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Wisconsin Planned Parenthood resumes offering abortions after a nearly monthlong pause Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin resumed scheduling abortions on Monday after a nearly monthlong pause due to federal Medicaid funding cuts in President Donald Trump’s tax and spending bill that too…

Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin resumed scheduling abortions on Monday after a nearly monthlong pause due to federal Medicaid funding cuts in President Donald Trump’s tax and spending bill that took effect at the beginning of October.

Big? Beautiful? Donald Trump is literally ripping apart the home of US democracy. Is anyone really surprised? | Emma Brockes Demolition work has begun on part of the White House’s East Wing to make way for the president’s ballroom. Truly, these are post-satirical times, says Guardian columnist Emma Brockes

Big? Beautiful? Donald Trump is literally ripping apart the home of US democracy. Is anyone really surprised? | Emma Brockes

American Gulag The brutal rollout of Trump's police state.

The new immigration dragnet is everywhere, rife with conflicts, and it’s only just begun.

Audience Award for Best Documentary at the Woodstock Film Festival: "Steal This Story, Please!"

Congratulations to "Steal This Story, Please!" for winning an audience award at the Woodstock Film Festival. The documentary tells the story of Amy Goodman and Democracy Now!

See our website for special screenings across the U.S.
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Best signs and costumes from ‘No Kings’ protests condemning the Trump administration

Best signs and costumes from ‘No Kings’ protests condemning the Trump administration

Frogs, axolotls, and a rhino take Manhattan to deflate Trump’s “antifa” slur. “I tried to get a Portland frog outfit and they were sold out until November!"

@jamespwest.bsky.social spoke with several New Yorkers who donned inflatable costumes in solidarity with Portland demonstrators.

A demonstrator wearing a bright green inflatable frog costume at a packed No Kings rally in Washington, DC. The frog has red eyes, is wearing a blue neckerchief, and is holding an American flag. A little bit of a person's face is sticking out the clear window of the costume.

A person in an inflatable frog costume stands on a rectangular, cement flower pot above a crowd of #NoKings protesters. The frog is covered in decorative black spots and is wearing a blue bandana. Nearby, two people wearing seahorse costumes, one pink and one purple, stand next to each other holding hands while other people mill around them.

We’re in the middle of a nationwide frog costume supply chain crisis. Thanks, Trump.

How Trump Became the Ringmaster of Left-Wing Violence He’s goading bad actors on the left to give him a reason to harass his law-abiding critics.

It may be hard for Trump to get convictions, but winning in court isn’t his aim; it never has been in the past. trib.al/zlf5Pde

Trump’s instinct is to follow the money. He will target “individual and institutional funders, and officers and employees of organizations" to scare them into complacency.

University of South Dakota can't fire professor for calling Charlie Kirk a Nazi: Judge A University of South Dakota professor who raged against murdered right-wing youth activist Charlie Kirk on Facebook cannot be fired from his post, a federal judge ruled on Wednesday.Phillip Michael Hook, a tenured professor of art at USD, was placed on administrative leave and notified of the inten...

A University of South Dakota professor who raged against murdered right-wing youth activist Charlie Kirk on Facebook cannot be fired from his post, a federal judge ruled on Wednesday.

Brendan Carr’s FCC Power Play: How One Weak Man Threatens America’s Free Speech After Jimmy Kimmel’s remarks on the Charlie Kirk shooting, Carr used FCC leverage to pressure ABC—showing how quickly constitutional rights can be trampled.

When government intimidation and corporate cowardice meet, free speech dies. Boycott ABC and Disney until they stand up to Brendan Carr’s censorship.

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Republican Christmas Card

Cartoon by @andertoon.bsky.social for Raw Story

#PoliticalCartoon #EditorialCartoon #Trump #USPolitics

A cartoon of a chaotic rainswept landscape utterly destroyed by flooding, with glimpses of ruined homes, cars, and trees among the waters. At the center is a siren and loudspeaker system floating away, labeled "Decent Warning System." The cartoon is captioned "Among the tragically missing ..."

From our magazine, by Texas Observer cartoonist Ben Sargent.

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As it turns out, Washington residents are more scared of militarized police than supposed criminals. Restaurants in the nation’s capital saw a more than 25% dip in reservations in the days after Trump federalized the city’s police forces.

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#RobinWilliams #filmsky #moviesky 💔🔄 #BeKind #BeKindAlways ❤️

Calling all scientists and science supporters! You have a crucial role to play in countering the authoritarian threat we currently face in this country. Learn more about how you can stand up for the facts and truth that are essential for a free and democratic society. blog.ucs.org/gretchen-gol...

From Twitter: David Oscar Markus & @domarkus X.com Dear @MuellerSheWrote : There is no such thing as work release in federal prison, so your reporting is false. All you had to do was ask any criminal law practitioner, and they would have explained this to you. I wish we had work release in federal prison — and I wish we treated people behind bars better than we do. How about you? I'm surprised to hear my progressive friends criticizing more humane prisons and Ghislaine's transfer to a safer facility, especially after she faced serious danger in Tallahassee. The outrage machine wants to turn a safer placement into a scandal. But it's still prison. And despite the soundbites, prison is a truly awful place.

My response on Twitter: Hello, Mr. Markus. Here is the BOP policy that says Out Custody is eligible for work details outside prison. Will you go on record that she will not be allowed outside despite her waiver? Also, who authorized the waiver, and in exchange for what? The BOP policy reads: ₽5100.08 9/12/2006 Chapter 2, Page 4 OUT CUSTODY. The second lowest custody level assigned to an inmate requiring the second lowest level of security and staff supervision. An inmate who has OUT custody may be assigned to less secure housing and may be eligible for work details outside the institution's secure perimeter with a minimum of two-hour intermittent staff supervision.

Ghislaine Maxwell’s attorney - addressing me directly - says there’s no such thing as prisoner work details outside the facility in the federal prison system. Yes there are. I have receipts.

I'm going to link this entire exchange in our story, and frankly I don't see much of an alternative. If we exist in these two very different planes of reality, I don't see how journalists can do much but show people the entirety of all exchanges.

I'm going to publish the entirety of an exchange I just had with the press office of the DOJ. I want you to see how they are talking about truth.

Some questions.

Every day I’m inspired by the bravery of these courageous ICE agents.

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He LOST.

YOU win.

(You knew he wanted YOU to pay his lawyers and his legal bills, right?)

Birds of a feather...

They Are Running Out Of Sick Minded Recruits…. Now they’ll take on anyone! SMDH🤨🤨

Democratic senators should ignore GOP attacks over not confirming Trump's nominees, and instead go on the offensive: Attack Republican senators for not voting to release the Epstein files. And urge voters to go to Republican senators' town halls or find them elsewhere to challenge them on this.