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It is the moral, ethical, and yes legally right for Democratic States and Cities to engage in Soft Secession by withholding federal taxes. This would not violate the Supremacy Clause, has immense precedent in US history, & the time to act is NOW.
www.qasimrashid.com/p/blue-state...
www.qasimrashid.com/p/blue-state...
Blue States: It Is Time For Soft Secession
Democratic run State and County Govts contribute 71% of the United States economy, and it's past time they flexed their muscle to protect our humanity
www.qasimrashid.com
October 28, 2025 at 8:10 PM
It is the moral, ethical, and yes legally right for Democratic States and Cities to engage in Soft Secession by withholding federal taxes. This would not violate the Supremacy Clause, has immense precedent in US history, & the time to act is NOW.
www.qasimrashid.com/p/blue-state...
www.qasimrashid.com/p/blue-state...
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Kristi Noem confronts enemy combatants in the Portland war zone today.
October 7, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Kristi Noem confronts enemy combatants in the Portland war zone today.
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Pedo Felon Thinks He's Living In The Throws Of Nazi Germany. Shitler Convened A Gestapo To Go About Terrorizing American Citizens Who Don't Appear To Have Bleached White Skin.
His Fascist Racist Nazi Regime Must Be Overthrown. YOU, WE, All Of Us Together Have The Power To Vote Them The Hell OUT ❗
His Fascist Racist Nazi Regime Must Be Overthrown. YOU, WE, All Of Us Together Have The Power To Vote Them The Hell OUT ❗
October 5, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Pedo Felon Thinks He's Living In The Throws Of Nazi Germany. Shitler Convened A Gestapo To Go About Terrorizing American Citizens Who Don't Appear To Have Bleached White Skin.
His Fascist Racist Nazi Regime Must Be Overthrown. YOU, WE, All Of Us Together Have The Power To Vote Them The Hell OUT ❗
His Fascist Racist Nazi Regime Must Be Overthrown. YOU, WE, All Of Us Together Have The Power To Vote Them The Hell OUT ❗
Penalize the educated. Got it. 😡
The Trump admin. may sell federal student loans to private investors. An advocate for Protect Borrowers said privatization "will limit access for students from the most underrepresented communities, raise borrowing costs, and eliminate vital protections."
Trump Admin Weighs Privatizing Student Loans, Fulfilling Another Project 2025 Objective
An advocate at Protect Borrowers said privatization "will limit access for students from the most underrepresented communities, raise borrowing costs, and eliminate vital protections that current federal borrowers rely on."
www.commondreams.org
October 7, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Penalize the educated. Got it. 😡
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Here’s the source of this amazing story.
A former top City Hall advisor and current campaign confidante to Mayor Eric Adams attempted to give money to a reporter from THE CITY following a campaign event in Harlem Wednesday.
Eric Adams Advisor Winnie Greco Handed a CITY Reporter Cash Stuffed in a Bag of Potato Chips
THE CITY reported the incident to law enforcement and was promptly contacted by the Brooklyn U.S. attorney’s office.
buff.ly
August 21, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Here’s the source of this amazing story.
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1000 Little Girls Were Sexually Abused & Raped By Epstein & Ghislane Maxwell.
Here Are Six Women Who Were Teens When Maxwell Groomed, Sexually Assaulted, Raped & Trafficked Them To Rich Depraved Pedophile Men.
They Were Raped.
Believe Them.
tRump Is In The Epstein Files.
youtu.be/9sweVMJzJ-s?...
Here Are Six Women Who Were Teens When Maxwell Groomed, Sexually Assaulted, Raped & Trafficked Them To Rich Depraved Pedophile Men.
They Were Raped.
Believe Them.
tRump Is In The Epstein Files.
youtu.be/9sweVMJzJ-s?...
Jeffrey Epstein Accusers Detail Abuse In NBC News Exclusive | TODAY
YouTube video by TODAY
youtu.be
August 13, 2025 at 3:33 PM
1000 Little Girls Were Sexually Abused & Raped By Epstein & Ghislane Maxwell.
Here Are Six Women Who Were Teens When Maxwell Groomed, Sexually Assaulted, Raped & Trafficked Them To Rich Depraved Pedophile Men.
They Were Raped.
Believe Them.
tRump Is In The Epstein Files.
youtu.be/9sweVMJzJ-s?...
Here Are Six Women Who Were Teens When Maxwell Groomed, Sexually Assaulted, Raped & Trafficked Them To Rich Depraved Pedophile Men.
They Were Raped.
Believe Them.
tRump Is In The Epstein Files.
youtu.be/9sweVMJzJ-s?...
@lawrenceodonnell.msnbc.com
I thought you might want to read this if you haven’t seen it already.
archive.ph/b3UpT
I thought you might want to read this if you haven’t seen it already.
archive.ph/b3UpT
archive.ph
August 8, 2025 at 5:12 PM
@lawrenceodonnell.msnbc.com
I thought you might want to read this if you haven’t seen it already.
archive.ph/b3UpT
I thought you might want to read this if you haven’t seen it already.
archive.ph/b3UpT
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See new essays in New Republic. I have gathered and edited eleven essays by historians on teaching and writing history in the time of Trump. We are fighting back! I'll be on MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell tonight at 10 to talk about the special issue of TNR.
newrepublic.com/series/67/tr...
newrepublic.com/series/67/tr...
Trump Against History
How is Trump changing our sense of who we are? We asked eminent Yale historian David W. Blight to round up some colleagues to consider the question. Here’s what they had to say.
newrepublic.com
August 7, 2025 at 7:28 PM
See new essays in New Republic. I have gathered and edited eleven essays by historians on teaching and writing history in the time of Trump. We are fighting back! I'll be on MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell tonight at 10 to talk about the special issue of TNR.
newrepublic.com/series/67/tr...
newrepublic.com/series/67/tr...
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Reposted by John Waski
New Mexico has seen a sharp rise in for-profit hospitals, ahead of even the biggest states.
Private equity is reshaping our healthcare with higher costs, fewer services, staff cuts, and less local control.
Healthcare should serve people, not investors.
progressnownm.org/how-private-...
Private equity is reshaping our healthcare with higher costs, fewer services, staff cuts, and less local control.
Healthcare should serve people, not investors.
progressnownm.org/how-private-...
The New Proving Ground: How Private Equity is Exploiting New Mexico's Healthcare System
Explore the impact of private equity in New Mexico's healthcare. Learn how this trend affects communities and local hospitals.
progressnownm.org
July 10, 2025 at 11:31 PM
New Mexico has seen a sharp rise in for-profit hospitals, ahead of even the biggest states.
Private equity is reshaping our healthcare with higher costs, fewer services, staff cuts, and less local control.
Healthcare should serve people, not investors.
progressnownm.org/how-private-...
Private equity is reshaping our healthcare with higher costs, fewer services, staff cuts, and less local control.
Healthcare should serve people, not investors.
progressnownm.org/how-private-...
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Ah yes, I remember all those boisterous 2024 campaign events where Trump and all the Trump Republicans rallied crowds and voters with their inspiring pledges to destroy storm tracking and weather forecasting in America!
USA! USA!
www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2025...
USA! USA!
www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2025...
Pentagon will no longer share satellite data that tracks hurricanes overnight
Scientists were initially given less than a week to prepare for the loss of microwave observations that are key in detecting rapid intensification of storms.
www.washingtonpost.com
July 2, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Ah yes, I remember all those boisterous 2024 campaign events where Trump and all the Trump Republicans rallied crowds and voters with their inspiring pledges to destroy storm tracking and weather forecasting in America!
USA! USA!
www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2025...
USA! USA!
www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2025...
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The big, beautiful bullsh*t bill? It’ll give ICE more funding than NATO allies spend on their militaries. I’m furious—17 of my Veteran brothers and sisters take their own lives every day, 33,000 are still homeless, “Americans first,” you chanted? No, you've become our enemies.. F*cking lying asses.
July 3, 2025 at 3:45 PM
The big, beautiful bullsh*t bill? It’ll give ICE more funding than NATO allies spend on their militaries. I’m furious—17 of my Veteran brothers and sisters take their own lives every day, 33,000 are still homeless, “Americans first,” you chanted? No, you've become our enemies.. F*cking lying asses.
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The president of the United States is threatening arrest and deportation of an American citizen who just won the Democratic nomination for mayor of NYC.
This is not normal. This is not acceptable. These are the words of an unhinged would-be dictator. I condemn this unequivocally.
This is not normal. This is not acceptable. These are the words of an unhinged would-be dictator. I condemn this unequivocally.
Trump threatened New York City Democratic mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani with arrest and promised the federal government would look into the state lawmaker’s citizenship.
Read more:
Read more:
Trump questions Mamdani's citizenship, demands investigations into CNN, Mayorkas
During his visit to a new migrant detention camp in Florida on Tuesday, Trump promised the federal government would look into Mamdani's citizenship
specne.ws
July 1, 2025 at 9:00 PM
The president of the United States is threatening arrest and deportation of an American citizen who just won the Democratic nomination for mayor of NYC.
This is not normal. This is not acceptable. These are the words of an unhinged would-be dictator. I condemn this unequivocally.
This is not normal. This is not acceptable. These are the words of an unhinged would-be dictator. I condemn this unequivocally.
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“The soft power suicide of the U.S. will be incomprehensible to future historians who will be dumbfounded in their attempts to explain why the global leader voluntarily wrecked one of its greatest national assets...”
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/24/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/24/b...
As U.S. Dismantles Voice of America, Rival Powers Hope to Fill the Void
www.nytimes.com
June 25, 2025 at 10:35 PM
“The soft power suicide of the U.S. will be incomprehensible to future historians who will be dumbfounded in their attempts to explain why the global leader voluntarily wrecked one of its greatest national assets...”
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/24/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/24/b...
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Republicans want 1.1 *trillion* dollars in cuts to Americans' health care.
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/29/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/29/u...
June 29, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Republicans want 1.1 *trillion* dollars in cuts to Americans' health care.
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/29/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/29/u...
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RUIZ: Did you read the report & fact-check its sources prior to publication?
RFK JR: I did not fact check
RUIZ: It included citations to sources that don't exist. How does that happen?
RFK JR: All of the foundational assertions are accurate
RUIZ: They did not exist. How can they be accurate?
RFK JR: I did not fact check
RUIZ: It included citations to sources that don't exist. How does that happen?
RFK JR: All of the foundational assertions are accurate
RUIZ: They did not exist. How can they be accurate?
June 24, 2025 at 3:26 PM
RUIZ: Did you read the report & fact-check its sources prior to publication?
RFK JR: I did not fact check
RUIZ: It included citations to sources that don't exist. How does that happen?
RFK JR: All of the foundational assertions are accurate
RUIZ: They did not exist. How can they be accurate?
RFK JR: I did not fact check
RUIZ: It included citations to sources that don't exist. How does that happen?
RFK JR: All of the foundational assertions are accurate
RUIZ: They did not exist. How can they be accurate?
June 19, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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‘If you’re going to shoot me, you better shoot straight.
I don’t know why you’re in my face.’
Representative Maxine Waters snaps at the National Guards.
She out here in Los Angeles fighting fascism!!🔥
I don’t know why you’re in my face.’
Representative Maxine Waters snaps at the National Guards.
She out here in Los Angeles fighting fascism!!🔥
June 10, 2025 at 5:40 PM
‘If you’re going to shoot me, you better shoot straight.
I don’t know why you’re in my face.’
Representative Maxine Waters snaps at the National Guards.
She out here in Los Angeles fighting fascism!!🔥
I don’t know why you’re in my face.’
Representative Maxine Waters snaps at the National Guards.
She out here in Los Angeles fighting fascism!!🔥
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Just a reminder to avoid these Trump Musk “shiny objects”! This is all part of the bigger picture and promises of #project2025 !! If you missed a few pages here’s a quick reminder Vought is now head of DOGE! And Vance is “in-the-waiting” @maddow.msnbc.com @lawrenceodonnell.msnbc.com
June 6, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Just a reminder to avoid these Trump Musk “shiny objects”! This is all part of the bigger picture and promises of #project2025 !! If you missed a few pages here’s a quick reminder Vought is now head of DOGE! And Vance is “in-the-waiting” @maddow.msnbc.com @lawrenceodonnell.msnbc.com
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The United States Senate must kill the disastrous budget bill.
It's that simple: no American should lose their healthcare coverage to give tax breaks to the wealthy. abcnews.go.com/Politics/elo...
It's that simple: no American should lose their healthcare coverage to give tax breaks to the wealthy. abcnews.go.com/Politics/elo...
'KILL the BILL': Elon Musk continues to blast Trump's bill in barrage of social media posts
Multiple people who have spoken to Trump and Musk describe a widening rift.
abcnews.go.com
June 5, 2025 at 3:21 PM
The United States Senate must kill the disastrous budget bill.
It's that simple: no American should lose their healthcare coverage to give tax breaks to the wealthy. abcnews.go.com/Politics/elo...
It's that simple: no American should lose their healthcare coverage to give tax breaks to the wealthy. abcnews.go.com/Politics/elo...
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TONIGHT: @gabrielleemanuel.bsky.social talks to @lawrenceodonnell.msnbc.com on The #LastWord at 10pm ET.
Marco Rubio said no one has died due to U.S. aid cuts. This mom disagrees
Mariam Mohammed says her younger son died when she could not get treatment for him at a U.S.-funded clinic that had temporarily closed. Researchers say there are many thousands of cases like his.
www.npr.org
June 3, 2025 at 1:14 AM
TONIGHT: @gabrielleemanuel.bsky.social talks to @lawrenceodonnell.msnbc.com on The #LastWord at 10pm ET.