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senate floor right now... senator cory booker www.c-span.org/event/us-sen...

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With the election around the corner, we need to encourage more people to rank vote on the senate ballot to minimise the chances of electing RW lunatics like Babet. #auspol

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The SAVE Act doesn’t save anything. Its main effect is to make it harder for women to vote, especially those like me who changed our names when we married. Hands Off Her Vote www.digitaldrumbeat.com/p/gop-plan-d...

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Reminder: Typos in official communications are intentionally included by the administration to identify potential leakers. Please exercise caution with anything you share.

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"The problem with a delayed response is that the more power leaders with authoritarian tendencies accumulate, the harder it is to mount an effective resistance. The opposition is thus more likely to succeed if it acts early..." www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...

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Today, we celebrate how far we've come in the 35 years since the original Illinois-Mexico Sister-State Agreement was signed. While much has changed in those years, the importance of our relationship has not. Today’s addendum to the MOU solidifies the ties that bind us together.

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Trump has dropped over 100 enforcement actions against corporations. That includes 10 corporations that have donated to or allied with him — like SpaceX, crypto corporation Coinbase, and private prison corporation GEO Group. This is corruption of the highest degree.

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I just sent Cory Booker money. I will send money to anyone who fights, and I will not send money to anyone who cowers in fear. That has to be the situation, for all of us.

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🇪🇺❗️🇺🇸 Ursula von der Leyen made a number of statements about the “trade war” against the US: ▪️The EU has all the necessary tools to protect itself from new US tariffs. ▪️The EU expects that the next sectors to be hit by US tariffs will be semiconductors, pharmaceuticals and timber.

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This has to stop. This proclamation must be overturn. If the Trump Administration has no authority to free the people they put into a prison, they have no right to send people to that prison This guy did nothing wrong and they put him into the same prison with the people he was running from

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MAD Magazine, published in 1969

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Strom Thurmond holds the record, at 24 hours and 18 minutes. Which he did to protest Civil Rights. Decades later, it was revealed he had had a child with a 15 year-old Black girl whose mother worked for his family. Also he sexually harassed colleagues and staffers. Feels relevant.

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America has never been subject to this level of authoritarianism, and quite frankly, sheer incompetence. Out of the ashes, this moment should radicalize us to embark on an era of new reform — of our economy, our democracy, and our commitment to social justice and the law.

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Indeed.

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Imagine.

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The death of Miller Gardner, the 14-year-old son of former New York Yankees outfielder Brett Gardner, at a beach resort in Costa Rica is believed to be related to carbon monoxide inhalation, the Judicial Investigation Agency of the Central American country said.

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www.newyorker.com/news/annals-...

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❗️Britain, France and Ukraine will hold a meeting in the coming days dedicated to security guarantees for Kyiv, - British Prime Minister Starmer.

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Today, Rep. Dan Goldman and I re-introduced the Abortion Care Awareness Act of 2025. This bill directs HHS to launch a national education campaign so people know their rights, understand their options, and can access accurate info about abortion care.

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Right now, Booker is still at it. And you can watch: www.c-span.org/event/us-sen...

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Public Service Announcement: #MakeFunOfFascists

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VICTORY: A federal judge ruled Monday that Pennsylvania must count undated or wrongly dated mail-in ballots, finding that a previous law rejecting such ballots violated the First and 14th Amendments. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

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❗️"Europe will not forget the moral conclusions from this war. It cannot be that Putin and other Russian criminals, and the Russian state itself, are exempted from responsibility. It is impossible to normalize what they did in Bucha, in Mariupol, in our other cities and villages.

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This will have a huge impact on state libraries and museums. Yikes!!!—word is, RIP to the Institute of Museum and Library Services.

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You have to see this. PoliticsGirl and her husband teamed up with the brilliant Timothy Snyder (author of On Tyranny) and the legendary John Lithgow to create something truly powerful. It’s important, it’s urgent—and it needs to be shared far and wide.

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Time to speak up

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Looking for corporate media coverage of the @booker.senate.gov filibuster and finding NONE. Currently live on CSPAN2 and YouTube.

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This keeps getting worse and worse.

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Hi, BlueSky. It's Hillary. I've joined up here to help get the word out about an important election in Wisconsin tomorrow, and other ways to defend our democracy against those who think votes can be bought.

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😵‍💫 Milorad Dodik, wanted under an international arrest warrant, surfaces in Russia. He was sentenced in Bosnia to a year in prison for undermining authority and obstructing peace agreements.

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Things Democratic Senators could do that would be useful: - Withdraw unanimous consent from all Senate business until constitutional rule was restored - Refuse to vote for any legislation until constitutional rule was restored - Boycott as a caucus until constitutional rule was restored

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Pushback works, part gazillion: "Here are the facts: DOGE moved forward with plans to close multiple field offices. Then, without public notice or explanation, they reversed their plans. Now they are trying to pretend like they were never planning to close the offices." popular.info/p/how-the-so...

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🚨BREAKING: Federal court rules that the Pennsylvania date requirement for mail-in ballot violates the First and 14th Amendments. Counties cannot reject ballots from counting undated and wrongly dated mail-in ballots. A HUGE victory for my law firm, our clients DSCC and DCCC and the voters of PA!

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🇬🇧🇫🇷🇺🇦 UK, France and Ukraine will hold a meeting in the coming days dedicated to security guarantees for Kyiv, — Reuters citing a representative of British Prime Minister Starmer

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🚨🚨🚨 I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget what Trump did on J6 🚨🚨🚨

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In the fight against authoritarianism, there is no stronger weapon than mass noncooperation: strikes, boycotts, etc. Protests and direct action is important, but mostly as methods of convincing large numbers of people to not comply. We can stop the regime if we refuse to cooperate with them.

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Weird how the storm always comes with merch but never indictments.

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Why the election in Wisconsin on Monday should matter to all Americans: open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

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MAHA conspiracy theorists led by RFK Jr. are celebrating: Utah has officially become the first state to ban fluoride from public drinking water. Utah Gov. Spencer Cox has signed a bill banning fluoride in public water systems, making his state the first in America to enact this…

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‼️ Zelensky: "For several weeks now, we have had the American proposal for an unconditional ceasefire. And almost every day, in fact, in response to this proposal - Russian drones, Russian bombs, artillery shelling, ballistics."

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A reminder that Bill Maher has long been an antivaxxer and AIDS denier and helped mainstream the “do your own research” culture now dismantling public health. He is also a good friend of RFK Jr. It’s time for the media to stop giving him a platform. You are not entitled to your own facts.

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It would be so sick if our political and media elite treated this like a major scandal.

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what are we even doing as a people if gestapo snatch squads aren't getting mobbed in the street

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We are not OK, America. Speak out, then we will have hope! 🇺🇸

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Slavery never ended in this country

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Sign of the day…paid for by the government of Canada in Washington, D.C.

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Cartoon by @adamzyglis.bsky.social. #TrumpTariffs

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This piece from @jvl.bsky.social is one of the most important insightful I have read since January 20th 2025.

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