Empire Must Fall 🇵🇸🍉 General Strike
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Beautician ✨ 💖 IG @empiremustfall @ny_indivisible Blue Dogs GO AWAY #GeneralStrike It's the working class versus the predator class 24-7 No One Is Free Unless We Are All Free. Socialist. Not Dem. Not GOP. Not Libertarian.
The Number of Regular People Being Arrested for Protesting Data Centers Is Astounding
The Number of Regular People Being Arrested for Protesting Data Centers Is Astounding
All over the United States, ordinary people are risking their freedom to take a stand against data centers in their communities.
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Israel is a terrorist state, the IDF a terrorizing occupation force. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
IDF accused of ‘field execution’ of Palestinian driver bringing aid into Gaza
Local truckers’ association says it may suspend operations, after several eyewitnesses decried Ahmad Esleem’s murder
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'I was so brainwashed': The 1980s doomsday cult that ensnared the young and beautiful
'I was so brainwashed': The 1980s doomsday cult that ensnared the young and beautiful
Led by a New York socialite who claimed to be an alien, Eternal Values boasted an elite membership. Now an ex-follower, 1980s male supermodel Hoyt Richards, is telling his story.
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Trump ousts remaining members of the Election Assistance Commission. www.nbcnews.com/politics/202...
Trump ousts remaining members of the Election Assistance Commission ahead of midterms
The dismissals hamstring a key bipartisan agency just months before the midterms.
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The Trump administration has directly spent $2.7bn of taxpayer money on its crusade against wind power while pouring $1.125bn into boosting coal, which critics say is pushing up Americans’ bills.
‘He’s forcing higher bills’: Trump spends billions to kill clean energy and keep coal alive
Critics accuse president of ‘fattening the wallets of his cronies’ as working Americans face higher energy rates
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Millions of Americans oppose authoritarianism. So why does opposition so often feel exhausted, fragmented, and ineffective? Historian and Army veteran Tad Stoermer argues that one reason is that we’ve been taught to wait—for institutions, leaders, or history itself to save us. 1/2
The Biggest Obstacle Isn’t Trump | Tad Stoermer
YouTube video by VALOR Media Network
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🚨URGENT need for more people to join the protesters outside Delaney Hall as ICE escalates their violence, per people on the ground. show up if you can.🚨
Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin@ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 2mo agoLivestream at Delaney Hall right now is here. Reporter was just pepper sprayed. www.youtube.com/live/Y4tVhdn...
Tell NYS the Legislature to Include the $15 Million Daniel’s Law Crisis Response Programs in the FY ’27 Budget!. Write one here: actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...
Tell the Legislature to Include the $15 Million Daniel’s Law Crisis Response Programs in the FY ’27 Budget!
We need your help to protect the rights of our neighbors, friends, and family members with mental health and substance use conditions. Write an email to elected leaders and tell them to include the Da...
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Stephen Colbert goes out with a bang "Only In Monroe" is epic legend stuff. #Colbert
Only In Monroe --- May 22, 2026
YouTube video by Stephen Colbert
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#Trump just admitted that he was involved in the creation of the Justice Department’s “anti-weaponization” fund. The DOJ created a $1.8B slush fund for Trump’s allies earlier this week at the same time that the president opted to drop his waning $10B lawsuit against the IRA. #corruption #DOJ
Trump Desperately Tries to Convince Republicans to Support Slush Fund
Donald Trump is facing major backlash from both lawmakers and voters over the fund.
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Caught in the Crackdown: Cases Against Arrested Anti-ICE Protesters Keep Falling Apart @democracynow.org #AbolishICE
Caught in the Crackdown: Cases Against Arrested Anti-ICE Protesters Keep Falling Apart
In cities across the country, from Los Angeles to Chicago to Minneapolis, residents have taken to the streets to oppose the militarized immigration sweeps, enforcement tactics and violence of ICE and ...
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#Trump just admitted that he was involved in the creation of the Justice Department’s “anti-weaponization” fund. The DOJ created a $1.8B slush fund for Trump’s allies earlier this week at the same time that the president opted to drop his waning $10B lawsuit against the IRA. #corruption #DOJ
Trump Desperately Tries to Convince Republicans to Support Slush Fund
Donald Trump is facing major backlash from both lawmakers and voters over the fund.
newrepublic.com
*Gabbard leaving *Lutnick gives $5 million to House Republicans before Epstein testimony What other Friday-of-Memorial-Day-weekend news dumps should be expect?
NEW: After being asked to testify behind closed doors before Congress, Howard Lutnick made a $5M donation to House Republicans. After his testimony, Jim Comer said he was satisfied Lutnick was truthful. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/22/u...
Lutnick Donated $5 Million to House Republicans Before Epstein Testimony
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'They Were Afraid It Would Pass': House GOP Cancels Iran War Powers Vote for Second Straight Day www.commondreams.org/news/house-w...
'They Were Afraid It Would Pass': House GOP Cancels Iran War Powers Vote for Second Straight Day | Common Dreams
After Senate Republicans helped advance a Democratic war powers resolution on Iran, the House GOP canceled a related vote, seemingly due to key absences.
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Tell NYS the Legislature to Include the $15 Million Daniel’s Law Crisis Response Programs in the FY ’27 Budget!. Write one here: actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...
Tell the Legislature to Include the $15 Million Daniel’s Law Crisis Response Programs in the FY ’27 Budget!
We need your help to protect the rights of our neighbors, friends, and family members with mental health and substance use conditions. Write an email to elected leaders and tell them to include the Da...
actionnetwork.org
The panel, created in the '80s, is composed of experts who scrutinize the latest evidence behind a wide array of disease prevention tools, such as depression screenings and the use of statins to prevent heart attacks. The panel updates guidelines w/letter grades showing the strength of the science.
RFK Jr fires leaders of group that sets guidelines for preventive healthcare
US Preventive Services Task Force had already been largely sidelined before health secretary fired its two chairs
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Needs to be repeated until everyone gets it... If capitalism is so great, why do corporations need tax breaks, subsidies, exemptions, grants, legal protections, bailouts, and trade protections? And why is it unacceptable for citizens to demand these things in the form of socialism?
Israeli strikes violating the ceasefire in southern Lebanon killed 19 people on Tuesday, according to the Lebanese Health Ministry. At least 29 others were injured, including a child.
Some good news! The Senate voted 50-47 today to advance a measure that would force Trump to either end the war in Iran or win authorization from Congress to continue it. The first time the effort has actually moved forward.
Trump administration lifts ban on cyanide bombs that kill animals www.humaneworld.org/en/blog/trum...
Trump administration lifts ban on cyanide bombs that kill animals
In a recent memorandum of understanding, the Trump administration set the stage for the federal government’s renewed use of the M-44 cyanide bomb on lands managed by the Bureau of Land Management. Thi...
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Charles Keener@charleskeener.bsky.social · 3mo ago
💢 The inclusion only adds to mounting scrutiny of the wider agreement announced after Trump said he was dropping a $10B lawsuit against the IRS in exchange for creating the compensation fund. The $1.7B fund will be run by five people and does not have to make public any details.
US justice department ‘forever’ bars IRS from auditing Trump’s past tax returns
Addendum quietly slipped into widely criticized agreement creating a $1.7bn fund to compensate president’s allies
theguardian.com
💢 The inclusion only adds to mounting scrutiny of the wider agreement announced after Trump said he was dropping a $10B lawsuit against the IRS in exchange for creating the compensation fund. The $1.7B fund will be run by five people and does not have to make public any details.
US justice department ‘forever’ bars IRS from auditing Trump’s past tax returns
Addendum quietly slipped into widely criticized agreement creating a $1.7bn fund to compensate president’s allies
theguardian.com
“I will use every avenue at my disposal to flip all of your seats.” 🔥 Watch Louisiana Congressional candidate Lindsay Garcia deliver a powerful defense of democracy before the state legislature.
Trump posted that the UN just admitted climate change projections were “WRONG! WRONG! WRONG!” and declared victory over what he called 15 years of Democratic fearmongering. He has no idea what he’s talking about.
Proud to have photographed my friend Molly Crabapple during her research on this epic book, that is now a NY Times Best Seller. Congratulations Molly! bsky.app/profile/theb...
Daniel Efram@thebeam.bsky.social · 4mo agoMy small role in @mollycrabapple.bsky.social historic new book "Here Where We Live Is Our Country: The Story of the Jewish Bund" Leave a comment if you have your copy and read my substack, linked below. #art #antizionism #judaism
