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Maryland, I would like NOT to have a cardiac event…

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White men are 29% of the adult population but occupy a much higher percentage in a variety of prestigious jobs. That does suggest there are many white men who are NOT qualified to be where they are. People should think harder about the math going on here.

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Famously, the way to beat fascist bullies is to flop onto your back and say “my vital organs are exposed, take what you want.” Certainly they will stop at the first vital organ.

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Sanders: Does anybody think it makes sense that we have a campaign finance system where one man (Musk) can put $270 million to get Trump elected and then his reward is that he becomes the most powerful person in government? That is not democracy. That is oligarchy.

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it is not different in nature, but it is much easier to do. buy printed books and give them away as often as possible--keep knowledge in circulation!

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If a law firm won't risk everything to defend itself, what makes you think it will risk anything to defend you? My advice: Find a law firm that will not back down and will never bend a knee.

submitted 3 days ago • 701 comments

The Trump administration helped bring back the Tate brothers (charged with rape and sexual trafficking), hosted Conor MacGregor (multiple allegations of sexual assault), and now invited Dom Lucre (horrific CSAM stuff) to the White House. These are the people they're celebrating and defending.

submitted 3 days ago • 155 comments

When civil society institutions — big law firms, Ivy League institutions — cave to Trump rather than fight what appear to be illegal demands, do they expect him to be satisfied and stop? Do they believe others should step in and fight where they have not?

submitted 4 days ago • 101 comments

Time to add Unilever to the boycott list, friends! www.detroitnews.com/story/busine...

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

With one hand they're making it harder for working people to get info about their taxes, and with the other they're dismantling the IRS's effort to ensure the ultra-rich pay what they already owe. Billionaire tax cheats win — law abiding Americans lose. The Great Betrayal in action.

submitted 6 days ago • 10 comments

The best! @jols98.bsky.social I’m like that Leonardo DiCaprio meme everytime I see her on screen during a game 😂

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The Trump admin is behaving in a manner that has no logical explanation other than a recognition their conduct is unlawful and would not survive judicial scrutiny.

submitted 8 days ago • 38 comments

Elon's wealth is more vulnerable than many realize; bound up in overhyped stocks, investor perception, and of course in Tesla. That's a key insight from @chafkin.bsky.social I took away from our chat in this episode—and a key reason the Tesla Takedown protests are working and that Musk is so furious

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The “I’ve never physically hurt anyone” line bothers me so much. USAID cuts are killing kids, DOGE cuts are taking away people’s jobs/health insurance, but bc he’s never punched a guy he thinks he’s OK. Sickening when politicans/elites think they’re morally separated from the death & pain they cause

submitted 8 days ago • 27 comments

It’s giving Kim Jong Un…

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Go to any of the protests happening now like the #TeslaTakedown ones and you'll find people who've moved to the left. You're not gonna hear about it because it doesn't fit the narrative that's being pushed.

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From interview of Lee Bollinger, 1st Amendment scholar who served as dean of @UMichLaw, president of @UMich, and president of Columbia University. www.chronicle.com/article/were...

submitted 10 days ago • 777 comments

We’re not “heading” towards fascism. We’re there.

submitted 10 days ago • 37 comments

I cannot emphasize this enough: no one will remember the shutdown even happened when it’s time to vote next year. One way or the other!

submitted 12 days ago • 1604 comments

Mahmoud Khalil, a lawful U.S. resident, is married to a U.S. citizen who is eight months pregnant.

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Now that the influential bigot who did a Hitler salute publicly claimed that organic protests against his malfeasance are secretly controlled by a list of foreign Jews, some of whom aren’t even alive today, are we allowed to call him a Nazi, or is there something even Nazier we have to wait for?

submitted 16 days ago • 129 comments

Yes. If DHS can barge in, say your visa was revoked, be told you have a green card, say it's revoked too, and then disappear you so that neither your lawyer nor your family can find you, then all the guardrails are gone. There is no policy, practice, or law protecting anyone.

submitted 16 days ago • 252 comments

Armed government agents went to the home of a lawful resident of the United States without a warrant and arrested him over the content of his speech. This is a five-alarm fire for civil liberties.

submitted 16 days ago • 105 comments

opponents of the regime getting disappeared by the state is a hallmark of something

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if you wanted to turn this country into a dictatorship without most people noticing, shutting down ActBlue under the auspices of some nebulous criminal behavior would be an important first step

submitted 17 days ago • 20 comments

The idea the president alone can levy taxes on a whim and spend it as he pleases without any congressional approval is the kind of thing so beyond the pale it's not unconstitutional, it's anti-constitutional. It is overturning in starkest terms the central rallying cry of the American Revolution.

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"We're going to have to suffer through some bad news." To them, it's just bad news. A bummer headline. To actual real people, it means losing a job. Losing benefits. Losing their house, their car, their savings. This isn't a game.

submitted 20 days ago • 63 comments

When you’re rich people give you everything for free. It’s insane. The Oscar swag bags this year were worth $216,000 and included luxury trips all over the would and $50,000 of home renovation work: www.businessinsider.com/oscars-gift-...

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“Paid protesters” has been a reliable excuse for the right since the civil rights era. Segregationists claimed the high schoolers who desegregated Central High in Little Rock were paid to do so.

submitted 21 days ago • 156 comments

Let this sink in.

submitted 21 days ago • 958 comments

Can’t stress this enough! And obviously neither the SEC or the DOJ (at least at the highest levels) is going to seriously investigate and prosecute insider trading.

submitted 21 days ago • 281 comments

On the list of federal properties to be disposed of are 83 in Maryland. Including Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and Social Security buildings in Baltimore County. Notice says they are not part of "core" operations. Meaning? wbaltv.com/article/fede...

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Important to point out that the Federal Reserve system and its Board of Governors are self-funded and not a government agency subject to funding by Congress. They are not a budget line. Oversight of Fed falls to Congress

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There it is: Speaker of the House says Elon has already started running your Social Security through his AI.

submitted 23 days ago • 632 comments

We need to salute courage wherever it appears. The official snow reporter at Vermont's Sugarbush, where JD Vance came on a skiing vacation this weekend, pointed out in her snow report this a.m. that the Trump team is ignoring climate change. Her report was pulled down kottke.org/25/03/jd-van...

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I've said it before and will say it again -- the Trump administration is not acting like one that fears democratic accountability next year or in 2028. Draw your own conclusions.

submitted 25 days ago • 646 comments

No, this is the most ashamed you've felt as an American so far.

submitted 25 days ago • 126 comments

Literally all he did was quote someone. Defining criticism of the government as treason is what authoritarians do. Turning a publicly funded news outlet into a state media propaganda machine is what authoritarians do.

submitted 25 days ago • 106 comments

Elon Musk spending more than $4 million to buy a Wisconsin Supreme Court race NC Republicans going to unprecedented lengths to overturn Democratic victory in NC Supreme Court race There’s a constitutional crisis in the states as well www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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The embrace and protection of Andrew Tate at the highest level of US government tells you everything you need to know about this rotten administration. They worship at the altar of abusing women and girls. Their version of morality supports sex trafficking under the guise of camming

submitted 26 days ago • 319 comments

Every single Democratic governor and attorney general needs to do this -- if only to make it clear to voters right now that the firings and funding freezes that are about to hurt their states badly are the work of Trump-Musk in Washington. Get ahead of this now, or get blamed for it later.

submitted 27 days ago • 166 comments

Musk has said that he doesn’t think buying Twitter was a waste of money because he didn’t want a monetary return on his investment, but a political one: he bought Twitter to control U.S. political discourse. The think we should understand Bezos’ money-losing propositions at the Post the same way.

submitted 27 days ago • 48 comments

Taking my cat to the vet for the last time this afternoon. She’s literally been one of the only things that’s helped keep me moored in reality. She’s such a good natured cat. Everything just feels awful. 😞

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A friend of mine has a daughter with Down syndrome, and thanks to these programs she recently made the transition from high school and living at home to an internship at a major pharmaceutical company and an apartment of her own. But the techbros think that's all "waste"

submitted 27 days ago • 69 comments

This vote was to start the process of the cuts. It WILL come back for a final vote. There are some chances to slow or potentially stop it. Need constant pressure on GOP Focus on GOP swing seats & key committees. Energy & Commerce is where the Medicaid fight will go down. Ways&Means for tax fight.

submitted 28 days ago • 1237 comments

If you look at all the firings across the government over the last two weeks it's frequently been taken as a given that any black or woman official or officer is either a DEI hire or supports DEI and is summarily fired on that basis. Seems like the same model here.

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In 2024, the NLRB filed a complaint against Tesla for interfering in a union drive at their Buffalo, NY assembly plant. Today:

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