Maksym Butkevych, the Ukrainian human rights activist, was held in Russian captivity for more than two years. I had the pleasure of listening to his thoughts about freedom a couple of times recently.
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Read this headline.
Now read it again.
Now read it again.
You are not alarmed enough.
It is later than you think. 🇺🇸
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And let’s be honest about the bigger picture. Republican billionaires are running our government right now, and I am not just talking about Trump.
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Until Citizens United is overturned, this is the reality we’re operating in. It’s not a level playing field.
Yes, it feels gross to see candidates take big money or gets assets from pacs. But if that’s your redline, know the disadvantage our side has. Pretending they can compete is a fantasy.
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Senator Tuberville on x writing a response to the @endwokeness account Original tweet from @EndWokeness - “less than 25 years apart” Image 1 - the twin towers as they are hit by a the planes on 9/11/2001 Image 2 - Mayor Mamdani sitting on a prayer rug while hosting an Iftar at city hall Quote tweet from Senator Tuberville - “the enemy is inside the gates.”
Let there be as much outrage from politicians in Washington when kids go hungry as there is when I break bread with New Yorkers.
A Democrat has won the mayor's seat in Boca Raton... by one vote:
I read the “Save America Act,” so you don’t have to. Most of the media apparently *hasn’t* read it because, if they had, they would be sounding the alarm about the provision in Point 1, below, which almost none of them have even mentioned. I hope this summary helps raise awareness. 1/
The SAVE Act would require voters to show a passport or birth certificate to register to vote, but 21 million American citizens don’t have those documents readily available. Tell your senators to stop this attack on the freedom to vote: bit.ly/4srDVLB
Only American citizens vote, with vanishingly rare exceptions. Tell your senators to stop the SAVE Act — an attack on the freedom to vote: bit.ly/4srDVLB
NEW: Boasberg blocks subpoenas in Powell’s case. "A mountain of evidence suggests that the Government served these subpoenas on the Board to pressure its Chair into voting for lower interest rates or resigning.” www.nbcnews.com/business/eco...
A group of five Senate Democrats — Murphy, Cory Booker (NJ), Tim Kaine (VA), Adam Schiff (CA), Tammy Baldwin (WI), and Tammy Duckworth (IL) — announced they will use every procedural tool available to grind the Senate to a halt.
ICYMI — Live Nation employees boasted about “robbing fans blind” 👇🏽🤔
Trump then stepped in and reached a “baffling settlement” with Live Nation, letting them keep their monopoly.
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“The law was created to benefit white children. It never had anything to do with school choice. It was always a transfer of wealth to white families.”
If this is enacted, Florida will be sued.
"Florida lawmakers are poised to approve sweeping new restrictions that would require voters to prove their citizenship status, as well as remove student ID as an acceptable form of voter identification." www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
This is really really bad
To everyone who wants to vilify trans people: Trans people aren’t raising your rents or driving up your costs.
To every trans person: We see you, we love you, you belong here, and you deserve to be who you are.
Two AMAZING dark skinned Black women rocking natural hair textures on Bloomberg Businessweek Radio like woooooooowwww
Today I joined my friend and reporter Norah Mulinda LIVE IN STUDIO with @bloomberg.com Businessweek, and this specific shot makes me emotional: two dark-skinned Black women in 'fros, talking economics, on national TV. A historic moment. 😭
Watch our interview here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifIZ...
Amid Trump's continued efforts to weaponize the justice system and punish his political enemies, top DOJ officials are reportedly ramping up the pressure to criminally charge former CIA Director John Brennan.
Authorship of the April 12 draft is difficult to pin down, but several figures connected to the election- denial movement say they had a hand in shaping it. A key figure is Juan O. Savin, the nom de plume of Wayne Willott, a private investigator turned QAnon influencer who has cultivated a significant following in far-right conspiracy circles. Savin is perhaps best known among QAnon followers as the subject of a theory that he is actually John F. Kennedy Jr.— who died in a plane crash in 1999-living under an assumed identity. Beyond his QAnon celebrity, however, Savin has formed notable political connections: In 2021, he co-founded the America First Secretary of State Coalition, which worked to place election-denying candidates in charge of state elections in key swing states. The coalition received significant funding from The America Project, the organization co- founded by Flynn and Byrne. In a recent appearance on the right-wing program Nino's Corner, Savin said he reviewed an early version of the executive order during Trump's re-election campaign in the summer of 2024. Finding that version "inadequate," he assembled a coalition of "legal minds" and "election experts" to formulate a new version of the proposed order. According to Savin, the group met for several days in Washington, D.C. shortly after the inauguration. Over the following months, he said, the coalition produced approximately 13 drafts before arriving at the 17-page version circulated that spring. The page count may not be coincidental: Within QAnon lore, the number 17 carries symbolic meaning, because "Q" is the 17th letter of the alphabet, and believers often treat the number as a coded signal.
A key figure is "Juan O. Savin," AKA Wayne Willott, a QAnon influencer who is the subject of a conspiracy theory that he is actually JFK Jr. living under an assumed identity.
Savin has said he convened a coalition of legal minds and election experts to draft the 17-page proposed executive order.
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NEW: The Pentagon spent $93B on bullshit but we had to kick kids off SNAP. Nazi Jeremy Carl has withdrawn from his nomination to the State Department because republicans won't even vote for him. And dems are 28 - 0 in elections. Award-winning news with swearing: the-daily-beans.simplecast.com
"Some 1,700 Kansans had their driver’s licenses invalidated last month. It wasn’t for racking up speeding tickets or a DUI charge, but because they are transgender."
The SAVE Act would require American citizens to show documents like a passport or birth certificate to register to vote. Our research shows that more than 21 million Americans lack ready access to those documents. bit.ly/4rA2p4R
PAPER PLANET: “While Trump gutted food stamps for the poor and disabled, Hegseth ran up the largest single-month bill in history… $93.4 Billion in September… $6.9 million on lobster tails… they told you there’s no money for health care, there’s plenty.”
Tennessee Conservative News: “Lamberth & Jack Johnson’s bill has a clear intent — to incarcerate more children in hardwire secure facilities without protecting their due process rights. The fiscal note of $10 million a year confirms it.”
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Thrilled to see my terrific colleague @bethlewwilliams.bsky.social won the Bancroft. So well deserved.
Check out the book here: www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...
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