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Students from North Carolina A&T can be seen marching back to their HBCU after voting on the first day of early voting in the state. The Guilford County Board of Elections voted to remove the school’s on-campus polling site. (video via Todd Simmons) greensboro.com/news/local/g...

Goddamn: "We have an affordability crisis because we have a corruption crisis. We have seen for the last five decades, since the late 1970s, corporate special interests, billionaire mega donors buying politicians, and then those politicians in both political parties...

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Every single man should be on one another's head about ending rape culture. Zero tolerance. If you're in proximity to someone even joking about it and you aren't checking them, you are part of the problem

To my friends in the Bay Area: I'm hearing Rob Bonta is about to cave and hand Warner Bros over to the Ellisons. We can't let him do that. Can you show up outside his AG office in Oakland tomorrow at 5pm to reject this backroom deal? Reject the deal. www.mobilize.us/notabovethel...

Today would be a great day to ban the president, VP, and members of Congress and their families from trading stocks. Oh wait, Mike Johnson sent the House home early to cover up for Trump's failures. Never mind.

A Philadelphia family just bought their first home with a $10,000 first-time homebuyer grant funded by a group of Quakers It’s part of the congregation’s racial justice plan to redistribute wealth to Black residents in the Germantown area as a form of reparations

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This is a big one: Brown University is searching for the next director of the Simmons Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice. Please help us identify excellent candidates to lead this signature program into the future. Please write me with ideas; please share in your networks; please apply.

Socialism is what they called public power. Socialism is what they called social security. Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations. Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people. —Harry Truman, 1952

Senate Republicans have taken a major step towards advancing the pro-crypto CLARITY Act. Reminder: crypto is a giant Ponzi scheme. Its only practical uses are for tax evasion, money laundering, fraud, speculation, and crime. No Democrat should vote for this corrupt abomination.

The effective federal corporate income tax rate: 1950: 50% 1990: 25% 2020: 13% Stop asking "but how we will pay for it?" Restore the corporate tax rate. That is how we will pay for it.

"Call it democracy, or call it democratic socialism, but there must be a better distribution of wealth within this country for all God's children." —Martin Luther King, Jr.

only if every Democrat in Congress could communicate like this. PS: Any Dem. looking to be President in 2029 and/or taking leadership roles in Cong. (if Ds take control of one or both chambers) should make termination of all govt. contracts w/ Musk a key part of an accountability agenda.

The news should be covering ICE like a serial killer on the loose

This morning in Biddeford, Maine, a 26-year-old man said goodbye to his wife and daughter and left for work. Moments later he was dead, shot in the head by ICE agents, the second man ICE has killed in six days. ICE is killing our neighbors. ICE cannot be reformed. Abolish ICE.

Merry Colonizer Christmas and a Happy Whiteteenth!

The White House is reportedly considering doling out 250 pardons to celebrate the nation’s 250th birthday. Trumpworld lobbyists say the going rate for securing pardons is as much as $2 million. It's just the latest example of Trump's Pay-to-Pardon Scheme.

Some Democrats think the party has gone too far left and needs to readjust towards the “center.” Rubbish. Where’s the center between democracy and oligarchy, and why would Democrats want to be there?

A worker making $50,000 a year contributes to Social Security on 100% of their income. A CEO making $20 million a year contributes to Social Security on less than 1% of their income. Instead of raising the retirement age, we should scrap the Social Security tax cap.

All right. Off to vote. On this one occassion I urge you to be like me.

A new analysis from ITEP estimates that the typical American households has spent an extra $414.77 on gas since the start of Trump's Iran War. Overall, drivers in the U.S. have paid $55,470,870,409 more to the oil industry since prices began to rise. Unreal. https://itep.org/iran-war-fuel-cost/

Reminder that banning elected officials from trading stock is a total no brainer. They can use privileged information to make money on the stock market, while they’re supposed to be working for you. Make no mistake — it’s legalized corruption.

📜 In recognition of #Juneteenth today, we’re sharing scans of General Order No. 3, the document that informed enslaved people in Texas that they were free on June 19, 1865, carrying out the Federal Government’s final execution of emancipation ⤵️ archive.org/details/gene... #Archives #BlackHistory

Happy Juneteenth, y'all ☺️🤎💐

When we win, the first bill I’m filing is a comprehensive anti-corruption package: Overturn Citizens United Ban corporate PACs and super PACs Ban members of Congress from trading stocks Once we defeat the most corrupt politician in America, we can defeat this entire corrupt system.

Senator Bill Cassidy unloads on Trump and the Iran war: “Worst foreign policy blunder in decades” (!)

This is some world class trolling, the internet remains undefeated, Trump not so much.

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BREAKING: we are NOT accepting media reports as proof that the $1.8B slush fund & "settlements" associated with it are dead That's why we @democracydefendersfund.org have just filed a new lawsuit to make sure this ENDS --on behalf of former J6 prosecutors with Platkin LLP, WLG & Heaphy Smith

Because this country likes to forget what it’s capable of, I take it as a duty to remind us. We sit at the brink of the largest decimation of Black political power since the fall of Reconstruction — a Second Redemption. And the end of Black political power means the end of democracy itself.

I would like Democrats to come out and say that anyone receiving assets from this new slush fund, or profiting any of the other corrupt acts from this candidate, will have 100% of their assets seized the first chance we get. Even if they get pardoned.

THIS THIS THIS

It’ll never happen. It’s hard to say but those same “No Kings” white people will elect a white person who’ll let bygones be bygones and in another generation, they will be stomping the shit out of brown people again and asking why we make everything about race.

If you don’t know about this, you need to read up. It’s the single bloodiest massacre in the history of Reconstruction, and it was perpetrated to overthrow the results of an election. It was emblematic of the sabotage of Reconstruction. And SCOTUS nullified the prosecution of those responsible.

Joe Kernen comes close to having a coronary on air as Pete Buttigieg dogwalks him all over the Squawk Box studio about Trump's economic mismanagement and inflation

On Confederate Surrender Day, I give you the Liberator's take on Jefferson Davis: "We believe Jefferson Davis to be the worst man in all history. He was a repudiator and slaveholder. He has been a secessionist, a traitor and rebel....He has sedulously endeavored to subvert our free institutions."

a substantial portion of american politics since 1865 is literally the south enacting revenge on the rest of the country for the civil war

On Jan 28th ~ about 140 ships safely passed through the Strait of Hormuz Then, the president spent $30 billion, threatened to commit a war crime & sent 13 US soldiers to their death … To ensure that ships can safely enter the strait of Hormuz THAT’S the art of the deal.

Today, I exposed an unredacted email that clearly shows Trump has been lying about his connections to Jeffrey Epstein. There's no reason this should have been redacted, which is exactly why I showed it. Pam Bondi and Donald Trump: The gig is up. Release all the files. Now.

He can put his case eloquently m.youtube.com/watch?v=opon...

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