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Fascism is here. Throw sand in the gears wherever you are.
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🚨 UPDATED: Senate Republicans come up with one big pile of Crapo (updated with additional insight based on the actual legislative text: Spoiler: It's even worse than you probably already thought)

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UPDATED: Senate Republicans come up with one big pile of Crapo.
(sigh) Via Peter Sullivan & Stef Kight of Axios: Scoop: Senate GOP chairs circulate health plan as clock ticks on ACA subsidies Two key Senate Republican chairmen are circulating the outline of a heal...
acasignups.net
December 9, 2025 at 2:10 AM
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I spoke in Warren County, Indiana tonight. The organizer of the event said they usually have around 30 folks who come to their holiday supper. Tonight there were 150 people there.

Things are changing. Especially in red states.
December 8, 2025 at 3:00 AM
I have this joke about Narcissus and I tell it better than anybody.
I have this joke about Persephone but I can't tell it for a few months.
I have this joke about Thucydides but it's a trap.
December 8, 2025 at 4:03 AM
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Without Birthright Citizenship, you too could be ripped from your home in the middle of the night.

Without the Equal Protection, the Privilege and Immunities and the Due Process Clauses, you and everyone you love could be declared subhuman and stripped of your most basic and fundamental freedoms.
December 7, 2025 at 7:32 AM
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The South Korean Ministry of Defense has awarded medals of merit to 11 officers for disobeying direct orders of superiors during the martial law fiasco, orders that they deemed to be contrary to the constitution and endangerment to democracy.
www.chosun.com/english/nati...
National Defense Ministry Honors 11 Soldiers for Refusing Illegal Orders
National Defense Ministry Honors 11 Soldiers for Refusing Illegal Orders Honored for rejecting illegal orders during martial law, Marine death probe
www.chosun.com
September 27, 2025 at 6:44 PM
The reason Republicans can't come up with an alternative to individual subsidies to purchase health insurance is because that is the most Republican solution already.
Trump Is Considering a Push to Extend Obamacare Subsidies
www.nytimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 6:33 AM
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Every Republican accusation is a confession
November 24, 2025 at 3:38 AM
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Hearing news that Carl Dieffenbach, the Director of the Division of AIDS at #NIH (NIAID), has been removed from his position because he was "not aligned with HHS/OMB."

Russell Vought continues to remove great scientists as part of the Project 2025 mission to politicize and destroy NIH.

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November 24, 2025 at 3:31 AM
I'm joining the Thanksgiving boycott of Target, Home Depot, & Amazon. These corporations bent the knee & agreed to help this administration ditch DEI, terrorize our communities with masked bounty hunters, & chase tax breaks. Join me! #WeAintBuyingIt 🚫 app.sosha.ai/s/vRv2zp14
We Ain't Buying It - Target, Home Depot & Amazon
app.sosha.ai
November 22, 2025 at 6:59 AM
The federal government is trying to place the University of California under political control. Join with UC Unbowed before the Board of Regents meeting on November 18-20 and tell President Milliken and the Regents to protect UC's independence. alumni.standforcampusfreedom.org/petitions/un...
University of California: Reject the federal government's political control
The federal government is trying to place the University of California under political control. Join with UC Unbowed before the Board of Regents meeting on November 18-20 and tell President James B. M...
alumni.standforcampusfreedom.org
November 12, 2025 at 11:21 PM
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I figured that the taxpayers were footing the bill for this gaudy display of excess, meanwhile our troops were told to go to food banks because they weren’t getting paid, and the poor were cut off of their food benefits.

#Pinks #ProudBlue #StrongerTogether #Resist #FucktRump
This makes me so mad. My tax $ paying for Taco’s stupid parties, golf trips n other selfish activities. Meanwhile, Taco n his Cult r purposefully taking food n healthcare away from Americans that our tax $ should be spent on! #arresttrump #releasetheepsteinfiles
November 6, 2025 at 2:21 AM
Because Epstein can't run www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/n...
Trump Endorses Cuomo for N.Y.C. Mayor on Eve of Election
www.nytimes.com
November 4, 2025 at 2:04 AM
#Homelessness is about to soar under Trump's vicious policies. Let's make sure he owns it by calling homeless encampments #Trumpvilles or #TrumpCities. #Scary #Halloween
October 31, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Can we stop calling them "pro-life" yet?
FL is moving forward w/ plan to end all childhood vaccine mandates. Starting with hepatitis B, chickenpox, and the bacteria causing meningitis and pneumonia. Then next year GOP FL legislature is expected to revisit 1977 law re: whooping cough, measles, polio, rubella, mumps, diphtheria, and tetanus.
October 31, 2025 at 6:16 AM
Spotify is running recruitment ads for ICE, the federal agency behind mass deportation and surveillance of immigrant communities. Cancel your Spotify subscription. #DontStreamFascism app.sosha.ai/s/nMg9gPCz
Don’t Stream Fascism: Cancel Spotify
app.sosha.ai
October 29, 2025 at 2:58 AM
#MAGAMike Johnson refuses to swear in Representative-elect Adelita Grijalva because her vote could force the House to release the #Epstein Files. The GOP is doing everything they can to keep Trump's Epstein cover-up going - what are they so afraid of?
October 26, 2025 at 9:45 PM
In California, 1.5M children, 1M seniors & 300k people with disabilities will go hungry. Pass it on.
The Trump admin’s USDA issued new guidance stating it will not use existing funds to cover SNAP benefits if the government shutdown extends beyond October 31. This move effectively threatens to withhold billions of dollars in Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) contingency funding
October 26, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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Goebbels would be like, “Maybe don’t make it quite so on the nose at first”
I made an image of all the art posted by US DOL on X since approximately Labor Day
October 26, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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Brooke Anderson (she/her)
Freelance photographer and photojournalist .... movementphotographer
ICE and CBP agents arrive in the Bay Area, firing flash bang grenades at point blank range at a peaceful picket line of interfaith leaders and community members this morning #IceOutOfTheBay
October 24, 2025 at 2:17 AM
They shot a Presbyterian Minister in the face for peaceably assembling www.presbyteryofsf.org/jorge-bautis....
October 24, 2025 at 5:47 AM
Republican Congressman has American flag with swastika pinned to the wall in his office www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u... #LiteralNazis
American Flag With Swastika Is Found in Republican Congressman’s Office
www.nytimes.com
October 16, 2025 at 7:11 AM
this is what the Nazis did to the Jews when they try to leave Germany. 🚨🚨🚨
“Someone” cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second.

We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’
October 10, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Trump Is Not Afraid of Civil War. Neither Is Stephen Miller. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/07/o...
Opinion | Trump Is Not Afraid of Civil War. Neither Is Stephen Miller.
www.nytimes.com
October 8, 2025 at 4:11 AM
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TERRORISM EXPERT HERE:

This statement is a clear example of what is known as “State Terrorism”: When the dictatorship will order all instruments of its state security & intelligence apparatus against its own citizens to terrorize the population.
October 5, 2025 at 4:37 AM
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Sanders: These projects have been appropriated. They were signed by a president. It is illegal to rescind them. And to say to people in Vermont, in New York and California, oh, you didn't vote for Donald Trump, we're going to take away funding that was supposed to go to your state… illegal
October 3, 2025 at 12:23 AM