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Coach Gowron @coachgowron.com · 2d

A bully believes that kindness is weakness. A fool believes that bullying is strength. A true warrior knows that a bully is weak, and that compassion and kindness are strengths they could never comprehend.

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Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 2d

Business leaders, investors and academics have cheered Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey’s efforts to counter the Trump administration’s research funding cuts with state money — so much so that a recent meeting on the initiative required overflow seating.

Massachusetts Counter to Trump Science Cuts Stalls in Statehouse

Business leaders, investors and academics have cheered Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey’s efforts to counter the Trump administration’s research funding cuts with state money — so much so that a recent meeting on the initiative required overflow seating.

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 2d

It seems clear—I think to everyone, now—that a false and illegal invocation of the Insurrection Act is coming before the end of the year. Media outlets should be telling us how they will prepare for this potential Treason. State governments should be telling us. Activists should be developing plans.

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 2d

We can’t out-Republican Republicans, nor should we want to.

Democrats need to say what they believe — and actually believe in something.
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Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine.bsky.social · 3d

People are being robbed. The answer to that is not shame or anger.

The answer is empathy and compassion.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 2d

Everything Trump is doing now is a preamble for his regime's real goal: to invoke the Insurrection Act.

I don’t want to unduly alarm you, but you need to be aware of this imminent danger. It’s unfolding very rapidly. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/trumps-plan

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The Innocence Project @innocenceproject.bsky.social · 2d

Because of his undiagnosed autism, Robert Roberson was seen as “cold” and “unemotional” instead of terrified and grieving. That misunderstanding helped send an innocent man to death row. Read more from the Autism Society of Texas: www.houstonchronicle.com/opinion/outl...

He's autistic. Jurors misread that as guilt. Will Texas execute him?

Overwhelming evidence shows that Robert Roberson is innocent.

www.houstonchronicle.com

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Mark @mschauk.bsky.social · 2d

We should just replace these markets w/ direct federal grants. @wbmosler.bsky.social @schooldaves.bsky.social #MMT

Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 2d

The steady drum beat of federal funding threats totaling billions of dollars is renewing municipal investors’ qualms about lower-rated state and local borrowers.

Trump Funding Risks Put Muni Market Investors on Alert

The steady drum beat of federal funding threats totaling billions of dollars is renewing municipal investors’ qualms about lower-rated state and local borrowers.

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Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 2d

The steady drum beat of federal funding threats totaling billions of dollars is renewing municipal investors’ qualms about lower-rated state and local borrowers.

Trump Funding Risks Put Muni Market Investors on Alert

The steady drum beat of federal funding threats totaling billions of dollars is renewing municipal investors’ qualms about lower-rated state and local borrowers.

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Mark @mschauk.bsky.social · 2d

I’ve speculated the devaluation of the dollar is an attempt to boost crypto as an alternative currency. Looks like neofeudalism is happening! #neofeudalism

PEIPolitical 🇨🇦 @peipolitical.bsky.social · 19d

Since Inauguration Day, the US Dollar has lost -13% of its value.
Big shocker! #cdnpoli

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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 2d

The Trump admin is preparing a plan to make it harder for older Americans to get Social Security disability payments.

Officials are considering eliminating age as a factor in deciding whether or not someone is capable of working.

Hundreds of thousands of people could lose out.

Trump plan would limit disability benefits for older Americans

Trump administration officials are considering eliminating age as a factor in deciding whether someone is capable of working.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

Trump to the Navy: "We have to take care of this little gnat that's on our shoulder called the Democrats."

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Coach Gowron @coachgowron.com · 3d

Don't go into tomorrow worried about how you are going to cope with it. Go into it knowing that you will cope with it, come what may. Knowing that you are a warrior, that you are worthy, come what may.

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 3d

No indication yet from major media that the FBI has any interest whatsoever in investigating this apparent attempted assassination of a well-known judge openly targeted on social media by the far-right activist—Harmeet Dhillon—currently calling herself Assistant Attorney General of the United States

Beachfront home of South Carolina judge, ex-senator burned to ground, injuring 3

Ex-senator Arnold Goodstein, along with two additional people, were rescued by several neighbors and paramedics from a marshy, remote area behind the home after jumping from the fist floor.

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Mark @mschauk.bsky.social · 3d

This is exactly how we should be talking!!!

Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine.bsky.social · 3d

People are being robbed. The answer to that is not shame or anger.

The answer is empathy and compassion.

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 6d

Father Michael Pfleger calls out Trump and says that the "state of emergency is in America"

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Truthout @truthout.org · 4d

Experts call Trump’s refugee plan a “dark hour,” leaving over 100,000 vetted refugees stranded worldwide.

Trump Slashes Refugee Cap, Carves Out Exception for White South Africans

Experts call Trump’s refugee plan a “dark hour,” leaving over 100,000 vetted refugees stranded worldwide.

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Coach Gowron @coachgowron.com · 4d

The enemy of my enemy is not always my friend. Such may be an ally for a time, but friendship requires that someone stands with me against my enemies not because of who my enemy is, but because of who I am. Be worthy of such friends.

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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 4d

The Senate Majority Leader admitted farmers will need a bailout from tariffs, "We’ve got a big harvest ... and no place to go with it."

Sen. Thune said he believed Trump wanted to establish “reciprocity” with other countries—but it’s not clear that's even the objective. trib.al/q5Z0mzq

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Dave Infante @dinfontay.com · 5d

“'The fact that we don't have money to pay journalists, but we have money to pay Bari Weiss between $100 and 200 million is indicative of what the Ellisons' true goal here is,' a network correspondent said. 'And it's not journalism.'"

CBS News staffers are ‘literally freaking out’ about Bari Weiss taking over newsroom

EXCLUSIVE: ‘People are using words like depressing and doomsday – feels like some sort of doomsday,’ one source told The Independent about the mood inside CBS News right now.

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Kansas Reflector @kansasreflector.com · 4d

Restricting, cutting Medicaid funding shifts more reproductive health care to telemedicine | via @sofiaresnick.bsky.social #ksleg

Restricting, cutting Medicaid funding shifts more reproductive health care to telemedicine • Kansas Reflector

Now that a new rule has eliminated hundreds of millions in Medicaid reimbursements to Planned Parenthood, reproductive health providers have turned to telehealth as part of the solution to offer low-c...

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 5d

it is interesting to me how the MAGA right has a balkanized view of the United States that does not, at all, correspond with the reality of the United States

Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 5d

Russell Vought's sick little power trip will also hurt GOPers. One project he's cutting is the Pacific Northwest Hydrogen Hub, which spans Oregon, Washington, and...Montana. The state's GOP governor has hailed it for creating "good-paying Montana jobs." Oops.

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Joel Mathis @joelmathis.bsky.social · 4d

My Wichita Eagle colleague @dionkansas.bsky.social is spot on: www.kansascity.com/opinion/arti...

KS GOP’s fake post of Gov. Kelly in sombrero crosses the line to blatant racism | Opinion

Kansas Republican Party shows its white-supremacist underbelly in Facebook post on SNAP, mimicking President Trump’s racist online antics.

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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 5d

The top 1% in the US have now a record $52 trillion in wealth.

The bottom 50% have about $4 trillion.

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 5d

Kristi Noem's on the roof at Broadview surrounded by snipers and Kat is still out there demanding to see what horrific conditions are going on inside.

Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 5d

Join us Kristi Noem!

9AM Press Conference at 1930 Beach St

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