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Koh: I think if this is a president who really wanted to empower workers, he wouldn't have just stripped 700,000 people of their collective bargaining rights..
April 1, 2025 at 2:39 AM
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"No Other Land," the Palestinian-Israeli made film showing the destruction of the occupied West Bank's Masafer Yatta by Israeli soldiers, just won the Oscar for Best Documentary.

It can't get a distributor in the US.

Which tells you everything about censorship in the US.
March 3, 2025 at 2:14 AM
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By definition the progressive movement in its current incarnation can’t have a Joe Rogan, a Bill Burr or anything like it. The point is obvious but made well here. Maybe that’ll change but it still is what it is:
February 14, 2025 at 3:41 AM
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At Trump's behest, the PA GOP had cleared the field in 2021 for Sean Parnell to be their U.S. Senate candidate for Toomey's seat. At the same time he was fighting for custody of his kids, until a judge deemed credible his wife's testimony regarding his physical abuse.

Now Trump is hiring him.
February 4, 2025 at 4:00 AM
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If you wonder how Trump might have reacted to hearing to one of Jesus’s sermons about the grave sin of oppressing the poor and other marginalized people, now you probably don’t need to wonder.
January 22, 2025 at 12:58 PM
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As Trump takes office & pledges mass deportations, here is a shareable film series written *by immigrants for immigrants* on how to safely defend against ICE.

The first of four: 🚨If ICE is outside your door, don’t panic. Don’t open the door. Ask to see a warrant. ICE can’t enter w/o one. Part 1:
January 20, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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At both an intellectual and a political level, I am not equipped to conceptualize how to oppose the next administration when the president can promote shitcoins and millions of Americans respond by eagerly exchanging real money for pretend money
January 19, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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Like and share this and I’ll pick 5 of you to get free copies of THE JFK CONSPIRACY. Buy it here: bit.ly/JFKConspiracy.

It’s about the true, little-known plot to kill Kennedy right before his Inauguration.

Written again with the great @joshmensch. #booksky #books
January 14, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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Pete Hegseth now claims he didn't say the thing he said on camera a month ago
December 10, 2024 at 2:33 AM
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As I've been saying for months: GOP talking points on the border are woefully out of date. Crossings are way down
And having a president with (ahem) good diplomatic relationships has been key to that decline.
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November 28, 2024 at 3:33 AM