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I never know what to write in these profiles. Interests too numerous to mention. Love to laugh (who doesn’t) and find it more elusive than it used to be. Love democracy.

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3 wounded in shooting in Camino, California.

14.03.2026 01:00 👍 10 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1
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Tom Nichols: We're being governed by a bunch of juveniles who think war is some kind of fist-pumping video game. I can tell you taught hundreds of military officers over the years, they take this business a lot more seriously. This isn't just B-roll footage from a bad movie.

13.03.2026 23:56 👍 494 🔁 105 💬 8 📌 2

Sweeping guilty verdicts in the federal Prairieland antifa cases. These cases were an effort by the Trump admin to prosecute anti-fascists as terrorists and further, prosecute dissent. This Texas trial was a test of his power. He won. This laid out the case and stakes: www.ms.now/news/antifa-...

13.03.2026 21:04 👍 298 🔁 173 💬 17 📌 16
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Dark money group offers influencers $1,500 for posts attacking Chicago Democratic primary candidate Progressive House candidate Kat Abughazaleh told MS NOW the secretive campaign is “filled with false and defamatory claims.”

So this is a wild story but more common than it should be because of lax rules around dark money, experts tell me. Please read it! And if you know anything about Democracy Unmuted, holler at me! www.ms.now/news/kat-abu...

13.03.2026 14:58 👍 901 🔁 189 💬 16 📌 7
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Lula Bans Trump Envoy w/ Neo-Nazi Ties from Entering Brasil Today, Brazilian President Lula announced that he was banning Trump envoy Dennis Beattie from entering Brasil.

Lula tells Trump he won’t allow a Neo-Nazi envoy in Brasil!

Its top headline story in Brasil.

No one in US is talking about it

13.03.2026 23:36 👍 123 🔁 51 💬 1 📌 1
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The money will go into a secret account in Qatar, never to be seen again.
www.wsj.com/tech/tiktok-...

13.03.2026 22:14 👍 1711 🔁 764 💬 176 📌 64
Malcolm X  Front Page Challenge Jan  5, 1965     YouTube
Malcolm X Front Page Challenge Jan 5, 1965 YouTube YouTube video by Jon Stray

Just three weeks before he was assassinated Malcom X appeared on a Canadian game show. It is incredible footage. It reveals how Canadian media saw Malcom X as compared to how he was treated in the United States.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqmy...

14.03.2026 00:06 👍 294 🔁 94 💬 18 📌 10

Corporate media like the Washington Post see their subscribers as consumers. Democracy Docket sees them as a part of a pro-democracy community.

Subscribing to DD is always free. Membership is $10mo. No algorithms. No games. Just the info you need. bit.ly/4qmEiFz

14.03.2026 01:06 👍 851 🔁 255 💬 38 📌 8
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For many Black women, the Target boycott is not over. It may never be. A faith leader announced the end of a yearlong “Target fast,” but many Black women who helped launch the boycott say the movement wasn’t his to call off.

We spoke to Black women who started the Target boycott & who sustained it for a yr+. They'll likely never go back.

Teacher Laverne Mickens put it like this: “[Black women] will say if & when it’s over. And I can tell you right now: That will be the 15th of never ever.”
19thnews.org/2026/03/targ...

13.03.2026 17:14 👍 2774 🔁 821 💬 117 📌 118

Five USAF refuelling planes were hit on the ground at Prince Sultan air base, Saudi Arabia. (WSJ)

13.03.2026 23:52 👍 178 🔁 58 💬 10 📌 11
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No Kings Minnetonka-Southwest Metro · Mobilize **We have the power and are claiming it together. No Thrones. No Crowns. No Kings.** What began in 2025 as a single day of defiance has become a sustained national resistance to tyranny, spreading fr...

We are not afraid. We were not afraid in Minnetonka, Minnesota for No Kings 1 in June 2025 when there had been an assassination spree just across town that morning, and we are not afraid now. Come join @indivisiblemn03.org in being fearless in public.
www.mobilize.us/mobilize/eve...

14.03.2026 00:12 👍 6 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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The regime wants us to be afraid, but We the People are undaunted and unwilling to be silenced. We hope to see you in the streets on March 28 for the next No Kings Day: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i...

13.03.2026 23:42 👍 454 🔁 163 💬 10 📌 6
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Five Air Force Refueling Planes Hit in Iranian Strike on Saudi Arabia Five U.S. Air Force refueling planes were struck and damaged on the ground at Prince Sultan air base in Saudi Arabia, according to two U.S. officials. The tankers were hit during an Iranian missile st...

Somehow I don't think this was part of the "Venezuela Model" POTUS had in mind for Iran.

www.wsj.com/livecoverage...

13.03.2026 23:42 👍 373 🔁 148 💬 24 📌 19
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Trump fundraising email uses photo from soldiers’ dignified transfer and promises ‘private national security briefings’ | CNN Politics A political fundraising email from President Donald Trump’s political action committee has a provocative pitch.

And for a fee, people can join an exclusive group to be able to view Trump's Daily Security Briefings.

Trump's absolute immunity gift from John Roberts has created a massive national security threat for the whole country, if not the whole world.

14.03.2026 00:17 👍 3 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 0
A circular enamel pin with a black border reading 'I LOVE MY TRANS FRIENDS' surrounding the blue, pink, and white transgender pride flag.

A circular enamel pin with a black border reading 'I LOVE MY TRANS FRIENDS' surrounding the blue, pink, and white transgender pride flag.

The government seems hell-bent on making life miserable for a very small and very harmless portion of the population, so today's Low Quality Ad is for this I Love My Trans Friends pin. Just be nice to people. It's not hard. It is actually very easy.
collabs.shop/6b7tgy

12.03.2026 15:38 👍 396 🔁 89 💬 9 📌 0

Can anyone explain how this is not a quid-pro-quo bribe?

Especially since US law demanded the transfer of TikTok’s US operations as the one way to avoid a ban.

Big donors to the president got the company as the govt forced the sale, and he gets $10 billion.

If not a bribe, why so bribe-shaped?

14.03.2026 00:19 👍 958 🔁 335 💬 45 📌 11

The term unconditional surrender literally defines itself

13.03.2026 23:12 👍 145 🔁 18 💬 9 📌 1
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Russian propagandists are fantasizing about a revolution and the breakup of the United States.

They claim the country could split into separate states with different languages.

10.03.2026 11:18 👍 285 🔁 98 💬 39 📌 16
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DOGE Deposition Videos Taken Down After Judge Order and Widespread Mockery The government asked a judge to stop the spread of the videos on YouTube. The judge agreed, and ordered their immediate removal.

Breaking: the DOGE deposition videos have been taken off YouTube. On Friday the government asked a judge to intervene, said the videos could cause reputational damage, death threats. Judge agreed, ordered them removed: www.404media.co/doge-deposit...

14.03.2026 00:22 👍 2319 🔁 1011 💬 253 📌 421

So Putin is helping Iran kill American troops, Trump continues to play hardball with Zelensky. Zelensky is helping Trump. Trump is lifting sanctions on Putin.

13.03.2026 23:26 👍 8 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0
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Israel planning massive ground invasion of Lebanon, officials say "We are going to do what we did in Gaza," said a senior Israeli official.

Israel planning massive ground invasion of Lebanon

14.03.2026 00:24 👍 72 🔁 41 💬 7 📌 12
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CNN at the site of an Israeli strike in Lebanon that killed 9 people, including 5 children:

"We're told it was a yogurt factory by the neighbors here."

"The children's bodies, we're told, are in pieces and are going to take a while to identify the DNA so that they can actually do a burial."

13.03.2026 23:57 👍 466 🔁 245 💬 13 📌 29
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White House mulls defunding civil rights election observer program that aims to protect minority voting rights, sources say The federal observer program sends neutral observers to monitor election sites to ensure voters don't experience discrimination at the polls.

The White House is considering ending funding for a longtime civil rights election program aimed at protecting the rights of minority populations to vote.

The program sends neutral, third-party observers to monitor election sites to ensure voters don't experience discrimination at the polls.

13.03.2026 23:55 👍 464 🔁 283 💬 25 📌 22

A "great honor" to kill someone?
The last hope of decency has been thrown on the trash heap. I have NEVER been more ashamed of or for my country.
We MUST oust this regime or go down in history as just another nation brought down by greed and evil.

13.03.2026 21:49 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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TRUMP: “When (the war) is over the economy will bounce right back.”

KILMEADE: “When are you gonna know when it’s over?”

TRUMP: “When I feel it in my bones.” 🤔 🤷🏼

13.03.2026 17:49 👍 582 🔁 220 💬 153 📌 74
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Trump says white South Africans are persecuted; some are returning to a better life — Reuters Andrew Veitch left South Africa after being held up at gunpoint in his car. But now he feels there are greater threats in the United States, ​he said, citing mass shootings in public places as well as...

South African immigrants to the US are returning to South Africa because the US does not feel safe, citing school shooters and ICE raids. apple.news/A9pQEUbPrT_W...

13.03.2026 16:50 👍 2201 🔁 641 💬 111 📌 375
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Pentagon Is Moving Additional Marines, Warships to the Middle East The Pentagon is moving additional Marines and warships to the Middle East as Iran steps up its attacks on the Strait of Hormuz, according to three U.S. officials. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ap...

Trump does not have the authority to start a war in Iran. And yet, he’s moving in the direction of committing ground troops.

If Republicans in Congress do not want to serve their constituents or their constitutional duty, they should just resign.

13.03.2026 17:51 👍 2300 🔁 741 💬 165 📌 48
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ICE buys Salt Lake City warehouse The sale came nearly two months after rumors surfaced that the agency tried to acquire a different property in the area.

ICE just paid over $145 million for an 835,000-square foot warehouse near the Salt Lake City airport.

The mayor’s spokesperson said she “has made it clear that this kind of facility has no place in Salt Lake City.”

www.sltrib.com/news/2026/03...

13.03.2026 01:13 👍 302 🔁 160 💬 20 📌 8