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Thanks for sharing with us @attorneybencrump.bsky.social - crucially important to have the Black Press telling the truth!
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This 1964 photo of the Starship Enterprise studio model used in filming Star Trek was taken outside the production model shop in Burbank, California. It was commissioned by Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry, a Texan who was born in El Paso in 1921.
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Thanks for sharing your brilliant idea @drharmony.net !
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Someone give Lex $2 million so they can launch a politics version of Teen Vogue. Do it now. No strings attached.
Argh! Here we go again with “establishment” news - so sorry @leximcmenamin.com - keep us posted on your next moves!

@erininthemorning.com please take note too!
I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day.

certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
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Fund SNAP. Reverse the Medicaid cuts. Restore USAID.

(image cia @peppapaxpippa.bsky.social)
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🖋️ “Breadlines and Bombs: Trump’s Golden Palace and His Unauthorized Wars” hit 500 signers!

💬 Text SIGN PWBLBA to 50409
Breadlines and Bombs: Trump’s Golden Palace and His Unauthorized Wars
Text SIGN PWBLBA to 50409 — America now lives in a split-screen reality — breadlines on one side, bombs on the other. While millions of families brace for the loss of food aid, while federal workers go unpaid, while SNAP benefits expire in defiance of a court order, Donald J. Trump celebrates his new $300 million White House ballroom, a palace built on the rubble of the demolished East Wing. At his gold-rimmed, Gatsby-themed feast, 130 of the nation’s wealthiest donors dined on beef Wellington and butterscotch ice cream while children faced empty refrigerators. Judges have ordered the administration to use funds Congress provided to prevent hunger, and the White House simply refuses. At the same time, Trump has ordered the Pentagon to prepare for “guns-a-blazing” action in Nigeria and has authorized at least fifteen lethal strikes across the Caribbean and eastern Pacific — without congressional approval. Sixty-four people are already dead. The administration insists these are not “hostilities,” because our drones kill from a distance. That is a grotesque abuse of language and of power. The 1973 War Powers Resolution exists to prevent precisely this — a president dragging the country into war without the consent of the governed. The founders placed the power to declare war in Congress for a reason. When one man decides who lives and dies, and does so while turning the People’s House into a personal palace, the Republic itself is in danger. History will remember this moment: a president demolishing the East Wing while demolishing the separation of powers. The gold-plated opulence of Mar-a-Lago and the Great Gatsby galas are not symbols of strength; they are warnings of rot. Congress must act — immediately — to stop these unauthorized wars, to enforce the War Powers Act, to investigate the use of lethal force without oversight, and to restore funding for the programs that feed our people. The American experiment will not survive rule by a man who sees himself as king. Save the country from the mad king Trump — while there is still a country left to save.
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I don't resent poor people who use food stamps to buy another soft drink.

I resent rich people who take away the funds for food stamps to buy another yacht.
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The failure of the Democratic Party will be…
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If you want clear and accurate info to understand what is happening in Sudan, and how you can help stop this genocide, here is the piece that will provide you that clarity.

This is a guest piece by Sudanese-American attorney Mo Seifeldein. Please read & share.
www.qasimrashid.com/p/sudan-isnt...
Sudan Isn’t a Civil War. It’s an Empire-Fueled Genocide.
A guest post by Mo Seifeldein, a Sudanese-American refugee and attorney
www.qasimrashid.com
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Trump could easily release SNAP funding, but had to be taken to court. He must immediately release the contingency funding instead of forcing Americans to go hungry since he refuses to negotiate and open the government.
Sign this petition - let’s get a vote to release the Epstein Files!
If Democrats go “Republican Lite” they will have lost their souls & many of their voters!

#shameful

“It’s a vision of politics that would turn Democrats into little more than Republican Lite—a “big tent” party spacious enough for those who despise us but not for those who most need protection.”
Lisa (@javalibrarian)
If the Democrats go “Republican Lite” they will have lost more than their souls - they will have lost many of their voters! #shameful “It’s a vision of politics that would turn Democrats into little...
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I’m just going to say it…

It’s pretty damn validating to hear Barack Obama say the same things we’ve been shouting for months, and longer.
The Republicans are still being paid for doing no work, and have the hubris to use food & healthcare to hurt millions of Americans - which includes many of their constituents.
Remember this next week when you vote!!
@neguse.house.gov
Thank you, for the FACTS!
I agree, I’m offended & appalled by the Trump administration & his Republican colleagues.
If the average citizen had been AWOL from their job, for 6 weeks, they would have been fired long ago!
Thank you Congressman Neguse for laying it plain.
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CBS News has reportedly disbanded its race and culture unit, which was formed in the wake of George Floyd's murder in 2020

NBC News eliminated its editorial teams for NBC Asian America, NBC BLK, NBC Latino and NBC OUT earlier this month
CBS News Cuts ‘Evening News,’ ‘Mornings’ Streaming Shows in Newsroom-Wide Layoffs
The newsroom downsizing comes as Paramount Skydance lays off 1,000 employees throughout the newly merged company
www.thewrap.com
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Portland dance group offers free Latin dance lessons at ICE facility 💃🏽
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@tressiemcphd.bsky.social writes: " They know that “working class” has become a powerful political totem of its own — a discursive sleight of hand used to separate out white voters’ concerns as more legitimate, more materially grounded, more important than other voters’ concerns."
Opinion | A Nazi Tattoo Exposes Democrats’ Greatest Weakness
www.nytimes.com