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On this date in 1943, the U.S. Supreme Court decided West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette, a towering landmark. It held that public school children who objected for reasons of conscience could not constitutionally be compelled to salute and to pledge allegiance to the U.S. flag.

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Who did this 🤣

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the american electoral system is basically 500,000 information-resistant people across a handful of states taking a guess and then going "haha! oops!" every two years. this process takes 18 months and costs four trillion dollars every time

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Scientists can’t explain it, but somehow every individual member of the Trump administration is THE single worst person to ever walk the earth.

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Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive. No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief. 1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.

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The tariffs are catastrophic. But so too are the abuses of power, so is the corruption, so are the police state tactics, so is the destruction of our health care infrastructure, so are the ways our national security is being endangered, so are the attacks on our core freedoms.

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do you think Cory Booker can make it for 3 years and about 10 months longer?

submitted 80 days ago • 872 comments

As tax day approaches, I would like to know what I'm paying taxes for if all the things government does are being forcibly and suddenly ended.

submitted 80 days ago • 72 comments

New litmus test for the senate just dropped: If you can’t fillbuster as long as Sen booker you’re too old to be in the senate

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44 points in the first quarter 😎

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“But perhaps it is the right impetus to begin upholding our own value system – and exporting it to the U.S. Humanism instead of contempt for humanity, separation of powers rather than capriciousness, respect instead of intimidation. Americans could use a bit of that right now ….”

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#GVerse #Attention: Remember this? He wasn't shot.

submitted 82 days ago • 773 comments

If you’re not calling for Chuck Schumer to step down, then you are not trying to fix the Democratic Party and you are not trying to get Trump out of office and you are not someone I want to align with in future elections. Period.

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Roses are red Violets are blue

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Katy Tur: "Some people are wondering if this was an ambush..." Peter Baker: "We don't know if it was an ambush." Open your damned eyes. It was an ambush. They are incapable of covering the biggest story of our lives. They are willfully blind.

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Trump and Vance needed to create an incident to provide a justification for their pre-planned abandonment of Ukraine now, then separation from NATO in the near future. That’s what that was all about, and that was always the way a second Trump term was going to go.

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Trump: You don’t have the cards Zelenskyy: I’m not playing cards Trump: You’re playing cards Zelenskyy: What are you talking about?

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This

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Pass it on. #StandWithUkraine

submitted 112 days ago • 1186 comments

Raise your hand if you stand with Ukraine 🇺🇦

submitted 120 days ago • 567 comments

I am not making this up: Republicans have introduced legislation… to increase your bank fees.

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Amen.

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Headed to court this morning with the Legal Dream Team, including @normeisen.bsky.social and @markzaidesq.bsky.social, to stop the WH from collecting the identities of FBI officials who did work on the J6 cases. These officials did their jobs. They fulfilled lawful orders. They deserve privacy.

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Remember when you thought SCOTUS wouldn't overturn Roe v Wade? Well, now Idaho is asking SCOTUS to overturn Obergefell, the case that makes same-sex marriage legal www.nytimes.com/2025/01/24/u...

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EveryLibrary gives you the power, resources, and tools to fight for your library! www.everylibrary.org/we_re_giving... via @everylibrary.bsky.social

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Jan. 6 pardons Draconian anti-immigrant EOs *Nazi salutes All of it is intended to normalize and embolden violent extremism. And all of it directly threatens Jews, so many other communities, and our very democracy. If we can’t call this out, I really don’t know what we’re doing.

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No number of pardons or lies will change what happened on January 6. Donald Trump can’t change history. It was domestic terrorism, it was treason, plain and simple.

submitted 151 days ago • 246 comments

Republicans cannot claim to be the party of law and order while pardoning and commuting the sentences of individuals who brutally assaulted law enforcement officers in service of a violent insurrection.

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Like the aftermath of the Election of 1876, today marks the capture of the federal government by insurrectionists.

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Who wants to join me in taking the oath to resist Trump every time he targets our most vulnerable communities with his white supremacist policies. 🙋🏻‍♂️

submitted 151 days ago • 421 comments

I was right then. I am right now. I will be right tomorrow. So I persist ...

submitted 151 days ago • 331 comments

Donald Trump is a radical domestic terrorist.

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Thank you.

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I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget INSURRECTIONIST TRUMP!

submitted 152 days ago • 223 comments

Somebody somewhere Needs flowers tonight

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