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Chicago's ICE resistance just showed the world that everyday Americans are good and fearless in fighting for their communities

But our cowardly elites -- especially Senate Democrats -- still don't get it

My new column on America's great disconnect www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...

“And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed – if all records told the same tale – then the lie passed into history and became truth. ‘Who controls the past,’ ran the Party slogan, ‘controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.”

- 1984, George Orwell

Debunking All the B.S. About Zohran Mamdani Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic nominee for mayor of New York, is facing a wave of Islamophobic misinformation attacking his character and politics

• Mamdani is not in the country illegally
• He does not have any connection to 9/11 or jihadist terrorism
• Mamdani hasn’t actually said or done anything antisemitic
• He did not call to ‘globalize the intifada’
• He’s not a communist

Howard Stern popularized this. Express the most banal, misogynistic, patriarchal views, and then say “no one wants to hear this,” or “no one else dares to say this.” Frame your most mainstream conservative ideas as radical and new. You’re a misunderstood rebel!

MEDIA: Are you a communist?

MAMDANI: I am not ... I call myself a democratic socialist in many ways inspired by the words of Dr. King from decades ago, who said: 'Call it democracy or call it democratic socialism, there has to be a better distribution of wealth for all of God's children'

So is Clinton, but as long as he puts out a PR blurb about Mamdani it’s all good, I guess

No, we know Republicans exist, and we know that Republican policies (and plenty of moderate Dem ones) are damaging to the interests of the 99%, yet decades of rhetoric in part spewed by MSM have convinced people to vote against their own interests.

Except the establishment IS conspiring against them, and that’s a big part of the reason that people have been misled to believe that popular left wing policies will somehow hurt them by helping POC. You can’t separate those two things.

We can beat Cuomo.

In the Democratic primary, rank Mamdani, Lander, Myrie, Adrienne Adams, and Ramos (or a fifth person who IS NOT CUOMO).

This is winnable.

And remember to verify! It is legal for federal agents to lie to you. Just because they say they’re an EMT, delivery person, etc., doesn’t mean they are.

Do. Not. Rank. Andrew. Cuomo.

Send him back under the rock he crawled out from!

Inside Trump’s Rushed Effort to Deport 238 Migrants (Gift Article) The Trump administration sent them to a prison in El Salvador under a wartime act, calling them members of a Venezuelan gang. But a New York Times investigation found little evidence of criminal backg...

Today’s essential read.

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McCarthyism and the Red Scare | Miller Center The paranoia about the internal Communist threat—what we call the Red Scare—reached a fever pitch between 1950 and 1954, when Senator Joe McCarthy of Wisconsin, a right-wing Republican, launched a ser...

"I just don't understand how our country is like this now, this has never been who we are."

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In this fascist era, we already have people incapable of celebrating progress or positive development and who reflexively greet any instance of it with suspicion and cynicism: fascists. Do what fascists can’t do: Celebrate progress.

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All of the elite responses to the UHC/Luigi thing seem incapable of grasping that people broadly recognize now that the Proper Channels they insist everyone should direct their grievances into are designed to waste your time, take your money, or both.