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Harvey J. Kaye is an American historian. He has written and edited over a dozen books, many of which focus… more

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“I think patriotism- our patriotism - has never been better defined than by Paine - he hit it off in several places. For instance, where he says - the world is my country to do good is my religion - that is the whole gospel of politics, life.” - Walt Whitman, our great democratic poet 🇺🇸
“I think patriotism- our patriotism - has never been better defined than by Paine - he hit it off in several places. For instance, where he says - the world is my country to do good is my religion - that is the whole gospel of politics, life.” - Walt Whitman, our great democratic poet 🇺🇸
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Museum of tje worst www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/o...
Opinion | The Second Trump Administration Is a Museum of America’s Worst Moments
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California get your ballots in.

Check your texts to make sure your ballot was received.
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Mike Johnson To Betray The House To Protect Trump On The Epstein Files
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Mike Johnson To Betray The House To Protect Trump On The Epstein Files
Speaker Mike Johnson has a plan to kill the Epstein files discharge petition, and it involves going back on his word and changing the rules.
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Live Updates: Trump Threatens to Use Emergency Powers to Bypass Courts and Deploy Troops
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#MVC #Newsies with Rivka Rivera, Frank Cappello & yours truly podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/m...
Newsies (w/ Harvey Kaye)
Podcast Episode · Movies vs. Capitalism · 05/02/2023 · 1h 28m
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Trump appointee, Judge Immergut: “[T]his is a nation of Constitutional law, not martial law." Administration arguments blur "the line between civil and military federal power—to the detriment of this nation.”

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On Friday the Minnesota Star Tribune reported a conversation on the messaging app Signal between one of Stephen Miller’s top deputies, Anthony Salisbury, and a senior advisor to Secretary of Defense P...
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He could’ve fought, but he faked bone spurs. So someone else had to go in his place - most likely a working class kid whose daddy couldn’t afford to bribe a doctor. Now he’s talking shit about how it should’ve been fought.
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Newsom to sue Trump as Pentagon sends California national guard to Oregon.

Governor says president is ‘unapologetically attacking the rule of law’ after judge blocked Oregon national guard deployment. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Newsom to sue Trump as Pentagon sends California national guard to Oregon
Governor says president is ‘unapologetically attacking the rule of law’ after judge blocked Oregon national guard deployment
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We do not deploy American forces against Americans in our own cities.

Our military is not trained for domestic law enforcement.

It’s illegal and un-American.
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Trump slump www.newsweek.com/trumps-appro...
Trump’s approval rating plunges with low income voters
Low-income voters appear to be shifting sharply away from Trump, largely driven by economic pressures and rising uncertainty.
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“The creative capacity itself seems to have gone out of American political life . . . What strikes me hardest about all this is the terrible waste of history it involves . . .”
— Max Lerner 1948
“The creative capacity itself seems to have gone out of American political life . . . What strikes me hardest about all this is the terrible waste of history it involves . . .” — Max Lerner 1948
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Karoline Leavitt Tried To Defend Trump's Shutdown And It Was A Disaster
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Karoline Leavitt Tried To Defend Trump's Shutdown And It Was A Disaster
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt was asked about the lie that Democrats want to give illegal aliens ACA subsidies and she responded by talking about Medicaid.
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'Never seen the president this scared': White house correspondent unmasks 'maniacal' Trump

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'Never seen the president this scared': White house correspondent unmasks 'maniacal' Trump
Seasoned White House correspondent Brian Karem, who has covered President Donald Trump full time since 2016, says in a piece for Salon that he's "never seen the president this scared."Karem, the forme...
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You must read this!
October 2, 2025
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October 2, 2025
At about 1:00 on Tuesday morning, federal agents from Border Patrol, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) raided an apartment b...
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Hegseth Plus Trump Equals Unrestrained State Violence—Here, in the USA
Today on TAP: Hegseth wants our troops to run amok. Trump says, against ‘the enemy within.’
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Remember! The Generals and Admirals did not applaud Trump or Hegseth on Monday. No doubt they realized not only how bizarre and insulting their speeches were, but also how anti-American and unconstitutional they were (especially Trump’s).
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Too many of those who prate about saving democracy are really only interested in saving things as they were. Democracy should concern itself also with things as they ought to be. #FDR 1938
Too many of those who prate about saving democracy are really only interested in saving things as they were. Democracy should concern itself also with things as they ought to be. #FDR 1938
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We can save the rights we have inherited from our fathers only by winning new ones to bequeath our children. – Henry Demarest Lloyd
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At the times when MLK grew despondent about America and the movement, he would recall Thomas Paine’s revolutionary words “We have it in our power to begin the world over again” 🇺🇸
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Every generation needs to know what it is fighting against, whom it is fighting with, what it is fighting for..
— Max Lerner, It is Later than You Think: The Need for a Militant Democracy
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