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The highest court in our land has determined the government can deport human beings to countries not their own and without any legal review -- until at least such time as a court rules this unconstitutional. And, oh, the matter will be litigated for years. Welcome to the American gulag. It's here.

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The Ku Klux Klan Acts (passed in 1870 & 1871 to protect 14th amend rights) were particularly focused on masked gunmen who violated the civil rights of Black people. We should remember this history when masked law enforcement ofcrs are deployed in our communities. open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...

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Hiding declassified files and presidential records is yet another way for the administration to dodge accountability. The authoritarian always seeks to limit your access to information.

submitted 14 hours ago • 76 comments

Nobel Peace Prize, my arse! An administration that bullies – and has no skill or desire for diplomacy – will always see military power as the only way to 'solve' problems.

submitted 1 day ago • 153 comments

This “big, ugly bill” is dangerous and will destroy rural health care. In Kentucky alone, 35 hospitals are under the threat of closing, stripping care from families, cutting jobs and crippling local economies. 1/2

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I like millions of others have taken the oath multiple times, I don't recall anything in that Oath advocating betraying the people, country or anyone seeking asylum which is the foundation of this country. We are all immigrants, except for the indigenous tribes!

submitted 18 hours ago • 24 comments

It's time we stop- Hey, what's that sound? Everybody look, what's going down... #ICE

submitted 1 day ago • 72 comments

The cost of living is way too high. It’s time to build an affordable economy where everyday Americans can live the good life. Not just a dream. A reality.

submitted 14 hours ago • 224 comments

www.tiktok.com/t/ZTj3AsKNj/ Dear Dems: Don’t fuck this up. AOC and Mamdani are the future. And it can win anywhere!!

submitted 11 hours ago • 3 comments

He’s right. Bottom tenth of families are going to lose 6.5% of income on average. Bottom 80% lose money. Only the top 10% gain. See Yale budget lab: budgetlab.yale.edu/research/com... 👇👇👇👇👇👇

submitted 17 hours ago • 34 comments

Yup. And the media continues to say how good The Dictator is at “marketing.”

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Damning Report Exposes Stephen Miller’s Shady Ties to Palantir newrepublic.com/post/197149/... via @newrepublic.com Stephen Miller owns 100K in stock in Palantir. Miller and Palantir will be making money on surveillance technology and concentration camps .

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If Democrats want to regain working people, they must disavow Big Money. They must hammer economic populism — and have a laser focus on the cost of living crisis in America. There’s no way the party can speak for or represent the working class in America if it's beholden to corporate interests.

submitted 15 hours ago • 145 comments

Zohran Mamdani found that elusive solution to generating organic left-wing influencer-driven advocacy that the DNC will spend the next three years and millions of dollars attempting to manufacture. Turns out the magic bullet is having a handful of new ideas and not being a total piece of shit.

submitted 1 day ago • 38 comments

A win! Thank you to everyone who spoke out! After facing bipartisan resistance, the Senate Parliamentarian, ruled that Sen. Mike Lee’s proposal to sell off millions of acres of federal land cannot be included under reconciliation rules.

submitted 1 day ago • 921 comments

I am a survivor of domestic violence. Hear me when I say this: women will die because of this.

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They’re planning on building a detention center for migrants in the middle of the fetid swamps of Florida. If you think this is something new, the first internment camp they sent me and my family to in 1942 was a barbed wire prison called Rohwer. It was located in the swamps of Arkansas.

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When under pressure, a good leader will take a step back and consider their options. A poor leader will rant, swear and blame others....

submitted 1 day ago • 144 comments

In the words of Nelson Mandela: it always seems impossible until it’s done. My friends, it is done. And you are the ones who did it. I am honored to be your Democratic nominee for the Mayor of New York City.

submitted 1 day ago • 1599 comments

Cruel & disgusting… In a short, one paragraph order, the Republican justices ruled on Monday evening that President Donald Trump may effectively nullify a federal law and an international treaty that is supposed to protect immigrants from torture. www.vox.com/scotus/41758...

submitted 2 days ago • 29 comments

Free him.

submitted 2 days ago • 37 comments

abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory...

submitted 2 days ago • 743 comments

Oversite is necessary, especially in private, for-profit corporate detention centers with a history of negligence. Don't kid yourself. These are concentration camps. Here is the letter I sent via @resist.bot . It takes 2 minutes to send one too. resist.bot/petitions/PA... #firenoem #ICE #resist

submitted 3 days ago • 25 comments

Why were the No Kings protests so important? The 3.5% rule. Protect Democracy advisor, Erica Chenoweth, notes that empirically “no government has withstood a challenge of 3.5% of their population mobilizing against it during a peak event.” Learn more here: www.ifyoucankeepit.org/p/whats-so-s...

submitted 5 days ago • 4 comments

Be warned: Trump will likely use his war with Iran as a pretext to further suppress dissent at home. We must resist his efforts to stifle freedom of speech, make warrantless searches and arrests of Americans, and put more military onto our streets.

submitted 2 days ago • 239 comments

Dear NYC: TOMORROW is Election Day and the whole world is BEGGING you NOT to fuck this up. You have a chance to choose a Dem mayoral nominee who is smart, decent, talented, funny and deeply committed to the people of the city. DO NOT opt instead to vote for an old school corrupt, sex pest

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"Do you want America to be at war with Iran?" No: 85% Yes: 5% YouGov / June 22, 2025

submitted 3 days ago • 839 comments

One of the things I hope this NYC election teaches young people is that VOTING IN PRIMARIES MATTERS! Being an “independent” means no say in primaries in most states. I hope the lesson learned is that there is ZERO power in staying home. NONE! No power at all in remaining on

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As was Carter As was Clinton As was Obama

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Over three decades later, "Its the economy, stupid" is back. Here is an article on the need for a new direction and leadership. www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

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A game plan…

submitted 3 days ago • 27 comments

The irony is that we collectively thought that some foreign country was going to invade and F..k things up and our daily lives, but what we failed to realize was that the plan by the corporations and their owners was that they would be the ones to destroy our liberties and dictate whats best for 🇺🇸.

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It was never America First. It was always Trump First.

submitted 3 days ago • 176 comments

Ann Telnaes revisited a cartoon from 2003 @anntelnaes.bsky.social substack.com/@anntelnaes/...

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“The body’s designed to kill measles,” Edwards said, as it spread into New Mexico and Oklahoma. “I would encourage you to seek a higher authority, a spiritual authority, and let peace guide you...” You know what else the body is designed to do? Die. Literally, our bodies are designed to die.

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substack.com/@harpper/not...

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The only thing House Republicans can be relied upon to do is consistently rubber stamp Donald Trump’s extreme agenda.

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Israel is an ally of the U.S., so is Ukraine, what’s the difference, why has the U.S. stopped assisting Ukraine? If military strength & deterrence is so important, how do you explain abandoning Ukraine? The last we heard about Ukraine was Trump leaving the G7 early to avoid meeting with Zelensky…🤔

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