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AOC: That is why Stefanik got pulled which is good. It sure seemed like she wanted that post and she’s not getting it because she is enabling the brutality of this administration. That’s what these people respond to. Consequences… It’s the FAFO theory of politics

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AOC: They want to talk about why America is great or making America great. Our civil liberties and our civil protections are part of what makes America great. When you want to shred up our constitution and eliminate due process, it is attacking what it is to be an American.

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I like telling authoritarians where to shove it in multiple languages

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Listen to Black women… “The attacks are not random. They seem designed to intimidate those of us who serve in this critical capacity” “The threats & harassment are attacks on our democracy, on our system of government. And they ultimately risk undermining our Constitution & the rule of law” - KBJ

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Tommy Tuberville says his wife's homestead exemption established his residency in Alabama, but election records show both of them voted in Florida after that. And that's only the beginning.

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Wait till Trump finds out what the Declaration of Independence is really about!

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If you take a single lesson out of Star Wars let it be that successful opposition to fascism only happened after all the different factions stopped fighting with each other and joined forces. You can criticize your allies, of course, but you can’t be more focused on defeating them than the enemy.

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love to make america great again by essentially expelling the people that enrich our children’s lives

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News: Four union leaders call for Abrego Garcia's release in new letter to El Salvadoran ambassador. Labor is ramping up its advocacy for this sheet metal worker. "The erosion of rights and due process for immigrants in the US is a direct threat to the rights of all working people."

submitted 19 hours ago • 36 comments

uh yeah this is fine

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We did this video NINE DAYS AGO. www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1v1...

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For centuries, a “gossip” was a woman who attended another woman's delivery. The word was a corruption of “god-sib” or “god-sibling,” meaning “sister in the Lord.” The gossips offered support to mother and midwife. Only later did the term take on a derogatory meaning.

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Big yikes

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What could possibly go wrong 😑 🦠

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They pit us against each other so that they can rob us blind while we fight over the literal scraps.

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Trump is about to foreclose on the homes of 90,000 Veterans. www.rawstory.com/trump-vetera...

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The protests will be far bigger apnews.com/article/army...

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The CDC has sold out. They've been a heavily CYA institution so long as I've been in contact with them (over 30 years) but this is so new a low you can't even see how far they've dropped. They have just sold out the American people to appease the grifter and antivaxxer RFK Jr.

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Mike Waltz was fired. Further, Waltz was caught using Signal in photos taken during Wednesday's Cabinet meeting. Both before and after the Signalgate scandals, security experts at the Pentagon have warned government officials against the use of Signal — whether or not classified information is…

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Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, the Supreme Court’s newest member, denounced on Thursday what she described as "relentless attacks" on judges, and an environment of harassment that "ultimately risks undermining our Constitution and the rule of law."

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Rural communities are scrambling after the Trump administration canceled billions in disaster grants. Many were counting on the funds for infrastructure fixes meant to withstand future disasters.

submitted 18 hours ago • 165 comments

US opposition politician @sanders.senate.gov gathered between 5 to 10 thousand people in Philadelphia to celebrate May Day and oppose the Trump regime. #3E #EndImpunity #MayDay

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“This is taxpayer-funded, state-sponsored religious indoctrination. You’ve just got to call it what it is.”

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Ah. So it definitely happened then.

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Trump on his faith advisers: "They work right out of the White House. That's never been done before. No other president allowed that. They say 'separation between church and state.' I said, alright, let's forget about that for one time."

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Did you know? The richest 10 % of people emit as much CO₂ as the bottom 90 % combined. www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/w...

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The Hill: Egg prices reached another record high last month. It now costs American shoppers an average of $6.23 for a dozen eggs — nearly a five-fold increase since 2020.

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Umm yes we did know 💥😡

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Robert De Niro is expressing his love and support for his daughter Airyn De Niro, after she recently shared publicly for the first time that she is transgender. cnn.it/3EY1msu

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Louisiana sends children to the adult Jackson Parish Jail, where kids say they're abused and held in solitary confinement. Investigators found the facility violated state rules 83 times between July and February—almost 12 times more than the second-worst lockup. theappeal.org/jackson-pari...

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1/n I don’t understand the new Dept HHS assertion that childhood vaccines weren’t tested in placebo-controlled trials. That’s simply not true. I did a quick (non-exhaustive) PubMed search and they came up pretty quickly. For example here’s MMR

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Posts for May Day from me. bsky.app/profile/drdi...

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You literally sound like a communist

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Friendly advice: don't surrender power over your life to a guy who does not value human contact.

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Trump wants to spend trillions on a "Golden Dome" missile defense shield — and Musk's SpaceX “just so happens” to be the frontrunner for the contracts. I led 40+ members of Congress in demanding the Defense Department Inspector General review Musk's influence on the process:

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Cruelty is the point

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Stephen Miller: "Children will be taught to love America. Children will be taught to be patriots. Children will be taught civic values for schools that want federal taxpayer funding ... we're gonna make sure these funds are not being used to promote communist ideology."

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“The US is treading the path followed by democracies that descended into authoritarianism and dictatorship, four former U.S. ambassadors to countries that underwent autocratic takeovers have warned.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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These poll numbers should all be north of 90% Wake up, America!!!!!

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RFK Jr. ordered the NIH’s Integrated Research Facility in Frederick to stop all research on serious infectious diseases yesterday at 5:00 PM. They study pathogens like Ebola there. You may be familiar with it from The Hot Zone. www.wired.com/story/hhs-ni...

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I dislike him more and more

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As the legal battle continues over the fate of Kilmar Abrego García, several law enforcement officials and researchers who study the MS-13 gang say the tattoos on his left hand — a marijuana leaf, a smiley face, a cross and a skull — do not show definitive evidence of any gang affiliation.

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Okay but I’m pretty sure the expression isn’t “don’t piss down my back”

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Ron Johnson: "I'm hearing an awful lot from manufacturers in Wisconsin. If this thing drags on, the tariffs remain high, their businesses will be put out of business."

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"What they are trying to do to immigrants already, they are already doing to U.S. citizens." Watch the full video: youtu.be/zbSMcIDwdmg

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Sen. Ossoff: Who out there in the American public is sitting at home demanding that we shut down cancer research and Alzheimer's research?

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"Seven times he said MS-13 was written on his knuckles... that is the level of delusion, and gaslighting, and dishonesty in this White House... is Donald Trump mentally competent?" From my debate on the 100 days with former Trump ambassador Carla Sands on BBC Newsnight tonight:

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