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I've covered race for two decades. I knew the 2nd Trump Admin would be dangerous for civil rights. Yet the collapse of the federal civil rights architecture and national will to address racial inequality and work on integration is stunning. Here's my latest. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/m...

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Trump on his budget today: It reduces the deficit! (It raises the deficit by $3.4T) No tax on social security! (That’s not in the bill) No cuts to Medicaid! (Largest Medicaid cuts in history).

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Keep you eyes on this: I assume the Congo and Rwanda meetings are to make arrangements for more third-party deportations. Or perhaps he’s ready to start shipping out “the homegrowns.” Seriously, pay attention.

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I still can’t understand the subset of people in the political world who lie as naturally as they breathe - but - who wear these giant crosses, constantly cite Scripture, demand that the Ten Commandments be displayed and find every opportunity possible to talk about “the Bible,” God or praying.

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Let’s be absolutely clear. This decision, based on fringe conspiracy theories, will kill children. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

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Generational change is coming: Since Zohran Mamdani won on Tuesday night, more than 1100 young people have reached out to @runforsomething.net to explore a run for local office -- one of our biggest spikes of the year yet.

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Contrary to popular opinion, not every insane, corrupt, maniacal thing they do is calculated to distract us from a thing you think is more important. They aren’t usually playing 4-D chess here. The majority of time it is just because they’re insane, corrupt and maniacal.

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An addled president is shredding the Constitution to usher in white nationalism and fascism while destroying the economy and our health care, so if you’re going to write an alarmist op-ed because a mayoral candidate might open five (5) city-run grocery stores, you can kindly get bent.

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Lawrence O'Donnell has been reporting in a way that is the verbal equivalent of kicking someone in the balls — and then doing it again, just for good measure. That's the kind of reporting we need. Not this candy-ass, sugar-coated BS so many others are putting out. #LawrenceGetsIt

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NOT A SINGLE SENATOR should vote to confirm Emil Bove for the 3d Circuit Court of Appeals. (Fixed It!)

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Happy 90th birthday Mom!

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The number of manifestly psychologically unwell people in the highest levels of this administration should be unsettling to the world.

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To the so-called Democratic “leadership,” here’s a little free advice…courtesy of Iron Maiden: “If you’re gonna die… die with your boots on.” Stop tiptoeing like cowards in bedroom slippers. Fight like you mean it…or get out of the way. You have left so many options and strategies on the table.

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In little more than 3 months… VP @kamalaharris.com poured everything she had into that race. I saw first hand how committed she was fighting for all of us! Listen, you don’t have to disparage one person to applaud another! Damn- just leave her alone!

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You know, Europe has lots of Democratic Socialists in their parliaments. Oh and free national healthcare.

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“Second-wave feminists embraced sexual freedom in the 1960s, a decade that saw the rise of the birth control pill, and fought for women to get their own credit cards in the 1970s.“ www.vanityfair.com/news/story/r...

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The best way to reduce the cost of Medicaid is to name and shame big employers that pay their full time employees so little, they qualify for Medicaid

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As usual, @asharangappa.bsky.social sees through the media fog to the actual rogue elephant in the room bsky.app/profile/asha...

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He is a charismatic candidate, offering things that people want and need. This is not a mystery, but because New York has ranked choice voting we had a real primary process and the people got to choose their candidate

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Is polling data really believable? Recent polling results suggest the convicted FELON still has 45% "approval rating" which is described as VERY LOW. Ask yourself a different question: How can 45% of the US population support a SERIAL CRIMINAL? HOW? #USDemocracy www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdCt...

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The American Academy of Pediatricians bluntly telling us the current CDC can't be trusted, and of course they are absolutely correct publications.aap.org/aapnews/news...

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🚨🚨🚨 I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget what the 34x POS convicted felon & adjudicated rapist Trump did 🚨🚨🚨

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Adrian Andrew Martinez, the 20-year-old U.S. citizen that was arrested by ICE while working at Walmart, sits down with our reporter, Aisha Wallace-Palomares, to give us insights into what he experienced. Amongst the new revelations, he shares that he was fired by Walmart.

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Psaki: "Do you want [Schumer and Jeffries's] support, or do you not care?" Mamdani: "I want their support, and I want the support of any leader ... because ultimately what we are looking to show New Yorkers is the fact that this is an ever-expanding coalition."

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Three years ago, a corrupt Supreme Court seized our rights and overturned Roe v. Wade. The resulted is just what we predicted. Women dying because they can't get basic healthcare. Doctors afraid to treat patients. We will not stop fighting until abortion rights are restored.

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Trump is such a gaslighter, and some people just love being gaslit by him. People will study this for centuries

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On every channel. We had to watch. That day, even for a little girl, the whole thing suddenly seemed dramatic.

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Hepatitis B can be passed from parent to baby at birth - and when that happens, the consequences can be deadly. It is unscientific and dangerous to intentionally ignore the success of U.S. vaccination programs or argue that the U.S. should not vaccinate babies for hepatitis B at birth.

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I started reading Stephen King's The Stand a month ago or so, and have been too busy to read more. Finally got to read a big chunk tonight. God damn that's some good writing. A positive to this heat is that I have no desire to turn my TV on. More reading time! #StephenKing #TheStand

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One rule of human psychology is forever consistent with the masses: Almost everyone says "I just want the truth!," but when they get it...a firestorm erupts unless it confirms what they already believe. Learning something new...for many...is simply not high on the list of priorities. 😎

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The Democratic Party did not try to clobber Mamdani. A faction of the party did. The Democratic Party just nominated him for mayor.

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Folks can argue about the relevancy of the “Democratic socialist” label all day. But if that’s what you’re hung up on, you’re missing the larger point. People aren’t chasing labels. They’re chasing change. Real, structural, unapologetic change. 🧵

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For #waterfallwednesday, this is Factory Creek Falls in Western Georgia. What a beautiful and perfect falls. I need to get back up there and see it again. #photography #landscapephotography #longexposure #EastCoastKin #waterfalls

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Wake up Democratic Party old guard establishment. This isn’t about New York City. This is the way the wind is blowing. Step aside for young people who this country will need over the next several decades long after you are gone. Enough with your egos and the big money interests.

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Three years without the protections of Roe v. Wade. Three years of cruelty. Three years of women denied care, criminalized for miscarriages, and forced to cross state lines in crisis. Three years of the GOP screaming “freedom” while snatching away our bodily autonomy. (1/2)

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Yes the GOP will take a break from demonizing women, the LGBTQ community, women, Blacks, Latinos, non-Christians, immigrants, etc to target Zohran. But that is because hate is what fuels the GOP. They will then return to their usually scheduled program of demonizing all of us who are not them!

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One more for #waterfallwednesday. This image was made on Moccasin Creek in Rabun County Georgia. It's a beautiful short hike in the woods. #photography #landscapephotography #longexposure #EastCoastKin #waterfalls

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What is it called in YOUR STATE Here in Arizona it's called Access or AHCCS In California it's Medi-Cal Oklahoma Sooner Care ETC It's all Medicaid and 10 million Americans can lose their Healthcare Please call your Senators 202 224-3121 now today (ty @tonolatino.bsky.social )

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While main stream media focuses on the efficacy of Trump’s strikes against Iran, Ms. Reid reminds us this unprovoked attack was unnecessary. ‘This is something we had absolutely no right to do.’

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A lot of people whose families haven’t been in this country as long as mine has don’t know white nationalists the way we do. They really want to get rid of nonwhites - or thin us out. It doesn’t matter if you are a citizen or a noncitizen. It doesn’t matter if you came here legally or illegally.

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Remember, this new normal -- in which gangs of masked armed gunmen are causing chaos in the streets, pulling weapons and assaulting innocent people, and no one can say if they're crooks or cops -- was all sold to Americans as a way to make us feel safer.

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