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New @motherjones.com: Federal health agency offers $25,000 employee buyouts—with ramifications for millions of Americans www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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A massive assault on the first amendment is well underway. The GOP pretends to stand for free speech even as they take unprecedented steps to undermine it.

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New, from me: you were told that the threats to free speech came from wokeness. Some compared it to Maoist China. Now we are witnessing government power being used to silence dissent and censor ideas. Now we know what real society-wide chilling effects look like. 🧵 open.substack.com/pub/donmoyni...

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This grim Orwellian development is of a piece with the “Gulf of Mexico” nonsense but more ominous. First, they demand some words and forbid others. Next, they’ll try telling us what to think. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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Members of the DOGE squad lied and tried to force their way into the downtown D.C. headquarters of U.S. African Development (USADF). The DOGE squad was accompanied by Peter Marocco — a Trump toady and member of the MAGA mob who illegally entered the U.S. Capitol during the…

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Amen to that

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The Department of Homeland Security claimed that collective bargaining for TSA security officers “constrained” the agency’s chief mission.

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Today we honor the heroes of Bloody Sunday, including the late John Lewis. Joining the commemoration of a key event in the civil rights movement that led to landmark voting rights legislation. 🗳️ The fight for #VotingRights continues. ✊ #SelmaJubilee #Selma60 #Jubilee2025

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Horrific: Police “announced the first of a series of expected arrests in the fraternity hazing death of Caleb Wilson, a 20-year-old Southern University student who they said was repeatedly punched with boxing gloves at a warehouse last week and was unresponsive when he was dropped off at an ER”

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Raise your hand 🖐️ if you are 🚫Anti-Trump 🚫 I want all of my 138K #BlueCrew followers to follow YOU 🍀 Like 💙🍁 and repost ♻️ to Meet More Friends! 🚀 Who agrees? 🖐️

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You bet

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Everyone needs to do this

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It'd be nice if universities, public and private, were doing this kind of messaging, instead of leaving to, eg, a newsletter circulated among Columbia faculty and students. Anyway, y'all are going to love the scientific breakthroughs coming from ... Hillsdale College. mailchi.mp/standcolumbi...

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Never forget: The RICHEST MAN ON THE PLANET is doing this.

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BRENNAN: You have a capacity issue right now in terms of just beds to put people in when you detain them. Are you gonna open up military facilities like Fort Bliss? KRISTI NOEM: There is, yes, a plan to use the facilities at Fort Bliss for detention.

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Citizen United needs to be killed off. We are here because Billionaires can now buy elections and SCOTUS

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Enriched by China’s experience, a model like Grok could easily evolve into a mass surveillance tool. With AI-driven data analysis and real-time monitoring, such systems risk reinforcing state control, silencing dissent, and eroding privacy under the guise of security.

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Patricia Bauman died a year ago. ActBlue is a payment processor. Almost anyone who’s given to a D candidate in the last 20 years could be mischaracterized as a “ActBlue funder.” Listing five Jews, two of whom are long dead, as “ActBlue funders” secretly behind the Tesla protests is antisemitism.

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Received from a friend today

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Cartoon by patbyrnes.bsky.social.

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The MAGA logic.

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Meanwhile, over at the bad place, Elon's attacking Poland.

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More of this, please! Chicago is on fire, letting Musk know they are not on board with his billionaire power grab. Let's continue pushing to make Tesla the next corporate pariah. Well done, Chicagoans, for using your voice to let him know what you think of his takeover of our government.

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Ryan Walters is forcing religion & bibles into Oklahoma public schools—it’s unconstitutional. Meanwhile, SCOTUS is weighing whether taxpayer money can fund an Oklahoma Catholic charter. If they let it slide, expect a flood of state-funded religious schools in more red states. The stakes are huge.

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BREAKING: The far-right just suffered a stunning loss in Romania as the far-right, Russian backed candidate was barred from running in May's election. Elon Musk denounced the decision. open.substack.com/pub/aaronpar...

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China has used AI-driven surveillance for nearly a decade, integrating facial recognition, real-time data analysis, and social credit systems to reinforce control. Framed as a security measure, it also serves to silence dissent, raising grave concerns about privacy and civil liberties.

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The CDC, under RFK Jr., will research the widely-debunked, nonexistent link between vaccines and autism. The move comes during the worst measles outbreak in the U.S. in the past five years. @msnbc.com

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This is good

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Chinese investors have quietly funneled millions into Elon Musk’s companies, including SpaceX, xAI, and Neuralink, using special-purpose vehicles to bypass scrutiny.

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Remember: If unions didn’t matter, powerful corporations wouldn’t spend millions of dollars every year to stop them from forming. Keep up the fight.

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‘You are free again’: farewell letters of executed Belgian resistance fighters found, 80 years on

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Every single trade provision Trump is now whining about with Mexico and Canada is a trade provision HE HIMSELF negotiated in the USMCA in 2018

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Elon Musk owns a 12% stake in Tesla. Thanks to nationwide protests and international boycotts, Tesla stocks have plummeted in recent weeks, reducing his net worth by over $100 billion. We can do better.

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The UN approved a resolution for an International Day of Hope. It was approved 161 to 1. The only country to vote no? America -- under orders by Donald Trump.

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