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"I am a proud Democrat who fights for people and thinks Republicans are bad and we should stand up to them": actually a very popular message, which should be a lesson both to the reactionary centrist crowd and to other leftists hoping for similar success

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For @teenvogue.com's Group Project series, I spoke to 5 young people working across industries + across the country about how joining unions helped them find community and changed their relationship with work: www.teenvogue.com/story/how-to...

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New: Chase allowed someone to open an account — online, without providing ID — under the name of a Boston garage. That account was then used to solicit hundreds of thousands of dollars from fraud victims around the U.S.

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Four ways to degrade Orbán's EU veto euobserver.com/eu-and-the-w... Trade law, national law, border security, and forced toilet breaks: The EU has ways to break Hungary's veto — both legal and political.

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Hungary has criminalised organisers & participants of Pride marches + enabled the use of real-time facial recognition to target protesters. Those taking part in Pride must be able to safely exercise their right to peaceful assembly!

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A federal judge on Tuesday blocked Republican President Donald Trump's administration from eliminating union bargaining for hundreds of thousands of federal workers at 21 agencies.

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The fight for the safety and rights of LGBTQ+ people is not just a fight for visibility online (and offline)—it’s a fight for survival. Join us to make the internet private, safe, and full of gay pride.

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Biden’s domestic policy folks were mainstream liberals, some even better than that, and his foreign policy people were the right-wing fringe of the party disconnected fully from party opinion and good sense.

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If every one of the 340 million people in America paid a new $35 copay to visit the doctor, that still wouldn’t be enough to cover how much Meta would get from just one tax break in Donald Trump's "Big Beautiful Bill."

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"We fight. We stand, but most importantly we live." President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Ukraine's fight for survival against Russia's invasion. Watch his remarks ➡️ bit.ly/3T2Aco3

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The Commission is reviewing an NGO-led study that accuses Meta of actively partnering with RT, Sputnik and other sanctioned entities through its partner-publisher programme under the EU's Digital Services Act (DSA). www.euractiv.com/section/tech...

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Kids will not be spared by the BBB's draconian cuts to Medicaid. Some will lose coverage or find services they rely on are pared back. Others will feel it more indirectly- a clinic in their area closes or fewer mental health providers take the insurance. My latest @opinion.bloomberg.com 🎁 link:

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ICE is already $1 billion over budget by one estimate, with 3 months left of the fiscal year. Meanwhile, the Trump admin has illegally stopped publicly disclosing the money it's dispersing, making it hard to know exactly how much ICE is spending.

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This is exactly what Trump plans to do to our national parks, forests, wilderness area. www.usatoday.com/picture-gall...

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There's only one clear winner from what's going on in the Middle East and that is Putin. Urals oil price (blue) is the highest it's been in many months and Ukraine is out of the headlines. Putin now has plenty of cash and plenty of cover to push his murderous offensive in Ukraine...

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Now, thanks to the anti-worker, anti-regulatory actions Trump and his enablers in Congress are forcing through, our jobs may become even more dangerous. That’s very bad news in a country where a worker died on the job every 99 minutes in 2023. Read the full story here ⤵️

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Mayor Adams’ connection to this NYPD unit has been so close, former officials said, that he was given private access to a live feed of the unit’s body-worn cameras. He recently chose one of the team’s leaders to be deputy mayor of public safety. By @ericumansky.bsky.social‬

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This idea that Trump ran on "a platform of peace and nonviolence" is such a howler. He ran on ethnic cleansing and terrorizing people (you know the ones) you don't like.

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#OpEd: Thanks to the anti-worker, anti-regulatory actions Trump and his enablers in Congress are forcing through, our jobs may become even more dangerous. That’s very bad news in a country where a worker died on the job every 99 minutes in 2023. Read more from @kimkelly.bsky.social ⤵️

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Folks in rural areas: The Big Beautiful Bill will close your local hospitals after the Medicaid cuts take effect. Tell your senators your community needs them to stay open!

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It’s the 50th anniversary of the release of Jaws. The politicians rallying behind Cuomo demonstrate why the mayor in Jaws is still the mayor in Jaws 2. Show up to vote and demand better than the failed leadership of the past.

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We are the baddies. www.newsweek.com/us-pushing-a...

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Fascists always come for a small minority first as a way of consolidating power. The government now has the power to override personal health care decisions made in consultation with medical experts for all of us.

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Today’s ruling on U.S. vs. Skrmetti clearly demonstrates that trans people are under attack. Don’t let technology make things worse. Here are some recommendations to keep you and your community safe.

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There has never been an empire that has not ended up using its imperialistic tactics on its own people. Indeed, this is a signal that the empire is collapsing.

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MAGA isn't a political movement – it's a criminal conspiracy.

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NEW: It looks like Palantir is helping Trump build a mega-database of Americans' private information so he can target and spy on his enemies, or anyone. @aoc.bsky.social and I are demanding answers directly from Palantir.

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The reconciliation bill's hikes in farm subsidies "are brazen.... the GOP doesn’t just spare millionaire farmers from cuts, they aggressively expand inefficient farm giveaways by $57 billion." And they "lavished the biggest subsidy increases on GOP parts of the country." [Chris Edwards, @cato.org]

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These genocidal charlatans have been itching to nuke the entire Muslim world since the Iranian Revolution.

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Republicans are navigating challenging internal dynamics to reach agreement on a bill that could swell the national debt and worry international investors.

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The Saudi tyrant that so many American oligarchs, sports professionals, and politicians are sucking up to has just murdered another journalist.

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As an American, I fear civil war. But as a journalist, I think it would be pretty exciting.

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Labor force participation of prime-age men in the US fell after 2008 and never recovered. Political polarization has economic roots and this is one of them. Today's substack starts a series of posts where I look at how the US became so politically divided. robinjbrooks.substack.com/p/how-did-we...

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If you or someone you are protesting with gets hit by one of these compounds, knowing how to act can help alleviate symptoms and provide relief. Read about what you need to know about these compounds, and what to do if you’re affected by it.

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Teen Vogue continues to be a goddamn treasure and I will fight anyone who says otherwise.

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From my column, linked below

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