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A free press is essential to the health of our democracy.

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We are DEFINITELY still outraged about this! How about you?

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Wow. So the Pope is identifying the need for guardrails with tech and A-I. …he gets that this has been a major issue for kids exposed to bad stuff and people getting misinformation. If it takes a pope and some divine intervention to get this congress to move, fine by me. 🙏

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it is insane that the media has gone all in on the idea that criticism of Israel must be punished

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I don’t want to read about a former President’s mental decline because a journalist got a book deal. I want to read a report about the current President’s mental decline by a journalist brave enough to speak out now.

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Justice Jackson nails where we are right now: “Your argument turns our justice system into a catch me if you can kind of regime from the standpoint of the Executive where everybody has to have a lawyer and file a lawsuit in order for the government to stop violating people’s rights.” 🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯

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Once a Gavin Newsom fan, he has lost me now. First around transgender issues, now this. When I worked at LA County Hospital it was clear that treating and insuring everyone was not only a matter of kindness, but of preserving the health of everyone in the community. www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...

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Our rigged system in a nutshell. When the rich become richer, they can use their vast wealth to pour money into our democracy and rig the system to enrich themselves even more. We must get Big Money out of politics.

submitted 7 days ago • 40 comments

Whenever you hear conservative politicians preach from the gospel of "fiscal responsibility," remember that one of the biggest drivers of deficits lately are the Bush and Trump tax cuts, which have added nearly $10 trillion to the national debt.

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Happy Birthday to Stevie Wonder! I remember hearing him live on WXYZ radio in the evenings -- I think from Edgewater Amusement Park! Brings it back! Thank you Stevie!

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Trump doesn't have “conflicts of interest” anymore. A “conflict of interest” sounds like an unfortunate situation where Trump might choose his own interests over the nation’s. But Trump isn’t conflicted about anything. He's the most corrupt president in American history.

submitted 3 days ago • 163 comments

Just a random reminder that trickle-down economics was invented by conservatives in the 1980s to justify massive tax cuts for the wealthy and corporations. It’s been nothing short of a disaster.

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Walz: If you say you love freedom but you don't believe freedom is for everybody, then the thing you love is not freedom, it is privilege.

submitted 23 days ago • 860 comments

The Moscow military parade was "an attempt to conceal Russia's international isolation, military failures, and domestic problems" from the Institute for the Study of War @thestudyofwar.bsky.social www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder...

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submitted 15 days ago • 546 comments

‘An Afrikaner group called AfriForum records farm attacks and said there were 49 farm homicides in South Africa in 2023. Those are set against a total of more than 20,000 homicides in South Africa a year.’

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I would say our national security and democratic integrity are implicated in the threat to illegally steal the territory of a treaty ally. But that’s just me.

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Some sad confirmation from @bcgl.bsky.social while I was at UW last week—the National Digital Newspaper Program—which builds Chronicling America—has been shut down Historical newspapers are probably the archival material most used by the general public—for genealogy, local history—it’s such a loss

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If we didn't laugh, we'd cry. Trump's self-dealing makes Warren G. Harding’s look like a child shoplifting candy.

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So let me get this straight 49 white South Africans are offered refugee status by Trump & suddenly the GOP is silent on “America First” & resource strain? White refugees use the same resources that Brown & Black refugees do. This isn’t immigration policy it’s white grievance theater.

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Our client Rümeysa Öztürk spent the last 6 weeks in an ICE detention facility in Louisiana — all in retaliation for an op-ed she co-authored. On Saturday, she finally made it home to her beloved Tufts community, where she can resume her studies and begin teaching again as her case proceeds.

submitted 5 days ago • 15 comments

Mayor Baraka has been RELEASED 🚨

submitted 7 days ago • 26 comments

@adriancarrasquillo.bsky.social looks at unconventional media types, from Joe Rogan to John Oliver, who are spreading immigration horror tales to audiences beyond the usual. Every mention counts and maybe even helps. open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

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Today, our client Rümeysa Öztürk was released on bail from ICE detention in Louisiana, and she will return to New England to continue her studies. 📸 Giancarlo D’Agostaro

submitted 7 days ago • 567 comments

BREAKING: An appeals court ruled Rümeysa Öztürk must be transferred back to Vermont from Louisiana within a week. We will keep fighting until Rümeysa is released for good.

submitted 9 days ago • 49 comments

Trump and Musk want to shut down the Department of Education. That could mean layoffs for teachers, larger class sizes, less support for kids with special needs, and less help paying for college. I’m fighting to save our schools so every child can build a future.

submitted 9 days ago • 17 comments