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Cartoon from @anntelnaes.bsky.social 😞
October 4, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Cartoon from @anntelnaes.bsky.social 😞
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Sen. Ruben Gallego tells me his NO on the House funding bill means he will also vote NO to advance it procedurally.
“Yeah, I don’t get cute with this shit.”
“Yeah, I don’t get cute with this shit.”
March 14, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Sen. Ruben Gallego tells me his NO on the House funding bill means he will also vote NO to advance it procedurally.
“Yeah, I don’t get cute with this shit.”
“Yeah, I don’t get cute with this shit.”
Hey Team DNC, why don’t you change #2 to read: Call your DEMOCRATIC Senator to vote NO.
March 14, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Hey Team DNC, why don’t you change #2 to read: Call your DEMOCRATIC Senator to vote NO.
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I don’t buy the narrative that Trump & President Musk actually WANT a shutdown. If that was the truth, they would’ve put forth an even worse bill that would 100% guarantee zero Dem votes.
What they did was propose a bill that green-lights DOGE & Elon’s billionaire takeover by omitting guardrails.
What they did was propose a bill that green-lights DOGE & Elon’s billionaire takeover by omitting guardrails.
March 14, 2025 at 12:32 PM
I don’t buy the narrative that Trump & President Musk actually WANT a shutdown. If that was the truth, they would’ve put forth an even worse bill that would 100% guarantee zero Dem votes.
What they did was propose a bill that green-lights DOGE & Elon’s billionaire takeover by omitting guardrails.
What they did was propose a bill that green-lights DOGE & Elon’s billionaire takeover by omitting guardrails.
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Everyone needs to call their DEM senators RIGHT NOW to tell them to vote no.
🚨 This CR allows Trump/Musk to cut off funding to any government program without Congressional approval. They could zero out Medicaid tomorrow and no one could stop them. 🚨
Let Senate Dems know you don’t want this!
🚨 This CR allows Trump/Musk to cut off funding to any government program without Congressional approval. They could zero out Medicaid tomorrow and no one could stop them. 🚨
Let Senate Dems know you don’t want this!
CALLS ARE WORKING - it has bought us precious time, but we NEED to keep the pressure up.
Tomorrow is the cloture vote.
KEEP CALLING: (202) 224-3121 ☎️☎️☎️
Tell your Dem Senator to vote NO on Cloture and NO on the Republican spending bill.
Do NOT assume your Senator will be good on this. Trust me.
Tomorrow is the cloture vote.
KEEP CALLING: (202) 224-3121 ☎️☎️☎️
Tell your Dem Senator to vote NO on Cloture and NO on the Republican spending bill.
Do NOT assume your Senator will be good on this. Trust me.
🚨 Everyone needs to call their Dem Senator right now. They are starting to cave.
Tell them:
1. Vote NO on Cloture
AND
2. Vote NO on the Republican spending bill.
Don’t let them pivot to reconciliation. GOP doesn’t need Dem votes on that and they know it.
TODAY is the showdown.
🤳🏽: (202) 224-3121
Tell them:
1. Vote NO on Cloture
AND
2. Vote NO on the Republican spending bill.
Don’t let them pivot to reconciliation. GOP doesn’t need Dem votes on that and they know it.
TODAY is the showdown.
🤳🏽: (202) 224-3121
March 14, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Everyone needs to call their DEM senators RIGHT NOW to tell them to vote no.
🚨 This CR allows Trump/Musk to cut off funding to any government program without Congressional approval. They could zero out Medicaid tomorrow and no one could stop them. 🚨
Let Senate Dems know you don’t want this!
🚨 This CR allows Trump/Musk to cut off funding to any government program without Congressional approval. They could zero out Medicaid tomorrow and no one could stop them. 🚨
Let Senate Dems know you don’t want this!
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Free Mahmoud Khalil. It's important to protect speech, even, perhaps especially, when we don't agree what's being said. If we don't support other people's First Amendment rights, then who will protect ours? We have to all be in this together.
March 11, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Free Mahmoud Khalil. It's important to protect speech, even, perhaps especially, when we don't agree what's being said. If we don't support other people's First Amendment rights, then who will protect ours? We have to all be in this together.
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BREAKING: Department of Homeland Security officers have detained Mahmoud Khalil – a recent Columbia University graduate who helped lead the Gaza solidarity encampment.
@premthakker.bsky.social reports
open.substack.com/pub/zeteo/p/...
@premthakker.bsky.social reports
open.substack.com/pub/zeteo/p/...
BREAKING: DHS Detains Palestinian Student from Columbia Encampment, Says Advocates
Agents told him his student visa was revoked. But he had a green card. Agents then said that was revoked too.
open.substack.com
March 9, 2025 at 2:42 PM
BREAKING: Department of Homeland Security officers have detained Mahmoud Khalil – a recent Columbia University graduate who helped lead the Gaza solidarity encampment.
@premthakker.bsky.social reports
open.substack.com/pub/zeteo/p/...
@premthakker.bsky.social reports
open.substack.com/pub/zeteo/p/...
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GUARDIAN: “Mahmoud Khalil, A prominent Palestinian activist who helped lead Columbia’s student encampment movement, arrested by ICE acting on a state department order to revoke his green card…”
Not free speech.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Not free speech.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
March 9, 2025 at 6:25 PM
GUARDIAN: “Mahmoud Khalil, A prominent Palestinian activist who helped lead Columbia’s student encampment movement, arrested by ICE acting on a state department order to revoke his green card…”
Not free speech.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Not free speech.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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We’re partnering w/ a number of groups participating in an #economicblackout THIS Friday, 2/28.
Do not spend, if possible.
No Starbucks on your way to work.
No drinks w/ the coworkers after work.
No dining out.
No Walmart run.
No quick McDonald’s drive-thru hit.
Hurt their wallets!
Do not spend, if possible.
No Starbucks on your way to work.
No drinks w/ the coworkers after work.
No dining out.
No Walmart run.
No quick McDonald’s drive-thru hit.
Hurt their wallets!
February 25, 2025 at 2:49 PM
We’re partnering w/ a number of groups participating in an #economicblackout THIS Friday, 2/28.
Do not spend, if possible.
No Starbucks on your way to work.
No drinks w/ the coworkers after work.
No dining out.
No Walmart run.
No quick McDonald’s drive-thru hit.
Hurt their wallets!
Do not spend, if possible.
No Starbucks on your way to work.
No drinks w/ the coworkers after work.
No dining out.
No Walmart run.
No quick McDonald’s drive-thru hit.
Hurt their wallets!
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Intelligence officials are starting to leak to me now too. Here’s a memo Defense Intelligence Agency personnel received instructing them to suspend observances including:
- Holocaust Remembrance Day
- MLK Day
- Juneteenth
- Holocaust Remembrance Day
- MLK Day
- Juneteenth
January 29, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Intelligence officials are starting to leak to me now too. Here’s a memo Defense Intelligence Agency personnel received instructing them to suspend observances including:
- Holocaust Remembrance Day
- MLK Day
- Juneteenth
- Holocaust Remembrance Day
- MLK Day
- Juneteenth
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1. A teacher in Ohio who has worked at the same public school for 34 years was suspended without pay and threatened with termination for offering four books in her classroom library that contained LGBTQ characters.
She's fighting back.
She's fighting back.
Ohio teacher suspended for including four books with LGBTQ characters in her classroom library
Karen Cahall has been a teacher in the New Richmond School District in Ohio for 34 years.
popular.info
December 12, 2024 at 1:51 PM
1. A teacher in Ohio who has worked at the same public school for 34 years was suspended without pay and threatened with termination for offering four books in her classroom library that contained LGBTQ characters.
She's fighting back.
She's fighting back.
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Amid the backdrop that more than a dozen members of Trump's Cabinet are billionaires, a reminder that this is what happened to income inequality in this country once the tax rate for top earners was slashed after 1980. Trickle down does not work and top earners' priority is themselves.
December 8, 2024 at 12:08 AM
Amid the backdrop that more than a dozen members of Trump's Cabinet are billionaires, a reminder that this is what happened to income inequality in this country once the tax rate for top earners was slashed after 1980. Trickle down does not work and top earners' priority is themselves.