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News reporter in another life. California Dem 🌊Heard this place is better than Elon’s Hellscape. Hope to rebuild my 💙 community here. #twitterquitter #bluecrew 🇺🇦
Democracy is my jam. 🙏🏼🇺🇸
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Since its founding, the UN’s world hunger monitoring group has confirmed only 4 official famines: Somalia 2011, South Sudan 2017, Sudan 2024, and Gaza City now. Entirely caused by Israel’s use of famine as a weapon of war. As a Jewish survivor of war myself, I’m ashamed of a country I once loved.
August 23, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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Want to see racial bias in news media

To the left is a Utah man who killed his wife and five kids plus mother-in law, and the picture that was used by the media

On the right is Abrego Garcia who did not break any law and got sent to a concentration camp where he was tortured. @forbes.com
August 22, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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Video of Columbia Heights residents driving ICE agents out of their area. source: www.instagram.com/reel/DNjkvLQ...
August 20, 2025 at 12:20 AM
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The newspaper that told the truth about Watergate and the Pentagon Papers will now “communicate with optimism about this country” in its time of rising fascism
Here’s the full memo:
July 14, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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What the shit, man? Like, seriously, what is wrong with this man? I mean, I know there's a lot wrong with him, but this is just.... I dunno... a new kind of stupid?
July 14, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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1 DAY AFTER ICE RAID

Carpinteria, CA Fighting Back after the ICE
Raids at Glass House Farms ✊🏽
July 14, 2025 at 3:44 AM
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“Let’s see … quote from Republican, quote from Democrat … yep, my work as a journalist is done here.”
cnn.com CNN @cnn.com · Jul 13
Deep in the hazardous and ecologically fragile Everglades, hundreds of migrants are confined in cages in a makeshift tent detention facility Florida’s Republican governor calls “safe and secure” and Democratic lawmakers call “inhumane.”
Florida lawmakers allowed into ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ say detainees packed into cages | CNN
Deep in the hazardous and ecologically fragile Everglades, hundreds of migrants are confined in cages in a makeshift tent detention facility Florida’s Republican governor calls “safe and secure” and D...
www.cnn.com
July 13, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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When history marks the point where we lost the future to China, this will be it.
July 2, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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If your idea of greatness includes cages, cruelty, and repeating history’s darkest chapters, then congrats, mission accomplished.

And f*ck you!
July 2, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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This is more like it.
July 2, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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Not just excess, it’s a system built to keep people hungry so the rich can keep feasting. But the masses are waking up.

Powerful video…
June 30, 2025 at 4:35 AM
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A case study in how not to do an interview. He let Johnson filibuster over and over with repeated outrageous lies that went unchallenged. Asked three times about Johnson’s position on deficits and let him bob and weave. Just cringeworthy.
Ron Johnson's lies that "nobody would get kicked off Medicaid" if Trump's big bill becomes law go unchallenged by Jake Tapper
June 30, 2025 at 10:55 PM
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OMG LEAVE US THE FUCK ALONE!!!!! We keep rejecting this framing!!! We are 2% of the US population and 12% of the NYC population. We don’t ever agree on anything that’s our whole deal! Why is this the top article on NYT right now???
June 25, 2025 at 11:56 PM
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Trump's rage at the media over failures of Iran bombing sends a message: We can't trust anything the admin says on this via official channels. Everything will be tailored to serve the cult of Trump.

On the pod, national security lawyer Brad Moss is brilliant on this:
newrepublic.com/article/1972...
MAGA Dope Pete Hegseth Accidentally Exposes Trump’s Vile Scam on Iran
As Pete Hegseth and other Trumpists furiously attack reports that Trump’s Iran bombing failed, a veteran national security lawyer explains why all this MAGA propaganda is taking us to a very dangerous...
newrepublic.com
June 26, 2025 at 11:10 AM
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It's not a duty of journalists to repeat the claims of proven liars and pretend those claims are credible. That's the job of propagandists and enablers.
June 26, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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Do they really think they can scare us with the word “socialist” when they are literally sending out men in masks with no warrants and no badges to disappear people off American streets?

I know what I’m scared of, and it’s not a socialist.
June 26, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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The news tried to convince me Zohran is "controversial" with a nothingburger quote about equality. (Equality is controversial now?! Really?!?)

Meanwhile, the lunatic at the helm spews nonsense daily & there's not a hint about the wannabe emperor's fetid diaper or rotten mind.
#Hackjournalism
June 26, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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Watch this. Because this is the way: Local officials using their platform right, reaching out to the community.

Ambrocio “Enrique” Lozano, affectionately known as “the popsicle man,” was reportedly abducted in broad daylight in Culver City. Masked man. White van. Cart left behind in the street.
June 26, 2025 at 3:05 AM
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Another South African billionaire destroys a cherished and venerable institution.

(Soon-Shiong's net worth is US$11.3 billion as of 2025 according to Bloomberg Billionaires Index)
June 26, 2025 at 3:32 AM
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Trump and Melania Knauss, an immigrant who came to the United States on a work visa. To Trump's right is their anchor baby, Barron.

I don't care if she is a dual citizen of Slovenia and the United States and if Barron was born in the United States, but they should be deported.
June 26, 2025 at 4:51 AM
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A child dies of malnutrition every 15 seconds, as 185,535 boxes of special food for starving children are stacked in a warehouse in Rhode Island, paid for by American taxpayers. After shutting USAID, the Trump administration is just sitting on the boxes. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/25/o...
Opinion | ‘The U.S. Cannot Solve All the World’s Problems’
www.nytimes.com
June 26, 2025 at 1:24 AM
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New data show that ICE is pulling record numbers of people off the streets who have no criminal convictions of any kind. This is not just a change from the Biden admin. This is a radical tactical shift compared to Trump 1.0. These arrests are up over 1,000% from 2017.
www.cato.org/blog/ice-arr...
June 24, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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As long as these six justices control the U.S. Supreme Court, the U.S. Constitution is dead.

There's no federal republic left to save, only states.

@vox.com

www.vox.com/scotus/41758...
The Supreme Court just stripped thousands of immigrants of their right to due process
The decision nullifies a treaty designed to protect immigrants from torture.
www.vox.com
June 24, 2025 at 4:28 AM
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Boom.
June 24, 2025 at 2:07 PM