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Pennsylvania has an important Supreme Court race coming up on Tuesday, November 4. If you live in the Keystone State, or know someone who does, vote YES to retain three justices who will protect your fundamental rights and freedoms.
October 29, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Pennsylvania has an important Supreme Court race coming up on Tuesday, November 4. If you live in the Keystone State, or know someone who does, vote YES to retain three justices who will protect your fundamental rights and freedoms.
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The government may be shut down, but Trump is still managing to get some work done in Washington—like illegally demolishing an entire wing of the White House to build himself a ballroom.
Lifting a finger to lower your health care costs?
Not so much.
Lifting a finger to lower your health care costs?
Not so much.
October 23, 2025 at 11:06 PM
The government may be shut down, but Trump is still managing to get some work done in Washington—like illegally demolishing an entire wing of the White House to build himself a ballroom.
Lifting a finger to lower your health care costs?
Not so much.
Lifting a finger to lower your health care costs?
Not so much.
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“Until now, I have tried to deflect and defend when challenged to call this genocide. I have, however, been persuaded rationally by legal and scholarly arguments that international courts will one day find that Israel has broken the international genocide convention.”
www.jta.org/2025/08/04/u...
www.jta.org/2025/08/04/u...
J Street head says he was ‘persuaded’ by arguments that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza - Jewish Telegraphic Agency
J Street President Jeremy Ben-Ami joined a growing number of Jewish voices accusing Israel of committing genocide.
www.jta.org
August 5, 2025 at 12:54 PM
“Until now, I have tried to deflect and defend when challenged to call this genocide. I have, however, been persuaded rationally by legal and scholarly arguments that international courts will one day find that Israel has broken the international genocide convention.”
www.jta.org/2025/08/04/u...
www.jta.org/2025/08/04/u...
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"The Partnership for Public Service, which studies the federal workforce, has used budget figures to produce a rough estimate that Trump's firings, re-hirings, lost productivity and paid leave of thousands of workers will cost upward of $135 billion this fiscal year."
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/u...
Elon Musk and DOGE’s Savings May Be Erased by New Costs
An expert on the federal work force estimates that the speed and chaos of Mr. Musk’s cuts to the bureaucracy will cost taxpayers $135 billion this fiscal year.
www.nytimes.com
April 25, 2025 at 4:01 AM
"The Partnership for Public Service, which studies the federal workforce, has used budget figures to produce a rough estimate that Trump's firings, re-hirings, lost productivity and paid leave of thousands of workers will cost upward of $135 billion this fiscal year."
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/u...
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Important for all of us but especially journalists.
Kidnapping.
Capturing a person against their will without due process is called kidnapping.
Transporting them to another country without due process is called human trafficking.
A squalid extrajudicial prison for people found guilty of no crime is called a concentration camp.
Capturing a person against their will without due process is called kidnapping.
Transporting them to another country without due process is called human trafficking.
A squalid extrajudicial prison for people found guilty of no crime is called a concentration camp.
stop calling things deportation just because they call it deportation.
-You cannot legally deport people without due process.
-You cannot legally deport citizens.
-They are defining down deportation to break the law.
-You cannot legally deport people without due process.
-You cannot legally deport citizens.
-They are defining down deportation to break the law.
April 8, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Important for all of us but especially journalists.
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April 1, 2025 at 4:00 AM
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I haven't been able to follow the classified Signal chat debacle without thinking of Airplane.
March 26, 2025 at 2:33 PM
I haven't been able to follow the classified Signal chat debacle without thinking of Airplane.
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Pete Hegseth is a f*cking liar. This is so clearly classified info he recklessly leaked that could’ve gotten our pilots killed.
He needs to resign in disgrace immediately.
He needs to resign in disgrace immediately.
March 26, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Pete Hegseth is a f*cking liar. This is so clearly classified info he recklessly leaked that could’ve gotten our pilots killed.
He needs to resign in disgrace immediately.
He needs to resign in disgrace immediately.
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@fetterman.senate.gov hitting you up here because no one ever answers the phones at your taxpayer-funded offices.
Please demand that Pete Hegseth and Mike Waltz -- at least -- resign over the Signal OpChat scandal.
And please insist on Senate hearings (even if you can't be bothered to show up)
Please demand that Pete Hegseth and Mike Waltz -- at least -- resign over the Signal OpChat scandal.
And please insist on Senate hearings (even if you can't be bothered to show up)
March 24, 2025 at 9:49 PM
@fetterman.senate.gov hitting you up here because no one ever answers the phones at your taxpayer-funded offices.
Please demand that Pete Hegseth and Mike Waltz -- at least -- resign over the Signal OpChat scandal.
And please insist on Senate hearings (even if you can't be bothered to show up)
Please demand that Pete Hegseth and Mike Waltz -- at least -- resign over the Signal OpChat scandal.
And please insist on Senate hearings (even if you can't be bothered to show up)
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apropos of absolutely nothing: 👏 MAKE 👏 RULE 11 SANCTIONS👏 GREAT 👏 AGAIN 👏
March 19, 2025 at 2:39 PM
apropos of absolutely nothing: 👏 MAKE 👏 RULE 11 SANCTIONS👏 GREAT 👏 AGAIN 👏
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It is human trafficking.
Totally agree with this. Flying a person to a third country that they may never have been to, directly into a prison where they are going to be forced to do hard labor, is not a deportation; it's something else entirely.
@washingtonpost.com They were not DEPORTED. Deported means sending them back to their country of origin. These people were sent to a maximum security prison in El Salvador, without any due process or any analysis as to whether they feared harm in El Salvador!
March 18, 2025 at 4:29 PM
It is human trafficking.
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THREAD: There’s a dire situation in Vietnam, at the largest Agent Orange spill in the country.
When Trump and Marco Rubio cancelled foreign aid, froze funding and began dismantling USAID, those who were cleaning up the Bien Hoa air base had to halt work. 1/
When Trump and Marco Rubio cancelled foreign aid, froze funding and began dismantling USAID, those who were cleaning up the Bien Hoa air base had to halt work. 1/
March 18, 2025 at 1:02 AM
THREAD: There’s a dire situation in Vietnam, at the largest Agent Orange spill in the country.
When Trump and Marco Rubio cancelled foreign aid, froze funding and began dismantling USAID, those who were cleaning up the Bien Hoa air base had to halt work. 1/
When Trump and Marco Rubio cancelled foreign aid, froze funding and began dismantling USAID, those who were cleaning up the Bien Hoa air base had to halt work. 1/
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The first rule in fighting tyranny is to never capitulate in advance. You broke that rule. You are not up to the moment as a leader.
My YES vote is *not* an endorsement of this deeply flawed CR.
My YES vote is 💯 about refusing to shut our government down.
I refuse to punish working families and plunge millions of Americans into chaos.
I will never, ever, ever, ever, ever vote to shut our government down.
My YES vote is 💯 about refusing to shut our government down.
I refuse to punish working families and plunge millions of Americans into chaos.
I will never, ever, ever, ever, ever vote to shut our government down.
March 15, 2025 at 2:03 AM
The first rule in fighting tyranny is to never capitulate in advance. You broke that rule. You are not up to the moment as a leader.
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Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage
March 14, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage
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If you vote for this Republican Funding Bill, you are complicit in all that DOGE, President Elon, and Trump does.
March 13, 2025 at 11:44 PM
If you vote for this Republican Funding Bill, you are complicit in all that DOGE, President Elon, and Trump does.
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Republicans cut Democrats entirely out of their process for the CR, didn't want any of our input, and would have been blamed by a majority of the American public for a government shutdown.
There was no reason to cave to them.
Chuck Schumer has to go.
There was no reason to cave to them.
Chuck Schumer has to go.
March 14, 2025 at 2:03 AM
Republicans cut Democrats entirely out of their process for the CR, didn't want any of our input, and would have been blamed by a majority of the American public for a government shutdown.
There was no reason to cave to them.
Chuck Schumer has to go.
There was no reason to cave to them.
Chuck Schumer has to go.
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Reminder: An oligarch is taking a chainsaw to the federal government, firing thousands of civil servants every day, shutting down agencies, blocking funds for cancer research, stealing your medicaid and social security...
...because a few hundred billionaires don't want to pay their share in taxes.
...because a few hundred billionaires don't want to pay their share in taxes.
February 25, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Reminder: An oligarch is taking a chainsaw to the federal government, firing thousands of civil servants every day, shutting down agencies, blocking funds for cancer research, stealing your medicaid and social security...
...because a few hundred billionaires don't want to pay their share in taxes.
...because a few hundred billionaires don't want to pay their share in taxes.
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If you still have friends/family who think this administration will help them, talk to them about money....
February 21, 2025 at 4:21 PM
If you still have friends/family who think this administration will help them, talk to them about money....
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If you wanted to cut waste, fraud, and abuse, you would empower the inspectors general.
If you wanted more waste, fraud, and abuse, you would fire them.
If you wanted more waste, fraud, and abuse, you would fire them.
February 17, 2025 at 2:17 PM
If you wanted to cut waste, fraud, and abuse, you would empower the inspectors general.
If you wanted more waste, fraud, and abuse, you would fire them.
If you wanted more waste, fraud, and abuse, you would fire them.
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Elon musk is the richest man in the world, he could be funding hospitals, medical research and universities. He could be solving the climate crisis. He could be feeding, hungry children. Instead, he’s trying to make sure that your grandmother doesn’t get an extra dollar of Social Security.
February 17, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Elon musk is the richest man in the world, he could be funding hospitals, medical research and universities. He could be solving the climate crisis. He could be feeding, hungry children. Instead, he’s trying to make sure that your grandmother doesn’t get an extra dollar of Social Security.
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being frugal by eating avocado toast instead of eggs on toast
February 4, 2025 at 4:52 PM
being frugal by eating avocado toast instead of eggs on toast