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a woman just trying to get home gets shot
June 10, 2025 at 9:46 PM
a woman just trying to get home gets shot
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If you are watching MSNBC and want to read the Tom Watson piece Nicolle and the panel are discussing, here it is. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/no-n...
No Surrender: The Boss is showing how to stand up to Trump
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
May 23, 2025 at 9:44 PM
If you are watching MSNBC and want to read the Tom Watson piece Nicolle and the panel are discussing, here it is. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/no-n...
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Extreme lawmakers are pushing a new bill that would undermine judges’ ability to serve as a check on President Trump.
Tell your lawmakers: Vote NO.
Tell your lawmakers: Vote NO.
Protect Our Courts
Extreme lawmakers are speeding a new bill through Congress that would undermine judges’ ability to serve in their constitutional role as a check on lawless exercises of executive power. We must stop i...
https://action.aclu.org/send-message/protect-our-courts?initms_aff=nat&initms_chan=s[…]nat&ms_chan=soc&ms=adv-na-bsky-na-nat-na-civilliberties-na-na
May 2, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Extreme lawmakers are pushing a new bill that would undermine judges’ ability to serve as a check on President Trump.
Tell your lawmakers: Vote NO.
Tell your lawmakers: Vote NO.
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Want to know what a government truly cares about? Study its budget.
Want to see how little Trump & co. care about
Americans’ health? Read this.
The author lays out exactly what OMB is proposing for public health—and why it’s dangerously wrong.
Great talking points. Call your reps 5calls.org
Want to see how little Trump & co. care about
Americans’ health? Read this.
The author lays out exactly what OMB is proposing for public health—and why it’s dangerously wrong.
Great talking points. Call your reps 5calls.org
The Cruelty of the OMB Budget Proposal: An Advocacy Guide to Public Health
True priorities are revealed in a budget.
open.substack.com
May 2, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Want to know what a government truly cares about? Study its budget.
Want to see how little Trump & co. care about
Americans’ health? Read this.
The author lays out exactly what OMB is proposing for public health—and why it’s dangerously wrong.
Great talking points. Call your reps 5calls.org
Want to see how little Trump & co. care about
Americans’ health? Read this.
The author lays out exactly what OMB is proposing for public health—and why it’s dangerously wrong.
Great talking points. Call your reps 5calls.org
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April 25, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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Pope Francis leaves behind legacy of elevating women in the Catholic Church
www.msnbc.com/chris-jansin...
www.msnbc.com/chris-jansin...
Pope Francis leaves behind legacy of elevating women in the Catholic Church
Pope Francis will be remembered for elevating women to positions of power within the Catholic Church. Vatican author, historian and guide Elizabeth Lev joins Chris Jansing at the Vatican to reflect on...
www.msnbc.com
April 25, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Pope Francis leaves behind legacy of elevating women in the Catholic Church
www.msnbc.com/chris-jansin...
www.msnbc.com/chris-jansin...
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If you don't think we're headed here, you aren't paying attention.
April 15, 2025 at 3:53 PM
If you don't think we're headed here, you aren't paying attention.
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Our client Rümeysa Öztürk has not been charged with any crime.
She is being held in ICE detention in retaliation for her political beliefs. Writing an op-ed is not a deportable offense.
She is being held in ICE detention in retaliation for her political beliefs. Writing an op-ed is not a deportable offense.
American Rendition: Rümeysa Öztürk’s Journey From Ph.D. Scholar to Trump Target Languishing in Louisiana Cell
“So horrifying and so heartbreaking”: Öztürk’s close friend provides an intimate look into one of the hundreds of foreign students who have had their visas revoked — and in dozens of instances have be...
www.propublica.org
April 15, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Our client Rümeysa Öztürk has not been charged with any crime.
She is being held in ICE detention in retaliation for her political beliefs. Writing an op-ed is not a deportable offense.
She is being held in ICE detention in retaliation for her political beliefs. Writing an op-ed is not a deportable offense.
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The Trump administration has drafted a memo to Congress outlining its intent to end nearly all federal funding for public media, which includes NPR and PBS, according to a White House official who spoke to NPR.
Trump plans order to cut funding for NPR and PBS
President Trump and GOP members of Congress have accused the public broadcasters of biased and "woke" programming. The president plans a rescission, which would give Congress 45 days to approve the di...
www.npr.org
April 15, 2025 at 4:55 PM
The Trump administration has drafted a memo to Congress outlining its intent to end nearly all federal funding for public media, which includes NPR and PBS, according to a White House official who spoke to NPR.
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Musk and his staffers are weaponizing federal data to remove immigrants from housing and jobs. This sets a dangerous precedent—one that won’t stop here. The information they’ve collected will soon be used against all of us.
April 15, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Musk and his staffers are weaponizing federal data to remove immigrants from housing and jobs. This sets a dangerous precedent—one that won’t stop here. The information they’ve collected will soon be used against all of us.
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We're 4 days into Signalgate and Trump clearly doesn't even know what Signal is.
Who is running the White House?
Who is running the White House?
March 27, 2025 at 2:27 PM
We're 4 days into Signalgate and Trump clearly doesn't even know what Signal is.
Who is running the White House?
Who is running the White House?
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I may not know you, but I think I know something about you: I think you’re exhausted.
Since most of us are, I figured it would be good to meet and talk about it.
On Monday, March 17th, I’m launching our first-ever week-long community experience at Substack called SELF-CARE IN THE SH*T STORM.
Since most of us are, I figured it would be good to meet and talk about it.
On Monday, March 17th, I’m launching our first-ever week-long community experience at Substack called SELF-CARE IN THE SH*T STORM.
March 15, 2025 at 1:16 PM
I may not know you, but I think I know something about you: I think you’re exhausted.
Since most of us are, I figured it would be good to meet and talk about it.
On Monday, March 17th, I’m launching our first-ever week-long community experience at Substack called SELF-CARE IN THE SH*T STORM.
Since most of us are, I figured it would be good to meet and talk about it.
On Monday, March 17th, I’m launching our first-ever week-long community experience at Substack called SELF-CARE IN THE SH*T STORM.
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Can’t emphasize this enough: if you’re feeling overwhelmed by the debased assault on our country, the antidote is connecting with other people in the flesh who are feeling the same way. There are millions of us.
March 15, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Can’t emphasize this enough: if you’re feeling overwhelmed by the debased assault on our country, the antidote is connecting with other people in the flesh who are feeling the same way. There are millions of us.
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I refuse to normalize him.
I did not vote for him, he does not represent me, and I do not believe he is at all deserving of being here—and so I grieve his ascension and resist his ugliness.
I will not comply, bow, or obey.
FULL POST: johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/i-do-not-o...
I did not vote for him, he does not represent me, and I do not believe he is at all deserving of being here—and so I grieve his ascension and resist his ugliness.
I will not comply, bow, or obey.
FULL POST: johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/i-do-not-o...
I Do Not Obey in Advance
I do not obey in advance.
johnpavlovitz.substack.com
March 5, 2025 at 2:46 PM
I refuse to normalize him.
I did not vote for him, he does not represent me, and I do not believe he is at all deserving of being here—and so I grieve his ascension and resist his ugliness.
I will not comply, bow, or obey.
FULL POST: johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/i-do-not-o...
I did not vote for him, he does not represent me, and I do not believe he is at all deserving of being here—and so I grieve his ascension and resist his ugliness.
I will not comply, bow, or obey.
FULL POST: johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/i-do-not-o...
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As another Trump-induced market crisis unfolds from tariffs, it's time we ask "What's the Matter with Billionaires?" I've run the numbers. Billionaires do better under Dems. So why do billionaires keep supporting GOP policies against their economic interests? See my latest piece on why. (TLDR 🧵⬇️)
What's the Matter with Billionaires?
How America's wealthiest sabotage their own prosperity (and ours) to avoid paying taxes
open.substack.com
March 4, 2025 at 8:00 PM
As another Trump-induced market crisis unfolds from tariffs, it's time we ask "What's the Matter with Billionaires?" I've run the numbers. Billionaires do better under Dems. So why do billionaires keep supporting GOP policies against their economic interests? See my latest piece on why. (TLDR 🧵⬇️)
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Somebody somewhere
Needs flowers tonight
Needs flowers tonight
March 5, 2025 at 2:56 AM
Somebody somewhere
Needs flowers tonight
Needs flowers tonight
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Trump posted: ‘All federal funding will STOP for any college, school, or university that allows illegal protests. Agitators will be imprisoned or permanently sent back to the country from which they came. American students will be permanently expelled or, depending on the crime, arrested. NO MASKS!’
March 4, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Trump posted: ‘All federal funding will STOP for any college, school, or university that allows illegal protests. Agitators will be imprisoned or permanently sent back to the country from which they came. American students will be permanently expelled or, depending on the crime, arrested. NO MASKS!’
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A Public Citizen report obtained exclusively by NPR shows the new administration has halted or tried to dismiss cases or investigations against at least 89 companies in the last month.
Trump agencies drop dozens of Biden-era cases against crypto, other companies
A Public Citizen report obtained exclusively by NPR shows the new administration has halted or tried to dismiss cases or investigations against at least 89 companies in the last month.
www.npr.org
March 4, 2025 at 6:06 PM
A Public Citizen report obtained exclusively by NPR shows the new administration has halted or tried to dismiss cases or investigations against at least 89 companies in the last month.
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Coming out of a bit of a news break whilst in L.A. and this is quite the hard re-entry: the president of Ukraine being lectured like a child by the U.S. president and vice president who want to steal his natural resources and hand chunks of his country to Putin. I have never been so embarrassed.
Omg. This is a thread. Every one should be appalled. 1/5
February 28, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Coming out of a bit of a news break whilst in L.A. and this is quite the hard re-entry: the president of Ukraine being lectured like a child by the U.S. president and vice president who want to steal his natural resources and hand chunks of his country to Putin. I have never been so embarrassed.
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www.nytimes.com/2025/02/28/b... We’re nearing Putin territory, fam…
Voice of America Journalists Face Investigations for Trump Comments
www.nytimes.com
March 1, 2025 at 3:16 AM
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/28/b... We’re nearing Putin territory, fam…
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“Trump and Vance appear to have entered the meeting with the intention of berating Zelensky and drawing him into an argument as a pretext for the diplomatic break,” Jonathan Chait writes: theatln.tc/ejdvMpQT
The Real Reason Trump Berated Zelensky
He simply likes Vladimir Putin better.
theatln.tc
March 1, 2025 at 4:29 PM
“Trump and Vance appear to have entered the meeting with the intention of berating Zelensky and drawing him into an argument as a pretext for the diplomatic break,” Jonathan Chait writes: theatln.tc/ejdvMpQT
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