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I owe the television part of my career to @joyannreid.bsky.social, as do so many other Black voices y'all never would have heard of if not for her. And that's why she's gone. They can treat black folks as interchangeable, but everybody Black knows that Joy was indispensable.

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This is long but really worth listening to

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Something is shifting. They are still breaking things and stealing things. And they will keep trying to break and to steal. But the propaganda magic around the oligarchical coup is fading. (1/2)

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Fabulous defeat for the fascists!

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Medicaid is not for sale. NASA is not for sale. The Post Office is not for sale. America is not for sale. We have an obligation to resist kings. We outnumber them. And they can be overwhelmed.

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Democrats should go to all these ruby red and vulnerable GOP districts where voters are upset at Trump and Musk and court them. Full court press.

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CSPAN Caller from West Virginia: I’m a diabetic and I’m on Medicare. When Biden was in there, my insulin was $6 for a 28 day supply. I just went to CVS, it went back up to $80…

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www.instagram.com/reel/DGRedci...

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Tyranny requires your fear, your silence, and your compliance. Democracy requires your courage.

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I want every Democrat to sound like this. Meanwhile I'm listening to the sounds of (congressional) silence.

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👏👏👏

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If you’ve been scolded by the Pope AND by the Auschwitz Memorial in the same week, it’s time to take a minute and reconsider your choices.

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Imagine being rich enough to do anything you want and choosing to take food and medicine from starving children to give yourself even more money.

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DOGE is arguing in court that Trump is calling all the shots and Musk isn't the DOGE administrator. Trump here admits he's not calling the shots. So if he's not, and Musk isn't, then who is the DOGE administrator? @normeisen.bsky.social @gtconway.bsky.social

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Marco Rubio's collaboration with Russia's Sergei Lavrov and Putin is one of the most disgusting acts of betrayal to democracy and our nation. Rubio has secured his place in history of infamy.

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i feel like it's an open question whether or not the flu vaccine will even be available next season

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The entire CDC should walk out over this

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(1) this is not how university finances work (2) without humanities, you don’t have a university, you have a glorified trade school.

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I feel like I'm going insane every time I see a media story about DOGE that doesn't also mention the fact that the Government Accountability Office exists and performs the exact function that DOGE pretends to, only in a credibly constitutional, non-partisan, and conflict-of-interest-free manner

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“Be careful. When a democracy is sick, fascism comes to its bedside, but it is not to inquire about its health.” Albert Camus

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History buffs will know that every authoritarian leader eventually converges on some version of: "I am the state. I can not break the law, I am the law, the law is instantiated in me." Our march to authoritarianism so far has been excruciatingly by-the-book. Hitting every beat. No surprises.

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Lots of talk on “law and order,” and “tough on crime” legislation, from both sides of ‘the aisle’. Why? As @prisonpolicy.bsky.social reports: 💣 Crime rates are historically low 💣 3/4 of all jail bookings are for nonviolent charges 💣 3/4 of people in jail have not been convicted of a crime

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A quick search of Cotton’s accounts show that the first time he posted a single word critical of USAID was 5 days ago, despite serving in the Senate for 10 years and the House before that.

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Can JD Vance be a Catholic while lacking every Christian virtue? Ross Douthat drops by to explain.

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What happened to the Constitution? It became too woke.

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The deadly exclusion of tens of millions of people from care by our for-profit healthcare system is a form of state violence that the US medical profession and health industry has long normalized. It makes it feel easy, even natural, for us to go along with rising medical fascism now.

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Elon Musk, 2023: "Jews push 'hatred against whites.'" Elon Musk yesterday, 2025: "Jews are 'peak white.'" For a white nationalist like Musk, Jews are both the most and the least white, depending on what political purpose you need them to serve.

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Patel, Trump’s nominee to head the FBI, owns $1- $5 million in stocks in a company that controls Shein, a controversial chinese ecommerce fashion giant. The company also retained the services of a lobbying firm where Pam Bondi, Trump’s newly confirmed US attorney general, worked at the time.

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Listen to Secretary Pete. And remember, these are our funds. These are our courts. And these are our streets.

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Trump calls for a Washington Post columnist to be fired

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Doctors and nurses, this is for you. When ICE is trying to raid your hospital, or when your hospital executives are telling you to end programs addressing racial and gender health inequalities or telling you to stop providing trans or abortion care—please, please disobey. slate.com/news-and-pol...

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This is the most important story in the United States right now. www.wired.com/story/treasu...

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You should never have voted for a single nominee anyway, buddy

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Ignore the media headlines reporting that freezing federal spending or shuttering federal agencies “raise questions” or “push boundaries.” It’s an anticonstitutional lawbreaking spree.

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He signs United States out of human rights organizations and gets El Salvador to agree to take American citizens. He’s planning to send political prisoners there. American citizens. Who all has he said he’d put in prison? He’s planning human rights violations.

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“I don’t think the United States Senate should vote for a single nominee until this is over!” - @chrismurphyct.bsky.social

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Can an investigative journalist working for a news organization please dig into what Trump might have on Rubio? Asking for 330 million friends.

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@hcrichardson.bsky.social Please share this 👇🏼

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Remember when Trump called for "termination" of the Constitution in 2022? The New York Times played it on Page 13. Now that Trump's "termination" is happening, I wonder if the Times' editors have any regrets for years of normalization and "both sides" framing that comforted the would-be dictator.

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This is what dems need to do!! And then when they get what they want then don’t confirm them anyway! This is how you play ball with these republicans….that’s what they would do ffs

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TOMORROW: We’re rallying at the Treasury building with @moveon.org to stop Elon Musk’s hostile takeover and tell this unelected billionaire to get his hands off our money. We hope you can join us if you’re in the D.C. area.

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