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This is a time when we need courage. Courage to stand up and be peaceful but loud. Make your voice heard...but not cross into violence. This is a time when your fears are real but you can't let them hold you back. Way too many people in positions of power are self muting. I'm not one of them.

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The regime wants an excuse to crackdown with violence. If they're provoked into violence by riot and lawlessness, they win. If the resistance can muster the numbers in peaceful protest, and the power responds with violence, the apathetic and complacent will see and react, and the regime falls.

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Republicans are lying about Medicaid work requirements. The truth is that a vast majority of recipients who can work are already working. Work requirements are just a shady way to fund tax cuts for the wealthy.

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Cuts have consequences, illustrated. As seen on TV 📺

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Tattoos are not a crime. Being gay is not a crime. Seeking asylum is not a crime. Why is Andry in a mega-prison in El Salvador? #DisappearedInAmerica #AbductedByTrump Visit theimmigrationhub.shorthandstories.com/disappeared-... for more

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The grasshopper gets it — divide and conquer. Today’s robber barons use the same playbook. But together, we have all the power. Watch.

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Similarities between ICE & the Gestapo

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Finally watching Andor. Just saw S1 E7, Cassian gets jailed for being in the wrong place at the wrong time. What disturbs me most is WHY he's stopped in the first place: "What're you doing? You keep looking around?" If they can train us to keep our eyes down, they win. Look up. Speak up.

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1/2 ‘This is how epistemic authoritarianism works: not by making lies mandatory, but by making truth prohibitively expensive. Not by banning criticism, but by making criticism so costly that institutions choose silence over accuracy.’ www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/truth-tell...

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Penzey's Spices have an offer on this weekend.

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The lesson people infuriatingly never seem to master is that there is no creating a police state just for other people. If you create a police state with no due process for immigrants or accused criminals, then that's the system you've created for yourself.

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So Do I! We All Should!!

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We were likely years away from making HIV a thing of the past. Humanity triumphing over one of its worst diseases Instead we'll live in a world where people continue getting sick because of a greedy few who didn't want to pay their fair share of taxes

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npr Diseases are spreading. CDC isn't warning the public like it was before. CDC's newsletters have stopped being distributed, alerts about disease outbreaks to health professionals haven't been dispatched, and most of the agency's social media channels have gone more than a month without posting.

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This is the kind of energy we need to bring until the GOP bill passes or fails

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Against all odds, Joni Ernst has made it worse

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Oh Yea.... 👍😂

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JFC. The men taking these women into custody are monsters. They are monsters. They have no compassion. They’ll do this to any of us. They don’t care. And these people are gone forever, now. Just disappeared right in front of our eyes.

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JONI ERNST: When you are arguing about illegals that are receiving Medicaid benefits, they are not eligible CROWD: People will die! ERNST: Well, we all are going to die

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That would be awful. Don’t share this.

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Ursula von der Leyen, "The diary of Anne Frank." "A painful reminder to Europe to be vigilant and unyielding towards all those who see hatred and want to divide our society" "Europe knows this path all too well. And never, never again must we embark on this path"

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Lawrence O’Donnell: one of the last honest voices in journalism—smart, sharp, and always right about the law. While others were busy sane-washing Trump, Lawrence said it for ages: those tariffs were illegal. The U.S. Court of International Trade proved him right. Again. Truth matters.

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I'm so happy that the absurdity of NIMBYism is finally being recognized as a punchline. Beautifully written satire. ☆☆☆☆☆ The Problem with My City Is That It's a City www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the...

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This is a use of eminent domain that I can wholeheartedly stand behind. What is of greater public interest than ensuring that our grandchildren understand how it happened here?

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Constituent: Trump and his cabinet in addition to being totally unqualified and inept are breaking laws by ignoring federal judge's orders. When are you going to do the responsibility you are elected for by holding the executive branch accountable up to and including impeachment?

submitted 6 days ago • 306 comments

Bill Burr is the GOAT.

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Who will tell the president what the Constitution requires? Certainly not Attorney General Bondi. And certainly not this nominee for the Office of Legal Counsel.

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Casar: "The only way to push back on this is for Democrats to be really clear that if we win back a majority, we aren't just going to let bygones be bygones. We have to go and investigate who paid Trump, who paid Musk, who made money off of these pardons because that is really serious."

submitted 7 days ago • 268 comments

#ProudBlue Bravo! 👏 More of this, please.

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A viral post is spreading fear on all platforms, supposedly from Liz and Me, about a nonexistent bill—just like the far right used to do. We cannot become what we’re fighting. The truth still matters. We win by being better, not louder. adamkinzinger.substack.com/p/dont-fight...

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