “pattern” of rejecting information that didn’t fit his false narrative.
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Justin Baragona
about 1 month ago
Bari Weiss just sent this Christmas Eve email to the CBS News staff about "building trust," which includes her tripling down on spiking the CECOT piece "to make sure it's comprehensive and fair." One CBS staffer tells me: "She really has no idea how insulting she comes across."
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸
about 1 month ago
This could wind up being the most-watched newsmagazine segment in television history!! Congratulations to the Ellisons and Bari Weiss!!!
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Dr. Jack Brown
about 2 months ago
"Our story was screened five times and cleared by both CBS attorneys and Standards and Practices. It is factually correct. In my view, pulling it now – after every rigorous internal check has been met is not an editorial decision, it is a political one." Sharyn Alfonsi
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Mother Jones
about 2 months ago
The secret airport deportation program denies victims any semblance of due process.
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TSA is forwarding names, photos, and flight info to ICE
The secret airport deportation program denies victims any semblance of due process.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/12/tsa-ice-deporting-traveler-flight-details/
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ProPublica
about 2 months ago
In 1993, Trump signed a mortgage for a Florida home, pledging it would be his principal residence. Seven weeks later, he attested a neighboring property would also be his principal residence. In reality, he does not seem to have lived in either home.
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Trump’s Own Mortgages Match His Description of Mortgage Fraud, Records Reveal
The Trump administration has argued that Fed board member Lisa Cook may have committed mortgage fraud by declaring more than one primary residence on her loans. We found Trump once did the very thing ...
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-mortgage-fraud-florida-principal-residences?utm_campaign=propublica-sprout&utm_content=1765684803&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky
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The Tennessee Holler
about 2 months ago
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: “If he was at the ‘top of his game’ Indiana Republicans would’ve approved his maps… people are saying we put you in to lower prices and you’re building ballrooms and saying we can only have 2 pencils.”
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Robert Reich
about 2 months ago
Medicare for all, paid leave, universal childcare. Busting up big corporations and tackling Wall Street’s greed. Getting big money out of politics. Supporting unions and fighting for higher wages. If Dems want to win back working people, this is the agenda they must support.
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani
2 months ago
Know your rights. Protect your neighbors. New York is — and always will be — a city for all immigrants.
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Lisa Mikolajczyk ✡️ 🏴☠️
2 months ago
This wouldn’t even be up for debate if people had voted for Hillary in 2016 & not let Trump appoint 3 Supreme Court justices.
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ProPublica
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.
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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=1764820804&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky
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Blue Fairylicious Girl🧚
2 months ago
If you’re not as mad about Signalgate as you were Hillary’s emails then you’re in a cult.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers
2 months ago
Current US Policy: If you’re suspected of trafficking a small amount of drugs with no evidence, we will murder you, but if you’re convicted of trafficking an enormous amount of drugs with copious evidence, we will pardon you. Because we are currently a very stupid country.
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ProPublica
2 months ago
“The fact that a governmental body can redact more than 1,000 pages of documents that are directly related to a major business’s activities in Texas is certainly problematic,” an attorney specializing in public records said. With
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Gov. Greg Abbott Was Ordered to Release Some of His Emails With Elon Musk. Most Are Blacked Out.
Months after fighting to keep secret emails between Gov. Greg Abbott and Elon Musk, Texas officials released 1,400 pages of records. But they reveal little about the two men’s relationship or Musk’s i...
https://www.propublica.org/article/greg-abbott-releases-elon-musk-emails-redacted?utm_campaign=propublica-sprout&utm_content=1763946010&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky
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Mark Hamill
3 months ago
Is Piggy referring to his attempted coup on January 6th?
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Christopher Hale
3 months ago
BREAKING: At Pope Leo XIV’s urging, U.S. Catholic bishops just delivered the strongest rebuke of a sitting president in Church history — condemning Trump-Vance raids as “inhumane” and “dehumanizing” in a 216–5 vote.
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NEW: At Pope Leo’s Urging, Bishops Issue Historic Rebuke of Trump’s Raids
Nearly all U.S. Catholic bishops united in Baltimore to denounce the Trump administration’s “inhumane” deportation campaign — a near-unanimous, unprecedented moral stand against a sitting president.
https://www.thelettersfromleo.com/p/breaking-at-pope-leos-urging-bishops
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Secretariat Girl
3 months ago
Reminder: the alternative to Obamacare (Romneycare) is....Medicare for all. I would love to hear ONE Democrat say that! It's so simple!
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Jack Hopkins-The Original
3 months ago
I spy….a man with a functioning brain:
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Mother Jones
3 months ago
Former models for Donald Trump’s agency say they violated immigration rules and worked illegally.
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Former models for Donald Trump's agency say they violated immigration rules and worked illegally
"It's like modern-day slavery."
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/08/donald-trump-model-management-illegal-immigration/
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ProPublica
3 months ago
Vought holds one of the most powerful jobs in D.C., and he’s used his position to wage a quiet war to change the shape of the entire U.S. government. Here's what you should know about Trump’s shadow president.
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What You Should Know About Russ Vought, Trump’s Shadow President
Vought is the architect of President Trump’s broader plan to fire civil servants, freeze government programs and dismantle entire agencies. Here are some key things to know about the D.C. insider who ...
https://www.propublica.org/article/about-russell-vought-trump-shadow-president?utm_campaign=propublica-sprout&utm_content=1762827660&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky
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ProPublica
3 months ago
Three CFPB probes into companies backed by billionaire Marc Andreessen have been halted as bureau investigations have ground to a halt, including inquiries into the popular cash advance app EarnIn and Point Digital Finance, a provider of so-called alternative mortgages.
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Tech Billionaire Marc Andreessen Bet Big on Trump. It’s Paying Off for Silicon Valley.
The Trump administration’s gutting of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has been good for venture capitalists like Andreessen, who previously accused the agency of “terrorizing” fintech startup...
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-cfpb-marc-andreessen-silicon-valley?utm_campaign=propublica-sprout&utm_content=1762747207&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky
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ProPublica
3 months ago
A data-sharing agreement that gives the Department of Homeland Security access to hundreds of millions of Americans’ Social Security data contains alarmingly few provisions to ensure accuracy, security or privacy, experts say. By
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DHS Agreement Reveals Risks of Using Social Security Data for Voter Citizenship Checks
A recently released agreement gives the Department of Homeland Security access to hundreds of millions of Americans' Social Security data. It contains alarmingly few provisions to ensure accuracy and privacy, experts say.
https://www.propublica.org/article/dhs-social-security-data-voter-citizenship-trump?utm_campaign=propublica-sprout&utm_content=1762005646&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky
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Qasim Rashid, Esq.
3 months ago
Never take seriously those who ridicule low income people for having a smartphone or laptop. “If they’re so poor how did they buy an iPhone???” Because they’re trying to escape poverty, not the 1700s, genius. If you think basic tech access is luxury, survive a month without it.
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Mehdi Hasan
3 months ago
The people on the right getting mad at Tucker Carlson for hosting Holocaust denier Nick Fuentes on his podcast don’t seem to have gotten mad at all at Donald Trump for hosting Holocaust denier Nick Fuentes at his home for dinner. Funny that.
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Aaron Rupar
3 months ago
Obama: "The weird videos of a US president with a crown on his head flying a fighter jet & dumping poop on American citizens - that's not even worth booing about. Because all of that is a distraction from the fact that your situation, your life has not gotten better. They do it so you won't notice"
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ProPublica
3 months ago
An EPA report found that the forever chemical PFNA interferes with human development and likely causes damage to the liver and male reproductive systems. The agency has sat on the report for months. “Scientifically, it was done,” said one scientist.
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Scientists Completed a Toxicity Report on This Forever Chemical. The EPA Hasn’t Released It.
Agency scientists found that PFNA could cause developmental, liver and reproductive harms. Their final report was ready in mid-April, according to an internal document reviewed by ProPublica, but the ...
https://www.propublica.org/article/epa-pfna-forever-chemical-report?utm_campaign=propublica-sprout&utm_content=1761959701&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky
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ProPublica
3 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.
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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=1761966006&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky
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Chris Murphy
3 months ago
The way he rubs his inhumanity in Americans” face never ceases to stun me. He’s illegally refusing to pay food stamp benefits… …while he throws a ridiculously over the top Gatsby party for his right wing millionaire and corporate friends.
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Aaron Rupar
3 months ago
Welch: "This has nothing to do with the shutdown. The law requires and the funds are available to continue SNAP right now without any interruption. So that is a decision the president is making on his own to allow people to go hungry."
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Democracy Docket
3 months ago
BREAKING: A federal judge ruled that Trump-appointed, anti-voting U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli served unlawfully in the nation’s largest federal district — the third Trump-installed prosecutor found to have unlawfully held office in recent months.
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Another Trump-Appointed U.S. Attorney Found to be Serving Unlawfully, Federal Judge Rules
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https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/another-trump-appointed-u-s-attorney-found-to-be-serving-unlawfully-federal-judge-rules/
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