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A coalition of some of the richest people in Illinois spent tens of millions to defeat a graduated state income tax here, which would've had them paying a little extra money they could've found in their couch cushions. Rich people will do anything to avoid wealth going somewhere else.

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“Democracy is at risk,” says someone who sat on an archaic unelected body that's known for things like gutting the Voting Rights Act, denying requests to stop state-sponsored lynchings, and regularly ruling against popular public sentiments.

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So sad to hear of Bill Moyers passing. An amazing thinker, journalist, interlocutor, supporter of anyone trying to engage in serious dialogue on any front. Just a lovely, generous, and kind human. A great friend to @motherjones. www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2...

submitted 3 hours ago • 13 comments

Hibiscus! #bloomscrolling

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I think that if you were not familiar with the supposed political values of the Democratic Party, its performance over the last five months would lead you to conclude that they are primarily a pro-genocide party with center right economics and a fierce commitment to loyalty and gate keeping.

submitted 4 days ago • 76 comments

yep! unpaywalled:

submitted 14 days ago • 85 comments

It’s completely insane that US troops are illegally deployed to suppress domestic opposition and it’s not uniformly condemned by the press and political elite.

submitted 14 days ago • 530 comments

"making a scene" is the biggest sin any of these people can conceive

submitted 14 days ago • 64 comments

Yeah my job is pretty cool. My uniform is a tactical vest that’s two sizes too small and a gaiter I bought in a gas station. They send me to sneak into schools to kidnap little kids because people got mad about having to press 1 for English. The president had to warn everyone to stop spitting on me.

submitted 16 days ago • 47 comments

This is why I hate both the poster (TCW) and the retweeter (JT). Absolute ghouls who believe in nothing

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This indictment is no more justified than the original charges. I will not be intimidated. My full statement:

submitted 16 days ago • 178 comments

It continues to make me sad that Ro Khanna used VC and tech money to push Mike Honda out of Congress. Honda was a childhood Japanese internee who became a high school teacher, congressman, and staunch ally of labor and LGBTQ ppl. Khanna is … wooing a white supremacist anti-trans bigot for his money.

submitted 20 days ago • 24 comments

One thing I’d say about ranked choice voting in NYC is that you don’t have to do complex calculations of viability. You should rank in order of who you want to be mayor and if you don’t want someone to be mayor, you shouldn’t rank them!

submitted 20 days ago • 133 comments

are they really going with “the enemy of my enemy should be my rich nazi friend” is that what is going on here

submitted 20 days ago • 39 comments

he's home: Kilmar Abrego Garcia has been returned to the United States. I feel the sort of thankfulness that approaches disbelief--against every artificial impossibility a wicked administration imposed, he is alive, home.

submitted 20 days ago • 3 comments

Also, I hope @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social is doing good Chinese-language outreach in Queens, because I was aghast to hear my mom, who does pay attention to politics, remark that “Cuomo seems like a pretty capable guy.”

submitted 20 days ago • 8 comments

I just want a global 'turn all 'ai' off everywhere, categorically, no exceptions unless I individually approve them in triplicate' setting for all my devices

submitted 24 days ago • 11 comments

The upcoming revision of EU’s chemical law, #REACH, is a critical opportunity to better protect humans, animals, and the environment. Although #animaltesting is meant to be a “last resort” when no #animal-free method is available, countless animals still suffer in cruel chemical tests annually.

submitted 26 days ago • 2 comments

Public employees have long relied on High Country News for trusted reporting on the West. Now, as agency staff face layoffs, budget cuts & political pressure, we’re offering free digital access to support the people who serve the public. buff.ly/4BrOyRV #KnowTheWest

submitted 27 days ago • 1 comment

Can't help but feel we're living through an increasingly existential war between spectacle and substance with spectacle winning battle after battle after battle.

submitted 30 days ago • 1114 comments

My partner just got a monstrous vet bill for their diabetic dog, Leo. This is what happens when a vet refuses to refill an insulin prescription. Jesus. Any and all help appreciated 🙏 www.gofundme.com/f/3ve58-help...

submitted 29 days ago • 2 comments

This shows the best

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Power went out at 1am We still have no power. You'd think living in the energy state (Texas) the grid wouldn't fail so often. But istg every time it rains, the power goes out and this time, it's taking forever to fix I don't know how much longer I can put up with the terrible services in Texas

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I know I shouldn't be asking how this was allowed, and yet here I am asking: How was this allowedddddd

submitted 30 days ago • 18 comments

I still think the best idea for progressive donors is to just revive every alt-weekly in the country and staff them with 10 reporters each.

submitted 30 days ago • 225 comments

This is my favorite charitable organization. They could use some help. Please consider a donation. Thank you.

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

Nostalgia in politics can work for more than one thing, it doesn't only have to be a guy saying "Don't you miss being racist" it could be a different guy saying "Remember when people had pensions"

submitted 32 days ago • 35 comments

this is excellent work & contains call/email templates at the end with callouts for the specific legislative mechanisms democratic senators could use to kill this part of the bill. read the piece. make the calls. there’s no earthly reason any senator’s phone should stop ringing in the near future.

submitted 34 days ago • 3 comments

So sad Pocket is leaving us

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People act like a general strike is simple when it's literally one of the most difficult and complex things you could possibly organize

submitted 35 days ago • 19 comments

You have three days, starting today, to leave a public comment with the FDA about, say, why COVID-19 boosters should remain available to everyone and also free. "Individual consumer" is the category you most likely want (unless you are one of the other categories; if so, choose that).

submitted 37 days ago • 151 comments

This is an alarming development and deserves more attention.

submitted 37 days ago • 12 comments

Nineteen months in and they're still letting the IDF write their copy:

submitted 39 days ago • 10 comments

Protests growing at The Hague apnews.com/article/neth...

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i think it's worse than this. the Republican Party as an institution has thoroughly discredited itself as either interested in or capable of being trustworthy with respect to basic democratic governance

submitted 80 days ago • 122 comments

President Declines Gift (1925)

submitted 41 days ago • 57 comments

if you do one thing this week, please make it either donating what you can to The Appeal, or sharing this ask -- their reporting is so, so vital, and because of a bleak funding landscape they're at serious risk of not being able to do that vital reporting at all anymore.

submitted 41 days ago • 3 comments

This kid is 15, and so has a moral clarity and uprightness that no adult elected official would or could ever have. There aren't really and never have been two sides of this issue, but if it has to be argued as a binary thing I don't see how anything less than this could seem like the side to be on.

submitted 41 days ago • 80 comments

As we’re once again talking about why the media treats the right different than the left, I would like to tap the sign once again:

submitted 41 days ago • 16 comments

I’m here outside Maryland federal court for the latest hearing on Kilmar Abrego García. The Trump administration says state secrets prevent them from saying more on how they’re facilitating his return. A crowd of supporters has already gathered before the 1 p.m. hearing. Read more @usatoday.com

submitted 41 days ago • 12 comments

💔

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“reality tv is inherently fascist” is my most consistently vindicated hot take of all time

submitted 42 days ago • 87 comments

do you guys talk to yourself with like hand movements and everything, or is that just me? (and then get very embarrassed when someone catches you?)

submitted 42 days ago • 0 comments

♥️♥️♥️

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submitted 43 days ago • 7 comments

I never stopped calling it hbo and I never will

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