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They Want You to Feel Hopeless. Here’s Why You Can’t Let Them Win. A powerful mindset shift to fight despair and fuel real action. Discover the belief that changes everything. www.jackhopkinsnow.com

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You want to Make America Great Again? Start by banning the bribes. Citizens United turned Congress into a flea market, votes for sale. Fire every crook trading stocks on insider tips. Kick out the lobbyists. Elect people who serve you, not their wallets. Until the money’s gone, nothing changes.

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GOP Sen. Joni Ernst responds to voters saying that cutting Medicaid will kill them: “Well, we all are going to die.”

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More than a thousand people who worked to keep American agriculture free of pests and disease have left the federal workforce in President Trump's massive government downsizing.

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In Boston …..

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"Let cash registers ring!"

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This is Malak. He was caught on camera busting a hole through the wall. Immediately felt really bad about it, if that helps his case. 12/10

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I'm Dr. Annie Andrews. I’m a pediatrician, not a politician. But either way I know how to handle people who are full of sh*t. Today I am announcing my campaign for US Senate to replace Lindsey Graham. Share this if you're with me. www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8wM...

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Good thing for Putin he has such a good friend in WH to run cover for him while he continues to bomb civilians.

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Why did Congressional Republicans jam through an unpopular budget with the largest Medicaid cuts in history? It could be because nearly 70% of them would financially benefit from the bill's extension of Trump's tax cuts for the rich. Reverse Robin Hood.

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Today the Supreme Court cleared the way for the federal government to transfer thousands of acres of national forestland including a Native American sacred site, to Resolution Copper a mining company owned by Rio Tinto and BHP. The land holds deep spiritual significance for the Western Apache tribe.

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Her stats line up with CDC data…

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it is all projection with these MAGA leaders. they scream about medicare and medicaid fraud by some poor and working class folks, but the greatest source of fraud has been by millionaires and billionaires like Rick Scott who defrauded medicare and medicaid by nearly $2 billion.

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While searching Shakespeare quotes for Memorial Day, “Praising what is lost makes the remembrance dear” - it occurred to us that the lesson is, if it is truly dear to us, we should fight to save it. #WetTribe #TidetotheOcean #ShakespeareSunday #SaveCoral

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July '09. Fed minimum wage increased to $7.25/hr, 24% in 2 years. Median home price: $186k. Average annual income: $32k. 16 years later. May '25. Minimum wage still $7.25/hr. Median home price: $404k. Average annual income: $65k. Do with this information what you will.

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This is phenomenal. Sea surface temperatures are >5C above average to the west of the UK and around Iceland. It's the strongest area of anomalous warmth on the planet at the moment. It's the warmest in recorded history for northwest Europe.

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Russia launched a 300 drone terrorist attack on Ukraine overnight, most of them Shaheds. In addition, almost 70 missiles, including ballistics. The Kremlin’s targets were civilians, bomb shelters and civilian infrastructure. Ukrainian defenders fought all night to protect civilians.

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Since World War II, the U.S. has invested huge amounts of money in scientific research conducted at universities and federal agencies. That funding made the U.S. the world’s leading scientific power, leading to the invention of cell phones, the internet and incredible medical advances.

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happy bday Ralph Waldo Emerson, b.1803, Boston "The Religion that is afraid of science dishonors God." "This is my wish for you: Comfort on difficult days, smiles when sadness intrudes, rainbows to follow the clouds, laughter to kiss your lips, sunsets to warm your heart, hugs when spirits sag,...

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Musk’s so-called “Department of Government Efficiency” tried to embed a team inside the Government Publishing Office (GPO), the agency responsible for printing official documents and maintaining public access to federal records across all three branches of government.

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He never stopped. He laughed at Trump and continued the killing, because Trump is an international joke and his foreign policy team is filled with bumbling, weak, appeasing incompetents.

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The US is now complicit in the deaths of Ukrainians as Trump ONCE AGAIN does not sanction Russia despite his so called “red line.” He is the weakest so called leader America has had in its history.

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In the year of our lord two thousand twenty-five, guys named Tripp Mickle still write racialized nimble finger stereotypes into the pages of the New York Times. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/23/t...

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CEO pay is up 1,085% since 1978, while typical worker pay is up just 24%. Why do we always hear "we can't afford to pay our workers more" but never "we can't afford to pay our CEO more"?

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Proud of this piece I’m a co-author on. Our main argument: we have too much parking in CT. Arbitrary government parking mandate are bad for our local businesses, bad for our beautiful environment and have made our beloved town centers illegal to build. www.courant.com/2025/05/22/o...

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$MCD

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The Republic as we knew it is over. We are living through a culmination of a) an 80-year movement to undo the New Deal's reconstruction of the United States as a modern state, b) a 60-year movement to reverse the Second Reconstruction, and c) a 50-year movement to undo post-Watergate reforms [1]

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✅ DEI Employer of the Day™ Subaru "At Subaru of America, we believe that diversity makes us stronger. Diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging (DEIB) are core to our culture, how we make decisions and how we treat each other as humans first." Thanks to Impactivize.org user who suggested Subaru!

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Fascism sets in EXACTLY like this. Days go by. Nothing improves. The people wait with bated breath for SOMETHING or SOMEONE to help. Court orders, but no enforcement. Time passes. We become desensitized. Life goes on. Rights are chipped away. Life goes on. People die. Life goes on.

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A new analysis finds that projected growth from the GOP budget's tax cuts would only cover 2.7% of their $3.8T cost. That's nowhere close to the cuts "paying for themselves." Notice how nobody ever asks, "but how will we pay for it" when it comes to trickle-down economics?

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I am worried that even as we see the weaponization of government against Trump's political opponents, too few have stepped forward to object. I worry that as a result, we will see an escalation of political retribution that will be met with what MLK called "the appalling silence of the good people."

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Looks like “personal time” needs an update. 🤡 @mediaitenews.bsky.social @eamonjavers.bsky.social www.mediaite.com/media/news/l...

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Threatening universities. Attacking judges. Bullying law firms. Clamping down on free speech. If it looks like it, talks like it, and acts like it, it is moving toward authoritarianism.

submitted 11 days ago • 38 comments

Make this make sense. 🤷🏼‍♂️

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Yesterday, mine workers, nurses, and government employees protested outside of HHS—calling out the regime for trying to shut down the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. This includes the firing of more than 200 employees who screen for black lung disease. More here:

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BAKER: “.. universities are actually a major source of export earnings for the United States. Last year, we got over $56 billion from tuition and other expenses paid by foreigners to U.S. colleges .. This number is likely to fall sharply ..” @deanbaker13.bsky.social substack.com/home/post/p-...

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Hard to fully quantify cost to US if 6.5k+ foreign students at Harvard, best & brightest from around world, no longer come to US, but scatter to Oxford/Cambridge, top EU schools, or China. We lose their money, but also their research, investment, leadership. Soft power if/when they go home.

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Ah yes. America, the Land of the Keep Your Mouth Shut.

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I found this statement written by white South African Christian leaders to be clarifying and encouraging. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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Yes, coyotes & badgers sometimes hunt together, employing playful attention-getting jumps and visually effective fluffy buttwaddles.

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My YouTube channel is officially up and running! This has been a long time coming, and I’m incredibly grateful for all the support along the way. If you believe in independent media and want to help amplify progressive voices, I’d be so grateful if you’d subscribe, share, and help spread the word 💙💙

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There’s nothing more adorable than a little round and irresistibly charming saw-whet owl. Photo©: maxime_lv photography #owl #Nature

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Why make money by trying to make the market go up when you can make way more by making it go down?

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Editorial cartoonist Pat Bagley’s billionaire after party.

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I hope legacy media covers the connection between last night's memecoin dinner and this morning's social media tariff threats. He's manipulating the stock market.

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