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The Democratic Party Establishment Should Follow Zohran Mamdani’s Example Once they get over the shock, the idea-starved Democrats at the national level should learn from Zohran Mamdani: actually give citizens something to vote for.

Time to Mamdani-ize the Democrats: my latest for @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/poli...

26.06.2025 18:50 — 👍 252    🔁 43    💬 9    📌 4
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Astoria, Oregon today! #NoWar

22.06.2025 23:20 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Donate to Help Laura, Vera, and Isaac After Afa's Passing, organized by Lindsey Olson On June 14th, our sweet friend Laura lost her beloved husband Arthur Fol… Lindsey Olson needs your support for Help Laura, Vera, and Isaac After Afa's Passing

We are all completely heartbroken by the death of Arthur Folasa Ah Loo, the peaceful protester who was killed at the Salt Lake City rally on Saturday night. If you can, please consider supporting his family while we hold them in our hearts.

16.06.2025 19:41 — 👍 1810    🔁 701    💬 34    📌 20
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Astoria, Oregon. NO KINGS!!

14.06.2025 21:36 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Home appliances swept up in expansion of Trump steel tariffs A range of imported household appliances including dishwashers, washing machines, refrigerators and more will be subject to President Donald Trump's expanded steel tariffs starting later this month, according to a notice posted on Thursday.

I guess one way to protect Americans from the scourge of electric stoves is to ensure they can't afford any kind of stove. www.reuters.com/world/us/hom...

13.06.2025 16:07 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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The 4-Year Grudge Behind Trump’s Invasion of California The president’s response to the protests in Los Angeles is a naked attempt to settle a score going back to January 6, 2021.

The J6 grudge behind Trump's LA invasion: my latest for @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/soci...

10.06.2025 15:45 — 👍 17    🔁 8    💬 2    📌 0
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How the White House’s War on the Job Corps Is Hurting Trump Country An abrupt Labor Department order to shutter 99 Job Corps campuses across the country is devastating for at-risk trainees and local economies.

My piece for The Nation on how Trump’s Job Corps shutdown is devastating lives in our little town. www.thenation.com/article/econ...

10.06.2025 15:45 — 👍 23    🔁 11    💬 0    📌 0

Word is Attorney General Pam Bondi is seeking records and testimony from journalists. Please be mindful of how you communicate use secure formats, follow established guidance, and above all, protect your identity at all costs.

09.05.2025 18:55 — 👍 11459    🔁 3046    💬 213    📌 92

HAPPENING NOW: Judge Boasberg is pressing DOJ about Trump's comment that he could pick up the phone and have El Salvador send back Abrego Garcia. Doesn't that mean U.S. effectively has custody over deported migrants, he's asking?

07.05.2025 21:25 — 👍 2350    🔁 473    💬 35    📌 18
CALL NOW: Stop Trump’s Crypto Corruption

I can't believe this. While Trump takes in crypto bribes, a senate GOP crypto bill is moving with some Dem support. First vote is tomorrow!

This is flying under the radar because crypto regulation is boring. Without Dems votes, this dies. Tell your Dem senator: indivisible.org/resource/cal...

07.05.2025 18:50 — 👍 696    🔁 397    💬 59    📌 44

It’s weird to live in a time when basic principles like cruelty is wrong, cheating is empty & the idea that curiosity, generosity, originality, the satisfaction of earned accomplishments & loving intimacy are the center of a good life feel like countercultural concepts

07.05.2025 16:44 — 👍 10241    🔁 2368    💬 117    📌 116

Since cis het men who are natural born US citizens commit the most crimes, I think they should have markers on their IDs, restricted state to state travel, higher insurance and tax rates, separate restrooms, and state sanctioned vasectomies at 14 because they cause 100% of unwanted pregnancies.

07.05.2025 15:36 — 👍 3899    🔁 702    💬 136    📌 45
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My Time on 60 Minutes and Why I Refuse To Stay Silent From Marc | From the opening words of Judge Beryl Howell’s opinion to the 60 Minutes closing credits, this has been an emotional weekend for me personally.

Thank you to everyone who wrote to me to offer support about my appearance on 60 Minutes.🙏

I will never back down or go silent. I hope that what I write might help others, especially lawyers, speak out as well. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/my-t...

07.05.2025 01:28 — 👍 18732    🔁 3047    💬 487    📌 107

Dear Canada 🇨🇦 we love you and are proud to have you as our ally to the north. Stay exactly as you are. Trump’s nonsense about merging with the USA is absurd and doesn’t speak for us.

06.05.2025 16:27 — 👍 7979    🔁 976    💬 122    📌 33

Granddaughter of a Navy vet. Daughter of a Navy vet. Mother of an Army soldier.

Not one damn dime should be spent on a military parade for a draft dodger…

06.05.2025 14:20 — 👍 24596    🔁 5004    💬 981    📌 292

just so we’re all clear: the reason they keep using dolls as their example is because they’re trying to frame caring about material stuff as feminine and thus inherently shameful

06.05.2025 23:30 — 👍 14857    🔁 3881    💬 652    📌 239

Broken Record: You *cannot sustain* a functioning constitutional order if the general population is blasé about open violation of the Constitution. If voters don't care, your job is to make them care. This is not optional. If you don't, you lose even if you pick up seats in the next election.

06.05.2025 15:53 — 👍 5450    🔁 1380    💬 114    📌 57

A man who holds the title of President of the United States, who took an oath to protect and defend the Constitution, who then says he doesn’t know if he’d uphold the Constitution, is unfit to be president and should be removed.

06.05.2025 03:30 — 👍 31740    🔁 8112    💬 1022    📌 462
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Your School House Rock moment......

06.05.2025 12:29 — 👍 51211    🔁 10799    💬 617    📌 314

This story just gets worse and worse

06.05.2025 12:57 — 👍 7561    🔁 2813    💬 253    📌 72

I don’t care what immigration policy you favor masked federal officers is a way to instill terror and not just among the undocumented

06.05.2025 15:27 — 👍 2110    🔁 551    💬 66    📌 20
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🔥 BREAKING: Bristol Myers Squibb shareholders voted today to reject two anti-DEI proposals. One of the proposals called on BMS to "Cease DEI Efforts," and was rejected by shareholder vote 97-2 percent (1% abstained).

BMS Board supports "our culture of inclusion" and "all decisions are merit-based."

06.05.2025 14:42 — 👍 10532    🔁 2334    💬 157    📌 128
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www.nokings.org

05.05.2025 22:47 — 👍 29372    🔁 9269    💬 941    📌 532
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Crockett: Instead of the President cosplaying as the next pope, he may want to cosplay as an actual President of these United States. That means he may have to do a little bit of research and understand that he swore a an oath to defend and protect the constitution.

06.05.2025 00:06 — 👍 43014    🔁 10467    💬 893    📌 579
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RFK Jr. Slammed After Falsely Claiming Measles Vaccine Contains 'Aborted Fetus Debris' Dangerous and deranged.

RFK Jr. is dangerous.

05.05.2025 14:59 — 👍 20326    🔁 4582    💬 1425    📌 439

El Faro English
@elfaroenglish
🚨“We have received reliable information that the Salvadoran Attorney General’s Office is preparing arrest warrants for El Faro journalists,” announces El Faro director 
@CarlosDada

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El Faro
@_elfaro_
May 3
“Hemos recibido información confiable de que la Fiscalía General está preparando órdenes de captura contra periodistas de El Faro”, informó hoy @CarlosDada, director de El Faro. 🧵

Mira esta conversación:

El Faro English @elfaroenglish 🚨“We have received reliable information that the Salvadoran Attorney General’s Office is preparing arrest warrants for El Faro journalists,” announces El Faro director @CarlosDada Quote El Faro @_elfaro_ May 3 “Hemos recibido información confiable de que la Fiscalía General está preparando órdenes de captura contra periodistas de El Faro”, informó hoy @CarlosDada, director de El Faro. 🧵 Mira esta conversación:



El Faro English
@elfaroenglish
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May 4
El Faro just published a three-part video interview with two former leaders of the 18th Street Revolucionarios gang, shedding new light on Bukele’s years-long relationship to, and negotiations with, Salvadoran gangs.
From elfaro.net
El Faro English
@elfaroenglish
May 4
“We understand that the alleged crimes for which these warrants are being built are apology for crimes and illicit association. Any capture or raid on our homes will be for having done journalism,” states editor-in-chief 
@CronistaOscar

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El Faro
@_elfaro_
May 3
Replying to @_elfaro_
“Comprendemos que los delitos por los que construyen estas órdenes es por apología de delitos y agrupaciones ilícitas. Cualquier captura o allanamiento a nuestras casas va a ser por haber hecho periodismo”, señaló @CronistaOscar, jefe de redacción de El Faro.

El Faro English @elfaroenglish · May 4 El Faro just published a three-part video interview with two former leaders of the 18th Street Revolucionarios gang, shedding new light on Bukele’s years-long relationship to, and negotiations with, Salvadoran gangs. From elfaro.net El Faro English @elfaroenglish May 4 “We understand that the alleged crimes for which these warrants are being built are apology for crimes and illicit association. Any capture or raid on our homes will be for having done journalism,” states editor-in-chief @CronistaOscar Quote El Faro @_elfaro_ May 3 Replying to @_elfaro_ “Comprendemos que los delitos por los que construyen estas órdenes es por apología de delitos y agrupaciones ilícitas. Cualquier captura o allanamiento a nuestras casas va a ser por haber hecho periodismo”, señaló @CronistaOscar, jefe de redacción de El Faro.

El Salvador's President Bukele is reportedly preparing to arrest the journalists who have reported on the secret deals Bukele struck with Salvadoran gangs that have enabled his consolidation of power.

05.05.2025 16:48 — 👍 4861    🔁 2238    💬 131    📌 105

Foreign films are a national security threat? We’re shaking our heads. We’d laugh if this wasn’t such dangerous, authoritarian rhetoric. What other countries do this? Russia and China.

05.05.2025 16:23 — 👍 16285    🔁 3379    💬 534    📌 112
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This is about all of us. Never forget that.

04.05.2025 10:02 — 👍 27768    🔁 7618    💬 249    📌 192
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Twenty Lessons, read by John Lithgow Key selections from On Tyranny, for viewing and sharing

"On Tyranny" is a #1 NYT bestseller again. I wish the moment were different. But I’m glad the book is useful. And grateful for all the kind words about putting the 20 lessons to work.
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04.05.2025 14:56 — 👍 16689    🔁 4239    💬 384    📌 214
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When A President Isn’t A Criminal Propped Up By A Corrupt Supreme Court…

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