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"Of those men who have overturned the liberties of republics, the greatest number have begun their career by paying an obsequious court to the people, commencing demagogues and ending tyrants."
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Padilla: If this is how DHS responds to a senator with a question you can only imagine what they're doing to farm workers, to cooks, to day laborers out in the Los Angeles community and throughout California.

submitted 3 days ago • 843 comments

If we don't take action now We'll settle for nothing later We'll settle for nothing now And we'll settle for nothing later

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"For me, the answer now lies in refusal, the withdrawal of participation from systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging." Today I am resigning from the National Science Board and the Library of Congress Scholars Council. I wrote about my decision in TIME. time.com/7285045/resi...

submitted 34 days ago • 485 comments

Ages 0-4 are the most important, emotionally & intellectually, in human development. Yet, in the US, we have a very high rate of childhood poverty and a broken child care system. Congratulations to New Mexico for leading the way forward for high quality, free child care. Other states must follow.

submitted 35 days ago • 317 comments

100 men vs. 1 gorilla? How about the working class against the oligarchy? The upward redistribution of wealth over the past 50 years has shifted $80 trillion from the bottom 90% of Americans to the top 1%. This is the real fight we need to be talking about.

submitted 39 days ago • 428 comments

Still waiting for the day when any Republican calls out, loudly, and by name, Trump for warmongering in Greenland and Canada and Panama. Same people that would tuck and run from Afghanistan, Russia, and Iran instead bully friends to look tough without consequence. Weak asses

submitted 39 days ago • 194 comments

Carl Sagan on sensible military spending and climate change.

submitted 40 days ago • 101 comments

Weather and climate research funds are being “chainsawed” from NOAA's budget. Last I checked, Louisiana & Florida, which are maximally susceptible to Hurricanes, voted Red in the last General Election. Wondering if residents there knew in advance this would happen.

submitted 41 days ago • 1726 comments

Allow me to address the elephant in the room: The decades-long outsourcing of domestic manufacturing to China was not an insidious Chinese conspiracy for dominance but the greedy strategy of the American ruling class to explode its profit margins by exploiting global inequality.

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DOGE IS A SCAM!

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"Can you imagine if a President started arresting Judges? Can you imagine if a President refused to obey orders from the Supreme Court? If that ever happened, America would become a Dictatorship overnight. There would be no dawn, only silence." - Barack Obama, 2011

submitted 48 days ago • 155 comments

Pritzker: Time to stop wondering if you can trust the nuclear codes to people who don’t know how to organize a group chat. It’s time to stop ignoring the hypocrisy in wearing a big gold cross while announcing the defunding of children’s cancer research…

submitted 48 days ago • 1022 comments

Remember these words… “I will vote for you if you are brave…”

submitted 51 days ago • 512 comments

Al gore is pissed off and I’m here for it

submitted 53 days ago • 1426 comments

Every state needs to do this ASAP

submitted 53 days ago • 695 comments

THIS is what we mean by showing up. Reps Carter, Thompson, Pressley and Sen Markey, went to a detention center where Mahmoud Khalil & Rumeysa Ozturk are being held w/out due process. They didn’t just stand up for their own constituents—they stood together for all because there’s power in numbers.

submitted 53 days ago • 272 comments

A US citizen with a learning disability who has just suffered a medical emergency asks a CBP officer for directions outside the emergency room. He ends up detained in an icebox for ten days and has the assistant secretary of DHS lying about him to the public at large. popular.info/p/us-citizen...

submitted 53 days ago • 822 comments

Marriott’s CEO said it straight: “We welcome all… we create opportunities for all… that’s who we are as a company.” He went back to his hotel to find 40K emails from Marriott associates worldwide saying “thank you.” Plenty of CEOs talk. Capuano showed up. Marriott still has my business.

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