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Iran has a democracy until then CIA MI6 overthrew it in 1953. Read here why. Why is the US always messing with other nations?

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Costco is looking like the big winner after Target's DEI rollback Customer foot traffic and market share have shifted away from Target and toward Costco as the retailers diverge in their DEI moves, a survey finds.

Costco is Looking Like the Big Winner After Target’s DEI Rollback – Target saw nearly 5 million fewer shopping trips during the 4-week period ending on Feb. 9 while Costco saw nearly 7.7 million more visits during the same period.

www.businessinsider.com/shoppers-dit...

We’re Well Past Alarm Bells The Trump administration is mocking court orders, laying the groundwork for political retribution, and declaring open war on the rule of law.

We’re Well Past Alarm Bells
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USDA cancels $11 million in federal funding for North Carolina food banks The USDA has notified the North Carolina Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services that it would terminate the agreement for the Local Food Purchase Assistance Program, which is one of the progr...

www.wunc.org/news/2025-03...

Trump Invokes Wartime Alien Enemies Act of 1798 for Deportations Legal groups took action and a federal judge temporarily blocked the administration from using the law for deportations.

Trump’s move “may be the administration’s most extreme measure yet, and that is saying a lot,” said the deputy director of the ACLU’s Immigrants’ Rights Project.
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As DOGE Mauls Social Security, Profit-Hungry Private Equity Is Swooping In Three private equity veterans are weaseling their way in, reportedly on the orders of the presumptive SSA commissioner.

Privatization of the retirement market has been a long-standing goal of capital, and private equity’s sights are turning to the Social Security Administration.
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I like that he posted a picture of a print-out of the email.

Trump-Musk Dictatorship Is Awakening the American People's Resistance | Common Dreams Forget the use of the terms "autocracy" and "constitutional crisis." This is a savage dictatorship, getting worse by the day.

Trump-Musk Dictatorship Is Awakening the American People's Resistance: Forget the use of the terms "autocracy" and "constitutional crisis." This is a savage dictatorship, getting worse by the day.
www.commondreams.org/opinion/trum...

Gaza Is Not for Sale — No Matter What Trump Says Trump’s absurd plan to annex Gaza will never be tolerated by Palestinians.

Palestine belongs to its Indigenous people; it does not belong to those who have stolen the land, forcibly displacing its inhabitants and are now intent on ethnically cleansing those who remained.

DOGE Member Resigns After Reports Expose Social Media Posts Promoting Racism and Eugenics The racist posts from DOGE member Marko Elez included a call to end the 1964 Civil Rights Act.

Elez’s role at DOGE granted him direct access to the Treasury Department’s systems, including those with “top-secret” clearance distinctions and those responsible for “nearly all payments made by the U.S. government.”

FBI agents, prosecutors fear retribution from Jan. 6 rioters pardoned by Trump Officials involved in Jan. 6 prosecutions say the Trump administration isn't protecting them from threats. "We don't think they'll care — unless and until one of us gets killed," an official told NPR.

The person you hear herein saying beating up cops isn’t that big a deal is now the Acting US Attorney for Washington DC

www.npr.org/2025/02/06/n...

Students Sue Columbia University Over Suspensions for Pro-Palestine Organizing “The courts are really our only recourse at this point,” said one plaintiff. “Columbia has left us no alternative.”…

Three Columbia University graduate students who were suspended last year for attending protests against Israel’s genocide in Gaza filed a lawsuit against the university alleging that they were singled out for unwarranted scrutiny and harassment.

Finally some good news.

Federal Judge Places Indefinite Injunction Against Trump’s Order Ending Birthright Citizenship “No court in the country has ever endorsed the president’s interpretation” in the past 125 years, the judge stated.

“The United States Supreme Court has resoundingly rejected the president’s interpretation of the 14th Amendment. In fact, no court in the country has ever endorsed the president’s interpretation. This court will not be the first.”

Trump administration disbands taskforce targeting Russian oligarchs US attorney general issues memo to break up effort started after 2022 Ukraine invasion to target those close to Kremlin

huh, i wonder what this is about www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

What Do Trump’s Tariffs Really Mean for the US Working Class? Trump’s challenge to the neoliberal order is aimed at increasing capitalists’ profits, not helping workers.

Trump’s purpose in enacting tariffs is to defend a certain segment of the U.S. capitalist class, not the working class.

Tribal Colleges and Universities Fear Their Future Amid Trump’s Sweeping Orders Chartered by federally recognized tribes, leaders say the schools are extensions of tribal nations and sovereignty.

Tribal colleges and universities receive 74 percent of their total revenue from federal funding. If the freeze continues, tribal colleges and universities could shut down completely.

NO CUTS to Medicaid! Cutting Medicaid—a state and federal partnership that funds health care for more than 80 million Americans, including older adults, children, pregnant people, and disabled people—would run counter to ...

PLEASE SIGN AND SHARE THIS PETITIIN.

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The key now for Democrats is to fight back not with complaints (which project weakness) but with actions that reclaim the initiative, inspire confidence, and force Trump to play defense. Here are some suggestions, in no particular order:

Five Things Dems Must Do to Fight Trump Now The party is not helpless. In fact, Democrats have some effective tools at their disposal.

Five Things Dems Must Do to Fight Trump Now
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Five Things Dems Must Do to Fight Trump Now The party is not helpless. In fact, Democrats have some effective tools at their disposal.

Five Things Dems Must Do to Fight Trump Now
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Trump Is Packing His Cabinet With Crypto, Oil and Private Prison Profiteers Trump’s policy makers will be overseeing the industries that they run and own.

“Key spheres of policy-making — energy, finance and tech — will be overseen by wealthy figures plucked from the industries they’re tasked to oversee.”
- @derekseidman.bsky.social

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How do you make people feel safe? What sort of "people" are you talking about...because some people should absolutely be afraid. Women, Muslims, people of color and poor peoole need to be afraid.

I don’t take credit for this meme, but I do co-sign.