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I joined to follow baseball and music and stayed for progressive politics. #FreePalestine
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After Sharon Osbourne called for Kneecap's work visas to be revoked, the group responded by telling her to listen to Black Sabbath's "War Pigs" → cons.lv/oCwWLT

“We are at a moment right now where people are asking themselves why can’t the Democratic Party defend this assault on democracy . . . and I would submit to you that if you can’t draw the line at genocide, you probably can’t draw the line at democracy.” - Ta-Nehisi Coates

✨️Palestinian flags flying proudly on Lifford Bridge, Strabane. Co.Tyrone✨️🇮🇪🇵🇸

To all my NYC friends, please do not rank Andrew Cuomo.

This might just be the worst take I have ever read.

During apartheid, South African armed forces killed 69 civilians in the Sharpeville Massacre. The world was shocked. This event is still taught in history classes. On average, Israel has massacred more than 70 Palestinian civilians *every day* for the past 18 months.

There are so many betrayals in Chuck Schumer's vote for the CR, but perhaps none worse than going against the request of the federal workers who've been most harmed by the on-going coup. The largest federal workers union asked @schumer.senate.gov to vote against the CR and he just ignored them.

I’d like to ask every single New Yorker who’s remotely left of center to get actively involved in your local Democratic Party chapter with the goal of driving Schumer, Gillibrand, Hochul, Adams, Cuomo and all the other dead wood into retirement.

@schumer.senate.gov, you are fucking useless. What other leverage do you have? RESIGN!

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@scanlon.house.gov, will you be signing on this as well?

Look, folks, this is it. The entire ballgame. Either we're a Republic of laws & the Constitution, or we have a dictator. This is fascism, & the impeachment vote should be happening today. Every single university president in the country should be out, in front of microphones, condemning this.

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I can’t compete with this

‘You Can’t Let This Happen,’ Says Fundraising Email From Sitting U.S. Congressperson

@hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social Please resign, you are not the right person for this moment.

Only gonna say this once: Pennsylvania has a real opportunity to be the state that doesn't have completely awful policies, is affordable, and isn't a cold unlivable wasteland for 4 months a year. Do with that what you will, yinz, youse, and hey yu! Additionally, go birds.

Elon Musk bought the United States of America—the most powerful nation in the world—for $200M. For scale, Steve Ballmer bought the LA Clippers for $2B. The fucking Clippers.

✨Maria Winifred Carney was a Fenian, a Feminist, a Suffragette, a Socialist and and an activist who was involved w/ the Easter Rising. In March 2024, a statue @ Belfast City Hall was erected in tribute to her life long fight for Workers rights, for Women's causes and for a United Ireland ✨

They really banned TikTok before they banned sending weapons to Israel during a genocide.

The Biden team is working to spin their foreign policy legacy, but it’s too late. mondoweiss.net/2025/01/the-...

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