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Trump is “strongly considering” Fox News host and former prosecutor Jeanine Pirro as interim U.S. attorney for DC, ABC reports
Trump eying Fox News host Jeanine Pirro for top prosecutor in DC
President Trump is strongly considering installing Fox News host and ex-prosecutor Jeanine Pirro as interim U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, sources say.
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May 8, 2025 at 7:31 PM
When we enable imperialism under the party that is meant to stand for progressive ideals, how can we act shocked when the one that openly stands for white supremacy takes those same tools and runs with them?

The tools of empire always come home.
March 4, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Fascism spreading got you down? Don't worry! Our former *progressive* leaders are securing those sweet Hollywood talent deals while the world burns! 🫠
February 25, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Jocelynn was 11. She played French horn. Made TikToks. Told her mom she loved her every day. Then her classmates started threatening to call ICE on her family. The school knew. Did nothing. She died by suicide. This is what happens when we enable fascism’s foot soldiers.
February 22, 2025 at 6:18 PM
You know what we think? That you can't *claim* to be on the left while making excuses for atrocities under Dem rule. That you can't *claim* to be on the left when your Insta-activism stops at the border.

Time to choose: Real collectivism or just more American individualism playing woke dress up?
STOP PLAYING WOKE DRESS UP: THE POLITICAL COSTUME PARTY IS OVER
The American left's silence on Palestine, Sudan, and the Congo under Democratic rule exposes the truth: You can't claim collectivism while serving individualism.
open.substack.com
February 6, 2025 at 8:31 PM
While billionaires measure their knob-rockets and politicians debate who deserves to live, communities are quietly building something they can't control, can't co-opt, and can't stop.

Here's your guide to finding (or starting) mutual aid networks near you:
SORRY, YOUR BOOTSTRAPS WON'T SAVE YOU: A GUIDE TO MUTUAL AID IN THE AGE OF BULLSHIT
The system isn't failing us - it's fucking us over exactly as planned. But we're building something better, and we need your help to grow it.
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January 31, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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While billionaires measure their knob-rockets and politicians debate who deserves to live, communities are quietly building something they can't control, can't co-opt, and can't stop.

Here's your guide to finding (or starting) mutual aid networks near you:
SORRY, YOUR BOOTSTRAPS WON'T SAVE YOU: A GUIDE TO MUTUAL AID IN THE AGE OF BULLSHIT
The system isn't failing us - it's fucking us over exactly as planned. But we're building something better, and we need your help to grow it.
open.substack.com
January 31, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Last year in the U.S., while gun manufacturers raked in BILLIONS in profit, 16,500 human beings died from guns and 31,000 were injured.

First graders.
Teenagers.
Moms.

So remind me again what the Second Amendment protects? Because it sure isn't us fellow-peasants.
A WELL-REGULATED PROFIT MARGIN
Take guns out of a racist, profit-hungry society and what do you get? Still racist, still profit-hungry - but our kids don't need to practice dying in their classrooms.
open.substack.com
January 4, 2025 at 8:10 PM
2023: "I was the worst!"
2024: "Hold my weapons contract . . ."
2024: THE FUCK WAS THAT ABOUT?
Your sampling platter of imperial violence, manufactured catastrophes, and that moment millions of us got extremely clear about what's really going on.
open.substack.com
December 31, 2024 at 7:55 PM
A generation learned to count bodies under desks before they learned algebra. Now we're shocked when they do corner office calculations?
THE FUCKERY REPORT: THE CHEAP SEATS WANT A WORD (Dec 21)
Your weekend autopsy of how America's ruling class loses their minds when the cheap seats start calculating the real cost of selective justice.
open.substack.com
December 21, 2024 at 3:27 PM
We only need 30% of global resources for everyone to live. Your death is just better for their profit margins.
YOUR FUNERAL COSTS LESS THAN THEIR YACHT'S COFFEE MAKER
Weird how this recent study shows we could save everyone with just 30% of global resources, yet instead we're just out here funding billionaires' floating death temples and knob-shaped rockets.
open.substack.com
December 20, 2024 at 3:12 PM
Explain to us how their spreadsheet deaths don’t count as terrorism . . .
WEIRD, IS YOUR ALGORITHM NOT TERRORISM?
When the ruling class writes definitions, a CEO's death is terrorism. But when that same CEO's algorithms deny thousands of human beings healthcare until they die? Duuh, that's just business.
open.substack.com
December 18, 2024 at 8:06 PM
We taught an entire generation of kids to hide from death between math and recess — now we’re clutching our Patagonia vests because they don’t shed tears over a healthcare executive who denied coverage to cancer patients while pocketing millions?
SORRY ABOUT YOUR CEO, BUT WE LEARNED MATH UNDER DESKS
A generation raised on active shooter drills is being asked to condemn violence in corner offices while their insulin-rationing neighbors die. The math ain't mathing.
theprogressivists.substack.com
December 17, 2024 at 3:15 PM
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I know the CEO of Ticketmaster is having a bad day lol
BREAKING: The FTC has announced a new rule banning junk fees for tickets and hotels.

This final junk fees rule bans bait-and-switch pricing and all tactics that corporations use to hide the total price of live event tickets, hotels, and vacation rentals.
Federal Trade Commission Announces Bipartisan Rule Banning Junk Ticket and Hotel Fees
www.ftc.gov
December 17, 2024 at 3:12 PM
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BREAKING: The FTC has announced a new rule banning junk fees for tickets and hotels.

This final junk fees rule bans bait-and-switch pricing and all tactics that corporations use to hide the total price of live event tickets, hotels, and vacation rentals.
Federal Trade Commission Announces Bipartisan Rule Banning Junk Ticket and Hotel Fees
www.ftc.gov
December 17, 2024 at 3:11 PM
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Pleased to share this interview with @theprogressivists.com where I share my thoughts on the biggest issue impacting humanity, my favorite book, who inspires me, and the most ridiculous hill I am willing to die on. Enjoy! :)

theprogressivists.substack.com/p/the-anti-b...
THE ANTI-BULLSHIT BREAKFAST CLUB — WITH QASIM RASHID
Welcome to The Anti-Bullshit Breakfast Club, where we tear down the smokescreen with folks who give a damn. This week, human rights heavyweight Qasim Rashid joins the table.
theprogressivists.substack.com
December 16, 2024 at 3:52 PM
"Give me liberty or give me: The righteous fury of a thousand supernovas because I sure as hell am not going quietly." - @qasimrashid.com

MORE OF THIS ENERGY PLEASE, 2025!
THE ANTI-BULLSHIT BREAKFAST CLUB — WITH QASIM RASHID
Welcome to The Anti-Bullshit Breakfast Club, where we tear down the smokescreen with folks who give a damn. This week, human rights heavyweight Qasim Rashid joins the table.
theprogressivists.substack.com
December 16, 2024 at 4:33 PM
U.S. selective justice is wild right now:

- Challenge corporate violence? House arrest
- Express healthcare rage? Ankle monitor
- Run insurance death panels? Corner office throne + bonus check
- Spend a trillion while people starve? Just normal 🎄 things!

Welcome to hell, bring marshmallows.
THE FUCKERY REPORT: THE PEASANTS ARE REVOLTING (Dec 14)
From corner office violence to criminalized rage: Your weekend autopsy of America's war on anyone who dares challenge its corporate kings.
theprogressivists.substack.com
December 14, 2024 at 3:22 PM
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As the news comes out this morning that RFK Jr's lawyer is petitioning the FDA to revoke approval for the Polio vaccine, let's remember what Polio looks like. For many, it meant living as a prisoner in an iron lung. (Photo from @nytimes.com and @apnews.com)
December 13, 2024 at 2:02 PM
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Going after this woman so hard for using that slogan did nothing but reify for the American public that already saw Luigi’s act as carrying so much of their own rage that these corporations are as evil as they were said to be. So maybe they still rule us, but there’s no illusion it’s popular rule.
Briana Boston, the Florida woman who said “delay, deny, depose” on a call with BlueCross BlueShield after a denied claim, has been placed under house arrest.

She is still facing a charge of threatening to conduct a mass shooting or an act of terrorism.

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Briana Boston case: How would attorneys defend against threat accusation?
Criminal defense attorneys are poking holes in the case against Briana Boston, a Lakeland woman who was arrested for allegedly making a threat against her insurance company.
www.wfla.com
December 14, 2024 at 3:02 PM
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They regularly bomb abortion clinics, shoot schoolchildren and unarmed black and brown people under arrest and… silence. But one CEO gets murdered and we need a “national conversation about violence.”

Noted.
December 14, 2024 at 2:30 PM
Welcome to the U.S. in 2024: Where expressing anger at insurance companies who deny up to a third of all claims, rake in hundreds of billions in annual revenue + force hundreds of thousands of families to beg for healthcare on GoFundMe has become a more serious crime than actual violence . . .
DELAY, DENY, DETAINED FOR TERRORISM
When corporations use the tactics of delay, deny, depose, thousands of people die. When a mother speaks them in anger, she faces 15 years . . .
open.substack.com
December 13, 2024 at 7:48 PM
What happens when Scrooge isn't just one miserly old man, but an entire fucking empire with nuclear weapons and a PR team, hoarding a third of the world's wealth while its people die from preventable diseases?
THE GHOST OF AMERICA PAST: RECEIPTS OF AN EMPIRE
A third of the world's wealth, millions in poverty, and three ghosts with receipts. The empire faces its demons . . .
open.substack.com
December 11, 2024 at 7:15 PM
A nation where people ration insulin while UnitedHealthcare posts $324B in revenue isn't a society. It's a pressure cooker.
THIS WAS NEVER ABOUT ONE CEO
Penn grad Luigi Mangione's arrest for killing UnitedHealthcare's CEO forces a truth upon us: This isn't about violence. It's about the state-sanctioned corporate machine strangling us all.
theprogressivists.substack.com
December 10, 2024 at 6:47 PM