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This is why the Bove seat was vacant, and there’s a real throughline from the forces that defeated the previous Democratic nominee to where we are today.
www.newyorker.com/news/the-pol...
www.newyorker.com/news/the-pol...
The Two-Pronged Attack on a Muslim Judicial Nominee
How the smearing of Adeel Mangi became a bipartisan exercise.
www.newyorker.com
July 30, 2025 at 2:06 AM
This is why the Bove seat was vacant, and there’s a real throughline from the forces that defeated the previous Democratic nominee to where we are today.
www.newyorker.com/news/the-pol...
www.newyorker.com/news/the-pol...
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Senator Gillibrand called on Al Franken to resign.
I think she should resign for falsely smearing Zohran Mamdani as a terrorist.
He has never invoked a ‘global jihad’. This is a nasty, Islamophobic racist smear from a sitting Dem senator.
I think she should resign for falsely smearing Zohran Mamdani as a terrorist.
He has never invoked a ‘global jihad’. This is a nasty, Islamophobic racist smear from a sitting Dem senator.
I have low expectations for @kirstengillibrand.bsky.social, and even I was shocked by the naked Islamophobia that she was engaging in, including falsely accusing him of "global jihad".
I called her office and told them that this behavior is unacceptable from a sitting senator
☎️: (202) 224-4451
I called her office and told them that this behavior is unacceptable from a sitting senator
☎️: (202) 224-4451
June 26, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Senator Gillibrand called on Al Franken to resign.
I think she should resign for falsely smearing Zohran Mamdani as a terrorist.
He has never invoked a ‘global jihad’. This is a nasty, Islamophobic racist smear from a sitting Dem senator.
I think she should resign for falsely smearing Zohran Mamdani as a terrorist.
He has never invoked a ‘global jihad’. This is a nasty, Islamophobic racist smear from a sitting Dem senator.
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I can't think of anyone currently running for office more dangerous than Andrew Cuomo. Not just for NYC but for the nation, because unfortunately NYC disproportionately affects the rest of the states. Bad politicians elsewhere don't have the same structural power. NYC: Do not vote for this man.
June 16, 2025 at 2:52 PM
I can't think of anyone currently running for office more dangerous than Andrew Cuomo. Not just for NYC but for the nation, because unfortunately NYC disproportionately affects the rest of the states. Bad politicians elsewhere don't have the same structural power. NYC: Do not vote for this man.
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*proudly, with a hint of a tear in my eye* I’ll still keep drinking that garbage
💥 BREAKING: Coca-Cola shareholders voted to reject two anti-DEI proposals at their annual meeting today both 99-1 percent. Proposal called DEI programs are 'so anti-American... neo-racist and neo-Marxist'
Coke: Diversity, equity and inclusion play an important part in our company's success
Coke: Diversity, equity and inclusion play an important part in our company's success
May 1, 2025 at 2:17 AM
*proudly, with a hint of a tear in my eye* I’ll still keep drinking that garbage
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Immigrant women say they were held "like animals" in ICE detention, subjected to conditions so extreme they feared for their lives.
Told by guards to urinate on the floor. Held "like sardines in a jar," as many as 27 women in a small holding cell.
www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...
Told by guards to urinate on the floor. Held "like sardines in a jar," as many as 27 women in a small holding cell.
www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...
Immigrant women describe 'hell on earth' in ICE detention
No shower for days, cameras trained on the toilet, women crammed into cells 'like sardines,' among the allegations.
www.usatoday.com
March 23, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Immigrant women say they were held "like animals" in ICE detention, subjected to conditions so extreme they feared for their lives.
Told by guards to urinate on the floor. Held "like sardines in a jar," as many as 27 women in a small holding cell.
www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...
Told by guards to urinate on the floor. Held "like sardines in a jar," as many as 27 women in a small holding cell.
www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...
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It is actually hard to deport even 1 million people, never mind 20. How will they aim for that? They’ll start with the easiest people—the ones who voluntarily gave their information to the government. In other words, legal immigrants following all the rules but not yet granted citizenship!
This is a very sad story, but what makes me crazy is that people tried to explain that this is what would happen and got caricatured as "woke" hysterics www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...
He voted for Trump. Now his wife sits in an ICE detention center.
ICE's deportation actions signal that anyone who isn't a US citizen is 'at risk – period,' immigration attorney says.
www.usatoday.com
March 16, 2025 at 2:22 PM
It is actually hard to deport even 1 million people, never mind 20. How will they aim for that? They’ll start with the easiest people—the ones who voluntarily gave their information to the government. In other words, legal immigrants following all the rules but not yet granted citizenship!
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this is an act of unspeakable violence. it benefits no one, it doesn’t move a number on a balance sheet. it only guarantees that every one of these incarcerated transgender people will be tortured.
The Bureau of Prisons is moving forward with plans to move transgender inmates out of prisons that align with their gender identity and into facilities that align with their assigned sex at birth.
Federal prisons prep to move trans inmates as early as next week
The Bureau of Prisons is moving forward with plans to move transgender inmates out of prisons that align with their gender identity and into facilities that align with their assigned sex at birth.
www.npr.org
February 22, 2025 at 7:17 PM
this is an act of unspeakable violence. it benefits no one, it doesn’t move a number on a balance sheet. it only guarantees that every one of these incarcerated transgender people will be tortured.
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Control of the entire federal purse is being stolen in the middle of the night by a Nazi. There has never been anything like this.
this is theft on an unimaginable scale
3/ different pieces fit together. There also seems to be a significant amount of downloading government data onto private servers, etc, totally outside any cybersecurity regime. Additionally it’s unclear to the people inside whether the people doing these things actually work for the US govt…
February 2, 2025 at 6:36 AM
Control of the entire federal purse is being stolen in the middle of the night by a Nazi. There has never been anything like this.
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Congrats to The Atlantic and The New York Times
Donald Trump has just released a national under 18 trans care ban executive order. I am working through specifically how it tries to do this, and will live tweet here section by section as I read through it.
It is not yet on the website, but has been released via press release.
It is not yet on the website, but has been released via press release.
January 28, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Congrats to The Atlantic and The New York Times
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Empty Los Angeles reports on efforts to protect the Glendale Garden Homes from demolition and reveals something shocking: 20 of the 37 apartments are intentionally held vacant. As Eaton fire victims struggle to find decent housing, this is a moral crime. www.emptylosangeles.com/p/26-of-37-a...
Affordable Apartments EMPTY in a Crisis
No one needs me to tell them that LA’s housing crisis became much, MUCH worse over the past two weeks.
www.emptylosangeles.com
January 25, 2025 at 6:22 AM
Empty Los Angeles reports on efforts to protect the Glendale Garden Homes from demolition and reveals something shocking: 20 of the 37 apartments are intentionally held vacant. As Eaton fire victims struggle to find decent housing, this is a moral crime. www.emptylosangeles.com/p/26-of-37-a...
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this is what polling actually shows about republican positions. if you explain them correctly, you are generally assumed to be lying because it is insane.
The media has spent so long both-sidesing that if you describe the Republicans' stated goals and policies in strictly factual terms you sound like you're running a smear campaign.
they’re coming for contraception next. already happening in some states
February 21, 2024 at 7:53 PM
this is what polling actually shows about republican positions. if you explain them correctly, you are generally assumed to be lying because it is insane.
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if Mario Kart was about pure driving I would win every race but unfortunately my competitors insist on engaging in a great deal of unsportsmanlike behaviour
August 9, 2023 at 10:41 PM
if Mario Kart was about pure driving I would win every race but unfortunately my competitors insist on engaging in a great deal of unsportsmanlike behaviour