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Notably occurring a day after Judge Talwani announced she intended to block DHS from terminating parole for migrants from four countries. www.reuters.com/legal/us-jud...

When you are one hundred percent committed to battling anti-semitism:

Has he started cutting Lin Biao out of photos yet? Or only Harriet Tubman, Jackie Robinson, and Frederick Douglass?

They made him sell his peanut farm.

Air pollution has dropped significantly in #Paris in the last 15 years as a result of a deliberate strategy. Mayor @annehidalgo.bsky.social’s leadership has traded car space for green space, safe bike space, kid space.. and traded pollution for people. Good trade.

Timeline cleanse. I don't know about the rest of you but Kronos quartet playing Hendrix is exactly what I need right now! #music

For the record there is nothing more masculine that Trump could do than pause the tariffs forever

This is an outrage and has nothing to do with antisemitism. #NotInMyName

Are you a woman who changed your name when you got married? Congress is considering a bill that could make it much harder for you to vote. Call your rep—this is not a drill. indivisible.org/resource/cal...

Graffiti in my neighborhood ‘Free-Market Anti-Capitalist’

a lesson for every college, law firm, business, etc. — if these chodes demand you do something, your first response should be some form of "make me"

Thank you Wonkette for this reminder of The Time Justin Trudeau Gifted Trump A Picture Of His Grandpa's Brothel www.wonkette.com/p/the-time-j...

Can we get more of this? “The Japanese American National Museum will ‘scrub nothing,’ Fujioka said, and instead will highlight the importance of DEI. “Our community is based on diversity, equity is guaranteed to us in the Constitution, and inclusion is what we believe in,” Fujioka said.

“Tubman’s photograph is now gone. In its place are images of Postal Service stamps that highlight “Black/White cooperation” in the secret network and that feature Tubman among abolitionists of both races.” wapo.st/4jdXL8m

they are segregationists, it has been obvious from the jump, and i think that pundits who dismissed the charge as hyperbolic should explain why they couldn’t see the fact pattern

How NC voters on the Griffin List (or anyone worried about their future vote) can update their voter file Please share with everyone in NC you know triangleblogblog.com/2025/04/05/h...

Protests aren’t the only tool in the anti-authoritarian toolkit, but they’re incredibly important. Protests help us see each other; they make it feel safer to refuse to obey the dictator, and make it more possible for us to organize mass non-cooperation. It’s an essential step in the process.

If you need to cure your vote and can't afford to because of barriers getting to your election office or getting a valid ID, DM me.

NYC presente!

lol. In NYC we give 6th graders metro cards. Too scared to do what every 12 year old in NYC does multiple times per day? He must be using ‘Big man’ as a euphemism for idiot

I have tariffed the penguins that are on Heard Island and which you were probably assuming did not export goods forgive me they were taking advantage of us so cunning and so cold

The richest man in the world spent more money than most of us will see in our lifetimes to lose a state Supreme Court race by 10 points. And the fact his $25 million was a drop in the bucket compared to what he's spent on other elections is exactly why we must overturn Citizens United.

It is 2002. I am 18 years old. We are in a once-in-a-generation economic crisis. It is 2008. I am 24 years old. We are in a once-in-a-generation economic crisis. It is 2020. I am 36 years old. We are in a once-in-a-generation economic crisis. It is 2025. I am 41 years old. We are in a—

Hello, Congress. Are you really going to go along with this tariff fiasco? Use your power.

If you have a Republican representing you in the House or Senate, call them to demand they undo Trump's tariffs. They're already shaken by the 20 point shift in Florida and the Wisconsin loss. You can fuel that feeling.

How is this even possible in this day and age?

"Should the amount of rain occur that we anticipate over the middle of the nation, it would exceed the 500 to 1,000-year average" So, clearly an opportune time to have dismantled FEMA . . . www.usatoday.com/story/news/w...

What is so crazy about Elon and Mike here is they lack confidence in their ideas, so instead they blather endlessly about vanguards and cadres and brainwashing. They sound like Lame Leninists. I believe in my ideas: in the immortal words of J.Lo in Out of Sight, if you want to tussle, let’s tussle.

Making news happen. www.c-span.org/event/us-sen...

I was skeptical when Booker started his speech in the evening, thinking it was "performative," and then it occurred to me that *performance* is what we need. We can't get the message out if we don't grab the mic. This is about taking the narrative out of the hands of liars and con artists.

Attorney General Seeks Death Penalty For All UnitedHealthcare Customers

"Not only under ground are the brains of men Eaten by maggots." Happy April. Has National Poetry Month been cancelled yet?

glad you and @schumer.senate.gov are joining @booker.senate.gov @kim.senate.gov @wyden.senate.gov and @chrismurphyct.bsky.social . We need you to use every lever you have

The Department of Government Efficiency, for example

@kirstengillibrand.bsky.social where are you? Step up for your constituents