Zohran Mamdani delivers remarks as the new mayor of New York City after Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders administered the ceremonial oath of office before thousands of supporters.

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This government shut down is all about whether Republicans will get away with raising health care premiums by 75% for 20 million Americans and throwing 15 million people off their health care.

We can't allow that to happen.

The 14th Amendment was ratified on this day in 1868. It guarantees:

✔️ due process for all
✔️ birthright citizenship
✔️ equal protection under the law

Now more than ever, we're determined to protect these essential rights.

BREAKING: The House passed a budget framework that would slash billions in Medicaid funding.

Medicaid is a lifeline for tens of millions of Americans, including people with disabilities, women, seniors, and children. The Senate must reject these dangerous cuts.

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“At least Russia has elections”

Russia frequently jails and kills any opposition to Putin, who has been in power since 1999.

If you like dictatorships, that’s fine. Just admit that. Don’t insult anyone’s intelligence—including your own—by claiming Russia has real elections.

One of our supporters shared this with us—people are getting creative tonight!

I think we might know where all the missing Dem ballots went

This is Ethan Shaotran. He's one of Musk's DOGE takeover hackers

2 yrs ago he won the Berkeley AI Hackathon

But in 2000 won the HackGT7 with a ballot altering program called BallotProof

Here's the deep dive that he couldn't scrub....

Things I heard and thought about this week:
A client saying lawyers aren’t reliable for ice-related anything because the law isn’t reliable anymore.
The fact that I help clients access food and heat assistance and that might not exist in any form at literally any point because of the current coup.

Do you ever have those moments, as you let your mind wander, when it starts writing a poem and you begin writing it down?

AOC: I don’t care what Elon Musk is doing behind the presidential seal, but in this country we hate Nazis. Kind of like a foundational defining thing. Two of the foundational things about American history is that we beat the confederates and we beat the Nazis.

This song feels like the perfect musical reminder for these winter wild fires out west. It would be a reminder to deaf ears, since anyone who cares is likely to already realize this, but still

I’ve been watching (and listening to) some really solid conversations, this one included

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