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Believer in Education, the Constitution and the Rule of Law. Dog lover, orchid whisperer, rebel with many causes. 🫸🏼 All red*hats blocked.
When I first heard this song in 1980, I didn't really understand what it was about. Now I do and it's happening here. #savedemocracy
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Clampdown - Remastered
The Clash · London Calling (Remastered) · Song · 1979
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August 16, 2025 at 3:23 PM
When I first heard this song in 1980, I didn't really understand what it was about. Now I do and it's happening here. #savedemocracy
open.spotify.com/track/66Mwdl...
open.spotify.com/track/66Mwdl...
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Americans are relearning the lesson we learned during the Gilded Age of the late 1890s, when robber barons ran the government and the economy for their own benefit: Oligarchy is incompatible with the common good.
I'm hopeful we'll respond with a new progressive movement.
I'm hopeful we'll respond with a new progressive movement.
August 6, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Americans are relearning the lesson we learned during the Gilded Age of the late 1890s, when robber barons ran the government and the economy for their own benefit: Oligarchy is incompatible with the common good.
I'm hopeful we'll respond with a new progressive movement.
I'm hopeful we'll respond with a new progressive movement.
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Yet another reason Ed Martin should never have been in place as the US attorney in Washington DC, even as an acting. He doesn’t understand that the president pardon power only extends to federal prosecutions, not state ones.
August 6, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Yet another reason Ed Martin should never have been in place as the US attorney in Washington DC, even as an acting. He doesn’t understand that the president pardon power only extends to federal prosecutions, not state ones.
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Hiding in Penske trucks at a Home Depot and calling it “Operation Trojan Horse”…
I just. I mean. The longer we allow the GOP to kidnap brown people and put them in concentration camps, the more complicit we become.
I just. I mean. The longer we allow the GOP to kidnap brown people and put them in concentration camps, the more complicit we become.
August 6, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Hiding in Penske trucks at a Home Depot and calling it “Operation Trojan Horse”…
I just. I mean. The longer we allow the GOP to kidnap brown people and put them in concentration camps, the more complicit we become.
I just. I mean. The longer we allow the GOP to kidnap brown people and put them in concentration camps, the more complicit we become.
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If 2025 were a drink, it would be a colonoscopy prep.
August 6, 2025 at 12:27 PM
If 2025 were a drink, it would be a colonoscopy prep.
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"The Tea app is yet another example of surveillance tech enabling us to turn one another into content fodder for the tech industry."
Read Politics editor @leximcmenamin.com's latest op-ed ⤵️
Read Politics editor @leximcmenamin.com's latest op-ed ⤵️
The Tea App Markets Itself As A Safe Whisper Network. It's Just More Digital Surveillance
The biggest red flag is that the Tea app seems to be an attempt to quick-fix on an individual level what is a structural problem — that is, misogyny — via surveillance culture.
www.teenvogue.com
August 4, 2025 at 8:22 PM
"The Tea app is yet another example of surveillance tech enabling us to turn one another into content fodder for the tech industry."
Read Politics editor @leximcmenamin.com's latest op-ed ⤵️
Read Politics editor @leximcmenamin.com's latest op-ed ⤵️
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Jessica: As for the manufacturing boom which he is talking about—in the latest jobs report, we lost 11,000 manufacturing jobs and the manufacturing industry has contracted the most we have seen in the last nine months,
August 6, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Jessica: As for the manufacturing boom which he is talking about—in the latest jobs report, we lost 11,000 manufacturing jobs and the manufacturing industry has contracted the most we have seen in the last nine months,
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A former “Alligator Alcatraz” worker says detainees are subject to “inhumane” conditions — packed by the hundreds into cages without sunlight, with overflowing toilets and limited access to showers.
Former 'Alligator Alcatraz' worker describes 'inhumane' conditions inside
In an exclusive report, NBC6 spoke with a former corrections officer who says she saw hundreds held in cages with no sunlight, backed up toilets and little access to showers.
nbcnews.to
August 6, 2025 at 3:08 PM
A former “Alligator Alcatraz” worker says detainees are subject to “inhumane” conditions — packed by the hundreds into cages without sunlight, with overflowing toilets and limited access to showers.
They're all hypocrites. And that's being incredibly generous.
August 6, 2025 at 11:12 PM
They're all hypocrites. And that's being incredibly generous.
Horrifying but true
'We’ll get you trained and ready to be equipped to go out on the streets and help protect families,” Noem said.
It is all of us, not just the migrants, who will need to be protected from fascist state police they are creating-mark my words.
It is all of us, not just the migrants, who will need to be protected from fascist state police they are creating-mark my words.
Homeland Security removes age limits for ICE recruits to boost hiring for Trump deportations
The Department of Homeland Security has removed age limits for new hires at the agency responsible for immigration enforcement.
apnews.com
August 6, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Horrifying but true
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Trump has doubled his net worth to over $5 billion in the last 6 months and handed himself a billion-dollar retrofitted jet courtesy of US taxpayers but hey, glad his $33k monthly paycheck was donated. Heroic stuff.
August 6, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Trump has doubled his net worth to over $5 billion in the last 6 months and handed himself a billion-dollar retrofitted jet courtesy of US taxpayers but hey, glad his $33k monthly paycheck was donated. Heroic stuff.
I need to leave this hell site, aka Amerika
Trump Administration Says Teenagers Can Now be ICE Agents
Trump administration says teenagers can now be ICE agents
ICE is offering incentives including signing bonuses of up to $50,000, student loan forgiveness and extensive overtime opportunities.
www.newsweek.com
August 6, 2025 at 11:04 PM
I need to leave this hell site, aka Amerika
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In 2016, Ghislaine Maxwell falsely stated, under oath, that she was not aware that Jeffrey Epstein recruited underage girls for sex (you know, the ones she was actually recruiting on his behalf). She was charged with two counts of perjury for this.
Remind me why we give a shit what she says now?
Remind me why we give a shit what she says now?
August 6, 2025 at 6:54 PM
In 2016, Ghislaine Maxwell falsely stated, under oath, that she was not aware that Jeffrey Epstein recruited underage girls for sex (you know, the ones she was actually recruiting on his behalf). She was charged with two counts of perjury for this.
Remind me why we give a shit what she says now?
Remind me why we give a shit what she says now?
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Here's how to leak tips and information to Mother Jones confidentially: www.motherjones.com/contribute/h...
a man wearing a plaid shirt is talking on a telephone
Alt: Robert Redford in All the President's Men
media.tenor.com
August 6, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Here's how to leak tips and information to Mother Jones confidentially: www.motherjones.com/contribute/h...
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If you are silent then you are accepting Nazism is normal and shouldn’t change. Don’t be silent ♥️🤍💙
August 6, 2025 at 9:38 PM
If you are silent then you are accepting Nazism is normal and shouldn’t change. Don’t be silent ♥️🤍💙
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This is not a coding error.
August 6, 2025 at 4:44 PM
This is not a coding error.
"If these creatures can get along, why the hell can't humans?" 💛🤍🖤🤎💜💙🩵🧡❤️💚 #peace
August 6, 2025 at 10:33 PM
"If these creatures can get along, why the hell can't humans?" 💛🤍🖤🤎💜💙🩵🧡❤️💚 #peace
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This is what media sanewashing our insane president looks like, courtesy today of ABC, CNN and The NY Times:
August 6, 2025 at 4:16 AM
This is what media sanewashing our insane president looks like, courtesy today of ABC, CNN and The NY Times:
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We can’t lose focus on what matters – right now, Republicans in Texas are trying to gerrymander district lines to unfairly win five seats in next year’s midterm elections. This is a power grab that undermines our democracy.
Texas: Your vote matters—and so does your map. And right now, power-hungry politicians are trying to gerrymander it to silence your voices. Join @redistrictfdn.bsky.social for a virtual event to learn how redistricting shapes your vote—and how you can take action. 🔗 www.mobilize.us/allontheline...
August 5, 2025 at 9:15 PM
We can’t lose focus on what matters – right now, Republicans in Texas are trying to gerrymander district lines to unfairly win five seats in next year’s midterm elections. This is a power grab that undermines our democracy.
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Trump is the most corrupt president in history. Lest we forget, Qatar gave him a jet… and the taxpayer is about to spend almost $1 billion to fit it for AF1 service.
AND HE TAKES THE JET WITH HIM WHEN HE LEAVES OFFICE.
Staggering corruption from a scumbag of a president
AND HE TAKES THE JET WITH HIM WHEN HE LEAVES OFFICE.
Staggering corruption from a scumbag of a president
August 6, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Trump is the most corrupt president in history. Lest we forget, Qatar gave him a jet… and the taxpayer is about to spend almost $1 billion to fit it for AF1 service.
AND HE TAKES THE JET WITH HIM WHEN HE LEAVES OFFICE.
Staggering corruption from a scumbag of a president
AND HE TAKES THE JET WITH HIM WHEN HE LEAVES OFFICE.
Staggering corruption from a scumbag of a president
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ICE is about to go on a recruitment ad blitz, including on Hulu, HBO Max, and Amazon Prime www.404media.co/ice-is-about...
August 5, 2025 at 4:24 PM
ICE is about to go on a recruitment ad blitz, including on Hulu, HBO Max, and Amazon Prime www.404media.co/ice-is-about...
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It drives Jonathan Turley crazy when I remind everyone that he is just Mike Lindell with tenure. So, please make sure not to amplify this message.👇
Jonathan Turley is just Mike Lindell with tenure.
Jonathan Turley is just Mike Lindell with tenure.
August 5, 2025 at 3:31 PM
It drives Jonathan Turley crazy when I remind everyone that he is just Mike Lindell with tenure. So, please make sure not to amplify this message.👇
Jonathan Turley is just Mike Lindell with tenure.
Jonathan Turley is just Mike Lindell with tenure.