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This is an extraordinary story, centred on a group of remarkable women, but it just makes me mourn for the millions of women and girls trapped in Afghanistan, denied not only the freedom to play sports, but to speak, learn and live as they choose. We must not forget them.
Banned from football at home, Afghan women's team reunite 8,000 miles away
Women in the team, which is recognised by Fifa, say football has given them freedom and independence.
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Obviously not the most serious one but pretty telling regarding what an asshole we’re dealing with here & 100% the petty cruelty I would expect from a reactionary
Abby Vesoulis@abbyvesoulis.bsky.social · 4h agoIn this screenshot of an email from March 2025, Emily Moreno begged Miller for the blue bunny. (3/?)
When I saw this headline I just assume they did it behind his back somehow.
John Schwartz@jswatz.bsky.social · 4h agoBobby blinked. This is good news. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/05/h...
This is how it's done. Fight it out in the primary, and then link arms to defeat the common enemy in the general. Great demonstration of post-primary leadership from @mallorymcmorrow.bsky.social.
🔥 @abdulelsayed.bsky.social claps back at J.D. Vance: “Is that Peter Thiel's boy? With that Ohio charisma? The last thing that he said that made any sense was Hillbilly Elegy… after he said Trump had no business being president of anything, then decided to suck up to power.”
In another era, a story like this would be in 50-point on A1: ELECTION OFFICIALS ACROSS NATION PREPARE FOR DIRECT THREATS FROM PRESIDENT Alas, in today's world, this is just a Wednesday. I hope we can come back from this brink. Too many lives depend on it.
Zeteo@zeteo.com · 6h ago“Everyone is wargaming like a motherf*cker.” @swin24.bsky.social and @justinglawe.bsky.social talk to Democrats, election officials, and activist groups talk with Zeteo about how they’re planning to defend the midterms from ICE agents at the polls, and ballot seizures. zeteo.com/p/inside-dem...
It is truly truly upsetting that this is where we’re at as a country. Even if trump does order any troops or ICE to the polls and even if DHS doesn’t try to arrest election officials on bullshit charges, so much damage is already done. They’re publicly threatening and dangling it. And because of…
Asawin Suebsaeng@swin24.bsky.social · 5h agodisturbing the level of resources & time that election officials, elected Dems, & others across the U.S. are devoting to preparing for if Trump tries to sic ICE, troops, or armed feds on their polling sites @justinglawe.bsky.social & I take you behind the scenes on how: zeteo.com/p/inside-dem...
New Working Paper with Micah Baum and Joaquin Endara: Students tend to become more liberal during college. We study whether individual faculty make their students more liberal. We find no evidence that faculty affect student partisanship. Working Paper: edworkingpapers.com/ai26-1538 1/
Do Faculty Affect Student Partisanship?
We study whether Democratic college professors make their students more liberal. We link voter data to salary records from 33 state flagships and show that faculty skew Democratic, especially in the h...
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Everyone says Trump killed the climate law. But nine in ten factories are still being built, courts keep blocking his attacks, and the corporate tax credits survived. Read more in today's Notes from the Electric Era newsletter. electricnotes.news/p/no-the-dem...
No, the Democrats' Big Climate Law is Not Dead.
Plus, new research shows that its clean energy manufacturing boom benefitted Democrats in the 2024 election.
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Thank you to everyone who helped make This Is The Plan a NYT bestseller! Now that you have the book, the next step is to start organizing. Let me know how you're getting involved in the comments! 🧯🔥
Mainstream media isn’t talking about it, but bulldozers and construction crews have descended upon Texas’ Big Bend National Park as the Trump administration moves forward with its border barrier project. The project will permanently damage one of our nation’s greatest natural treasures.
I know a lot of smart Democrats that voted for her. But added, if he wins they will back him up. This is not the time to sit this out. We done this twice and fucked things up. The Bernie voters did not vote for Hillary. And Trump got elected. Don't fuck this up Dems. Vote Blue, no matter who. 💙
El-Sayed: "Once a government agency like ICE is told it has impunity to do the worst things and violate the highest law of the land, which is the Constitution itself, I don't think you can reform or retrain. I think we need to start from scratch ... I think we need to abolish it."
"AES was outspent 9-1." Yeah, and Stevens was called everything but a child of God on all platforms on the internet and was harassed while fake folks acted as canvassers lying to folks. Y'all want to be victims so bad. Take the W and get the man elected as Senator. There are always 2 sides to every
This is an outstanding line and he should keep using it.
Patricia Zengerle@reuterszengerle.bsky.social · 14h agoEl-Sayed attacked Rogers as a Trump stooge and accused Republicans of trying to use his faith and full name - Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed - to scare voters. "My name is not the reason you can't afford your groceries," he said. "You know what is? Their BS policies." www.reuters.com/world/us/pro...
This guy never served. He faked an injury to avoid the draft. None of his children have served. He called those who did serve their country "suckers and losers." He skipped the centenary memorial for servicemen who died in WWI because it was drizzling. This is more than usually repellent.
MS hasn’t elected a Democratic Senator since 1982. But there’s real opportunity here. @scolom.bsky.social is MS through and through, while Cindy Hyde-Smith has become a rubber stamp for DC, failing the working class. Our @ab21.bsky.social WCP shows voters are ready for more https://bit.ly/3SgbinZ
Working Class Weekly: Expanding the Battleground in Mississippi
Last week, we shared how our research with working class voters informed our paid media strategy in Alaska — a state that’s been reliably red for years but is ripe for a potential Democratic upset in ...
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Dr. Abdul El-Sayed: Mike Rogers is a guy who wants to put a data center in your backyard so he can feel a bit more manly by making an AI video. If you want a senator who's gonna lick some boots, go vote for Rogers. But if you want a senator who's going to stand up to Trump, you've got your option.
William Lawrence, a prominent environmental organizer who foregrounded his support for a data center moratorium, has won the Democratic primary in Michigan’s seventh congressional district in a victory for progressives.
This data center foe just won his Democratic House primary in Michigan
Sunrise Movement co-founder William Lawerence will face incumbent Republican Tom Barrett in November.
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Klobuchar responds: "None of my opponents on this stage condemned what ICE did. Not a word. Two innocent people were killed, shot in the back. We had many people arrested when they weren't supposed to be arrested, and we need reform to ICE."
Nothing to worry about here, just more consolidation in the global music industry.
billboard@billboard.com · 3w agoBMG Acquires Hal David, John Lee Hooker & ARC Music’s Full Publishing Catalogs
I will support Abdul El-Sayed because Voting Blue to stop 47 and his deranged actions and sphere is the only thing that matters! apple.news/AvD8y7PLbSjq...
Abdul El-Sayed wins Michigan Senate primary in major victory for Democrats’ progressive wing — The Associated Press
Abdul El-Sayed has won Michigan’s Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate in a victory for the party’s progressive wing in a battleground state.
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