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Israel’s former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has denounced the war his successor, Benjamin Netanyahu, has been waging in Gaza. In a piece for Haaretz, Olmert referred to the current government as a “criminal gang” led by Netanyahu. As a proud American Jew, I agree. www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...

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WATCH: @katmabu.bsky.social blows Jennings’ mind by saying “everyone deserves health care” Reminder: this is how it is in every other developed nation, where the cruelty of the Republican Party has not killed universal health care on behalf of the insurance companies. #MedicareForAll

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The Trump team thinks Confederate traitors who killed Americans are worth honoring. But Americans who fought at Normandy in D-Day like Medgar Evers, or served in the Navy like Harvey Milk and Cesar Chavez, or worked as a spy for the US Army like Harriet Tubman, well, they are NOT worth honoring.

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"in his first six months in office, [Myrie] helped pass the Reproductive Health Act, groundbreaking climate change legislation, the Child Victims Act and tougher gun control laws, and the strongest pro-tenant rent laws in a generation." www.nbcnewyork.com/news/politic...

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Really rotten how the gays blocked paid family leave and made sure new parents got stuck with 50K hospital bills and then blocked Republican efforts to create affordable childcare and then on the way to the sex party that one night we rescinded the child tax credit. www.joemygod.com/2025/06/gop-...

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Rugged individualism powered by $461,000 in farm subsidies. www.salon.com/2015/01/22/jo...

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To borrow a phrase: "It's the corruption, stupid." The @lincolnsquare.media's crew imagines Dems committed to washing "corruption" from our government. It's bigger than the Trump Scam Fam; it's the tentacles of crooked money and advantage that stop reforms we'd pretty much all want. Smart stuff.

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Exclusive State Department records show: As the Trump administration abandons its humanitarian commitments, diplomats are reporting that the cuts have led to violence and instability while undermining anti-terrorism initiatives. By Brett Murphy & @annamaria.bsky.social

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I’m officially running to be the Ranking Member of the House Oversight Committee. These are not normal times—and this cannot be a business-as-usual moment. Read my full letter to my colleagues here: crockett.house.gov/media/press-...

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at lake and bloomington where ICE were seen. large group of angry people

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“Good evening. Tonight, we report on the deaths of children—avoidable deaths, now occurring by the hour." substack.com/home/post/p-...

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Here's something everybody should be paying attention to: Congressional Republicans are trying to weaken the Affordable Care Act and put millions of people at risk of losing their health care. Call your Senators and tell them we can't let that happen.

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JUNE 14 CALL TO ACTION www.FAFOPac.org is part of a coalition with Indivisible & www.nokings.org for THE LARGEST MARCH IN US HISTORY. 76 MILLION VOTED AGAINST HIM. LETS GET AT LEAST 35 MILLION! youtu.be/33tTveCKATM?...

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I can’t think of a presidency that has done more open and undeniable damage to this country, and the wider world, in such a short space of time, than this one. Shocking, despicable:

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@judgeluttig.bsky.social's thread should inform journalists challenging any of Stephan Miller's rages. The admin's chief ideologist rooted around in ancient, obscure code to cobble together a legal veneer for their schemes. Dangerous as these are, they're less sound than the median HOA meeting.

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So it turns out that Elon Musk is 5X the sex-crazed, drug-addled freak that Republicans claimed Hunter Biden was...and whereas Hunter played no role in his dad's administration, Musk was basically running much of the country for the past 4 months. Lovely.

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A fun story about our Outreach for Legal Literacy student org. Throughout the year our OLL students work with local fifth graders, teaching them basic civic and legal principles. That culminates every April with a mock trial, judged by our outstanding faculty.

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Few weeks ago, I was talking to congressional staffers on Capitol Hill about A.I. and copyright law. When I mentioned Napster, they had no idea what I was talking about, so I co-wrote a piece in @thr.com — www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...

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Yes.

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True, but Trump did help solve the Fermi Paradox www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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No, I hadn't. We can all see what fractured info and perceptions do to our culture. This is a view info that. Ugly stuff. The Frontline film is here.

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The scales of de-escalation mythology continue to fall from the eyes Big public statement from Germany We ALL should have done this in Feb 2022

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“Yeah, Putin is bad, but the REAL villain is —“ Just a reminder: removing the democratically elected pro-Western government of Ukraine, including its president, and never having another one is a clearly stated objective of Moscow. So you can give the civilian-killing monsters a win. Or defeat them

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yes. they literally blame higher education for a social order that doesn’t give unquestioned deference to people like themselves

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One thing Trump doesn’t understand about American military parades is that they aren’t about showing power, but appreciation. The troops aren’t marching to honor someone, we (the audience) are honoring them.

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The most modern source of common the US and Europe share the 20-something "senior advisor" at State lists is Aquinas. No Locke, no Montesquieu, Hume, or Voltaire, the sources of the US constitution. The US's civlisational allies are literally Medieval 1/2 statedept.substack.com/p/the-need-f...

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Our Memorial Day piece is a really important read. Our commitment to maintaining an apolitical military is eroding—and it is critical that we not utterly forfeit this ideal.

submitted 11 days ago • 12 comments

Imma speak from the heart about the pointlessly destructive attacks on Harvard and other universities. I may be a bit lost for how to find the right words, but I do hope you'll get a sense of what I'm trying to say.

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NOBODY WANTS APPLE BUILDING IPHONES HERE YOU IGNORANT FAT TODDLER. Good God you exhausting sloppy goon

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FDA Commissioner Makary: "By the way, America doesn't want covid boosters."

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