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This is an incredibly dangerous step: The President is going to personally direct the Attorney General to investigate (presumably criminally) the principal fundraising website for Democratic Party-affiliated candidates and organizations. Fundamentally antidemocratic. www.cnn.com/2025/04/24/p...

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Alleged former members of neo-Nazi group claim its leader is Russian spy

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“These are real threats. The hounds are at the door,” said Don Maston, president of the National Rural Letter Carriers’ Association “It’s not the US Postal Business, it’s the US Postal Service. It’s owned by we, the people." @theguardian.com: tinyurl.com/5n6r8dc4

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You’ve been saving for retirement. But Wall Street has been using your savings to erode union strength, inflate asset prices, and consolidate its control over the economy.

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When the Trump administration took office, the USDA stopped paying Regional Food Business Center grantees for any work done after January 20. “I don’t have a good answer of how long we can hold out.”

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BREAKING: Trump says a tax on millionaires would be very disruptive and wealthy people would leave the United States.

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A former U.S. Army intelligence analyst with top secret security clearance was sentenced to seven years in prison on Wednesday for selling classified military information to a foreign national who was most likely connected to the Chinese government, federal prosecutors said.

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If Republican lawmakers roll back Medicaid expansion funding it could lead to over 34,000 more deaths every year, according to new research from The Center for American Progress. thehill.com/policy/healt...

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Walz: Here in Minnesota, freedom means several things. It means freedom from hunger and poverty. That means freedom to worship or not. It means the freedom to be who you are anyway you choose, and that is a birthright..

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Ossoff: I think the only people who are happy about this are congressional Republicans and the Mar-a-Lago club members, who I can imagine are doing pretty well on stock tips and getting advanced notice.

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DNC Vice Chair David Hogg announced a bold $20M effort to support progressive challengers. We surveyed 4,500 activists: 📉 87% say the Dem Party has lost its way ⚡ 92% support primarying status quo Dems 🚫 88% say the DSCC/DCCC shouldn't automatically protect incumbents

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And there it is. Trump comes out in favor of codifying Russia’s illegal annexation of Crimea and blames Zelenskyy for Putin’s aggression.

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An estimated 187,000 Kansas school-age children could have received free summer meals last year — their families just didn’t submit the application | #ksleg via @gracefromkansas.bsky.social kansasreflector.com/2025/04/23/1...

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Corporations are already exploiting Trump’s tariffs, using them as an excuse to price gouge you. “Price optimization” consultants are helping these companies capitalize on Trump’s chaotic tariff rollout using surveillance pricing tools. jacobin.com/2025/04/pric...

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Really need journalists to push back on this bullshit. When they say this, just ask them point blank: "Are you saying that because one Latino man committed a murder, another Latino man deserves a life sentence? Do you think all Latino men interchangeable?"

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Meanwhile, in the richest nation on Earth, with homelessness at a record high, the Trump administration is looking for ways not to expand but to eliminate housing assistance for those who need it most.

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Over 650 rural leaders from 575 communities across all 50 states have signed up to attend the Rural Democratic Leaders Conference. I'd love to see you there! Register below. us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

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BREAKING: After dismal Tesla earnings report Elon Musk says his time spent with DOGE will 'drop significantly' next month and he'll allocate more time to his car company.

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Kansans share personal insight into meaning of Medicaid cuts contemplated by Congress | #ksleg via @kansascarpenter.bsky.social kansasreflector.com/2025/04/22/k...

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Pope Francis: “As long as the problems of the poor are not radically resolved by rejecting the absolute autonomy of markets & financial speculation and by attacking the structural causes of inequality, no solution will be found for the world’s problems or to any problems.”

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"Trump’s clipped eulogy was fitting, then, because Pope Francis opposed the type of politics which the president represents." 🌎 Freddie Hayward

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In his criticisms of the Church and defiance of traditionalists, Pope Francis continued the legacy of a movement The Vatican itself tried to silence. bit.ly/4lFjhov

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There will come a time when obstacles are placed in your way that make your life harder. Change is inevitable, and while some changes are unwelcome, a true warrior knows that obstacles are meant to be overcome, not surrendered to.

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There is no honor in making others struggle solely because you did. Persevering through difficulty is worth celebrating, but is worth even more if you can lessen the burden for those who come after you, especially those less fortunate, less privileged. That way lies glory.

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we are sooooooooooooooooo back more on the blue check here: www.wired.com/story/bluesk...

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Workers are not asking to get rich. They just want to afford three meals a day. In the richest country in the history of the world, no one should work for starvation wages. It is time to raise the disgraceful $7.25/hr federal minimum wage to a living wage of AT LEAST $17/hr.

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Intuit donated $1M to Trump’s inauguration. He's now planning to end the free IRS Direct File program. Apple donated $1M. Trump exempted most of Apple’s imports from tariffs. Coinbase donated $1M. Trump’s SEC dropped a major lawsuit against them. See how this works?

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Insight: As Trump eyes coal revival, his job cuts hobble black lung protections for miners reut.rs/44moUlt

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I talk to way too many people who simple don’t believe in the American Dream - can’t afford a house, can’t afford to start a family, can’t save for retirement. The status quo wasn’t working. But the answer isn’t to tear it all down.

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The scale at which DOGE is seeking to interconnect data, including sensitive biometric data, is unprecedented, raising alarms with experts who fear it may lead to disastrous privacy violations for citizens and immigrants alike.

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Pope Francis led by example, centering his life and papacy on being a voice for the less fortunate. He inspired us all to better embody the teachings of Christ: love, compassion, and justice. Gwen and I are joining Catholics and Christians around the world in mourning his loss.

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The federal government under Joe Biden prosecuted fewer corporate crime cases than at any point in the last 30 years. Now the Trump administration is set to drop or pause more than 100 enforcement actions against corporate misconduct.

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@jasmineforus.bsky.social: Abrego Garcia "a lot less criminal than the person that's sitting in the White House because last time I checked, he didn't have any criminal convictions."

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"almost every night since Oct 2023, even during his hospitalization, Pope Francis made a daily phone call to the only Catholic parish in the Gaza Strip to check on their safety and offer words of prayer and support. His last public act, the day before he died, was to call for a ceasefire in Gaza."

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"Kennedy’s disgust with and devaluation of autistic people fits neatly into a eugenic logic that views health as virtue, and sees illness, or difference, as a kind of moral lapse which should be subject to punishment or censure."

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Carl Sagan when asked, "Are you a Socialist?"

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Casar: "These issues aren't just about immigration. They are about the civil liberties and the basic rights of every single American ... we do not have a king in the United States of America."

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Democrats also desperately need to start giving more young people jobs who didn’t go to Ivy League schools AND don’t have rich and influential parents,

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This is all fascinating. I had no idea Ryan Coogler negotiated a contract where he kept final cut, first-line profits, and the rights to SINNERS after 25 years. But the idea of studio execs FREAKING OUT about it ("What if EVERY in-demand creative wants rights over their own work?") is even better.

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New Study Confirms Sharks Just Really Angry Dolphins theonion.com/new-stu...

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Rep. James Clyburn said at a town hall he hopes the U.S. doesn't transform into Germany during the rise of the Nazis. "All we can do is share with you what we’re doing and ask for your prayers for this country will not allow itself to go the way of Germany in the 1930s when people stood by."

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Trump’s planning on giving the Pentagon $1 trillion and erasing USAID. As usual, he’s taking one of this country’s existing malfunctions and pumping it full of steroids. www.stephensemler.com/p/us-spendin...

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The Soviet Gulags were bad. Nothing like that should ever happen again. At the same time, Gulags were not primarily race-based in their application. Gulags did not involve denationalizing people. Not everyone had a life sentence in the Gulag. I'm not sure it's the right term for what we're seeing.

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What caused Donald Trump to walk back on many of his tariffs last week was not domestic pressure but a run on the market for US Treasuries led by large institutional savers. If US debt is no longer a safe asset, then American hegemony is also at risk.

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Following the 10-vote win that made him mayor of Burlington 43 years ago, @sanders.senate.gov took to national television for the very first time to explain his socialist politics.

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Elon Musk’s cuts may have “saved” the public less than half a percent of the national debt, but they are already making Americans poorer and sicker and forcing them to spend hours waiting on phone help lines.

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The end of the bloody, US-backed civil wars across Central America led to a brutal neoliberal economic restructuring near the turn of the century — which then helped produce the 21st-century authoritarianism of Salvadoran president Nayib Bukele.

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James Madison argued that politicians' ambition would lead them to uphold the separation of powers. Today congressmembers’ ambition seems to lead them to do the exact opposite: submitting to Trump and completely bargaining away their own power.

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“I didn’t know Murray [at Oxford.] But last time I checked, he has an undergraduate degree in English. That’s it, right? So if I want to hear from Douglas Murray on Oscar Wilde or William Shakespeare, sure, but on everything else, shut the f*ck up!” - my take at Zeteo live: zeteo.com/p/the-journa...

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