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war against Black women www.washingtoninformer.com/black-women-...

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Girls, you can be anything when you grow up, even property

submitted 19 hours ago • 12 comments

For those keeping score at home — Trump’s AG, FBI Director, and chief of staff have all been on Qatar’s payroll. #SwampForceOne ✈️

submitted 18 hours ago • 88 comments

If White supremacists and racists control and program AI, like Grok, what do you think will happen? Don't have to imagine. It's happening in real time right now on Twitter.

submitted 19 hours ago • 36 comments

Everything appears to be white genocide except the nearly irreversible abolition of all of the stuff keeping white people alive. Like a Black woman having a visible job is white genocide but dismantling the FDA, removing fluoride, rampant deregulation & resurrecting old world diseases is freedom.

submitted 18 hours ago • 46 comments

Justice Jackson nails where we are right now: “Your argument turns our justice system into a catch me if you can kind of regime from the standpoint of the Executive where everybody has to have a lawyer and file a lawsuit in order for the government to stop violating people’s rights.” 🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯

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Gabbard valuing loyalty to Trump over respect for the facts & sound analysis is why she was almost universally regarded by national security professionals as a disastrous choice to be Director of National Intelligence. She is living up to the worst fears about her. www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...

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In building a 68-mile tunnel under Las Vegas, Elon Musk’s Boring Company has skirted building, environmental and labor regulations, according to records obtained by ProPublica and City Cast Las Vegas. (Published Jan. 2025)

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CBP has seized a legal permanent resident musician from an OUTBOUND international flight and detained him, his bandmates report. A person just about to voluntarily leave the country. www.austinchronicle.com/daily/music/...

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A must-see conversation with Gen. McChrystal — who argues America is stuck in a pattern where leaders lie to Americans, they know they’re lying, WE know they’re lying, and everyone accepts it. How he’s working to return character to leadership: @cnbc.com www.cnbc.com/video/2025/0...

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The Democratic Establishment Is Not Built to Fight Trump's Authoritarianism and Corruption. The Democratic Establishment wakes up to fight DNC Vice Chair David Hogg, but is still mostly complicit, weak & feckless to confront Trump's authoritarian reign & cruelty open.substack.com/pub/thelefth...

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I've started explicitly addressing some of what's described in this article as I go on my merry way, institution to institution insisting that we can and must continue to teach writing. There's two main risks. Both are real. 🧵 www.nytimes.com/2025/05/14/t...

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Is this what they meant by they can be “assimilated easily”? 🫤 www.thebulwark.com/p/an-afrikan...

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Spike Lee is the cover of Newsweek’s Newsmakers special issue, reflecting on the enduring legacy of Malcolm X 100 years after his birth. Malcolm’s truth transcends time — and still calls us to action. We will celebrate the revolutionary during a noon news conference on May 19 at the Shabazz Center.✊🏿

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Science Magazine gets it wrong. 🧵

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it couldn’t ever be more clear that real classic nazi antisemitism is alright for the trump administrstion, what they have a problem with is criticizing the state of israel about how many kids they’re killing

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In addition to devastating cuts to Medicaid, the House is attempting to lay the groundwork for a nationwide private school voucher program in reconciliation. We need YOUR help to ensure this legislation doesn't pass. ✍️ Contact your member of Congress at: americanhumanist.org/reconciliation

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INBOX: “Enjoy the THINO (Town Hall In Name Only)” KNOX COUNTY Republicans are refusing to let non-Republicans attend a “town hall” with state legislators, telling one voter “you do not qualify as a Republican”

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The Grok thing is a perfect lesson, really, about how ai "tools" will absolutely reflect and echo the ideological priorities and weird obsessions of its owners

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JUST IN: The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals has lifted a block on efforts by CREW to obtain details of DOGE's operations. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Trump's Quid Pro Quo Mid East Foreign Policy Qatar & Saudi Arabia are learning that Trump will sidestep Israel, & the Constitution, if you line up his pockets, but how will these bribes impact Palestinians, the region, & US security? W @peterbeinart.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/thelefth...

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The significance of this, of course, is that the administration claims it is deporting people to fight anti-Semitism but they are letting this bigoted turd in.

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Sean Duffy putting his wife on a flight from La Guardia instead of Newark, and then bragging about it on some right-wing podcast, is peak Trumpism. It's the "fuck you I've got mine" mentality combined with the sure knowledge that there will never be consequences for political stupidity.

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It seems very likely that this was a political prosecution that would never have been brought except to punish her for becoming a cause celebré. That said, these are… not good facts for her.

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Pretty incredible that Jeff Bezos' Amazon announced a "$5 billion-plus" partnership w/ a Saudi AI co launched by Mohammed Bin Salman and sent CEO Andy Jassy to meet with him less than 7 years after MBS murdered Jamal Khashoggi, a columnist for Bezos' Washington Post. techcrunch.com/2025/05/13/a...

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I wrote about the group of undercover landlords and investors trying to take over our Minneapolis elections, and why people should care. I tried to make it accessible to folks who aren't already familiar with Minneapolis politics, so please share! mplsmusings.com/2025/05/14/t...

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I had been doubtful that we were going to have a "this is the crisis moment" with Trump, as opposed to "everything about this is a destructive catastrophe." But the Abrego Garcia case is the crisis moment. 1/

submitted 31 days ago • 103 comments

Apparently, that "Pay $5 million and become an American citizen" scheme applies to Sinoloan cartel members. Seventeen of them came right on over the border yesterday. The only thing illegal in this country is not having enough money. Eat the rich.

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This is crazy.

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🧪 UPDATE: Harvard Med School scientist Kseniia Petrova—who published a NYT op ed yesterday about her 3-month incarceration in ICE detention—is now in criminal custody. New charges came after the judge in her lawsuit set a bail hearing to consider releasing her. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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BREAKING: Attorney General Pam Bondi sold more than $1 million worth of Trump Media stock the day Trump announced bruising new tariffs on "Liberation Day." @propublica.org's @robert-faturechi.bsky.social @bxroberts.org have the exclusive story. www.propublica.org/article/pam-...

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We have a govt that’s engaged in human trafficking, that’s openly allowing a gulf petrostate to bribe its leadership, that’s reshaping the refugee program in overtly racist terms, that’s almost ended American foreign aid entirely, that’s doing its level best to crash the economy from the rose garden

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Georgia bans organ donation of someone who died w/o their consent—but Georgia’s 6 week abortion ban is now forcing a brain dead woman to stay alive w/o her consent because she was 9 weeks pregnant when she went brain dead. Even a corpse in Georgia has more rights over its body than do women & girls

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An utterly meaningless debate while the real world is dealing with fascists with the Power of the full govt. Goddamn these fcking idiots

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Critical read! I know you’re exhausted. Take a breath and be ready to jump back in. Thank you for this @sifill.bsky.social.

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Hassan grills RFK Jr about HHS still employs David Geier and he IS NOT happy about her line of questioning, which he calls "defamatory"

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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. visibly lost his temper during a Senate hearing as Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) confronted him with promises he made to respect public health and not interfere in vaccine approval during his confirmation hearing, only to change his tune the secon...

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BREAKING: Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. announced he has ordered the FDA to consider new nationwide restrictions on medication abortion — and that President Trump, not scientists or doctors, will make the final decision.

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RFK Jr. said multiple times during his house and senate hearings today that no scientists have been fired from federal agencies. Our reporting has shown that hundreds, if not thousands, of scientists have been let go from NIH/CDC/FDA

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Had a powerful conversation with The Intercept, about the unconstitutional, hate-fueled attacks from Trump targeting our immigrant communities and birthright citizenship. I am introducing the Birthright Citizenship bill—to defend immigrant families and affirm our constitutional rights.

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Breaking: DHS Secretary Kristi Noem says she supports the Trump admin suspending habeas corpus. Habeas corpus refers to people's right to challenge their detention in court.

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Garcia to Noem: "Can you commit to just letting his mother know mother to mother if Andry is alive? He was given an asylum appointment by the United States government." (Noem wouldn't commit to it.)

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President Trump To Accept $400 Million Plane Gifted From Qatar theonion.com/preside...

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Every Wednesday at noon et @daniellemoodie.bsky.social and I discuss the experience of living under an authoritarian regime. Today we talked about how the antidote to MAGA and fascism is living intentionally and building coalitions around healing. jaredyatessexton.substack.com/p/the-antido...

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Imagine being worth billions of dollars and deciding to suck up to a guy who ordered the murder and dismemberment of a journalist he didn't like because you might be able to make another billion dollars Maybe just spend the money you have and keep whatever is left of your integrity?

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These people are unrelentingly evil but all so fcking stupid. It is exhausting that we have to real with this bullshit. Exhausting

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