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That is some moral clarity. “This is violence disguised as law.”

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Hear me out…. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/s...

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Katie Phang: And now that my time here at MSNBC comes to a close, I am taking that fight back to a familiar place… I hope you'll follow along with me as I continue to meet you where you are at places like Substack and YouTube with fellow truth tellers like MeidasTouch…

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America is… cooked.

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Pro-Israel mob, largely made up of Jewish men, assaults woman in Crown Heights. They chased her for blocks, kicking her, throwing objects, and hurling slurs like “waste of semen” and “failed abortion,” while chanting “Death to Arabs” in Hebrew. Source: Subwaydj on Instagram

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2 year old US citizen deported. “her father claimed that when he spoke briefly with Ms. Lopez Villela, he could hear her and the children crying. The father reminded her, the petition said, that ‘their daughter was a U.S. citizen and could not be deported.’” #MomSky 🚨

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“It is not uncommon for guards to withhold food unless we take our shirts off," writes prison journalist Kwaneta Harris in Texas.

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NEW: The Trump administration is quietly putting America’s children at risk by cutting funds and manpower for investigating child abuse, enforcing child support payments, providing child care and much more.

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Let’s dream up to ways to shit on women. Oh hey, let’s cancel the largest clinical trial ever for women www.science.org/content/arti...

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I wrote a letter for the Action Network letter campaign: Restore Legal Services for Unaccompanied Children This week, the government froze legal services for unaccompanied children, leaving over 26,000 children without access to their legal counsel Send a letter: actionnetwork.org/letters/rest...

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'Love on the Spectrum' star James B. Jones went to TikTok to speak out against Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy's “extremely ignorant” and “downright offensive” comments about autism and neurodiversity — ones that Jones says are outdated and regressive. ⤵️

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Fumbled the black bag. I was a Target die-hard before. Have not been there since December.

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This is getting fewer headlines than it should. After coming to power promising to help working people, the president is revealing his real priorities by actively making it easier for banks to rip people off.

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Head Start, an early childhood education program for low income families, is on the chopping block. Growing up, my own mom was an aide with the program; it’s helped countless young mothers, including the one who tells her story here. www.kqed.org/news/1203596...

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"Macron also announced the creation of a joint French-Haitian historical commission to ‘’examine our shared past’’ and assess relations, but did not directly address longstanding Haitian demands for reparations." Anyone know French politics / the backstory here? www.nbcnews.com/news/world/f...

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The Trump administration has quietly doubled down on its decision to stop sending emergency food to children starving in Bangladesh, Somalia, and other countries. Without urgent intervention, these children might die within months, @hana-kiros.bsky.social reports. https://theatln.tc/kQAZFJJw

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People want institutions to stand up www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

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Today at least 400 different varieties of cabbage are grown throughout the world. Nutrivore Scores (nutrient density) for common types of cabbage: Bok choy - 3428 Green cabbage - 2034 Red cabbage - 1369 Savoy cabbage - 1321 Nutrivore Scores for fermented cabbage: Kimchi - 1097 Sauerkraut - 710

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It's never about the science. It's always about having a legal basis for your fear and hatred of other people.

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NEW: Trump has reportedly urged Congress to authorize $175 billion for border security, more than 10x what was spent in his first term. Meanwhile, border residents in Texas and Arizona say their basic needs — like safe drinking water and hospital access — aren’t being met. W/ @texastribune.org

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You know why European countries are so quiet about the El Salvador situation? Because they started the normalisation of extraterritorial detention of migrants and asylum seekers, often without any due process. The UK’s Rwanda plan. Italy’s attempted plan with Albania. And some still want to do it.

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Gross: The GOP is planning $5.3 TRILLION in tax cuts for their Sugar Daddy donors. And WE are going to PAY for them through tariffs and cuts to our healthcare. #MAGABlowingYourTaxes

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4Chan was hacked, its source code was leaked, admin emails were leaked, AND a lot of registered users used their real names and .edu email addresses. Lotta CHUDs getting exposed to sunlight today.

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“If Black women were free, it would mean that everyone else would have to be free since our freedom would necessitate the destruction of all the systems of oppression,” The Combahee River Collective Statement, April 1977” FEMINIST GIANT Daily Dose: 155 www.feministgiant.com/p/daily-dose...

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Also, let's be clear: Having a criminal record also doesn't mean you should be deported to a torture camp in another country and effectively sentenced to death. Because everybody has basic rights, and because dictatorships will always redefine what "criminality" means.

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The Librarians is a must-see documentary about the recent history of book banning in the US

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Secretary of Defense Hegseth says he "felt" communism at the Panama Canal & now wants to seize it. These lunatics are making US foreign policy based on vibes. A sweaty Fox News meathead is ready to start a war because the air felt too communist for his liking. This regime is embarrassingly unhinged.

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History is under unprecedented attack from the Trump administration. We have made free access for one month this important article on the origins & vision of the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture, established in 2016. academic.oup.com/hwj/article/...

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I've had folks ask me if they should still shop at Target. You gotta do what's right for you. I haven't shopped at Target in well over a year, ever since they removed Pride merch. Folks may call that a boycott if they wish. I call it giving my money only to businesses who value me as a customer.

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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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I know that everything is awful, but in personal news, I successfully defended my dissertation this morning!

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Eight people in South Sudan, including five children, died on a three-hour walk to seek medical treatment for cholera after US aid cuts forced local health services to close, the UK-based charity Save the Children said reut.rs/3E9kB27

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I want to post this again. DOJ had sent Marshals to her home (they were called off) to warn her not to testify yesterday. She testified anyway. Bondi's DOJ is a weapon. Oyer testified anyway. Keep repeating that. She did it anyway. F--k Bondi. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Can we get more of this? “The Japanese American National Museum will ‘scrub nothing,’ Fujioka said, and instead will highlight the importance of DEI. “Our community is based on diversity, equity is guaranteed to us in the Constitution, and inclusion is what we believe in,” Fujioka said.

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