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After months of striking, some therapists with Kaiser Permanente stopped eating for five days to bring attention to their union's demands for parity with how the company's other workers are treated.

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The bond markets and interest rates. Has the financial market lost faith in America’s financial system? It may not be unreasonable. Businesses may soon see the Supreme Court’s willingness to forgo precedent and judicial norms the same way. paulkrugman.substack.com/p/the-third-...

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The upheaval in stocks has been grabbing all the headlines, but there is a bigger problem looming in another corner of the financial markets that rarely gets headlines: Investors are dumping U.S. government bonds.

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Called my congressman who voted for the SAVE act. Me: What documents will I need to vote if this passes? Staffer: a DL and birth certificate. Me: The documents don’t match Staffer: Then a marriage certificate. Me: Will my husband need the marriage certificate too? Staffer: No Me: See the problem?

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"If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you." - President Lyndon B. Johnson

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“It’s the most extraordinary attack on voting rights in American history,” Wilentz said. “This is an attempt to destroy American democracy as we know it. www.democracydocket.com/analysis/the...

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Now reading the Heritage Foundation’s Project Esther. It’s scary how they proposed using concerns about antisemitism to limit free speech.

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May 11 - Black Mothers March to the White House - www.blackmothersmarch.com - "The Black Mothers March on the White House is a coalition of black-led organizations that have been involved in the struggle to rescue our children from the custody of the State."

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If the agent of an embittered KGB officer somehow won the US presidency and entered into the office bent on destroying the USA in its national influence, network of alliances, and the American people’s quality of life, what would he be doing differently?

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ELECTION RESULT: A team of city council members in Rolla, Missouri, have been pushing anti-LGTB policies, including a ban on drag shows and book censorship. Voters just ousted all three of these city councilors who were running for reelection, backing candidates backed by a local LGBT group.

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The billionaires and Trump may be purposefully tanking to stock market. Helps them keep people working, tanks college funds, if social security is tanked then people can’t retire. They’re trying to make money for billionaires at the expense of working people.

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Not hyperbole: such a ruling would open the door to the return of institutional slavery. If there are no protections against the prospect of being disappeared to a foreign torture prison, then what's protecting you from the prospect of being disappeared to domestic slave labor camps? Nothing.

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The upcoming congressional recess will fall in the middle of GOP efforts to craft a massively unpopular reconciliation bill that guts Medicaid and SNAP programs to fund tax cuts for billionaires. Our goal is to organize hundreds of rallies to turn up the heat on Republicans: indivisible.org/muskorus

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This has always been the GOP's strategy: 1) Cut taxes for the wealthy & corporations by claiming they'll pay for themselves. 2) Explode the deficit. 3) Demand cuts to vital programs that help millions. 4) Repeat. They're trying to get away with it again.

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Hard to overstate the importance of this. The American century is done.

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Copyright protection under 17 U.S. Code § 105 is not available for any work of the United States Government. The White House is the People’s House. Content for every @WhiteHouse is in the public domain, never copyrighted with “All Rights Reserved.” Small stuff vs human rights violations, but BS.

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I just saw No Other Land in Minneapolis. The banality of domination, destruction, and death that occur day after day, year after year, and decade after decade to villagers in the West Bank is truly horrifying. 🧵 nootherland.com

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This is a gift link! www.nytimes.com/2025/04/04/a...

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How much money have you lost in your 491k, 403b or IRA? All so Bezos, Zuckerberg and Musk could get billions more in tax cuts to horde for themselves. They’ve done nothing for us in the U.S.

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Arbitrary and capricious. Poor administrative state that’s inefficient. This is what authoritarian regimes look like

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Undue Medical Debt is retiring unpaid medical bills for 20 million people. The debt trading company that owned them is leaving the market.

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🚨 If you’re continuously stunned by the behavior of gerrymandered GOP representatives in the world of Citizens United, don’t be. Here’s how to think of them: They are no longer public servants. Improving public outcomes is not their goal. Nor do they do better in life… 1/

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S&P 500 down 285 points. @cnbc.com ⛳️

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Jackson’s dissent is elucidating.

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🚨🚨Calling all North Carolina voters!! Here is a list of every voter that Jefferson Griffin is trying to disenfranchise, please if you are a NC voter check to see if your name is on here, you have 15 days to cure your ballot to make sure your vote counts. thegriffinlist.com/assets/griff...

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Most people have never been brave. Folks, there is no golden age of "bravery" in any cultural context or historical moment. People are just people and what makes people more brave is if others take brave action [and this only works sometimes].

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Every single paper in the U.S. would be excoriating a Dem President who was golfing while the stock market melted down. We all know this. The editorial boards would be screeching, state tv ie Fox would be playing NONSTOP clips, etc. etc. It's worth remembering.

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You’d think someone would want to do something about this. www.courthousenews.com/health-care-...

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The richest man in the world spent more money than most of us will see in our lifetimes to lose a state Supreme Court race by 10 points. And the fact his $25 million was a drop in the bucket compared to what he's spent on other elections is exactly why we must overturn Citizens United.

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The "centrist" electeds and pundits in the Dem party said that the "strategy" was to lay down and wait for Tr*mp to become unpopular. I want everyone to STOP LISTENING to these people because they are ALWAYS wrong. ALWAYS. There are never any consequences for their bullshit.

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@sanders.senate.gov @whitehouse.senate.gov @senatoradamschiff.bsky.social

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It’s time go boycott Florida travel. If they want fascism, like Target they should find it themselves. There are beaches and theme parks elsewhere.

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If you think it’ll stop at Columbia and Harvard, you’re wrong. If you think it won’t go beyond universities to infiltrate all schools, you’re wrong. If you think it won’t demand compliance at media, medical, and non-profit organizations, you’re wrong. Fascism is here. Fight it.

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