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what are you supposed to do when the "good" political party doesn't treat a dozen credible sexual harassment claims as disqualifying for a political candidate. how are you supposed to ignore that
June 20, 2025 at 1:48 PM
what are you supposed to do when the "good" political party doesn't treat a dozen credible sexual harassment claims as disqualifying for a political candidate. how are you supposed to ignore that
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I, like many of you, am not only devastated but furious at the assassination of two Minnesota lawmakers this morning.
This isn’t some isolated tragedy. It’s extremism, it’s fascist violence, and we have to treat it that way. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
This isn’t some isolated tragedy. It’s extremism, it’s fascist violence, and we have to treat it that way. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Democratic lawmaker killed and another wounded in Minnesota in apparently ‘politically motivated’ attacks
Governor Tim Walz was briefed on ‘ongoing situation’ in which Minneapolis-area state senator and representative were shot
www.theguardian.com
June 14, 2025 at 3:35 PM
I, like many of you, am not only devastated but furious at the assassination of two Minnesota lawmakers this morning.
This isn’t some isolated tragedy. It’s extremism, it’s fascist violence, and we have to treat it that way. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
This isn’t some isolated tragedy. It’s extremism, it’s fascist violence, and we have to treat it that way. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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New Yorkers scream out each officer’s lawsuits against them for excessive force and more upon their city, right to their faces while protesting.
June 13, 2025 at 6:00 PM
New Yorkers scream out each officer’s lawsuits against them for excessive force and more upon their city, right to their faces while protesting.
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Last night, Capitol Police arrested roughly 60 veterans and their family members outside the U.S. Capitol. The group had gathered to hold a peaceful sit-in on the Capitol steps, but police intentionally set up a barrier of bike racks to prevent them from demonstrating.
June 14, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Last night, Capitol Police arrested roughly 60 veterans and their family members outside the U.S. Capitol. The group had gathered to hold a peaceful sit-in on the Capitol steps, but police intentionally set up a barrier of bike racks to prevent them from demonstrating.
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David Hogg has been forced out of his role as vice chair of the DNC.
His departure follows months of intense infighting, and as Hogg told us, anger with his plan to oust what he called "asleep at the wheel" incumbents in primaries around the US.
🎧 Listen to Hogg on More to the Story 🎧
His departure follows months of intense infighting, and as Hogg told us, anger with his plan to oust what he called "asleep at the wheel" incumbents in primaries around the US.
🎧 Listen to Hogg on More to the Story 🎧
David Hogg’s Fight for the Future of the Democratic Party
Podcast Episode · Reveal · 06/04/2025 · 29m
podcasts.apple.com
June 12, 2025 at 12:26 PM
David Hogg has been forced out of his role as vice chair of the DNC.
His departure follows months of intense infighting, and as Hogg told us, anger with his plan to oust what he called "asleep at the wheel" incumbents in primaries around the US.
🎧 Listen to Hogg on More to the Story 🎧
His departure follows months of intense infighting, and as Hogg told us, anger with his plan to oust what he called "asleep at the wheel" incumbents in primaries around the US.
🎧 Listen to Hogg on More to the Story 🎧
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Over 700 survivors.
380 abusers.
All from inside the Southern Baptist Church.
But tell us again how two men getting married is what’s destroying America?
This is not morality.
They don’t protect children.
They protect and covet power.
apnews.com/article/sout...
380 abusers.
All from inside the Southern Baptist Church.
But tell us again how two men getting married is what’s destroying America?
This is not morality.
They don’t protect children.
They protect and covet power.
apnews.com/article/sout...
Southern Baptist delegates at national meeting overwhelmingly call for banning same-sex marriage
Southern Baptists overwhelmingly endorsed a ban on gay marriage — including a call for a reversal of the Supreme Court’s precedent legalizing it nationwide.
apnews.com
June 12, 2025 at 12:28 AM
Over 700 survivors.
380 abusers.
All from inside the Southern Baptist Church.
But tell us again how two men getting married is what’s destroying America?
This is not morality.
They don’t protect children.
They protect and covet power.
apnews.com/article/sout...
380 abusers.
All from inside the Southern Baptist Church.
But tell us again how two men getting married is what’s destroying America?
This is not morality.
They don’t protect children.
They protect and covet power.
apnews.com/article/sout...
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It is incredible that you have “centrist” columnists at elite institutions making a comfortable six figures to spin narratives that are plainly the opposite of what actually happened, to the benefit of the far right and the detriment of journalism, civil society, and truth itself
June 11, 2025 at 1:24 PM
It is incredible that you have “centrist” columnists at elite institutions making a comfortable six figures to spin narratives that are plainly the opposite of what actually happened, to the benefit of the far right and the detriment of journalism, civil society, and truth itself
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The internet’s platforming of diversity was actually a reflection of reality, which spawned an alt-right backlash with the intention (and result) of destroying reality for the right-wing base and replacing it with conspiracy
June 11, 2025 at 1:22 PM
The internet’s platforming of diversity was actually a reflection of reality, which spawned an alt-right backlash with the intention (and result) of destroying reality for the right-wing base and replacing it with conspiracy
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The idea that the progressive left used the internet to bully institutions into accepting unpopular, far-left positions is the exact opposite of what has actually happened. The alt-right used the internet for ideological capture and they are now in the White House bragging about it daily
June 11, 2025 at 1:21 PM
The idea that the progressive left used the internet to bully institutions into accepting unpopular, far-left positions is the exact opposite of what has actually happened. The alt-right used the internet for ideological capture and they are now in the White House bragging about it daily
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Masked ICE thugs terrorized Chicago yesterday.
They lied to immigrants waiting for their court hearing by summoning them for “surprise check-ins” and then assaulted protesters and elected officials.
THIS IS WHAT FASCISM LOOKS LIKE.
They lied to immigrants waiting for their court hearing by summoning them for “surprise check-ins” and then assaulted protesters and elected officials.
THIS IS WHAT FASCISM LOOKS LIKE.
June 5, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Masked ICE thugs terrorized Chicago yesterday.
They lied to immigrants waiting for their court hearing by summoning them for “surprise check-ins” and then assaulted protesters and elected officials.
THIS IS WHAT FASCISM LOOKS LIKE.
They lied to immigrants waiting for their court hearing by summoning them for “surprise check-ins” and then assaulted protesters and elected officials.
THIS IS WHAT FASCISM LOOKS LIKE.
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It was the second night of heavy bombing, after airstrikes Wednesday on northern and southern Gaza killed dozens of people, including almost two dozen children.
Dozens are killed in overnight airstrikes on southern Gaza city, hospital says
It was the second night of heavy bombing, after airstrikes Wednesday on northern and southern Gaza killed dozens of people, including almost two dozen children.
www.npr.org
May 15, 2025 at 10:03 AM
It was the second night of heavy bombing, after airstrikes Wednesday on northern and southern Gaza killed dozens of people, including almost two dozen children.
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In case you needed another reason to eat ice cream.
May 14, 2025 at 10:31 PM
In case you needed another reason to eat ice cream.
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Does the public have any recourse? Can we sue Russell Voight?
Russell Vought, acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, has canceled plans to more tightly regulate the sale of Americans’ sensitive personal data.
In case you have forgotten who Mr. Vought is, he’s the co-author of project 2025.
In case you have forgotten who Mr. Vought is, he’s the co-author of project 2025.
CFPB Quietly Kills Rule to Shield Americans From Data Brokers
Russell Vought, acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, has canceled plans to more tightly regulate the sale of Americans’ sensitive personal data.
www.wired.com
May 14, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Does the public have any recourse? Can we sue Russell Voight?
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What you call woke, I call paying attention in Sunday School
May 9, 2025 at 6:33 PM
What you call woke, I call paying attention in Sunday School
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The first Democratic governor who sends their state troopers into an ICE field office to free someone ICE has kidnapped is going to be president in four years.
May 9, 2025 at 8:16 PM
The first Democratic governor who sends their state troopers into an ICE field office to free someone ICE has kidnapped is going to be president in four years.
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Laura Boswell, contemporary printmaker based in Scotland specialising in wild landscape and coastal prints in linocut & woodblock
May 9, 2025 at 9:25 AM
Laura Boswell, contemporary printmaker based in Scotland specialising in wild landscape and coastal prints in linocut & woodblock
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Yesterday, Robert Prevost asked everyone to start calling him by a different name.
And they did. No outrage or shaming over this request.
See how easy it is to honor other people's benign wishes?
And they did. No outrage or shaming over this request.
See how easy it is to honor other people's benign wishes?
May 9, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Yesterday, Robert Prevost asked everyone to start calling him by a different name.
And they did. No outrage or shaming over this request.
See how easy it is to honor other people's benign wishes?
And they did. No outrage or shaming over this request.
See how easy it is to honor other people's benign wishes?
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Coloradan Trisha Calvarese is working to unseat Lauren Boebert.
A longtime fierce progressive and dear friend of mine is working on this campaign, and I'm excited to see someone with a real chance to consign Boebert to the cesspit of political history.
A longtime fierce progressive and dear friend of mine is working on this campaign, and I'm excited to see someone with a real chance to consign Boebert to the cesspit of political history.
May 6, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Coloradan Trisha Calvarese is working to unseat Lauren Boebert.
A longtime fierce progressive and dear friend of mine is working on this campaign, and I'm excited to see someone with a real chance to consign Boebert to the cesspit of political history.
A longtime fierce progressive and dear friend of mine is working on this campaign, and I'm excited to see someone with a real chance to consign Boebert to the cesspit of political history.
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Bluesky is a retirement home for 39 year old millennials who are forcibly turning themselves into history dads (nongendered) so if you have a hot take about one of the more popular history dad wars you had better come strapped
May 7, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Bluesky is a retirement home for 39 year old millennials who are forcibly turning themselves into history dads (nongendered) so if you have a hot take about one of the more popular history dad wars you had better come strapped
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This is what I mean when I say transphobes don't oppose "males" in "women's spaces"--they oppose trans women specifically and hope that disgust of us will help police how all women look and behave
May 6, 2025 at 1:37 PM
This is what I mean when I say transphobes don't oppose "males" in "women's spaces"--they oppose trans women specifically and hope that disgust of us will help police how all women look and behave
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Okay Luigi absolutely didn't do it and this is a pin job
May 5, 2025 at 10:10 AM
Okay Luigi absolutely didn't do it and this is a pin job
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Did you know the “weekend” and working only 8 hours per day used to be considered a radical, liberal idea?
139 years ago today, in Bay View, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 7 workers (including a 13 yo) lost their lives to advance this revolutionary idea.
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139 years ago today, in Bay View, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 7 workers (including a 13 yo) lost their lives to advance this revolutionary idea.
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May 5, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Did you know the “weekend” and working only 8 hours per day used to be considered a radical, liberal idea?
139 years ago today, in Bay View, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 7 workers (including a 13 yo) lost their lives to advance this revolutionary idea.
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139 years ago today, in Bay View, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 7 workers (including a 13 yo) lost their lives to advance this revolutionary idea.
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If Harris were POTUS these people would be getting taken care of AND they would be bitching about how the black lady hates red states.
May 2, 2025 at 1:10 PM
If Harris were POTUS these people would be getting taken care of AND they would be bitching about how the black lady hates red states.
I'm donating to David Hogg's campaign right this instant @davidhogg.bsky.social
yeah i am pretty much on the side of primary everyone
Stephen Lynch, aiming to be top Dem on the Oversight Cmte, blew up at a constituent who asked him to oppose the GOP.
"I get to decide that. I get to decide that. I get to decide that. I'm elected. I get to decide that. You wanna decide that? You need to run for Congress, okay? I get to decide that"
"I get to decide that. I get to decide that. I get to decide that. I'm elected. I get to decide that. You wanna decide that? You need to run for Congress, okay? I get to decide that"
April 30, 2025 at 2:17 PM
I'm donating to David Hogg's campaign right this instant @davidhogg.bsky.social