My time with AOC and what it tells me about Mamdani The power to change an entrenched system isn't won in one election. It's easy to think election night is the end of the campaign. But it's not. It's the beginning of the campaign for change.

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YouTube video by Zohran Mamdani for NYC Until It's Done: Earl Manigault

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The Trump Administration is terrorizing hard-working journalists and trying to silence our No Kings movement. We will say it even louder: immigrants are welcome here – kings are not 📣

Join us on Oct 18th to show Trump that Mario Guevara’s fight is our fight: MoveOn.org/NoKings

Go cat go!

Agents went to almost every single door in the building, zip-tying people regardless of citizenship and ignoring requests to see a warrant.

This attack on our communities is a fundamental threat to the freedom of each and every one of us.

The wealth of the richest 1% in America just hit a record $52 trillion. These are the people getting huge tax cuts — paid for by cuts to health care for millions of Americans. Every lie Trump and Republicans are telling right now about the shutdown is meant to distract you from this.

CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1

CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1

CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1

Trickle-down economics was always a sham.

Nothing has ever trickled down.

Remember that MLK said America suffers not just from "the vitriolic words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people."

“I Have Not Surrendered”: Leonard Peltier Remains Committed to Indigenous Rights Peltier discusses his time in (and release from) prison, his ongoing struggle for Indigenous rights, and more.

“We still have to live under that, that fear of losing our identity, losing our culture, our religion,” Peltier says about his continued commitment to Indigenous rights. “The struggle still goes on for me. I’m not going to give up.”

If, say, Louis Farrakhan was brutally murdered, I hope we would all condemn the murder.

But I am pretty sure Republicans wouldn’t be celebrating his life and legacy and insisting no one criticize anything he ever said or did.

Qasim Rashid, Esq. (@qasimrashid) As my friend @Tim Whitaker said “Every senate democrat just voted to honor a man that said the civil rights act was a mistake, Black women don’t have the brain power and who devoted an entire episode ...

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Chicago area residents mourn immigrant fatally shot by ICE agent during arrest attempt The death of Silverio Villegas-Gonzalez has angered community members and heightened safety fears among the region's Latino residents.

​​He was a single dad who had just dropped off his two kids at school and daycare.

Then he was fatally shot by ICE in Chicago. Silverio Villegas-González. Do not forget his name.

Do not become desensitized. The time to speak up and show up for our neighbors is now.

Punishing college students for protesting him.

Pressuring TV networks to fire late night talk show hosts for criticizing him.

Suing newspapers for reporting he doesn’t like.

If this were happening in another country, what would you call it?

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The Global Sumud Flotilla Is Making History Corporate Media is ignoring the largest civilian flotilla to ever send aid to Gaza, with activists from 44 countries uniting to break Israel's illegal 18 year blockade—here's how you can get involved

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House Republicans Investigate Wikipedia for Alleged “Anti-Israel” Bias Wikipedia is being pressed to release names of specific editors, a tactic seemingly pushed by the Heritage Foundation.

Wikipedia is being pressed to release names of specific editors, a tactic seemingly pushed by the Heritage Foundation.

Well it was only ever supposed to work for the wealthy. In fact they’ve done very well out of it. They now own the entire US government and are proceeding to do whatever they damn well please, peasants be damned!

For decades, Republicans in Washington have told us that tax cuts would trickle down to workers.

Instead, wealth and power have accumulated in the hands of the richest 1% at the expense of the rest of us.

Trickle-down economics was never supposed to work.

It was a hoax.

The cruelty and stupidity are the point. These bastards want to destroy everything.

Fascism-plus.

The Heinrich Himmler of the United States government.

DOJ Says Temporary Immigration Judges No Longer Need Immigration Experience Under a new Department of Justice rule, the DOJ can choose “any attorney” to serve as a temporary immigration judge.

The DOJ no longer requires temporary immigration judges to have experience in immigration law. The new rule, which went into effect on Thursday, permits any attorney to serve as a temporary immigration judge for a renewable six-month term.

I’d say what a quack but that would be insulting to quacks.

@chrislhayes.bsky.social channeling the same level of anger I too feel about this absolute insanity, as well as every other case of the death of expertise on display in this regime. By platforming this crap, it seems Trump and the GOP are wilfully destroying our country.

over over and over

"The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity"

We stand with @drdemetre.bsky.social and all federal workers standing a stand against the fascist regime!

@meidastouch.com @couriernewsroom.bsky.social @cnn.com @msnbc.com @maddow.msnbc.com

Me: "Anera is wrong? Christian Aid is wrong? The Danish Refugee Council is wrong? The Norwegian Refugee Council is wrong? Doctors Without Borders is wrong? Save the Children is wrong? Oxfam is wrong? 100 aid groups are all wrong? Do you realize how silly you sound?"

I haven’t been to a Starbucks in years. I don’t have a tv either.

Starbucks’ CEO made 6,666x more than the company's median employee in 2024.

This was the widest CEO-to-Worker pay gap in the entire S&P 500.

Remember this before you order your next pumpkin spice latte.

Three weeks ago: "This is an attempt to silence us—and to cover up a genocide unfolding in real time. I call on international officials, human rights defenders, and global media to speak out and share this message. Your voice can help stop the targeting of journalists and protect the truth.”