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🚨🚨 My dear friend and fellow academic, the Palestinian American sociologist @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social has been taken by the Cook County Sheriff near Chicago. They have not mirandized her. Please signal boost. All eyes on Broadview for Eman and the community she was defending 🚨🚨
October 3, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Republicans are not fiscally conservative.
July 3, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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I'm just so weary. I feel like he's robbed us of ten years of our lives. And he's robbed our children of their futures in an America that will never exist again. I really can't imagine what's to come, but it fills me with dread. Fuck him. Fuck Fox News. Fuck the maga cult.
June 22, 2025 at 1:58 AM
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It’s a good thing Congress isn’t alive to see this
June 22, 2025 at 12:47 AM
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If what’s happening in L.A. is an “insurrection,” then January 6 wasn’t a “tour” it was a full-blown terrorist attack. Say it with your chest.
June 8, 2025 at 12:18 AM
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President Trump has promised to attack drug gangs and called for the death penalty for street dealers. But he has also pardoned more than 20 people serving time for serious drug crimes, some involving violence.
Trump pardons drug kingpins even as he escalates U.S. drug war rhetoric
President Trump has promised to attack drug gangs and called for the death penalty for street dealers. But he has also pardoned more than 20 people serving time for serious drug crimes, some involving violence.
n.pr
June 8, 2025 at 10:06 AM
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Most foreigners at Harvard grasp American principles better than most senior officials in the Trump administration.
May 22, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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Trump dined last night with (largely-foreign) interests who accumulated $150 million worth of his personal cryptocurrency.

How the 47th president is cashing in on public office, and making the world safe for corruption:
Trump Thinks It Was 'Stupid' Not to Cash in Harder on His First Term. He's Making Up for It
Trump seeks crypto profits, foreign luxury gifts, as he wields the public office of the presidency for his private enrichment
www.rollingstone.com
May 23, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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If you are not paying attention to what is happening in court, you are not paying attention to what is happening to democracy. Sign up now to receive Democracy Docket's free daily and weekly pro-democracy newsletters straight to your inbox. hubs.ly/Q03jcjqP0
May 24, 2025 at 1:37 AM
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‘We are a STUPID country’: Trump claims the 14th Amendment’s guarantee of citizenship was solely meant for “the babies of slaves.”
wegotthiscovered.com/politics/we-...
'We are a STUPID country': Donald Trump's 'new' Constitution wants to 'bless' America by getting rid of 'babies of slaves'
The only "suckers" are the people who believe what Trump has to say.
wegotthiscovered.com
May 16, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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NARRATOR: The GOP intends to slash Medicaid.
Mike Johnson: "Medicaid is intended, remember, as a safety net for young pregnant mothers and the elderly and disabled and vulnerable populations, not for young able-bodied men without dependents. Those are the kinds of people we're taking off the program."
May 14, 2025 at 3:45 AM
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Let’s be honest: the policies they’re pushing? LITERALLY straight out of Project 2025. The same plan they claimed they had nothing to do with. 

Now they’re writing them into law—gutting public lands, rejecting science, and handing out kickbacks to their corporate buddies.  

We’re fighting back!
May 9, 2025 at 12:28 AM
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More of this, please.

youtu.be/EwZWCk1ytPU?...
Murphy To Secretary Of Homeland Security Kristi Noem: Your Department Is Out Of Control
YouTube video by Senator Chris Murphy
youtu.be
May 9, 2025 at 1:45 AM
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"On Tyranny" is a #1 NYT bestseller again. I wish the moment were different. But I’m glad the book is useful. And grateful for all the kind words about putting the 20 lessons to work.
snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...
Twenty Lessons, read by John Lithgow
Key selections from On Tyranny, for viewing and sharing
snyder.substack.com
May 4, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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Trump fabricates a photo of Mr. Garcia with MS-13 tattoo on his hand. This is NOT a real image. Trump and his regime fabricated it. Please understand that Trump regime would fabricate evidence to put you or your family in jail. This is what FASCISM regimes do. www.mediaite.com/trump/trump-...
Trump Touts Seemingly Doctored Photo of Abrego Garcia’s Hand in Attempt To Prove Maryland Man Is Gang Member
President Donald Trump posted a photo of himself holding a seemingly digitally altered image of the left hand of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who was wrongly deported to El Salvador last month.
www.mediaite.com
April 18, 2025 at 11:11 PM
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No American can afford to ignore the systematic erosion of what it means to be American.

We are way past political and ideological disagreements.

What’s at stake is our adherence to the Constitution and rule of law. What safeguards all of our rights.

Without it, we cease to be America.
April 14, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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🏆 @rollingstone.com wins the Headline of the Day Award

This is how it’s done. At least someone understands the assignment.
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
April 14, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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He’s threatening media companies who are critical of him.

He’s talking about sending Americans to foreign prisons.

He’s signing executive orders to investigate former staff members who spoke out against him.

He’s defying the Supreme Court.

Don’t you see what’s happening here?
April 14, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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April 13, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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Marco Rubio just announced 10 more people were sent to be imprisoned in CECOT. They were flown there from Gitmo to be imprisoned potentially for life based not on any crime for which they were convicted, but on unproven allegations of gang membership with no due process.

This is not lawful.
April 13, 2025 at 4:16 PM
The Trump administration thinks if you smoke, you don’t deserve health care. So, should smokers just die? How many Kentuckians smoke? 🤔 Read it here 👇
The world's wealthiest have some incredibly health-damaging habits: heroin for Kennedy, ketamine for Musk. What they mean is, they don't want to pay for poor people's healthcare, but they're willing to start by cutting off only the "undeserving" poor who smoke, or don't eat what RFK says ... etc.
April 11, 2025 at 12:53 AM
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boosting because good and we need more good
Rep. Steven Horsford to Greer: "So the trade representative hasn't spoken to the POTUS about a global reordering of trade, but yet he announced it on a tweet? WTF! Who is in charge? It looks like your boss just pulled the rug out from under you. There is no strategy ... is this market manipulation?"
April 9, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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pro tip: if your government claims to have no money for children's heathcare but will eagerly waste millions on a gaudy military parade to stroke the fragile ego of a broken-inside president, you just might live in a shithole country
April 9, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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You lost your 401k... and did Trump make money doing it?

He posted "THIS IS A GREAT TIME TO BUY!!!" just hours before pausing the tariffs. It's time for everyone to ask House Republicans why they aren't fighting for an investigation into this.
April 9, 2025 at 6:11 PM