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No taxation without representation. No representation without ability to vote. So, no. #viral #like #freinds #lovers

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BREAKING: Multiple people injured as police respond to a shooting at Florida State University

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There is nothing comforting about “I’m just as scared as you” coming from the legislative branch that’s supposed to keep checks and balances on the executive. While she thought it was relatable, it is actually mortifying.

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What goes around comes around...

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What kind of person steals from a children’s cancer charity?

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🤣🤣

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Breaking News: Google acted illegally to maintain a monopoly in some online advertising technology, a federal judge ruled.

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Michael Roth, Wesleyan University's first Jewish president, says the Trump administration is using antisemitism as a "cloak" to get universities to be loyal to the president.

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Resist. www.idahostatesman.com/news/local/c...

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A recent court ruling cleared the way for the firings, which follow a memo from the bureau's chief legal counsel outlining the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's new priorities. By @laurelwams.bsky.social

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My first reaction to reading that Lisa Murkowski said she’s “afraid” was “too bad, so sad.” Then I watched the clip. And, not to be too Pollyannish, I’m keeping my eye on her for a party switch to Independent. Alaskans, share your thoughts with her. www.murkowski.senate.gov/contact Part 1

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‘Show Me Where You Make Autism!’ Shouts RFK Jr., Storming Sour Patch Kids Factory theonion.com/show-me...

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38 of the 43. "38 of 43 experts cut last month from boards that review science and research in NIH laboratories are female, Black or Hispanic. "The scientists typically serve five-year terms and were not given a reason for their dismissal..." www.washingtonpost.com/science/2025...

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meanwhile, prominent pundits continue to deny that there the administration adheres to a segregationist ideology

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Maryland Sen. Chris Van Hollen went to El Salvador to lobby for the release of Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, whose deportation has gripped the U.S. He isn't the only lawmaker with such a trip in mind.

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[email protected] on Sen. Murkowski: "The political environment is so fraught that you as a U.S. senator are scared to speak out...Why are you supporting the people that are creating that environment?"

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The head of our country’s government is in the early stages of consolidating total power. We must of course reject this, but that is not enough. We have to respond by creating a different and better kind of American politics than we have seen before.

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September 2024

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Katherine Maher, president and CEO of National Public Radio, talks with NPR's Mary Louise Kelly about the White House proposal to eliminate federal funding for public media.

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The Vice President of El Salvador has told US Senator Van Hollen that the reason they are still holding Kilmar Abrego Garcia is due to the Trump regime paying them to do so. Trump needs to be arrested and brought up on human trafficking charges. #3E

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Get yourself a senator willing to rescue you in a foreign country after your messy president wrongfully deports you… …seems like a sentence I shouldn’t have to write in 2025 but here we are. Senator Chris Van Hollen leaves for El Salvador tomorrow to initiate the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia.

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NASA Announces Bold Plan To Still Exist By 2045

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Finally…. Someone He Can’t Bully! China isn’t playing with “Don the Con!”

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My @ragingmoderates.bsky.social co-host 👇🏻👇🏻

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#GVerse If only he was a good business person, sigh! #FuckTrump

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Where are the Salvadorian? What do they think about their POS so call president…. If they like him they should all fucking leave…. Take that machiavellian dick tater ship fucking away from the US. Cheeto man will not live forever and we will not stand for his shit. Fuck them both.

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Maga POS. Send his ass to El Salvador. asshole.

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I can't emphasize enough that the most important thing journalists can do right now is publish exactly this kind of article

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"After nearly five hours, he and his wife were released. They are now pursuing legal action. "It's not about the immigrants," his sister, told NBC10 Boston. "It's coming to us Americans, and it's going to go after all of us." www.nbcboston.com/news/politic...

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Abrego Garcia's wife: "I will not stop fighting until I see my husband alive. Kilmar, if you can hear me, stay strong. God hasn't forgotten about you. Our children are asking when you will come home ... they miss their dad so much."

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I tried to post this, did not succeed. Kudos to my pal Mark Hamill. Here it is.

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Not the onion

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Watch as a herd of elephants at the San Diego Zoo protect their calves, Mkhaya and Zuli, during a 5.2-magnitude earthquake that shook Southern California. The animals repeated the behavior during an aftershock, but went back to their daily routines when the situation seemed safe. nyti.ms/3Eo2uW8

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EXCLUSIVE: A whistleblower tells Congress and NPR that DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data and hid its tracks. "None of that ... information should ever leave the agency," said a former NLRB official.

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“I was just following orders” was not a defense at Nuremberg. And it won’t be a defense in the future here.

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Trump is now talking about shipping U.S. citizens to prisons in El Salvador. Let me say that again: U.S. citizens. To foreign prisons. This is not just unconstitutional—it’s unhinged.

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We need a new story based on compassion and sustainability.

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I’ve just posted this video message to members of the DC Bar, urging them to vote AGAINST AG Pam Bondi’s brother to be its next president. Please pass this on to anyone who is eligible to vote. www.instagram.com/reel/DIcQFxt...

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This from @anneapplebaum.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

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Jeffries: "So many of these people are crooks, liars, and frauds, and Marjorie Taylor Greene is of course exhibit A ... we do need to change the law so that sitting members of Congress cannot trade stock. Period. Full stop."

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Whoops!

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We traded Europe for a guy that builds concentration camps for profit.

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Many products sold in the U.S. are made in El Salvador. In response to the El Salvador president’s statements today, we’re calling for an immediate boycott of all Salvadoran-made goods. Please help by listing any products or brands made in El Salvador in the comments below.

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"The security of the world is at stake." Well worth watching President Zelenskyy's interview on 60 Minutes www.cbsnews.com/news/ukraine...

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this is Mohsen Mahdawi, the green card holder who was just arrested by ICE for rendition at his citizenship interview

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