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The world is letting them
July 27, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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Asking your friend/colleague/partner to repeat themselves for the 65th time today, because you can't stop thinking about what's going to be on the Booker Prize 2025 longlist tomorrow...
July 28, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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Congress is voting on the Defense Appropriations bill this week to fund endless wars.

How do we always find money for war but never enough money for the children, the poor, and the hungry?
July 14, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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Lines you must never use if you write for TV or the movies:
1. It's complicated.
2. You look like shit.
3. Look at me.
4. That's so crazy it just might work.
July 14, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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Someone prove this wrong.
July 6, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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"The Declaration...says that government is not sacred, that it is set up to give people an equal right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness and that if it fails to do this, we have the right to 'alter or abolish it.'"– Howard Zinn, July 4, 1975
www.howardzinn.org/collection/s...
The Spirit of Rebellion - Howard Zinn
By Howard Zinn, from The Zinn Reader Writing a column to appear in the July 4, 1975, issue of the Boston Globe, I wanted to break away from the traditional celebrations of Independence Day, in which t...
www.howardzinn.org
July 4, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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Fascism in full swing. Mamdani won with a mandate and Trump is losing his mind.

Sorry, Mr. President, Mamdani is here to stay.
Trump threatens to arrest Mamdani and then adds, "a lot of people are saying he's here illegally"
July 1, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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Kicks 17 million off their health insurance.
 
Cuts nutrition for hungry kids.
 
Makes it harder for working people to afford college.
 
Biggest transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich in history.

But go off.
July 1, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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It's clear the American people don't want Trump's big ugly bill to pass.

-17 million will lose healthcare
-Largest cuts to food assistance
-$1 trillion in billionaire tax cuts

History will remember those who chose to stand with working people and who chose to serve the powerful.
June 30, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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Our communities aren’t safe when people pretend to be ICE, carry guns, and harass immigrants.

The Trump administration’s tactics of having masked agents and secret raids are creating space for impersonators and vigilantes to act.

It needs to stop.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
US sees spate of arrests of civilians impersonating Ice officers
Experts say trend of agents detaining people while masking and wearing plainclothes increases risk
www.theguardian.com
June 30, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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But at the end of the day our economy's demise will have one cause - parasitic financiers and their relentless, exponential demand for compound interest. laboristmovement.substack.com/p/the-produc... We don't have an economy structured to serve the needs and wants of working people.
The productive class and the parasitic financiers
When economic power became concentrated in a few hands, then political power flowed to those possessors and away from the citizens, ultimately resulting in an oligarchy or tyranny.
laboristmovement.substack.com
May 26, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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They call it a fine because it's fine for them to pay it easily
May 26, 2025 at 5:50 AM
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I bet lots of his friends, by pure coincidence, sold their Apple stocks yesterday. They'll be buying them back for cheaper and then he'll back down as he always does and the stocks will go back up. Market manipulation, I say.
May 23, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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The Trump administration says they're screening new immigrants for antisemitic statements on social media. That rule apply doesn't apply to one of the much-feted white Afrikaner refugees, who has plenty of negative ideas about Jews. www.thebulwark.com/p/an-afrikan...
An Afrikaner Refugee Has Thoughts About the Jews
The Trump administration is clear: Antisemitism from brown people will not be tolerated.
www.thebulwark.com
May 14, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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america we've been patient up until now but it's time
May 5, 2025 at 10:57 PM
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Kinda crazy how the president can’t forgive student loan debt but he can make everything you buy more expensive. Who came up with that
May 5, 2025 at 1:54 PM