Sarah Okeson
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Former newspaper reporter. Minnesota resident.
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Sherrilyn Ifill
about 2 hours ago
We are in the maelstrom of a multi-century struggle for this nation. If we donât understand that, then we will fail to understand whatâs at stake. And we will under-react to the danger of this moment. That is why we need to know how history brings us here.
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Dawn Xiana Moon
about 22 hours ago
Chicago is having none of this administration's BS.
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Sherrilyn Ifill
3 days ago
Ugh.
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Carl Quintanilla
3 days ago
The early reviews for
#CPI
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@wsj.com
@nicktimiraos.bsky.social
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Rolling Stone
3 days ago
Melissa Hortman Died in a Shocking Act of Political Violence. This Is the Story of Her Life The Minnesota Speakerâs closest friends and family open up for the first time. Read
@stephenrodrick.bsky.social
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www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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Omar Sakr
4 days ago
Everyone knows about Ahmed al-Ahmad, the Syrian Muslim migrant who took down one gunman. Another man, a Middle Eastern refugee, ran into a firefight and kicked the gun away from the other gunman. Police shot him, and bystanders kicked him in the head while he was down, thinking he was the terrorist.
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Prof Gavin Yamey
3 days ago
It is unethical to do a randomized controlled trial in which you withhold a proven, life-saving vaccine from newborn babies.
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Will Bunch
4 days ago
Maybe this is why I'm not a Beltway journalist, but I think the fact the United States is about to invade Venezuela to take their oil is an 100X bigger story than Trump's chief of staff going on the record with Captain Obvious characterizations of their dysfunctional regime
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Ann Telnaes
4 days ago
(eyeroll) Well, at least the writer briefly acknowledged how Hollywood historically would cast women barely older than their male co-stars as the mother.
www.theguardian.com/film/2025/de...
(note this cartoon is from 2003. The stats are higher now...I hope)
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Sherrilyn Ifill
5 days ago
Yet another excellent courtroom exhibit.
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Marc Elias
5 days ago
This is the most important political, legal and democracy story right now. Yet, it has garnered relatively little coverage from legacy media outlets. The outcome in these cases may decide whether we have free and fair elections in 2026.
www.democracydocket.com/analysis/as-...
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As DOJ Sues More States For Voter Rolls, Federal âPower Grabâ Comes into Focus
Read about the fight for democracy from activists, elected officials, legal experts and others.
https://www.democracydocket.com/analysis/as-doj-sues-more-states-for-voter-rolls-federal-power-grab-comes-into-focus/
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Josh Goldstein
5 days ago
One of the biggest moments of my career: USCIS canceled my clientâs naturalization oath ceremony. We filed a lawsuit, went to trial, and the judge swore him in right there in the courtroom!
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Radley Balko
6 days ago
They announced the escalation of their investigation into Kelly for reminding service members of their duty to refuse illegal orders on the same day Hegseth illegally ordered subordinates to murder nine more unarmed people in boats.
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Mark Chadbourn
5 days ago
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov: âThe United States promised Russia not to accept Ukraine into NATO and to facilitate the transfer of territories.â
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Joe Dudek
5 days ago
This week, Secretary Hegseth murdered four times as many people as the Brown University gunman. This month, he murdered twice as many as the Bondi Beach attack.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/15/u...
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U.S. Strikes 3 More Boats in Eastern Pacific, Killing 8
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/15/us/politics/drug-boat-strikes-pacific.html
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Qasim Rashid, Esq.
7 days ago
12 dead at a mass shooting at a Hanukkah celebration at Bondi Beach.đ A 43-year-old father of two, Ahmed al Ahmed, snuck up & tackled a gunman to disarm him. Ahmed was shot twice. Both Jewish & Muslim faiths teach that âto save one life is to save all humanity.â Let us hold fast to our humanity.â¤ď¸
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Lyz
7 days ago
We live in a culture where it is far more dangerous to say what a man did to you than for the man to actually do the thing to you. And that is because of all the people who know without actually knowingâŚThat silence is its own kind of sexualized violence.
www.ms.now/opinion/jeff...
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Opinion | The real Jeffrey Epstein conspiracy is one of silence
Lyz Lenz: Newly released photos show how powerful people's silence enabled Epstein's horrors.
https://www.ms.now/opinion/jeffrey-epstein-trump-clinton-gates-photos-conspiracy
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derek guy
8 days ago
Two victims of previous school shootings â Mia Tretta, who was shot in the stomach in 2019 at Saugus High School, and Zoe Weissman, who survived the 2018 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School â are now at Brown. Gun violence is out of control in this country.
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When my oldest daughter was murdered, public radio reported on All Things Considered that she had been mostly raised by other relatives.
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Naomi Kritzer
8 days ago
The ideal way to deal with a brutally cold day like today
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Sarah Okeson
8 days ago
Just saw a Parkland survivor post about being on lock down at Brown University. We've failed generations of kids with our gun fetish
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Firewood Banks Arenât Inspiring. Theyâre a Sign of Collapse.
Rural communities are banding together to chop firewood so that people in need can heat their homes. This shouldnât be necessary.
https://newrepublic.com/article/204051/firewood-banks-heating-bill-winter
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Ana Marie Cox
8 days ago
As the ACA deadline sneaks up a reminder to my fellow Texans: 1) Texas "silver loads," so gold plans are MORE AFFORDABLE (see
@charlesgaba.com
for more on this) 2) BaylorScott&White is a great bet for a large network 3) Don't at me but found ChatGPT to be very useful for comparing plans!
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David Roberts
9 days ago
In terms of US politics, Bush v. Gore is the defining event of the century. It set the template: a ruthless right that instinctively seeks power & doesn't give a shit about rule of law...and a bunch of hapless, feckless octogenarian Dems worried about the good opinion of centrist opinion columnists.
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Will Bunch
9 days ago
The most important story of 2025 that we're not talking about enough (gift link)
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/u...
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Kids Rarely Read Whole Books Anymore. Even in English Class.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/us/high-school-english-teachers-assigning-books.html?unlocked_article_code=1.8E8.iGPk.gkPUhFv6oxAB&smid=url-share
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The Desert Veteran
10 days ago
Yesterday, Spc Sarah Becstrom was laid to rest in West Virginia at a VA National Cemetery. Surprisingly none of the major major news media mention it. No flags were lower to half staff. Well the Convicted FElon keeps the news focus on him.
www.wvva.com/2025/12/10/s...
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Spc. Sarah Beckstrom laid to rest with full military honors at W.Va. National Cemetery
Spc. Sarah Beckstrom was laid to rest with full military honors Tuesday in Grafton.
https://www.wvva.com/2025/12/10/spc-sarah-beckstrom-laid-rest-with-full-military-honors-wva-national-cemetery/
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The Associated Press
10 days ago
BREAKING: Kilmar Abrego Garcia has been released from immigration detention after a federal judge's order Thursday, his attorney's office says.
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Judge orders Kilmar Abrego Garcia to be immediately released from immigration detention
A federal judge in Maryland has ordered Kilmar Abrego Garcia freed from immigration detention while his legal challenge against his deportation moves forward. U.S.
https://bit.ly/48M0eTQ
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Will Bunch
10 days ago
Two very strong, alluring Dem candidates have come forward in Texas Or, as the Washington Post calls it: Dems in disarray
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The Onion
11 days ago
White House Begins Christmas Season With Ceremonial Lighting Of Cross
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Katrina Green, MD FAAEM, FAMWA (she/her)
11 days ago
The first hospital in TN to announce it is closing its maternity ward since the Big Bad Bill passed is in rural Pulaski. Our state has been dead last in the country for our maternal mortality rates for 2 years now. This will make matters worse.
#MedSky
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Love midwives. Two of my three daughters were delivered by certified nurse-midwives. My middle daughter would have been too, but she was delivered by a somewhat stressed-out emergency room doctor.
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Marc Elias
12 days ago
đ¨BREAKING: More than 300,000 Missourians have signed a petition demanding that the gerrymander be put to a statewide referendum, advocacy organization People Not Politicians announced as it delivered those signatures to the state government Tuesday.
www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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300,000 Missouri Voters Sign Petition To Put GOP Gerrymander to Statewide Vote
Read more here.
https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/300000-missouri-voters-sign-petition-to-put-gop-gerrymander-to-statewide-vote/
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The Tennessee Holler
14 days ago
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Aaron Rupar
14 days ago
Himes: "I think it's really important this video by made public ... it's important people see what it looks like when the full force of the US military is turned on two guys who are clinging to a piece of wood and about to go under just so they have a visceral feel for what it is we're doing"
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR)
15 days ago
December 6, 2025
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On the sunny Sunday morning of December 7, 1941, Messman Doris Miller had served breakfast aboard the USS West Virginia, stationed in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, and was collecting laundry when the first of...
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/december-6-2025
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paulpro
15 days ago
Christmas during Trump 1.0
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Sherrilyn Ifill
15 days ago
It starts with knowing the truth. Donât allow yourselves to be gaslit into believing this is a real question.
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Immigrant Defenders Law Center
16 days ago
đ¨We're sounding the alarm: privatizing legal aid for unaccompanied kids puts their lives & rights at risk. This RFP dismantles a network that has held the govt accountable for their abuses. Read more:
https://www.levernews.com/trump-is-poised-to-privatize-legal-aid-for-migrant-children/
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Trump Is Poised To Privatize Legal Aid For Migrant Children
Internal documents suggest Trump aims to undercut a key program for unaccompanied children and potentially outsource those legal services to a for-profit ICE contractor and Angelina Jolieâs NGO.
https://www.levernews.com/trump-is-poised-to-privatize-legal-aid-for-migrant-children/
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Catherine Rampell
16 days ago
Rep. Grijalva says she was pepper-sprayed by ICE
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The Tennessee Holler
17 days ago
CARTOON OF THE DAY
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Kyle Cheney
17 days ago
BREAKING: The Supreme Court has permitted Texas to keep its newly redistricted, GOP-favorable congressional map in 2026. Kagan, Sotomayor and Jackson dissent.
s3.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
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Marc Elias
18 days ago
As Missourians fight to stave off a GOP gerrymander by putting it to a statewide vote, the President of United Statesâ eldest son entered the fray Wednesday, attacking the referendumâs organizer on social media.
www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Trump Jr. Targets Missouri Activist in Latest Attack on Gerrymander Opponents
Read more here.
https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/trump-jr-targets-missouri-activist-in-latest-attack-on-gerrymander-opponents/
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Skye
18 days ago
Ilhan Omar: âHis obsession with me is creepy, I'm not going anywhere â I'll be here longer than
#Trump
- Heâs an old man losing his mind. I hope he gets the help he desperately needsââ
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Marc Elias
18 days ago
This is the most consequential story for the 2026 midterms. Yet, I cannot find it anywhere on legacy media.
www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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DOJ Sues Six More States in Sweeping Push to Obtain Unredacted Voter Rolls
Read more here.
https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/doj-sues-six-more-states-in-sweeping-push-to-obtain-unredacted-voter-rolls/
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Reuters Legal
19 days ago
The administration of U.S. President Donald Trump will halt federal payments that help administer the food stamp program to Democratic-led states next week if they do not turn over aid recipient data, according to Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins.
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Trump to halt some food aid support for Democratic-led states over data fight
The administration of U.S. President Donald Trump will halt federal payments that help administer the food stamp program to Democratic-led states next week if they do not turn over aid recipient data, according to Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins.
https://reut.rs/4oOCk09
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Timothy Snyder
21 days ago
I wish all figures of authority cared about moms and babies. But some donât. Some even want you to hurt. And those are the people who cast doubt on the vaccination miracle that has allowed so many of us to live longer and better.
kentuckylantern.com/2025/11/25/t...
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Third unvaccinated Kentucky baby dies of whooping cough ⢠Kentucky Lantern
A third unvaccinated infant in Kentucky has died of pertussis as public health officials urge Kentuckians to get vaccinated against the disease.
https://kentuckylantern.com/2025/11/25/third-unvaccinated-kentucky-baby-dies-of-whooping-cough/
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Matthew Hodson
20 days ago
I was diagnosed with
#HIV
in 1998, when I was 30. Many of my friends had died of AIDS. I did not expect to live to 50. Iâm 58 now. HIV treatment works. Treatment also makes it impossible for me to pass HIV on during sex. Ensure HIV treatment for all. End HIV stigma.
#WorldAIDSDay
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Sherrilyn Ifill
23 days ago
HOW
@nytimes.com
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Damon Kiesow
23 days ago
To put the Northwestern capitulation into human terms: $75 million is the equivalent of three head football coaches a year for three years.
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