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Thinking of a few Malcolm x speeches as they tell people getting kidnapped in the streets by masked thugs to ‘remain calm’
January 15, 2026 at 5:48 AM
Thinking of a few Malcolm x speeches as they tell people getting kidnapped in the streets by masked thugs to ‘remain calm’
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And the policy should also prohibit government contractors from cutting domestic labor and replacing it with offshore workers who get paid pennies or AI. If your domestic workforce goes down, your eligibility for government contracts decreases accordingly.
January 14, 2026 at 4:14 PM
And the policy should also prohibit government contractors from cutting domestic labor and replacing it with offshore workers who get paid pennies or AI. If your domestic workforce goes down, your eligibility for government contracts decreases accordingly.
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By the way, there’s a path to a maximum wage. Require all firms holding government contracts to adopt a policy that no employee can make more than, say, 20x what their lowest paid employee makes. Force CEOs to either cut their own pay or raise the rest of the workforce.
January 14, 2026 at 4:12 PM
By the way, there’s a path to a maximum wage. Require all firms holding government contracts to adopt a policy that no employee can make more than, say, 20x what their lowest paid employee makes. Force CEOs to either cut their own pay or raise the rest of the workforce.
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we should want to make it undeniable that there is no choice but to end ICE, prosecute its officers for lawbreaking, and fundamentally rethink immigration enforcement.
January 14, 2026 at 2:09 AM
we should want to make it undeniable that there is no choice but to end ICE, prosecute its officers for lawbreaking, and fundamentally rethink immigration enforcement.
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this is all to say that should democrats win the house and senate this november, they should hold similarly dramatic — which is to say televised and highly publicized — hearings on the conduct of ICE and CBP, with testimony from victims. we want as much of *this* as possible in the record. (3/?)
ICE detained Arlit Maria Martinez on her way to work. 2 days later, her 15 yo son died of cancer. They wouldn't let her out to say goodbye. The family had planned to move back to Mexico prior to the cancer diagnosis but stayed for his treatment. Now, Mr Martinez has lost his wife to ICE & his son.
Teen dies of cancer days after mother arrested by ICE: ‘She’s never gonna see him’
The mother's family pleaded with federal officers for her release from custody to say her final goodbyes to her son, but their requests went unanswered.
www.wsaz.com
January 14, 2026 at 2:09 AM
this is all to say that should democrats win the house and senate this november, they should hold similarly dramatic — which is to say televised and highly publicized — hearings on the conduct of ICE and CBP, with testimony from victims. we want as much of *this* as possible in the record. (3/?)
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/3 That process will make it easier for this to happen again. So: what to do? Someone who promoted and both-sidesed Nazis in 1946 would face economic and social annihilation outside of extremists circles. How can we inflict that annihilation on the vapid media of now?
January 12, 2026 at 3:52 PM
/3 That process will make it easier for this to happen again. So: what to do? Someone who promoted and both-sidesed Nazis in 1946 would face economic and social annihilation outside of extremists circles. How can we inflict that annihilation on the vapid media of now?
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/2 This will be grotesque. Edward R. Murrow didn’t have a radio show in 1946 where Eisenhower debated Göring about whether the Nazis had some good points. Today’s media would absolutely do that. Today’s media will platform people defending and rewriting Good’s murder for years.
January 12, 2026 at 3:50 PM
/2 This will be grotesque. Edward R. Murrow didn’t have a radio show in 1946 where Eisenhower debated Göring about whether the Nazis had some good points. Today’s media would absolutely do that. Today’s media will platform people defending and rewriting Good’s murder for years.