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The vibe of that editorial is very NJ-mom, loves her gay son, is clashing w the daughter who says she's "non-binary" whatever THAT's supposed to mean, annoyed that they have to pay a FINE to drive in to see a show, I mean we keep the city ALIVE and btw were they trying to make some POINT with Gypsy?

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This says it all

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a million people is 1.5x the entire population of Boston proper

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It is firmly in the “somebody’s making an active decision to downplay this” territory.

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political press is doing a real disservice by basically not reporting the nuances of public opinion on deportations, and creating the appearance that most americans support the stephen miller-style gestapo tactics

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This actually counts as a Father’s Day 2025 mini thread because I do sometimes wonder in these situations “what if it were my kid” and the answer is simple: you love and support your child and you react with unbridled fury to those in power who wish to demonize them for no reason beyond power & vice

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This is serious, rigorous analysis and it should change the way the media has been covering these protests. These were, in the aggregate, massive.

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I love that a politician can say something like “I believe mice naturally spawn out of grain” and the news will now just treat that as a legitimate line of thought

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Here’s a New York Times photo of the Chicago “No Kings” rally. NYT said the march that followed spanned at least 10 blocks.

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Do you know how badly you have to screw up as a Republican to get this kind of turnout in IDAHO? #NOKINGS

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Orwell , George ⬇️

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“A deranged maniac impersonated a police officer and killed lawmakers but if you’re an immigrant be sure you immediately comply with plain clothes people who won’t identify themselves telling you to get in a van”, what a fuckin country

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Yet another one

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More Americans voted for Senator Alex Padilla than for 48 of the 53 red state GOP U.S. Senators combined.

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ICE abducted Moises Sotelo today. He is a trusted vineyard management business owner from Newburg, Oregon, who has been in the US since 1994. He has a wife, three children, and five grandchildren who need him to be returned safely to them.

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Yes! Good!

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I think it’s a good time to recognize that Dems are doing things. There will certainly be days in the future to return to complaining about Dems not doing enough I imagine. But today. They are doing things.

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Pledging to liberate a city from its democratically elected leadership seems pretty authoritarian to me.

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Just FYI: Senator Padilla is the ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee's Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship and Border Safety. "Oversight of the immigration functions of the Department of Homeland Security" is literally the definition of his jurisdiction.

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Shut down the Senate until Noem and several levels of DHS leadership are removed

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DHS is arguing members of the Secret Service don't know who a U.S. Senator is, that he didn't identify himself (he does in the tape), lunged towards the Noem (not evident on the tape), and somehow all this necessitated him being hauled away, thrown to the ground and cuffed. x.com/DHSgov/statu...

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Padilla: If this is how DHS responds to a senator with a question you can only imagine what they're doing to farm workers, to cooks, to day laborers out in the Los Angeles community and throughout California.

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"Liberate this city from socialists and burdensome leadership." If that's not regime change, I don't know what to tell you. The inflection point is now.

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Move to hold the agents who assaulted a sitting senator in contempt of Congress. Call for articles of impeachment against Noem. Stop working on crypto legislation. Demonstrate the stakes of what is happening in LA with your actions.

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Sen. Alex Padilla, who was just forcibly removed from a DHS press conference, is the ranking member of Judiciary’s subcommittee on immigration, citizenship, and border safety, which has “oversight of federal agencies with citizenship, asylum, refugee, and immigration enforcement responsibilities.”

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When are we going to talk about the fact that many of Trump's loudest fans are openly calling for lawless dictatorship, white supremacy, and mass violence - and that this contingent is the one being listened to by the White House, Stephen Miller, JD Vance, and DHS?

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This period of history we're all living through has really hilighted just how utterly broken our journalism has become, completely compromised by business interests and obligated not to report events as they are happening but to constantly step around issues with passive voice

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Real oldheads remember Cuomo’s first foray into NYC politics five decades ago, when he tried to win the mayor’s race for his father by putting it out that Koch was gay.

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Here's something I post from time to time. My answer to a reader who asked me: what could journalists do NOW to break with some of their more corrosive habits.

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This board is the rate regulator for TVA and all its local distribution utilities!!!

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Trump just admitted that his mass deportations are bad for farmers and the economy, and crucially, also admitted that workers who are getting deported are "almost impossible to replace." That's a massive repudiation of MAGA ideology:

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this is NUTS. Trump's pet dictator seems to have collaborated directly with MS-13, including persecuting his own law enforcement officials who were working with a US task force www.propublica.org/article/buke...

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This looks like the most unsurprising chart I've ever seen, but if you only read British media you'd lose your mind learning that this is the reality of it

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Andrew Cuomo is afraid he'll lose, so his donors want you to fear me. His SuperPAC just sent out a mailer that artificially lengthened and darkened my beard. This is blatant Islamophobia—the kind of racism that explains why MAGA billionaires support his campaign.

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donald trump defunded science and gave the money to MS-13

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Breaking @propublica.org: Bukele of El Salvador has become one of Trump’s favorite authoritarians, and Trump touts him as a foe of MS-13. But a US investigation has found evidence he has colluded with the gang, even paying it for votes. www.propublica.org/article/buke...

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The lack of total outrage at the indictment of Congresswoman McIvey is truly frightening. Hakeem Jeffries ought to be causing high holy hell over this. She is indicted because she is Black. Half of the GOP caucus engaged in sedition and Garland felt arresting a member of congress went too far.

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The New York Times headline writers now call groups like the AMA and the College of Physicians and Surgeons "pro-vaccine groups." They get more preposterous with each passing day.

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I think more people should be gay

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Thus, then, in our hearts’ honeymoon, lay I and Queequeg—a cosy, loving pair.

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Friendly reminder that coal plants are one of the largest sources of toxic mercury emissions Today our Environmental Protection Agency argued they actually aren’t, and we should relax regulations so they can make our air and water polluted again There’s just no words for this 😡

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Over 700 survivors. 380 abusers. All from inside the Southern Baptist Church. But tell us again how two men getting married is what’s destroying America? This is not morality. They don’t protect children. They protect and covet power. apnews.com/article/sout...

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