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Firefighters, first responders, nurses, and doctors rely on NIOSH-approved respirators. (During the pandemic we saw many counterfeit respirators going to hospitals.) The program that certifies respirators was eliminated.

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A headline from Hell. @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/live/2025/04...

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Happy Independent Bookstore Day! It’s also my first book’s birthday—‘FIGHT LIKE HELL: The Untold History of American Labor’ came out on April 26, 2022, and it’s been an absolute wild ride ever since. Buy it here on Bookshop to support the ILWU Local 5 strike fund! bookshop.org/p/books/figh...

submitted 7 days ago • 129 comments

What happens when the wealthy pay their fair share in taxes like everyone else? We can invest in a stronger, fairer America — where every kid has a quality education and families aren’t bankrupted by one medical diagnosis.

submitted 7 days ago • 458 comments

There’s an insane attack on the judiciary happening in Milwaukee. Please watch, then make a call. Script below. #Milwaukee

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Oh my god

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NIH-supported Environmental Health Perspectives is the open-access flagship journal in environmental health. They have paused all new manuscript submissions "due to changes in operational resources". Is this the transparency and open discourse we were promised? ehp.niehs.nih.gov/do/10.5555/b...

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The Dallas ICE office is involved in a mass removal effort targeting nearly 200 people — many without removal orders — scheduled to be deported to El Salvador today. This is not just cruel – it is lawless. I refuse to stay quiet while families are being torn apart, and lives are being put at risk.

submitted 14 days ago • 1111 comments

This is a photo of the good senator and his constituent, Kilmar Abrego Garcia. He prevailed against two authoritarian regimes to connect. I hope against hope that Mr. Garcia is flying home for Easter. (All the people who speculated he was already dead should not have. And here he is.)

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At a GOP town hall last night, heckling from constituents was apparently too much to handle—so they used police force and even stun guns on their own constituents. What are they so afraid of? Someone disagreeing with their views?

submitted 17 days ago • 941 comments

Let’s be perfectly clear… When the President defies the Supreme Court, it is ‘the role of Congress’ to remove him from office… Full stop. Any Questions?!

submitted 17 days ago • 533 comments

I said my main goal of this trip was to meet with Kilmar. Tonight I had that chance. I have called his wife, Jennifer, to pass along his message of love. I look forward to providing a full update upon my return.

submitted 15 days ago • 8484 comments

Huge protests are the most important thing we can do right now. As MLK said: “there is no noise as powerful as the sound of marching feet of a determined people.” I’m talking numbers so large they shock people — friend and foe and media alike Here’s how: open.substack.com/pub/davidpep...

submitted 17 days ago • 13 comments

Skipped the paperwork. Ignored the court order. Broke the law. Ignored the constitution. This ain’t immigration policy. This is straight-up defiance of the rule of law.

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The Social Security website keeps crashing so people can't access their benefits portal. Some Americans even got error messages saying they aren't getting payments at all. What's DOGE's response? Fire half of the Social Security tech team. I'm pushing back.

submitted 17 days ago • 60 comments

Donald Trump and Elon Musk are going after Direct File because it stops giant tax prep companies from ripping taxpayers off for services that should be free. Americans want a free and easy way to file their taxes — Trump and Musk want to take that away.

submitted 17 days ago • 67 comments

"the president defied a Supreme Court ruling to return a man mistakenly sent to a gulag... and spoke of sending Americans to foreign concentration camps. This is the beginning of an American policy of state terror, and it has to be identified as such to be stopped" snyder.substack.com/p/state-terror

submitted 18 days ago • 578 comments

BUSTED! It IS up to Trump.

submitted 17 days ago • 6 comments

Judge Xinis in Tuesday eve order homes in on key issue: "Abrego Garcia appears to remain inexplicably detained in CECOT." She cites text in written agreement with El Salvador showing US control: That detainees are kept in CECOT “pending the United States’ decision on their long-term disposition.”

submitted 17 days ago • 319 comments

Thank you @vanhollen.senate.gov

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REPORTER: There are laws on the book that make it a criminal offense to harbor illegal immigrants, like sanctuary state leaders have been doing. Do you think they should be prosecuted and possibly put in prison? HOMAN: Absolutely. And hold tight on that one, because it's coming.

submitted 17 days ago • 1374 comments

When Andrew Tate was charged with rape and human trafficking, Trump intervened to fly him back to the US. When a working-class father of a disabled 5-year-old child was wrongfully deported and charged with NO crime, Trump refuses to lift a finger.

submitted 17 days ago • 679 comments

MAJOR SCOOP: The local detective who first accused Mr. Abrego Garcia of being a member of MS-31 was suspended from the police force and indicted merely WEEKS LATER for providing confidential information to a sex worker who he was paying in exchange for sexual acts.

submitted 18 days ago • 158 comments

Social Security isn’t a handout—it’s a sacred contract. You paid in. You earned it. But Trump & DOGE have slashed SSA staff, shut down field offices, and made it nearly impossible to get clear info. My office is pushing for answers and doing everything we can to make sure you get what you’ve earned.

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Trump needs to be charged with conspiracy to kidnap. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/l...

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In defiance of the Supreme Court & without any evidence, the White House claims that Kilmar Abrego Garcia is a “terrorist,” who was “sent to the right place.” This is a blatant LIE. He is innocent. He cannot be allowed to rot in an El Salvadorian jail. He must be brought home.

submitted 18 days ago • 1335 comments

He’s threatening media companies who are critical of him. He’s talking about sending Americans to foreign prisons. He’s signing executive orders to investigate former staff members who spoke out against him. He’s defying the Supreme Court. Don’t you see what’s happening here?

submitted 19 days ago • 1991 comments

Hundreds of scholars have had their visas revoked and dozens have been detained. What’s exceptional about Öztürk’s case is that her detention was caught on camera. What’s scariest, immigration lawyers say, is how little is known about all the others.

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PART 1/2– 🚨 A sitting U.S. president caught on a hot mic suggesting we deport American citizens—calling them “home-growns”—to El Salvador. Meanwhile, Bukele refuses to return Kilmar Abrego Garcia, despite a Supreme Court order. Trump stays silent.

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If President Trump can wrongly deport a Maryland father to a prison in El Salvador and then defy a 9-0 Supreme Court order to facilitate bringing him home, who’s next? This threatens the rights and freedoms of everyone in the United States.

submitted 18 days ago • 457 comments

June 2024. El Salvador. This is how it started.

submitted 18 days ago • 485 comments

This is important.

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Bukele responds: “Yeah, we got space,” and chuckles.

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Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia is a father, a husband, a SMART Union apprentice — and it’s long past time for him to be reunited with his family in Maryland. He was wrongly deported by Donald Trump and left to rot in an El Salvador prison. Bring him home.

submitted 22 days ago • 115 comments

All we need is 3.5% of the population to actively resist and we can get ourselves out of this mess.

submitted 22 days ago • 28 comments

It’s a month since the administration detained and disappeared a green card holder, a lawful permanent resident. We cannot allow this to be normalized or forgotten.

submitted 24 days ago • 788 comments

According to @chenoweth.bsky.social’s work, regimes change or collapse when 3.5% of the population takes to the streets. Yesterday was just shy of 1%. www.bbc.com/future/artic...

submitted 27 days ago • 107 comments

My talk yesterday, interspersed with images of those more than 1200 protests nationwide. www.meditationsinanemergency.com/millions-sto...

submitted 27 days ago • 10 comments

T-30 minutes from the start at #HandsOff Boston and Massachusetts is showing UP

submitted 28 days ago • 420 comments

Yo, Third Act @thirdact.org is in the house for today's #HandsOff rallies. Don't mess with the olds!

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#HandsOFF in Asheville!

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