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Leftists and liberals need to work together, not against each other. Circle the wagons, not the firing squad!
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Replying to @aoc.bsky.social
Everything was fine until Trump decided to unleash violent raids w/o grounds in elementary schools, shopping areas, & peaceful public spaces. ICE then illegally blocked Members of Congress entry into the facilities they are disappearing people into, escalating the situation. Let’s start there.
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lol ABC News just fired Terry Moran when these people pretend in 10-20 years that they did their best to stop what's happening during the press tour for their memoirs feel free to ignore them
anyway CNN is reporting that Pentagon lawyers are defining the RULES OF ENGAGEMENT for the U.S. Marines against civilians in L.A. and at the same time you have Serious Journalists™ defending the suspension of a reporter for calling Stephen Miller a hateful person
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Here’s the abundance pitch using for the survey: "The big problem is 'bottlenecks' that make it harder to produce housing, expand energy production, or build new roads and bridges." That sounds like technobabble, right? Importantly, it seems hard to trust anything in that sentence. Bottlenecks?
Surprise!
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The issue is Consultant Dems are reading the word "weak" in crosstabs and have figured out an answer: "pander to racists, but more thuggishly." They are not reading "strength" as "actually believe in human rights and make decisions based on that core tenet." The good news is the latter is winning.
elect rahm for president, for when you need someone to cover up the summary execution of a teenager by police www.wsj.com/politics/who...
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Just catching up here. I did the same route 2 days ago—Paris to the US—and at LAX now they do not even look at passports of US citizens returning home through customs, they take your picture and move you along. I guess I wasn't enough of a dissident. www.thehandbasket.co/p/hasan-pike...
Maintaining the filibuster was *always* stupid on so many levels. The only thing Republicans care about are taxes and judges: hey, the two things that don’t allow a filibuster!! Actually, any monetary amount, taxes or spending, can be modified without the filibuster. The filibuster never helps.
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I don’t want to live in a world where lawsuits like this have any legal basis at all. For profit health insurance is what should be outlawed.
"The group, which seeks...damages, argues that the public backlash prevented the company from pursuing "the aggressive, anti-consumer tactics that it would need to achieve" its earnings goals." do you have a moment to discuss the Good News of dialectical materialism? www.nbcnews.com/business/bus...
And they wonder why their approval rating is approximately zero…
BREAKING: Democrats reached a deal on a stablecoin bill that will give them a fake amendment on Trump crypto corruption that is designed to fail, so collaborators can say they did the best they could. "Schumer 101," said one source. prospect.org/politics/202...
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Trump is not just a m0r0n. He’s MEGA M0rOn! Someone get him his cape!
Trump: "I always liked Gavin. I have a good relationship with him. I just got him a lot of water. I sent in people to open up that water. We just got him a lot of water. If they would've had that water and done what I said to do, they wouldn't have had the fires in Los Angeles."
Back when Obama tried (and failed) to close Guantánamo this was my compromise suggestion. The only reason to keep Guantánamo open was because terrorists have superpowers. Since Alcatraz already designed to handle superpowers, it just made sense!
Mighty thoughtful of Trump to seek out the perfect oceanfront property for his dotage.
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yeah i am pretty much on the side of primary everyone
Stephen Lynch, aiming to be top Dem on the Oversight Cmte, blew up at a constituent who asked him to oppose the GOP. "I get to decide that. I get to decide that. I get to decide that. I'm elected. I get to decide that. You wanna decide that? You need to run for Congress, okay? I get to decide that"
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To the "But I'm a citizen" crowd.
Florida: Juan Carlos Lopez-Gomez (20) is being held in the Leon County Jail, charged with illegally entering Florida as an “unauthorized alien." Lopez-Gomez is a U.S. Citizen, born in the USA. He showed his U.S. birth certificate in court. The judge held him in jail anyway. This is Fascism.
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Not only should we stop referring to CECOT as a “prison,” but we should stop referring to this as deportation. That also implies process and a legal system led to it. This is legally sanctioned human trafficking. El Salvador is profiting off our government’s trafficking of humans to it.
I spoke to someone working with a legal organization in El Salvador. They said America is actually making situation in CECOT worse and more egregious. talkingpointsmemo.com/where-things...
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There’s just so much shady shit in this story, but this really sticks out. Folks in NLRB’s IT unit were so freaked out by what they saw DOGE doing that they wanted to notify the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency. Then this happened:
HOLY SHIT. You need to read this in its entirety. Way too much to even begin to summarize but it's really, REALLY bad. It's just one agency, NLRB, but it's likely happening at others. We are under attack, seemingly from the inside. What's happening here should put folks in prison
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This administration sent 200+ fathers, sons, and husbands to be tortured in a foreign prison for the rest of their lives. 9 in 10 have no criminal record. None received any due process. If you *aren’t* outraged, you need to check your fucking humanity.
Trump's press secretary mocked the “Democrat and media outrage” over the deportation of a Maryland father as “nothing short of despicable.”
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DOGE just shut down San Diego County’s wastewater testing system. No more research or monitoring for deadly diseases despite the critical role wastewater surveillance played in fighting COVID. Dangerous and really stupid.
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Any Democratic politician who doesn't understand Nayib Bukele's grave offense against the sovereignty of the American people and constitutional order and say as much publicly should have no future in elected office. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/bukel...
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There we go. Support this man.
Letter from Dem Senator Chris Van Hollen (MD) requesting a meeting with Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele To discuss MD father Kilmar Abrego Garcia's return "If Kilmar is not home by midweek – I plan to travel to El Salvador this week to check on his condition and discuss his release."
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