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One thing that's helpful about this political moment is everything is simpler now. There used to be politicians you could disagree with but they seemed fundamentally decent, but that's over. Now it's the world's worst assholes vs everyone else

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one can dream

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Just called Senator Gillibrand’s office to express how upset I was by her comments on the Brian Lehrer show the other day and got the impression from the tone of the person answering the phone that they’ve been getting a lot of calls like this

submitted 21 hours ago • 91 comments

Thank you for saying racist

submitted 18 hours ago • 2 comments

Yes, next questions

submitted 13 hours ago • 16 comments

Funny how the US has basically the government of Iran now: Supreme Leader who rules by decree, priestly council with token opposition that decides whether the decisions are okay or not on arcane scriptural grounds, and completely ceremonial legislature

submitted 1 day ago • 79 comments

Shows up from Iran. Moves to rural Alabama. Becomes Trump supporter. Advocates for their own deportation. Gets deported. Anyways...

submitted 20 hours ago • 13 comments

I will reshare this every time it comes up.

submitted 20 hours ago • 1 comment

Warning signs flashing red - increasing dehumanizing rhetoric from a fascist authoritarian leader and his partisan allies

submitted 20 hours ago • 184 comments

defending rights for human traffickers, mostly.

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NEW: Joint statement from the Muslim American Democratic members of Congress Rashida Tlaib, Ilhan Omar, Andre Carson, and Lateefah Simon:

submitted 23 hours ago • 19 comments

The position of the Supreme Court's majority is that the state may impose its will on transgender people's private medical decisions but our public existence is an unfair imposition on the lives of others

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It’s bad that Trump thinks he got elected Boss of America and the whole government is just his staff, but it’s much worse that a majority of the Supreme Court and the leaders of both chambers of Congress agree

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Supreme Court Rules 6-3 To Open Evil Tomb Of Batibat

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Zohran: Imagine living in a city where you can afford your rent, your groceries and even a meal at a restaurant now and then without much stress Eric Adams: Imagine a platypus so powerful that it could destroy the city. We need more cops

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I can't imagine why some people are turning to socialism. It's inexplicable.

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This part. You lose way more votes than you gain. Once you see it, you can't under it: All of these "upset" Dem election results aren't really upsets. They're just candidates that don't try this 11th hour pivot to swing voters.

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Adrian Andrew Martinez, the 20-year-old U.S. citizen that was arrested by ICE while working at Walmart, sits down with our reporter, Aisha Wallace-Palomares, to give us insights into what he experienced. Amongst the new revelations, he shares that he was fired by Walmart.

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This letter has now reached almost 500 signatures, with many of my heroes, tool builders I have leaned on, professors who taught me, and others who made this field what it is. If keeping this field accessible and egalitarian is important to you, add your signature in the link.

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New “millennials killed the ___” just dropped

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A reminder that the @nytimes.com told New Yorkers to not rank Mamdani at all, & instead endorsed former hedge fund manager Whitney Tilson. Tilson sits at a whopping .8%. Corporate media trust is dead. They killed themselves by failing to fulfill their promise of holding the powerful accountable.

submitted 3 days ago • 436 comments

Beautiful stuff from @attackerman.bsky.social. www.forever-wars.com/this-is-the-...

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People in wheelchairs are getting arrested right now in the Russell Senate Office Building in DC. They showed up to tell Congress not to cut their Medicaid, because they cant afford health care without it. If you look closely you can see the zip ties on their hands. #WeWontGetOverLosingMedicaid

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Always loved the people who are like, "But my ancestors came here the legal way!" and by that they mean they arrived via ratship to an island, a man asked them their name, they were like, "Uh, Jeff... Smith?" another guy said "sure?" and then they became permanent residents of the United States.

submitted 2 days ago • 264 comments

People in power keep assuming that “socialist” is a scary word to most voters like we are still living in 1955

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PLEASE SHARE 🧪‼️ Vaccination schedules on the CDC website have already started changing under RFK Jr. Scientific American has published a guide to the EVIDENCE-BASED vaccine recommendations in place BEFORE ACIP members were removed by the administration. www.scientificamerican.com/article/see-...

submitted 3 days ago • 44 comments

you’re telling me republicans are now going to call democrats communists since zohran won? they’ve never done that before it might be over

submitted 3 days ago • 79 comments

Zohran at the rally for trans youth on february 8 ❣️ he was polling single digits.

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🔮🧙🏿‍♂️Years from now, some Dem will try to convince me how evil and islamaphobic the GOP is, and they'll use this upcoming NYC mayor election as proof I'll point out that in the primary, the progressive Muslim and Jewish candidates cross-endorsed each other♥️ but centrist Dems paid for islamaphobic ads🤡

submitted 3 days ago • 38 comments

he's right and he's right to say it

submitted 3 days ago • 169 comments

This is an image maga is posting to stoke fear of Mamdani. A list of things that sound awesome

submitted 3 days ago • 352 comments

Chop chop or rather pew pew motherfucker

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Michael Brooks told me that my Jewish values should oppose apartheid, Brad Lander told me that our thriving is bound up together, Jewish and Muslim. I have never felt more connected to my city and the soul of a city of a thousand voices, backgrounds and futures. This is truly the promised land.

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