Bill K
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I'm attending May Day Strong's event, “Workers Over Billionaires: May Day to Labor Day” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/mayday/event...
Workers Over Billionaires: May Day to Labor Day · May Day Strong
Join us for a strategy update on the May Day Movement. We'll look ahead to actions planned for Labor Day and other ways our communities are fighting back across the country. Bring a friend and help us...
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June 26, 2025 at 9:19 PM
I'm attending May Day Strong's event, “Workers Over Billionaires: May Day to Labor Day” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/mayday/event...
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Thousands of Minnesotans showed up today to say: Enough is enough.
Hands off our Medicare, Medicaid & Social Security.
We stand for democracy & a strong economy.
No to billionaires like Elon Musk running our country.
Hands off our Medicare, Medicaid & Social Security.
We stand for democracy & a strong economy.
No to billionaires like Elon Musk running our country.
April 5, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Thousands of Minnesotans showed up today to say: Enough is enough.
Hands off our Medicare, Medicaid & Social Security.
We stand for democracy & a strong economy.
No to billionaires like Elon Musk running our country.
Hands off our Medicare, Medicaid & Social Security.
We stand for democracy & a strong economy.
No to billionaires like Elon Musk running our country.
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Pete Hegseth Calls For Steep Cuts To Number Of Steps In AA Recovery
Pete Hegseth Calls For Steep Cuts To Number Of Steps In AA Recovery
WASHINGTON—Lambasting the current program as wasteful, bloated, and entirely unnecessary, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth called for steep cuts Monday to the number of steps in the Alcoholics Anonymous...
theonion.com
March 31, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Pete Hegseth Calls For Steep Cuts To Number Of Steps In AA Recovery
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"The problem with a delayed response is that the more power leaders with authoritarian tendencies accumulate, the harder it is to mount an effective resistance. The opposition is thus more likely to succeed if it acts early..."
www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...
www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...
How to Save a Democracy
Americans can learn from opponents of authoritarianism elsewhere.
www.foreignaffairs.com
March 31, 2025 at 5:16 PM
"The problem with a delayed response is that the more power leaders with authoritarian tendencies accumulate, the harder it is to mount an effective resistance. The opposition is thus more likely to succeed if it acts early..."
www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...
www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...
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President Trump’s illegal firing of two FTC commissioners threatens the agency’s ability to protect consumers. Last year alone, the FTC returned over $337 million to people harmed by scams and fraud. Undermining this work is unacceptable — and it must be reversed.
March 28, 2025 at 1:39 AM
President Trump’s illegal firing of two FTC commissioners threatens the agency’s ability to protect consumers. Last year alone, the FTC returned over $337 million to people harmed by scams and fraud. Undermining this work is unacceptable — and it must be reversed.
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I would gladly trade Donald Trump and Elon Musk for any two random Canadians.
March 28, 2025 at 11:26 PM
I would gladly trade Donald Trump and Elon Musk for any two random Canadians.
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School nurse: "If you fill out this twenty-page form and have it signed by a pediatrician and notarized with three witnesses, we can give your child a Tylenol when they have a headache."
Republicans: "Schools are secretly turning children trans."
Republicans: "Schools are secretly turning children trans."
March 7, 2025 at 11:13 PM
School nurse: "If you fill out this twenty-page form and have it signed by a pediatrician and notarized with three witnesses, we can give your child a Tylenol when they have a headache."
Republicans: "Schools are secretly turning children trans."
Republicans: "Schools are secretly turning children trans."
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Look How Musk Has Wormed His Way Into The Heart Of Our Government…And Now He Is Eliminating All Regulation Of His Businesses And Taking Contracts Away From Competitors Without Any Oversight From Congress- As The GOP Congress Cedes Its Constitutional Power Of The Purse To Trump & Musk! SAD
March 6, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Look How Musk Has Wormed His Way Into The Heart Of Our Government…And Now He Is Eliminating All Regulation Of His Businesses And Taking Contracts Away From Competitors Without Any Oversight From Congress- As The GOP Congress Cedes Its Constitutional Power Of The Purse To Trump & Musk! SAD
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The US Consumer Financial Protection Bureau was rapidly defanged, with all activities suspended, its upcoming funding facing a cut and its headquarters temporarily shuttered reut.rs/4hSr6oi
Consumer protection agency CFPB neutralized by Trump's new chief
Workers denounced what they say is a conflict of interest: Elon Musk's efficiency department has access to computer systems at an agency that would likely regulate one of his pending ventures and its competitors.
reut.rs
February 10, 2025 at 1:39 AM
The US Consumer Financial Protection Bureau was rapidly defanged, with all activities suspended, its upcoming funding facing a cut and its headquarters temporarily shuttered reut.rs/4hSr6oi
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The acting head of the U.S. immigration court system and three other top officials were fired on Monday soon after President Trump took office, according to three people familiar with the matter, in a purge of the top echelon of a critical part of the government’s immigration system. nyti.ms/4hGs1In
Trump Administration Fires Immigration Court Officials as Crackdown Begins
Four immigration court officials were removed from their positions on Monday. It’s unclear who is in charge at this point.
nyti.ms
January 21, 2025 at 1:07 AM
The acting head of the U.S. immigration court system and three other top officials were fired on Monday soon after President Trump took office, according to three people familiar with the matter, in a purge of the top echelon of a critical part of the government’s immigration system. nyti.ms/4hGs1In
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Data centers planned for companies including Facebook, Amazon and Microsoft could consume as much electricity as every home in Minnesota.
The staggering power needs of Minnesota data centers
Big tech is flooding Minnesota with data centers. They could be lucrative and lower electric bills. Some fear eye-popping power demand will threaten climate goals.
www.startribune.com
January 10, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Data centers planned for companies including Facebook, Amazon and Microsoft could consume as much electricity as every home in Minnesota.
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Election denier Mike Lindell's company MyPillow needs to settle its $777,000 tab with shipping company DHL, a Hennepin County judge says.
MyPillow ordered to pay nearly $800K for unpaid shipping bill
DHL had sued the Minnesota company over an unfulfilled payment plan last year.
www.startribune.com
January 8, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Election denier Mike Lindell's company MyPillow needs to settle its $777,000 tab with shipping company DHL, a Hennepin County judge says.
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BREAKING: Donald Trump to change name of United States to "Cheap Eggs."
January 8, 2025 at 1:05 AM
BREAKING: Donald Trump to change name of United States to "Cheap Eggs."