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Old..er, hopefully not wis..er. 3-time exile so politics, international, not just domestic. Miles Davis. Chet Baker. Ella, Duke. Charlie Parker. Lady Day. Nina Simone. My cats. Teach lit. Read everything. AND FILM FILM

ICE attempted to carry out operations at three East Oakland schools today, including two elementary schools and Fremont High, which was forced into lockdown to protect students. In response, educators, parents, and community members united to fight back and defend our students and families!

Four days before the election, Trump sent the FBI director and Treasury Secretary to St. Cloud, MN, to spread scare tactics about Somali citizens. St. Cloud answered by electing Abdi Daisane, who flipped House District 14A by 594 votes and became the city’s first Somali American legislator.

A first for St. Cloud as Somali-American man elected to Legislature

Democrat Abdi Daisane was born in Somalia before moving to St. Cloud more than a decade ago. It’s a milestone for a city not always seen as welcoming to outsiders.

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Look at these faces! They didn't just win elections. They changed what the Senate looks like, and who gets a seat at the table. Different backgrounds. Different experiences. One big assignment: Deliver for the American people. LFG💥

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🧵 The long-running Israeli socialist newspaper "Zo HaDerekh" reports that the number of Anti-Zionist Jews in Israel is increasing The largest increase in support for the anti-Zionist Joint List was recorded in metropolitan Tel Aviv. Like young people in progressive cities worldwide, Tel Aviv’s

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Reconhecimento na COP31 🌍 👏 #LulaNaCop31 Brasil de Fato: A ex-ministra do Meio Ambiente e Mudança do Clima, Marina Silva, foi recebida com aplausos no início da COP31, que começou nesta segunda-feira (9) em Antália, na Turquia. Na conferência deste ano, a deputada participa das ⤵️

The midterms are over, but voters continue to drive for hours and even fly to Houston to deliver their "l Voted" stickers to the Lorenzo Salgado Araujo memorial. I was so moved by one woman's story I had to share it with you... Rosa Flores

Because it's much more profitable for some to invent wars (good for the military industrial complex) and strike billionaire deals with rogue states than do something for the millions of us paying the taxes and the price... www.nytimes.com/live/2026/11...

CPI Live Updates: Inflation Persists in U.S. Economy (Gift Article)

An official comparison with last year was missing because of the government shutdown, but calculations by The New York Times showed consumer prices rose around 4 percent annually.

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If we had a halfway normal Department of Justice, they would be investigating how a state used a credit card company to help them disenfranchise more than 230,000 voters. We see you, Mississippi‼️

"I ask the judge to see her as a person, as a mom, as a grandma, as a daughter," said one of Martha Gutierrez's daughters during a prayer vigil in Pilsen Monday. Martha, a U.S. permanent resident, has been in federal immigration detention since February. Her final hearing is today.

"IDE Technologies, an Israeli water treatment giant that operates some of the largest seawater desalination plants in the world, was awarded the contract for the landmark Harbor Island project on Corpus Christi Bay this summer by the Nueces River Authority, a small state water agency."

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#Gaza Faced with the winter season in the #Gaza Strip, the situation is no longer tied solely to providing blankets or replacement tents, after the first rains of the season revealed the scale of the catastrophe experienced by hundreds of thousands of displaced people. #israel Enemy of Humanity

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The whole point of large systems under Capitalism is no one is responsible. Underfunded Healthcare, thousands die, no one is responsible. Israel commits Genocide, no one stops them, no one is responsible. That is the only REAL point of the complex systems they have created.