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78 YEAR-OLD REP. NADLER TO RETIRE: “Watching the Biden thing really said something about the necessity for generational change in the party, and I think I want to respect that.”
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DSA won’t rule out primary challenge to Hakeem Jeffries 👀

#ReleaseTheCuomoList

"Gen Z men with college degrees now have the same unemployment rate as non-grads," per FORTUNE

HHS plans to cut the national suicide hotline’s program for LGBTQ youth In February, the program received an average of 2,100 contacts per day.

The federal government plans to eliminate services for LGBTQ youth who call 988, the national suicide and crisis hotline, according to a Health and Human Services budget draft leaked last week.

Underfunded Schools Forced To Cut Past Tense From Language Programs

Underfunded Schools Forced To Cut Past Tense From Language Programs
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Judge finds Newsmax aired false and defamatory claims about voting-tech company A Delaware judge finds the right-wing network aired false and defamatory statements about Dominion Voting Systems' role in the 2020 presidential election. A jury trial is slated for late April.

A Delaware judge finds the right-wing network aired false and defamatory statements about Dominion Voting Systems' role in the 2020 presidential election. A jury trial is slated for late April.

Dear Democratic Leaders: Have you started Project 2029 yet? It should contain, at least: Eliminating Citizens United Doubling Minimum Wage Removing Presidential Immunity Breaking Up Massive Corporations SCOTUS Term Limits Expanding SCOTUS to 13 Taxing Mega Churches Women’s Healthcare Rights Reversing Global Warming Medicare for All Assault Weapons Bans.

Democratic Leaders:
PROJECT 2029:
Eliminating Citizens United
Doubling Minimum Wage
Removing Presidential Immunity
Breaking Up Massive Corporations
SCOTUS Term Limits
Expanding SCOTUS to 13
Taxing Mega Churches
Women’s Healthcare Rights
Reversing Global Warming
Medicare for All
Assault Weapons Bans.

New Yorkers and DC residents trying to talk with @schumer.senate.gov are having to push notes through a locked door with police posted outside.

A blue and light-red poster that reads: SANTA'S BRAND NEW SH—T LIST ‘SELL-OUT SCHUMER AND HIS ‘DIRTY DINOS’ WHO VOTED FOR CLOTURE AND FUNDING CR A ‘SHORT’ LIST OF MAGA STOOGES

SHAME ON ‘SELL-OUT SCHUMER’ AND HIS ‘DIRTY DINOS’
who voted for cloture & funding CR!
Those on the SHORT LIST of MAGA stooges just enabled the GOP to completely trash the U.S., to the detriment of us all, especially our children!
This is Hitler’s playbook from almost a century ago!
RESIST! F-TRUMP!

Tennessee once led the U.S. in childhood vaccines; a proposed bill would strip requirements • Tennessee Lookout Tennessee once led the nation in childhood vaccines, but a state House bill would make required vaccines unconstitutional.

Commentary: Since 1967, Tennessee has protected students, faculty, staff, and communities by requiring certain vaccinations for children to attend school but House Joint Resolution 28, by Rep. Gino Bulso, a Brentwood Republican, threatens to make these requirements unconstitutional.

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A few years back, centrist Democrats & the Very Serious People mocked & dismissed the slogan ‘abolish ICE’.

Today’s actions are a reminder of how ICE is a rogue, lawless agency that is easily weaponized by an authoritarian administration & that it very much should be abolished.

we must keep discriminating against cybertruck owners

Vermont towns vote to cut ties with Israeli apartheid Residents across five towns in Vermont voted to cut ties with Israeli apartheid, making the state the first in the country where municipalities have voted to cut economic ties with Israel.

Residents across five towns in Vermont voted to cut ties with Israeli apartheid making the state the first in the country where municipalities have voted to cut economic ties with Israel.

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#Palestine #Israel

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OF COURSE TRUMP WAS GONNA HIDE THE REAL EPSTEIN FILES! Daily Beast reported (based on literal audio of Michael Wolff and Epstein himself in 2017) That Trump and Epstein were best friends for a decade...

Governor Tim Walz says when Democrats are back in power, people are "not going to expect us to tinker around the edge with the ACA; they're going to expect universal healthcare."

These folks have never *ever* believed in freedom of speech, or freedom of any kind but the freedom to amass levels of wealth that are cataclysmic to organized society.

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Chants of “Fuck Eric Adams” and a Luigi plush raffle winner.

Only caught the tail end of it but here’s a snippet of the vibes outside Manhattan Criminal Court today during Luigi Mangione’s follow up court appearance.

National Nuclear Security Administration officials are attempting to notify some employees who had been let go that they are now due to be reinstated — but they're struggling to find them because they don't have their new contact information. nbcnews.to/4104StF

Sources from agencies across federal government telling me all probationary employees are being terminated

Lock Clicks Behind Marco Rubio During Tour Of Salvadoran Prison Cell

Lock Clicks Behind Marco Rubio During Tour Of Salvadoran Prison Cell
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this is a very bad, but potentially very funny, message for dems to send to dem voters

I like how the guys who are telling us to stop being snowflakes over a guy who was backing eugenics and “Indian hate” as recently as 2 months ago are the same ppl who had a multi day meltdown including deportation calls over a Bishop encouraging them to treat immigrants and trans ppl with humanity.

MASS ARREST THE DOGE SCAM ARTISTS!:

Bloomberg reports Edward Coristine, a 19-year-old member of Elon's squad illegally hacking US government agencies, was fired from an internship after he was accused of sharing information with a competitor.