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Democrats: We need a message, we need relevance, we need energy Also Democrats: Yes, well, lets just defame the people who can deliver that

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“Mr Kennedy is what is known politely as a “vaccine sceptic” and impolitely as a crank. He is undermining trust in, sensible scrutiny of and incentives to invest in one of modern medicine’s greatest wonders.” economist.com/leaders/2025... from The Economist

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I don’t know that I’ve ever respected anyone who lost an election more than Brad Lander at this point an object lesson in how every other Democrat should be responding to this moment what a mensch

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Miami canceling its election isn’t just local politics—it’s a trial balloon. W/the Voting Rights Act gutted & voter suppression intensifying, this is a test run for dismantling democracy nationwide. Elections aren’t optional. #VotingRights

submitted 14 hours ago • 3 comments

Flock Safety says it’s fixing its tech. But its feature updates do little to fix their mass surveillance model.

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Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson? Harvard undergrad, Harvard Law, magna cum laude, cum laude, and editor of the Harvard Law Review. That’s what elite talent looks like. Charlie Kirk? Dropped out of community college. Game. Set. Match.

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I don't remember another time in history where lawmakers abdicated their own authority like this. Trump wants to be able to start a war without consulting Congress. Why on Earth would they relinquish their own role and powers as they are defined in the Constitution? And some Dems may vote for this?!

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Russia’s economy is in a worse state than publicly acknowledged and Putin plans to cut defence spending. A Bloomberg exclusive.

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Eager to soothe Trump’s wounded ego, the Supreme Court ended nationwide injunctions today. Trump is crowing, but this just means we’ll take our smashing wins in 4 district courts and turn them into wins in 94 district courts. People born here are citizens, period.

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its always been intriguing (the way dumb things are intriguing) how racists like trump and tuberville just cant conceive of the notion of black people living in the suburbs, even though millions of us do (and in very rural areas too).

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The Supreme Court today broke a fundamental agreement between internet users and the state that has existed since its inception: the government will not stand in the way of people accessing First Amendment-protected material.

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Justice Jackson's big picture view -- A Martian arriving here from another planet would see these circumstances and surely wonder: “what good is the Constitution, then?” www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p... #injunctions

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The Trump regime is using legal maneuvers to destroy the rule of law. It's as simple and sad as that.

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1984 by @deAdder Substack: open.substack.com/pub/deadder/...

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The party establishment always asks the left to be a team player. But when the left wins a primary, so many of the same party establishment folks will suddenly forget their love of teamwork. Always revealing when politicians show their true colors.

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The Atlas of Surveillance just added 80 agencies in Oregon, Texas and Washington that are using Flock Safety automated license plate readers. Plug in your city or county to see what surveillance tech cops in your area are deploying.

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The fact that the entire press corps doesn't walk out en masse when something like this happens in a searing indictment of the entire press corps and every news organization it represents.

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First they came for abortion.  Now it’s birth control, cancer screenings, prenatal care. The Supreme Court just ruled states can block Medicaid patients from getting care at Planned Parenthood. (1/2)

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Can you imagine the right-wing freakout if Obama or Biden did this?

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So many people will die because of this deeply evil and deeply stupid man. www.npr.org/sections/goa...

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The US, EU and UK sanctioned lots of Russia's shadow fleet this year. The hit to Russia' seaborne oil exports is clear. They're down from 4 million barrels per day in H1 2024 to 3 million barrels per day in H1 2025. This is very good news. Putin is scrambling. @econharris.bsky.social @brookings.edu

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i hope you folks who love your nyt crossword puzzles and wordle realize what youre funding

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jake tapper led the charge on this see a pattern?

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it would have been nice, while trump and hegseth are trying and failing to spin the iran hit, if the dem leadership had been more in line with aoc and co talking about the strike being illegal and dumb, vs the limp noodle jeffries/schumer "we would please sir like some answers sir" response

submitted 2 days ago • 9 comments

I would love, love to wake up in a world where I did not feel every day was part of some great culture war to the death. There will be no winner of this in the end--but there will be lots of losses.

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NEW: GOP lawmakers want to nationalize Medicaid work requirements to offset Trump’s proposed tax cuts. Yet Georgia’s example shows that this could threaten health care for nearly 16 million Americans and cost taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars. By @savmargaret.bsky.social

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The UK and the EU unleashed a wave of shadow fleet sanctions in May. Something really big is happening now. Those sanctions knocked out a good chunk of the shadow fleet, so Russia is having to use more Western (Greek) oil tankers. Sanctions work! With @econharris.bsky.social at @brookings.edu

submitted 3 days ago • 4 comments

"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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