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Involved Jersey City community member. Pushing fully funded & equitable schools, deconstructing Florida lies we were raised with, moving further to the left every day. Writing, teaching, organizing.

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It's bizarre to me how many people in the comments here seem to think that automation is going to translate into more freedom for the working class.

When has that ever panned out? How much leisure time do you have, after years of these "innovations"? We are Charlie Brown trying to kick the football

10.03.2026 03:01 πŸ‘ 467 πŸ” 98 πŸ’¬ 50 πŸ“Œ 150
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Killing Kids in Iran While Kids in the U.S. Go Hungry - The American Prospect For the money the U.S. is spending on war with Iran, it could be covering food stamps for 41 million people or Medicaid for 16 million people.

β€œWe could have health care and access to food, healthy foods, fresh food, we could have good doctors. We should be asking, β€˜Why are we investing billions of dollars into another war across the seas?’” prospect.org/2026/03/10/k...

10.03.2026 14:38 πŸ‘ 97 πŸ” 27 πŸ’¬ 7 πŸ“Œ 3
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FIU Turning Point USA chapter president steps down over racist group chat The Miami-Dade County GOP party secretary, meanwhile, is fighting calls for his resignation.

#Florida International University's Turning Point USA chapter prez steps down amid furor over racist, antisemitic & misogynist chats www.miamiherald.com/news/politic... via @miamiherald.com

10.03.2026 14:29 πŸ‘ 14 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 2
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WHO warns of health risks from 'black rain' in Iran The World Health Organization warned on Tuesday that the "black rain" falling in Iran ​after strikes on oil facilities could cause respiratory β€Œproblems, and it backed Iran’s advisory urging people to...

The World Health Organization warned that the 'black rain' falling in Iran after strikes on oil facilities could cause respiratory β€Œproblems, and it backed Iran’s advisory urging people to remain indoors reut.rs/4s5G7bI

10.03.2026 13:32 πŸ‘ 285 πŸ” 107 πŸ’¬ 9 πŸ“Œ 10

This is horrifying but I hate this "they promised to deport violent criminals" shit fuck off they think this deaf kid is a violent criminal because he's non-white and in the US, that's what violent crime is to them: non-white people existing

Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

10.03.2026 02:22 πŸ‘ 255 πŸ” 65 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 2

Who the fuck is demonizing homeowners? It's landlords we hate

10.03.2026 01:21 πŸ‘ 2188 πŸ” 245 πŸ’¬ 48 πŸ“Œ 10
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Judge disqualifies trio of lawyers tapped to lead New Jersey's federal prosecutor's office A judge on has disqualified a trio of prosecutors the Trump administration tapped to oversee federal prosecutions in New Jersey after his former personal attorney was also barred from the role.

A judge on Monday disqualified three Justice Department officials from overseeing federal prosecutions in New Jersey, saying they were appointed as part of an illegal power grab by the Trump administration
apnews.com/article/new-...

10.03.2026 01:39 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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BREAKING: Two more people have died in ICE detention, per required notification to Congress.
5:01 PM β€’ 3/9/26 β€’ 50K Views

Senate Judiciary Democrats E @JudiciaryDems X.com BREAKING: Two more people have died in ICE detention, per required notification to Congress. 5:01 PM β€’ 3/9/26 β€’ 50K Views

Open extrajudicial murder by the state is the norm now for America

Good luck as the media and the fascist digital estate hyper normalized fascist violence and murder camps without a shot being fired except Into peaceful protestors.

10.03.2026 01:42 πŸ‘ 141 πŸ” 50 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I can't stop my tax dollars from bombing children at the federal level, and at the local level this week my taxes will go to pay a law firm to defend the cop who killed Andrew Washington. cityofjerseycity.civicweb.net/document/448...

10.03.2026 01:39 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

This is your reminder that after you make $184,500, you stop paying into Social Security.

Millionaires hit that cap today.

We are constantly told there's "not enough" money for Social Security.

But we let America's richest people stop paying into it in March.

Scrap the cap.

10.03.2026 01:34 πŸ‘ 191 πŸ” 80 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 1

Everyone in this video at minimum needs to be fired and lose their pension.

08.03.2026 23:59 πŸ‘ 187 πŸ” 17 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Isn’t the thing that his leftist allies want *more* people to be able to own homes

10.03.2026 01:26 πŸ‘ 557 πŸ” 21 πŸ’¬ 26 πŸ“Œ 0

So let's check on how #Florida Gov. Ron DeSastrous' remodeling of the state's higher education system is going...

10.03.2026 01:16 πŸ‘ 17 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Are y'all gonna make it out of this without that shitstorm of a blue ribbon bill. if that passes it's goodbye tree canopy and springs, hello data centers and crap subdivisions

10.03.2026 00:22 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Im so freaking ready for spring

10.03.2026 00:20 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Run on prosecuting war criminals and show ads with the missile hitting the school and show photos of the girls when they were alive. Make it a point to arrest and prosecute Hegseth and go from there. Trump won't protect him. He'll either be dead by then or cashed out.

09.03.2026 22:47 πŸ‘ 941 πŸ” 123 πŸ’¬ 7 πŸ“Œ 5
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Ramadan Revolved Around My Grandma. Bombs Took Her House. Famine Took Her Life. Israel’s genocide in Gaza cut off my grandmother’s access to the nutrients and medications she needed to survive.

This is the first Ramadan when my grandmother's chair is empty because she was martyred during the famine, when medicine became a wish and bread became almost impossible to find.

10.03.2026 00:00 πŸ‘ 103 πŸ” 60 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 1

Parenting a kid with adhd means ordering three copies of envision math workbook every year as back ups.

10.03.2026 00:12 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

If you get into a β€œwho can cut taxes more” battle with the GOP, you’re going to lose because they are far more shameless and antagonistic to the idea of living in a functioning society.

Don’t concede to their framing that taxes are nothing but a problem to be solved.

09.03.2026 18:38 πŸ‘ 2608 πŸ” 490 πŸ’¬ 31 πŸ“Œ 23
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To my Palestinian sister in ICE detention – I will carry you until you are free | Mahmoud Khalil One year ago, ICE arrested me for protesting for Palestine. Leqaa Kordia is still caged – also for daring to speak the truth

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

09.03.2026 22:27 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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ICE locked up a deaf kid without his hearing aidsβ€”and wouldn't let him have them back Rep. Eric Swalwell is working to help the family seek humanitarian parole.

β€œThink about that for a moment: a six-year-old child with a disability suddenly in a different country, separated from the country he has come to know, now surrounded by silence. The horror stories from this White House continue from ICE.”

09.03.2026 22:07 πŸ‘ 499 πŸ” 272 πŸ’¬ 16 πŸ“Œ 16
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BREAKING: Judge Brann has ejected the new leaders of the NJ U.S. attorney's office, once again finding the Trump administration is illegally attempting to circumvent Senate confirmation.

He says this could result in dismissals of indictments.

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

09.03.2026 19:25 πŸ‘ 2737 πŸ” 897 πŸ’¬ 30 πŸ“Œ 26

Imagine the reaction in the US if ~175 schoolgirls had been killed by a targeted Iranian missile. (Or anyone's missile.)

This is an atrocity.

09.03.2026 21:21 πŸ‘ 3289 πŸ” 1007 πŸ’¬ 71 πŸ“Œ 42

The president of these United States just said "people walking around with no legs" and I just can't stand it. Breaking into live news with anything he says is ridiculous.

09.03.2026 22:03 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

For the same $6 trillion cost, you could crush child poverty with a child allowance and free childcare, fix unemployment insurance, do paid family, sick & medical leave, massively boost ACA subsidies, and eliminate child uninsurance with Medicare for Kids.

09.03.2026 18:32 πŸ‘ 2091 πŸ” 448 πŸ’¬ 31 πŸ“Œ 13

Leave it to Colts Neck New Jersey to be the first to want to name a school after the current president.

09.03.2026 21:38 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The lines that are being drawn here are around a binary in which the future of education is either:

a.) Christian nationalist indoctrination with books

or

b.) Christian nationalist indoctrination with chatbots

There is no third way coming from the conservatives or establishment liberals.

09.03.2026 21:15 πŸ‘ 33 πŸ” 8 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 4
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Abolish ICE Means Abolish the Police w/ Mariame Kaba & Andrea Ritchie (03/09/26) | The Death Panel Get more from The Death Panel on Patreon

In our latest, Mariame Kaba @prisonculture.bsky.social & Andrea Ritchie @dreanyc123.bsky.social on how to understand the spectacular violence of Trump’s ICE surges as an extension of the violence of everyday policing, and why to abolish ICE we must abolish the police

www.patreon.com/posts/152641...

09.03.2026 21:09 πŸ‘ 121 πŸ” 58 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 1

Again, for anyone interested in the history of home security systems, I wrote about them in Ch. 3 of Neighborhood of Fear.

09.03.2026 21:29 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Why is there never any mention of businesses, developers, megalandlords taking any hits in budget discussions? Medicaid, school kids, senior homeowners all on the table. Corporate tax breaks, subsidies, loopholes, rates should all be on the table.
www.nj.com/politics/202...

09.03.2026 17:09 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0