Well, I’m gonna insist that you listen to this. Definition of terms: “these people” = Latino migrants “Inner city people” = Black people “We tried to get them [inner city people] to do it” = slavery & sharecropping
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last yr.Trump on undocumented farm workers: "People that live in the inner city are not doing that work. They've tried, we've tried, everybody tried. They don't do it. These people do it naturally. Naturally ... they don't get a bad back, because if they get a bad back, they die."
Here are when the 17 Dems who voted against the Sanders resolution are up for reelection: 2026: Booker Coons Hickenlooper Peters Warner 2028: Blumenthal Cortez Mastro Fetterman Hassan Padilla Schumer Wyden Bennet 2030: Cantwell Gillibrand Rosen Schiff
For those of you with iPhones, check out the Ice Block app. It allows you to find and report sightings of the American gestapo in your area. Unfortunately for anonymity reasons, it's not available on Android or I would get it myself. share.google/ReDYKIXtjU8V...
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Be warned: Trump will likely use his war with Iran as a pretext to further suppress dissent at home. We must resist his efforts to stifle freedom of speech, make warrantless searches and arrests of Americans, and put more military onto our streets.
If you're heading to a protest tomorrow, it's important to know your rights. Consult this information from the ACLU. Be peaceful. Be safe. Be careful. Be strong.
NEW FROM CBO: brutal distributional analysis of House GOP "Big Beautiful Bill" On avg the bottom 30% of households get poorer under the GOP bill Avg gets little - and are worse off if you include tariffs This'd be the largest transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich in a single law in history
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she’s like 15 feet away. absolutely that man’s whole thought process was: “I’m gonna shoot that woman”
[not that] Dave Brooks@daveb1970.bsky.social · last yr.looks like she was targeted
Today for my job I had to purchase equipment for an "influencer pod" at a major university. Am I the only one who thinks that's insane?
Find yourself a partner who treats you as gently as they treat their computer hardware.
This would be an obvious act of ethnic cleansing under international law.
NBC News@nbcnews.com · last yr.BREAKING: The Trump administration is working on a plan to permanently relocate up to 1 million Palestinians from the Gaza Strip to Libya, five people with knowledge of the effort told NBC News.
60% of American households can’t afford a minimal quality of life. Meanwhile, the 19 richest households saw their wealth increase by $1 trillion in 2024 — the biggest one-year increase ever. Our problem isn't a lack of resources. Our problem is ever-expanding inequality.
Cockroach skittered across my desk 🤮 That's enough excitement for today, please let me go home.
RFK Jr., so-called “Health Secretary,” Swims in Washington Creek That Flows With Sewage and Bacteria. WITH HIS GRANDCHILDREN! Where tf are their parents?! You literally can’t make *this shit* up. 🤢 👉🏽 www.nytimes.com/2025/05/12/u...
Good morning! It’s a perfect day to realize that the politics you’re used to are gone and never coming back so you can either think about what you want the future to look like and try to build toward that or keep trying to wishcast the country back to 1998 and be part of the problem.
Friendly reminder to vote out "representative" who blatantly act in opposition to the will of the people. youtube.com/shorts/FbNFo...
Missouri Voters Spoke and Lawmakers Are Ignoring Them
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The House Education and Workforce section of the reconciliation bill would eliminate the Education Department's authority to cancel student debt for borrowers whose schools defraud them. So if you're a victim of fraud by your college, you'd still have to pay that loan that was fraudulently derived.
The richest 0.1% of Americans control $22 trillion in wealth. The bottom 50% control $3.8 trillion in wealth. Read that back. Folks, this is what oligarchy looks like.
They deported A CHILD. WITH CANCER.
Lorena O’Neil@lorenaoneil.com · 2y agoBREAKING: @aclu.org says Trump deported a child (U.S. citizen) with metastatic cancer without medication or consultation with physicians. This is the second child with cancer he's deported. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol... @rollingstone.com
April 30 is Trump's 100th day in office 🗓️ In those 100 days, Trump has attacked workers' rights and led the US economy toward an almost certain recession. To help keep track, we identified 100 ways that Trump hurt working people and the economy in his first 100 days: www.epi.org/publication/...
100 ways Trump hurt workers in his first 100 days
The frenetically chaotic first 100 days of the Trump/Musk (DOGE) administration have been an onslaught of actions to dismantle the federal government and eliminate crucial services and benefits for wo...
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I guess I'm behind the times but I just learned that Michelle Trachtenberg died in February. Damn. RIP Harriet the Spy/Dawn Summers
Link: www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/how-to-thi... (One of the rare occasions I will link to Substack.)
How to Think About Politics Without Wanting to Kill Yourself
There are Enemies, and then there are Cowards.
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This picture may haunt me to the end of my days. It is an ICE agent taking an axe to the car window of an immigrant in New Bedford, MA. Not far from where I sit now. An immigrant with no criminal record was abducted by this smiling man. An axe taken to a car window and to our democracy. 1/ #MomSky
