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There are no bystanders. You're either part of the problem, or part of the #LoyalOpposition. Come make change with me at loyalopposition.now #WeThePeople (she/her/elle)
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- Oh great, the Apple settlement over the phone "accidentally" listening to your conversations is $20 per device. Yeah, that sure ought to show them & give them so much remorse, over something I've known as a user was obviously happening just based on ad serves.
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- This week, I sent a letter to Sec. Duffy and the FAA demanding answers and a clear timeline for addressing the chaos at Newark Airport. “Trust us, we’re working on it” just doesn’t cut it when it comes to safety and reliability in one of the busiest airspaces in the nation.
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- I'm still getting over that the NYT opinion section has *200 staffers* what do they all do?
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- I was reading up on the history of diphtheria and ran across this interesting fact.
- ⚡️Putin delays ceasefire by snubbing peace talks with Zelensky, Starmer says. "What's happened today is further evidence that it's Putin who is dragging his feet," U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer said.
- do any of these people actually know what medicaid is?
- Hells Librarians🔥 #LibrarySky #ReadToLive
- He is not misinformed. They are lying because they think poor people should be immiserated and die, especially if they are minorities, as part of the natural order of things. The state should not seek to upend what God and nature have willed. That is the conservative project.
- “Poor man wanna be rich. Rich man wanna be king. The king ain’t satisfied ‘til he rules everything.”—Springsteen, Badlands
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- Timothy Snyder, author of On Tyranny (which has been cited infinitely the last few months), is moving to Canada.
- Yesterday was Vyshyvanka Day, the day of Ukrainian embroidered shirts.
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- They are capricious and untethered people. Real bad actors. “It shows the kind of character that they have,” he added of Chan and Zuckerberg. “It really reflects on who they are as people. ”
- The church said it's terminating a decades-long partnership with the federal government to help refugees arriving in the U.S., citing moral opposition to resettling white Afrikaners from South Africa.
- They neglected to mention the surveillance equipment.
- Republicans acknowledge that there is a labor crisis in Wisconsin, but they’ll propose legalizing child labor before providing much needed public funding to save Child Care Counts, which is set to expire in *June 2025*. (1/3)
- NEW INVESTIGATION: A private equity-fueled for-profit chain slashed patient care for years while its executives got rich. So we scraped every malpractice, personal injury, and wrongful death case tied to Steward hospitals. And we found how mothers, newborns, and others paid the ultimate price.
- Texas Bans Being Different Around Children theonion.com/texas-b...
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- 🧵Ok, I rag on Secretary of State Marco Rubio, the nation's top diplomat, for his impeachable conduct on deportations and abandonment of all his prior views. But today he's the one "constantly on the phone" and paying attention to the India-Pakistan crisis. Should we be reassured? Absolutely not. 1/
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View full threadBut enough about his undiplomatic conduct. The India-Pakistan crisis is extremely serious. Leave aside that Rubio has no actual experience conducting shuttle diplomacy or even diplomacy by phone in a shooting war, much less one between two nuclear powers. 4/
- Leave aside that his counterpart at the Pentagon probably doesn't have a clue what the history or stakes of this conflict are, or how to de-escalate it, or why it's Kashmir and not cashmere like the sweater. 5/
- Forget the four posts he's currently holding. Rubio has presided over the end of US diplomacy as we know it. Starting with his trip to Riyadh approximately 100 years ago to "end the war in Ukraine" by giving Russia exactly what it wanted. 2/ goodauthority.org/news/why-hig...
- Then there was accusing Zelensky of "Ukraine-splaining" and alternating between shrinking into the Oval Office couch and frantically asking the teacher to call on him for a full-throated endorsement of cruel and unconstitutional deportation policies. 3/
- one thought i have reading this (great) thread is that the administration has been proceeding as if there is no chance they will ever face a crisis or a sudden challenge, and has destroy its capacity to respond to one should it arise
- She’s out!! They have released Ozturk from ICE custody!
- “The VA is not for sale.” - That was the message from veterans in Washington, DC this week—including our own Marcus Flowers. Politicians trying to gut the VA should know: we’re organized, we’re loud, and we vote.
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- Please remember, there are millions of people who are going about their lives as though everything is normal right now. There are also folks who have no idea that we exist, including groups and organizations who could be great allies. Mobilizing and organizing all of them is a huge undertaking.
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- Be persistent. Alarms have been going off for us since 2022 with the overturning of Roe v Wade, but for many folks, they're just waking up. For others, they HAVE to focus on the next big injustice because they just keep coming. If we want a national civic uprising, we have to work for it.
- Wake up, America It's time to fight back, NOW Generalstrikeus.com
- Stairs inside the Château de La Rochefoucauld in France, designed by Leonardo da Vinci
- A single person could likely make at least a small improvement in our corrupt health insurance system, but, and here’s the catch, they’d have to be on Luigi Mangione’s jury.
- Bottom trawling is horribly destructive to coastal ocean ecosystems, and deep-sea mining will do the same to the open ocean. #OceanFilm 🌊
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- When Roe v. Wade was overturned and abortion became illegal in Alabama, helping people get out of state came with the threat of jail time. The latest from @revealnews.org: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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- A big letdown for Georgia... Rep. Marjorie Taylor Green (R-GA) disappointed Democrats yesterday when she announced she will NOT run for the Georgia Senate seat in 2026. If she had run, it may have handed Democrat incumbent Jon Ossoff an easy victory. www.politico.com/news/2025/05...
- Today is the 111th birthday of Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa race massacre
