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All the reactionary centrists attacking Mamdami every day will deny -- to us, even to themselves I think -- that they play a key role in enabling this kind of shit. But that is literally their function in the current US political structure.

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"Repeatedly accuse your opponents of doing something they are not doing, so that when you take power and actually do it, the worst you'll face is 'both sides do it' handwringing." It's a low, shitty, dishonest strategy, but it works, again and again and again.

submitted 13 hours ago • 26 comments

Look there’s a lot of competition but tagging @jamellebouie.net in a post about a random diplomatic maneuver in Africa may be one of the most racist things Vance has ever put his name to. He even doesn’t cover foreign policy! It’s literally the VPOTUS declaring “you people are all the same to me.”

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Rick Scott Demands More Cuts to Medicaid, Which His Company Allegedly Scammed flip.it/xLh1y6 ALLEGED MY ASS. HE CUT A DEAL TO NOT HAVE TO ADMIT WRONG DOING.

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"...affordability is a freedom issue, because you're not truly free when you can't afford to live." Run on Vision, Not Just Resistance: Mamdani's NYC strategy "Mamdani didn't just offer policies. He offered hope and vision wrapped in specifics."

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The administration is threatening to strip the citizenship of a man voters chose to serve as the Democratic Party’s nominee for Mayor of New York City because they don’t like his political views. Just straight up fascist shit, no chaser.

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The Trump administration is reviving America’s legacy of exclusion—including through attacks on digital equity, writes Alisa Valentin, Broadband Policy Director at Public Knowledge. In doing so, some Republicans are advancing a politics of “deservingness” that reinforces racial inequities, she says:

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Once you start to notice the "good faith va bad faith" divide, you'll see it everywhere.

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133,000 rural Kentuckians would lose their health insurance if the Republican's cuts to Medicaid go through — more than any other state. All so that Donald Trump's billionaire donors pay even less in taxes. I won't stop fighting these cruel and inhumane cuts. www.kff.org/policy-watch...

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Fun fact: after the Black Death devastated Europe, killing an estimated third of the population, there was a massive uptick in the rights demanded by, and granted to, the peasantry and farmworkers. Because they’re simply weren’t enough people to go around. Labor scarcity leads to labor rights.

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You have a duty to ignore immoral and corrupt laws. The supreme court is illegitimately using its power. Blue states need to ignore the rulings and push the courts to make a move. Force the fascists hand.

submitted 3 days ago • 3 comments

this is a remarkable interview Mamdani being on message, of course, but also Erin Burnett's combination of detailed preparedness, good faith journalistic antagonism, and real interest in having him expand on his ideas

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Let’s be clear that abortion can be effectively banned in this country without Congress passing a law but as a result of multiple moves that make it impossible to access. The intent of today’s Supreme Court ruling—and of Trump’s budget bill—is to shutter as many abortion clinics as possible

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This is straight up Nazi bullshit: “The Trump administration has privately demanded that the University of Virginia oust its president to help resolve a Justice Department investigation into the school’s DEI efforts…”

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Absolute insanity as hurricane season ramps up.

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What RFK Jr is doing to one of the most significant public health measures literally in human history cannot be overstated. Like I keep trying to come up with some jokey comparison involving I dunno Eisenhower's grandson and refrigeration denial or some shit and it just never gets fucking CLOSE.

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Extraordinarily effective, menschy, and representative of the vast majority of American Jews in a way a Kushner or Miller could never be.

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I cannot believe I have to explain this but just FYI, Indian muslims are not arabs

submitted 4 days ago • 134 comments

An addled president is shredding the Constitution to usher in white nationalism and fascism while destroying the economy and our health care, so if you’re going to write an alarmist op-ed because a mayoral candidate might open five (5) city-run grocery stores, you can kindly get bent.

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This is the post so they just found someone trying to sell real estate, but it would be very interesting to see a serious journalist ask these hysterics what, specifically, they are frightened of.

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If Joe Biden had sent a bunch of masked goons to kidnap and deport persecuted Christians who had fled to America for religious freedom, I'm pretty sure Mike Johnson's head would explode Scanners-style.

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Our economy SHRANK this year. It takes a special kind of stupid to take 12 consecutive quarters of positive economic growth and make it go negative. Under the economic policies of Donald Trump and Republicans, America is now in decline.

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Anybody left waiting on automated phone lines, or trying to correct a company’s errors, or seeking a human response from a big corporation, knows first-hand about so-called “corporate efficiency.” Government ain’t perfect, but let’s not pretend the corporate world is either.

submitted 4 days ago • 21 comments

1. Billionaire investor Bill Ackman is trying to recruit a write-in candidate to run against Zohran Mamdani. This would only help Mamdani as it would take votes away from Eric Adams.

submitted 5 days ago • 97 comments

This is some insane framing from the NYT. Expected, but insane.

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What is so funny about bombing in saying focus on Republicans is that this is all about winning elections. As Gov. Tim Walz said, what turned purple Minnesota bluer was delivering for regular people; it's not chess, it's like tic-tac-toe against a chicken, yet there is so much noise pushing back.

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Gosh. Imagine if instead of running on being "tough on immigration" the Dems had run on giving them a path to citizenship? Every time the Dems let MAGA set the framing, they fail. Stop it.

submitted 4 days ago • 14 comments

You know, Europe has lots of Democratic Socialists in their parliaments. Oh and free national healthcare.

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Well… this might be my favorite too.

submitted 6 days ago • 15 comments

You should honestly acquire a copy of @greenwell.bsky.social's. new book on how private equity is rotting us from the inside out but if you need an incentive, here's a little taste.

submitted 8 days ago • 5 comments

Today is Sunday, June 22. Good afternoon ❤️ eat take your meds hydrate tell your people you love them let them love you back We are here. This is real. All of it, the bombing and the war and all of it. And we get to carry each other. Let's build a home for each other and fight like hell.

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Much as I would not dare to predict the consequences of this war, I do think we can summarize it thusly so far: A smart and evil man manipulated a stupid and evil man into a war against a fanatical and evil regime.

submitted 9 days ago • 1869 comments

🚨🇺🇸🇮🇷 BREAKING: Congresswoman AOC calls on TRUMP TO BE IMPEACHED over illegal attack on IRAN. @aoc.bsky.social

submitted 9 days ago • 54 comments

Both Kapital and Wealth of Nations should be required reading in school so people understand that these dudes were not some either-or choice to choose your fighter and mimic contemporary US politics, they were two people identifying similar structural issues who were in conversation with each other

submitted 12 days ago • 12 comments

Sounds like some fireworks here today. Plaintiffs' brief: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... DOJ response: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 14 days ago • 15 comments

Reminder: Republicans are stealing billions of dollars from everyday Americans to give to their billionaire friends.

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BREAKING: The American Bar Association has sued the Trump administration on behalf of its members to put an end to Donald Trump's law firm intimidation project, calling Trump's efforts "unprecedented and uniquely dangerous to the rule of law." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Oh and PS Covid killed my mom, twenty-twenty was a BANNER year.

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

Reporter Kevin Sack's new book is a history of Charleston's Emanuel AME Church, the oldest Black congregation in the South, where a white supremacist killed nine worshippers a decade ago.

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