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Tell Congress: No Life Sentences for Immigration Congress is poised to vote on a bill that would further dehumanize immigrants, fuel mass incarceration, and lead to even more government-led attacks, raids, and violence. Urge your representatives to ...

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08.09.2025 14:08 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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⚑️JUST NOW: Rep. @brotherjones.bsky.social barred from a Secretary Noem event at NASHVILLE AIRPORT, in his own districtπŸ€”

He says he wanted to ask where hundreds grabbed by ICE in the Nashville raids are, has never been kept from an airport event.

FULL Hill stream: www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0cw...

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Colbert's cancellation is a dark warning CBS's decision marks a dangerous new stage for the culture at large.

Why Colbert's cancellation marks a dangerous new stage for the culture at large

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Stop DOGE from Invading Our Privacy DOGE is feeding our data to unvetted AI to surveil us – a massive violation of our privacy. Join me in demanding oversight now.

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15.07.2025 16:54 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Trump in Dubai & China in Africa (VICE on HBO: Season 4, Episode 10)
YouTube video by VICE Trump in Dubai & China in Africa (VICE on HBO: Season 4, Episode 10)

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14.07.2025 21:16 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Ge plans to. Republicans just gave ICE $170B. They're acting as secret police in violation of the Constitution at his direction, and Republicans just gave them $170B to do it. Nobody is responding to the threat this poses.

12.07.2025 21:29 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Tell Congress: Unmask ICE! Add your name to the petition demanding Congress pass legislation requiring all immigration agents to clearly display their agency and name or badge numberβ€”just like other local law enforcement are re...

Add your name to the petition demanding Congress pass legislation requiring all immigration agents to clearly display their agency and name or badge numberβ€”just like other local law enforcement are required to do. sign.moveon.org/petitions/un...

12.07.2025 01:47 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

People build lives and families, and they suffer to build them, and people who build nothing steal them because theft is the other choice. And the whole idea of democracy is to arrest that--to save what people build because it's theirs and because it's the only human good. That's it. The whole idea.

03.07.2025 02:47 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Make no mistake:

Alligator Alcatraz IS a concentration camp, and they absolutely ARE planning genocide and β€˜ethnic cleansing.’

As a white person, i don’t know what I can do to help, but if all I have is my voice, I will make sure it’s heard.

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This is not normal

01.07.2025 21:27 β€” πŸ‘ 23182    πŸ” 8183    πŸ’¬ 1092    πŸ“Œ 516
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Exactly. Few know Collins’ MO better.

01.07.2025 23:31 β€” πŸ‘ 31603    πŸ” 7155    πŸ’¬ 968    πŸ“Œ 332
A poster with a cat and the words: 

THE WRONG AMAZON
IS BURNING
THE WRONG ICE
Is MELTING

A poster with a cat and the words: THE WRONG AMAZON IS BURNING THE WRONG ICE Is MELTING

Good morning 🫑

02.07.2025 12:09 β€” πŸ‘ 31246    πŸ” 6474    πŸ’¬ 137    πŸ“Œ 99
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Bartiromo: "We are waiting any moment now to get the jobs number for the month of June. The expectations call for the numbers to be up 95,000. Right now seeing the number -- actually, uh, showing a decline in jobs, uh, down 33,000, uh."

02.07.2025 12:41 β€” πŸ‘ 14975    πŸ” 4202    πŸ’¬ 1572    πŸ“Œ 852

Among other things, I'm just so pissed that a country that once made winning WWII its whole personality is now building concentration camps

02.07.2025 02:49 β€” πŸ‘ 12694    πŸ” 3085    πŸ’¬ 11    πŸ“Œ 199
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@sarahlongwell25.bsky.social

02.07.2025 18:44 β€” πŸ‘ 43928    πŸ” 14983    πŸ’¬ 1600    πŸ“Œ 968
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i'm reading this charles sumner speech from february 1866 and my dude is cooking

02.07.2025 01:31 β€” πŸ‘ 3832    πŸ” 742    πŸ’¬ 57    πŸ“Œ 44

I got sidetracked for a bit. Trying to move everything here now.

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Troops and marines deeply troubled by LA deployment: β€˜Morale is not great’ Several service members told advocacy groups they felt like pawns in a political game and assignment was not necessary

i am not being pollyannish when i insist that the people who sign up do not sign up to advance a president’s domestic political agenda www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Raskin: This is a gangster state. This is not basically a legitimate government that is sometimes doing corrupt things. This is an essentially corrupt enterprise. It's like watching The Sopranos. Every day, they get up and they try to figure out how to plunder and pillage the people

31.05.2025 00:35 β€” πŸ‘ 35135    πŸ” 11070    πŸ’¬ 1084    πŸ“Œ 814
Taco - Puttin' On The Ritz (Official Video)
YouTube video by Taco Taco - Puttin' On The Ritz (Official Video)

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31.05.2025 11:01 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Socialism is what they called public power.

Socialism is what they called social security.Β 
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Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations.
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Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people.

β€”Harry Truman, 1952

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Pete Hegseth Hit With Stunning Illegal Wiretap Allegations The White House was left scrambling after reports that Hegseth had fired three top aides following an illegal wiretap.

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28.05.2025 18:00 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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How a Push to Amend the Constitution Could Help Trump Expand Presidential Power A draft lawsuit being floated to attorneys general in several states argues Congress must call a convention over the national debt. But the legal theory mixes and matches petitions from states dating…

The effort to amend the Constitution predates Trump’s second term but carries new weight as several members of the president’s inner circle have expressed support for a convention to limit federal government spending and power.

(Published March 17)

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ICE Duped a Federal Judge Into Allowing Raid on Columbia Student Dorms The Intercept helped unseal an affidavit revealing how ICE got a β€œjudicial fig leaf” to search two Columbia students’ dorm rooms.

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15.05.2025 18:54 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

You'd think that someone with such a hard-on for the spew of unedited thought would get it.

07.05.2025 13:46 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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β€œI think this says that they will not tolerate us being active participants in our democracyβ€”they want an autocracy,” Emily Feiner told Mother Jones.

Meet the 64-year-old retired social worker who went viral after being forcibly removed from her representative's town hall.

06.05.2025 20:45 β€” πŸ‘ 24621    πŸ” 8234    πŸ’¬ 1000    πŸ“Œ 641

Things my family appreciated and valued as important educational resources when I was a kid:
National parks
PBS shows
Art & science museums
Public libraries
Public schools

Things my family now vote to defund and destroy:
National parks
PBS shows
Art & science museums
Public libraries
Public schools

06.05.2025 22:34 β€” πŸ‘ 502    πŸ” 112    πŸ’¬ 25    πŸ“Œ 8
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Harvard professors pledge to take pay cut in support of university's fight against Trump administration Harvard University professors are pledging to take a pay cut to help the school fight the Trump administration.

www.cbsnews.com/boston/news/...

06.05.2025 02:12 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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πŸ”₯ β€œThere’s something wrong in this country… everything has gone up but wages… how many yachts and houses does one person need? β€” They want us to stay poor, stay hidden, and die silently.” πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ #FightTheOligarchy

H/T @violadavis.bsky.social

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