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Want an easy way to do some real good in the world? Join me on Kiva and invest in Instituto Belen’s success in Paraguay! www.kiva.org/invitedby/ev...

11.11.2025 15:58 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Reinstate Jimmy Kimmel and stop caving to authoritarian censorship! Kimmel wasn’t fired for his remarks on Kirk—he was fired for using his platform to expose and critique our government. Enough! We especially need large corporations, with the money and influence they ...

Kimmel wasn’t fired for his remarks on Kirk—he was fired for using his platform to expose and critique our government. Enough! We especially need large corporations, with the money and influence they have, to fight back. sign.moveon.org/petitions/ki...

18.09.2025 20:15 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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18.09.2025 03:49 👍 22478 🔁 7604 💬 601 📌 256
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Let’s be clear about what happened to Jimmy Kimmel Trump’s most brazen attack on free speech yet.

After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn’t like.

18.09.2025 14:10 👍 61822 🔁 19674 💬 2005 📌 917

Tell them you care about free speech.

18.09.2025 18:39 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

He was a political activist, as was Malcolm X.

11.09.2025 20:02 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I’ve seen it plenty. Diagnosis of high grade cancer deserves kindness and sympathy, not scorn.

19.05.2025 21:45 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Don’t impeach. The Republicans don’t have the spine to do it and it would just be another distraction to stir up the base. Blue wave in ‘26.

05.05.2025 18:11 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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28.04.2025 01:33 👍 27781 🔁 7975 💬 268 📌 214
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‘In Three Months, Half of Them Will Be Dead’ Elon Musk promised to preserve lifesaving aid to foreign children. Then the Trump administration quietly canceled it.

Sir, have you no decency?

www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...

18.04.2025 10:26 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Sign the Petition Right the Wrong: Save Kilmar Abrego Garcia from Brutal Detention!

www.change.org/p/right-the-...

14.04.2025 13:57 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Respondents emphasize that Abrego Garcia was improperly removed to El Sal-
vador because, although he could be removed anywhere else in the world under a
2019 order of removal, that order granted statutory withholding of removal to El Sal-
vador alone. But, while the United States concedes that removal to El Salvador was
an administrative error, see App., infra, 60a, that does not license district courts to
seize control over foreign relations, treat the Executive Branch as a subordinate dip-
lomat, and demand that the United States let a member of a foreign terrorist organ-
ization into America tonight. For starters, because MS-13 members such as Abrego
Garcia have since been designated members of a foreign terrorist organization, they
are no longer eligible for withholding of removal under 8 U.S.C. 1231(b)(3)(B). Fur-
ther, the United States has ensured that aliens removed to CECOT in El Salvador
will not be tortured, and it would not have removed any alien to El Salvador for such
detention if doing so would violate its obligations under the Convention Against Tor-
ture. Moreover, respondents treat the relief here as “routine,” Resp. C.A. Stay
Opp. 1, but that relief goes far beyond merely facilitating an alien’s return, which is
what courts have ordered in other cases. This order—and its demand to accomplish
sensitive foreign negotiations post-haste, and effectuate Abrego Garcia’s return to-
night—is unprecedented and indefensible.

Respondents emphasize that Abrego Garcia was improperly removed to El Sal- vador because, although he could be removed anywhere else in the world under a 2019 order of removal, that order granted statutory withholding of removal to El Sal- vador alone. But, while the United States concedes that removal to El Salvador was an administrative error, see App., infra, 60a, that does not license district courts to seize control over foreign relations, treat the Executive Branch as a subordinate dip- lomat, and demand that the United States let a member of a foreign terrorist organ- ization into America tonight. For starters, because MS-13 members such as Abrego Garcia have since been designated members of a foreign terrorist organization, they are no longer eligible for withholding of removal under 8 U.S.C. 1231(b)(3)(B). Fur- ther, the United States has ensured that aliens removed to CECOT in El Salvador will not be tortured, and it would not have removed any alien to El Salvador for such detention if doing so would violate its obligations under the Convention Against Tor- ture. Moreover, respondents treat the relief here as “routine,” Resp. C.A. Stay Opp. 1, but that relief goes far beyond merely facilitating an alien’s return, which is what courts have ordered in other cases. This order—and its demand to accomplish sensitive foreign negotiations post-haste, and effectuate Abrego Garcia’s return to- night—is unprecedented and indefensible.

If the Supreme Court decides that the government can "erroneously" disappear you off the street to a foreign torture prison, and that federal courts have no power to do anything about it, that is, in a meaningful way, Pretty Much It www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/24...

07.04.2025 16:12 👍 17097 🔁 5565 💬 690 📌 479
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The Week Ahead March 23, 2025

'1945 “War Department education film” from the National Archives, circa 1945. It’s “Don’t Be A Sucker” and it explains how bullies divide people in order to take control of a country, using the obvious example at that time of Hitler and Nazi Germany'

by Joyce Vance open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

24.03.2025 01:45 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Pass it on.
#StandWithUkraine

28.02.2025 20:44 👍 80330 🔁 34284 💬 1177 📌 1665
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This !!

05.02.2025 17:47 👍 52130 🔁 9223 💬 1484 📌 640
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Democrats: This isn't business as usual, we need you to fight! We are in an overwhelming crisis. After just over two weeks in office, the Trump administration has unleashed wave after wave of catastrophic attacks—even going so far as cutting off critical funding ...

This cause is close to my heart - please sign: sign.moveon.org/petitions/de...

05.02.2025 21:04 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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05.02.2025 16:20 👍 596 🔁 165 💬 6 📌 9
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This is so good.

04.02.2025 07:08 👍 45656 🔁 10777 💬 596 📌 582
Front page of the nyt

Front page of the nyt

In 2016 the NYT ran multiple front page stories page about the grave national security risk of Hillary Clinton's server.

Today's front page, and nary a mention of the successful "plutocratic coup" (said by a sitting House member) or "constitutional crisis (said by a sitting Senator) unfolding

04.02.2025 13:51 👍 31042 🔁 9527 💬 1478 📌 853
Tim Walz

Tim Walz

We could’ve had Tim 😭

03.02.2025 22:25 👍 74000 🔁 10676 💬 905 📌 383

Please work to call an emergency congressional session to strip EM of access. Please do something! Our house is on fire.

04.02.2025 01:13 👍 13 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Please work to call an emergency congressional session to strip EM of access. Please do something! Our house is on fire.

04.02.2025 01:08 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Bishop Budde has some nerve! - The Boston Globe Our great and glorious leader was ambushed on Tuesday morning.

Love this.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/01/25/n...

25.01.2025 17:59 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Via Mastodon #USpol

03.02.2025 13:00 👍 18064 🔁 3085 💬 258 📌 110
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Oh Canada! 🇨🇦

03.02.2025 02:40 👍 30334 🔁 5156 💬 445 📌 218
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03.02.2025 03:53 👍 70013 🔁 12902 💬 752 📌 608

honestly think some of the hesitation here is that no one wants to sound like a crank. i was talking at an event last night and even i felt like a crank while i was speaking!

03.02.2025 14:33 👍 46020 🔁 6695 💬 1502 📌 406
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👇👇

02.02.2025 19:22 👍 61673 🔁 15489 💬 1136 📌 551