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Yeah Gavin Newsom sucks but I also don’t feel like we’re really in the position right now to be picky because nobody else is doing anything

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The Trump tax cut is a massive wealth transfer from the poorest to the wealthiest. Contrast that with Build Back Better, which helped those at the bottom of the income distribution. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

submitted 12 hours ago • 11 comments

omg it’s a movement

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I keep seeing calls for protesters to sit down if things turn violent and that seems like such a bad idea. They aren’t going to stop beating and shooting at you just because you sat down. It will just put you in more physical danger.

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I peed next to Patterson Hood of the Drive By Truckers at PDX airport.

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A man with a green card said ICE agents arrested him in #Lynn, Mass then took him to a detention facility—but first made a detour to a cemetery, where they took him out of their vehicle and beat him. #mapoli #Massachusetts

submitted 18 hours ago • 149 comments

I don't know how many times these people have to say "non-whites are not americans unless they are part of my inner circle, we want to do ethnic cleansing" before people start listening bsky.app/profile/pale...

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Slotkin has voted to confirm more Trump appointees(Including Kristi Noem) than any other senator besides John "My exploding brain turned me into a nazi" Fetterman

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Every Dem Senator: "What happened to Senator Padilla today was an unprecedented breach of constitutional government and demonstrates the scale of the threat to our republic." Also Every Dem Senator: [Goes back to business as usual] 18 Dem Senators: [Vote for Trump's crypto bill]

submitted 20 hours ago • 58 comments

As a four-decade veteran of the daily journalism business, let me tell you: Every competent political reporter in this country knows that Trump is trying to establish a dictatorship. The industry's shame is that so few journalists will say so, and the ones who do lose their jobs.

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Schumer stopped the Senate to announce that this happened, in the middle of debate on a bill where Democrats were collaborating with Republicans on crypto legislation. How you can compartmentalize these two things is beyond me.

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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.”

submitted 23 hours ago • 683 comments

booker ready to do anything other than vote no on republican legislation

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LAST ACTION HERO DONT @ ME

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SCOOP: Guardsmen deployed to LA aren't on formal orders, thus aren't set up to be paid or get healthcare yet www.military.com/daily-news/2...

submitted 1 day ago • 137 comments

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This really isn't why David Hogg was removed. We had @malcolmkenyatta.bsky.social on @cancelmedaddy.bsky.social (the other removed chair who Politico didn't bother to name) to talk about the truth no one wants you to know about. Watch here: youtu.be/drL3ERidIeI

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Posting this 1967 Birmingham News editorial cartoon for all the people who don't realize that this is how MLK was viewed by a big chunk of white America.

submitted 3 days ago • 61 comments

1. The US Transgender Survey has finally been released, and the results are stunning. - <1% of people are less satisfied after HRT. - The most common reason for detransition, pausing transition, or stopping transition is transphobia. The latest from S. Baum. Subscribe to support our journalism.

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These 18 Senate Dems just voted to advance the crypto industry's money laundering bill: Alsobrooks Booker Cortez Masto Fetterman Gallego Gillibrand Hassan Heinrich Hickenlooper Kelly Kim Lujan Padilla Rosen Schiff Slotkin Warner Warnock

submitted 1 day ago • 318 comments

Waiting for the big outlets to put two and two together and realize that police whose identities are secret and facilities are secret are secret police.

submitted 2 days ago • 56 comments

AMA

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Thing I need all Dems at every level to absorb yesterday: if someone pulls a knife on you, you are in a knife fight, whether or not you want to be

submitted 2 days ago • 160 comments

BREAKING: A few minutes ago, a vehicle of three people was rammed by a truck belonging to federal immigration authorities in Boyle Heights, CA. According to security footage shown to me, they deployed chemical munitions & detained the driver at gunpoint. All are US citizens according to the wife.

submitted 2 days ago • 2320 comments

Counterpoint: NO THE FUCK THEY ARE NOT! www.reuters.com/world/us/tro...

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RIP to Brian Wilson, who gave us many perfect albums but also the perfect interview

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When I’m at Fogo de Chao

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BREAKING: Federal agents in plain clothes and unmarked cars tried to snatch 1st graders from LA elementary schools—told staff they had “parental consent.” They lied. When pressed, they HID THEIR IDS. DHS admits they sent them. This wasn’t a welfare check. It was a test run for a police state.

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Democratic politicians and liberal pundits bemoaning the LA protests need to understand that as their failure. None of this would be happening if they had offered effective resistance to mass deportation (extraordinary rendition, in truth) instead of considering undocumented people expendable.

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Notice how while ICE arrests people without a warrant, invades homes without a warrant, & disappears people into death camps—NRA is silent. Know why? Because NRA was never about firearm protection—but about white supremacy protection. As long as ICE targets mostly Black & brown people, NRA is happy

submitted 3 days ago • 64 comments

Fight the Empire.

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Efficiency is when you make the troops homeless before they're veterans

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Four LAPD officers on horseback surround a man laying on the ground, trample him, and beat him with their polycarbonate "saber" batons.

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