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Got it DONE at home ‼️
December 21, 2025 at 4:07 AM
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How to Stop Billionaires from Buying our Elections | It's the Democracy, Stupid with Edwin Eisendrath & End Citizen United's Tiffany Muller
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How to Stop Billionaires from Buying our Elections | It's the Democracy, Stupid with Edwin Eisendrath & End Citizen United's Tiffany Muller
Citizens United didn’t just open the floodgates to money in politics—it rewired power so that politicians are far less accountable to voters.
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December 20, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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My bipartisan bill with Senator Grassley was signed into law.

We cannot allow children to be used as hostages in war.

www.northernnewsnow.com/2025/12/19/b...
Bipartisan bill to reunite abducted Ukrainian children with family becomes law
U.S. Senators Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota and Chuck Grassley of Iowa, who co-authored the legislation, made the announcement Wednesday.
www.northernnewsnow.com
December 20, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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Good afternoon from @altyellonatpark.org
December 20, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Good life goals
Is this too much to ask?
December 19, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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#jokesters
How it starts vs How it ends
December 18, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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As backlash against energy-sucking AI data centers grows, Big Tech is spending millions on propaganda and lobbying to push a "positive pro-data center campaign message" onto legislators and voters ahead of the midterms.
Big Tech Ramps Up Propaganda Blitz As AI Data Centers Become Toxic With Voters
One Michigan state legislator said data centers are emblematic of the divide between "tech billionaires who are seizing power and… the working and middle classes."
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December 18, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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My festive little guy
December 17, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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Dear GenZ, do you want your elderly parents living with you in their retirement? Because this is how you guarantee your elderly parents will have to live with you in their retirement.

www.marketwatch.com/story/gen-z-...
Gen Z would rather cut Social Security benefits for current retirees than pay higher taxes to save the program
There’s a stark generational divide in how to solve the Social Security crisis.
www.marketwatch.com
December 18, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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An administrative law judge in California has decided that Tesla’s licenses to sell and manufacture cars in the state should each be suspended for 30 days. The judge determined the automaker had engaged in deceptive marketing around its
California judge rules that Tesla engaged in deceptive marketing around Autopilot
An administrative law judge in California ruled Tesla's license to sell or manufacture cars in the state should be suspended for 30 days.
www.cnbc.com
December 17, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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Shout out to @motherjones.com for republishing this and adding the alt title.

Trump Team’s Plans to Exploit Public Lands Follow the Blueprint of Reagan’s Interior Secretary. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
The Trump Team's plans to exploit public lands follow the blueprint of Reagan's Interior secretary
James Watt led a similar effort to privatize natural resources for mining, energy development, logging, and sprawl.
www.motherjones.com
October 8, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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@kamalaharris.com pretty sure you would not be using financial abuse against women

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they are doing it

It calls for an evaluation of all pending proceedings under the Equal Credit Opportunity Act (ECOA), which was first passed in 1974 and amended in 1976 to prevent lenders from discriminating against women based on marital status.

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April 26, 2025 at 11:12 PM
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This is illegal! The Trump administration is instructing managers across the federal government (regardless of employee performance) to ensure that at least 80 percent of staff receive a 3 out of 5 rating, making them easier to terminate and easier to justify in court.
December 17, 2025 at 12:05 AM
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Fabulous Bouie analysis of the Roberts’ Court’s perversion of our democratic republic, below in a gift link to the Times. Corollary reading in the current issue of @motherjones.com.
December 17, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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A winter tour of Luxembourg’s fairytale chateaux – on the country’s free bus network
A winter tour of Luxembourg’s fairytale chateaux – on the country’s free bus network
This tiny country is awash with atmospheric castles, many of which you can stay in, making for a magical wintry break. And it won’t cost you a cent to travel between them
www.theguardian.com
December 17, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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Good morning from @altyellonatpark.org
December 16, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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Good morning from @altyellonatpark.org
December 15, 2025 at 5:47 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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A dramatic monsoon sunset on these clouds earlier this summer that didn't get posted yet (Photo: Sicco Rood).
December 13, 2025 at 3:06 AM
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December 12, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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After Marcelo Gomes da Silva was arrested by ICE on his way to volleyball practice in Milford, he made a promise to the men he shared a cell with: He’d be a voice for immigrants unfairly detained.

He's one of Boston Globe Magazine’s Bostonians of the Year.
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December 12, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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# Christmas carol lyrics that go hard when you paste them over a picture of Stacker Pentecost
December 12, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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Russia's advance in Ukraine is slower than virtually every major campaign of the past century, reports WSJ. After nearly 4 years of full-scale war, Moscow still hasn't taken Donetsk province—a target since 2014.
euromaidanpress.com/2025/12/12/w...
WSJ: Russia making “marginal advances” on Ukrainian front despite Moscow’s claims
Russia's military advance in Ukraine is moving slower than virtually every major campaign over the past century, including World War I's Battle of the Somme, according to analysis by the Center for…
euromaidanpress.com
December 12, 2025 at 7:08 PM