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Fantastic piece from @dahlialithwick.bsky.social on the tide finally starting to turn: "But what really matters—what is measurable and knowable now in a way that was not a few weeks ago—is that standing up to Trump is going to be worth it." slate.com/news-and-pol...
OK, now for the good news. It’s not just that Trump is losing catastrophically in the courts, again and again, badly and unequivocally, although that actually matters a great deal. It’s not just that Trump has the lowest approval ratings in modern history, although that actually matters a great deal as well. It’s not just that the tariffs are an unmitigated train wreck and his Cabinet cannot stay on message, because the message is incoherent. It’s not just that Trump has helped the Canadian Conservative Party lose an election that was all but unlosable a few months ago. All of that matters. But what really matters—what is measurable and knowable now in a way that was not a few weeks ago—is that standing up to Trump is going to be worth it. Propping up the law and the courts and the Constitution is suddenly proving to be a good bet.
April 29, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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avitek.bsky.social
I confess to knowing pathetically little about Mexican politics, but Sheinbaum seems legit as hell.
qasimrashid.com Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · Mar 20
Wow. Mexico's President Claudia Sheinbaum officially recognizes Palestine as a state. Here she welcomes Palestinian ambassador Nadya Rasheed.

Sheinbaum is Jewish, supports Palestinian self-determination, & unapologetically condemns Netanyahu's attacks on Gaza.

Historic & inspiring leadership. ❤️✊🏽
March 20, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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annakornbluh.bsky.social
postmodern culture prides itself on fluidity, a diversity of existential modes in heterogeneous space. but the ever accelerating tempo can overwhelm psychic life propelling it into a defensive manner. so many of us experience the overstimulating ethos of contemporary culture as soul-deadening.

Ruti
March 20, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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annakornbluh.bsky.social
Pritzker 4 all:

"the only way to govern is by delivering the big things that can help people. making it so people can afford a home+childcare making it easier to get an education to start a small business. defending what it means to live in a constitutional republic"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkJb...
JB Pritzker Slams Trump, Elon Musk at Center for American Progress Address #doge #trump
YouTube video by electron media group inc.
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March 19, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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thetnholler.bsky.social
NEBRASKA CROWD: “TAX THE RICH! TAX THE RICH!”

@USRepMikeFlood: “So your proposal to solve (the debt) is tax the rich?”

NEBRASKA CROWD: *CHEERS WILDLY*

(not sure this went quite as he planned 😬)
March 18, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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dhersh.bsky.social
“Tax the Rich” is a powerful core message, and downstream of that is universal health care, free childcare, free public universities, and comfortable retirement for all.
March 19, 2025 at 12:43 AM
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mjsdc.bsky.social
Take a moment today to read about a few of the young children whom Trump and Musk killed by shutting down USAID. The blame for these deaths falls on them.

There will be hundreds of thousands more dead kids before their lethal crusade against foreign aid ends. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Another household kept alive by American aid was that of Jennifer Inyaa, a 35-year-old single mom, and her 5-year-old son, Evan Anzoo, both of them H.I.V.-positive. Last month, after the aid shutdown, Inyaa became sick and died, and a week later Evan died as well, according to David Iraa Simon, a community health worker who assisted them. Decisions by billionaires in Washington quickly cost the lives of a mother and her son. "Many more children will die in the coming weeks," said Margret Amjuma, a health worker who confirmed the deaths of Peter and Achol.
March 15, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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highestbitter.bsky.social
Jamie Raskin is asking the public to send FOIA req to DOGE requesting all personal info DOGE has on you, & whether they've released to a 3rd party. Links to form/template letter & mailing address here: DOGE has 20 days to comply, or you can sue, prob class action. jamieraskin.com/doge-privacy...
DOGE Privacy Act Requests
U.S. Representative Jamie Raskin is encouraging all U.S. citizens to join him this week in filing formal demands for access to their personal data obtained by the Department of Government Efficiency (...
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March 15, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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victorerikray.bsky.social
The headline really sanitizes what they did to this guy. Getting stripped naked, inadequate food, sleep deprivation sounds more like war on terror ear rendition than "interrogation."
Senior described Schmidt being “violently interrogated” at Logan Airport for hours, and being stripped naked, put in a cold shower by two officials, and being put back onto a chair. She said Schmidt told her immigration agents pressured him to give up his green card. She said he was placed on a mat in a bright room with other people at the airport, with little food or water, suffered sleep deprivation, and was denied access to his medication for anxiety and depression. “He hardly got anything to drink. And then he wasn’t feeling very well and he collapsed,” said Senior. He was transported by ambulance to Mass General Hospital. He didn’t know it at the time, but he also had influenza.
March 15, 2025 at 10:58 AM
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A New Hampshire man with a green card was detained by immigration officers at Logan Airport and is being held by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement at the Donald W. Wyatt detention facility in Central Falls, Rhode Island.
www.nhpr.org/nh-news/2025...
Green card holder from New Hampshire 'interrogated' at Logan Airport, detained
Fabian Schmidt’s family said they are unsure of why he is being held. They said he has a recently renewed green card, and no active issues in court.
www.nhpr.org
March 14, 2025 at 10:18 PM
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patriottakes.bsky.social
An anti-Elon poster in Austin during SXSW
March 14, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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Today's newsletter: www.readtpa.com/p/this-is-ho...
March 14, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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March 13, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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Image of Donald Trump and Elon Musk sitting in a red Tesla with a screenshot of a Trump Truth Social post reading, "STOCK MARKETS ARE CRASHING, JOBS NUMBERS ARE TERRIBLE, WE ARE HEADING TO WORLD WAR III, AND WE HAVE TWO OF THE MOST INCOMPETENT "LEADERS" IN HISTORY. THIS IS NOT GOOD!!!"
March 11, 2025 at 11:39 PM
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patriottakes.bsky.social
Trump Amplifies “No LGBTQ” Symbol Using Nazi-Era Imagery in Military Ad Post

Trump’s Truth Social post has a pink triangle overlayed with a prohibition symbol
Trump Amplifies “No LGBTQ” Symbol Using Nazi-Era Imagery in Military Ad Post
Trump’s Truth Social post has a pink triangle overlayed with a prohibition symbol
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March 10, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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“Once you decide that a single vulnerable minority can be sacrificed, you’re operating within a fascist logic,” they said. “That means there might be a second one you’re willing to sacrifice and a third, a fourth. Then what happens?”
Abandoning trans people is 'fascist logic', says leading feminist philosopher
Leading feminist philosopher Judith Butler has declared that abandoning trans people or any minority is operating within 'fascist logic'.
www.thepinknews.com
December 18, 2024 at 8:04 PM
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schakowsky.house.gov
It's time to #ScrapTheCap, enhance benefits, and resist as the GOP looks to steal your hard-earned money and use it for billionaire tax cuts.
March 6, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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ndrew.bsky.social
i bet 98% of the country is unaware this was even said, i feel like im losing my mind
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atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Mar 4
Alina Habba on veterans who have been fired from government jobs: "Perhaps they're not fit to have a job at this moment."
March 6, 2025 at 12:57 AM
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EXCLUSIVE: A Hitler-quoting ‘Aryan’ has the attention of JD Vance and Elon Musk—who is @captivedreamer7?

My latest with @kylebazgo.bsky.social for @dailydot.com identifies the likely operator of the anonymous racist account as Geoffrey Martin, a Canadian.

www.dailydot.com/debug/captiv...
A Hitler-quoting 'Aryan' has the attention of JD Vance and Elon Musk—who is @captivedreamer7?
The account, followed by JD Vance, previously boasted of being a white supremacist.
www.dailydot.com
March 4, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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govpritzker.illinois.gov
What else is there to say about Donald Trump’s speech last night? The lies speak for themselves.

He doesn’t give a damn about you.
March 5, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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jonathancohn.bsky.social
“Others may want to bring hell. We are here to bring peace to cities everywhere.” Great line.
mayorwu.boston.gov Office of Mayor Michelle Wu 吳弭 @mayorwu.boston.gov · Mar 5
Shame on Tom Homan for lying about the City of Boston.
March 5, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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mayorwu.boston.gov
If Republicans in Congress want to help make our country safe, I have some ideas for them.
March 5, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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michaelcaley.bsky.social
I would note that this message is full of (a) kitchen table issues and (b) both rhetorical and material moderation

and people love it because it is clear, mobilizing and oppositional

this is what the national Dems just don't get
jbpritzker.bsky.social JB Pritzker @jbpritzker.bsky.social · Mar 5
Donald Trump is lying to you.
March 5, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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adamjschwarz.bsky.social
French Senator Claude Malhuret:

"Washington has become Nero’s court, with an incendiary emperor, submissive courtiers and a jester high on ketamine... We were at war with a dictator, we are now at war with a dictator backed by a traitor."
March 5, 2025 at 3:47 PM