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What we're going to do is the "One Day of Medicare For All Act of 2029," followed the next day by a permanent, costless extension

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Yuriana Julia Pelaez Calderon, an organizer with the Los Angeles-based Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment, was picked up by men in an unmarked car last Wednesday, and nobody knows where she is. She made a phone call late Friday and the information she gave is chilling:

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It’s tempting to think prominent Dem leaders like Jeffries are doing this as part of a grand plan to ratfuck Zohran and lay the groundwork for endorsing Adams for reelection. But I actually think they’re just cowards. They won’t endorse against him but still want to distance themselves from him.

submitted 9 hours ago • 21 comments

Groups and activists have been pushing for this for at least a week -- this was not a given. I hate that we had to fight for it but regardless, this is a WIN and big shout out to everyone who has been calling and pushing and organizing around this

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Lots of Democrats begging to primaried in their next go-round. Must be assuming that the AIPAC money will buy more votes than they lose with their support of genocide and/or Islamophobic comments. That might’ve been true in the past. Not so sure that’ll be the case going forward.

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The rise of people like Lander and Walz, whose ideologies don't exactly match mine but have the exact right combination of "love thy neighbor" and "fuck you, asshole" attitudes, is massive positive for people who care about left of center politics

submitted 1 day ago • 122 comments

you love to see it hellgatenyc.com/brad-lander-...

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Sharing this profile I did of Andy Ogles in light of his disgusting call to deport Zohran Mamdani. This is a guy who appears to have lied about: Speaking German, Japanese, and Russian. Being on the board of a YMCA. A job at a nonexistent company. And much more. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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The difference between this and Nazi propaganda against Jews is that this is AI-generated.

submitted 2 days ago • 249 comments

If the Supreme Court thinks universal injunctions are unconstitutional, to wait until now to say that, in this of all cases, with this of all presidents, is a devastating indictment of both its impartiality and its prudence.

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Senator Gillibrand called on Al Franken to resign. I think she should resign for falsely smearing Zohran Mamdani as a terrorist. He has never invoked a ‘global jihad’. This is a nasty, Islamophobic racist smear from a sitting Dem senator.

submitted 3 days ago • 204 comments

I'm going to try and communicate with my Republican colleagues in a new way.

submitted 3 days ago • 1045 comments

If you are not alarmed at the type of thing these people now feel 100% comfortable saying out loud that they would have been scared to type into a group chat 10 years ago for fear that anyone might ever see it, I don't know what to tell you.

submitted 3 days ago • 19 comments

Love too reinvent antisemitism from first principles.

submitted 4 days ago • 156 comments

Vaccination schedules on the CDC website have already started changing under RFK Jr. So we published a guide to the evidence-based vaccine recommendations in place before all 17 members of the advisory panel were abruptly dismissed by the new admin. www.scientificamerican.com/article/see-... 🧪

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Seeing some more centrist folks imply that it was solely the focus on affordability that won the race for Mamdani. Absolutely bread and butter issues are key. But it was also his moral clarity. Economics and ethics. Prices and principles. Freeze the rent AND free Palestine.

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Hey you’ll never believe this, but the thing that everyone who knew anything about this said over the last dozen years would happen if you bombed the Iranian nuclear facilities happened

submitted 5 days ago • 20 comments

refreshing to find out that some bombs are too unseemly to drop

submitted 5 days ago • 35 comments

BREAKING: the Murdoch Broadsheet has discovered historical materialism

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it like doesn’t even occur to him that he could do something other than posting (eg threaten through back channels to cut off weapons)

submitted 5 days ago • 33 comments

Wow so you’re telling me everyone who cheered on the Iraq war is on board with this now too? And so are the people who opposed the Iran nuclear deal and killed it? You’re kidding.

submitted 7 days ago • 1405 comments

the thing with Mamdani is that he’s obviously an incredible political talent - the campaign he’s run has been extremely impressive even if you don’t like his policies the party should be delighted, and that they’re instead pulling out all the stops to beat him speaks volumes

submitted 7 days ago • 257 comments

Bill Clinton’s just chilling in his living room, watching ICE kidnappings on tv, when the sex pest election trouble alarm goes off in his kitchen. “Not cuomo,” he says to himself. “Not another member of the brotherhood”

submitted 7 days ago • 124 comments

Trump is propelling the U.S. into an unjust and catastrophic war of aggression and Dem leaders are over here releasing heavily qualified, three paragraph memos that are extremely wordy ways of saying “you should have asked us first.” Like yes, but also, isn’t it more important to denounce the war?

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

Pretty amazing that a former president will sit quietly as one of his successors orders US troops into American cities and ships innocent people off to concentration camps—but feels compelled to speak up when a fellow HR nightmare is at risk of losing to another member of the same party.

submitted 7 days ago • 36 comments

Hakeem Jeffries says “the risk of war has now dramatically increased” How is this not already war???

submitted 8 days ago • 115 comments

It’s a good thing Congress isn’t alive to see this

submitted 8 days ago • 817 comments

I’ll say it again: It was a huge mistake for Congress to abolish itself.

submitted 8 days ago • 215 comments

i never get tired of that thing star trek does where theyre like "one day you'll be a great composer like Mozart or Beethoven or Plexmodiar, 7th of his name, first son of the Omega Realm"

submitted 9 days ago • 8 comments

All these years I thought the New York Times only knew how to write headlines that go like, “At a Gaza hospital, explosions appear.” Turns out they do know how to write in normal English!

submitted 10 days ago • 8 comments

so I have a lot of complicated thoughts about the specific issue at hand, but I have to point out that’s not what “magical realism” is

submitted 10 days ago • 163 comments

I did an event in DC & there was a party for donors etc after. Was talking to 2 ppl & I said "Things are so bad." They said "No this is how it is. Things swing one way, then another. It's normal." That's when I realized why Dems are toothless. They have no idea what this is. Frogs boiling in water.

submitted 13 days ago • 1468 comments

Remarkable. MSNC: "I want to reiterate this has been 100% peaceful." Seconds later, LA County sheriffs start firing on the crowd. Yet again, "law enforcement" deliberately escalated.

submitted 15 days ago • 1087 comments

I did not edit this, this is the actual parade with the actual music being played. CINEMATIC

submitted 15 days ago • 2177 comments

This took a while to get done, but I've chronicled my day among the protesters in Los Angeles, and the idea that this is anything but a celebration of cultural heritage and a firm, nonviolent demand to protect family, friends and neighbors is totally ridiculous. prospect.org/justice/crie...

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Someone should tell Trump that Elon would feel very owned if he fully funded USAID and the CDC.

submitted 24 days ago • 35 comments

🚨BIG STORY: Senators put a line into the crypto bill requiring bankrupt banks to prioritize remunerating crypto investors over depositors. The provision could require banks to take cash from your savings account & use it to pay senators' crypto donors. www.levernews.com/cryptos-new-...

submitted 24 days ago • 133 comments

ICE turned back in Somerville So many Somerville community members came out that ICE simply retreated. Nonviolent resistance works when communities come together to protect kids and families.

submitted 30 days ago • 283 comments

The problem with a "Joe Rogan of the left" is that the right just wants to tear stuff down, which requires no deference to experts, whereas the left wants to build working govt programs, which necessitates a deference to expertise that is antithetical to the Rogan shtick. This is a basic asymmetry.

submitted 35 days ago • 33 comments