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Lover of Democracy, Life-Long Learner, Bluebonnet in the Red C of Tejas, #resistance, OG Apocaloptimist, OG Antifa
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A truly heartbreaking story from Vlad, who was taken by Russia at 16. I’ll never understand those who turn their backs on Ukraine. I will always stand with Ukraine. Stories like Vlad’s must never happen again. 🇺🇦

The Trump admin is fast-tracking a uranium mine in Utah by slashing the permitting process to 14 days, bypassing environmental review and cutting the public out entirely. Projects like this are supposed to go through NEPA, the law that requires environmental impact assessments and public comment.

So American children should make do with "two dolls" while Donald Trump gets a free "sky palace" from the Qatari government? Okay.

June 14th No Kings Day ! If you cannot be in DC,look at this big beautiful map of protests planned and find yours. Bring at least 5 friends, that is your homework 💙 www.fiftyfifty.one

3 years in prison... 3 years...

“The reason they’re doing [this] is to try to create an environment of fear, to try to get people like myself... to shut the fuck up,” Piker said on a stream recounting the details of the incident. www.usermag.co/p/hasan-pike...

BREAKING: Mayor Baraka was just released.

Sen. Ossoff: Who out there in the American public is sitting at home demanding that we shut down cancer research and Alzheimer's research?

As an update, four educators delivered testimony against the bill, and Rep. Tallarico, one of the brightest stars in the legislature and my former representative, delivered a thorough dismantling of Stan Gerdes, the author. The bill is not advancing!

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TWO REMINDERS: 1. Mother's Day is Sunday. Do something nice for your mom (or for yourself if your mom isn't worth celebrating). 2. It's time for @nationalbailout.bsky.social's annual #FreeBlackMamas fundraiser to get Black women too poor to defend themselves out of jail and home with the kids.

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Melanie Stansbury, New Mexico’s representative to Congress, making *good* trouble!

Rep. Melanie Stansbury perfectly nails the issues. www.rawstory.com/marjorie-tay...

Casar: "I've knocked on 1000s of doors and not a single time has someone said, 'Thank God you're here. I want to ask about trans people fencing'..what the hell are we doing? We are here bc MTG thinks if she picks on trans folks, she can avoid having a discussion about allegations of insider trading"

Funding an abortion within minutes of winning a lawsuit that gives you the right to do so? Just Yellowhammer Fund things. Help us reopen with a bang! action.yellowhammerfund.org/a/donate-al-...

Individualism and billionaires are literally killing us. exoprophet.substack.com/p/why-do-sys...

Since Sec. Duffy's FAA takeover we've seen: - The 1st major commercial plane crash in the U.S. since 2009. - Newark's radar go down TWICE IN ONE WEEK. - Staffing shortages across the country. Maybe pushing out all the people that keep our skies safe wasn't the best idea.

The Chicago-born Robert Prevost, America’s first pope, has a worldview that appears to be at odds with “America First.” www.politico.com/news/2025/05...

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Months before Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost became the first American pope, he expressed criticism of Vice President JD Vance on social media, sharing an article that called the vice president’s interpretation of Christian doctrine “wrong.”

A blue creature, resembling jellyfish, corals, and anemones." By-the-wind sailors" (Velella velella) are free-floating colonial hydrozoans that use rock-hard spinnakers to catch the wind n propel themselves across the surface of the ocean with power of their sails ~ pretty?🪼⛵️ But don't touch them xx

Nancy Mace throwing a duck face tantrum over an all gender restroom like it’s the fall of Western civilization. If you can’t handle basic inclusion in 2025, maybe the real problem isn’t the sign—it’s you. Don’t go away mad, Nancy. Just go away.

Rep. Jasmine Crockett: “I cannot wait until voters have an opportunity to say, “You took food out of my mouth. You took a roof from over my head. You are responsible for making sure that I do not have health care. I'm going to make sure you don't have a job.”

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Trump crypto fireworks this morning.... Rep Maxine Waters and other Dems will walk out of a GOP controlled House hearing in protest and start their own hearing "to properly investigate Trump’s crypto ties, including his memecoin, WLF, and more."

To be effective, our opposition to today's abuses must run alongside a clear picture of what we are actually for - and how everyday life could be better with different leadership.

Trump cuts Energy Star program that saved households $450 a year

The book that explained everything happening today back in 1935. #DYRBRY

I still can’t believe this is the person puppeteering the man holding the highest office in the United States.

I love the irony of how all 'innovation' on the internet, including the gen AI boom, eventually leads us back to the oldest business model of them all: advertising. Sure, with the added surveillance and lack of consent and all that, but still: we're just going to put ads everywhere, ha.

“While I do not fully agree with the District Court’s analysis, I respect the court’s holding — just as I have respected every judicial tribunal that has heard this case,” Jefferson Griffin said. “I will not appeal the court’s decision.” to.pbs.org/4k35tmJ

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kyivindependent.com/after-3-year... AFX!!!!

Oh. So things are popping off between India and Pakistan. Surely MAGA will blame Donald Trump like they blamed Israel and Gaza on Biden, right? Right?

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Yep.

Be that guy.

Shouldn’t this be a bigger story?!? Senator Mark Warner calls for probe into report that WH is pressuring countries to use Musk’s Starlink company in exchange for tariff relief. Watch: open.substack.com/pub/jimacost...