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Billionaires are a threat to civil society.
Tax the churches
Repeal Citizens United
Black lives matter
Abolish qualified immunity
LGBTQ rights are human rights
Abortion is healthcare
Healthcare, food, clean water, and housing should be universal rights.
Tax the churches
Repeal Citizens United
Black lives matter
Abolish qualified immunity
LGBTQ rights are human rights
Abortion is healthcare
Healthcare, food, clean water, and housing should be universal rights.
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⬇️ Der Widerstand gegen Trumps ICE-Truppen hält an, trotz allem. Was sagt uns das über den Zustand der Demokratie in den USA - und vor allem: warum sind die Trumpisten darüber eigentlich so überrascht?
Exzellente Analyse von Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social in der @zeit.de heute Morgen ⬇️
Exzellente Analyse von Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social in der @zeit.de heute Morgen ⬇️
Der Minneapolis-Moment offenbart die Schwächen der Trumpisten. Und er zeigt, wo der Widerstand gegen den US-Präsidenten in Zukunft erfolgreich ansetzen kann.
US-Regierung: Wie der Widerstand gegen Maga eine Chance hat
Der Minneapolis-Moment offenbart die Schwächen der Trumpisten. Und er zeigt, wo der Widerstand gegen den US-Präsidenten in Zukunft erfolgreich ansetzen kann.
www.zeit.de
January 31, 2026 at 10:24 AM
⬇️ Der Widerstand gegen Trumps ICE-Truppen hält an, trotz allem. Was sagt uns das über den Zustand der Demokratie in den USA - und vor allem: warum sind die Trumpisten darüber eigentlich so überrascht?
Exzellente Analyse von Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social in der @zeit.de heute Morgen ⬇️
Exzellente Analyse von Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social in der @zeit.de heute Morgen ⬇️
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How many people will survive this ICE storm?
Detainees at the Prairieland ICE detention center outside of Dallas, TX, are in danger of freezing to death because ICE refuses to turn on the heat despite it being 13°F.
1/26/26
#FuckICE #ICEDetentionCenter #Texas #Resist #ProudBlue #Pinks
Detainees at the Prairieland ICE detention center outside of Dallas, TX, are in danger of freezing to death because ICE refuses to turn on the heat despite it being 13°F.
1/26/26
#FuckICE #ICEDetentionCenter #Texas #Resist #ProudBlue #Pinks
January 26, 2026 at 5:22 PM
How many people will survive this ICE storm?
Detainees at the Prairieland ICE detention center outside of Dallas, TX, are in danger of freezing to death because ICE refuses to turn on the heat despite it being 13°F.
1/26/26
#FuckICE #ICEDetentionCenter #Texas #Resist #ProudBlue #Pinks
Detainees at the Prairieland ICE detention center outside of Dallas, TX, are in danger of freezing to death because ICE refuses to turn on the heat despite it being 13°F.
1/26/26
#FuckICE #ICEDetentionCenter #Texas #Resist #ProudBlue #Pinks
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I sometimes wish the Democratic Party in Congress consisted of any 260 people in the Minneapolis telephone directory rather than the 260 dignitaries now representing us.
January 29, 2026 at 5:41 PM
I sometimes wish the Democratic Party in Congress consisted of any 260 people in the Minneapolis telephone directory rather than the 260 dignitaries now representing us.
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Billionaire owned corporate media has learned under this administration that challenging power brings retaliation and compliance protects profits. When journalism accommodates power, it ceases to serve the public. This is precisely why independent media has become a necessity. Let’s Address This.
What Corporate Media’s Silence Is Costing Us
It's not just the disinformation, but the censorship, that risks undermining our republic
www.qasimrashid.com
January 29, 2026 at 9:45 PM
Billionaire owned corporate media has learned under this administration that challenging power brings retaliation and compliance protects profits. When journalism accommodates power, it ceases to serve the public. This is precisely why independent media has become a necessity. Let’s Address This.
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Two global trading houses that brokered an opaque deal with the Trump admin this month to sell Venezuelan oil were previously prosecuted for bribery schemes involving oil sales elsewhere… A senior trader at Vitol donated $6 million to Trump’s 2024 election. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
Trump officials awarded Venezuela oil-sale contracts to firms tied to bribery
The Trump administration awarded $500 million in contracts for Venezuelan oil sales to two firms with a history of bribery and corruption.
www.washingtonpost.com
January 29, 2026 at 12:39 PM
Two global trading houses that brokered an opaque deal with the Trump admin this month to sell Venezuelan oil were previously prosecuted for bribery schemes involving oil sales elsewhere… A senior trader at Vitol donated $6 million to Trump’s 2024 election. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
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Trade policy as middle school cafeteria politics: You can shake kids for quarters… until they decide you don’t get a seat at their table. Then the “tough guy” is just eating alone with mystery meat.
January 29, 2026 at 12:52 PM
Trade policy as middle school cafeteria politics: You can shake kids for quarters… until they decide you don’t get a seat at their table. Then the “tough guy” is just eating alone with mystery meat.
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I will simply never recover from reading this sentence:
"Since Georgia implemented work requirements in 2020, they have spent twice as much on Deloitte consultants and administrative costs as on healthcare for people."
"Since Georgia implemented work requirements in 2020, they have spent twice as much on Deloitte consultants and administrative costs as on healthcare for people."
Today, Luke Farrell (@lukef.bsky.social) explains how complex eligibility requirements have turned America’s safety net into a lucrative revenue stream for monopolistic private contractors.
The Means-Testing Industrial Complex
As Republicans tightened work requirements and eligibility rules for Medicaid and SNAP last year, Equifax’s CEO openly celebrated the profits to be made from administering this deprivation.
lpeproject.org
January 28, 2026 at 4:33 PM
I will simply never recover from reading this sentence:
"Since Georgia implemented work requirements in 2020, they have spent twice as much on Deloitte consultants and administrative costs as on healthcare for people."
"Since Georgia implemented work requirements in 2020, they have spent twice as much on Deloitte consultants and administrative costs as on healthcare for people."
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I don't even know where to start with the illegal...The Executive does not have the constitutional power to raise revenue. The Executive does not have the constitutional power to make decisions about expenditures. The Executive does not have the power to privatize the functions of the US Treasury...
Marco Rubio: "The oil proceeds are being deposited into an account that ultimately will become a US Treasury blocked account here in the US. We will say 'this is what this money can be spent on.' They will submit to us a budget request -- 'we want to use the money on these things.'"
January 28, 2026 at 6:57 PM
I don't even know where to start with the illegal...The Executive does not have the constitutional power to raise revenue. The Executive does not have the constitutional power to make decisions about expenditures. The Executive does not have the power to privatize the functions of the US Treasury...
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This is why I have real fucking problem with blithe criticisms of "polarization" or "congressional dysfunction." We have a Republican member blaming his colleague for being attacked.
The problem isn't polarization or dysfunction. It's the Republican Party.
The problem isn't polarization or dysfunction. It's the Republican Party.
Rep. Randy Fine on Ilhan Omar getting attacked: "I blame Ilhan Omar for what happened"
January 28, 2026 at 4:00 PM
This is why I have real fucking problem with blithe criticisms of "polarization" or "congressional dysfunction." We have a Republican member blaming his colleague for being attacked.
The problem isn't polarization or dysfunction. It's the Republican Party.
The problem isn't polarization or dysfunction. It's the Republican Party.
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My operating assumption is that he tried to do a hasty coup in 2020 that failed, and so everything he does in his second term should be understood as laying the groundwork for a second coup to succeed.
January 28, 2026 at 4:59 PM
My operating assumption is that he tried to do a hasty coup in 2020 that failed, and so everything he does in his second term should be understood as laying the groundwork for a second coup to succeed.
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IDK why right-wingers keep bringing up Obama's record deportations, it just shows that if you wanted to have a conservative immigration policy without partisan militias occupying cities and gunning people down in the streets you could do it and a lot of americans would be fine with it
January 28, 2026 at 12:43 PM
IDK why right-wingers keep bringing up Obama's record deportations, it just shows that if you wanted to have a conservative immigration policy without partisan militias occupying cities and gunning people down in the streets you could do it and a lot of americans would be fine with it
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Legitimately a feat of carefully calculated writing to issue a Holocaust Remembrance Day statement of this length without mentioning either (1) the people who perpetrated the Holocaust or (2) the people against whom they perpetrated it
January 28, 2026 at 3:00 AM
Legitimately a feat of carefully calculated writing to issue a Holocaust Remembrance Day statement of this length without mentioning either (1) the people who perpetrated the Holocaust or (2) the people against whom they perpetrated it
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January 28, 2026 at 12:34 PM
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There's no ICE accountability without ending qualified immunity.
They're murdering people. There won't be justice for the lives they've stolen, but there must be accountability.
My bill with @markey.senate.gov would ensure families can sue the agents murdering their loved ones.
They're murdering people. There won't be justice for the lives they've stolen, but there must be accountability.
My bill with @markey.senate.gov would ensure families can sue the agents murdering their loved ones.
January 27, 2026 at 9:02 PM
There's no ICE accountability without ending qualified immunity.
They're murdering people. There won't be justice for the lives they've stolen, but there must be accountability.
My bill with @markey.senate.gov would ensure families can sue the agents murdering their loved ones.
They're murdering people. There won't be justice for the lives they've stolen, but there must be accountability.
My bill with @markey.senate.gov would ensure families can sue the agents murdering their loved ones.
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Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara told his officers that they have a duty to intervene if they see ICE committing crimes and will be fired if they don't. We need a lot more of this.
www.ms.now/news/minneap...
www.ms.now/news/minneap...
Minneapolis police chief warns officers: Stop unlawful force by ICE or lose your job
Chief Brian O’Hara says he’ll fire city police officers if they don’t intervene when immigration agents use unlawful force.
www.ms.now
January 27, 2026 at 3:25 PM
Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara told his officers that they have a duty to intervene if they see ICE committing crimes and will be fired if they don't. We need a lot more of this.
www.ms.now/news/minneap...
www.ms.now/news/minneap...
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US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told Fox News on Monday that Mark Carney was "very aggressively walking back" some of the remarks to Trump—
Carney said on Tuesday: “To be absolutely clear, and I said this to the president — I meant what I said in Davos"
Carney said on Tuesday: “To be absolutely clear, and I said this to the president — I meant what I said in Davos"
January 27, 2026 at 7:02 PM
US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told Fox News on Monday that Mark Carney was "very aggressively walking back" some of the remarks to Trump—
Carney said on Tuesday: “To be absolutely clear, and I said this to the president — I meant what I said in Davos"
Carney said on Tuesday: “To be absolutely clear, and I said this to the president — I meant what I said in Davos"
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Sen. Ruben Gallego, D-Ariz., rolls out his demand for supporting a DHS appropriations bill: fire Stephen Miller
January 28, 2026 at 3:19 AM
Sen. Ruben Gallego, D-Ariz., rolls out his demand for supporting a DHS appropriations bill: fire Stephen Miller
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In response to announcement that he will be a new CBS contributor, Andrew Huberman tweeted “I’ve always gone issue-by-issue on health & science, spoken to experts w/a range of takes & presented where I see the center of (data) mass pointed. I’ll do the same with @CBSNews”. In Sept he posted this:
January 28, 2026 at 1:44 AM
In response to announcement that he will be a new CBS contributor, Andrew Huberman tweeted “I’ve always gone issue-by-issue on health & science, spoken to experts w/a range of takes & presented where I see the center of (data) mass pointed. I’ll do the same with @CBSNews”. In Sept he posted this:
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Anderson Cooper played side-by-side video of Noem and Bovino smearing the victim of Saturday's shooting, then said, "If either of these public officials had an ounce of decency, they would call up Alex Pretti's parents and apologize."
January 28, 2026 at 1:34 AM
Anderson Cooper played side-by-side video of Noem and Bovino smearing the victim of Saturday's shooting, then said, "If either of these public officials had an ounce of decency, they would call up Alex Pretti's parents and apologize."
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This is a 2023 death that Durbin actually investigated while Chair of Judiciary. (See: www.judiciary.senate.gov/imo/media/do... )
Which raises more questions:
- Why did he put it out today like this with no date (suggesting it was new)?
- After all that work, how could he think “reform” is apt?
Which raises more questions:
- Why did he put it out today like this with no date (suggesting it was new)?
- After all that work, how could he think “reform” is apt?
January 28, 2026 at 7:01 AM
This is a 2023 death that Durbin actually investigated while Chair of Judiciary. (See: www.judiciary.senate.gov/imo/media/do... )
Which raises more questions:
- Why did he put it out today like this with no date (suggesting it was new)?
- After all that work, how could he think “reform” is apt?
Which raises more questions:
- Why did he put it out today like this with no date (suggesting it was new)?
- After all that work, how could he think “reform” is apt?
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Trump did this.
Measles is deadly.
Measles is deadly.
January 28, 2026 at 2:29 AM
Trump did this.
Measles is deadly.
Measles is deadly.
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There's no way you can keep funding a federal government who's primary mission is to inflict pain on the population. Every federal agency from McMahon at DoE to RFK shredding HHS and everything in between. Every day we let them stay open is more time we'll need to repair the damage they've done
Maher Tarabishi, who has been detained by ICE since October, was the primary caretaker of his disabled adult child, Wael.
On Jan. 23, Wael died from complications related to Pompe disease, a rare genetic condition.
ICE has now denied Maher’s request to attend his funeral, his attorney says.
On Jan. 23, Wael died from complications related to Pompe disease, a rare genetic condition.
ICE has now denied Maher’s request to attend his funeral, his attorney says.
ICE Denies Detainee's Request to Attend His Son's Funeral, Attorney Says
Maher Tarabishi was the primary caretaker of his son, Wael Tarabishi, 30, who died on Friday, Jan. 23, from complications related to Pompe disease.
people.com
January 27, 2026 at 11:59 PM
There's no way you can keep funding a federal government who's primary mission is to inflict pain on the population. Every federal agency from McMahon at DoE to RFK shredding HHS and everything in between. Every day we let them stay open is more time we'll need to repair the damage they've done
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