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If you live in NYC, I can't stress enough: we have great local alternative news services. Dump the @nytimes.com and @washingtonpost.com subscribe to @hellgatenyc.com and @gothamist.com

At this point, if nearly ten years later you’re still spending a lot of your time on the internet blaming Bernie Sanders voters for Trump’s win in 2016, then it’s a very good bet that you’re mentally ill. Full stop.

🕯️ Tonight immigrant rights groups hosted a candlelight vigil in Times Square for Jocelyn Rojo Carranza. from @projectunderdog.bsky.social: “We demand #JusticeForJocelynn and an end to the rhetoric of anti immigrant hate.” TikTok live videoclip from: www.tiktok.com/@mexicanosen...

PSA: You have a very serious mental health problem if you're looking around this absolute garbage fire engulfing society right now & are nonetheless STILL spending your time online insisting that anyone who worked for or supported Bernie Sanders are the world's worst people. Seriously - seek help.

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Good morning. Immigrants are #HereToStay.

Did Gaza cost Biden re-election? His ambassador to Israel, Jack Lew, seems to thinks so: "Standing with Israel for these past 15 months, with huge opposition in the media, in parts of his own party, you could argue that it contributed to making his challenge for reelection insurmountable."

If you don't see it as a moral imperative to oppose the mass deportation of millions of immigrants, I just don't know what to tell you

What I've been saying all along...

Because Trump keeps insisting that undocumented immigrants are largely responsible for bringing fentanyl into the country, here's my reminder that a large percentage of the traffickers are U.S. citizens.

You take the high road and I'll take the low road. (double speed) #bikeNYC

Good morning. Immigrants are #HereToStay.

“One school administrator serving many children of Mexican and Central American immigrants in the Midwest said their school has invited immigration attorneys to help parents formalize any plans for their children’s care in case they are deported.” www.scrippsnews.com/politics/sch...

Somebody tell Gov. Hochul that Dreamers didn’t have “legal papers” until DACA came along in 2012 under President Obama Will she call ICE on them should Trump undo the program over the next 4 years?

Well. While he’s pardoning folks….get all of the folks on death row pardoned, all those drug convictions for weed pardoned, etc etc etc.

The U.S. has a long tradition of shielding Israel (and itself) from war crime allegations — and threatening The Hague.

“Kennedy has suggested there are questions about whether HIV causes AIDS. (There are not, and it does.) … Kennedy has also promoted the idea, debunked since the late 1980s, that the party drug poppers might cause AIDS.”

🚨NEWS: Trump's new AG nominee Pam Bondi is the sister of the lawyer who represented Musk & Tesla when they were charged with securities fraud. If confirmed, Bondi would be empowered to shut down DOJ's probe of Musk & Tesla. https://buff.ly/3V2Y2RK

Only 18 Senators to vote YES for an arms embargo against Israel, something 61% of Americans want: Durbin Heinrich Hirono Kaine King Markey Merkley Murphy Ossoff Sanders Schatz Smith Van Hollen Shaheen Lujan Warnock Warren Welch

ok sickos it's time to cough up a little so we can keep rooting out secrets and lies! our newsroom is a nonprofit that runs on reader donations. if you like our work, support it.

94% of teachers have had to dip into their own pockets to buy school supplies. The average Wall Street employee got a $176,500 bonus last year. Something has gone terribly wrong.

jake paul should make boxing history by fighting elon musk next

“Getting identification that matches someone’s lived name and gender is a priority with an incoming administration that promises to be anti-transgender on day one,” said Heron Greenesmith, Deputy Director of Policy at the Transgender Law Center: amp.cnn.com/cnn/2024/11/... #TransgenderAwarenessWeek

Now it’s all starting to make sense