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Tell me how we're fighting back-- show me some examples-- I will spread the word as best I can.

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"The movement has more allies than it realizes, and harnessing them could reshape its strategic horizon."
jacobin.com/2025/12/orga...
Labor Isn’t a Special Interest. It Promotes the Common Good.
Decades of data shows that nonworkers, including retirees and students, make up one of labor’s most consistently pro-union constituencies. The movement has more allies than it realizes, and harnessing...
jacobin.com
December 13, 2025 at 10:24 PM
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Watch attempts to use the horrific mass shooting in Australia as “proof” that gun safety laws don’t work

Bondi is Australia’s first deadly mass shooting in 3 years

Brown is USA’s first deadly mass shooting in 3 days

And the 15th deadly & 389th overall mass shooting of 2025

There is no comparison
December 14, 2025 at 11:31 AM
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Extraordinary courage from Ahmed al Ahmed, a Muslim, 43-year-old father of two, who bravely risked his life to save his neighbors celebrating Hanukkah.

Praying for his full & speedy recovery.

And so deeply inspired by his example.
WATCH: Bystander disarms active shooter at Bondi Beach in Sydney
December 14, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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This x 1,000,000
December 14, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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12 dead at a mass shooting at a Hanukkah celebration at Bondi Beach.💔

A 43-year-old father of two, Ahmed al Ahmed, snuck up & tackled a gunman to disarm him. Ahmed was shot twice.

Both Jewish & Muslim faiths teach that “to save one life is to save all humanity.” Let us hold fast to our humanity.❤️
December 14, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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Australian news reporting that the hero bystander here is named Ahmed al Ahmed. Muslim, father of two.
WATCH: Bystander disarms active shooter at Bondi Beach in Sydney
December 14, 2025 at 1:25 PM
In Minneapolis
Masked men wearing ICE vests—but who refused to present a warrant or identify themselves—roped off a construction site, trapping two men on a roof for hours in subzero temps. Protesters gathered. Masked men eventually left, and one man on the roof was taken away by ambulance kstp.com/kstp-news/to...
December 14, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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December 14, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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My position on taking action. And on the important space between everything and nothing.
December 13, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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Van Hollen: "Courts have rejected many of the admin's representations, including in the Abrego Garcia case. Trump puts out lies on social media but when they get to court judges are saying, 'What you're telling the public is just untrue.' We've seen DOJ lawyers be fired bc they didn't want to lie"
December 13, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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Thousands march in Budapest demanding Orbán’s resignation over juvenile abuse scandal
Thousands march in Budapest demanding Orbán’s resignation over juvenile abuse scandal
Tens of thousands of Hungarians braved the winter chill on Saturday, marching through the streets ...
eualive.net
December 14, 2025 at 7:05 AM
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Richest 0.001% Now Own Three Times More Wealth Than Poorest Half of Humanity Combined www.commondreams.org/news/world-i...
Richest 0.001% Now Own Three Times More Wealth Than Poorest Half of Humanity Combined | Common Dreams
A landmark report on global inequality shows that the chasm between the richest slice of humanity and everyone else continued to expand this year
www.commondreams.org
December 13, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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"The global wealth gap has become so staggering, and its impact on economies and democratic institutions so corrosive, that policymakers should treat it as an emergency."
Richest 0.001% Now Own Three Times More Wealth Than Poorest Half of Humanity Combined | Common Dreams
A landmark report on global inequality shows that the chasm between the richest slice of humanity and everyone else continued to expand this year
www.commondreams.org
December 13, 2025 at 11:44 PM
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The appropriations measure that ended the shutdown in November says explicitly that none of the spending can be used to carry out reductions in force. This is mostly canceling unfilled positions, but cutting the regional offices would seem to conflict with the appropriations ban.
VA plans to abruptly eliminate tens of thousands of health care jobs
Strains on the Veterans Affairs system could grow with the elimination of as many as 35,000 mostly unfilled health care positions, including doctors and nurses.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 14, 2025 at 6:22 AM
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"[S]ocial movements [..] scored notable victories in 2025."

"[H]ere are 15 wins from this year to celebrate and draw inspiration from as we head into the year ahead."
#Canada #Gaza #Palestine #Forests #Mining #FossilFuels #Climate #Protest #Housing #Labour #Transportation #Genocide #Education
15 movement victories in 2025 you may not have heard about
From recognition of a Palestinian state, to tenant strikes, to a Youth Climate Corps, here are some of the political achievements of the past year.
breachmedia.ca
December 13, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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Kilmar Abrego Garcia: "I stand before you as a free man, and I want you to remember me this way."

"A federal judge has issued an order forbidding immigration officials from re-detaining Kilmar Abrego Garcia."
#Maryland #USA #ElSalvador #Incarceration #Deportation #EthnicCleansing
Judge Bars Trump Admin From Re-Detaining Abrego Garcia After Release
"I stand before you as a free man, and I want you to remember me this way," Abrego Garcia said.
truthout.org
December 13, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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Osei Bonsu "is caught between two governments: one that once tortured him and another that could still send him back."

"Ghana has effectively become a conveyor belt for U.S. deportations."
#USA #Ghana #Deportation #EthnicCleansing #Torture
Fear, Flights, and Forced Returns: How a U.S.–Ghana Deportation Pact Is Reshaping Lives
Ghanaians at home and abroad are navigating hope and an uneasy partnership between Washington and Accra.
capitalbnews.org
December 13, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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The irony is chilling: a man who exposed a concentration camp is now imprisoned in one himself. If Guan Heng is sent back to China, there's no doubt he will be imprisoned for a very long time or worse. Hopefully, he has a good asylum lawyer.🤞
In late 2020 a Chinese man called Guan Heng travelled to Xinjiang with our BuzzFeed map of detention facilities to provide ground truth for our work - he provided the first corroborating evidence for many sites.

He escaped to the US - then ICE detained him.

www.wsj.com/world/china/...
ICE Holding Chinese Man Who Documented Uyghur Camps
Heng Guan is awaiting an immigration hearing on Monday that could lead to his removal from the U.S. and ultimately land him back in China, according to his lawyer and a New York-based activist group.
www.wsj.com
December 14, 2025 at 5:28 AM
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The White House continues to make our work harder. They’ve:

✂️ Cut funding for transportation and education
👎 Effectively told families in poverty “you’re on your own”
❌ Presided over the longest government shutdown in history
🚨 Failed to act after Western Maryland was hit by a devastating storm.
December 13, 2025 at 2:33 AM
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😲 They’re going to destroy VA healthcare so they can privatize it.

wapo.st/4q4Lx58
VA plans to abruptly eliminate tens of thousands of health care jobs
Strains on the Veterans Affairs system could grow with the elimination of as many as 35,000 mostly unfilled health care positions, including doctors and nurses.
wapo.st
December 13, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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A moratorium on state AI laws already failed twice with opposition in both chambers of Congress. Now, Trump is bypassing Congress to create a lawless Wild West for AI companies.

It’s a bad idea - and I'm actively exploring legislative options in response to this order.
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
Trump Signs Executive Order to Curtail State AI Laws
The order would allow the Justice Department to punish states with rules deemed restrictive for AI, in a move to bring the U.S. under one federal standard.
www.wsj.com
December 13, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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That decline — driven by expanded access to naloxone, prevention partnerships, and harm reduction efforts statewide — demonstrates what happens when policy and community efforts align to save lives. We must build on this progress to continue reducing overdose deaths across Maryland.
December 13, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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Please ask your legislators to override Gov Moore's veto of these important bills this week: SB149/HB128 -studying cost of greenhouse gas emissions, SB116/HB270 - data center impact study, and SB909/HB1037 - energy resource adequacy planning. Find your reps at mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/m...
December 13, 2025 at 7:11 PM