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Analogies are never perfect, but this one is instructive. If you’ll indulge me:
What would you call it if a German government ordered books from Jewish authors removed for being “subversive” and “anti-German” while having no problem with white supremacist literature?
Because that’s what this is.
What would you call it if a German government ordered books from Jewish authors removed for being “subversive” and “anti-German” while having no problem with white supremacist literature?
Because that’s what this is.
Adolf Hitler's “Mein Kampf” is still on U.S. Naval Academy shelves. “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” and “Memorializing the Holocaust” are not.
An order by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s office led to a purge of books that are critical of racism — but preserved volumes defending white power.
An order by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s office led to a purge of books that are critical of racism — but preserved volumes defending white power.
Who’s In and Who’s Out at the Naval Academy’s Library?
An order by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s office resulted in a purge of books critical of racism but preserved volumes defending white power.
www.nytimes.com
April 12, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Analogies are never perfect, but this one is instructive. If you’ll indulge me:
What would you call it if a German government ordered books from Jewish authors removed for being “subversive” and “anti-German” while having no problem with white supremacist literature?
Because that’s what this is.
What would you call it if a German government ordered books from Jewish authors removed for being “subversive” and “anti-German” while having no problem with white supremacist literature?
Because that’s what this is.
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Can we Americans still spell C-O-R-R-U-P-T-I-O-N? And why did this story break today in the Financial Times, a London newspaper?
April 11, 2025 at 12:44 AM
Can we Americans still spell C-O-R-R-U-P-T-I-O-N? And why did this story break today in the Financial Times, a London newspaper?
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The whole point of social security is that people shouldn't have to live and die in abject poverty.
Is it perfect? Of course not. I'd prefer it was more generous. But it is better than nothing and speaks to our (often aspirational) values.
Is it perfect? Of course not. I'd prefer it was more generous. But it is better than nothing and speaks to our (often aspirational) values.
April 11, 2025 at 3:49 AM
The whole point of social security is that people shouldn't have to live and die in abject poverty.
Is it perfect? Of course not. I'd prefer it was more generous. But it is better than nothing and speaks to our (often aspirational) values.
Is it perfect? Of course not. I'd prefer it was more generous. But it is better than nothing and speaks to our (often aspirational) values.
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Plainclothes agents. Trying to question elementary-aged kids. And lying that they had parents permission to do so.
April 10, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Plainclothes agents. Trying to question elementary-aged kids. And lying that they had parents permission to do so.
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Seriously? Because we were told they were going to deport violent criminals.
April 10, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Seriously? Because we were told they were going to deport violent criminals.
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Sotomayor is right. According to this Supreme Court, the US can now kidnap, detain, and fly legal immigrants and citizens to a foreign country's prison, even if it's a whoopsie.
America, people. Freedom and stuff.
America, people. Freedom and stuff.
April 8, 2025 at 1:18 AM
Sotomayor is right. According to this Supreme Court, the US can now kidnap, detain, and fly legal immigrants and citizens to a foreign country's prison, even if it's a whoopsie.
America, people. Freedom and stuff.
America, people. Freedom and stuff.
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Let's talk about the so-called Save Act.
Don't let the name fool you. This bill doesn't SAVE anything - this is 100% a voter suppression bill. #HandsOffHerVote
Don't let the name fool you. This bill doesn't SAVE anything - this is 100% a voter suppression bill. #HandsOffHerVote
April 7, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Let's talk about the so-called Save Act.
Don't let the name fool you. This bill doesn't SAVE anything - this is 100% a voter suppression bill. #HandsOffHerVote
Don't let the name fool you. This bill doesn't SAVE anything - this is 100% a voter suppression bill. #HandsOffHerVote
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I love paying TurboTax a few hundred bucks every year to figure out how much money I owe the government, which the government already knows, but won't tell me because TurboTax pays legislators to keep the government from telling me. 😻
April 8, 2025 at 12:06 PM
I love paying TurboTax a few hundred bucks every year to figure out how much money I owe the government, which the government already knows, but won't tell me because TurboTax pays legislators to keep the government from telling me. 😻
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We warned you they wouldn’t just go after the “criminals.” They have quotas to fill so scooping up the people who tried to do it right by paying taxes and filing for green cards are right there in the system. Box checked. Great chat with @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social tonight on @M at 11pm ET.
April 5, 2025 at 1:49 AM
We warned you they wouldn’t just go after the “criminals.” They have quotas to fill so scooping up the people who tried to do it right by paying taxes and filing for green cards are right there in the system. Box checked. Great chat with @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social tonight on @M at 11pm ET.
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He’s tanking the economy, destroying our standing in the world, depriving women and LGBTQ communities of their fundamental rights, attacking the environment, disappearing legal immigrants, gutting Veteran’s benefits and Social Security. And he’s making you pay for his golf trips while he’s at it.
April 4, 2025 at 11:48 PM
He’s tanking the economy, destroying our standing in the world, depriving women and LGBTQ communities of their fundamental rights, attacking the environment, disappearing legal immigrants, gutting Veteran’s benefits and Social Security. And he’s making you pay for his golf trips while he’s at it.
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Louder for the people in the back:
If only citizens get due process, NOBODY gets due process.
Because then all they have to say is that you’re not a citizen, and you have no right to due process to prove them wrong — even if it’s a lie.
If only citizens get due process, NOBODY gets due process.
Because then all they have to say is that you’re not a citizen, and you have no right to due process to prove them wrong — even if it’s a lie.
Also I hope we're all on this same page
EVERYONE needs to be brought out of that El Salvadorian hell hole
they were ALL wrongfully deported.
I mean it's good to focus on 'And this guy was here legally and not ever a gang member AND they're Venezuelan'
but NO ONE should've been sent there
EVERYONE needs to be brought out of that El Salvadorian hell hole
they were ALL wrongfully deported.
I mean it's good to focus on 'And this guy was here legally and not ever a gang member AND they're Venezuelan'
but NO ONE should've been sent there
April 4, 2025 at 5:28 AM
Louder for the people in the back:
If only citizens get due process, NOBODY gets due process.
Because then all they have to say is that you’re not a citizen, and you have no right to due process to prove them wrong — even if it’s a lie.
If only citizens get due process, NOBODY gets due process.
Because then all they have to say is that you’re not a citizen, and you have no right to due process to prove them wrong — even if it’s a lie.
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•••••BREAKING•••••
Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has forced the nation’s top vaccine regulator to RESIGN.
Peter Marks, an architect of the U.S. program to rapidly develop coronavirus vaccines, has been pushed out of the FDA — a terrifying development that comes…
Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has forced the nation’s top vaccine regulator to RESIGN.
Peter Marks, an architect of the U.S. program to rapidly develop coronavirus vaccines, has been pushed out of the FDA — a terrifying development that comes…
March 29, 2025 at 2:16 AM
•••••BREAKING•••••
Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has forced the nation’s top vaccine regulator to RESIGN.
Peter Marks, an architect of the U.S. program to rapidly develop coronavirus vaccines, has been pushed out of the FDA — a terrifying development that comes…
Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has forced the nation’s top vaccine regulator to RESIGN.
Peter Marks, an architect of the U.S. program to rapidly develop coronavirus vaccines, has been pushed out of the FDA — a terrifying development that comes…
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🙏🇺🇦 Zelensky: Russia attacked Ukraine with 170+ drones. This massive attack targeted the Dnipro, Kyiv, Sumy, Kharkiv, and Khmelnytskyi regions.
Russia mocks the world’s peace efforts – dragging out the war and committing these acts of terror because it still doesn’t feel real pressure.
Russia mocks the world’s peace efforts – dragging out the war and committing these acts of terror because it still doesn’t feel real pressure.
March 29, 2025 at 9:30 AM
🙏🇺🇦 Zelensky: Russia attacked Ukraine with 170+ drones. This massive attack targeted the Dnipro, Kyiv, Sumy, Kharkiv, and Khmelnytskyi regions.
Russia mocks the world’s peace efforts – dragging out the war and committing these acts of terror because it still doesn’t feel real pressure.
Russia mocks the world’s peace efforts – dragging out the war and committing these acts of terror because it still doesn’t feel real pressure.
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The ACA was cool because before the ACA you could hit your lifetime maximum before you were a month old and be denied insurance for the rest of your life and after the ACA that’s illegal.
March 23, 2025 at 1:52 PM
The ACA was cool because before the ACA you could hit your lifetime maximum before you were a month old and be denied insurance for the rest of your life and after the ACA that’s illegal.
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There was a reason they attacked DEI first. It's because white christian male supremacist views are core to their movement. Dems should, contrary to the advice of some reflexive compromisers among us, respond by picking up the fallen banner of equality & opportunity. We should proudly champion it.
March 23, 2025 at 2:34 PM
There was a reason they attacked DEI first. It's because white christian male supremacist views are core to their movement. Dems should, contrary to the advice of some reflexive compromisers among us, respond by picking up the fallen banner of equality & opportunity. We should proudly champion it.
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Not going to repost the nonsensical statement that prompted this.
But we are SO FAR out of “wait it out” or “let’s work with them” territory
SO VERY FAR.
Politics as normal doesn’t work in a universe where one side is destroying politics as normal.
It’s not only pointless.
It’s dangerous.
But we are SO FAR out of “wait it out” or “let’s work with them” territory
SO VERY FAR.
Politics as normal doesn’t work in a universe where one side is destroying politics as normal.
It’s not only pointless.
It’s dangerous.
March 23, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Not going to repost the nonsensical statement that prompted this.
But we are SO FAR out of “wait it out” or “let’s work with them” territory
SO VERY FAR.
Politics as normal doesn’t work in a universe where one side is destroying politics as normal.
It’s not only pointless.
It’s dangerous.
But we are SO FAR out of “wait it out” or “let’s work with them” territory
SO VERY FAR.
Politics as normal doesn’t work in a universe where one side is destroying politics as normal.
It’s not only pointless.
It’s dangerous.
Whatever happened to "never again." Did we truly mean "never again to us?"
I haven't ever really spoken about this to anyone, but when I was litigating the so-called "comfort women" case, I went to the National Archives to obtain and read the testimonies of women and girls who were held in sex slave camps by the Japanese military following their release.
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March 23, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Whatever happened to "never again." Did we truly mean "never again to us?"
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Facial recognition company Clearview attempted to buy Social Security numbers and mugshots for its database.
🔗 www.404media.co/facial-recog...
🔗 www.404media.co/facial-recog...
Facial Recognition Company Clearview Attempted to Buy Social Security Numbers and Mugshots for its Database
Clearview AI spent nearly a million dollars in a bid to purchase “690 million arrest records and 390 million arrest photos” from all 50 states, court records reveal.
www.404media.co
March 19, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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Unsurprisingly, the DOGE boys who are supposedly investigating fraud are actually committing fraud.
Here’s their wall of receipts aka DOGE disinformation and lies.
Here’s their wall of receipts aka DOGE disinformation and lies.
March 16, 2025 at 12:54 AM
Unsurprisingly, the DOGE boys who are supposedly investigating fraud are actually committing fraud.
Here’s their wall of receipts aka DOGE disinformation and lies.
Here’s their wall of receipts aka DOGE disinformation and lies.
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March 14, 2025 at 11:39 PM
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@schumer.senate.gov I vote for @warren.senate.gov because I know she will fight for what's right for her constituents.
How about you stop caving in advance because of "optics" and start fighting for us, too. #notanotherdime until you do!
How about you stop caving in advance because of "optics" and start fighting for us, too. #notanotherdime until you do!
March 14, 2025 at 12:41 PM
@schumer.senate.gov I vote for @warren.senate.gov because I know she will fight for what's right for her constituents.
How about you stop caving in advance because of "optics" and start fighting for us, too. #notanotherdime until you do!
How about you stop caving in advance because of "optics" and start fighting for us, too. #notanotherdime until you do!
Oh, yeah. Preach!
March 13, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Oh, yeah. Preach!
This!
I want a Democratic Party that creates a New Deal Order for the 21st Century. I am tired of tepidness and Clintonites.
March 13, 2025 at 9:24 PM
This!