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Today the Supreme Court cleared the way for the federal government to transfer thousands of acres of national forestland including a Native American sacred site, to Resolution Copper a mining company owned by Rio Tinto and BHP. The land holds deep spiritual significance for the Western Apache tribe.

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Since NYT Headline Discourse is a top 3 BlueSky activity, we should note this is a good headline.

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AOC: The math is not adding up. Their claim is that one million undocumented people are on Medicaid. So why are they trying to cut 13.7 million Americans off their healthcare?

submitted 16 days ago • 951 comments

Defendants are presumed innocent unless convicted. Every US Atty (or so I thought) knows you can’t weigh in on guilt like this.

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Menendez Jr: They feel no weight of the law and no restraint on what they should be doing. And that was shown in broad daylight today when they not just arrested the Mayor of Newark but when they put their hands on two members of congress standing behind me. How is this acceptable?

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JUST IN: Judge finds 'probable cause' to hold U.S. in contempt over Alien Enemies Act deportations

submitted 43 days ago • 1280 comments

“A year ago, there were 65,000 pregnant rape victims without access to abortion care. Now it’s way up from that. This is not a drill. It’s not a story. This is happening.”

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This is the first time one man has crashed the economy. As Americans see their savings evaporate, what are Republicans in Congress doing? Nothing. Republicans need to grow a spine and join Democrats right now to stop this man-made disaster.

submitted 52 days ago • 120 comments

Straight down seems bad

submitted 56 days ago • 1773 comments

Thank you, Senator Cory Booker! #Resist

submitted 58 days ago • 206 comments

It may be breaking, but @booker.senate.gov's voice has never been more powerful. Thank you, my friend, for speaking out for freedom, justice, and the country we love.

submitted 58 days ago • 911 comments

They’ll never accept it, but everyone who cast a vote for Donald Trump did real, generations-long damage to the United States and the west in exchange for essentially nothing of value.

submitted 63 days ago • 476 comments

I don’t see how, unless our entire profession stands shoulder-to-shoulder in unity, we successfully push back against this effort to break our profession and our democracy. Cowering & compromising won’t work. He is attacking us for the success of our work. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

submitted 68 days ago • 421 comments

Excellent excellent excellent from Princeton president and constitutional/ political theorist Chris Eisgruber. There's been far too little of this kind of thing; here's hoping others follow his good example. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

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No fraud

submitted 72 days ago • 432 comments

If you let the executive deport people to a foreign gulag just by pronouncing the word “terrorism,” then expect to be called a “terrorist” soon yourself.

submitted 74 days ago • 560 comments

note that the judge said nothing about where the planes were in the air, just that IF they were in the air, they were ordered to turn around

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French Senator Claude Malhuret: "Washington has become Nero’s court, with an incendiary emperor, submissive courtiers and a jester high on ketamine... We were at war with a dictator, we are now at war with a dictator backed by a traitor."

submitted 85 days ago • 1736 comments

Exactly.

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I want the t-shirts, the posters, the sepia prints, the velvet portrait, the trapper keepers, the lunch boxes, the I-phone covers. Rep @algreen.house.gov is an American patriot.

submitted 85 days ago • 1218 comments

This new complaint against DOGE is truly cranked up to 11 from start to finish. What a way to start a lawsuit storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... h/t @mikesacks.bsky.social

submitted 85 days ago • 132 comments

Trump and Elon are decimating the Social Security Administration, and without adequate staff, there will be people who can’t get their benefits—period. An unaccountable billionaire is going after Social Security. Senate Democrats are fighting back.

submitted 87 days ago • 71 comments

As someone who used to do securities fraud cases for a living, this is the equivalent of opening up the financial gates of hell.

submitted 87 days ago • 16 comments

1. Happening now, the United States Senate is considering S9, a bill that would ban transgender people from playing sports of their gender identity from chess to darts and everything in between. It could result in genital exams and more. I'm covering live. Watch: www.senate.gov/legislative/...

submitted 87 days ago • 279 comments

This is fucking insane.

submitted 92 days ago • 82 comments

This is a sad day.

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Jane Fonda: Have any of you watched a documentary of one of the great social movements like apartheid, or our civil rights movement, or Stonewall and asked yourself, would you have been brave enough to walk the bridge? We don’t have to wonder anymore because we are in our documentary moment. 🎥: 1/2

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El Capitan displays a massive American flag upside down—the traditional signal of distress or extreme emergency.

submitted 95 days ago • 1036 comments

The United States is in the midst of a regime change, in which Kash Patel, if confirmed, would be useful. snyder.substack.com/p/kash-patel...

submitted 99 days ago • 62 comments

Still been less than a month of this shit

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“The thing that I can’t get over is that the actual richest man in the world directed my fucking firing. I make $50k a year and work to keep drinking water safe. The richest man in the world decided that was an expense too great for the American taxpayer.”

submitted 103 days ago • 376 comments

Daffodils blooming at the burned down house across the street from my burned down house.

submitted 106 days ago • 9 comments

1/ A thread about why the gutting of journalism, and local news in particular, is a main reason why we are here. And what you can do—constructively—to help. Let's start with the homepage of @dallasnews.com. Mostly sports. Almost nothing about what's happening in DC—THAT AFFECTS TEXANS

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This!!! But for your state. Aside from just the big society based impact, I’ve been wondering how long I’ll be able to keep my job. I’m extremely anxious about it. www.unitedformedicalresearch.org/nih-in-your-...

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Lesson 1: Do not obey in advance. Thread of lessons from my book #OnTyranny. Written in 2016.

submitted 187 days ago • 327 comments

She committed the crime of being a woman

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The people who rise to lead now will be the leaders. And the people who do not never will.

submitted 114 days ago • 53 comments

Members of Congress were just denied entry to the Department of Treasury. This is a 5 alarm fire.

submitted 114 days ago • 720 comments

Thank you Senator Warren!!

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Come on by - this is where the party is.

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Call your reps ALL OF THEM including your governor. Tell them you want Elon Musk out of your business and out of the government. If you need, help use this app. They need to hear from you. 5calls.org/issue/elon-m...

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This.

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Elon Musk wanting to dismantle the #USAID is starting to make sense. Just pure unmitigated revenge by “Apartheid Clyde.”

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2 months ago this is what elected officials from opposition parties in S Korea were doing in the middle of the night as their President attempted a coup.

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