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Hundreds of scholars have had their visas revoked and dozens have been detained. What’s exceptional about Öztürk’s case is that her detention was caught on camera. What’s scariest, immigration lawyers say, is how little is known about all the others.

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No, President Trump, the income tax was not a mistake. But historians agree it was something stranger: both a 40-year struggle and an accident. By @jeisinger.bsky.social

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Whooping cough (pertussis) cases have skyrocketed by more than 1,500% nationwide since 2021. Deaths tied to the disease are also up — hitting 10 last year, compared with about two to four in previous years — and cases are on track to exceed that total in 2025. 👉 Read more: propub.li/3XZxXVn

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BREAKING: 36k people showed up in LA for Bernie and AOC’s rally. In the off year. Americans are pissed — and anyone ignoring that is making a big mistake.

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"If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you." - President Lyndon B. Johnson

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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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chef’s kiss

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I don't know why people are so obsessed with top-down conspiracies of control and compliance or deep ideological commitments when it comes to fascism, when the reality is that people will happily sign-up to fascism when it is in their interests to do so.

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People learn nothing. Arendt wrote so clearly about the increasing targetting of people, starting with non-nationals, then dual nationals, then a succession of undesirable nationals. Nothing will protect you. Fascism requires an ever larger circle of enemies to blame for its own failings.

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"We had two tragic deaths in the House Democratic Caucus; had those deaths not occurred last month, Republicans could not have even passed the bill today," Hakeem Jeffries says. What he doesn't mention is both deaths were of politicians in their 70s. One had cancer but ran for re-election anyway.

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I’m with the renowned climate scientist.

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Border Patrol’s official narrative on its January sweep in Kern County is not true. Great reporting and storytelling in this new 15-minute documentary from @sergioolmos.bsky.social, @wendyfry.bsky.social and @evidentmedia.org calmatters.org/economy/2025...

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Media Literacy 101

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“If you claim to love freedom but want to restrict certain groups, you don’t love freedom. You love privilege” —Governor Walz in Ohio

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Donald Trump May Turn Out to Be an Even Bigger Warmonger Than George W. Bush am-quickie.ghost.io/trump-wants-...

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Amerikanische Gestapo. #freespeech #1A #maga #winning

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No more money for HIV medication or pre digested food for starving kids tho because it's wasteful government spending

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15 years ago the Supreme Court decided corporations are people under the First Amendment. Today, billionaire political spending is up 160-fold since that ruling. We must overturn Citizens United. Every day, it corrupts our politics and erodes our democracy.

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“One month since Mahmoud Khalil was arrested.” www.dropsitenews.com/p/mahmoud-kh...

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Mediaite has updated their dumb manufactured outrage story to include my comment :)

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"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." -Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953

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Crazy stat: The top 1% own 50% of all stocks. The bottom 50% own 1% of all stocks.

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My political Occham's Razor for why politicians do the crazy things they do is either they're too stupid or they're in on it. This seems like both.

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GET MONEY OUT OF OUR ELECTIONS NOW!

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This week, Congress could simply remove Trump's power over tariffs. It's all delegated from Congress. But instead

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If Kamala were elected the stock market would be reaching heights that would put SpaceX Starship to shame, since it can’t even reach orbit.

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Lawyers have a duty to defend our Constitution. It is an absolute outrage that, in order to curry favor with Trump and continue making their billions, giant law firms like Paul Weiss have abrogated their responsibilities. Thanks to those defending democracy. We will remember.

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