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In the depths of the Nebraskan winter, 2400 people came out to listen to Bernie Sanders in Omaha last night. 800 had to be turned away at the door. Over 190,000 tuned into the livestream. There is a movement to be harnessed here. @sanders.senate.gov (📸 Anna Bahr)

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This is how it’s done.

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I’m telling you @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social, please watch this. This is the energy. Not egg prices and book tours and strongly worded letters. It’s time to take the gloves off.

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Now is the time for our citizenry to fight for our federal workers and national programs. Let’s stand up to the power-mad autocrats, plutocrats and theocrats attacking democracy—at home and abroad. I spoke with @briantylercohen.bsky.social about our historic assignment today.

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Bernie Sanders: "We're not only dealing with a move toward authoritarianism, we're dealing with what is new to America -- politicians have always lied, nothing new about that. But the level that we're seeing right now. The big lie, over and over again ... "

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I think the reason people are frustrated with Democratic leaders is that they expect these elected representatives to act like a real disaster is happening, which it is. Four-day weekends and bratwurst junkets in Munich kind of undercut that

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This is the way… “The elected officials in Washington have to stop protesting in Washington. They have to go back to their districts…show the consequences…show the school that isn’t operating…they have to make it real.” With social media, word will spread to neighboring districts—even red ones.

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Herman Melville's "Moby Dick" has perhaps the most memorable opening line in all of Western literature: "I hope you motherfuckers like reading about whales"

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the single most un-american and anti-constitutional statement ever uttered by an american president

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kermit the frog has done nothing wrong to deserve the patrick mahomes comparisons

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AUSA Hagan Scotten, former clerk for John Roberts, really put some mustard on his resignation letter.

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pro-USAID demonstrators are roughly escorted out of a House hearing

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Proud to be one of the 350 rabbis signing this statement — an ad in the NYT today and a declaration of our values. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... For more—and to sign— go to saynotoethniccleansing.org

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If you don't understand why your gay and trans friends are scared right now... You don't have gay friends... you may know gay or trans people, but you're no friend to them.

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Always changing painting is a plastic art, malleable. And the figure always a physiological distortion #wip #oilpainting #garden

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This is what magic sounds like ✨

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Vance:judges have no jurisdiction over “Trumps power” “The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive & judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elected, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny.” - James Madison

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How the fuck did all these genius tech bros microdose acid and DMT for a decade, spend hours on podcasts unable to shut up about all of us being made of star stuff, spinning off visions of utopias with jetpacks and ended up here — at Hitler Fun Land with Bigballs and Ye?

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the first good post i think i've ever seen from a democratic committee account

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Jasmine Crockett, after accusing colleagues of castrating their Constitutional duty, said, “My job is to make sure we don’t have any kings or queens in this country, but it seems like you all have decided it’s going to be Mr. King and his queen. And y’all can pick which one is which.”

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FBI Uncovers Al-Qaeda Plot To Just Sit Back And Enjoy Collapse Of United States

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🦗🦗🦗🦗

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Senate Democrats are considering voting NO or delaying every Trump nominee as retaliation for his overreach on ending USAID. Smash the RT if you SUPPORT this plan. ZERO votes from Democrats!!

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REP. JONES: “Happy Black History Month — we know by ‘DEI’ they mean Black… we need to stand up for racial justice & Black history… this building was built by the enslaved… our history should guide us… let’s tell the truth about it and make 🇺🇸 what it ought to be.”

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