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Minka @minkab.bsky.social · 1h

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SCOTUS Seems Ready to Scrap Fair Elections, Greenlight Racial Discrimination and Hand House Control to GOP

Read more here.

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Minka @minkab.bsky.social · 1h

🤣🤣😂😂😆😆

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House Speaker Mike Johnson calls Portland naked bike ride ‘most threatening thing I’ve seen yet’

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Minka @minkab.bsky.social · 2h

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Trump cancelled grants for flood prevention for Alaska floods months before devastating flooding.

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Minka @minkab.bsky.social · 2h

This is disgraceful. Indigenous peoples were here first. This was their land. To characterize this fact as “woke” is hideous and completely false.

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Texas Land Commissioner Buckingham rejects Alamo's recognition of Indigenous Peoples Day

In a social media post that's been deleted, the Alamo said on Monday that they honor Indigenous Peoples and their communities.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5h

Mamdani: "I just want to speak directly to the president. I will not be a mayor like Mayor Adams who will call you to stay out of jail. I won't be a disgraced governor like Andrew Cuomo who will call you to ask how to win this election. I can do those things on my own."

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[email protected] @blueangie.bsky.social · 2h

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Cantwell demands investigation into DHS Secretary Noem's partisan airport video

WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Senator Maria Cantwell demanded Wednesday that federal investigators examine whether Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem violated federal law by distributing a partisan vid...

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Minka @minkab.bsky.social · 2h

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BREAKING: No Kings Day now set to be largest protest in American history.

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Minka @minkab.bsky.social · 2h

💙💙💙🐸🐸🐸❌❌❌👑👑👑

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Frogs lead the protest of Ice in Portland. Kermit comes out as leader. #antifacist #frog #freespeech

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 5h

tfw your 1,000-word tweets aren't working

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Minka @minkab.bsky.social · 3h

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Journalists turn in access badges, exit Pentagon rather than agree to new reporting rules

Journalists at the Pentagon turned in access badges and cleaned out their workspaces on Wednesday, the price for refusing to agree to new restrictions on their jobs at the seat of U.S. military power.

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Minka @minkab.bsky.social · 4h

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Minka @minkab.bsky.social · 4h

An amazing conversation!

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Is Trump Planning a Military Takeover? | Professor David Noll

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Minka @minkab.bsky.social · 6h

Awesome!!! Here’s mine!!

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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 6h

There's always been a fight over the true story of America. I believe deeply in the story that says we’re all created equal, and that if we can treat each other with decency and respect, all of us will be better off.

I talk about this and more on the final episode of WTF with Marc Maron. Watch now:

My Conversation with Marc Maron | WTF Podcast

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 8h

We got $20 billion for Argentina though.

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Minka @minkab.bsky.social · 6h

US judge says she will likely block Trump's mass layoffs during government shutdown - www.reuters.com/world/us-jud...

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Minka @minkab.bsky.social · 6h

“You never kissed the orange ass.” 🤣😂

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"Did You Ever Know That You're My Frodo?" - Bette Midler Serenades Stephen Colbert

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Minka @minkab.bsky.social · 9h

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NEWS: Australia high court bars Candace Owen’s from entering nation.

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Minka @minkab.bsky.social · 9h

Yeah, right. 😡😡

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Brennan Center @brennancenter.org · 10h

Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act "has had a major impact on improving political representation opportunities for voters in communities of color and all around the country," says @kareemcrayton.bsky.social.

Future of Voting Rights Act hangs in the balance as Louisiana's congressional map returns to Supreme Court

The Supreme Court will convene on Wednesday to hear a legal battle over Louisiana's congressional map that could reverberate across the country.

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 1d

An honor to receive the endorsement of
of nearly a dozen Black clergy leaders in Crown Heights today, including Bishop Orlando Findlayter.

I’m grateful for their support, and this powerful and humbling prayer.

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Governor Gavin Newsom @governor.ca.gov · 9h

The American people deserve a public health system that puts science before politics.

That's why California and 14 other governors are joining forces to launch the Governors Public Health Alliance to protect communities and guarantee decisions are rooted in data and health.