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Murphy: "We need to understand the choice we've made in this nation to subject our kids to daily exposure to violence is not just about what happens inside schools. For many kids in our violent urban neighborhoods, it's about trauma that's breaking their brains & causing them to be unable to learn"
December 14, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Murphy: "We need to understand the choice we've made in this nation to subject our kids to daily exposure to violence is not just about what happens inside schools. For many kids in our violent urban neighborhoods, it's about trauma that's breaking their brains & causing them to be unable to learn"
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It starts with knowing the truth. Don’t allow yourselves to be gaslit into believing this is a real question.
December 6, 2025 at 2:44 PM
It starts with knowing the truth. Don’t allow yourselves to be gaslit into believing this is a real question.
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There’s no longer any pretense this has anything to do with crime (there are cities or parts of cities in SC and Ohio that have higher crime rates than DC — send the troops there!). This is about establishing a precedent for Trump seizing control of the nation’s capital when he wants to.
WASHINGTON (AP) — South Carolina, Ohio also sending National Guard troops to DC in further escalation of federal intervention in Dem city.
August 17, 2025 at 1:15 AM
There’s no longer any pretense this has anything to do with crime (there are cities or parts of cities in SC and Ohio that have higher crime rates than DC — send the troops there!). This is about establishing a precedent for Trump seizing control of the nation’s capital when he wants to.
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Bowser: "I think I speak for all Americans -- we don't believe it's legal to use the American military against American citizens on American soil."
August 11, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Bowser: "I think I speak for all Americans -- we don't believe it's legal to use the American military against American citizens on American soil."
It’s not a bug, it’s a feature! Isn’t this why *he* likes tariffs? Now everything is a transaction!
The CEO of a a multi-trillion dollar company went to the White House, openly handed the US president a gift made of gold, and his company got a special exemption to tariffs the president has illegally imposed.
Also, the Founders took bribery so seriously the Constitution bans it 3 separate times.
Also, the Founders took bribery so seriously the Constitution bans it 3 separate times.
August 9, 2025 at 5:13 PM
It’s not a bug, it’s a feature! Isn’t this why *he* likes tariffs? Now everything is a transaction!
Horrible.
Because of DOGE, the Trump Administration is going to spend $130,000 to burn $800,000 of food that USAID intended for starving children overseas but couldn't deliver due to the massive cuts to staff and services.
DOGE isn't eliminating waste; they're literally creating it.
DOGE isn't eliminating waste; they're literally creating it.
July 17, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Horrible.
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To add to this—just 16% of the students accepted in UVa’s first post SFFA v Harvard and post legacy ban class were Pell eligible.
About 50% of Virginia’s K–12 students live in economically disadvantaged households
About 50% of Virginia’s K–12 students live in economically disadvantaged households
for the record, just over 12 percent of students at uva are black or hispanic. 12 percent are asian. 5 percent identify as "multi-ethnic." about 57 percent of students are white. this is what Trump considers to be "DEI" run amok.
June 27, 2025 at 5:24 PM
To add to this—just 16% of the students accepted in UVa’s first post SFFA v Harvard and post legacy ban class were Pell eligible.
About 50% of Virginia’s K–12 students live in economically disadvantaged households
About 50% of Virginia’s K–12 students live in economically disadvantaged households
Going on 16 hours without power in Fairfax County, Virginia. @capitalweather.bsky.social
🌩️ Today’s storms hit hard.
Winds topping 60 mph downed trees across the region -- all the icons on this map indicate reports of downed trees (some on cars and homes and on major highways)
📸 Full damage reports: cwg.live
Winds topping 60 mph downed trees across the region -- all the icons on this map indicate reports of downed trees (some on cars and homes and on major highways)
📸 Full damage reports: cwg.live
June 20, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Going on 16 hours without power in Fairfax County, Virginia. @capitalweather.bsky.social
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If guilty people don't have Due Process rights, then innocent people don't have Due Process rights, because we don't know if they're innocent or guilty until we have a trial or hearing.
May 7, 2025 at 6:35 PM
If guilty people don't have Due Process rights, then innocent people don't have Due Process rights, because we don't know if they're innocent or guilty until we have a trial or hearing.
Mark Warner on Republicans: "I do think we're getting close to them stepping up, but the problem is going to be, how much structural damage is going to be done before my Republican friends find their voice and voice publicly what they're already saying privately?"
May 4, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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“Many people don’t realize how high the American quality of life is because of the competent & stable enforcement of regulations, &if that goes away a lot of lives are at risk,” said Steve Cicala… “This affects airplane safety, baby formula safety, the safety of meat, vegetables and packaged foods…”
Trump and DOGE Are Planning Deregulation at a Massive Scale
The White House will soon move to rapidly repeal or freeze rules that affect health, food, workplace safety, transportation and more.
www.nytimes.com
April 15, 2025 at 11:03 AM
“Many people don’t realize how high the American quality of life is because of the competent & stable enforcement of regulations, &if that goes away a lot of lives are at risk,” said Steve Cicala… “This affects airplane safety, baby formula safety, the safety of meat, vegetables and packaged foods…”
@booker.senate.gov Thank you for reminding me that one of the best ways to find your voice is to use it. Our country is threatened & sometimes I don’t know what to say first. Watching you, I thought, just start. And then keep going. What you did matters, to me and many others. 💙
April 2, 2025 at 2:40 AM
@booker.senate.gov Thank you for reminding me that one of the best ways to find your voice is to use it. Our country is threatened & sometimes I don’t know what to say first. Watching you, I thought, just start. And then keep going. What you did matters, to me and many others. 💙
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It’s like Watergate, only in this version Nixon directly mails the tapes to Woodward and Bernstein
March 26, 2025 at 2:46 AM
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The institutional Democratic Party is guided by an almost pathological level of conflict avoidance in almost every direction. “What can we do to make the least number of people mad?” is just a bankrupt way to operate.
March 13, 2025 at 10:23 PM
The institutional Democratic Party is guided by an almost pathological level of conflict avoidance in almost every direction. “What can we do to make the least number of people mad?” is just a bankrupt way to operate.
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History will remember this day— when an American President and Vice President abandoned all we stand for.
February 28, 2025 at 6:38 PM
History will remember this day— when an American President and Vice President abandoned all we stand for.
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I celebrate the 80% of Germans who did not vote for the far right. Do not make 19.6% of German voters into "the" German people (again).
"The" German people don't exist! The German population is diverse and divided, but voted overwhelmingly for liberal democratic parties.
#BTW25 #GermanElection
"The" German people don't exist! The German population is diverse and divided, but voted overwhelmingly for liberal democratic parties.
#BTW25 #GermanElection
February 23, 2025 at 5:32 PM
I celebrate the 80% of Germans who did not vote for the far right. Do not make 19.6% of German voters into "the" German people (again).
"The" German people don't exist! The German population is diverse and divided, but voted overwhelmingly for liberal democratic parties.
#BTW25 #GermanElection
"The" German people don't exist! The German population is diverse and divided, but voted overwhelmingly for liberal democratic parties.
#BTW25 #GermanElection
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This is your regular reminder that when you give the government the power to deny legal rights to any population you give it the power to deny you those same legal rights to people like you should it decide it necessary for whatever flimsy rationale it decides
What the Trump administration wants to do by creating these camps is monstrous enough. But a key thing I found when writing a book on concentration camp history is that when you establish this kind of detention, it tends over time to devolve into much worse kinds of camps.
Trump Plans to Use Military Sites Across the Country to Detain Undocumented Immigrants
The move would be a drastic escalation by the White House to militarize immigration enforcement.
www.nytimes.com
February 23, 2025 at 7:06 PM
This is your regular reminder that when you give the government the power to deny legal rights to any population you give it the power to deny you those same legal rights to people like you should it decide it necessary for whatever flimsy rationale it decides
I come from a family - both immediate and extended - that values service. It’s only in middle age that I’ve really understood what a significant “core” value that is. Some people don’t have it, don’t understand it, & belittle public service. And that truly describes the Trump administration.
that Trumpers think the US Postal *SERVICE* should be a profit-making enterprise exposes the fallacy in their conception of government
February 22, 2025 at 1:19 AM
I come from a family - both immediate and extended - that values service. It’s only in middle age that I’ve really understood what a significant “core” value that is. Some people don’t have it, don’t understand it, & belittle public service. And that truly describes the Trump administration.
💯 I agree - pathetic and weak.
Blumenthal: "What world is he living in? It is not only contrary to the facts and the truth but utterly despicable. A disgusting betrayal of a country that has bled and fought and died for freedom ... the president's surrender is pathetic and weak."
February 20, 2025 at 3:18 AM
💯 I agree - pathetic and weak.
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Connolly: "Imagine lecturing Europeans about being afraid of their own electorate when it's Trump and Musk who are firing FBI agents because they dared to do their duty, who are having loyalty tests at the NSC...you're gonna lecture others about political tolerance of free speech? That's a bit much"
February 14, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Connolly: "Imagine lecturing Europeans about being afraid of their own electorate when it's Trump and Musk who are firing FBI agents because they dared to do their duty, who are having loyalty tests at the NSC...you're gonna lecture others about political tolerance of free speech? That's a bit much"
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Even worse incompetence: they accidentally fired, then apparently today un-fired, hundreds of the people who manage America's nuclear weapons.
February 15, 2025 at 3:35 AM
Even worse incompetence: they accidentally fired, then apparently today un-fired, hundreds of the people who manage America's nuclear weapons.
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Incompetence in Washington puts every American at risk, no matter how you voted. No one should be happy that the DOGE team - the same folks who randomly published classified U.S. security information online today - wants access to your bank account & Social Security numbers.
February 15, 2025 at 3:26 AM
Incompetence in Washington puts every American at risk, no matter how you voted. No one should be happy that the DOGE team - the same folks who randomly published classified U.S. security information online today - wants access to your bank account & Social Security numbers.
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Encyclopædia Britannica will continue to use ‘Gulf of Mexico’ for a few reasons:
-We serve an international audience, a majority of which is outside the U.S.
-The Gulf of Mexico is an international body of water, and the U.S.’s authority to rename it is ambiguous.
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-We serve an international audience, a majority of which is outside the U.S.
-The Gulf of Mexico is an international body of water, and the U.S.’s authority to rename it is ambiguous.
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February 12, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Encyclopædia Britannica will continue to use ‘Gulf of Mexico’ for a few reasons:
-We serve an international audience, a majority of which is outside the U.S.
-The Gulf of Mexico is an international body of water, and the U.S.’s authority to rename it is ambiguous.
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-We serve an international audience, a majority of which is outside the U.S.
-The Gulf of Mexico is an international body of water, and the U.S.’s authority to rename it is ambiguous.
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Isn’t this the ultimate in cancel culture? The Dear Leader doesn’t like some words so now we can’t have science.
"Many of my good friends have their funding withdrawn or frozen based on the DEIA wording such as 'diverse microbes'" a scientist reliant on federal research grants told me, adding NSF proposals with terms including 'disabilities' and 'female' have been put on hold
February 8, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Isn’t this the ultimate in cancel culture? The Dear Leader doesn’t like some words so now we can’t have science.