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If you've never donated to Wikipedia, now's the time. Elon Musk is attacking it because it's one of the only sources of honest, curated information that he can't control.
www.newsweek.com/elon-musk-ta...
Elon Musk takes aim at Wikipedia
The billionaire has become one of the most prominent supporters of President-elect Donald Trump.
www.newsweek.com
December 25, 2024 at 3:54 AM
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watching the shock and horror as trump’s cabinet roles are announced and thinking everyone needs to get familiar with this word
November 13, 2024 at 12:39 AM
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Jan 6th was good but the people who did it were ANTIFA and they're bad but we're going to pardon them because they're good.

www.cnn.com/2024/12/17/p...
KFile: Pete Hegseth spread baseless conspiracy theories that January 6 attack was carried out by leftist groups | CNN Politics
President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for secretary of defense, Pete Hegseth, justified the January 6, 2021, US Capitol attack and spread baseless conspiracy theories claiming the initial break-in was a...
www.cnn.com
December 17, 2024 at 5:57 PM
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Tried my best. Sorry I couldn’t pull it through everyone - we live to fight another day. ♥️
December 17, 2024 at 5:56 PM
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Olivia Troye on preemptive pardons: "I have not done anything wrong. I know that ... all we're doing is speaking the truth. But in today's environment, in terms of what's to come under the Trump administration, I think that's something that we're all thinking about."
December 5, 2024 at 4:02 PM
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BREAKING: Amnesty International says Israel is committing genocide in Gaza in new report:
BREAKING: Amnesty Concludes Israel Is Committing Genocide
“We will look back and say, ‘Why did we not do more earlier?” Amnesty's director tells Zeteo.
zeteo.com
December 5, 2024 at 12:12 AM
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Wise words about the reason for Biden to pardon more people from @jenrubin.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
Opinion | Hunter’s pardon isn’t the issue. What matters are pardons for everyone else.
Trump’s campaign of revenge must be blocked.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 5, 2024 at 3:24 PM
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I just ran into the main plaintiff and their family in the hallway of the Supreme Court in the skrimetti case today, and we all hugged and now I’m in tears in the press room.

I thanked them profusely.

Trans people deserve equal protection. We deserve to live like anyone else.
December 4, 2024 at 2:02 PM
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TRUMP: I’m going to use the FBI illegally to go after my political enemies!

BIDEN: Um, I guess I’ll pardon my son then because fuck that.

MEDIA: Biden is breaking norms!
December 3, 2024 at 5:41 PM
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Legacy media.
December 3, 2024 at 6:25 PM
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Is this it now? Are we finished? We’re staying here and giving it a go, right? There isn’t some billionaire lurking in the board room about to pounce and ruin it all again?
November 13, 2024 at 10:43 PM
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Earnest post, but: a thing I like here is it’s okay to have moments of happiness in public without being broadly scolded, and I believe that sustaining this kind of humanity will be very important as we resist fascism.

We have to sustain each other. Making joy isn’t denial, it’s how we will survive
November 12, 2024 at 1:22 AM
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I am such a believer in this. Down-ballot is the way.

It’s also how we build a sustainable future of good leaders and infrastructure to elect and support them, as well as the movements they represent.

We don’t just need strong candidates. We need strong organizers, managers, CoS, grassroots, etc.
I’ve been organizing in rural areas since the first Trump administration. Rural Dems can make the difference in races at the top of the ticket.

Republicans have all of the electorate they’re ever going to have. Organize to turn out 5% to 10% more Dems in rural spaces. Watch what happens…
November 29, 2024 at 7:03 PM
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They have a point.
November 28, 2024 at 9:55 PM
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Whoever writes the definitive book about the collapse of democracy in American needs to devote at least one chapter to the writers of twee headlines — twee, useless, obfuscating, minimizing.
November 29, 2024 at 2:52 PM
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With Republicans about to control both houses of Congress and the White House and Dr. Oz at CMS, Republicans are considering $100 billion in cuts to Medicaid, a health care program that covers 87 million people and nearly half of all children in the United States.
Medicaid May Face Big Cuts and Work Requirements
Republicans in Congress are eyeing cuts to Medicaid, which could threaten health coverage for tens of millions of poor Americans.
www.nytimes.com
November 20, 2024 at 3:50 PM
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Transgender Day of Remembrance, observed on November 20 since 1999, honors the memory of people in our community whose lives were lost in acts of anti-transgender violence.

At least 30 trans Americans have been killed so far in 2024.

Read more: www.advocate.com/crime/transg...
November 20, 2024 at 6:35 PM