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This is good. Dem House members encouraging mass mobilization and monitoring ICE.

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Trump's immigration approval has fallen 6 points on net this week www.gelliottmorris.com/p/data

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"This is not who we are" is a fantastic example of constitutive rhetoric, as per Charland's (1987) article, "Constitutive Rhetoric: The Case of the Peuple québécois." It is not an assertion of established fact, but rather an attempt to call a better nation into being.

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Here again, Baudrillard is useful: this is the hyperreal. The symbols of masculinity endlessly replicated and amplified until the signified (ideal masculinity) is so distant and removed from the original sign (a suit).

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Remember when you protest: you're not trying to persuade the Trump regime to stop their actions, they're not open to persuasion. You're trying to persuade the public that the Trump regime is acting unconstitutionally. The public isn't persuaded by violence. Peaceful, joyful protest tactics will win.

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Padilla: If this is how DHS responds to a senator with a question you can only imagine what they're doing to farm workers, to cooks, to day laborers out in the Los Angeles community and throughout California.

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FWIW, the NYT has improved their coverage of the assault on Padilla. Bad coverage should draw outrage, but good coverage should draw views to ensure it continues. Gift Link: www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06...

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Trump and the US National Park Service are trying to erase the transgender community from the history of the Stonewall Uprising. This cannot stand. Join me in fighting back by signing the petition below to voice your support for all members of the LGBTQ+ community and their contributions to history.

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The WSJ news pages expands on the NYT: since Stephen Miller demanded ICE increase its numbers, they’ve started grabbing people without even checking their immigration status, let alone their criminal history. Gift link: www.wsj.com/us-news/prot...

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Welcome to the World Cup in Donald Trump’s America!

submitted 19 hours ago • 372 comments

Ready for Saturday. #NoKings

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Quinnipiac finds quite dismal approval numbers for Trump, at month 6: poll.qu.edu/poll-release... Overall: 38/54 'on deportations': 40/56 on the economy: 40/56 on trade: 38/57 on Russia-Ukraine: 34/57 and respondents oppose the 'big beautiful' bill 27/53.

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It remains so funny to me how many people who claim to be socialists thought the Biden Administration was a disaster for the working class when the objective truth is it was a disaster for the bosses.

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Wow. New Quinnipiac poll finds Trump's approval at 38-54. And note this: Trump approval on immigration: 43-54 Approval on his deportations: 40-56 Can we say Trump isn't winning on this issue yet?

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Trump is planning on opening an "Office of Remigration," which you might have missed because legacy media almost totally ignored it. "Remigration" is a term for ethnic cleansing popular among far-right extremists, especially in Europe. My latest for @mmfa.bsky.social

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!!! Quinnipiac poll of 1,265 RVs, conducted from June 5-9, finds Trump at -11% approval on “immigration issues” and -16% on “deportations.” Full poll here: poll.qu.edu/poll-release...

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In 2010, the Supreme Court's conservative justices made it easier for Republican lawmakers to pass permissive gun laws. In the years that followed, 7,398 more children than expected died of gun violence ballsandstrikes.org/legal-cultur...

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I’ve never forgotten this picture from 2016 and how it completely reshaped my understanding of how the media covers protests.

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As a result of public pressure generated by AAUP members’ collective action, UNC Chapel Hill's Board of Trustees voted to tenure the 33 faculty members who had been left in limbo by an unprecedented large-scale delay. Today, AAUP President Todd Wolfson called for an explanation. ⬇️

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Find your closest rally on Saturday and go. You can tell your kids where you were on the other side of this. Outnumber him everywhere. www.nokings.org#map

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Memory lane: Sports riots (Kentucky): "Campus police were bombarded with rocks and bottles"

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BREAKING: Miller reportedly engineered the raids that sparked the protests that have engulfed the city in recent days—likely because he wanted a pretext to send in federal troops. https://trib.al/oM1280f

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Some thoughts on the urban/rural divide, and how Trump is producing an urban-backdropped spectacle to be consumed by his rural-dwelling base... Written as someone who grew up rural (pop 600) , moved to DC & Philly, and now live in Philly suburb, and frequently go back to my still rural hometown.

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The far right mega-influencers marching in lockstep.Using the LA protests to drive one message, repeated nearly verbatim: "time to ban all third world immigration, legal or illegal." This is what a disciplined, ethnonationalist propaganda campaign looks like.

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Trust in vaccines is being undermined.💉But what should you say to someone who has doubts? I spoke with vaccine hesitancy researchers for @nature.com to find out how best to speak to someone with questions /concerns about vaccines. Anyone can use their helpful advice www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Trump already can't handle the amount of protests against him, and that number is about to increase with No Kings Day this Saturday.

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BREAKING: California sues the Trump administration over DOJ's claim that allowing trans girls to participate in girls sports is unconstitutional. Harmeet Dhillon, head of DOJ's Civil Rights Division, made the claim in a June 2 letter to schools. Complaint: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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This is the spirit of Los Angeles. This is California. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise. #FreeDavidEndRaids

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A full Tejano band in a big truck rolled into the Olvera St, the lead singer has a Fuck ICE shirt on, and this protest is now a dance party

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Such a good piece! I think I have new opening reading for my intro to rhetoric course.

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Incredible research on MAHA illuminating who RFK Jr. hires here: A man who spent years promoting the Protocols of the Elders of Zion and the kind of rabid antisemitism you only see in places (literally) one step from Stormfront.

submitted 6 days ago • 7 comments

This is so important. This is exactly the thing. And, of course, it's a vulnerability that can be exploited. And it's a vulnerability that is being exploited.

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I just completed a task I've been putting off for almost a year. It was an absolute freaking nightmare and took so very much longer than expected. A horrible experience overall. Keep on putting things off, folks. Don't buy the lie.

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Stunning how badly Trump and the Rs have lost the debate on what their reconciliation bill will do. From new CBS/YouGov polling:

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> @bloomberg.com ⛽️

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The Declaration of Independence specifies 27 grievances with King George III, and I count at least 15 of them that Donald Trump has also committed in whole or in part. Particularly notable right now: "He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures."

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SEIU California President David Huerta has apparently been charged with a federal crime--conspiracy to impede an officer. This is a felony that carries a sentence of six years in federal prison.

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we’ve got a bunch of parents voluntarily guarding the elementary school gates if you want to know how LA feels this morning

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www.npr.org/2025/06/02/n...

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