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Rep. Adam Smith: "This country has not agreed to have the death penalty for drug smuggling. If we want to have that policy conversation, we can have that policy conversation, but the president has unilaterally decided that lethal force is going to be applied. It's an enormous expansion of power."
October 31, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Rep. Adam Smith: "This country has not agreed to have the death penalty for drug smuggling. If we want to have that policy conversation, we can have that policy conversation, but the president has unilaterally decided that lethal force is going to be applied. It's an enormous expansion of power."
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Almost immediately after Charlie Kirk was shot on Wednesday, right-wing social media accounts began speculating that his killer was transgender. Politicians and news outlets fueled the rumors.
The problem? There is no evidence to back up the claim.
The problem? There is no evidence to back up the claim.
It's never too soon for the right to blame trans people
A timeline of false "gender ideology" claims about the Charlie Kirk shooting.
www.motherjones.com
September 13, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Almost immediately after Charlie Kirk was shot on Wednesday, right-wing social media accounts began speculating that his killer was transgender. Politicians and news outlets fueled the rumors.
The problem? There is no evidence to back up the claim.
The problem? There is no evidence to back up the claim.
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Donald Trump just passed the largest transfer of wealth from the working class to the rich in history and the tech oligarchs are now lining up to praise him.
The greed of the billionaire class knows no bounds.
🎥: Washington Post
The greed of the billionaire class knows no bounds.
🎥: Washington Post
September 5, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Donald Trump just passed the largest transfer of wealth from the working class to the rich in history and the tech oligarchs are now lining up to praise him.
The greed of the billionaire class knows no bounds.
🎥: Washington Post
The greed of the billionaire class knows no bounds.
🎥: Washington Post
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For generations doctors have understood that germs — like bacteria or viruses — cause infectious diseases.
Yet we now have an HHS Secretary casting doubt on the germ theory — the foundation of modern medicine.
That’s not only unacceptable, it is dangerous. RFK Jr. must resign.
Yet we now have an HHS Secretary casting doubt on the germ theory — the foundation of modern medicine.
That’s not only unacceptable, it is dangerous. RFK Jr. must resign.
RFK Jr does not just reject vaccines. He rejects science and must step down | Bernie Sanders
Kennedy is unfit to be our nation’s leading public health official because he rejects the fundamental principles of modern science
www.theguardian.com
September 12, 2025 at 4:48 PM
For generations doctors have understood that germs — like bacteria or viruses — cause infectious diseases.
Yet we now have an HHS Secretary casting doubt on the germ theory — the foundation of modern medicine.
That’s not only unacceptable, it is dangerous. RFK Jr. must resign.
Yet we now have an HHS Secretary casting doubt on the germ theory — the foundation of modern medicine.
That’s not only unacceptable, it is dangerous. RFK Jr. must resign.
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Medicare for All - "That's socialism!"
Social Security - "That's socialism!"
Debt free education - "That's socialism!"
Universal childcare - "That's socialism!"
$1 trillion+ in tax cuts for the wealthy...
"That's just how it is."
Social Security - "That's socialism!"
Debt free education - "That's socialism!"
Universal childcare - "That's socialism!"
$1 trillion+ in tax cuts for the wealthy...
"That's just how it is."
July 1, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Medicare for All - "That's socialism!"
Social Security - "That's socialism!"
Debt free education - "That's socialism!"
Universal childcare - "That's socialism!"
$1 trillion+ in tax cuts for the wealthy...
"That's just how it is."
Social Security - "That's socialism!"
Debt free education - "That's socialism!"
Universal childcare - "That's socialism!"
$1 trillion+ in tax cuts for the wealthy...
"That's just how it is."
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All rot leads to Reagan. Trickle-down was always a golden shower.
This has always been the GOP's strategy:
1) Cut taxes for the wealthy & corporations by claiming they'll pay for themselves.
2) Explode deficits
3) Use the debt as an excuse to demand cuts to vital programs that help millions.
4) Repeat.
1) Cut taxes for the wealthy & corporations by claiming they'll pay for themselves.
2) Explode deficits
3) Use the debt as an excuse to demand cuts to vital programs that help millions.
4) Repeat.
July 1, 2025 at 12:24 AM
All rot leads to Reagan. Trickle-down was always a golden shower.
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Listening to Peter Thiel, it is hard to escape the conclusion that he and his fellow billionaires are sick of the human species, writes @jeetheer.bsky.social. www.thenation.com/article/soci...
The Billionaires Are Abandoning Humanity
Peter Thiel and his friends feel they no longer belong to our species.
www.thenation.com
June 30, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Listening to Peter Thiel, it is hard to escape the conclusion that he and his fellow billionaires are sick of the human species, writes @jeetheer.bsky.social. www.thenation.com/article/soci...
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Tucked into Donald Trump’s “Big, Beautiful” spending bill—which passed in the House last month, and promises major cuts to Medicaid—is a provision to spend $46.5 billion in taxpayer dollars on building his long-promised wall along the US-Mexico border.
Trump's Medicaid cuts will fund his failed border wall
Polls consistently show that Americans want more spent on health care, not the border.
www.motherjones.com
June 29, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Tucked into Donald Trump’s “Big, Beautiful” spending bill—which passed in the House last month, and promises major cuts to Medicaid—is a provision to spend $46.5 billion in taxpayer dollars on building his long-promised wall along the US-Mexico border.
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2.977 people died on 9/11.
The daily quote for ICE is 3000.
I think putting it in terms like that puts it into perspective.
They want one 9/11 every day.
The daily quote for ICE is 3000.
I think putting it in terms like that puts it into perspective.
They want one 9/11 every day.
June 28, 2025 at 9:24 PM
2.977 people died on 9/11.
The daily quote for ICE is 3000.
I think putting it in terms like that puts it into perspective.
They want one 9/11 every day.
The daily quote for ICE is 3000.
I think putting it in terms like that puts it into perspective.
They want one 9/11 every day.
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Whoa! Alligator Alcatraz is going to be complete by Tuesday and open for operation on Wednesday.
Am I the only one wondering how Ron DeSantis got this together so fast?
Floridians, make sure you remember this the next time a hurricane hits and you can’t get disaster relief in your state.
Am I the only one wondering how Ron DeSantis got this together so fast?
Floridians, make sure you remember this the next time a hurricane hits and you can’t get disaster relief in your state.
June 29, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Whoa! Alligator Alcatraz is going to be complete by Tuesday and open for operation on Wednesday.
Am I the only one wondering how Ron DeSantis got this together so fast?
Floridians, make sure you remember this the next time a hurricane hits and you can’t get disaster relief in your state.
Am I the only one wondering how Ron DeSantis got this together so fast?
Floridians, make sure you remember this the next time a hurricane hits and you can’t get disaster relief in your state.
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This 940-page reconciliation bill has a list of horrific provisions. One of the worst is a $211 billion tax break to the top 0.2% who inherit $30 million.
In this bill 16 million lose health care & hungry kids lose nutrition. Meanwhile, billionaires get much richer. Disgusting.
In this bill 16 million lose health care & hungry kids lose nutrition. Meanwhile, billionaires get much richer. Disgusting.
June 29, 2025 at 5:44 PM
This 940-page reconciliation bill has a list of horrific provisions. One of the worst is a $211 billion tax break to the top 0.2% who inherit $30 million.
In this bill 16 million lose health care & hungry kids lose nutrition. Meanwhile, billionaires get much richer. Disgusting.
In this bill 16 million lose health care & hungry kids lose nutrition. Meanwhile, billionaires get much richer. Disgusting.
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Look at my opposition party dawg
Asked if he supports the war powers resolution (would require Trump to seek authorization from Congress for war with Iran), Hakeem Jeffries says: "I haven't taken a look at it."
June 23, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Look at my opposition party dawg
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There’s a growing problem you’re not supposed to question: masked agents detaining migrants. Not in war zones...here...on U.S. soil. When power hides its face...it stops being accountable. When you can’t ID authority...you can’t challenge it. 1/5 🧵
June 24, 2025 at 2:12 AM
There’s a growing problem you’re not supposed to question: masked agents detaining migrants. Not in war zones...here...on U.S. soil. When power hides its face...it stops being accountable. When you can’t ID authority...you can’t challenge it. 1/5 🧵
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This wouldn’t actually be new for some of us.
Can you imagine living in a “Democracy” where armed masked men are kidnapping people off the streets every single day?
June 23, 2025 at 9:55 PM
This wouldn’t actually be new for some of us.
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No Notes except that we have to deconstruct the “civilized vs savage” rhetoric we normalized.
June 23, 2025 at 10:56 PM
No Notes except that we have to deconstruct the “civilized vs savage” rhetoric we normalized.
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It’s abundantly clear Iran doesn’t want war, ironically making it the only government in this standoff aligned with US public opinion
June 23, 2025 at 9:34 PM
It’s abundantly clear Iran doesn’t want war, ironically making it the only government in this standoff aligned with US public opinion
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The number of immigrants detained in ICE facilities across the country has reached a record high of more than 56,000.
The driving force behind this surge is the detention of immigrants with no prior criminal convictions.
The driving force behind this surge is the detention of immigrants with no prior criminal convictions.
ICE Detention Numbers Have Reached a Record High
There are currently more than 56,000 immigrants in custody—the most since 2019.
www.motherjones.com
June 23, 2025 at 2:04 PM
The number of immigrants detained in ICE facilities across the country has reached a record high of more than 56,000.
The driving force behind this surge is the detention of immigrants with no prior criminal convictions.
The driving force behind this surge is the detention of immigrants with no prior criminal convictions.
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I can’t speak for every city, but here in LA, ICE bounty hunters aren’t going after gang members. They’re hunting the vulnerable: gardeners, street vendors, day laborers.
Easy money, no risk.
Folks need to stop pretending this is about crime.
@jacobsoboroff.bsky.social—thank you for your words.
Easy money, no risk.
Folks need to stop pretending this is about crime.
@jacobsoboroff.bsky.social—thank you for your words.
June 24, 2025 at 2:10 AM
I can’t speak for every city, but here in LA, ICE bounty hunters aren’t going after gang members. They’re hunting the vulnerable: gardeners, street vendors, day laborers.
Easy money, no risk.
Folks need to stop pretending this is about crime.
@jacobsoboroff.bsky.social—thank you for your words.
Easy money, no risk.
Folks need to stop pretending this is about crime.
@jacobsoboroff.bsky.social—thank you for your words.
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How long must they kick us until we are awake?
How much of this shame will we bear - this shame that the just man experiences at another man's crime - until shame gives way to rage?
How much of this shame will we bear - this shame that the just man experiences at another man's crime - until shame gives way to rage?
KTLA - Narciso Barranco, a father to three sons who are all US Marines, pepper-sprayed and punched in the face by alleged federal immigration officers while he was working as a landscaper at an IHOP. He was then forced into the back of an unmarked car in Santa Ana.
Masked men in U.S. Border Patrol vests take Santa Ana father after repeatedly hitting him
In a graphic video that has since gone viral on social media, about seven or more masked men wearing U.S. Border Patrol vests are seen violently detaining a Santa Ana father before forcing him into…
ktla.com
June 23, 2025 at 11:45 PM
How long must they kick us until we are awake?
How much of this shame will we bear - this shame that the just man experiences at another man's crime - until shame gives way to rage?
How much of this shame will we bear - this shame that the just man experiences at another man's crime - until shame gives way to rage?
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They’re assaulting the mothers and fathers of US soldiers.
Roving gangs of masked men grab human beings off the street.
They send them without due process to prisons in countries they’re not even from where they are then sold into slavery.
Make it stop!!!
Roving gangs of masked men grab human beings off the street.
They send them without due process to prisons in countries they’re not even from where they are then sold into slavery.
Make it stop!!!
June 24, 2025 at 1:03 AM
They’re assaulting the mothers and fathers of US soldiers.
Roving gangs of masked men grab human beings off the street.
They send them without due process to prisons in countries they’re not even from where they are then sold into slavery.
Make it stop!!!
Roving gangs of masked men grab human beings off the street.
They send them without due process to prisons in countries they’re not even from where they are then sold into slavery.
Make it stop!!!
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The American people were lied to about Vietnam, with tragic consequences.
The American people were lied to about Iraq, with tragic consequences.
The American people are being lied to again today. We cannot allow history to repeat itself.
The American people were lied to about Iraq, with tragic consequences.
The American people are being lied to again today. We cannot allow history to repeat itself.
June 22, 2025 at 5:37 PM
The American people were lied to about Vietnam, with tragic consequences.
The American people were lied to about Iraq, with tragic consequences.
The American people are being lied to again today. We cannot allow history to repeat itself.
The American people were lied to about Iraq, with tragic consequences.
The American people are being lied to again today. We cannot allow history to repeat itself.
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Every conspiracy theory is “all the richest and most powerful people are trying to keep something secret and the only people who saw through it are the dumbest people you’ve ever met.”
June 22, 2025 at 1:15 AM
Every conspiracy theory is “all the richest and most powerful people are trying to keep something secret and the only people who saw through it are the dumbest people you’ve ever met.”