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Pro-kindness, pro-planet, pro-democracy. For my children and grandchildren.
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Roger Sollenberger
28 minutes ago
Letâs put the $1.8 billion slush fund in perspective. DOJ spent ~$35M on Jack Smithâs Trump cases. Thatâs about 2% of $1.8B. The rioters caused $2.7B in damage to the Capitol. They were collectively ordered to pay about $3.2M restitution but only about $437,000 was paid before pardons wiped the rest
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Yellow Dot Studios
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Exxon funded 60 social media accounts (that researchers could find...) spreading climate disinformation online. Which is weird for a company that knew its pollution was causing catastrophic climate change 50 years before social media was invented.
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Yellow Dot Studios
5 days ago
It only cost Big Oil $445 million in the last election to get Trump to steal them $200 billion ($1508 x 135M households) straight from Americans' pockets. Heckuva dealmaker he is.
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Scott Dworkin
about 24 hours ago
đš THE SHEER NERVE đš They honestly think they can just illegally dismantle the US Forest Service while we aren't looking. Show them exactly how loud we can get. Tell Congress to stop this scheme. Takes 30 seconds to send your letter and RT:
actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...
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Tell Congress: Stop Trumpâs Illegal Plan to Destroy the US Forest Service
Contact Congress today!
https://actionnetwork.org/letters/tell-congress-stop-trumps-illegal-plan-to-destroy-the-us-forest-service/
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Mississippi Free Press
about 19 hours ago
After federal courts forced Mississippi to create more majority-Black state House and Senate districts in 2025, voters broke the GOP Senate supermajority. On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed that ruling.
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U.S. Supreme Court Reverses Mississippi Redistricting Order That Ended GOP Supermajority
The U.S. Supreme Court reversed a ruling that led to Mississippi redrawing its legislative district maps to create more Black-majority districts.
https://buff.ly/yTawq6Y
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Such welcome U.S. newsâeffective governing for ordinary people, not the wealthy.
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Skye
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Mamdani: I cannot help but think of the words of our 40th president, Ronald Reagan. He famously said, âThe nine most terrifying words in the English language are 'I'm from the govt & I'm here to help'" I think nine more terrifying words are actually, "I worked all day and can't feed my family"
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Peter Gleick
3 days ago
"A prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a people who mean to be free." The Declaration of Independence (1776) Seems relevant now.
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The Trump administration continues the rape of our nation, here handing long-held public lands to billionaires.
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Jess Craven âđ
4 days ago
Breaking: a new Public Citizen report just dropped: For-profit detention companies like GEO Group & Core Civic are paying ICE detainees $1 a day to cook, clean, and run their facilities â then threatening solitary if they refuse. Meanwhile, GEO Group's profits jumped from $32M to $254M in 1 year.
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This. Brilliant planetary investment.
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ProPublica
4 days ago
ProPublica obtained 3,000 pages of emails sent last year by executives asking that their facilities be exempted from Clean Air Act requirements. The White House approved more than 180 requests and is considering more.
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Trump Exempted Some of the Nation's Biggest Polluters From Air Quality Rules. All It Took Was an Email.
In an unprecedented move, the administration has granted industrial facilities in 38 states and Puerto Rico a two-year reprieve from federal rules under the Clean Air Act. The president is considering exempting even more.
https://www.propublica.org/article/clean-air-act-exemptions-trump-emails?utm_campaign=propublica-sprout&utm_content=1778896804&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky
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Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only)
4 days ago
Not only will they not face any consequences for attempting a coup Donald Trump is getting set to PAY them
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Gaza role in 2024 Harris loss/Trump win. âFor many voters watching the horrific, painful footage out of Gaza, it became a moral questionâone we didnât have a good answer for,â Flaherty said. âIn ways that may not be reflected in a poll, it meaningfully reduced enthusiasm.â
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Ketan Joshi
5 days ago
Holy moly this is great
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THREAD. Flying under the DC press radar, the tech/Christian Nationalist network has lain a wide net to capture US democracy.
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tracks, cites, linksâread and follow.
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5 days ago
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Aaron Rupar
5 days ago
GILLIBRAND: How did we bomb 22 schools? COOPER: There's no indication we have G: So how do you explain publicly available information that 22 schools have been hit and multiple hospitals? C: There's no way we can corroborate that G: Have you investigated those claims? C: We have not
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Stardust đđŹ
7 days ago
â¶ïž After inheriting a historic $12 billion budget gap, Mayor restores NYCâs fiscal health â¶ïž Mayor balances budget without slashing services, raising property taxes or draining long-term reserves â¶ïž Mayor refuses to let working New Yorkers foot the bill â secures historic tax on the rich
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Mayor Zohran Mamdani Releases $124.7 Billion Executive Budget for Fiscal Year 2027
https://www.nyc.gov/mayors-office/news/2026/05/mayor-zohran-mamdani-releases--124-7-billion-executive-budget-fo
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tomwellborn3rd
7 days ago
DOGE-linked Jennica Pound publicly warned anti-ICE app GTFO ICE would "learn the hard way," and hours later nearly 18,000 users received messages claiming their locations and contacts were forwarded to the FBI, ICE, and Homeland Security. Totally normal data security stuff. 1/2
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Mueller, She Wrote
10 days ago
Why did Trump pardon drug trafficker and Honduran president Juan HernĂĄndez? According to leaked audio tapes, it was an initial payment in part of a agreement between Trump, Bibi, and others to take down Mexican president Claudia Sheinbaum.
english.elpais.com/internationa...
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âHondurasgate,â the alleged US and Israeli interference plot to destabilize Mexico and other progressive governments
A leaked audio recording points to former Honduran President Juan Orlando HernĂĄndez, Javier Milei, and Donald Trump as attempting to create a platform to spread fake news about the administrations of ...
https://english.elpais.com/international/2026-05-07/hondurasgate-the-alleged-us-and-israeli-interference-plot-to-destabilize-mexico-and-other-progressive-governments.html
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David Roberts
10 days ago
At this point, solving climate change is cheaper than not solving it -- not only on some grand 50 year time horizon, but tomorrow, today, immediately. Soving climate change *is* affordability. Maybe Dems should tell voters about that.
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Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they)
10 days ago
But, look, it's not complicated: it is good politics to take a position that the majority support and that your opponent is absolutely terrible on. Why on earth wouldn't the Democrats NOT want to keep climate change in their arsenal? 9/n
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THREAD: Tech billionaires in collusion with Trump, to benefit the wealthy, not the rest of us or the planet. As always, deeply researched and cited by
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11 days ago
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Ari Berman
11 days ago
Absolutely outrageous Virginia Supreme Court invalidated redistricting referendum approved by the voters when voters havenât been able to weigh in on a single gerrymander passed in red states
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Qasim Rashid, Esq.
11 days ago
A woman suffering abuse called 911 to protect herself & her daughter. Police arrived and handed her over to ICE fascists, who deported her and her daughter, who is a US citizen. Women suffering abuse risk deportation due to Trump's ICE policy. Horrific.
letsaddresstexas.substack.com/p/texas-is-t...
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Texas Is the Reason a Five-Year-Old Is Alone Without Her Mother This Mother's Day
Génesis is 5. Her mom was deported to Honduras. Meenu Batra was caged for six weeks. Hayam El Gamal spent 10 months at Dilley. The Labrador kids' stepmother is at Dilley right now. Because of Texas.
https://letsaddresstexas.substack.com/p/texas-is-the-reason-a-five-year-old
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W.E.D.em Boyz
12 days ago
Again this should inspire wall-to-wall media coverage for months. The crowning achievement of the Civil Rights Movement is dead. Black people just lost all of their remaining political power in the South. This is a monumental moment in American history that simply isn't being treated as such.
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This is what US dollars to Israel looks likeđđŒ
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More Perfect Union
12 days ago
Shell made nearly $7 billion in profit in the first three months of 2026âdouble the previous period. BP's Q1 profits also doubled to $3.2 billion. While millions feel economic pain from the disruption of the Iran War, oil and gas companies are making massive sums of money.
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THREAD: How the wealthy rose to dominate US culture, and why so few voices âfor the peopleâ break through now.
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2024 Stolen by Algorithms? âLeading up to the 2024 election, TikTok was working overtime to expose Democrats and lefties to MAGAâs most persuasive messaging, while shielding rightwingers, independents, and Republican voters from Harrisâs voice.â
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Was the 2024 Election Stolen, Not by Ballots, but by Algorithms?
New data suggests social media algorithms didnât just influence voters; they may have tilted the entire outcomeâŠ
https://open.substack.com/pub/thomhartmann/p/was-the-2024-election-stolen-not-38a?r=it8n&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
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Abilu Tangwa.
13 days ago
Good morning everyone.
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China is developing a bamboo-based replacement for plastics. So many reasons to ditch fossil fuels.
phys.org/news/2025-10...
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13 days ago
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Faine Greenwood
13 days ago
I completely agree that Democrats should run on ripping out the diseased roots of corruption.
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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD
13 days ago
Just read this book by Nick Enrich I found it very hard to contain my outrage and sadness â every single page was distressing to read, and I can only imagine what the author and USAID colleagues went through, and the millions who were suddenly abandoned...
www.simonandschuster.ca/books/Into-t...
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Recommended read: Trump in the 1990s is the same man dismantling US democracy now.
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How to Fool All of the People, All of the Time (Singles Classic)
Amazon.com: How to Fool All of the People, All of the Time (Singles Classic) eBook : Connolly, John: Kindle Store
https://www.amazon.com/Fool-People-Time-Singles-Classic-ebook/dp/B01ICCQITE
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Charles Keener
15 days ago
climateandcapitalism.com/2026/05/04/e...
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Earth in 2050: A stark vision of environmental decline | Climate & Capitalism
UN report predicts crippling heat waves, polluted air, species extinctionsâŠ
https://climateandcapitalism.com/2026/05/04/earth-in-2050-a-stark-vision-environmental-decline/
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mtsw
15 days ago
They are breaking the law and overturning the Constitution in an attempt to protect their power, with the overarching goal of ending democracy and enslaving us
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Local TV News is vanishing tooâa distressing trend as local newsrooms dissolve without notice (victim to more billionaire buyouts/consolidation). A healthy democracy requires free speech, truth.
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Local TV News is vanishing
Thousands of local newspapers are already gone; your local TV newscast could be next. It means less coverage of everything from city hall to cultural events and even the local weather.
https://open.substack.com/pub/jenniferschulze/p/local-tv-news-is-vanishing?r=it8n&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
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Dan Immergluck
15 days ago
So deserving. This powerful book brings the attention on homelessness back to where it belongs, not on the discomfort many feel about having to see visible homelessness, but onto the people who desperately need decent, stable housingâwho are mostly much less visible.
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Legal good news re Fulton Countyâs confiscated election ballots.
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âThe agreement â and the decisions Media Matters won⊠â offers a roadmap for other newsgathering and nonprofit organizations facing, or at risk of, government retaliationâ
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Media Matters secures complete and total victory against the Federal Trade Commission
https://www.mediamatters.org/angelo-carusone/media-matters-secures-complete-and-total-victory-against-federal-trade-commission#:~:text=The%20agreement%20%E2%80%94%C2%A0and%20the%20decisions%20Media%20Matters%20won%20in%20the%20district%20court%20and%20the%20court%20of%20appeals%20%E2%80%94%20offers%20a%20roadmap%20for%20other%20newsgathering%20and%20nonprofit%20organizations%20facing%2C%20or%20at%20risk%20of%2C%20government%20retaliation
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Jolyon Maugham KC
16 days ago
"Emergent technologies â including generative AI and nudification tools â are becoming increasingly integral to the deliberate targeting and silencing of women in public life by lowering technical barriers to abuse while amplifying its reach":
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Nudification, humiliation, rape animations ⊠online violence against female journalists is becoming a crisis
Ahead of World Press Freedom Day on Sunday, the authors of a groundbreaking new study reveal how much abuse women in public life are exposed to in the age of the broligarchs â and the censorship and e...
https://www.thenerve.news/p/online-violence-women-female-journalists-world-press-freedom-day
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David Ho
17 days ago
As a scientist, this is my worst nightmare. There are one-of-a-kind instruments that you spend your life perfecting. When theyâre lost, no amount of time or money will bring them back. My thoughts are with
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Fire breaks out at USF St. Pete Marine Science Lab. Building likely âtotal lossâ
More than 60 units and 200 firefighters were called to the scene.
https://www.tampabay.com/news/education/2026/05/02/usf-st-petersburg-campus-fire/
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kenofseattle
18 days ago
My name is Ken I'm from Seattle. My mom worked at a church my Dad drove a beer truck for the union. They raised seven kids in a 7 bedroom house by Greenlake on a truck driver's salary. None of that is even remotely possible now. We have to make the working class high priority in the country again.
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Earnest environmentalists meet. âBy all accounts it was a kinder, gentler version of the regular climate talks, in part because fossil fuel lobbyistsâŠwere not welcome.â
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A Hinge Moment on Planet Earth
(And some politicians are just standing in the door)
https://open.substack.com/pub/billmckibben/p/a-hinge-moment-on-planet-earth?r=it8n&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
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John Teets
18 days ago
The editorial cartoonist's pen is one of the sharpest tools in journalism, whittling issues down to basics for satire or rage. I'm proud to say that my long-ago colleague, Milt Priggee, is unafraid to shock with a tough point of view.
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Abilu Tangwa.
18 days ago
đ The Horn of Africa is in mourning. Farms are barren, deserts are advancing, rivers are drying, pests are spreading, and crops are dying. Climate change is not a distant threat,itâs here.
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This. We have a beautiful planet but human dominance is disabling its beautifully designed systems.
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Robert Reich
18 days ago
Google co-founder Sergey Brin â the third-richest man on the planet â is reportedly spending $57M to defeat California's proposed billionaire's tax. So he and his fellow oligarchs can't afford a wealth tax, but they'll spend a fortune buying elections? See the problem...
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Rep. Melanie Stansbury (NM-01)
18 days ago
This is what happens under fair mapsâand why they gutted the Voting Rights Act. Get it? This is why generations marched, organized, and mobilized. And so must we. đ
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