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Harvard stands up, fights back -- a model for other institutions persecuted by the Trump regime: www.nytimes.com/2025/05/23/u...

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Racism at Trump's crypto bribe-fest. From H.C. Richardson: "Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics...reported that 50 of the people attending Trump's dinner hold crypto assets w/ names including...swastikas or that have names that are racist or antisemitic, including the n-word and 'F*CK THE JEWS.'"

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The Trump regime's phony antisemitism policing of the Ivy League has morphed into a preposterous, unlawful attempt to stop Harvard from enrolling ANY foreign students. Harvard ain't perfect, but this is arbitrary, abusive, dictatorial B.S. Fight, Harvard, fight back! www.nytimes.com/2025/05/22/u...

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Excellent analysis from The Bulwark's JVL of Jamie Dimon, Wall Street titan who exemplifies two-faced corporate capitulation to Trump. Read it and weep (but at least you'll be better informed): www.thebulwark.com/p/lord-busin...

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All but a few of the nearly 400 books removed from the U.S. Naval Academy's library because they dealt with anti-racism and gender issues are back on the shelves after the newest Pentagon-ordered review — the latest turn in a dizzying effort to rid the military of materials related to DEI programs.

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“This is what Republicans are fighting for: lining the pockets of their billionaire donors while children go hungry and families get kicked off their health care.” — Brendan Boyle (D-PA) Trump’s domestic agenda passes the House. newrepublic.com/article/1955...

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Republicans snuck an amendment into this bill to ban Affordable Care Act insurance plans from covering abortion care. This is part of their play for a national abortion ban, in the middle of the night, and ripping healthcare away from millions.

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Last minute changes to the Trump budget bill (I refuse to use the word “beautiful) mostly horrendous. Helpful summary from @politico.com. Significant new restrictions on insured abortion care. (bright side: tanning beds will still be taxed, thanks to Dems’ mockery) www.politico.com/live-updates...

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Pentagon announces that it has formally accepted the "palace in the sky" jet from Qatar. Plain and simple violation of the Emoluments Clause without congressional approval. Don't think this is over.

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As I see more Trump rollbacks of reproductive freedom and abortion care and healthcare in general, I'm all the more proud that I FIGHT FOR PLANNED PARENTHOOD. (Pls read the news from last night) Ask your Reps to protect Planned Parenthood ppact.io/care #IFightForPP

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RIP to Yaron and Sarah, young staffers at the Israeli Embassy, shot and killed last night outside an event for young Jewish professionals at the DC Jewish Museum. Yaron had already bought an engagement ring. (Please no hateful responses against, Jews, Palestinians, or Israel).

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A Scotus deadlock (w/ Justice Barrett recused bc of personal connections to the case) blocks a taxpayer-funded religious school. That's the right outcome. But I suspect that when Justice Barrett does weigh in, we'll get a different result in a future case. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

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Handmaid’s Tale Episode 9 landed hard right now. DON’T LET THE BASTARDS GRIND YOU DOWN

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In a Senate hearing today, the clueless, cruel, puppy shooter who heads the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Kristi Noem, defined habeas corpus as the exact opposite of what it is. Senator Maggie Hassan (D-NH) corrected her with a definition that is worth keeping in mind: (continued)

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THIS IS HOW YOU STAND UP: Dallas lawyer Clay Jackson gave an immigrant family (pro bono) basic info on their rights and advice to find an immigration lawyer. When badgeless agents knocked on his door, he didnt let them in. His employer, Fidelity Nat’l Financial popular.info/p/fortune-50...

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ACTION ITEM: Go out and buy yourself some L'Oreal makeup TODAY. L'Oreal is the ONLY major PRIDE sponsor continuing to contribute at last year's level. Want to thank them? Reward them with your business. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/21/n...

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This morning, our National Co-director Alon-Lee Green and six other activists were released to house arrest after being detained for two days. Their detention was an attempt to silence opposition at the exact moment that the government is expanding the war. (1/3)

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Trump, again, behaves like a lunatic bully in an Oval Office ambush of a foreign leader. Today, he ranted about fake accounts of "white genocide" in South Africa -- racist bullshit of the lowest kind. It would be funny if it weren't so mortifying. We are a bad joke. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/21/u...

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We are a joke. And only our enemies, including the terrorist-funding Qataris, are laughing. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

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Trump/RFK Jr.'s FDA is literally RESTRICTING ACCESS to Covid boosters. People will die for the sake of anti-vax conspiracy ideology. We reside in a delusional, deteriorating society sliding toward tin-pot dictatorship. Wake up, people! Fight back. www.statnews.com/2025/05/21/f...

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I love pickleball. But this is just wrong. Don't use our old-timer's game as an excuse to NIMBY much-needed social service providers! I stand with the Episcopal Church. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/21/n...

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Rubio has become one of Trump's top soul-departed, dead-eyed minions. No conscience. No shame. Dead. (Look at the eyes. The eyes are a tell.) www.nytimes.com/2025/05/20/u...

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The Trump regime corrupts everything it touches, including intel about foreign countries, foes and friends alike. The U.S. will be flying blind in a dangerous world. Putin, Xi, the Iranian mullahs & other rivals are chortling at the bozo fascists running Washington. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/20/u...

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Re-upping. Looking for your plan of action? Here’s a strong one:

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Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor used an audience of lawyers to deliver a stern message to the legal profession: stand up for democracy, take on the hard fights and do whatever you can to win. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/just...

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SHOCKER: Industry-funded "research" tends to favor industry! www.nytimes.com/2025/05/20/w...

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Authoritarian lackeys can also be ignorant bozos. In fact, it makes them even more dangerous. Noem is both a joke and a deadly menace. (As always, have a look at the dead eyes. As with Rubio, the soul has left the body.) www.nytimes.com/2025/05/20/u...

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I detest Andrew Cuomo, but I detest Trump's abuse of prosecutorial authority far more. We are sliding into a tin-pot dictatorship. Stand up, fight back! www.nytimes.com/2025/05/20/u...

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An egregious case of self-censorship by PBS, seeking to appease the Trump regime. Shameful, stupid, bound to fail. www.documentary.org/online-featu...

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Scholars across disciplines identify Trump's agenda as destruction of the state. This is an imperative he shares with all autocrats (e.g. Hitler). They seek chaos as an opportunity to expand their power and destroy institutions and norms that limit their power. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/20/o...

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Next up in Trump's campaign to destroy the IRS: the nomination of a scam-promoter to run the agency. You can't make this stuff up. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/20/u...

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Once again, Trump screws Ukraine at a key moment. Every time he gets close to Putin, even by telephone, he leans toward the murderous dictator. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/20/w...

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The Boss brings it home: "Now, I have hope, because I believe in the truth of what the great American writer James Baldwin said. He said, “In this world, there isn’t as much humanity as one would like, but there’s enough.”

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Springsteen (cont.) "The America l’ve sung to you about for 50 years is real and regardless of its faults is a great country with a great people. So we’ll survive this moment.... (more)

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Springsteen (cont.) "They are defunding American universities that won’t bow down to their ideological demands. "They are removing residents off American streets and, without due process of law, are deporting them to foreign detention centers and prisons. This is all happening now. (more)

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Springsteen 3/4: "They are rolling back historic civil rights legislation that led to a more just and plural society. "They are abandoning our great allies and siding with dictators against those struggling for their freedom....(more)

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Bruce Springsteen 2/4: "In America, the richest men are taking satisfaction in abandoning the world’s poorest children to sickness and death. This is happening now. "In my country, they are taking sadistic pleasure in the pain they inflict on loyal American workers (more)

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SPEAKING TRUTH 1/4: full transcript of Bruce Springsteen’s words about this fraught moment: ”In America, they are persecuting people for using their right to free speech and voicing their dissent. This is happening now...(more)

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This is a sickening signal that the J6 insurrection was legitimate. I protest that even a dime of my taxes is going to the family of one of the J6 criminals. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

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Stop Bove NOW, before it's too late! The next step will be a Supreme Court nomination. He has proven himself to be a core MAGA henchman. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/19/u...

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Paramount inches closer to capitulation to Trump so that the company can complete a merger & further enrich its controlling shareholder, Shari Redstone. In the process, Paramount throws CBS News/60 Min. under the bus. We must arrest the slide toward authoritarianism. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/19/b...

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The New Yorker asks, "Is Jeff Bezos Selling Out the Washington Post?" The answer is complicated, but the bottom line is: YES. Sadly, the backstory is how the Grahams mismanaged the paper into financial vulnerability and then delivered it to Bezos for pocket change. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

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Instead of pasteurizing milk, she wants to “form a relationship with a local farmer…look him in the eyes, pet his cow, and then decide if I feel safe to drink milk from his farm.” Our next Surgeon General Casey Means, ladies & gentlemen. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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“Poor man wanna be rich. Rich man wanna be king. The king ain’t satisfied ‘til he rules everything.”—Springsteen, Badlands

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Remember in the debate when Kamala Harris said “it is well known that dictators and autocrats are rooting for you to be President again because they are so clear that they can manipulate you with flattery and favor”? Yeah, me too.

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