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RFK Jr. Supports Trump Push to Ramp Up Glyphosate Output, Angering MAHA Backers “This executive order reads like it was drafted in a chemical company boardroom,” one MAHA critic said.

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♦️ Glyphosate is banned in >70 countries because of health risks.

Trump has issued an executive order calling for an increase in production of phosphorus and glyphosate-based herbicides—chemicals that research has linked to an increase in multiple types of #cancer. #glyphosate #RoundUp #Donors

📌 Except that the former prince, known as Andrew, is being prosecuted for transferring information to Epstein (misconduct in public office), not sexual predation.

Voter fraud does NOT exist.

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📌 From Brian Tyler Cohen, @briantylercohen.bsky.social, quoting Senator Chris Coons @coons.senate.gov

Various states have compared their voter rolls with citizenship documentation. They didn't find non-citizen voting, either. #VoterFraud

TAKE ACTION: Tell Congress to impose a nationwide moratorium on new AI data centers Impose a moratorium on the construction of new AI data centers

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✅ TAKE ACTION: Tell Congress to evaluate the environmental and economic impact of AI data centers.

Click below for more information and edit/send your messages. Follow us, “Like,” & share. #AI #moratorium

Bad Bunny didn't violate any FCC rules.

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From Brian Tyler Cohen, quoting @AccessBadBunny. Follow Brian here: @briantylercohen.bsky.social #BadBunny #SuperBowl #FCC

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Is Channeling FDR Working-class economic populism is necessary for both Democrats’ electoral success and the defense of democracy itself. Not many Democrats since FDR have recognized this, but Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez ...

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🎯 FDR got it. AOC gets it. Will the Democrats?

FDR warned that the global rise of fascism was the result of democratic governments doing the opposite of the New Deal and protecting an economic status quo enriching a tiny handful at the expense of everyone else. #AOC #FDR #fascism #democracy

Never look down on anybody unless you're helping them up. ~Jesse Jackson

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📌 From artist/cartoonist Joe Heller. Remembering the Reverend Jesse Jackson, 1941-2026. #JesseJackson #RainbowCoalition

One simple move will give Dems a potent way to draw Trump's poison We’re finally seeing cracks in the GOP’s armor, thanks to Pam Bondi’s disastrous hearings and the increasingly horrific details emerging from the Epstein Files. Democrats were surveilled while they se...

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🎯 The DNC should appoint an official Democratic Press Secretary who could hold daily briefings at the Capitol once Karolyin’s ends at the White House. All media would be welcome, from the mainstream to anyone banned by Trump, to Fox, Newsmax, OAN and their rightwing ilk. #DNC #press #media

TAKE ACTION: Tell the Bureau of Land Management to protect the Arctic Refuge Protect this globally significant ecosystem.

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✅ TAKE ACTION: Tell the BLM to preserve #biodiversity, slow global warming, and avoid the worst impacts of climate change. DEADLINE: March 5, 2026. Not limited to USA citizens.

Click below for more information and to send your messages.#biodiversity #ClimateChange #environment #drilling #ANWR

The Disappearance of Palestine ( Foreign Policy in Focus ) - By some measures, the Palestinian bid for statehood has never been stronger. By the end of last yea...

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📌 Gaza has been reduced to 61 million tons of rubble. According to the UN Development Program, it will take seven years just to clear away the debris. It’s hard to create a homeland when 92 percent of homes have been damaged. #Gaza #Palestinians #Israel #genocide

The Originalists Are Getting the Birthright Citizenship Case Spectacularly Wrong This article is part of TPM Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news analysis....

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📌 The originalist’s amicus briefs in Trump v. Barbara betray their stated principles. They faithfully adhere, however, to originalism’s real purpose: using historical fiction and sanitized legalese to achieve bigoted Republican policy goals. #birthright #citizenship #racism #originalism

TAKE ACTION: Tell EPA to ban the toxic herbicide, paraquat More than 70 countries have already banned paraquat because of its unacceptable risks.

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✅ TAKE ACTION: Tell the EPA to ban paraquat, and protect farmworkers, agricultural communities, and the public. This action isn’t limited to USA citizens.

Click below for more information and to send your messages. Follow us, “Like,” & share. #EPA #paraquat #herbicide #Parkinsons

Before 1974, some cities allowed police to arrest people with visible disabilities for being out in public.

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From Liberal Jane @liberaljane.bsky.social.

“Ugly Laws” allowed the police to arrest & jail people with visible #disabilities for being seen in public. People charged with ugly laws were either fined or held in jail. “Ugly Laws” were a part of the late 19th century Victorian Era poor laws.

Israel Destroyed Gaza’s Hospitals. Now It’s Banning Doctors Without Borders. Israel says it will start enforcing its ban on 37 aid groups in Gaza in March, putting more Palestinian lives at risk.

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📌 Israel Destroyed Gaza’s Hospitals. Now It’s Banning Doctors Without Borders.

The ban on humanitarian organizations threatens the continuity of vital relief programs and leaves thousands of Palestinians without real protection amid harsh living conditions. #Israel #Palestine #genocide

Trump plans to repeal the finding that lets the EPA regulate climate-warming emissions Environmental groups' response: See you in court.

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🎯 The endangerment finding determined that CO2 and other greenhouse gases endanger public health and welfare, establishing a legal basis to regulate them under the Clean Air Act.

#Trump & the #Republican administration are rescinding that finding. #EPA #environment #greenhouse #gases #CO2

TAKE ACTION: Oppose the nomination of Anna St. John to the Eastern District of LA Her ideological record reflects a consistent preference for corporate interests

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✅ TAKE ACTION: Tell your Senators to say “No” to the Anna St. John nomination to the Eastern District of Louisiana. Click below for more information and to email your Senators. Follow us, “Like,” & share. #judiciary #DistrictCourt

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🎯 Reo. Cohen doesn't pull any punches, does he? #ICE #Bondi #Noem #ReneeGood #AlexPretti

Charity Is No Substitute for Economic Rights The United States is a global anomaly in our collective delusion about the power of charity to address human suffering. A far better approach would be to guarantee inalienable economic rights and stru...

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🎯 Donating to a fundraiser or participating in a “day of service” allows Americans to avoid confronting the immorality of a society where great #wealth exists alongside grinding poverty. #Charity doesn't alleviate long-term #poverty, but it's quite effective at alleviating American guilt about it.

These meatpacking workers may be deported. They voted to strike anyway. - High Country News The largely immigrant workforce at JBS’s flagship U.S. plant, in Greeley, Colorado, is refusing to back down after accusing the company of poor working conditions.

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📌 How bad are conditions when a strike vote risks a visit from ICE?

Haitian workers have been especially upset. In 2023 and 2024, they were recruited to work at the Greeley plant under what the union characterizes as false pretenses amounting to human #trafficking. #unions #strike #ICE

TAKE ACTION: Tell Congress to get assault weapons off our streets. Prioritize public safety by supporting the GOSAFE Act

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✅ TAKE ACTION: Tell Congress to protect our communities from the deadly threat of assault weapons. Pass the GOSAFE Act.

Click below for more information and edit/send your messages. Follow us, “Like,” & share. #AssaultWeapons #GOSAFE

Digital illustration of a white woman with blonde hair sitting crisscross applesauce on the ground. She's wearing a denim jacket with pride flag buttons, a BLM pin, and monarch patch.

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📌 Another from Liberal Jane Illustration @liberaljane.bsky.social Her FB feed reads, "Rather be woke than purposefully ignorant ... She's wearing a denim jacket with pride flag buttons, a BLM pin, and monarch patch." #woke #inclusive

'My God': Fury as Kash Patel accused of 'outrageous cover-up' of killing by ICE agent Political observers raged over the weekend after the New York Times reported that FBI Director Kash Patel personally ordered local prosecutors to cease investigating the death of Renee Good because he...

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🎯 Renee Good will never get justice, and this is why.

The New York Times reported that FBI Dir. Patel personally ordered local prosecutors to cease investigating the death of Renee Good because he feared it would contradict President Trump's version of the killing. #ReneeGood #ICE #Minneapolis

MAGA will try to prevent voters from having their say.

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🎯 Paul Krugman @pkrugman.bsky.social on MAGA and elections and being an alarmist. #elections #MAGA #ICE #voting #alarmist

We can now confirm that 100% of the 1% are in the Epstein files.

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🎯 Epstein targeted the 1%. He "made" his money by providing very wealthy men with access to girls and young women, and videotaping those "encounters." He then apparently blackmailed the men.

The plan wouldn't work if the targets were poor. #EpsteinFiles #blackmail

TAKE ACTION: Tell Congress to protect all people born in the United States America is a nation where ancestry and status do not determine one’s rights

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✅ TAKE ACTION: Tell Congress, “Support policies that uphold the rights of all individuals born in the United States.”

Click below for more information and to email Congress. Follow us, “Like,” & share. #BirthrightCitizenship

Taxing the wealthy creates more wealth. Taxing working people creates more poverty.

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#TaxTheRich #wealth #poverty #tax

The Second Amendment Was Never Meant for Everyone The killing of Alex Pretti, a licensed gun owner, in Minneapolis is waking white Americans up to the reality that rights are conditional.

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🎯 After the Revolutionary War, the planter South needed to maintain the internal security of a slave society.

The 2nd Amendment functioned as a political “bribe to the South to not scuttle the Constitution.” #2ndAmendment #slavery #guns

Then: All the President's Men (Woodward and Bernstein) Now: The President's Man (Trump controlling Jeff Bezos)

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📌 From artist/cartoonist Michael de Adder, @deadder.bsky.social How far the Washington Post (@washingtonpost.com) has fallen in less than a lifetime. #Woodward #Bernstein #Bezos

United States without illegal aliens

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📌 Lest we forget ... when most of us or our ancestors arrived in what is now the United States, we were aliens. #immigrants #aliens #indigenous #NativeAmericans

Americans are finally waking up to MAGA's true agenda I think most liberals are probably familiar with what has become known as Wilhoit’s Law – that the true goals of the right are inequality, injustice, repression and control. This is how composer Frank...

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🎯 Wilhoit’s Law: the true goals of the right are inequality, injustice, repression and control.

Another part of Wilhoit’s Law: these goals are so indefensible in a country founded on liberty and equality that it is necessary for #conservatives to cover them up with #lies. #Conservatism