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Instead of Spotify, we're trying out apps including Tidal, Apple Music, Libby, Bandcamp, & the NPR app. What are your favorite sources for music, audio books, & podcasts?

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Zohran Mamdani, who ran on universal child care, elected New York City mayor Mamdani defeated Andrew Cuomo, who resigned as governor in 2021 in the face of sexual misconduct allegations.

Zohran Mamdani will be New York’s youngest mayor in over a century and the city’s first Muslim and first South Asian mayor. He has twice defeated Andrew Cuomo, who resigned as governor in the face of sexual harassment allegations. https://bit.ly/47pa8LH

The day of reckoning approaches If there was one video I would urge you to watch today it would be this from Ezra Klein in a New York Times opinion piece.

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Very important to watch

A family’s detention and deportation through a mother’s eyes Nicolle Orozco Forero brings us inside the country's largest family detention center, where she was kept with her husband and two sons.

Nicolle Orozco Forero was detained and eventually deported, along with her husband and two sons. She brings us inside the country's largest family detention center.

Free DC: Inside the women-founded movement opposing Trump’s militarized takeover Residents are organizing against Trump’s power grab in the capital — the latest embodiment of a generations-long fight for autonomy.

Free DC has been organizing Washington’s 700,000 residents to resist federal interventions during the early months of the second Trump administration.

ICE is now the largest law enforcement agency in the country. Democratic governors, mayors, and lawmakers have the power to stop secret police tactics like abductions by masked ICE agents: www.bluestatedefiance.org/no-secret-po...

Women have long fought to protect the Florida Everglades, the site of 'Alligator Alcatraz' President Donald Trump visited the new migrant detention center being built in a biodiversity-rich area that environmentalists like Marjory Stoneman Douglas have worked to preserve.

Women like the prominent 20th-century writer and activist Marjory Stoneman Douglas fought half a century ago to protect the Florida Everglades.
Now, a new generation of women environmental leaders is trying to halt a new immigrant detention center there.
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Truth Matters on Substack Please take a moment to watch this excellent clip from Senator Andy Kim. It’s all about exposing the level of cruelty dispensed by the Billionaire Welfare Act 🎥 TikTok - vm.tiktok.com/ZNdSeBopM/

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Senator Kim, thank you. All gutted so we can lock up our people

Yes, calling your Members of Congress still matters.

Tell your GOP representative to vote NO on Trump’s Tax Scam: indivisible.org/resource/cal...

Or send an email if you can’t get anyone on the phone: act.indivisible.org/sign/no-cutt...

Trump says Harvard has acted ‘appropriately’ and deal could soon be announced | CNN Politics President Donald Trump said Friday that Harvard has “acted extremely appropriately” during negotiations that could soon result in a deal, signaling a possible major shift in his administration’s effor...

Earlier this week, I was told that at least one PI at Harvard recently received a message rescinding a stop work order the PI previously received earlier this year.

And now there’s this. 👀

🚨NEW: Federal Judge Allison Burroughs has blocked the Trump Administration from prohibiting Harvard from hosting international students.

REPOST to thank Judge Burroughs for standing up for our democracy!

Me either. That is awful’

Holy moly.

The day started with tragedy with political violence in MN and instead of being scared, neighbors SHOWED UP to stand together at No Kings Twin Cities. We packed the Capitol Mall all the way to the Cathedral. Estimate 80,000+ right now. So proud of our state. #nokings #indivisible

The '3.5% rule': How a small minority can change the world Nonviolent protests are twice as likely to succeed as armed conflicts – and those engaging a threshold of 3.5% of the population have never failed to bring about change.

Keep it peaceful and we will win.

www.bbc.com/future/artic...

There were more people at the No Kings protest in Boise, Idaho

They are trying to erase our rich history

Death Spiral: Republicans' Medicaid cuts threaten the health care of all Americans-even people on private insurance. 1) Medicaid cuts cause millions to lose health care 2) People without coverage can't pay for the care they need 3) Rural hospitals lose significant revenue 4) Health care workers are laid off, rural hospitals close 5) Entire communities lose health care services

Make America Healthy Again my ass.

Infuriating really!

YouTube video by Sen. Adam Schiff Schiff Takes To Senate Floor to Lay Out Trump's 10 Most Corrupt Acts So Far

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Wow - I knew cutting Medicaid is unpopular. I didn't know it is *this* unpopular.

Good question

Clearly they don't care

This dude got exactly what he voted for—but listen all the way to the end. He makes good points. One thing I’ll add: Qatar was instrumental in funding Hamas.

America is a ticking time bomb under Trump.

Trump works for Putin.
Trump works for the UAE.
Trump works for Musk.
Trump works TO GET RICH.

Trump ignores our Constitution.
Trump destroys our economy.
Trump tramples our rights.
Trump poisons our land.

He is taking everything and leaving us with nothing.
🚨👇 #MustWatch #CORRUPTION

(next to an image of President Obama) “It is up to all of us to fix this. It's not going to be because somebody comes and saves you. The most important office in this democracy is the citizen—the ordinary person who says, no, that's not right." PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA