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MIT rejects Trump administration deal for priority federal funding MIT is one of the nine schools that were asked to agree to adopt conservative priorities and policies in exchange for funding perks.

MIT becomes first of 9 top schools to reject Trump admin “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education,” a bribe promising increased funding & less trouble if it agrees to agrees to ban DEI & make trans students use wrong bathrooms, sports teams & locker rooms. @rikiwilchins.bsky.social

I found the agitators! They are 2 unicorns, giraffe, canary, panda, mouse, dinosaur, mouse, Stitch, and the frog! And they are right outside of Portland's ICE facility! 🤣🤣🤣

#ProudBlue

Portrait of Jane Goodall, with quote text: We can't leave people in abject poverty, so we need to raise the standard of living for 80% of the world's people, while bringing it down considerably for the 20% who are destroying our natural resources.

“We can’t leave people in abject poverty, so we need to raise the standard of living for 80% of the world’s people, while bringing it down considerably for the 20% who are destroying our natural resources.”

Blessed be your memory and legacy, Jane Goodall. We will do our best to continue the work.

Democratic Governors Have the Legal Authority to Arrest ICE Agents. They Should Use It. Even failed prosecutions would force federal agents to think twice before breaking down doors.

Democratic Governors Can Arrest ICE Agents. What Are They Waiting For?
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BREAKING: The Pentagon has authorized up to 600 military lawyers to serve as temporary immigration judges.

This is a blatant expansion of military power into a civilian judicial process, a dangerous erosion of the separation between the two.

Every day, we inch closer to fascism.

It’s Time for Americans to Start Talking About “Soft Secession” Blue states are finally learning what red states have known all along: you don’t need federal permission to govern.

Uncooperative Federalism is here!
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Here's How We Can Fight Back Against Trump Helping Sex-Trafficker Maxwell Let's overwhelm the man at the head of the Federal Bureau of Prisons.

Here's How We Can Fight Back Against Trump Helping Sex-Trafficker Maxwell

Explain to me why an awfull convicted criminal like Maxwell gets a more comfortable prison while undocumented but harmless people go to Alligator Alcatraz?

We’re calling for a Florida boycott over the inhumane “Alligator Alcatraz” detention site. Cancel your family vacation and choose a different destination this summer.

Blocking Medicaid recipients from using Planned Parenthood won't just hurt people on Medicaid. It'll also hurt people with private insurance by forcing centers to close (especially in rural communities), leading to care shortages and making it harder to access timely, affordable, high-quality care.

New York City Mayoral Primary Election Results 2025 Get live results and maps from the 2025 New York City primary election.

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Yay!! New Yorkers rock 🥰🥰🥰

This Politician Called Out Her White Male Colleagues – And Won't Apologize For It "I'm really tired of watching women of color, in particular, being ignored."

I think this is when Melissa Hortman officially became one of my heroes. www.teenvogue.com/story/meliss...

Cannot describe how much I love this

Trump Has a Pouty Party at His Military Parade Juxtaposed with more than 2,000 demonstrations against him

I wrote about Trump's pouty parade, juxtaposed by the millions who came to protests, and the dichotomies in his use of the military.
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When nobody shows up to your birthday party

Donald Trump does NOT want you to share this footage of his pathetically tiny birthday parade crowd.

In just one week: A GOP president deployed Marines in a U.S. city, called for a Democratic governor’s arrest, the GOP Speaker called for him to be tarred and feathered, a Democratic senator was handcuffed, and two Democratic legislators were shot in their homes.

The most Los Angeles sign ever. And it’s true.

Alma Adams (NC-12) Sarah Elfreth (MD-03) Jake Auchincloss (MA-04) Lois Frankel (FL-22) Joyce Beatty (OH-03) Wesley Bell (MO-01) Sanford Bishop (GA-02) Shontel Brown (OH-11) Nikki Budzinski (IL-13) Janelle Bynum (OR-05) Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick (FL-20) Steve Cohen (TN-09) Joe Courtney (CT-02) Angie Craig (MN-02) Henry Cuellar (TX-28) Sharice Davids (KS-03) Don Davis (NC-01) Laura Gillen (NY-04) Jared Golden (ME-02) Vicente Gonzalez (TX-34) Maggie Goodlander (NH-02) Adam Gray (CA-13) Josh Harder (CA-09) Jahana Hayes (CT-05) Steven Horsford (NV-04) Steny Hoyer (MD-05) Marcy Kaptur (OH-09) Bill Keating (MA-09) Tim Kennedy (NY-26) Raj Krishnamoorthi (IL-08) Greg Landsman (OH-01) Susie Lee (NV-03) Stephen Lynch (MA-08) Seth Magaziner (RI-02) John Mannion (NY-22) Lucy McBath (GA-06) April McClain Delaney (MD-06) Kristen McDonald Rivet (MI-08) Grace Meng (NY-06) David Min (CA-47) Joe Morelle (NY-25) Jared Moskowitz (FL-23) Seth Moulton (MA-06) Frank Mrvan (IN-01) Richard Neal (MA-01) Joe Neguse (CO-02) Frank Pallone (NJ-06) Jimmy Panetta (CA-19) Chris Pappas (NH-01) Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (WA-03) Brittany Pettersen (CO-07) Josh Riley (NY-19) Raul Ruiz (CA-25) Pat Ryan (NY-18) Brad Schneider (IL-10) Kim Schrier (WA-10) David Scott (GA-13) Terri Sewell (AL-07) Eric Sorensen (IL-17) Darren Soto (FL-09) Greg Stanton (AZ-04) Haley Stevens (MI-11) Suhas Subramanyam (VA-10) Tom Suozzi (NY-03) Eric Swalwell (CA-14) Emilia Sykes (OH-13) Shri Thanedar (MI-13) Norma Torres (CA-35) Ritchie Torres (NY-15) Derek Tran (CA-45) Gabe Vasquez (NM-02) Eugene Vindman (VA-07) Debbie Wasserman Schultz (FL-25) George Whitesides (CA-27) Frederica Wilson (FL-24)

These 75 house Democrats broke with Hakeem Jeffries and voted to support a resolution expressing gratitude to ICE.

Also attached: a list of 75 Democrats not running for reelection and don't need any more campaign contributions.

Iran's leadership is terrible but that doesn't excuse Israel being belligerent and unilaterally striking Iran before a planned talk to negotiate with the U.S.

Netanyahu has been itching for a war for nearly 25 years.

Also, doesnt Iran or any country have a right to respond to a strike?

National Guard, Marines and ICE agents terrorizing LA residents, Senator Padilla being assaulted, Iran and Israel on fire, Gaza in ruins, Ukraine-Russia war still ablaze, trade war a disaster, measles spreading.

Yup, great time Trump's military parade.

BREAKING: Judge Denies Mahmoud Khalil Release, Siding with Trump Admin’s 11th Hour Argument The development punctures hopes of Khalil’s release after three months in ICE detention.

BREAKING: Judge Denies Mahmoud Khalil Release, Siding with Trump Admin’s 11th Hour Argument

The development punctures hopes of Khalil’s release after three months in ICE detention.

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I want to take a moment to share an excerpt from the Declaration of Independence's grievances against King George III.

Sound familiar?

NO KINGS Binghamton NY · No Kings **In America, we don’t put up with would-be kings.** NO KINGS is a national day of action and mass mobilization in response to increasing authoritarian excesses and corruption from Trump and his allie...

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Some Notes on the City of Angels and the Nature of Violence I think maybe it's begun, the bigger fiercer backlash against the Trump Administration which is itself a violent backlash against every good thing that's happened over the past several decades – the a...

"Here it's also useful to make a distinction between property damage (which protesters in the USA in our era have done from time to time) and harming living beings (which is largely something done by law enforcement in these demonstrations)."

ICE agents intentionally started the violence in LA.

Reporter Covering LA Protests Hit by Rubber Bullet During Live TV Broadcast In one episode in downtown Los Angeles, an Australian television journalist was struck when an officer fired a nonlethal projectile while she was on the air.

Several journalists have been injured while covering the protests in Los Angeles, including a television reporter who was struck when a law enforcement officer fired a rubber bullet while she was on the air.

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