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When you hear people say "Palestinians aren't good partners for peace" please know that Israel has a long history of violating truce conditions with Palestinians. The global community needs to hold both sides accountable for doing what they said they would do. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/02/27/w...

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“We have measles outbreaks every year," Trump's health secretary said when asked about the death, which is the nation's first in a decade.

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"The U.S. State Department should explain to Americans and the international community how the attack on Cuban medical services, on which the health of millions of people in dozens of countries depends, enhances their country," said Cuba's president

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Barnard College Columbia University NYC earlier today

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The Capitol Police arrested a group of peaceful protesters who demonstrated today in the Cannon House Office Building against the Trump’s decision to freeze foreign aid and lay off thousands of USAID workers. The president has made his message clear: disagree with them, and they will come after you.

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People still: Look, we can't read history through a contemporary lens. There wasn't a consensus that slavery was wrong. Every 18th c. pamphlet: How can they do this? Are we SLAVES? In SLAVERY? The worst things you can be? Are they gonna put us IN CHAINS? Like in SLAVERY? Which is EVIL? Like SLAV-

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It is really hard to watch people willfully tear down an infrastructure that allowed us to double lifespans, drastically reduce poverty, and become one of the richest countries in the world.

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Percent of births financed by medicaid, by state, 2023

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complaining about "the far left" is such loser energy. oh no, not the people who want everyone to have human rights!!!!

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The people who watch as others zip tie your legs and physically drag you from a meeting would also watch as you were thrown into a concentration camp.

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Note here that Musk is now literally assigning himself new contracts based on the use of his DOGE wrecking crew and the associated micro-bros. this isn't a "conflict of interest". it's just handing yourself federal money www.cnn.com/2025/02/25/b...

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‘Boston is your home’: Mayor Wu reaffirms the city’s commitment to immigrants on Spanish-language radio show www.bostonglobe.com/2025/02/25/m...

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DiZoglio is like Tulsi Gabbard or Kyrsten Sinema, although she hasn't had to travel as far since she wasn't progressive to begin with. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/02/24/b...

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What does this make us? "At least 6 children have died in Gaza because of the cold weather... Israel continues to largely restrict the entry of tents ...at least 8 newborns died of hypothermia in Gaza in December alone, while 74 [additional] children perished." www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...

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Aaron Bushnell died by self-immolation in protest of the Gaza genocide a year ago today. His memory should stir a fire in our souls, and force us to evaluate our commitment to a better world. mondoweiss.net/2025/02/reme...

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Awful news --> Delivery of therapeutic food assistance to nearly 400,000 severely malnourished kids abroad is suddenly in doubt due to Trump-Musk firings at USAID, two manufacturers of the product tell me. "Starving children are waiting," one says. New from me: newrepublic.com/article/1919...

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The West Bank is completely under attack and there’s been very little coverage in American media

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57 people died in a terrible (and avoidable) train crash in Greece in 2023. On the two year anniversary, the strikes are going to be huge. My daughter’s daycare is closed for the strikes. I can’t think of anything like this in the US. And I think we’ve had plenty of terrible things happen.

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Why does 25% AfD among young men spark a thousand "what is going on with young men?" posts yet Die Linke 34% among young women generates...nothing at all? Yes, young men voting for the radical right is an important phenomenon. But so is young women going rad left at even higher rates.

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This seems as close to a French Revolution as we'll get and at this brief moment it quenches my thirst for it.

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For the second time, I made it from 24th and 3rd to 43rd and 3rd during the evening rush in 12 minutes, and this was on the local bus I can’t think of a single policy change over my 20 years here that has had as much of an immediate quality of life impact as congestion pricing

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Some numbers. “Over the last half-century, clinics have weathered more than 40 bombings, 200 arsons and 300 burglaries, according to the National Abortion Federation. Anti-abortion activists have also killed at least 11 people.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Meet Omar and Ali—my nephews, 2 beautiful souls who loved 2 dance, play, and laugh. They did nothing to harm anyone, yet they were killed. No one has a monopoly on suffering, yet millions are spent to silence ours. We remember. Say their names. Share their story. The world must know what was stolen.

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It's been confirmed. This is such a loss. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/cdc-s...

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I've heard the phrase "addicted to outrage" and it seems relevant to a lot of U.S. consumers. I think it might have to do with our loneliness - how to we connect with others? Collective outrage may just offer people a sense of belonging they're not getting anywhere else.

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The Boston Association of Black Journalists is hosting a panel discussion this Thursday (2/27) with @tianarochon.bsky.social, @kwanialunis.bsky.social, @phillipgbhnews.bsky.social, @sueoconnell.bsky.social, and Malcolm Johnson of @nbcboston.com ....check it out.

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"Multiple kidneys had to be thrown out because of transport delays — couriers not picking them up in time or airlines misplacing them. One was accidentally left on an airport luggage trolley." www.propublica.org/article/trum...

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This is such a cruelty, to write to people to tell them their lives matter to no one. And it’s not true. How we treat the vulnerable among us has great bearing on who we are.

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“It’s just sending them to their graves,” he said. ”Understand that." www.bostonglobe.com/2025/02/20/m...

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For every $1 the IRS spends auditing the top 1%, it can collect $13. For every $1 the IRS spends auditing the top 0.1%, it can collect $26. Laying off 7,000 IRS employees (during tax season) isn't about efficiency. It's about making it easier for the rich to evade taxes.

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Storm moving in from the mountains. [Panorama, Central Macedonia, Greece]

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Dark stuff. "We know [the Dems] can be vicious because we’ve seen them execute that kind of operation against the left...[examples given: Nader, Bernie, Gaza]." Author suggests that Dems too benefit from rewarding wealth and they don't mind buttressing that system. www.thenation.com/article/poli...

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Amtrak may not survive the second Trump administration, let alone the slow progress on expansion made under President Biden.

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Driving is much more dangerous than flying

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The Democratic Party raised more money from billionaires in the last two presidential elections than the Republicans did. This is the basic problem that, above all, has frozen the Democratic Party in its current supine position.

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Trump: I AM A KING! NYT: Trump displays a "fondness for regal themes"

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Bicycles Deliver The Freedom That Auto Ads Promise.

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The root that tears apart your foundation begins as a seed of distrust, hate, and blame. The seed that grew into a dictatorship in Europe didn’t arrive overnight. It started with everyday Germans mad about inflation and looking for someone to blame.

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