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I appreciate this message, and I'll add on: I am a Jewish person and I do not want any peaceful Palestinian, Muslim, or Arab activists in the United States to face deportation or legal reprisals for their activism, in the supposed name of Jewish safety.

02.06.2025 02:04 β€” πŸ‘ 883    πŸ” 217    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 3

One man just wiped out $10 trillion in wealth, is destroying centuries-old legal protections, and seems determined to unravel humanity’s greatest public health achievement. In 3 months.

I don’t know how we get out of this. But if we do, one person can never have that kind of power again.

07.04.2025 03:31 β€” πŸ‘ 46218    πŸ” 10273    πŸ’¬ 1639    πŸ“Œ 668

This is a big deal. Spread the word. But it’s tiny compared to the totality of what’s happening at NIH. Cure Research for all cancers, Alzheimer’s, everything is being gutted. Intentionally. It’s all getting burned to the ground but the news isn’t getting out. The new cures won’t be there for you.

07.04.2025 02:59 β€” πŸ‘ 9959    πŸ” 4865    πŸ’¬ 147    πŸ“Œ 131
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Writing an op-ed is not illegal activity. They are revoking visas for thought crimes and for constitutionally protected expression.

28.03.2025 23:07 β€” πŸ‘ 12660    πŸ” 3276    πŸ’¬ 387    πŸ“Œ 77
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University of Minnesota Student Detained by Immigration Agents University officials said they had not been informed of the federal agents’ plans and called the situation β€œdeeply concerning.”

β€œThe Justice Department announced…that UMN was among 10 schools that investigators would visit to determine whether they β€œfailed to protect Jewish students & faculty members.”

As a Jewish faculty member, I am appalled that students are being detained in my name.

www.nytimes.com/2025/03/28/u...

29.03.2025 03:00 β€” πŸ‘ 197    πŸ” 49    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 1

May we rage when we must and rest when we can.
May we make the peace we so desperately need.
May we turn our hands, in all things, to the justice that peace requires.

The only liberation is a shared liberation. May we have courage sufficient to build it.

Shabbat shalom ❀️

14.03.2025 23:19 β€” πŸ‘ 126    πŸ” 24    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 1
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Yesterday was a tough day. Many folks were mad as hll, disheartened & frustrated.

It's easy to focus on the Senators who let us down, but let's not forget about the Senators who did the right thing.

I made this graphic last night because I wanted to focus on the good Senators who fought for us. πŸ”ŠπŸŽ΅

15.03.2025 14:14 β€” πŸ‘ 11977    πŸ” 3898    πŸ’¬ 636    πŸ“Œ 320
Rep. Jasmine Crockett

Rep. Jasmine Crockett

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Gov. JB Pritzker

Gov. JB Pritzker

Gov. Tim Walz

Gov. Tim Walz

these are our party leaders now, ignore all other opinions

15.03.2025 13:54 β€” πŸ‘ 69244    πŸ” 13205    πŸ’¬ 2773    πŸ“Œ 1064
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For ten years, a serial rapist walked the streets of Wisconsin, while the rape kit that could have convicted him sat on shelves.

His victims waited years for justice.

All because of Brad Schimel.

14.03.2025 21:03 β€” πŸ‘ 433    πŸ” 180    πŸ’¬ 12    πŸ“Œ 5

American politics makes a lot more sense when you realize that the GOP is afraid of pissing off the GOP base, and the Dems are afraid of pissing off the GOP base, but neither party is afraid of pissing off the Dem base.

14.03.2025 22:24 β€” πŸ‘ 53208    πŸ” 13330    πŸ’¬ 1473    πŸ“Œ 1320

Among the material devastation to everyday people, Senate Dems have now blown a hole in their ability to work with the House.

We had an agreed upon plan, House took immense risk, then Senate turned around midway and destroyed it w/ a fear-based, inexplicable abdication.

They own what happens next.

14.03.2025 23:18 β€” πŸ‘ 129386    πŸ” 25268    πŸ’¬ 5681    πŸ“Œ 1533

Resistance high blue alert protest coming up veterans protest March 14 2025 at noon all 50 states see video message below.

10.03.2025 04:27 β€” πŸ‘ 21    πŸ” 16    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 4
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β€˜Stop these crazy bills’: Republicans join Democrats to defeat anti-trans legislation in Montana One bill would remove trans children from their parents, and the other would ban drag shows and Pride marches

Last year, Republicans silenced her.

This year, many stood beside her and defeated four anti-trans bills.

This is the power of standing up for your beliefs and for what's right, and good trouble.

National Democrats, take notice.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

07.03.2025 22:54 β€” πŸ‘ 7047    πŸ” 1624    πŸ’¬ 56    πŸ“Œ 61

Dear Dems who voted to censure Al Green:

When you censure someone fighting a fascist, liar and not the fascist liar you’re wrong.

07.03.2025 19:44 β€” πŸ‘ 382    πŸ” 86    πŸ’¬ 17    πŸ“Œ 2
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In college, Laura Ingraham went to a Gay Students meeting. The next day, she published the names of everyone in attendance in the school newspaper, at a time when being outed was dangerous.

So, yeah, appointing a menace to gay people is a GREAT selection to lead our nation's [checks notes] arts.

08.03.2025 01:37 β€” πŸ‘ 4296    πŸ” 1245    πŸ’¬ 518    πŸ“Œ 106

The fact that Musk has lost $100B over the last month but is still the wealthiest person on Earth and financially unharmed in the slightestβ€”all while wealth and income inequality is worse now than it was after the Great Depressionβ€”is Exhibit A on why we need to tax billionaires out of existence.

08.03.2025 13:21 β€” πŸ‘ 4272    πŸ” 1159    πŸ’¬ 57    πŸ“Œ 76
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S. Carolina Intros Bill to Execute Women Who Seek An Abortion Here's what's in the bill, why it is so dangerous, and the meaningful steps you can take to fight back, support women's health, and help block this bill from becoming law

South Carolina carries out execution by firing squad, first in USA since 2010.

A reminder that these 6 MAGA men also intro'd a bill to codify abortion as murderβ€”enabling the horrific scenario that a woman who gets an abortion could be executed by firing squad.
www.qasimrashid.com/p/s-carolina...

08.03.2025 13:38 β€” πŸ‘ 283    πŸ” 144    πŸ’¬ 26    πŸ“Œ 26
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As a Republican DA, Brad Schimel let 26 rape kits sit untestedβ€”including one for a three year-old victim.

This is on top of the 6,000 kits he let sit untested for over two years as AG.

Brad Schimel has failed victims his entire career.

07.03.2025 22:50 β€” πŸ‘ 97    πŸ” 61    πŸ’¬ 11    πŸ“Œ 2
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@sanders.senate.gov: "Saving money by dismantling the Department of Education, which, by the way, is illegal and unconstitutional, so that the billionaire class can receive huge tax breaks, is terrible public policy and morally reprehensible."
#ProtectOurKids

07.03.2025 19:02 β€” πŸ‘ 1552    πŸ” 629    πŸ’¬ 52    πŸ“Œ 31

Still thinking about Newsom. For a Democratic leader to consent to a framework that portrays trans people as a group that is trying to take something away from other people is flatly unforgivable. It is what the right does. And a Democrat who will do it to one group will do it to any group.

08.03.2025 04:20 β€” πŸ‘ 4245    πŸ” 734    πŸ’¬ 118    πŸ“Œ 39
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Army guidance on implementing President Trump's order on transgender troops, filed in court today, says to NOT take adverse personnel action against people based on gender identity "at this time" and to continue medical treatment. for gender dysphoria.

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

12.02.2025 21:08 β€” πŸ‘ 5883    πŸ” 1267    πŸ’¬ 109    πŸ“Œ 402
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There’s a Term for What Trump and Musk Are Doing How regime change happens in America

The Department of Government Efficiency isn't interested in efficiency. Or transparency, or cutting costs. It's real goal is to destroy the federal civil service. In other words, regime change. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

13.02.2025 23:28 β€” πŸ‘ 5029    πŸ” 1921    πŸ’¬ 155    πŸ“Œ 133

Fear is contagious.

The fear these parents feel about vaccinating their kids should be redirected to fear of the disease itself. Instead of choosing modern science, they bet their kids lives because they were given misinformation.

Vaccines do not cause autism, but cloaked science does harm kids.

15.02.2025 21:30 β€” πŸ‘ 507    πŸ” 99    πŸ’¬ 29    πŸ“Œ 2
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Autocracy, Inc. by Anne Applebaum: 9780385549936 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER β€’ From the Pulitzer-prize winningΒ author, an alarming account of how autocracies work together to undermine the democratic world, and how we should organize to defeat...

I wrote much of what I think about this election before it happened, so I am going to put it all together here. My book, Autocracy Inc, described the network of autocrats who seek to undermine democracy, inside their countries and ours
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/725302...

10.11.2024 12:51 β€” πŸ‘ 7263    πŸ” 2033    πŸ’¬ 388    πŸ“Œ 210
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πŸ”₯ β€œWake the hell up.”

Former RNC chair @michaelsteele.bsky.social goes in on Elon’s infiltration into the federal government, accessing everyone’s personal info

15.02.2025 22:03 β€” πŸ‘ 8027    πŸ” 2811    πŸ’¬ 313    πŸ“Œ 466

The Vice President of our country has been publicly and forcibly rebuked by both the Chancellor of Germany and The Pope in the same week.

15.02.2025 22:59 β€” πŸ‘ 1142    πŸ” 245    πŸ’¬ 33    πŸ“Œ 15

Fascism is when Donald Trump bans 1600+ vetted Afghan Muslim refugees who helped USA against the Talibanβ€”but now issues an Executive Order accepting white Afrikaner South Africans as refugees to the USA.

It was never about justice or national security. It was always about advancing white supremacy.

09.02.2025 04:07 β€” πŸ‘ 1995    πŸ” 673    πŸ’¬ 42    πŸ“Œ 23

Thank you!! A federal judge in New York has granted a temporary restraining order in favor of the states suing over DOGE.

08.02.2025 16:18 β€” πŸ‘ 13970    πŸ” 1065    πŸ’¬ 101    πŸ“Œ 33
DEI list of what's included

DEI list of what's included

08.02.2025 15:49 β€” πŸ‘ 88    πŸ” 49    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 2