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the moderate position is “people need to go to prison” for the deportation of people to el salvadoran concentration camps. the radical position is something akin to guillotines on the washington mall

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AOC: And his whole presidency began with launching tools for bribery, meme coins to fleece working people and move around money in the dark, extortion settlements from media companies and law firms who gladly pay them

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And it’s TRUE…👇

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You know, I think the best way not to “yield to the far right the notion that humanity ought to persist on this earth” is to protect the humans currently on this earth, and make them free, particularly from the far right

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This right here 🔥 “If there was market manipulation, it is a crime. Someone needs to go to jail… I want the documents. I want the Signal chats too, because I don’t trust them — that they weren’t sharing all this information across their Signal chats.” – @repstevenhorsford.bsky.social

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How it started // How it’s going

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Deplorables.

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Raskin: They want to go back to the idea that the law doesn’t apply to them in anyway, they’re not bound by the law, and they can use the law to crush other people

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the next democratic administration must engage in a rigorous de-nazification of the entire federal workforce

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the three of us are having a conversation

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❌ Maya Angelou’s “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.” OUT ✔️Hitler’s “Mein Kampf” is IN. ❌Janet Jacobs’s “Memorializing the Holocaust,” OUT. ✔️The Camp of the Saints” by Jean Raspail (“embraced by white supremacists” and Stephen Miller) is IN. So what happened to taking on antisemitism?

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Combine birth & health data w family data, income, employment history, access to bank accounts. Then mix in IRS info. Then push everyone on to a site where you get their phone numbers &/or email. Merge it w voter files. Then track what they do on Twitter. Cambridge Analyitica X 1,000

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“If you can accept criticism from others with grace and humility—and never try to turn the tables by claiming victimhood for yourself at their expense—you will be well defended against gaslighting,” writes Arthur C. Brooks:

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Following up on this. They just banned a Canadian trans musician from getting a visa to tour the US. They're straight up banning trans people from entering the US. www.stereogum.com/2303977/bell...

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We had trade agreements around the world. We broke them. Now we have to renegotiate, in a rush, without expertise, with countries who know their interests and who cannot trust us. Here’s how that puts America First. by Peter Navarro

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The reason I keep harping on the Confederacy is that the CSA really is what happens when you distill American exceptionalism, white supremacy, and toxic masculinity into their essence and discard any notion of progress. It's a uniquely American, but also an outgrowth beyond it.

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This is the worst season ever of The White POTUS

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I know some of you might be getting sick of the dark clouds of morally degraded, culturally impoverished authoritarian decay descending on the entire country and its territories but at least everything is more expensive and shittier than it materially was previously

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House Republicans just passed a sweeping anti-voting bill that historians are saying is the most anti-voting piece of legislation to come out of Congress in the nation's history. Paige and I explain. youtu.be/XS8aePRgFU4

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the key thing to understand is that the primary reason that venture capitalists turned hard right-wing is that MeToo removed the only thing they care about: the ability to rape their subordinates

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Every prisoner swap with Russia is like "she is a 14-year-old girl who Putin said sang 'Carol of the Bells' too aggressively and he is a top Russian spy who personally strangled a dissident to death in a London coffee shop"

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“At 30, I used to exercise to look good. At the age of 50 to be fit At 70 not to be padded in a bed. At 80 to be able to live without assistance. Now at 99 I do it out of pure defiance.” - Dick Van Dyke

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In case we were unsure that this isn't a full on war against women, people of color. Also to be be scrubbed from MS library databases — the state that provided the case the U.S. Supreme Court used to abolish women’s reproductive rights — was research on gender studies. newsone.com/6067390/miss...

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Historian here posting for no reason at all. U.S. Constitution, Article II Section 4: "The President, Vice President and all civil officers of the United States, shall be removed from office on impeachment for, and conviction of, treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors."

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A reminder that a fetus is only a person for right wing zealots when the purpose is to punish women when there’s actual money on the line, it has no value

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It is so crucial for us as a species to finally learn the lessons of Reconstruction and Nuremberg because if we come out the other side i do NOT want to be doing this again in 20 years

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shocking, unreal. entirely voluntary nuclear detonation of the economy by the incoming presidential administration, in pursuit of a secret policy agenda that it mostly denied throughout the campaign

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"rich people went insane because their own kids couldn't cut it in even in the half-assed version of 'meritocracy' where rich kids are merely handed dozens of advantages rather than guaranteed success" explains a lot of how we got here

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Jesse Singal, a transphobic bigot who has dedicated a large portion of his career to spreading misinformation about LGBTQ+ people, is baffled that John Oliver would do a single episode debunking his life's work

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“a heavy workload for his entire staff” is so insulting, for a man whose substack and podcasts and books will never involve 1/1000th of the research and fact-checking that John Oliver’s staff does

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Trump's tariffs, attacks on rule of law, dismantling of state capacity, and other chaos has raised US borrowing costs, just as the GOP Congress is poised to balloon the deficit and borrow a lot more. Also, higher debt service costs will swamp any "savings" DOGE finds (which are mostly lies anyway).

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