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Bernie Sanders is holding MASSIVE rallies in packed venues, bigger crowds than Trump was getting, and legacy media is practically silent. Bernie is talking to workers rather than hanging out with socialites with mediocre plastic surgery at Mar-a-Lago, and it's just not interesting to corporate media

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Anne Applebaum on Substack

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An extremely good deep dive into egg price gouging by Basel Musharbash! @basel.bsky.social www.thebignewsletter.com/p/hatching-a...

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just reupping this, on the Oscar-winning movie about how life under authoritarianism can feel almost normal until people start getting disappeared.

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Tell Congress to protect our rural hospitals by not slashing Medicaid.

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Trump talks about loving veterans (left). Then fucks them over. 80000 jobs to be cut at the VA. He is a treasonous disgrace. apnews.com/article/vete...

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60 years after the Voting Rights Act was signed, extreme Republicans are working to create new barriers to the ballot box. Today, I joined @housedemocrats.bsky.social to introduce the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act and protect the right to vote and safeguard our democracy.

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US appears set on crushing Ukraine capacity to force Zelensky to submit. Never mind that this is a bonfire of leverage versus Russia, which has every reason to believe it can dictate terms or reject a ceasefire in the knowledge that Trump is likely to blame Ukraine. Criminally bad negotiating.

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If you're driving the economy into the ditch the first thing you need to do is fire with the people who help compile the economic statistics. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

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Thanks to you, we have already raised $1,500,000 for 5 armored evacuation vehicles to aid Ukrainian medics. Thank you! These machines are crucial on the front. Let’s save more lives and fundraise 5 more vehicles that will help #SaveTheHeroes❤️‍🩹 u24.gov.ua/armored-ambu...

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"President Donald Trump’s pick to lead policy for the Pentagon wouldn’t say that Russia invaded Ukraine, making him the second top Defense Department nominee in a week to equivocate on the question in a confirmation hearing." www.defensenews.com/pentagon/202...

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A fed’l judge in Maryland just blocked the Trump administration’s effort to withhold funds from hospitals that provide gender-transition treatment to transgender youths while the litigstion is proceeding. Big loss for Trump. Hate loses. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/04/u...

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Trump's presidency has been extremely alarming—we've seen rising grocery costs, attempts to slash Medicare, mass firings of critical workers by Musk, & the White House abandoning our democratic allies. (1/2)

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warner is 72 and has been serving in the senate since 2009. get him out

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Today, I joined over 200 @housedemocrats.bsky.social to share one voice and one clear message: Speaker Johnson and Republicans need to keep their hands off of Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid. Read the full letter:

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Hey register for this event I'm hosting w @moveon.org Watch Trump's Billionaires First Rally (aka State of the Union speech) on Tuesday night, but with a live truth check. I will indeed be "calling BS". Unless he's on Hawaii time, I think he'll answer. mobilize.us/moveon/event/7…

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This is called fraudulent accounting, and it’s what Trump was found criminally guilty of by a New York court.

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Chris Murphy: "It is absolutely shameful what's happening right now. The White House has become an arm of the Kremlin."

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We need to keep the Wisconsin Supreme Court out of MAGA hands. Indivisibles across the state are organizing to protect the liberal majority on their highest court — and they could use your help. Chip in to support this GOTV work to elect Susan Crawford on April 1: secure.actblue.com/donate/scowi...

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Trump’s State of the Union should have been about peace-he promised to get that done before he took office while campaigning. His idea of peace turned out to be forcing Kyiv to take responsibility for Russia’s invasion, give up resources & accept occupation. joycevance.substack.com/p/the-week-a...

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So Musk’s people, who misread $8 million as $8 billion, who counted the same contracts multiple times and counted as savings programs that ended last year, claim that their AI is finding lots of Social Security fraud. Why should anyone worry?

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Challenging times reveal true friends💙💛 Last night, we witnessed an incredible wave of support for Ukraine and UNITED24. You have already raised $1,243,351.68 towards armored medical evacuation vehicles for our defenders💪 Thank you! Let’s continue: donorbox.org/help-ukraine...

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Thank y'all for the heartwarming evening at the Disenfranchised Disco! I am on Griffin's list and it meant the world to step on the stage and see that for you my vote matters. Let's keep fighting! @hawriverballroom.com @abreezeclayton.bsky.social @ncdemocrats.bsky.social @commoncausenc.bsky.social

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After Trump & Vance’s utterly disgraceful performance it’s good to see European leaders step up. It’s profoundly American to criticize our leaders when they stray from democratic principles let alone what we are seeing in Trump’s administration. As a proud American I intend to fight for our country.

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#SCOTUS has been holding the government’s emergency application here “in abeyance,” but that was seeking to vacate the TRO that had temporarily reinstated Dellinger. Now that Judge Jackson has issued a permanent injunction, this case should have to go back to the D.C. Circuit first.

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Move over Ethan Allen, here comes Lucy Welch billmckibben.substack.com/p/special-ve...

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"Either way, it’s as if Franklin Delano Roosevelt had showered slurs on Winston Churchill during the Blitz and praised Adolf Hitler" -- The Philadelphia Inquirer's great foreign-affairs columnist Trudy Rubin, on what the hell just happened here www.inquirer.com/opinion/trum...

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Upstanding Americans feel the shame of the degenerate spectacle yesterday in the Oval Office but can console themselves that the values and institutions we took the lead in building, now upheld by the free states of Europe, can uphold our values until America can beak free of its current captivity.

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Keep calling. Once I had a small issue and needed SSA help. They were actually quite good. Solved my problem. So, to reiterate, call or use @resist.bot

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Here I react to the shameful encounter between American leaders and media and the Ukrainian president. No doubt there were more, but I saw five failures on our side: of hospitality, decency, democracy, strategy, and independence. Please watch and share. snyder.substack.com/p/five-failu...

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The Artemis Program will send humans to the Moon & beyond—efforts compromised by the threat of federal firings. In my first hearing as Ranking Member of the Space Subcommittee, I stood with NASA’s workforce & vowed not to stand for handing the keys to lunar exploration to China. youtu.be/iTUSHJNi2xw

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Just finished a meeting with President Zelensky here in Washington. He confirmed that the Ukrainian people will not support a fake peace agreement where Putin gets everything he wants and there are no security arrangements for Ukraine.

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RFK Jr. Takes a Sledgehammer to Two Major Vaccine Developments newrepublic.com/post/192059/... via @newrepublic.com

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The Nature Conservancy’s Embarrassing Capitulation to Trump newrepublic.com/article/1919... via @newrepublic.com

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Today, I made my easiest vote to date in Congress: I voted to protect Medicaid for millions of North Carolinians. The American people will not forget Republican's unconscionable attempt to destroy this critical program in favor of tax cuts for the wealthy. My full statement:

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Murphy: "The destruction of our democracy is part of this story ... this is super unpopular, what they are doing. Nobody wants their healthcare to disappear ... so how do you get away with it? You try to destroy our democracy. You try to crush dissent. You threaten members of Congress with arrest."

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Look at this leader. Lift her up.

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Judicial Branch Instructs Employees To Ignore Mass DOGE Email talkingpointsmemo.com/news/judicia...

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#TeslaTakedown in the news from the great @inquirer.com !

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This is really smart by @sanders.senate.gov Go to republican districts and push voters to pressure their republican reps. www.commondreams.org/news/bernie-...

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Letter from congress that is incredibly alarming. Looks like #DOGE got access to #nasa and they use the word ominous. democrats-science.house.gov/imo/media/do...

submitted 17 days ago • 49 comments

very effective slogan and also a reminder to the forces arrayed against Trump that they have the whole American civic tradition at their disposal since Trumpism, especially with Elon and in the second incarnation has genuinely abandoned all of it.

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DOGE = Damaging Our aGricultural Environment 😡😡 1/8

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Congratulations to our friend and fellow Young Democrat @abreezeclayton.bsky.social on being re-elected as Chair of the North Carolina Democratic Party! Let’s keep building a New South, together. 💪

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