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You don’t find “common ground” with fascists. You build power to defeat them. This is the main reason why I believe fascism at the Federal level in the US will last generations.
September 2, 2025 at 8:04 PM
You don’t find “common ground” with fascists. You build power to defeat them. This is the main reason why I believe fascism at the Federal level in the US will last generations.
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NEW: Amid concerns about the stability of the agency, records show nearly 40% of the doctors offered jobs at the VA from January through March of this year turned them down — quadruple the rate of rejections for the same period a year earlier.
Veterans’ Care at Risk Under Trump as Hundreds of Doctors and Nurses Reject Working at VA Hospitals
Amid concerns about the stability of the agency, records show nearly 40% of the doctors offered jobs at the VA from January through March of this year turned them down — quadruple the rate of rejectio...
www.propublica.org
August 8, 2025 at 11:40 AM
NEW: Amid concerns about the stability of the agency, records show nearly 40% of the doctors offered jobs at the VA from January through March of this year turned them down — quadruple the rate of rejections for the same period a year earlier.
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"During the genocidal war on Gaza, I realized that we have no control over anything, neither over our fates, nor over the exit doors from cities that turn into open cemeteries."
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How Do I Leave the Prison of Gaza?
“The world is small,” they say. But Gaza taught me that the world is too big to be shaken by the small tragedies that happen here. Too big to care about a starving human being who only …
arablit.org
July 29, 2025 at 3:42 PM
"During the genocidal war on Gaza, I realized that we have no control over anything, neither over our fates, nor over the exit doors from cities that turn into open cemeteries."
arablit.org/2025/07/29/h...
arablit.org/2025/07/29/h...
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Emails show that IRS chief counsel Andrew De Mello said a recent DHS request did not comply with the law.
Two days after refusing the demand to turn over more than 7 million home addresses, De Mello was pushed out of the top legal job.
Two days after refusing the demand to turn over more than 7 million home addresses, De Mello was pushed out of the top legal job.
The IRS Is Building a Vast System to Share Millions of Taxpayers’ Data With ICE
ProPublica has obtained the blueprint for the Trump administration’s unprecedented plan to turn over IRS records to Homeland Security in order to speed up the agency’s mass deportation efforts.
www.propublica.org
July 29, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Emails show that IRS chief counsel Andrew De Mello said a recent DHS request did not comply with the law.
Two days after refusing the demand to turn over more than 7 million home addresses, De Mello was pushed out of the top legal job.
Two days after refusing the demand to turn over more than 7 million home addresses, De Mello was pushed out of the top legal job.
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One reason so many American hospitals are struggling? Investors buy them up, then suck them dry, charging such high rents that services are gutted.
Reveal explores what happened to one Louisiana hospital when Medical Properties Trust came to town. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Reveal explores what happened to one Louisiana hospital when Medical Properties Trust came to town. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
The landlord gutting America’s hospitals
Medical Properties Trust buys up hospitals and then leases them back to health care systems. Dozens of its hospitals have gone belly up.
www.motherjones.com
July 27, 2025 at 11:20 PM
One reason so many American hospitals are struggling? Investors buy them up, then suck them dry, charging such high rents that services are gutted.
Reveal explores what happened to one Louisiana hospital when Medical Properties Trust came to town. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Reveal explores what happened to one Louisiana hospital when Medical Properties Trust came to town. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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If he becomes mayor, Zohran Mamdani will have to tackle New York City's biggest beast: the NYPD. @alexvitale.bsky.social has some suggestions for how to do just that.
Zohran Mamdani Must Confront the NYPD. Here's What He Can Do.
No single issue will be more challenging for a Mayor Mamdani than policing. But there are concrete steps he can take to reform the NYPD and curb its culture of impunity.
www.thenation.com
July 24, 2025 at 3:13 PM
If he becomes mayor, Zohran Mamdani will have to tackle New York City's biggest beast: the NYPD. @alexvitale.bsky.social has some suggestions for how to do just that.
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Hunger and disease continue to stalk Palestinians in Gaza, and aid organizations are warning that children are at greatest risk of starvation. A U.N. worker has described people as "walking corpses."
Gaza's children are starving, the U.N. and relief organizations warn
Hunger and disease continue to stalk Palestinians in Gaza, and aid organizations are warning that children are at greatest risk of starvation. A U.N. worker has described people as "walking corpses."
n.pr
July 25, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Hunger and disease continue to stalk Palestinians in Gaza, and aid organizations are warning that children are at greatest risk of starvation. A U.N. worker has described people as "walking corpses."
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Ka’ila Farrell-Smith grew up deeply involved in the fight for Indigenous rights. “I’ve been warned my entire life, ‘The FBI’s watching us.’”
Now the agency is focused on her and a new generation of activists challenging a lithium mine in Nevada.
Now the agency is focused on her and a new generation of activists challenging a lithium mine in Nevada.
“Under the Microscope”: Activists Opposing a Nevada Lithium Mine Were Surveilled for Years, Records Show
Law enforcement agencies, including the FBI, have collaborated with private security to surveil largely peaceful protesters opposed to the Thacker Pass mine, according to a ProPublica review of…
www.propublica.org
July 24, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Ka’ila Farrell-Smith grew up deeply involved in the fight for Indigenous rights. “I’ve been warned my entire life, ‘The FBI’s watching us.’”
Now the agency is focused on her and a new generation of activists challenging a lithium mine in Nevada.
Now the agency is focused on her and a new generation of activists challenging a lithium mine in Nevada.
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Tennessee Rep. Justin
Jones ejected from Homeland Security
Secretary's event in
Nashville.
Jones ejected from Homeland Security
Secretary's event in
Nashville.
July 18, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Tennessee Rep. Justin
Jones ejected from Homeland Security
Secretary's event in
Nashville.
Jones ejected from Homeland Security
Secretary's event in
Nashville.
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NEW: Of the 230+ Venezuelans deported to El Salvador:
• Almost half had immigration cases that were not yet decided
• More than 60 had pending asylum claims, some just days away from final hearings
These men had followed U.S. immigration procedures. Then Trump changed the rules.
• Almost half had immigration cases that were not yet decided
• More than 60 had pending asylum claims, some just days away from final hearings
These men had followed U.S. immigration procedures. Then Trump changed the rules.
He Came to the U.S. to Support His Sick Child. He Was Detained. Then He Disappeared.
Like most of the more than 230 Venezuelan men deported to a Salvadoran prison, José Manuel Ramos Bastidas had followed U.S. immigration rules. Then Trump rewrote them.
www.propublica.org
July 18, 2025 at 3:41 PM
NEW: Of the 230+ Venezuelans deported to El Salvador:
• Almost half had immigration cases that were not yet decided
• More than 60 had pending asylum claims, some just days away from final hearings
These men had followed U.S. immigration procedures. Then Trump changed the rules.
• Almost half had immigration cases that were not yet decided
• More than 60 had pending asylum claims, some just days away from final hearings
These men had followed U.S. immigration procedures. Then Trump changed the rules.
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1. Yesterday, the FTC held a panel with anti-trans activists meant to justify charging providers of gender affirming care with fraud.
It is yet another avenue the Trump administration is trying to use to target trans care nationwide.
The latest from S. Baum.
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It is yet another avenue the Trump administration is trying to use to target trans care nationwide.
The latest from S. Baum.
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Trump’s FTC Lays the Groundwork to Charge GAC Providers with “Fraud”
Instead of working to protect Americans' privacy, the FTC is hosting what amounts to an anti-trans rally.
www.erininthemorning.com
July 10, 2025 at 4:08 PM
1. Yesterday, the FTC held a panel with anti-trans activists meant to justify charging providers of gender affirming care with fraud.
It is yet another avenue the Trump administration is trying to use to target trans care nationwide.
The latest from S. Baum.
Subscribe to support our journalism.
It is yet another avenue the Trump administration is trying to use to target trans care nationwide.
The latest from S. Baum.
Subscribe to support our journalism.
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👉"What masquerades as climate action often replicates colonial logics: militarised extraction, land grabs in Indigenous territories, and green technologies controlled by the same corporate and geopolitical elites responsible for the climate crisis."
www.resilience.org/stories/2025...
www.resilience.org/stories/2025...
Reclaiming Energy, Reimagining Power: Building Energy Futures from Below
From the corridors of the Parliament down to the provincial governments, the shift from fossil fuels to renewables is being framed as both inevitable and immediate. Yet beneath the veneer of urgency a...
www.resilience.org
July 10, 2025 at 3:06 PM
👉"What masquerades as climate action often replicates colonial logics: militarised extraction, land grabs in Indigenous territories, and green technologies controlled by the same corporate and geopolitical elites responsible for the climate crisis."
www.resilience.org/stories/2025...
www.resilience.org/stories/2025...
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After being hired to promote Georgia’s Medicaid work requirement program, Deloitte Consulting priced reports about its own marketing performance at $300,000 a month.
A final report, which was due in February, could cost the state nearly half a million.
➡️ Read the full story: propub.li/3YOiJ66
A final report, which was due in February, could cost the state nearly half a million.
➡️ Read the full story: propub.li/3YOiJ66
May 17, 2025 at 1:30 PM
After being hired to promote Georgia’s Medicaid work requirement program, Deloitte Consulting priced reports about its own marketing performance at $300,000 a month.
A final report, which was due in February, could cost the state nearly half a million.
➡️ Read the full story: propub.li/3YOiJ66
A final report, which was due in February, could cost the state nearly half a million.
➡️ Read the full story: propub.li/3YOiJ66
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BREAKING NEWS: In a rare rebuke, more than a dozen former workers of the powerful data-mining and surveillance company say the firm's work with the Trump administration violates the company's founding principles.
Exclusive from @bobbyallyn.bsky.social
Exclusive from @bobbyallyn.bsky.social
Former Palantir workers condemn company's work with Trump administration
In a rare rebuke, more than a dozen former workers of the powerful data-mining and surveillance company say the firm's work with the Trump administration violates the company's founding principles.
www.npr.org
May 5, 2025 at 9:11 PM
BREAKING NEWS: In a rare rebuke, more than a dozen former workers of the powerful data-mining and surveillance company say the firm's work with the Trump administration violates the company's founding principles.
Exclusive from @bobbyallyn.bsky.social
Exclusive from @bobbyallyn.bsky.social
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Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy says he will ask Defense Department officials why an Army Black Hawk helicopter violated flight restrictions at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport.
Army Black Hawk helicopter forces two jetliners to abort landings at DCA
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy says he will ask Defense Department officials why an Army Black Hawk helicopter violated flight restrictions at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport.
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May 3, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy says he will ask Defense Department officials why an Army Black Hawk helicopter violated flight restrictions at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport.
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El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele and several top Trump administration officials dismissed questions about the fate of a Maryland man wrongfully deported to El Salvador.
El Salvador's Bukele says 'preposterous' to suggest he return Abrego Garcia to U.S.
El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele and several top Trump administration officials dismissed questions about the fate of a Maryland man wrongfully deported to El Salvador.
www.npr.org
April 14, 2025 at 6:45 PM
El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele and several top Trump administration officials dismissed questions about the fate of a Maryland man wrongfully deported to El Salvador.
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anyone who is acting like the US and el salvadore simply accidently deported the wrong people and can’t find them is lying because they don’t want to admit they rather like that fascistic deporting of political enemies into death camps is essentially legal now
April 14, 2025 at 7:58 PM
anyone who is acting like the US and el salvadore simply accidently deported the wrong people and can’t find them is lying because they don’t want to admit they rather like that fascistic deporting of political enemies into death camps is essentially legal now
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It's like people read about Hitler and the path to WWII but totally failed to absorb the part about appeasement and how it didn't work.
April 7, 2025 at 8:32 PM
It's like people read about Hitler and the path to WWII but totally failed to absorb the part about appeasement and how it didn't work.
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The cowardly capitulation of universities will only embolden the administration to crack down further on those institutions. Those who show weakness invite a greater spectacle of abuse, given that acts of submission excite rather than satiate the fascists.
April 7, 2025 at 8:27 PM
The cowardly capitulation of universities will only embolden the administration to crack down further on those institutions. Those who show weakness invite a greater spectacle of abuse, given that acts of submission excite rather than satiate the fascists.
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If you don’t care about and fight for the right to protest Israel, you will lose the right to protest just about everything
In California, UC Davis has suspended its Law Student Association and seized its funding in retaliation for the group’s vote backing the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement against Israel amid its war on Gaza.
www.democracynow.org/2025/3/27/he...
www.democracynow.org/2025/3/27/he...
UC Davis Suspends Law Student Association over Its Vote to Divest from Israel
In California, UC Davis has suspended its Law Student Association and seized its funding in retaliation for the group’s vote backing the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement against Israel amid ...
www.democracynow.org
March 30, 2025 at 1:17 AM
If you don’t care about and fight for the right to protest Israel, you will lose the right to protest just about everything
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X is not worth 33 billion. He basically just paid himself $33B from another company, presumably to pay off his debts from the initial buy because he knows he'll never be able to raise the capital from X itself.
He is his own ponzi scheme.
He is his own ponzi scheme.
March 29, 2025 at 5:42 PM
X is not worth 33 billion. He basically just paid himself $33B from another company, presumably to pay off his debts from the initial buy because he knows he'll never be able to raise the capital from X itself.
He is his own ponzi scheme.
He is his own ponzi scheme.
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I showed my wife, a historian, the Kristi Noem video. She said “holy shit!” It’s a lot. A brief thread on bodies. It begins in the alt text below… 1/
March 27, 2025 at 4:15 PM
I showed my wife, a historian, the Kristi Noem video. She said “holy shit!” It’s a lot. A brief thread on bodies. It begins in the alt text below… 1/
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WHAT TO DO IF ICE COMES KNOCKING
1) REMEMBER YOU HAVE RIGHTS
2) ICE CAN AND WILL LIE TO YOU
3) THEY CANNOT ENTER WITHOUT A WARRANT SIGNED BY A JUDGE
4) THEY WILL USUALLY NOT HAVE A WARRANT SIGNED BY A JUDGE AND WILL OFTEN LIE AND SAY THEY HAVE ONE. ASK TO SEE IT BEFORE THEY ENTER
1) REMEMBER YOU HAVE RIGHTS
2) ICE CAN AND WILL LIE TO YOU
3) THEY CANNOT ENTER WITHOUT A WARRANT SIGNED BY A JUDGE
4) THEY WILL USUALLY NOT HAVE A WARRANT SIGNED BY A JUDGE AND WILL OFTEN LIE AND SAY THEY HAVE ONE. ASK TO SEE IT BEFORE THEY ENTER
March 24, 2025 at 10:23 PM
WHAT TO DO IF ICE COMES KNOCKING
1) REMEMBER YOU HAVE RIGHTS
2) ICE CAN AND WILL LIE TO YOU
3) THEY CANNOT ENTER WITHOUT A WARRANT SIGNED BY A JUDGE
4) THEY WILL USUALLY NOT HAVE A WARRANT SIGNED BY A JUDGE AND WILL OFTEN LIE AND SAY THEY HAVE ONE. ASK TO SEE IT BEFORE THEY ENTER
1) REMEMBER YOU HAVE RIGHTS
2) ICE CAN AND WILL LIE TO YOU
3) THEY CANNOT ENTER WITHOUT A WARRANT SIGNED BY A JUDGE
4) THEY WILL USUALLY NOT HAVE A WARRANT SIGNED BY A JUDGE AND WILL OFTEN LIE AND SAY THEY HAVE ONE. ASK TO SEE IT BEFORE THEY ENTER