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Experts Say Blue States Can Stop Paying Federal Taxes. There’s Precedent If we could use nullification for people to get high, why can’t we use it to protect human rights and stop fascism?

Soft secession

Legislation creates a Federal Tax Escrow Account in the state treasury. Instead of employers forwarding collected federal taxes to Washington, they send them to the state. The state holds the money in escrow. A legislative panel reviews federal spending for constitutional compliance.

Three German universities offering post-docs for researchers "who cannot conduct or continue their work in the USA appropriately because of actual political pressure. "
www.uni-konstanz.de/zukunftskoll...

Senate Democrats walked away empty-handed, and don’t let anyone tell you different.

Tim Kaine and the others bought the lie that Republicans would negotiate on extending the ACA subsidies. They won’t.

Dems got played, Schumer failed to keep his caucus together, and the American people got nothing.

Well, tens of millions of Americans are going hungry and tens of millions of Americans are losing their health care, but it's all been worth it to ensure transgender citizens can't get passports.

NEWPORT NEWS, Va. (AP) — Ex-teacher shot by a 6-year-old student wins a $10M jury verdict in her lawsuit against a former school administrator.

Powerful

The best antidote to despair is ACTION! As we inch our way into another day of the Republican shutdown that threatens to plunge millions of Americans into a food insecurity crisis, we are mobilizing to Keep America Fed.
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I love how Rep. Joe Neguse reframed this question.

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@govwesmoore.bsky.social

Your state....fire him now.
Unless you condone his behavior!!!

Good morning
If you're in LA, stay away from Oxnard. There's a huge ICE presence there

Voters Did Not Understand the Stakes in 2024 - The American Prospect A large majority of American voters are greatly dissatisfied with the state of things, most especially the economy. It turns out that median voters were catastrophically misled about the stakes of the election last year.

Americans are more worried about affordability than community—except Trump-voting men. New polling from Data for Progress, provided exclusively to the Prospect, casts doubt on the notion that Dems should punch the left. From @ryanlcooper.com: trib.al/oWj4N1y

Is Mussab Ali Jersey City's Answer to Zohran Mamdani? Only Tuesday's Election Will Tell “Politicians are the OG influencers,” Ali, the youngest candidate in Jersey City, New Jersey’s mayoral race, told Teen Vogue.

welcome to @teenvogue.com new series Challengers: talking to candidates either challenging an incumbent candidate who isn't meeting the moment—or challenging the political system's expectations of what a candidate can look like

up first @mussabali.bsky.social, 28, who might be Jersey City's Zohran

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Poster graphic with a blue heading reading: 10 reasons to Join Science Fight Club. On a white background with an image of protestors in the bottom third, a list of 3 preliminary reasosn: 10: Fighting back feels better than giving up. and giving up is not an option. 9: Giving up is what the Trump regime is counting on most. 8: With so many of our futures at stake, fighting back has become our new job.

1/3 The stakes keep getting higher, but we are not backing down. Earlier this month, we launched Science Fight Club, and are recruiting members to fuel our 12 month fight to take back Congress, stop Trump, and save science and public health in America.

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The UFC fighter who said he’d take a bullet for Trump won’t even take a Band-Aid for him now. He claims Trump is the Antichrist.

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A little voice inside my head said "don't look back, you can never look back"

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If you're not in Jamaica but would still like to help, please consider donating to @wck.org

We clearly can't rely on Trump to do anything useful, so donating to WCK is one of the best ways we can help

WCK is in Jamaica ahead of Category 5 Hurricane Melissa’s landfall. The storm is expected to bring destructive winds, torrential rain & widespread flooding. We’re working with local partners to serve meals as quickly as possible.
Read more: wck.org/news/hurricane-melissa
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Wait till the end. It will all make sense 😠
We are being inundated with propaganda

What happen to laws?

The energy we need is this suburban dad standing out in the street -- barefoot with Blackhawks pajama pants on -- screaming at the masked goons to get the fuck out of their neighborhood.