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AOC: We must acknowledge the terrifying moment we are in right now. What we are hearing and seeing with our own eyes is, in fact, happening. We are watching our neighbors, students, and friends being fired, targeted, and disappeared. It is real.

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That night when Toad went to bed he thought the biggest thoughts that he could think. Toad thought about giant sunflowers. He thought about tall oak trees. He thought about high mountains covered with snow.

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A witch hunt is underway. We’ve faced many before. Take a breath. Stay grounded.

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Trump’s China tariff shocks US importers. One CEO calls it ‘end of days’ apnews.com/article/trum...

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Donold doesn’t deserve a grand birthday parade. He deserves to be marched through King’s Landing with an stern cleric behind him chanting “shame.”

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My law firm is currently litigating 49 voting and election cases in 21 states. States with the most cases: AZ, GA, NC, NV, FL, LA, PA. I expect new cases will be filed this week.

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A lot of people are asking what RFK Jr. can do at HHS to change vaccine policy. Turns out .. 📣 In 1993, Congress gave the HHS Secretary express power to change or cut contracts for $8 billion in vaccines given to working-class and low-income kids. Check it out ---> www.nytimes.com/2025/01/28/h...

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Happy Record Store Day, everybody. Make sure to shop local.

submitted 21 hours ago • 439 comments

This part

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Having children until every child on the planet is fed, clothed, housed, educated, & loved just seems selfish to me. Certainly we are quite a few billion away from worrying about depopulation.

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A seamstress named Elsy Noemi Berrios was forcibly detained by masked agents who did not present a warrant. Elsy is about 52 years old & has an asylum case pending in court. Her teenage daughter filmed this terrifying scene. If they can do it to her, they can do it to you. Speak out now!

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For the life of me I’ll never understand how it got this far. You had him! You had him cornered, scared & dead to rights It’s much bigger than just him now. It’s all of the people behind Project ‘25. He’s just the figure head, the cash cow-the controllable idiot that’s being molded to their agenda

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Trump tried to bury this story on a Friday night, but it’s extremely important: He’s planning to take land on the border controlled by the Dept. of Interior and sign it over to Dept. of Defense so migrants “would have trespassed on a military installation,” resulting in harsher punishment.

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Something that seems lost in the trade war nonsense: The US has one player in the cell phone market (whose products are made in China & elsewhere. China has at least 7 major brands plus start-ups. Chinese netizens will still have their technology (granted Xi controlled) without any US product. 1/

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The dream is dead

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Crows in a lab were able to distinguish shapes that exhibited right angles, parallel lines, and symmetry, suggesting that, like humans, they have a special ability to perceive geometric regularity.

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Land of the free 🫤

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Imagine being a small business with debt, that you used to import products you had manufactured in china. In the time it took to make the products, tariffs were added, that more than doubled your cost. They are crushed Are there any states offering support for their businesses ?

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Audible gasps OMG who is she? She's so skinny, I hate her! Wait don't I know her? But she looks... different... More audible gasps and a shower of confetti PAPERBACK OF QUEER AS FOLKLORE IS COMING OUT SOON! -May 1st UK -September 2nd North America 🧜‍♂️🧜🧜‍♀️

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Federal workers: We understand you may be taking a risk in contacting us, and we take your confidentiality extremely seriously. To collect tips, we use encrypted forms and apps, so messages cannot be read by anybody other than you and ProPublica. ➡️ Reach out here: propublica.org/tips

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The SOCIAL SECURITY TRUST FUND did not lose one damn penny this past week THIS is why social security can never be privatized Mark these dates on your calendar they are the reason we can save social security from privatization

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How much do you think it costs to make a pair of Nike shoes in Asia? Before you open this thread, take a guess. Settle on a number and then compare it to what you'll learn in this thread. 🧵

submitted 2 days ago • 223 comments

Sorry, what?

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Xi: “You don’t have all the cards.”

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“The US post World War II was the global stabilizer, now we are the global destabilizer, that is a very hard thing to say.” -JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon

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Historian here posting for no reason at all. U.S. Constitution, Article II Section 4: "The President, Vice President and all civil officers of the United States, shall be removed from office on impeachment for, and conviction of, treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors."

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Meanwhile…on another signal chat

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I'm elated to announce that my book BLACK WOMEN TAUGHT US is a finalist for the PEN America Open Book Award. I can't explain what it means to be selected for this award by my peers. I'm sitting with this recognition. I'm honored to tell the stories of everyday Black women and their feminisms.

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Signs you live in a deeply broken democracy: you find yourself pleasantly surprised that the Supreme Court said the executive branch can’t “accidentally deport somebody to a foreign prison” and in fact has to “get them back.”

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Not listening to people who tell me to "lower my voice" anymore when I'm talking excitedly about something I love. I spoke in a whisper or didn't speak at all for many years because of trauma. That is over.

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With the Supreme Court decision, we need to send a senate/congressional delegation to El Salvador and demand the release of Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia immediately. They can bring him home with them. Enough talk! Take action!

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Casar: At the end of the day, this is about taking your hard-earned money and giving it to themselves—or funneling it to their friends. That’s all this is about.

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During my first post-911 deployment in 2002 I wrote an op-ed published in Stars and Stripes that was critical of my higher chain of command. The only thing that I was told afterwards was that I had every right to express my views.

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Alex Jones’s appeal was DENIED by the Connecticut Supreme Court, upholding our $1 billion+ verdict against him and Infowars on behalf of Sandy Hook families and a first responder. Good day for justice. Bad day for Alex Jones.

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Every prisoner swap with Russia is like "she is a 14-year-old girl who Putin said sang 'Carol of the Bells' too aggressively and he is a top Russian spy who personally strangled a dissident to death in a London coffee shop"

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i love how insane everyone is becomeing

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BREAKING: An immigration court determined our client Mahmoud Khalil to be removable from the U.S. based solely on his political speech. The fight isn't over — we'll keep fighting for Mahmoud's freedom and all of our First Amendment rights in federal court.

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NEW: NOAA scientists are cleaning office bathrooms and reconsidering critical experiments after the Commerce Department failed to renew contracts for hazardous waste disposal, janitorial services, IT and building maintenance. By @lisalsong.bsky.social

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They are obviously slow learners

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Not a single word to help the 33m small businesses in this country. Not from anyone in the administration. So many buy from China, and don't have alternatives. So many didn't have the cash to front run the tariffs and buy inventory

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Protesting could now land you 20 years in prison. This isn't just about pipelines, it's abou5 silencing you.

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yeah man, please make my 85 year old great aunt prove her citizenship to vote in rural georgia, this definitely isn’t reminiscent of anything in the american past

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OMFG could not stop laughing

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Missed this coming out, but omg, Kirkus has named NIMONA one of the best books of the century (so far)!

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