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Jeffries: hey the GOP controls the government, absolutely nothing i can do, gonna work on my personal book tour Sanders: brb i am going to personally barnstorm strategic GOP house districts and try to peel off 2 votes so we can block Trump's cuts to Medicaid www.commondreams.org/news/bernie-...

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If Junji Ito bred a plant

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FEDERAL RESEARCH LAB SCIENTIST IN 1965: After five years and seventy million dollars we have invented a new type of plastic that prevents communists from being able to climb ladders too fast FEDERAL RESEARCH LAB SCIENTIST IN 2025: My cure for cancer was shelved because it might benefit Hispanics

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They’re also firing generals and attorneys for the crime of not being male.

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Speaking of “Ted Cruz will no longer be safely able to vacation in Cancun if this keeps up”

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It may not be cool or hip in some circles, but we legitimately do need a massive amount of people to run for office. Flood the school boards, councils, county seats, state legislatures, Congress, etc. Big changes at the top happen when the ground shifts at the bottom. And that can start now.

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I need everyone to be crystal clear that this is a continuation of RFK and the wellness community’s obsession with the elimination of the disabled and the chronically ill. They are disgusted by us, they view illness and disability as weakness, and they believe in using eugenics to disappear us.

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If you're wondering how things are going up here in Canada, a school board near Edmonton, AB, has been calling all the parents of disabled kids this weekend to say that their children are no longer welcome at school. All of them. Nothing sent in writing. Got this second hand from my mom's trainer.

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THEY CUBED HIM

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Excellent & MUST READ breakdown of exactly what Trump, Musk & #Project2025 are up to, by @adamserwer.bsky.social

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Just look at these paragraphs from the AP story. Hegseth called Brown unqualified solely because he's Black. Then they fired him... and replaced him with a white guy so indisputably unqualified that he requires a Presidential waiver. This is what "merit" means to them. apnews.com/article/trum...

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As someone who sat through more than one hostile town hall in WI where tea party activists berated my then-boss about Obamacare, and I occasionally feared for my physical safety, I find these video clips so cathartic to watch.

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Uhhhhhh www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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America's best idea: National parks. America's worst idea: Electing a President whose number one priority was staying out of jail.

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If you live in Wisconsin, you need to get involved with Susan Crawford's campaign now. Far-right activists have been talking about this race since November. If you live out of state, consider phone banking for crawford or throwing dough to her campaign or grassroots groups organizing for her.

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This is the most wretched campaign of deliberate, explicit persecution the United States has perpetrated against a minority group in decades. Many of the most important people in politics and journalism are busying themselves trying to figure out how little to say or do about it.

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DOGE’s expenses have risen above 40 million, with weekly costs now exceeding 10 million. We will release an updated DOGE staff list soon.

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I wrote about the save women's sport movement's crowning achievement: An executive order that does little more than set a precedent for defunding women's sport at a moment of sweeping austerity measures.

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More of this

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Remarkable: Trump's own pollster just found that in swing House districts, Dems lead by 5 points and voters want tax policy to prioritize working people, per Politico. Yet GOP is about to brutally slash the safety net and give the rich huge tax cuts! New piece: newrepublic.com/article/1918...

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Quick reminder that Udon Entertainment's Director of Publishing Matt Moylan is a racist piece of shit.

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"Oh, he isn't real. He's just a composite face, put together by a computer." Kirby was reading rooms that weren't even built yet.

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Just a quick signal boost for those of you who understand what and who you support with your dollars matters.

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trillion dollar industry that will revolutionize everything

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Spoiler: The glue is failing in freezing weather. Because they used glue on the Cybertruck.

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Gov. Mills showed precisely the sort of integrity in the face of political pressure that the majority of the party currently lacks. More importantly, she did so extemporaneously and without hesitation from a purple state where this isn't a universally popular position. www.maine.gov/governor/mil...

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"The Man Who Made Sure You'd Be Chained to Your Employer For Your Health Care Forever" didn't test as well.

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How is it that Facebook still has not learned not to take notes on a criminal fucking conspiracy

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"And how an ICE raid may play out in a business is different from what it could look like on the street or in an individual home, which is why it’s important for all restaurant and food industry workers to know what to do if ICE shows up at work." www.eater.com/24364171/ice...

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I'm gonna keep reposting examples of people not taking shit because it's important for us to see that you can, simply, reject the shit. Say "Uh... no no no, we will not be tolerating that."

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Republican rep getting shouted down by his own constituents at a townhall in a deep red R+30 district is something.

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On the one hand, I'm off work and want to go get groceries. On the other, I sat down to put socks on and Mewt jumped onto my shoulder and has now become a warm, purring stole while she naps and moving her feels like a crime.

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people always like to sneer "in communism no one will clean the toilets" and just so you know, I will. cleaning the toilets is nbd and the reason cleaning-the-toilets-type jobs suck is because they don't pay enough and take up too much of your time, not because cleaning toilets is innately degrading

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In an ideal world the President of the United States, the world's richest man, and the two worst humans alive would be four different people.

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i am here in the city of Baldur's Gate

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Ok, I'm doing a version of this thread for 🧪 who are new to political conditions where info security is a safety issue: 1. Don't make public lists of people who are engaging in acts of resistance 2. Be weary of calls to advertise acts of subversion 3. Don't live post resistance meetings

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Scream Cipher xkcd.com/3054

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well thank god they found a square-jawed white dude to play the eponymous genderless robot in the murderbot diaries adaptation. wouldn't want to risk an interesting casting decision there

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Important to start admitting that we’re living under Schrodinger’s constitution—one that is not in effect whenever it constrains Republican powers, but is in effect whenever it can be used to stymie democrats or suppress opposition.

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My dad was tortured by the Gestapo for 4 days and thrown in a concentration camp for being in the Norwegian Resistance. Growing up, he would tell me things he learned in the Resistance. I thought, I'm never going to need this stuff. Here's some of those things #Thread

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I kind of love that BG3's patch notes read like they've been in deep negotiations with the characters to please stop glitching.

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I dreamt a Doctor Who post regeneration scene that I demand really happens sometime. Basically previous Doctor dies and the new doctor is a 20 something woman with short hair, she is typically post-regen dazed for all of her first ep, but wins and makes new friends...

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