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The specious arrest of Don Lemon has deep historical roots..
Trump Renews DISTURBING PAST with LATEST ARREST
YouTube video by Legal AF
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February 3, 2026 at 11:39 AM
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“It’s just weird to see a toddler in a pink onesie getting their eyes washed out from tear gas, you know?”
New — I spoke to eight people who were present at the ICE protest on Saturday in Portland, Oregon when federal agents deployed tear gas and rubber bullets into a crowd of families, children, elderly and disabled people, and their pets.

These are their stories:
What it's like to see ICE tear gas kids
Attendees at a Portland, OR protest describe a vicious, unprovoked and sudden attack
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February 3, 2026 at 2:08 AM
My first blue post! I'll still visit Facebook, but, respecting Scott Galloway'S call to boycott the mag 7, I'll be putting my posts up here this month.

This is quite an interesting interview with a really sharp chronicler of the right. Keep an eye out for part II..

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Trump LOSES CONTROL of Party as His TERM SPIRALS
YouTube video by Legal AF
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February 3, 2026 at 7:44 AM
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Here’s this week’s report on 10 reasons for modest optimism, in rough order of importance. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/this-weeks-ten-reasons-for-modest
March 7, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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Trump's proposed appointments look like a decapitation strike: destroying the American government from the top, leaving the body politic to rot, and the rest of us to suffer.
snyder.substack.com/p/decapitati...
Decapitation Strike (December)
Preserving America from Trump's Appointments (updated)
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January 16, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.
January 20, 2025 at 10:22 PM
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NEW: The great Trump-Musk crackdown is coming. And it will hit hard & fast. Journalists will be first. But everyone else is next.

I urge you to read my 20 lessons in How to Survive the Broligarchy, inspired by & featuring the great @timothysnyder.bsky.social
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www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
How to survive the broligarchy: 20 lessons for the post-truth world | Carole Cadwalladr
In the wake of Trump’s unnerving appointees, the investigative journalist and veteran of the libel court offers pointers on coping in an age of surveillance
www.theguardian.com
November 17, 2024 at 10:18 AM
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Just because he has the power doesn’t make it right for him to abuse it.
January 22, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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Heil Tesla
Tesla Gigafactory, Berlin - right now!

In cooperation with @ledbydonkeys.org
January 22, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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It just so happens that I wrote this piece tonight before learning of President Carter’s passing. It contains some essential history about Carter’s loss to Ronald Reagan in 1980. open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...
December 30, 2024 at 4:38 AM
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Thanks, Clarence Thomas.
The fact that he did this and we allow him to be back in the office is incomprehensible.
December 29, 2024 at 7:57 PM
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Jimmy Carter leaves the Southern Baptist Convention in 2009: “Women and girls have been discriminated against for too long in a twisted interpretation of the Word of God.” He continues to teach his regular Sunday School class in Plains, Ga.
December 29, 2024 at 9:28 PM
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Remembering Jimmy Carter: US president whose subsequent decades of tireless humanitarian work brought him the Nobel peace prize
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...
Jimmy Carter obituary
US president whose subsequent decades of tireless humanitarian work brought him the Nobel peace prize
www.theguardian.com
December 30, 2024 at 6:50 AM
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We are rightfully horrified at mass shootings in the USA and want to know why they don’t have meaningful gun laws, then look the other way when desperate people drown in the Med or Channel - not questioning why we don’t have meaningful asylum laws
December 29, 2024 at 6:32 PM
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December 12, 2024 at 5:24 PM