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Excellent summary of our predicament here from veteran reporter Mort Rosenblum. www.mortreport.org/reports/a-wa...

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This is what courage looks like. Kudos to the team at 60 Minutes.

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CHINA FOREIGN MINISTRY SPOX: "Let me make it clear one more time that China and the U.S. are not engaged in any consultation or negotiation on tariffs." @cnbc.com www.cnbc.com/2025/04/28/t...

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I've only been in the U.S. Senate for a few months but I'm doing everything I can to fight back against this administration. Now is not the time to sit on the sidelines. We need everyone to be in this fight for the rule of law, our families, and our future.

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How you may find yourself on the front line of Trump's crackdown on immigration https://robertreich.substack.com/p/how-you-may-find-yourself-on-the

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A bad sign, not just because of what it recalls historically, but for what it promises about the future. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Donald Trump‘s corrupt memecoin scheme somehow just got even worse. Let’s break it all down: youtu.be/v74T-6oKlus?...

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🚨 Referendum challenging Utah's anti-union HB267 reaches signature goal to send the issue to voters. The referendum hit the required number of signatures statewide on Monday morning as well as 15 state Senate districts. Verification process continues through May 7. tinyurl.com/4w8x393x

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According to Kash Patel’s own financial disclosure statement, he pocketed $25,000 from a production company operated by a filmmaker associated with a Kremlin-subsidized propaganda project, a pro-Putin oligarch, and a pro-Kremlin disinformation agent. @davidcorn.bsky.social's NEW video explains:

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Handy metric for how a political party is doing: Are its electeds willing to talk to their constituents or not? "In the past two weeks, about a dozen congressional Republicans hosted in-person town halls. Meanwhile, more than 85 Democrats held their own meetings..." www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

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We’re partnering with civil rights groups and other allies during the Freedom to Learn Network’s National Week of Action to say #HandsOffOurHistory. This week, we are focused on fighting back against the erasure of Black history in our libraries, museums, and classrooms.

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BREAKING: The MeidasTouch Network will host the first-ever Democratic Governor Virtual Town Hall tonight at 8 PM ET / 5 PM PT right here on YouTube! Govs. Pritzker, Walz, Healey, and Hochul will join us LIVE to take on Trump’s disastrous first 100 days. (link in reply)

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Barry Blitt’s cover for this week’s issue, “The First Hundred Days.” #NewYorkerCovers nyer.cm/ysrCZ47

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"US stocks have underperformed the rest of the world this year by the widest margin in more than three decades as Donald Trump’s erratic policymaking sparks an investor exodus from American assets..." www.ft.com/content/f3a7...

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...and he's doing this with his party in control of both houses of congress www.ft.com/content/9d3e...

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The richest 0.1% of Americans control $22 trillion in wealth. The bottom 50% control $3.8 trillion in wealth. Read that back. Folks, this is what oligarchy looks like.

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Is this “election fraud” also?

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Over the first 100 days, we @sddfund.bsky.social have taken 100 actions challenging the Trump admin’s lawlessness—incl. repping conservatives opposing his foreign abductions We’ll keep fighting in the courts of law & public opinion. I discussed @msnbc.com

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Barry Blitt’s first 100 days cover for the New Yorker.

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Trump’s DOJ ordered ICE agents to conduct home raids without a warrant, in clear violation of the 4th Amendment. And three American children were just unlawfully deported, including one with cancer. Where is the outrage from the so-called “party of freedom”?

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LONGSHOREMAN UNION: “.. Tariffs are taxes. These and other reckless, shortsighted policies have begun to devastate American workers, harm critical sectors of the economy, and line the pockets of the ultra-wealthy at the expense of hardworking families.” @thehill.com thehill.com/business/527...

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MAGA Republicans are voting to add $6.9 trillion to the national debt over the next decade. There's no free lunch in fiscal policy. With higher taxes & inflation, we will all pay for that.

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Secretary Hegseth continues to break Pentagon policy and put our national security at risk. He is not serious about keeping Americans safe. He must resign.

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@govpritzker.illinois.gov isn't pulling any punches. LFG!

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"Can you imagine if a President started arresting Judges? Can you imagine if a President refused to obey orders from the Supreme Court? If that ever happened, America would become a Dictatorship overnight. There would be no dawn, only silence." - Barack Obama, 2011

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PUNCHBOWL: “.. The shopping site will display how much of an item’s cost is derived from tariffs – right next to the product’s total listed price.” $AMZN punchbowl.news/archive/4292...

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Speaking to NPR in his first media interview since his detention, lawful permanent U.S. resident Mohsen Mahdawi finds peace in meditation and hopes "America will fulfill its promise."

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📣 OPEN TO THE PUBLIC 📣 Please join us at #NIH for a peaceful resistance event on 4/30, 3-6 PM (ET). Celebrate science and get warmed up for May Day. 🌹 Join us and join in! #NationalInstitutesofHealth #MayDay #Resist #FederalWorkersAgainstDOGE www.instagram.com/p/DI_6JgSR8My/

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Inflationary

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@govpritzker.illinois.gov

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This Weekend in Politics, Bulletin 119. Everything you need to know about what happened this weekend in politics. open.substack.com/pub/meidasto...

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Donald Trump is back to attacking me today because the economy has been in a tailspin under his economic mismanagement. And so have his poll numbers. And the last thing he wants — is people holding him accountable. Attack me as you much as you like, Mr. President, I’m not backing down.

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“Trump has already ‘done more damage to American capacities to confront China than anybody has ever imagined possible’...” www.nytimes.com/2025/04/26/o...

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this is well put and really worth watching: www.cnn.com/2025/04/25/p...

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It’d be cool if the ppl who kicked & screamed about the phony Biden bribery story (where the FBI informant went to prison for lying) at least pretended to care about Trump blatantly selling access. (cc: @MarshaBlackburn @SenatorHagerty @RepTimBurchett) newrepublic.com/post/194420/...

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“It’s hard to see how Trump would have acted any differently if he were a Russian asset than how he has acted in the first 100 days of his second term.” Huh. You don't say. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/26/u...

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www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

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"think hard about whether you want to be responsible for enabling the descent of America into fascism" - a question that should be asked of everyone involved

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"Some see".... Are the others blind?

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The biggest divide is not between “right” and “left." It’s between democracy and oligarchy. The billionaires who control our economy and democracy seek to divide us. They want us to turn on each other so we don't look up and see that they have all the wealth and power.

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(ABC News) - Donald Trump has the lowest 100-day job approval rating of any president in the past 80 years .. abcnews.go.com/Politics/tru...

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Democracy Docket is currently tracking more than 200 cases that will decide the fate of our democracy. www.democracydocket.com/cases/case-s...

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In a free country, politicians can’t appoint themselves judge, jury and executioner. youtu.be/6eDXRo5dYXM

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Trump’s DOJ reverses protections for journalists. Meanwhile, Trump wears a blue suit to the Pope’s funeral, Putin mocks his “warnings,” and MAGA elites launch a $500k pay-to-play club in DC. Catch up with our weekend bulletin:

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The Naval Academy cancelled a freakin' Ken Burns documentary showing, not because of the content, but because Burns had been critical of Trump www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/u...

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