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Tory O’Connell
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Living on Lingít Aaní. Retired fishery biologist. Grandmother. Dog lover.
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The Syrians seem to know that if you offer the Trump organization a hotel concession in Damascus, you can expect a lot in return.
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We’re already making history. Now let’s break a record.

This Sunday, we’re going to knock on the most doors in a single day in New York history.

But only if you sign up: zohranfornyc.com/gotv
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FWIW I reported specifically on how No Kings has facilitated material organizing gains for rural Dems in Utah. I covered a small town rally to learn whether critics were right in saying the protests are just preaching to the choir. www.axios.com/local/salt-l...
In Trump-loving rural Utah, Dems organize around "No Kings"
From petitions to candidate recruitment, "performative" rallies drive blue participation in Trump country.
www.axios.com
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There should never be shame in needing help from a food pantry. But this is gut-wrenching: working every day, not getting paid for weeks, and needing a food pantry you didn’t need before.

What’s shameful is that this is completely avoidable. Republicans need to get back to DC and negotiate.
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Nothing is inevitable. Effort is everything. Ignore the polls and run through the tape.

Vote: zohranfornyc.com/vote
Canvass + phonebank: zohranfornyc.com/gotv
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Pritzker: "Imagine it. Children who woke up that morning, expectant with joy & excitement to put on their costumes & celebrate with their neighbors in what they thought was a safe place at their homes. Armed, masked agents, terrorizing innocent people, especially children, is unconscionable."
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man, it sure looks like republicans are using threat of federal government force to try and silence journalists
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While accepting the award in a room of affluent figures — including Mark Zuckerberg, who has a net worth of more than $225 billion — Eilish wondered aloud about why people who have the resources to help others often fail to do so.

#BillieEilish 💕

www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...
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Don’t Stream Fascism: Cancel Spotify

Indivisible, the organizers of the No Kings protests, are bringing attention to Spotify for running ads to recruit individuals to terrorize, assault, & kidnap members of our communities & are encouraging people to cancel their Spotify subscriptions

#Pinks
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NEW: Trump has announced that the US will admit the lowest level of refugees ever at 7,500 in FY 2026. The US will only be admitting as refugees White people from South Africa and "victims of illegal or unjust discrimination," which leaked memos suggest means far-right Europeans.
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Please note what happened here. By challenging Trump to pause his terror raids for Halloween, Pritzker forced Kristi Noem to come out *for* continuing to traumatize kids. Polarizing these debates draws attention/forces MAGA depravity into the light.

newrepublic.com/article/2023...
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More big news: the Senate just passed my bipartisan resolution to end Trump's global tariffs. This is a huge win and shows how unpopular Trump's tariffs really are. Now it's time for Mike Johnson to abandon his 6 week vacation and get this passed in the House.
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Could ICE have ‘lost' 3,000 immigrant arrestees in Chicago?

NBC Chicago's investigative team reports at least 3,000 jailed immigrants have vanished from federal records, according to human rights attorneys and organizations.

www.nbcchicago.com/investigatio...
Could ICE have 'lost' 3,000 immigrant arrestees in Chicago?
At least 3,000 jailed immigrants have vanished from federal records, according to human rights attorneys and organizations.
www.nbcchicago.com
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For what it’s worth, the indictment misspells Kat Abughazaleh’s name
NEWS: Federal prosecutors indict Kat Abughazaleh, congressional candidate, county board candidate Cat Sharp and Dem committeeman Michael Rabbitt over September Broadview protest
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We are going to find out the truth about this administration one day and may god have mercy on our souls.
Could ICE have ‘lost' 3,000 immigrant arrestees in Chicago?

NBC Chicago's investigative team reports at least 3,000 jailed immigrants have vanished from federal records, according to human rights attorneys and organizations.

www.nbcchicago.com/investigatio...
Could ICE have 'lost' 3,000 immigrant arrestees in Chicago?
At least 3,000 jailed immigrants have vanished from federal records, according to human rights attorneys and organizations.
www.nbcchicago.com
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I have been charged in a federal indictment sought by the Department of Justice.

This political prosecution is an attack on all of our First Amendment rights. I’m not backing down, and we’re going to win.
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This is precisely why the Virginia Attorney General’s race will be consequential.

If Republican Jason Miyares is re-elected, he will fight AGAINST new Democratic maps…and fight FOR Donald Trump.

I hope all Virginia Democrats think long and hard about this when they cast their ballots.
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Did Trump just TACO on a Third Term?
I'd advise skepticism: We are only a single “emergency,” or Canadian Television advertisement away from triggering a Trumpian flip-flop.
And we know how Trump regards the Constitution and its limits on absolute power.

open.substack.com/pub/charlies...
The Warning Lights Are Flashing
Judge Luttig, Garry Kasparov, and "Deciding to Win"
open.substack.com
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And here is the other function of the autocratic state: Protect the supporters of the regime - and thereby encourage self-proclaimed rightwing "patriots" and white militants to use whatever force they please to “fight back” against anything and anyone deemed the “enemy within.”
Breaking on MSNBC:

Two federal prosecutors have been placed on leave at the direction of the White House after filing a sentencing memo seeking 27 months in prison for a pardoned Jan. 6 rioter who brought illegal guns and ammunition to President Obama's house in 2023.
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Modern authoritarians seldom cancel elections, because they prefer the veneer of democratic choice that voting provides, and because they can tilt the playing field toward themselves. “No one likes an election better than Vladimir Putin,” the Democratic election lawyer Marc Elias told me.
North Carolina Is the Canary in the Election Coal Mine
Americans don’t have to imagine what attempts to subvert an election could look like, because it’s already happening in one state.
www.theatlantic.com
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BREAKING: Six people, including congressional candidate Kat Abughazaleh, have been indicted on charges of "Assaulting, resisting, or impeding certain officers or employees" and "Conspiracy to impede or injure officer," in connection w ICE protests at the Broadview ICE facility outside Chicago.
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The fascist administration is targeting @katmabu.bsky.social
BREAKING: Congressional Candidate Kat Abughazaleh Indicted Over Chicago ICE Protest

Details: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...