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More messaging like this please

Nothing says America First like bailing out Argentina while making healthcare unaffordable for 20+ million Americans.

Or signing an Article 5 protection treaty with Qatar coz they bribed you with a plane, while screwing over longstanding NATO allies.

Folks, I think America First might be a scam.

I would NEVER watch that trash.

Silly Jimmy Kimmel. He should have just called for all homeless people to be killed and he’d still have a job.

This is nothing else but a hybrid war that Russia wages against Europe

Let's name things as they really are:Russia has made an assassination attempt of the President of the European Commission

Russia has been jamming GPS-signals over many Eastern Europe countries that are in its immediate vicinity

angry is an exceedingly temperate word here

🚨Border Patrol arrested two firefighters who were actively fighting a wildfire at the time.

When the other members of the crew asked for a chance to say goodbye, a Border Patrol agent told the crew member “you need to get the f*ck out of here. I’m going to make you leave.”

Creating a "national police force" was for decades a right-wing bogeyman, the feared unconstitutional federal usurpation of states' rights, the very thing "support your *local* police" and fetishizing elected sheriffs was all about.

Trump is telling Abbott to silence Texans.

Newsom is giving voters the means to fight back and ensure the will of the people prevails against the fascist power grab.

They’ll find a way to accept it. Indecency has no bottom.

Trump’s Efforts to Control Information Echo an Authoritarian Playbook

Gift Article:

“An old rule in Washington holds that you are entitled to your own opinions but you are not entitled to your own facts. President Trump seems determined to prove that wrong.”

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The US could see a 30-40% decline in new international student enrollment, resulting in nearly $7 billion in lost revenue and more than 60,000 fewer American jobs. https://www.nafsa.org/fall-2025-international-student-enrollment-outlook-and-economic-impact

Thanks, I knew that though.

You fix TX (which is already gerrymandered to the high heavens) and we’ll fix CA.

I knew Christian was in your profile before even looking. Typically mean spirited.

Trump's soft-power retreat scrambles U.S.-China race The administration has stepped back from key arenas in which the U.S. has sought to blunt China's rise.

Trump has set a radical new course in the U.S.-China rivalry, ceding ground to Beijing in pursuit of a far narrower vision of America's role in the world.

Trump has hollowed out the machinery of American soft power and retreated from key arenas where the U.S. has sought to blunt China's rise.

It's just remarkable that the president of the United States is running an extortion racket in broad daylight and not only is the nation apparently unable to stop it, hardly anyone will even call it what it obviously is.

Garden variety shit show

This is criminal‼️

Trump‘s amateur hour administration is costing lives. FEMA cuts have slowed down emergency response times drastically.

He proposes releasing some ICE prisoners to labor on farms where the employers will “own them” and be responsible for them.

Historians have spent decades meticulously proving the straight line between slavery and modern capitalism’s concept of the laborer—or we could just let them say it.

Republicans filed yet another lawsuit to disenfranchise voters today.

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The Tyrant Test A leader who uses military force to suppress his political opposition ought to lose the right to govern.

Trump’s attempts to dehumanize large segments of the American people in order to use military force against them fits the classic definition of “tyranny,” and right wing rhetoric using the phrase “third world” to justify it is no accident (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Yes, as reported by Dr. Jennifer Lincoln, in nine states (Indiana is one of them) a person’s advance directive is invalidated once they become pregnant, essentially forcing the situation Adriana Smith and her family currently face in Georgia.

Have you guys noticed that Trump still hasn’t even mentioned the storms in Kentucky that killed at least 30 people? Republicans are pretty quiet about the lack of response too.

Outrage under Biden, silence now that he’s president. That’s how you know he never really cared.

What do Dems have the votes to change right now?

Couldn’t agree more

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May 16, 1950: Briggs v. Elliott Challenges School Segregation With the help of the NAACP, local African American parents in South Carolina fought back against school segregation in a case that eventually helped to end segregation of public facilities across the ...

#tdih 1950 SC African American parents filed lawsuit for equal educ. called Briggs v. Elliott.

They all paid taxes; but district spent on each white student ($221), Black student ($45).

Faced brutal backlash: fired from jobs, denied right to purchase farm supplies, denied loans, & death threats.

There’s something fitting about Trump waxing rhapsodic about “old fashioned words” like groceries while aggressively repealing the twentieth century. “We’re going to be bringing back workhouses, polio, and dysentery very strongly, isn’t that right Bobby?”