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Nobel Peace Prize Winner María Corina Machado’s escape from Venezuela was particularly risky because her team had to inform the US military that she was escaping so they wouldn’t mistake her boat for an alleged narco boat and bomb it. Full Story: bit.ly/3XJXIsh
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@mkusler.bsky.social - yet another reason why we fight
People in wheelchairs are getting arrested right now in the Russell Senate Office Building in DC. They showed up to tell Congress not to cut their Medicaid, because they cant afford health care without it. If you look closely you can see the zip ties on their hands. #WeWontGetOverLosingMedicaid
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NYT: "In conversations with The New York Times over the weekend, bankers, executives and traders said they felt flashbacks to the 2007-8 global financial crisis, one that took down a number of Wall Street’s giants." www.nytimes.com/2025/04/06/b...
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Laura Loomer, a far-right conspiracy theorist who spreads vulgar lies that school shootings are political plots, has President Trump’s ear in the Oval Office. Can’t say we’re surprised.
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Here, @jilldlawrence.bsky.social has exactly the right word: Stalinesque. So much of what comes out in these WH edicts sounds like it was written in the Soviet Union in the 1970s.
"This one short document hyperfocused on the Smithsonian is just 1,150 words, but it is towering in its Stalinesque ambition to walk back history and whitewash America’s past." My latest at @thebulwark.bsky.social, on butchering truth in an edict to abandon it. www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-late...
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"After the state banned abortion, dozens more pregnant and postpartum women died in Texas hospitals than had in pre-pandemic years... As the maternal mortality rate dropped nationally, ProPublica found, it rose substantially in Texas." www.propublica.org/article/texa...
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Donald Trump’s billionaire Commerce Secretary has financial advice for Americans: 1. Please buy Tesla stock to help poor Elon Musk. 2. Shut up and don’t complain when you don’t get your Social Security check.
Trump’s Commerce Secretary just said seniors shouldn’t “call and complain” if they stop getting their Social Security checks: “A fraudster always makes the loudest noise screaming and complaining.”
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ICYMI: “Arlington National Cemetery has scrubbed information about prominent Black, Hispanic and female service members and topics such as the Civil War from its website”…in order “to remove all references to diversity, equity and inclusion from its online presence.”
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This is the most important donor and man working for Trump….. Elon Musk Shared, Then Removed a Post Absolving Dictators for Genocide www.nytimes.com/2025/03/14/t...
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Let’s gooooooo
Linda McMahon's confirmation hearings start Thursday, and we know what's coming—slashes to funding for smaller class sizes, support, and free meals for hungry students—all to fund another handout for billionaires. We won't stay silent. If you are in the DC area, join us Wednesday: bit.ly/4jJDXLb
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The world's richest man, not elected to anything, is seizing dictatorial powers in defiance of the law, congress, courts, the president, and the American people. Madness. Unless you want to live under dictatorship, call every member of Congress to demand they stop this immediately: (202) 224-3121.
In response to a post on X from @maxwellfrost.bsky.social showing the effort to get into the Department of Education building this morning, Elon Musk replied, "No such department exists in the federal government"
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We are watching it unfold before our eyes 👇 fascism [fash-iz-uhm]; noun; a governmental system led by a dictator having complete power, forcibly suppressing opposition and criticism, regimenting all industry, commerce, etc., and emphasizing an aggressive nationalism and often racism. #ResistTrump
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Yes, the defunding of public education is intentional. www.propublica.org/article/scho...
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So long, and thanks for all the fish. Final NYT column is up. News about future plans probably tomorrow morning www.nytimes.com/2024/12/09/o...
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President-elect Donald Trump has promised to invoke a little-known, 226-year-old law when he returns to power
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s push to strip processed food out of school lunch and limit food dye marks a shift in how President-elect Donald Trump plans to regulate the nation’s food.
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