🚨 With the Social Security Trust Fund set to run out in 2032, more Republican leaders say they want to raise or #ScrapTheCap. Social Security is worth saving for current and future Americans. Full story in comments.
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Canceling Twitter today! Looking forward to learning and laughing here.
Don't forget: GOP Senate candidate John Sununu says he supports a Medicare work requirement for seniors. We believe him: He left the Senate in 2009 with a Lifetime Pro-Retiree score of 9%. He worked and voted to cut the benefits we paid for and earned!
Time and again, Trump's allies have revealed they intend to eliminate or privatize Social Security, the benefits we've EARNED. Seniors won't let anyone mess with our benefits — now or when it's time for our grandchildren to retire.
The group behind this ad, The Front Line Action, got $500K this year from a Cruz-linked Texas super PAC also backing Ken Paxton's Senate run. Read more here: www.levernews.com/ted-cruz-lin...
Cruz-Linked PAC Targets El-Sayed In “Death To America” Ad
The group, founded by allies of the Texas senator, spent $90K on an ad featuring the Michigan Democrat laughing next to the words “celebrate 9/11.”
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🚨 New: A Ted Cruz-linked super PAC just spent $90K on an AI-generated ad against @abdulelsayed.bsky.social. This seems to be the first time the group, The Front Line Action, has ever attacked a Democrat, despite being founded to fight antisemitism inside the GOP.
The Macklemore controversy isn’t just about Ed Sheeran. Tour promoters confirmed multiple stadiums refused to host shows with Macklemore on the bill — revealing how a small group of venue owners can effectively decide which political speech reaches major stages.
This is the richest country in history. We don't want people just scraping by after working their entire lifetime. They should be able to retire with dignity– and they can. All we need is for billionaires to pay the same rate into Social Security as everyone else. @alaw202.bsky.social
Humanitarian workers struggle to provide shelter and support as numbers soar
Families torn apart as Yemen fighting forces more than 125,000 civilians to flee | The National
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We are not so much in a war of right vs. left, but of unprincipled vs. principled.
🚨 NEW: Colin Kaepernick says the NFL offered him a major deal while “actively blackballing” him. He rejected it. Kaepernick says Jay-Z then “stepped into that role” as the “Black face” NFL owners sought to “subvert the protest.”
Kaepernick: Jay-Z Became the “Black Face” the NFL Was Seeking
The NFL wanted someone "to help us subvert the protests" and "work counter to the people's interests."
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BREAKING: Republicans JUST blocked Democrats' bill that would have ENDED Trump's tariffs on Canada and his ability to keep starting these trade wars. This would have saved Americans THOUSANDS of dollars. But Republicans chose once again to put Trump's approval over the American people.
Today would have been the 32nd birthday of Kiah Duggins. Her family is carrying on her work through the Princess Project, a non-profit she founded in college to mentor underrepresented young girls. I hope you’ll consider donating $32 today in Kiah's honor. gofund.me/fc035b3aa
Donate to Kiah's Princess Project, organized by Kiah's Princess Project
Kiah urged everyone to explore how society systematically limits underrepresented stud… Kiah's Princess Project needs your support for Kiah's Princess Project
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Anna Bower@annabower.bsky.social · 2y agoI’m sad to learn that my law school classmate, Kiah Duggins, died in the DC plane crash last night. Kiah was an exceptionally talented civil rights lawyer and aspiring legal scholar. I hope you’ll read about her work and the causes she cared about, some of which I’ll 🧵 below. What an immense loss
Robots No way on the farm This menace is real from China , company is unitree robotics $2700 wait for the ending !!
It doesn't matter how long you've worn the uniform for, or how much you've sacrificed for this country, in Donald Trump's America service will not save you from ICE. We must hold them accountable for their lawless behavior. @GunnySpeaksOut
“The worst place ever I’ve been in my life," Sakariye Abdi Mohamed, a Somali asylum seeker, told me over the phone from Guantanamo Bay last week. Sakariye is one of 7 or 8 Somalis who are being held at Gitmo. They say guards tell them the order to keep Somalis at the facility comes from DC.
The Trump administration is imprisoning Somali immigrants in Gitmo
“Nobody tell us that we’re going to Guantanamo Bay.”
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TODAY: House Oversight unanimously votes to hold Epstein associate Leon Black in contempt, and Trump lashes out at his hand-picked Supreme Court. Free to listen and subscribe! www.muellershewrote.com/publish/post...
Headlines for September 16, 2026
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A Philadelphia family just bought their first home with a $10,000 first-time homebuyer grant funded by a group of Quakers It’s part of the congregation’s racial justice plan to redistribute wealth to Black residents in the Germantown area as a form of reparations
A Philly family bought their first home thanks to reparations from Quakers in Germantown
Green Street Friends Meeting, a Quaker congregation in Germantown, pledged to spend $50,000 a year for 10 years as part of its reparations work. It’s helping Black Philadelphians become homeowners.
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JUST IN: Attorneys for Rep. Joyce Beatty asked for an emergency hearing after a staffer was denied access to the Kennedy Center and told it was closed to the public. www.documentcloud.org/documents/28...
Kennedy Center Closed
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The Iran War is out of control. Gas prices are about to hit record highs. Families are struggling to make ends meet. The threat of AI looms. But Republicans already delivered tax cuts for corporations and billionaires — so Mike Johnson is sending the House home. "Promises made, promises kept."
NEWS: Houthis just shot down a Saudi F-15 and struck a major oil facility. CENTCOM got caught LYING about an Iranian strike on a tanker full of US troops. And now the Fed's could hike rates because of it. And that's just the start.
Wednesday Updates: Trump's War Chaos Deepens as Houthis Shoot Down Saudi F-15, Fed Weighs a Rate Hike, and MAGA Sends Congress Home to Dodge Accountability – 9/16/26
Important Wednesday updates. Paywall free.
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Ratings down 21% so the show has been renamed "47 Minutes" Bravo Bari Weiss, @60minutes.bsky.social and CBS, the Conservative Brainwashing System
Late last month, ICE reportedly put 12 Somali men on a plane and told them they were being deported to Somalia. Instead, they arrived at Guantanamo Bay, where seven or eight of them remain. Since then, the men have said they have been subjected to frigid temperatures and are shackled at all times.
The Trump administration is imprisoning Somali immigrants in Gitmo
“Nobody tell us that we’re going to Guantanamo Bay.”
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Well the jokes on Robert Kraft and his genocide supporting friends - the story now is performers, the band and promoters are dropping Ed Sheeran like a hot cake. The story is the genocide of the Palestinian people and highlighting solidarity and reminding people that genocide is still happening.
My dad is a Republican. He voted for Lindsey Graham and Fox News is his go-to channel. But he knows exactly who I am: someone who listens, works hard, and puts South Carolina first. That’s why he’s proud to stand with me — and I’m proud to have him in my corner.
JD Vance - "Give us another chance. Give us another 2 years." What about this past 2 years would you let them do again to you and your family?