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We’re not from the left or the right, we’re from the bottom and we are coming for those on top.
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We are doing our part. It's time for our Govs to do theirs. These states need to band together ASAP; California, New York, Illinois, New Mexico, Oregon, Colorado, Virginia, Maryland, Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Jersey, Delaware, Hawaii, Minnesota, Washington. substack.com/@wethepeople... 1/
We The People Act Now (@wethepeopleactnow)
YES YES YES! This is the kind of coordinated, organized, offensive efforts and movement we need from blue states!
substack.com
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The controversy over the Heritage Foundation illustrates the collapse of intellectual standards on the right—a profound problem that Donald Trump has exploited and exacerbated, @jonathanbchait.bsky.social argues.
The Conservative Movement’s Intellectual Collapse
Trump is both a product and a cause of the decline in intellectual standards on the right.
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November 28, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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In the richest city in the richest country on the planet, the thing we can’t afford is to forget those who are left hungry.
November 27, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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Few patients appeal a health insurance denial, but a little-known process that requires insurers and plans to seek an independent opinion can force insurers to pay for what can be lifesaving treatment.

Here’s what experts say you need to know.
This Little-Known Appeal Could Force Your Insurer to Pay for Lifesaving Care. Here’s How to File It.
When a health insurer refuses to pay for your treatment, you may have the right to have the denial reviewed — and potentially overturned — by an independent provider. Here are six steps experts sugges...
www.propublica.org
November 28, 2025 at 12:00 AM
@housedemocrats.bsky.social @democrats.senate.gov @coons.senate.gov @bluntrochester.senate.gov @mcbride.house.gov Please step up and take care of this glaring problem.
If the state of Delaware prohibited companies incorporated there from spending on elections in any way, Citizens United would be dead in the water.

Delaware incorporates more companies than any other state.

It’s a blue state. Let’s get cracking on moving Delaware lawmakers on this!
November 27, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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The Times found that as the regime focuses on catching immigrants for civil offenses (unauthorized residence) it is slacking off on policing drugs and guns.

IOW, it’s doing the easy work and skipping the hard work.

Is the DC shooter the result of DHS failing to do its job properly.
November 27, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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Violence isn’t ok - physical and also bureaucratic violence.

Afghans who risked their lives for U.S. forces now face family separation under this new refugee “review.”
Unjust, unacceptable, unpatriotic.

🔗 www.kpbs.org/news/border-...

@afghanevac.bsky.social
November 27, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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The death of two national guardsmen is a horrific tragedy.

It is also an orchestrated tragedy by a president hellbent on creating a tinder box environment across the country.
November 26, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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"Should the US government release all of its files from the investigation of Jeffrey Epstein?"

Yes: 81%
No: 5%

YouGov / Nov 24, 2025
November 26, 2025 at 6:30 PM
How we beat back the corporate takeover of America:

1. Break up corporate monopolies

2. Continue building union power

3. End Citizens United and get big money out of politics

Let’s keep working to unrig the system.
November 26, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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It’s getting real for Home Depot. The flash mob is only the warm up, the nationwide boycott hits on November 27th.

Chant: “Tax the rich tax, the motherf*cking rich.”
November 26, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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National Guard troops don't sign up to be used as political pawns. They sign up to serve their country, not needlessly deploy to American cities to pick up garbage. These two soldiers should be alive right now and at home with their families for Thanksgiving. I'm furious.
November 26, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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If you’re wondering why there’s a lull in the Epstein files discussion, it’s because the law that just passed gave Pamela Jo 30 days to release the files. So we’re all waiting to see how she tries to sabotage it. The discussion will pick back up in earnest on December 20th.
November 26, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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We won together, now we’re building together.

Thank you for chipping in and helping us build a City Hall for the people.
November 26, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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Kristi Noem is guilty of crimes against humanity and needs to face justice.

📌 She made the final call to defy a court order to halt deportation flights, sending people into the hellscape of CECOT, a place the UN has compared to a torture chamber.

Prosecute her and everyone involved.
November 26, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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If you live in TN-07, early voting for @aftynbehn.bsky.social ends TODAY.

There’s no time like the present to vote. Head to IWillVote.com/TN to find your polling place.
November 26, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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I'll tell you what. Europe isn't buying it. You can't tell them that it's not a shit sandwich when they know the two people who know nothing about anything made it for you. I think that others have said it best, they're openly committing crimes without fear of punishment of any kind.
November 26, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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It's bad.

Putin gave the Order of Lenin to Steve Witkoff to pass on to a senior CIA official Juliane Gallina, who is the CIA's deputy director for digital innovation, whose son Michael Gloss, 21, was killed in Ukraine last year fighting for Russia...

Where to start?
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Putin gives Trump envoy award for CIA official's son
Michael Gloss, 21, who was killed in Ukraine last year, was the son of Juliane Gallina, a CIA deputy director,
www.bbc.com
November 26, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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Steve whitkoff is an actual traitor
November 26, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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Such classic gaslighting it's an instructive moment. The question is not whether generic is better or worse, it's that a list with more expensive brand names is not the same as a list with cheaper generics. Perverting that truth into an attack on those calling it out is Manipulation 101.
Hassett: "On one of the Sunday shows, the anchor criticized the fact Walmart said the Thanksgiving dinner is cheaper by about $10. Then he said, 'Oh yeah, but they substituted generic stuff,' as if having a generic something is a crime for ordinary folks! It shows how out of touch these people are."
November 26, 2025 at 7:07 AM
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New Justice Department filings reveal that it was Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem who chose to defy a federal court order by transferring more than 100 Venezuelan men into Salvadoran custody to be imprisoned.
November 26, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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The disclosure is the latest detail to emerge as the court reviews whether to hold Trump administration officials in contempt for ignoring a judge’s oral order. Accountability needs to come swiftly Kristi Noem knowingly broke the law, and the consequences should reflect that.
Noem made decision not to turn around deportation flights bound for El Salvador after judge's order, DOJ says
DHS Secretary Kristi Noem made the final decision to allow a group of deportees to be handed over to El Salvador after a judge said their flights must be returned to the U.S., the DOJ said.
www.cbsnews.com
November 26, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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Listen, this administration isn’t “making America great.” It’s targeting our neighbors, tearing families apart, and putting lives on the line. Democrats on Oversight are standing up because this fight isn’t about left or right. It’s about right and wrong. Period.
November 26, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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There is a reason why Witkoff did not want any officials with the State Dept or anyone else present during his many meetings w/Putin - he didn’t want witnesses to his treasonous behavior. Highly unusual, but makes perfect sense when you consider that he only cared about Russia.
November 26, 2025 at 2:46 AM
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This is their playbook: No warning, no transparency, no coordination. Their goal here isn’t safety, it’s to sow chaos, fear, and intimidation.
We’re still gathering information about what happened in St. Paul, but what we do know is that once again, federal authorities provided no notice to local leaders or law enforcement.
November 25, 2025 at 10:12 PM