Chained Melody
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The true goal of totalitarian propaganda is not persuasion, but organization of the polity. What convinces masses are not facts, & not even invented facts, but only the consistency of the system of which they are presumably part.
-Hannah Arendt
The Origins of Totalitarianism
-Hannah Arendt
The Origins of Totalitarianism
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(1/4) The Trump administration is ordering the State Department to label countries with abortion access, LGBTQ+ protections, DEI policies, and even hate-speech safeguards as human rights violators.
Abortion And DEI Policies Now Considered Violations Of Human Rights, U.S. Says
The Trump administration has overhauled how the State Department conducts its annual Human Rights Report.
www.forbes.com
November 24, 2025 at 4:13 PM
(1/4) The Trump administration is ordering the State Department to label countries with abortion access, LGBTQ+ protections, DEI policies, and even hate-speech safeguards as human rights violators.
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Fetterman, Shaheen & Slotkin voted to confirm Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem. Fetterman, Gallego & Kelly voted to confirm EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin.
Here’s the whole enchilada.
Here’s the whole enchilada.
November 11, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Fetterman, Shaheen & Slotkin voted to confirm Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem. Fetterman, Gallego & Kelly voted to confirm EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin.
Here’s the whole enchilada.
Here’s the whole enchilada.
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Almost 3/4 of people without health insurance have at least one full time worker in their home. The biggest reason these people don’t have health insurance is the cost. And that cost is going up dramatically for millions of hard working Americans who depend on the ACA.
November 10, 2025 at 3:37 AM
Almost 3/4 of people without health insurance have at least one full time worker in their home. The biggest reason these people don’t have health insurance is the cost. And that cost is going up dramatically for millions of hard working Americans who depend on the ACA.
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SNAP participants can double their spending at their local farmers market or farm stands through a national initiative known as the Double Up Bucks food program. The policy council gives each customer wooden tokens, and if they spend $40, they will receive an additional $40 to spend.
Black-Owned Farms Fill Gaps Left by SNAP Funding Delays
From North Carolina to Mississippi, small businesses work to feed their communities while benefits are paused.
capitalbnews.org
November 9, 2025 at 9:16 AM
SNAP participants can double their spending at their local farmers market or farm stands through a national initiative known as the Double Up Bucks food program. The policy council gives each customer wooden tokens, and if they spend $40, they will receive an additional $40 to spend.
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We polled Indivisible members over the weekend on whether Dems should take a deal or keep fighting for the ACA subsidies. Results: 98.67% said keep fighting.
Dems who vote to surrender now are fracturing their own party in a way that will reverberate loudly in the primaries.
Dems who vote to surrender now are fracturing their own party in a way that will reverberate loudly in the primaries.
So Democrats get:
1. A CR that will prevent the GOP from facing the wrath of Americans for a shutdown over the holidays
2. A coupon for one (1) meaningless ACA vote that will fail
3. An end to the illegal RIF/SNAP moves that are already before the courts
Those all seem like wins for the GOP.
1. A CR that will prevent the GOP from facing the wrath of Americans for a shutdown over the holidays
2. A coupon for one (1) meaningless ACA vote that will fail
3. An end to the illegal RIF/SNAP moves that are already before the courts
Those all seem like wins for the GOP.
November 10, 2025 at 12:40 AM
We polled Indivisible members over the weekend on whether Dems should take a deal or keep fighting for the ACA subsidies. Results: 98.67% said keep fighting.
Dems who vote to surrender now are fracturing their own party in a way that will reverberate loudly in the primaries.
Dems who vote to surrender now are fracturing their own party in a way that will reverberate loudly in the primaries.
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His Health Savings Accounts are only for those on Bronze and catastrophic plans. Which is fewer than 8M people.
November 10, 2025 at 12:47 AM
His Health Savings Accounts are only for those on Bronze and catastrophic plans. Which is fewer than 8M people.
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Just a reminder that after the “Schumer Surrender” in March, 82% of our group leaders in New York (and 91% of our group leaders nationwide) voted to call for Schumer to step aside as Senate Minority Leader. 👇
🧵 The passage of this dangerous Republican funding bill is a travesty. The ongoing administrative coup led by Donald Trump and Elon Musk is a constitutional crisis. The authoritarians stripping away our rights and trying to loot the government to enrich the billionaires are a five-alarm fire.
Indivisible Calls on Schumer to Step Aside
indivisible.org
November 9, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Just a reminder that after the “Schumer Surrender” in March, 82% of our group leaders in New York (and 91% of our group leaders nationwide) voted to call for Schumer to step aside as Senate Minority Leader. 👇
Seems to be a pattern.
Schumer voted for cloture and then voted against the bill in the final vote, which is ridiculous. Purely symbolic bullshit intended to trick people.
November 10, 2025 at 1:09 AM
Seems to be a pattern.
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The least the democrats can do is demand that Johnson swear in new AZ Rep. Adelita Grijalva *before* the senate caves on the shutdown.
Get something, dammit.
Get something, dammit.
November 10, 2025 at 12:56 AM
The least the democrats can do is demand that Johnson swear in new AZ Rep. Adelita Grijalva *before* the senate caves on the shutdown.
Get something, dammit.
Get something, dammit.
Schumer must be forced out of leadership.
He lost the Senste in 2024.
He caved in the spring budget fight, breaking his promise to back House Democrats.
Now he’s lost the shutdown.
He must step down as minority leader.
He lost the Senste in 2024.
He caved in the spring budget fight, breaking his promise to back House Democrats.
Now he’s lost the shutdown.
He must step down as minority leader.
November 10, 2025 at 12:54 AM
Schumer must be forced out of leadership.
He lost the Senste in 2024.
He caved in the spring budget fight, breaking his promise to back House Democrats.
Now he’s lost the shutdown.
He must step down as minority leader.
He lost the Senste in 2024.
He caved in the spring budget fight, breaking his promise to back House Democrats.
Now he’s lost the shutdown.
He must step down as minority leader.
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October 27, 1962, was arguably the most dangerous day of the Cuban Missile Crisis, a day when human error, rushed preparations, aggressive tactics, and sky-high tensions could have set off World War III intentionally or by accident at least four separate times.
Here’s what happened (a long thread):
Here’s what happened (a long thread):
October 27, 2025 at 4:03 PM
October 27, 1962, was arguably the most dangerous day of the Cuban Missile Crisis, a day when human error, rushed preparations, aggressive tactics, and sky-high tensions could have set off World War III intentionally or by accident at least four separate times.
Here’s what happened (a long thread):
Here’s what happened (a long thread):
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If you’re Canadian, there’s a simple way to avoid this:
*never, ever visit the USA.
Why give your money to a dictatorship that wants to destroy our economy so it can annex us?
www.cbc.ca/news/busines...
*never, ever visit the USA.
Why give your money to a dictatorship that wants to destroy our economy so it can annex us?
www.cbc.ca/news/busines...
U.S. to photograph Canadian travellers when they enter and exit at all land borders, airports | CBC News
The United States is expanding its facial identification program for travellers, with the goal of collecting images of non-U.S. citizens entering and exiting the country by all modes of transport.
www.cbc.ca
October 26, 2025 at 5:35 PM
If you’re Canadian, there’s a simple way to avoid this:
*never, ever visit the USA.
Why give your money to a dictatorship that wants to destroy our economy so it can annex us?
www.cbc.ca/news/busines...
*never, ever visit the USA.
Why give your money to a dictatorship that wants to destroy our economy so it can annex us?
www.cbc.ca/news/busines...
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“I’m just trying to find any clues, ideas, see where they took him, why they took him. And what’s the whole purpose for this?”
October 8, 2025 at 12:37 AM
“I’m just trying to find any clues, ideas, see where they took him, why they took him. And what’s the whole purpose for this?”
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When I was 10, one of my neighbors, a Black 17-year-old student at West Marion High School named Raynard Johnson, who was popular with Black and white classmates alike, was found hanging by a belt from a pecan tree in his front yard.
It was officially ruled a suicide. But his family doubted that. 🧵
It was officially ruled a suicide. But his family doubted that. 🧵
Editor’s Note | Mississippi’s Evil Past Still Haunts Us
News Editor Ashton Pittman writes about how the response to college student Trey Reed’s death illustrates how Mississippi’s past haunts its present.
www.mississippifreepress.org
October 6, 2025 at 5:49 PM
When I was 10, one of my neighbors, a Black 17-year-old student at West Marion High School named Raynard Johnson, who was popular with Black and white classmates alike, was found hanging by a belt from a pecan tree in his front yard.
It was officially ruled a suicide. But his family doubted that. 🧵
It was officially ruled a suicide. But his family doubted that. 🧵
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The next question is, whose order will the California National Guard troops obey? Trump's, or Judge Immergut's? Will the answer be the same for the Texas National Guardsmen? How about the 82nd Airborne Division?
And what will happen after SCOTUS grants permission for states to invade other states?
And what will happen after SCOTUS grants permission for states to invade other states?
October 6, 2025 at 3:37 AM
The next question is, whose order will the California National Guard troops obey? Trump's, or Judge Immergut's? Will the answer be the same for the Texas National Guardsmen? How about the 82nd Airborne Division?
And what will happen after SCOTUS grants permission for states to invade other states?
And what will happen after SCOTUS grants permission for states to invade other states?
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President Trump has declared drug cartels to be unlawful combatants and says the United States is now in a “non-international armed conflict,” according to a Trump administration memo obtained by The Associated Press, after recent U.S. strikes on boats in the Caribbean. https://to.pbs.org/4nFV8io
Trump declares U.S. in 'non-international armed conflict' with drug cartels
President Donald Trump has declared drug cartels operating in the Caribbean are unlawful combatants and says the United States is now in a “non-international armed conflict.”
www.pbs.org
October 2, 2025 at 6:03 PM
President Trump has declared drug cartels to be unlawful combatants and says the United States is now in a “non-international armed conflict,” according to a Trump administration memo obtained by The Associated Press, after recent U.S. strikes on boats in the Caribbean. https://to.pbs.org/4nFV8io
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As boats from the Global Sumud Flotilla prepared to set sail toward Gaza, a representative of Genoa’s Dockworkers’ Union declared that if anything happened to the flotilla, workers would “block everything.” When the flotilla was attacked, the reaction was swift: a 24-hour general strike was called.
We Said “We Will Block Everything” and We Did: Inside Italy’s Strike for Gaza
Following a 24-hour general strike on September 22, the country is now gearing up for a national protest on October 4.
truthout.org
September 30, 2025 at 9:36 PM
As boats from the Global Sumud Flotilla prepared to set sail toward Gaza, a representative of Genoa’s Dockworkers’ Union declared that if anything happened to the flotilla, workers would “block everything.” When the flotilla was attacked, the reaction was swift: a 24-hour general strike was called.