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Make no mistake, the SCOTUS decision about birthright citizenship IS ALSO ABOUT birthright citizenship. The Court is using nationwide injunctions as the tail, wagging the dog, to take us back to an Antebellum view of citizenship. That way led to war once. My latest in @thenation.com

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Justice Jackson did not come to play today (Birthright citizenship/nationwide injunctions)

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In. which Streetsblog does its best Onion impersonation...

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Interesting post, candidates and observers should take notice. www.publicpolicypolling.com/polls/why-pp...

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"Crushing Iran would fall short of eliminating the threat it poses. Instead, it would create an entirely new set of strategic disasters.... Iran would become a new, less predictable, potentially worse threat than the existing regime." tcf.org/content/comm...

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Not an original point but worth saying again - there is not a single element in this picture that identifies any of these folks as law enforcement agents. No badges, no uniforms, no vests. Out of context it just looks like a bunch of random guys are kidnapping a mayoral candidate.

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ICE just arrested Brad Lander, the NYC Comptroller and one of the leading candidates for Mayor, without grounds. He was conducting routine immigration court work, escorting individuals from hearings. He asked ICE for their warrant - well within his legal rights. This is political intimidation.

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"A reporter from @thecity.nyc had overheard one agent say to another minutes before Lander’s arrest, 'Do you want to arrest the Comptroller?'"

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New York City comptroller and mayoral candidate Brad Lander just got detained/arrested(?) by masked ICE agents at a Manhattan court as he asked them to produce a judicial warrant for the immigrant he was accompanying out of the building.

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When the ACA was passed, the Congressional Budget Office found it would reduce the nation’s budget deficit by $143 billion. The Republicans’ Megabill — on the other hand — is expected to leave up to 16 million people uninsured and add $2.4 trillion to the deficit. 🔗 go.tcf.org/megabill

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The reconciliation bill will result in up to 16 million Americans losing their health insurance while ballooning the budget deficit by TRILLIONS of dollars over the next decade. All to give wealthy people massive tax cuts. tcf.org/content/comm...

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This thread of accomplishments of the Minnesota House under now-assassinated Speaker Melissa Hortman is stunning—her legacy has improved the lives of millions of Minnesotans. #MelissaHortman #Minnesota

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Tonight our photojournalist for The Jersey Vindicator, Andres Kudacki, was pepper sprayed by ICE while documenting the riot and protests at the Delaney Hall ICE facility in Newark.

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After night of unrest, congressmen say ICE jail is ‘shoddy,’ should be evacuated — "We are paying billions of dollars for for-profit prisons that are skirting the responsibilities they have and try to pocket as much of that money as possible." newjerseymonitor.com/2025/06/13/a...

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“Tesla’s driverless ‘robotaxis’ could launch in Austin as soon as June 22. But a demo in Austin today showed a $TSLA, manually driven to test its Full Self-Driving system, failed to stop for a child-sized dummy at a school bus—and hit it.” @cbsaustin @velez_tx

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𝙀𝙫𝙚𝙣 𝘾𝙤𝙧𝙚𝙮 𝙇𝙚𝙬𝙖𝙣𝙙𝙤𝙬𝙨𝙠𝙞 understood that physically attacking Sen. Padilla was outrageous and wrong. nytimes.com/2025/06/12/u...

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"We Are in the Midst of the Creation of a Police State": Rep. Ilhan Omar on Trump's Authoritarianism

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Ranked choice has created some interesting tactics.

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My comments on the gross abuse of presidential power occurring in Los Angeles.

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House Speaker Mike Johnson calls for the Senate to "censure" Alex Padilla after he was restrained and handcuffed by FBI agents at Kristi Noem's presser, adding that it is "wildly inappropriate behavior." So it looks like Republicans want to escalate this!

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What's worse? That they put a U.S. senator on the ground and cuffed him for interfering in their photo-op, or the language about "liberating" LA from the policies put in place by its elected city and state leaders?

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Holy shit. This is @padilla.senate.gov They just forcibly arrested a U.S. Senator.

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THERE’S a headline. @politico.com www.politico.com/live-updates...

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The Supreme Court has ruled that "deliberate indifference" toward an individual student's special needs counts as intentional discrimination. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/12/u...

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Did you know that every year, $4 billion in Pell Grants go unclaimed? Today, 44% of public high school seniors live in states with mandatory FAFSA policies and more low-income students are accessing college as a result. Learn more: go.tcf.org/fafsa @petergranville.bsky.social

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Maybe they can also test giving their workers a decent contract that matches their value? www.cbsnews.com/news/starbuc...

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My colleagues here at @tcfdotorg.bsky.social are doing a great job of revealing what the proposed budget really is: an all-out assault on health care, particularly expansion of coverage under the ACA. tcf.org/content/comm...

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The Supreme Court just hung an "Open for Grievance" sign on every courthouse for white people who think "reverse discrimination" is a thing. Legally, it was the right decision. Culturally, wooboy, things are about to get (even more) insufferable. My latest in @thenation.com

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Ask a simple question, and the first result is a ridiculous AI answer....again.

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Please share. A member of our community has gone missing, and—because of the pattern of extralegal disappearances launched by the current regime—we're worried that she may have been kidnapped by ICE. www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/l...

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Today is the Women’s Bureau’s 105th anniversary, and what did DOL Secretary Chavez DeRemer get for WB? Zero. Literally. Her FY26 budget eliminates it. I talked to @motherjones.com‬’s @juliannemcshane.bsky.social‬ about how GOP attacks on WB hurt women 🧵 #SaveWB www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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The Trump administration is hiding its attacks on women behind claims that it is “defending” them. President Trump and the GOP pose a serious threat to women’s economic security and reproductive rights. Here’s what’s happening and what we can do about it 🧵 www.wbur.org/cognoscenti/...

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Testimony from @jmargetta.bsky.social @tcfdotorg.bsky.social for the House Judiciary Subcommittee: "Looking for a solution to college costs in the Ivy League is like looking for a needle in a haystack while the rest of the haystack is on fire." tcf.org/content/comm...

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"Under the Trump administration, the nation’s pandemic-stressed child welfare system has taken a hit through temporary funding freezes, staffing cuts and Project 2025-aligned moves to weaken critical programs." www.salon.com/2025/06/03/h...

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🔥🔥🔥🔥

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For the record, you deserve every cent of every promised Social Security payment after you spend a lifetime earning benefits.

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What does this decision say about what the Washington Post values? www.theverge.com/news/679332/...

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