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Happening now: Hakeem Jeffries holds a press conference with Rev. William Barber and others, decrying cuts to healthcare and voicing concerns about expiring SNAP benefits.
Jeffries calls healthcare cuts “policy violence.”
Barber says they asked Johnson for a meeting, but he was “too busy”
Jeffries calls healthcare cuts “policy violence.”
Barber says they asked Johnson for a meeting, but he was “too busy”
October 30, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Happening now: Hakeem Jeffries holds a press conference with Rev. William Barber and others, decrying cuts to healthcare and voicing concerns about expiring SNAP benefits.
Jeffries calls healthcare cuts “policy violence.”
Barber says they asked Johnson for a meeting, but he was “too busy”
Jeffries calls healthcare cuts “policy violence.”
Barber says they asked Johnson for a meeting, but he was “too busy”
Indicting anyone on pretextual charges like this is bad. I don't think the fact that one of the indictees is a minor candidate for U.S. House matters in the slightest.
October 29, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Indicting anyone on pretextual charges like this is bad. I don't think the fact that one of the indictees is a minor candidate for U.S. House matters in the slightest.
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Read every word!
"You say you hate empire, but you only ever mean one. You rage at U.S. hegemony while excusing Russian conquest. You romanticize “multipolarity,” as if choosing a different empire were the same as dismantling one...
dumplingradical.substack.com/p/a-letter-t...
"You say you hate empire, but you only ever mean one. You rage at U.S. hegemony while excusing Russian conquest. You romanticize “multipolarity,” as if choosing a different empire were the same as dismantling one...
dumplingradical.substack.com/p/a-letter-t...
a letter to the western left
with frustration, from central eastern europe
dumplingradical.substack.com
October 25, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Read every word!
"You say you hate empire, but you only ever mean one. You rage at U.S. hegemony while excusing Russian conquest. You romanticize “multipolarity,” as if choosing a different empire were the same as dismantling one...
dumplingradical.substack.com/p/a-letter-t...
"You say you hate empire, but you only ever mean one. You rage at U.S. hegemony while excusing Russian conquest. You romanticize “multipolarity,” as if choosing a different empire were the same as dismantling one...
dumplingradical.substack.com/p/a-letter-t...
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life hack: set up a rule in your email app to automatically trash all emails containing the word "thought leader"
September 23, 2025 at 3:48 PM
life hack: set up a rule in your email app to automatically trash all emails containing the word "thought leader"
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I’m running for the U.S. Senate.
Billionaires have taken over Texas and taken over America — but together, we can take power back for working people.
youtube.com/shorts/IpO0S...
Billionaires have taken over Texas and taken over America — but together, we can take power back for working people.
youtube.com/shorts/IpO0S...
I’m running for the U.S. Senate
YouTube video by James Talarico
youtube.com
September 9, 2025 at 12:25 PM
I’m running for the U.S. Senate.
Billionaires have taken over Texas and taken over America — but together, we can take power back for working people.
youtube.com/shorts/IpO0S...
Billionaires have taken over Texas and taken over America — but together, we can take power back for working people.
youtube.com/shorts/IpO0S...
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Who made this? 😂
August 9, 2025 at 11:27 PM
Who made this? 😂
We’re six months in, and it’s already impossible to remember we’re in this mess because egg prices were a little high last fall.
August 8, 2025 at 3:14 PM
We’re six months in, and it’s already impossible to remember we’re in this mess because egg prices were a little high last fall.
Question: If a liberal President were acting as Trump is, ignoring law and custom in pursuit of some substantive policy goals that we like, what would you think?
July 21, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Question: If a liberal President were acting as Trump is, ignoring law and custom in pursuit of some substantive policy goals that we like, what would you think?
I see all it took is one night and the Epstein story is all but gone, replaced with fascism-porn about canceling some public TV and radio contracts.
July 18, 2025 at 12:22 PM
I see all it took is one night and the Epstein story is all but gone, replaced with fascism-porn about canceling some public TV and radio contracts.
Ok so points to the Murdoch owned WSJ for hitting publish despite the
threats.
threats.
July 17, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Ok so points to the Murdoch owned WSJ for hitting publish despite the
threats.
threats.
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I am seeing people suggest that nonprofits shouldn't work with other orgs or people who hold at least one (1) repugnant view, and I have to tell you that if everyone followed that advice then nonprofits couldn't work with anyone.
May 13, 2025 at 7:22 PM
I am seeing people suggest that nonprofits shouldn't work with other orgs or people who hold at least one (1) repugnant view, and I have to tell you that if everyone followed that advice then nonprofits couldn't work with anyone.
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The only thing saving Hegseth's job right now is the White House staff's inability to think of a reason why appointing Hegseth in the first place wasn't actually Trump's fault.
April 21, 2025 at 6:37 PM
The only thing saving Hegseth's job right now is the White House staff's inability to think of a reason why appointing Hegseth in the first place wasn't actually Trump's fault.
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Wishing a happy and meaningful Passover to all who celebrate. Chag Pesach Sameach!
April 12, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Wishing a happy and meaningful Passover to all who celebrate. Chag Pesach Sameach!
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VERY IMPORTANT: This is just a trick. It's a way for Democratic senator to say they oppose the bill while letting it pass. It's not much of a trick. I mean, everyone will see it. But still this is simply a way of hoodwinking constituents. If they want to vote for it just vote for it.
One more thing: Punchbowl reports that some Democratic senators are considering allowing the CR to proceed to a floor vote, lowering the threshold from 60 to 51 votes. Any such vote is the same as a vote for the CR but with even less integrity. Please encourage your colleagues to be better than this
March 12, 2025 at 3:54 PM
VERY IMPORTANT: This is just a trick. It's a way for Democratic senator to say they oppose the bill while letting it pass. It's not much of a trick. I mean, everyone will see it. But still this is simply a way of hoodwinking constituents. If they want to vote for it just vote for it.
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Been saying this a lot recently: it’s important to continue to assert existing legal tenets and protections. Just because the admin says something doesn’t make it true or legal. If your response is “nothing in the law matters anymore,” that’s not particularly useful, nor actually true (for now)
Again, the Secretary of State has no authority to “revoke” green cards.
UPDATE — Secretary of State Marco Rubio has now commented on the Trump admin’s detaining & attempted green card revocation of a Columbia Gaza encampment student negotiator:
“We will be revoking the visas and/or green cards of Hamas supporters in America so they can be deported.”
“We will be revoking the visas and/or green cards of Hamas supporters in America so they can be deported.”
March 10, 2025 at 2:23 AM
Been saying this a lot recently: it’s important to continue to assert existing legal tenets and protections. Just because the admin says something doesn’t make it true or legal. If your response is “nothing in the law matters anymore,” that’s not particularly useful, nor actually true (for now)
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Everybody's upset abt this or that thing Dems did or didn't do at the faux-SOTU. Poor messaging, poor this, bad that. Very few of those things matter much or will be things we'll remember in a couple months. What they do on the CR really does matter. A LOT. That shld be 10x more focus anything else.
March 7, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Everybody's upset abt this or that thing Dems did or didn't do at the faux-SOTU. Poor messaging, poor this, bad that. Very few of those things matter much or will be things we'll remember in a couple months. What they do on the CR really does matter. A LOT. That shld be 10x more focus anything else.
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I say this as a former theater kid: There is an EPIDEMIC of flamboyant theater kids running our country.
How is this not parody? How is this not a scene on Veep?
How is this not parody? How is this not a scene on Veep?
House Democrats sing “We Shall Overcome” following Rep. Al Green’s censure:
March 6, 2025 at 4:19 PM
I say this as a former theater kid: There is an EPIDEMIC of flamboyant theater kids running our country.
How is this not parody? How is this not a scene on Veep?
How is this not parody? How is this not a scene on Veep?
Zelenskyy is literally George Washington leading his men across the Delaware, while Trump/Vance are the royalists in their estates lecturing him about how George III was right.
February 28, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Zelenskyy is literally George Washington leading his men across the Delaware, while Trump/Vance are the royalists in their estates lecturing him about how George III was right.
Rules for Trump/Mush opposition: Don’t react to outrageous statements, only actions; don’t overreact to DOGE actions than don’t actually do much in the real world; do message like mad with everyone you know who isn’t already in the opposition. Never let anyone get fatalistic, which is their goal.
February 24, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Rules for Trump/Mush opposition: Don’t react to outrageous statements, only actions; don’t overreact to DOGE actions than don’t actually do much in the real world; do message like mad with everyone you know who isn’t already in the opposition. Never let anyone get fatalistic, which is their goal.