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This is one of the many reasons we need universal healthcare (and universal social safety net programs more generally). When access to support is means-tested, that support becomes stigmatized. And that stigma reinforces the idea that only some people are deserving of dignity.

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Wtf is wrong with our society?

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When the pendulum swings back we will tax the living daylights out of the richest Americans. They are going to fund Social Security, build new roads, pay for investments in education and medicine. We will tax their assets. We will eliminate the loopholes. The rich will pay. We've had enough.

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Look at my media dawg, we’re going to lose our democracy

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Google, Microsoft, and Meta's increasing use of data centers has resulted in increased air pollution from extensive fossil fuel energy consumption and associated public health costs related to treating cancers, asthma, and other similar issues, valued at over $5.4 billion in the past five years.

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I'm sure very few people know about this. Inmates in 43 states are charged a per diem cost for "room and board" ranging between $40 to hundreds of dollars. In some states you owe for every day of your original sentence EVEN IF YOU GET OUT EARLY. www.welcometohellworld.com/there-is-no-...

submitted 8 days ago • 34 comments

God isn't this so true! The Dems spent a year doing everything possible to keep the rage of decent people focused on their horrific policy towards the Palestinians, and the domestic opportunity cost was massive.

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People really need to let go of the idea that a social media website is the public square, with a free marketplace of ideas. That's already a stretch for a politically impartial website, it's nonsensical for a site with a heavily biased algorithm.

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Jeffries: hey the GOP controls the government, absolutely nothing i can do, gonna work on my personal book tour Sanders: brb i am going to personally barnstorm strategic GOP house districts and try to peel off 2 votes so we can block Trump's cuts to Medicaid www.commondreams.org/news/bernie-...

submitted 9 days ago • 123 comments

This is, incidentally, true of most of Trump 2's policies. The stated congressional Republican position on a huge proportion of Trump's publicly explicit policies is that they are not what he says they are.

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“I don’t think Americans seem to understand what’s at stake here. This is a heist. It’s a hostile takeover by malicious actors of our entire government.” www.propublica.org/article/usai...

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I swear to God these NYT headlines are going to drive me crazy. “Govt downsizing blitz” to discuss Musk illegally seizing control of federal funds!?

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Breaking news: State attorneys general from California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Nevada, Vermont, and Wisconsin advise Trump's EO banning trans care is unlawful, hospitals should provide care. Big counter salvo!

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NYU Langone Health and its CEO Robert Grossman decided to deny patients 19 and younger gender affirming care, complying with an egregious and unlawful Trump exec order. Do Not Obey in Advance!!! Sign letter below to demand NYU Langone reverse their cowardly decision actionnetwork.org/letters/dema...

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Indivisible is urging people to visit their senators' local offices between now and Thursday to demand that they use every tool—including denying a quorum and blocking unanimous consent—to fight the confirmation of Project 2025 architect Russell Vought for head of OMB docs.google.com/document/d/1...

submitted 29 days ago • 537 comments

Musk is a traitor to the US Constitution and should be arrested and have his assets seized

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

Very interesting essay. The power of reflective beliefs amongst the right shows how being in the in-group means holding beliefs you might otherwise think are false

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Wow I did not realize this. Trump is already setting up the Republican tax cut fight for failure

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i keep saying these people hate the american system of government because it is true. “sovereign over the executive branch?” get the fuck outta here. he is a servant of the constitution and those “rogue judges” are doing their jobs!

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This Victor Serge comment about the Nazis really hits right now: “They have put the blinders of anti-socialism, irrationality, inhumanity, anti-Semitism over their own eyes—too many blinders for good technicians and good organizers.”

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"But 'policy' is only a useful lever if we assume a functioning democracy with relatively stable institutions. It’s more or less irrelevant in the face of larger political shifts: democratic erosion, corrupt and reactionary courts, personalistic enforcement of law, the rising influence of oligarchs"

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So this is it. This is where the rubber meets the road. Whether America remains a constitutional democracy depends on this. prospect.org/politics/202...

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Reading news stories about DOGE and most are wrong - the US Digital Service is now US DOGE Service and within that USDS there is a temporary DOGE organization that sunsets in 2026, but USDS is permanently US DOGE Service

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The Progressive just published my latest piece: why defending the Biden admin’s grid reforms are key to pushing forward the clean energy transition under Trump progressive.org/op-eds/grid-...

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Yarvin is right that American corporations are ‘little monarchies.’ Its just that he thinks that’s a good thing and not a sign that the workplace needs to be democratized

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Nationalize the insurance industry newrepublic.com/article/1900...

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AOC puts her finger right on the core point, as usual: people understand strength, and they respect it. they understand weakness, and they disdain it. even if you lose, you gotta lose fighting.

submitted 48 days ago • 18 comments

Love that Wicker’s arg for Hegseth is that you don’t need experience, the secretary just tells staff what to do and they figure it out. And Hegseth is good at telling people what to do because he’s on TV

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The Progressive just published my latest piece: why defending the Biden admin’s grid reforms are key to pushing forward the clean energy transition under Trump progressive.org/op-eds/grid-...

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The destruction of liberalism is coming from inside the (white) house

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What “Two and a half years ago, during its summer meeting, the DNC’s Gang of 448 voted to give itself the power to overrule any amendments to its bylaws that a national party convention, a much broader body with greater public input, might vote to enact.” prospect.org/politics/202...

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Agencies don’t have to “preemptively surrender before the final day on the calendar. Continuing to move forward popular proposals forces the Trump administration and Republicans to spend political capital to reverse them, at the cost of angering ordinary people.” prospect.org/economy/2025...

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“On January 6th Trump successfully broke the system: there is no neutral, recognized arbiter of the law and the constitutional order, there is just raw politics.” And unfortunately the GOP, unlike Dems, are very good at raw politics www.unpopularfront.news/p/january-6t...

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Democrats’ fetishization of bipartisanship is going to end democracy www.nytimes.com/2025/01/01/o...

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If it comes down to a battle between China’s state-led manufacturing behemoth and America’s private capital incentivized manufacturing reboot we might actually get a reconsideration of publicly owned production - only geared towards war and not the clean energy transition

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Tim Sahay nails it in this interview why green industrial growth is the best way forward - for now. The logic behind the IRA is to create electoral coalitions that will back a green transition. That project will take time, but once the material basis is laid, people will have a real stake in it

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“No bit of positive domestic policy or sense of personal empathy is more important than the reasoned decision to supply the tools used to conduct tens of thousands of murders. That is what Joe Biden’s half century political career adds up to.” www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/stand-for-...

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