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progressive voter, advocate for national single-payer health care
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 19h
This is happening even quicker than I could have foreseen: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Rep. Morgan McGarvey @repmcgarvey.bsky.social · 18h
The future of the Voting Rights Act is on the line.

This isn't just about one state or one map – it’s fair and meaningful representation in our democracy, nationwide.
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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 18h
Good points. And protesting against ICE attacks is not an “uprising,” it’s self defense and defending against violent thugs.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 1d
Dear media,
1/ ICE consistently lies about its violence toward people in Chicago, with its initial accounts later disproven.
2/ When protesters shout at ICE agents to get out of their neighborhood and ICE tear-gasses them and throws them to the ground, that's not a "clash" – that's ICE violence.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 17h
No one in the GOP Hitler chat was a "kid," JD Vance. We checked.

By scanning public records and media reports, Mother Jones determined the ages of eight of the 11 participants in the abhorrent leaked texts from young Republicans that Politico covered on Tuesday: They appear to range from 24 to 35.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 17h
Moments after they shot his 19-year-old daughter, Diana, San Jose police rushed Jim Showman to an interrogation room, isolated him from his ex-wife, and questioned him for 27 minutes before revealing they'd killed her.

California has finally banned the practice.
California cops can no longer conceal police killings while interrogating loved ones for dirt
A Reveal investigation helped spark a crackdown on a disturbing, widespread practice.
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Forward Kentucky @forwardky.bsky.social · 17h
ICYMI ... An interview with Amy McGrath<br/>
An interview with Amy McGrath
She’s ready to fight for Mitch’s seat so she can fight for Kentucky and Kentuckians.
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hms85 @hms85.bsky.social · 16h
The Trump Era Will Test Us. What Are You Willing to Risk? - YES! Magazine Solutions Journalism www.yesmagazine.org/democracy/20...
The Trump Era Will Test Us. What Are You Willing to Risk? - YES! Magazine Solutions Journalism
Discover insightful articles on The Trump Era Will Test Us. What Are You Willing to Risk?. Join us in exploring solutions for a just, sustainable, and compassionate world. #The Trump Era Will Test Us....
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hms85 @hms85.bsky.social · 1d
US Consumers Paying the Most for Tariffs: Wall Street Giant’s Report Exposes Trump Lies www.commondreams.org/news/trump-t...
US Consumers Paying the Most for Tariffs: Wall Street Giant’s Report Exposes Trump Lies | Common Dreams
New research from Goldman Sachs reveals US consumers bear 55% of Trump's trade war costs, despite claims tariffs are paid by foreigners.
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 2d
French PM offers to freeze Macron’s pension reform until 2027 on.ft.com/46O4na8
French PM offers to freeze Macron’s pension reform until 2027
Sébastien Lecornu hopes concession will suffice to secure left’s support
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Casey Seiler @caseyseiler.bsky.social · 2d
Because the Times Union gets the bulk of its national and international wire coverage from @apnews.com, I'm supportive of its decision to (my characterization) tell the Pentagon press office to go pound sand.
New York Times, AP, Newsmax among news outlets who say they won't sign new Pentagon rules
The New York Times, The Associated Press and the conservative television network Newsmax are among five outlets on Monday who say they won't sign a new Defense Department document about its new press....
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 2d
Ugly laws: The blueprint for Trump’s anti-homeless crusade
Ugly laws: The blueprint for Trump’s anti-homeless crusade
DC’s crackdown is just the latest in a long war on being poor and disabled in public.
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hms85 @hms85.bsky.social · 2d
Trump Is Now Begging Dem Leaders to Let Him Send in National Guard newrepublic.com/post/201731/... via @newrepublic.com
Trump Is Now Begging Dem Leaders to Let Him Send in National Guard
Donald Trump pleaded for governors to “beg” him for help.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 3d
The human costs of Trump's war on government
The human costs of Trump's war on government
For many disabled workers, federal jobs were decent, human, and accommodating: everything the president hates.
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hms85 @hms85.bsky.social · 3d
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hms85 @hms85.bsky.social · 8d
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More Than Half of ACA Marketplace Enrollees Live in Republican Congressional Districts
Since the enhanced premium tax credits became available in 2021, ACA Marketplace enrollment has increased significantly in some red states, and 57% of enrollees now live in Republican congressional di...
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 9d
For years, a tiny contingent of fringe therapists has been fighting to overturn laws banning conversion therapy.

Now, those therapists—and their powerful allies in the conservative Christian legal movement—are on the verge of success.
SCOTUS wades back into the war on trans kids—and considers greenlighting conversion therapy
The science is in: The anti-LGBTQ "treatments" are ineffective and dangerous.
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Edward Luce @edwardluce.bsky.social · 9d
"None — repeat none — of America’s fentanyl has been found to originate from Venezuela. Yet Trump and Pete Hegseth, his compulsively strutting “secretary of war”, insist that the country is fuelling America’s opioid epidemic." Me on Trump's wag the dog script. www.ft.com/content/5b3e...
Venezuela is Trump’s useful enemy
Despite the president’s claims, the South American country is nowhere close to being the US’s biggest drug supplier
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 9d
France’s political crisis leaves budget plans in disarray on.ft.com/3VVRrbZ
France’s political crisis leaves budget plans in disarray
Spending can be rolled over but this would prevent measures to tackle France’s worrying public deficit
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hms85 @hms85.bsky.social · 9d
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Top Five Ways That H.R. 1 Hurts the American People - Economic Security Project
1. Gives tax breaks to the ultra-rich while raising prices and cutting essentials for working- and middle-class people. 2. Prices millions of Americans out of healthcare and food security by gutting M...
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hms85 @hms85.bsky.social · 10d
As well as McGrath, "state Rep. Pamela Stevenson, attorney and former Secret Service agent Logan Forsythe and Joel Willett, ex-CIA and military officer, will face off in the Dem primary. Barr, former KY Attorney General Daniel Cameron and businessperson Nate Morris will face off in the GOP primary."
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Politico @politico.com · 10d
Amy McGrath has announced a second bid for Mitch McConnell’s Senate seat.
McGrath announces second bid for McConnell’s Senate seat
The retired fighter pilot said she is “battle-tested and ready to fight.”
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Politico @politico.com · 10d
Amy McGrath has announced a second bid for Mitch McConnell’s Senate seat.
McGrath announces second bid for McConnell’s Senate seat
The retired fighter pilot said she is “battle-tested and ready to fight.”
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Politico @politico.com · 10d
Mike Johnson has rebuffed Hakeem Jeffries’ request for a live shutdown debate.
Mike Johnson rebuffs Hakeem Jeffries' request for a live shutdown debate
The top House Democrat said a floor exchange would "provide the American people with the transparency they deserve."
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Stephanie Mencimer @smencimer.bsky.social · 10d
The Trump BLM just sold 17,000 acres of land for oil and gas leasing in Utah to a company called Bro Energy. Some of that land is around the White River, which feeds into the Colorado. Biden had halted oil drilling there but now it's back on the table. www.motherjones.com/environment/...
The Colorado provides drinking water to 40 million people. Do they know what Utah does to it upstream?
I went to Mordor to find out.
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hms85 @hms85.bsky.social · 10d
One hates to doubt the word of Speaker Johnson, but he can be countermanded by you know who.
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Politico @politico.com · 10d
Mike Johnson has given "assurance" to the top Senate Dem that he’ll move government funding bills.

But the speaker has also said Democrats must first vote to end the shutdown.
Johnson gives ‘assurance’ to top Senate Dem he'll move government funding bills
But the speaker says Democrats must first vote to end the shutdown.
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Politico @politico.com · 10d
Mike Johnson has given "assurance" to the top Senate Dem that he’ll move government funding bills.

But the speaker has also said Democrats must first vote to end the shutdown.
Johnson gives ‘assurance’ to top Senate Dem he'll move government funding bills
But the speaker says Democrats must first vote to end the shutdown.
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