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This is a vetted fundraiser for the family of Renee Good, the woman who was killed by ICE in Minneapolis.
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Donate to Support for Renee Good’s wife and son, organized by Mattie Weiss
Please support the wife and son of Renee Good as they grapple with the devastating … Mattie Weiss needs your support for Support for Renee Good’s wife and son
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January 8, 2026 at 2:29 AM
This is a vetted fundraiser for the family of Renee Good, the woman who was killed by ICE in Minneapolis.
www.gofundme.com/f/support-fo...
www.gofundme.com/f/support-fo...
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Dearest Renee. A light in this bleak world. Gone far too soon. #ReneeGood
January 8, 2026 at 2:38 AM
Dearest Renee. A light in this bleak world. Gone far too soon. #ReneeGood
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reporter: donald trump has announced that americans must evolve into a race of hardy metal men via mandated injections of liquid mercury. your response?
klobuchar: *visibly straining to remember line consultants came up with* donkey kong donald’s economic policies are “bananas” for small business
klobuchar: *visibly straining to remember line consultants came up with* donkey kong donald’s economic policies are “bananas” for small business
April 4, 2025 at 9:05 PM
reporter: donald trump has announced that americans must evolve into a race of hardy metal men via mandated injections of liquid mercury. your response?
klobuchar: *visibly straining to remember line consultants came up with* donkey kong donald’s economic policies are “bananas” for small business
klobuchar: *visibly straining to remember line consultants came up with* donkey kong donald’s economic policies are “bananas” for small business
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It is now confirmed from multiple sources that ICE shot a legal observer dead on Portland in Minneapolis between 34th and 33rd street. The victim is dead
January 7, 2026 at 4:28 PM
It is now confirmed from multiple sources that ICE shot a legal observer dead on Portland in Minneapolis between 34th and 33rd street. The victim is dead
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By retreating only to "kitchen table issues" to avoid being labeled "woke," Democratic leaders have left an open goal for the GOP. When you treat the harassment of vulnerable communities as a "distraction" rather than a crisis, you're not avoiding a fight: you're just forfeiting it.
January 2, 2026 at 6:38 PM
By retreating only to "kitchen table issues" to avoid being labeled "woke," Democratic leaders have left an open goal for the GOP. When you treat the harassment of vulnerable communities as a "distraction" rather than a crisis, you're not avoiding a fight: you're just forfeiting it.
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Why decline all these chances to defend feminism? Because to participate would be accepting the premise that our rights and humanity are up for debate in the first place.
Once you’ve conceded that it’s reasonable to ask whether women’s equality was a mistake, you’ve already lost.
Once you’ve conceded that it’s reasonable to ask whether women’s equality was a mistake, you’ve already lost.
December 20, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Why decline all these chances to defend feminism? Because to participate would be accepting the premise that our rights and humanity are up for debate in the first place.
Once you’ve conceded that it’s reasonable to ask whether women’s equality was a mistake, you’ve already lost.
Once you’ve conceded that it’s reasonable to ask whether women’s equality was a mistake, you’ve already lost.
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Confirmed: House Democratic leaders have decided to use a stock trading ban bill as a campaign issue rather than actually pass something that had the GOP support to advance.
Jeffries' team is actively discouraging participation in the bipartisan bill and warning outside groups too.
Jeffries' team is actively discouraging participation in the bipartisan bill and warning outside groups too.
Jeffries Undercuts Congressional Stock Trading Ban - The American Prospect
A bipartisan solution was gaining momentum, but the House Democratic leader just issued his own bill that will prevent consensus.
prospect.org
December 19, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Confirmed: House Democratic leaders have decided to use a stock trading ban bill as a campaign issue rather than actually pass something that had the GOP support to advance.
Jeffries' team is actively discouraging participation in the bipartisan bill and warning outside groups too.
Jeffries' team is actively discouraging participation in the bipartisan bill and warning outside groups too.
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Congratulations to everyone who wrote an op-ed about how he just wants americans to eat better
BREAKING: RFKJr directs that the US instantly stop recommending all vaccinations for children. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
Under RFK Jr., U.S. plans to stop recommending most vaccines, defer to doctors
The plan, which is not finalized, suggests children get fewer shots and shifts to a model telling parents to consult doctors to make their own vaccine choices.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 19, 2025 at 11:56 PM
Congratulations to everyone who wrote an op-ed about how he just wants americans to eat better
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The official death count in South Sudan is nearly 1,600, making it the worst cholera epidemic in the country’s history.
But that toll is a dramatic undercount.
ProPublica found newly dug, unmarked graves alongside roads and in backyards.
But that toll is a dramatic undercount.
ProPublica found newly dug, unmarked graves alongside roads and in backyards.
Trump Officials Celebrated With Cake After Slashing Aid. Then People Died of Cholera.
Behind closed doors in Washington, top advisers made a series of decisions that had devastating repercussions for the poorest country on earth. We went to South Sudan and found people who died as a re...
www.propublica.org
December 20, 2025 at 2:40 AM
The official death count in South Sudan is nearly 1,600, making it the worst cholera epidemic in the country’s history.
But that toll is a dramatic undercount.
ProPublica found newly dug, unmarked graves alongside roads and in backyards.
But that toll is a dramatic undercount.
ProPublica found newly dug, unmarked graves alongside roads and in backyards.
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“Gantchev suffered from type 2 diabetes and told his wife no diet accommodations were made for him. She and Anna said the small amount of food that is given to people detained at North Lake was not enough for maintaining Gantchev's blood sugar levels.”
Bulgarian Chicago business owner dies in ICE custody, sparking calls for 'immediate investigation'
https://abc7chicago.com/post/bulgarian-chicago-business-owner-nenko-gantchev-dies-ice-custody-family-congresswoman-call-immediate-investigation/18301520/
https://abc7chicago.com/post/bulgarian-chicago-business-owner-nenko-gantchev-dies-ice-custody-family-congresswoman-call-immediate-investigation/18301520/
Bulgarian Chicago business owner dies in ICE custody, sparking calls for 'immediate investigation'
A Bulgarian man from Chicago arrested during an immigration enforcement 'blitz' has died while in the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement at a Michigan private prison, the ABC7 I-Team has learned.
abc7chicago.com
December 20, 2025 at 3:04 AM
“Gantchev suffered from type 2 diabetes and told his wife no diet accommodations were made for him. She and Anna said the small amount of food that is given to people detained at North Lake was not enough for maintaining Gantchev's blood sugar levels.”
Why are $8.15 MILLION of public funds being given to a for-profit developer to support construction of expensive condos in Lynn that are far too expensive for the vast majority of Lynn residents?
Read more & sign a letter of opposition: form.jotform.com/253446833630... @progressivemass.bsky.social
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No public dollars for expensive homes!
Please click the link to complete this form.
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December 14, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Why are $8.15 MILLION of public funds being given to a for-profit developer to support construction of expensive condos in Lynn that are far too expensive for the vast majority of Lynn residents?
Read more & sign a letter of opposition: form.jotform.com/253446833630... @progressivemass.bsky.social
Read more & sign a letter of opposition: form.jotform.com/253446833630... @progressivemass.bsky.social
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George Orwell went to Spain to fight fascism. Literally. Not to take holidays, but to stand against the likes of Robinson and Musk.
Orwell saw in Spain how fascist "leaders" turned resentment into organised cruelty. That is why he bled in the trenches there.
Orwell saw in Spain how fascist "leaders" turned resentment into organised cruelty. That is why he bled in the trenches there.
September 13, 2025 at 10:37 PM
George Orwell went to Spain to fight fascism. Literally. Not to take holidays, but to stand against the likes of Robinson and Musk.
Orwell saw in Spain how fascist "leaders" turned resentment into organised cruelty. That is why he bled in the trenches there.
Orwell saw in Spain how fascist "leaders" turned resentment into organised cruelty. That is why he bled in the trenches there.
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In the future, some teacher somewhere will be wondering if they are allowed to post Black Lives Matter on their private Facebook page and they will wonder why you removed the module on racial justice from your syllabus when no one made you do it.
August 15, 2025 at 1:41 AM
In the future, some teacher somewhere will be wondering if they are allowed to post Black Lives Matter on their private Facebook page and they will wonder why you removed the module on racial justice from your syllabus when no one made you do it.
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There was a wild hypercompliance rush in Florida, much worse than even the terrible law (now almost fully rejected in court) required.
This caused real damage, and continues to.
This caused real damage, and continues to.
August 15, 2025 at 1:38 AM
There was a wild hypercompliance rush in Florida, much worse than even the terrible law (now almost fully rejected in court) required.
This caused real damage, and continues to.
This caused real damage, and continues to.
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Maybe the clearest way to see it is to go back a few steps in the fascism creep.
So for instance, to answer: "should I adjust my lesson plan to remove disfavored/DEI words even though no one demanded it"
Remember school districts that took books off the shelves at the first whiff of trouble. +
So for instance, to answer: "should I adjust my lesson plan to remove disfavored/DEI words even though no one demanded it"
Remember school districts that took books off the shelves at the first whiff of trouble. +
August 15, 2025 at 1:35 AM
Maybe the clearest way to see it is to go back a few steps in the fascism creep.
So for instance, to answer: "should I adjust my lesson plan to remove disfavored/DEI words even though no one demanded it"
Remember school districts that took books off the shelves at the first whiff of trouble. +
So for instance, to answer: "should I adjust my lesson plan to remove disfavored/DEI words even though no one demanded it"
Remember school districts that took books off the shelves at the first whiff of trouble. +
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They really are planning to destroy you BUT you don't have to preemptively cede ground
A difficult reality for anyone to balance in their head at once, much less help others to
A difficult reality for anyone to balance in their head at once, much less help others to
August 15, 2025 at 1:27 AM
They really are planning to destroy you BUT you don't have to preemptively cede ground
A difficult reality for anyone to balance in their head at once, much less help others to
A difficult reality for anyone to balance in their head at once, much less help others to
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It is very difficult, when organizing people in this moment, to balance two true things in tension w/ each other:
1. The threat is bigger/longer than you are perceiving and you are underreacting on offense
2. The threat is less proximate/powerful than you fear and you are overreacting on defense
1. The threat is bigger/longer than you are perceiving and you are underreacting on offense
2. The threat is less proximate/powerful than you fear and you are overreacting on defense
August 15, 2025 at 1:23 AM
It is very difficult, when organizing people in this moment, to balance two true things in tension w/ each other:
1. The threat is bigger/longer than you are perceiving and you are underreacting on offense
2. The threat is less proximate/powerful than you fear and you are overreacting on defense
1. The threat is bigger/longer than you are perceiving and you are underreacting on offense
2. The threat is less proximate/powerful than you fear and you are overreacting on defense
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In a lot of way Super PACs serve the same role private prisons have in discussions around incarceration. It’s a problem but people are very invested in making it the only problem.
July 19, 2025 at 2:50 PM
In a lot of way Super PACs serve the same role private prisons have in discussions around incarceration. It’s a problem but people are very invested in making it the only problem.
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yes. i don't think enough people understand how much trump dominated non-english-language media in 2024, often with blatant lies about what trump's plan and agenda were that contradicted both his actual policies and his english-language campaign/propaganda's stated policies.
Trump-Mamdani voters are not hard to understand. They're Asian or Hispanic, infrequent voters who dont follow politics, voted for Trump over cost of living & crime issues solely, and voted Mamdani cause he canvassed them and talked CoL issues.
www.washingtonpost.com/style/2025/0...
www.washingtonpost.com/style/2025/0...
America, meet the Trump-Mamdani voter
Yes, such a person exists. Should anyone be surprised?
www.washingtonpost.com
July 19, 2025 at 4:38 PM
yes. i don't think enough people understand how much trump dominated non-english-language media in 2024, often with blatant lies about what trump's plan and agenda were that contradicted both his actual policies and his english-language campaign/propaganda's stated policies.
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Reminder: more than 60% of four year institutions let in at least 75% of applicants. A school with an admissions rate of 65% is one of the more selective schools in the country. College admissions shit is entirely elite neuroses about like 100 schools, or total bullshit.
oh, we have some straightforward gutter racism. “the blacks and the browns are the reason white people can’t get ahead” www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
July 12, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Reminder: more than 60% of four year institutions let in at least 75% of applicants. A school with an admissions rate of 65% is one of the more selective schools in the country. College admissions shit is entirely elite neuroses about like 100 schools, or total bullshit.
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You owe it to yourself to develop your own interpretation of a text, & there's no shortcut to doing that but sitting & going through all of its words & absorbing them.
July 6, 2025 at 11:31 PM
You owe it to yourself to develop your own interpretation of a text, & there's no shortcut to doing that but sitting & going through all of its words & absorbing them.
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But congestion pricing polled terribly.
The “popularists” who run Democratic party strategy said we shouldn’t do it. Because the polls were bad.
But public opinion can change, and politicians can and should lead it.
Vote for politicians who will lead public opinion, not follow it.
The “popularists” who run Democratic party strategy said we shouldn’t do it. Because the polls were bad.
But public opinion can change, and politicians can and should lead it.
Vote for politicians who will lead public opinion, not follow it.
Congestion pricing by the # ‘s 6 months in:
* 67k fewer drivers entering zone daily
* Delays in Holland Tunnel down 65%
* Traffic deaths down 32% so far in 2025
* $500m projected this year for MTA capital improvements
* B’way attendance +12%
* Subway ridership +7%
So yes this program is a SUCCESS.
* 67k fewer drivers entering zone daily
* Delays in Holland Tunnel down 65%
* Traffic deaths down 32% so far in 2025
* $500m projected this year for MTA capital improvements
* B’way attendance +12%
* Subway ridership +7%
So yes this program is a SUCCESS.
July 6, 2025 at 2:11 AM
But congestion pricing polled terribly.
The “popularists” who run Democratic party strategy said we shouldn’t do it. Because the polls were bad.
But public opinion can change, and politicians can and should lead it.
Vote for politicians who will lead public opinion, not follow it.
The “popularists” who run Democratic party strategy said we shouldn’t do it. Because the polls were bad.
But public opinion can change, and politicians can and should lead it.
Vote for politicians who will lead public opinion, not follow it.
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“Homicides and nonfatal shootings dipped slightly from 2021 to 2022, but then fell off precipitously after that.”
Community based approaches take discipline and time, results are not overnight which tough on crime approaches can appear to be though the greater problem continues to fester.
Community based approaches take discipline and time, results are not overnight which tough on crime approaches can appear to be though the greater problem continues to fester.
#Baltimore Mayor #BrandonScott invested in 42 summer youth camps, 29 literacy programs, extended the rec center hours to 11 p.m, planned block parties, opened the pools for safe fun, & opened several schools up for summer classes. Crime is down 62%. 🔥🔥 www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
Baltimore is seeing the city’s fewest homicides in 50 years. Here’s why.
Multiple people have taken credit for the historic drop that mirrors a national decrease in violent crimes. Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott says it’s due to a community-based approach to gun violence.
www.washingtonpost.com
July 6, 2025 at 12:22 PM
“Homicides and nonfatal shootings dipped slightly from 2021 to 2022, but then fell off precipitously after that.”
Community based approaches take discipline and time, results are not overnight which tough on crime approaches can appear to be though the greater problem continues to fester.
Community based approaches take discipline and time, results are not overnight which tough on crime approaches can appear to be though the greater problem continues to fester.
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Rogan literally spread conspiracy theories about migrants when interviewing Trump. He doesn't get to disown this one.
July 3, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Rogan literally spread conspiracy theories about migrants when interviewing Trump. He doesn't get to disown this one.