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🧵 I'm a high school teacher of senior honors and college prep English as well as AP Language and Composition in Chapin, SC. For years now l've been fighting censorship and advocating for the freedom to read. In 2023, Ta-Nehisi Coates' Between the World and Me was removed in my classroom. #MomSky

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America First = America Alone. We are not better off alone, and not prepared for this.

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I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget what Trump did.

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Kilmar Abrego García is alive. Bukele, President of El Salvador, visits the White House Monday. We need to keep the pressure on the Trump administration to bring Abrego García home. His family needs him, and he has not been charged with a crime in any country. www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

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Succinct and enraging.

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15,000 people RSVP’d for this monumental event. OVER 36,000 people stepped up and showed up to be part of the Fighting the Oligarchy event in L.A. on Saturday!! Our movement is absolutely massive, and building by the day!!

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Protect your rights and digital privacy when entering America: 8 Tips & resources thedemlabs.org/2025/04/12/p... @melastorm.bsky.social @vivalavoices.bsky.social @gailwaldby.bsky.social @edhirsch.bsky.social @jaynenebula.bsky.social @sickofthisbs77

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Like the Nazis who used IBM to gather data to find out where Jews and other groups they didn’t like lived, worked, etc so they could deport them, DOGE is gathering our data to be able to do the same thing to all of us. ash.harvard.edu/resources/un...

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Good morning everyone Tomorrow Night Congressman Juan Ciscomoni refuses to have a TownHall !! Tucson will host our OWN with these great people Senator MARK KELLY Congressman Greg Stanton Mayor Regina Romero Senator CORY BOOKER And My SHERO GABBY GIFFORDS This is how it's done

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i have argued before that MAGA is recapitulating antebellum pro-slavery ideas about citizenship and bodily autonomy. one thing i am also thinking about, when it comes to the rendition of people to a foreign gulag, is the way it is reminiscent of the kidnapping of free blacks for sale into slavery

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Simple questions. Your response, Rubio??

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Little Marco. What a douche.

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Please send this 60 Minutes video to the MAGAites you know. Don't give them the excuse of saying, when history is written, that they didn't know. fightthefire.substack.com/p/send-this-...

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#VetsResist

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North Carolina Governor Josh Stein said that FEMA will stop matching 100% of the money for Hurricane Helene recovery in North Carolina. Donald Trump’s administration refused Stein’s request to extend its 100% reimbursement period for another 180 days calling it “unwarranted.” Appalling.

submitted 9 hours ago • 121 comments

Really good graphic from NYT about the wild swings in tariffs on China depending on what you're buying.

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Federal spending is higher since President Trump took office even as the Department of Government Efficiency slashes contracts, cuts jobs and ends diversity programs. See more: on.wsj.com/42c3mXb

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"In just two months [Trump] has destroyed the reputation of the US...This is not only one more terrible blow to the US economy, it also represents reputation damage that could take generations to repair." 👏👏 on.ft.com/4cylf5W

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Nothing to see here..

submitted 9 hours ago • 24 comments

Cruelty is the point. Share this far and wide.

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Don't tell me Mahmoud Khalil standing with Jewish people for justice for Palestine is antisemitic when you pardoned the Nazi terrorist wearing a "Camp Auschwitz" shirt as he violently stormed the Capitol to hang Mike Pence & kill Nancy Pelosi. Shame on the MAGA regime & every silent politician.

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Frost: I come from Florida. See, Project 2025 is Florida 2024. We’ve seen this, but we also know how to deal with it. When they disappear, a college student, you take to the streets. When they steal your Medicare, Social Security, and Medicaid, you take to the streets.

submitted 8 hours ago • 38 comments

Admittedly, I think Al Green has already filed articles of impeachment. But otherwise, WSJ has most of the Dem caucus beat. www.wsj.com/opinion/trum...

submitted 18 hours ago • 75 comments

This seems right, and all of this is WRONG.

submitted 1 day ago • 1119 comments

Pathetic. Knuckling under.

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Dictator Trump told Maine "We need a full throated apology from the Governor herself, and a statement that she will never make such an unlawful challenge..again” A federal judge said no But-these days-would anyone be surprised if the Supreme Court ordered Governor Mills to apologize to Trump

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I bought a copy after watching this.

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"On Tyranny" is a #1 NYT bestseller again. I wish the moment were different. But I’m glad the book is useful. And grateful for all the kind words about putting the 20 lessons to work. snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...

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As with the EOs concerning elections, immigration and naturalization is categorically NOT an Article II power. To do this, the executive branch will undoubtedly try to hang its hat on some delegated authority by Congress. The focus now should be on clawing those delegated authorities back

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Casar: At the end of the day, they believe you pay taxes to make them and their friends richer. They believe you should work longer hours for less pay—again, to make them and their friends richer. And maybe they can even squeeze in a little insider stock trading on the side.

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Reminder: this is the same plan Russian operatives offered to Paul Manafort in exchange for their help getting Trump elected in 2016. (See Manafort’s testimony in the Senate Intelligence Committee’s report.)

submitted 9 hours ago • 36 comments

Hey UK, triple that number! You can do it!!

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Welcome to the resistance

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The GOP bill, a direct product of President Donald Trump’s decade-long obsession with illegal voting, would require documentary proof of citizenship for voter registration, bar states from counting late-arriving mail ballots, and dramatically infringe on states’ authority to run elections.

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✅ DEI Job of the Day Alston & Bird, a law firm with 800 lawyers in 13 offices worldwide Diversity and Inclusion Manager The four big law firms that settled with Trump yesterday agreed to ‘Disavow DEI’ as part of a settlement with EEOC, per @marcelias.bsky.social Alston & Bird is standing firm.

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"It was the worst type of magical thinking to imagine Trump would have any serious constraints in a second term ... If his voters believed he wouldn’t be stupid and malevolent enough to obliterate the economy for no good reason, they simply didn’t pay attention to his first term or 2024 campaign."

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Patel lied, and the Senate believed him www.nytimes.com/2025/04/11/u...

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When billionaires & folks at the top talk about “short term pain” from tariffs, they aren’t talking about themselves. They’re talking about the real pain that will be felt by working people who live paycheck to paycheck.

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Good morning and Happy Saturday to everyone who is paying attention and PISSED that the House passed a bill to make it more difficult for MILLIONS of married women to vote, and are committed to FLOOD YOUR SENATORS' OFFICES WITH CALLS TO VOTE AGAINST IT. LET'S FUCKING GO.

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Remember I told you that the plan is to get the “minerals deal” with Ukraine, then “realize” you can’t get the profits on it (infrastructure isn’t there, and… war), so then Russia could “buy US out” of the deal and hereby own it all? Think who actually needs the pipeline to have EU’s dependence ⬇️

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NEW FROM THE BORDER: Trump’s military border surge takes shape along U.S.-Mexico frontier www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

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Nutlick thinks this is a smart play. No doubt millions of MAGAts can’t wait to sign up for this job.

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The Constitutional crisis all Americans fear is here. A battle between the executive and judicial branches is underway. The Trump regime defiantly refused to meet another court-issued deadline in the case of Kilmar Abrego García. Dismissed was a federal judge’s deadline to disclose steps…

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I saw headlines about Trump's education secretary making this mistake, and I just assumed she was reading, because I have mistaken that word myself while reading. But she was not reading. Jesus Christ, she was not reading.

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“Make America Great Again.” 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣🤮

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playing chicken with authoritarians with @mjsdc.bsky.social and not playing footsie with authoritarians, with Jessie Weber. slate.com/podcasts/ami...

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