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Thank you @TheSBPC.bsky.social for sharing this important information about student debt. Please watch & share widely. bsky.app/profile/thes...

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Limiting or weaponizing #PSLF will threaten our ability to recruit and retain teachers, nurses, public employees, and more. This should worry all of us. @TheSBPC.bsky.social protectborrowers.org/hundreds-of-...

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Not all students go to College - we need to make that ok. It’s time to scale up successful programs that create multiple pathways for students so high school is a gateway to both college and career. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/06/o...

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we must destroy ChatGPT

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This is a huge new scandal. Trump and Musk are using tariffs as leverage to get other countries to buy from Musk’s companies. Working families pay $4,000+ more a year so Musk gets new deals. They get richer. Everyone else gets screwed.

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For 66 days the Netanyahu government has blocked ALL food and aid from going into Gaza. Now we're told it plans to seize and reoccupy huge parts of Gaza, as it pushes for Trump's plan to force 2 million Palestinians to leave. That would be ethnic cleansing by another name. We can’t stand for it.

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Opinion from the FT's Editorial Board: 'The US and European countries that tout Israel as an ally that shares their values have issued barely a word of condemnation. They should be ashamed of their silence, and stop enabling Netanyahu to act with impunity.' www.ft.com/content/f5fd...

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New from me on @ips-dc.org's Other Words: 71 corporations facing 102 federal investigations & enforcement lawsuits gave $57 million to Trump's inaugural fund Cases against 21 have already been dropped or halted This isn't "America First" -- it's Corporations First otherwords.org/america-firs...

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Heritage Action, the advocacy arm of the Heritage Foundation — the right-wing think tank behind Project 2025 — provided WY Secretary of State Chuck Gray with model legislation, detailed feedback, and line-by-line edits for a bill that limits foreign spending on campaigns for state ballot measures.

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Former House Financial Services Committee chair Patrick McHenry is now a "Senior Advisor" to practically every crypto and fintech firm, and every lobby shop in Washington. He's dizzy from all the revolving door spins, and our friends at @revolvingdoordc.bsky.social have a rundown.

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“When we talk about peace, we must ask: What kind of future are we envisioning if an entire people is left to suffer starvation?” www.nytimes.com/2025/05/06/o...

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People in communities want to have a better life. They want to make sure they have decent housing, decent schools that are well funded. And so that is what my call to action is — we need to show up in our communities & fight for what we need. ourfinancialsecurity.org/2025/02/news...

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EARLY RESULTS: the “yes” to this important measure is up roughly 3 to 1 in the early vote.

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This is a terrible and terrifying escalation. Need cool heads to prevail here. www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

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Useless

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UN chief raises concern about Indian military actions in Pakistan reut.rs/3So0e4B

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I condemn the horrific terrorist attack in Pahalgam — but no conclusive evidence has been presented linking Pakistan. India’s unprovoked strike on Pakistan is a violation of international law. With both being nuclear powers, this is reckless & a grave threat to regional peace.

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🚨EXCLUSIVE: Trump officials plan to use funds for at-risk refugees to facilitate an influx of white South Africans this week, according to a government source & internal memo viewed by @levernews.com. . Trump is boosting the South African resettlement as he also tries to ban other refugees.

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Tell Congress: Keep ECCA Vouchers Out of the Federal Budget

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If we’re doing this, here are orgs we should strip of tax exempt status: - Heritage Foundation - Stand Together - Americans for Prosperity - Cato Institute - Mackinac Center - State Policy Network - PragerU - RealClear Foundation - TPUSA - Claremont Institute - Council for National Policy - SPN

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“It’s a position that, if fully realized, would make getting an abortion a capital offense in many states.” Colleen Scerpella of @exposedbycmd.bsky.social details the troubling rise of abortion abolition bills in conservative states. prospect.org/justice/2025...

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Thursday, May 1st over 1,000 people gathered at Washington Square Park to stand up for workers' rights. Thank you everyone who came out & endured the rain in their continued support, all the groups and speakers, and for Cincinnati AFL-CIO for organizing a great rally for International Worker's Day!

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the thing that's wild to me about Klein is that he had Jane McAlevey on his podcast, thought she was brilliant, and then... never internalized a single thing that she said

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Read this:

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NEWS: Reeling from Trump/DOGE cuts and chaos, energy data agency cancels major international report, deletes analytical centerpiece of its flagship U.S. energy outlook. www.propublica.org/article/the-...

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Tomorrow the Senate will take a critical vote. Will they vote to confirm a commissioner who calls himself a a DOGE guy? Or will they say no and tell the president to nominate someone who will protect our field officers, safeguard our data, and put the needs of American people first? - Pam Parker

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NEW: DonorsTrust — the donor conduit favored by the Koch political network — funneled over $152.5 mil to MAGA groups, right-wing national and state think tanks and litigation centers, hate groups, youth groups, and more in 2023, according to an analysis of its latest IRS filing obtained by CMD.

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This is arguably the biggest corruption scandal in recent memory, and the President is proudly advertising it on his social media. He is offering a private gala dinner for people that buy his meme coin, putting money in the Trump family’s pockets.

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Hard to feel bad for millionaires when Trump & Congress are preparing to cut just about every program that helps working people in America. Tax the damn rich.

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THIS IS A BELOVED TEACHER… Why Donald Trump? Why to create this fear. It breaks my heart to see a beloved teacher leaving his school and family out of fear of the Trump administration’s cruel policies. www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

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Exactly. Without NIOSH to keep workplaces safe, millions of workers - like coal miners - will be put at risk of preventable disease, injury, and death. If the Trump administration truly cared about workers, they wouldn't be making these cuts. abcnews.go.com/US/live-coal...

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What kind of country do we want? Thank you @nysut.bsky.social

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64 days with no aid reaching Gaza. No food, water or medicine. Children are starving. Netanyahu’s extremist government now says it will occupy Gaza & put mercenaries in charge of distributing aid, instead of the UN and other aid groups. Despicable. No more US support for Netanyahu’s war machine.

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Page One must have been crowded. So NYT puts it on Page 13. 🤡 @schooley.bsky.social

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ICYMI: The UAW stands in solidarity with SINTTIA and the workers at General Motors’ San Luis Potosí plant as they exercise their fundamental right to form and join a union, free from coercion or interference. uaw.org/uaw-statemen...

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A 40-year-old man died from dehydration after being detained for more than two months inside the Tarrant County jail in Texas, he was one of at least three people with documented mental illness to die of thirst in the jail’s custody in recent years.

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Trump is willing to pour millions of dollars into this military parade, but isn’t willing to invest that money into public education, healthcare, or public services that working families depend on. www.cbsnews.com/news/army-pl...

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Cutting SNAP would literally take food out of the mouths of 11 million people, including our kids. And for what - a slush fund for millionaires and billionaires? www.cbpp.org/research/foo...

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NIOSH is one of the agencies in charge of worker safety. Firing most of its staff leaves the agency unable to do its job & keep workplaces safe. If the Trump administration truly cared about working people, they wouldn’t be doing this. www.cbsnews.com/news/worker-...

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Elon Musk: it is 'outrageous' to 'claim that I'm a Nazi' www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

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NEW: Despite his long history of union opposition, billionaire businessman Charles Koch recently learned that you can’t build hotels and casinos on the Las Vegas Strip without triggering union membership drives.

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El Faro is the most important journalistic outlet in Central America, Bukele has long wanted them out of his way

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Elon Musk’s DOGE allies made FAA staff sign NDAs to keep a new communications project secret. Sources say the project would be a great vehicle for Musk’s Starlink to embed itself into the FAA’s operations.

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BREAKING: @aclu.org says Trump deported a child (U.S. citizen) with metastatic cancer without medication or consultation with physicians. This is the second child with cancer he's deported. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol... @rollingstone.com

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my first byline in Rolling Stone (!) edited by the amazing @andrewperez.bsky.social. How exactly does Musk's privately held empire run? on the backs of retired teachers, firefighters, cops and bus drivers www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

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Great reporting -- again -- by ‪@andrewperez.bsky.social & @swin24.bsky.social about Musk/DOGE/Starlink infiltration of the FAA. Their earlier story about this scheme got results -- though perhaps not the results they wanted.

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my first byline in Rolling Stone (!) edited by the amazing @andrewperez.bsky.social. How exactly does Musk's privately held empire run? on the backs of retired teachers, firefighters, cops and bus drivers www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

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Elon Musk and his DOGE bro Antonio Gracias are gutting the government while cashing in on Americans’ retirement. Blue states and cities put $800M into Gracias’ latest private equity fund. It’s invested in Musk’s SpaceX and xAI, which Musk used to buy X (Twitter) www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

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