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Harvey J Kaye

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Professor Emeritus of Democracy @UWGB #AFTunion & Award-winning #Author/editor of 18 books + CoAuthor of 21C Economic Bill of Rights https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/economic-bill-of-rights 🌹🇺🇸

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Harvey J. Kaye is an American historian. He has written and edited over a dozen books, many of which focus on the radical tradition in American history and thought.

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Harvey J Kaye @harveyjkaye.bsky.social · 5d

The #ANTIFA President and Generation who were also, for all of their faults & failings, our most Progressive President and Generation = Here’s their story from the 1930s to the 1970s. 🇺🇸

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Harvey J Kaye @harveyjkaye.bsky.social · 1h

NO KINGS!
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Opinion | Marching with Tom Paine on 'No Kings' Saturday

John Nichols: Pamphleteer Thomas Paine was a champion of voting rights and his spirit animates modern "No Kings" protests against the Trump administration.

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Harvey J Kaye @harveyjkaye.bsky.social · 1h

Zohran Mamdani: “Our Time Is Now”

A fabulous speech that recalls the best of #FDR…And reminds us all of who we are…and what needs doing.

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Zohran Mamdani: “Our Time Is Now”

Last night at a campaign rally, Zohran Mamdani addressed his supporters: “For too long, we have tried not to lose. Now, it is time that we win.”

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Harvey J Kaye @harveyjkaye.bsky.social · 6h

Trump's White House makeover: Why he's giving a facelift to 1600 Pennsylvania = because he has perverse anti-democratic taste
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Don the Builder: Inside Trump's White House makeover

Long after Trump has exited the presidency, his imprint will be on the executive mansion in an unprecedented scope and scale.

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'Failed to deliver': Economist Paul Krugman torches Trump deal as house of cards

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'Failed to deliver': Economist Paul Krugman torches Trump deal as house of cards

President Donald Trump's views on digital currencies have changed dramatically since his first administration. In the past, Trump remarked that Bitcoin "seemed like a scam" and was "based on thin air....

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Harvey J Kaye @harveyjkaye.bsky.social · 1d

Remember Maine!
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Maine Senate: Platner-Mills Is a Huge Clash Over the Dems’ Vision

Governor Janet Mills’s U.S. Senate run against Graham Platner will pit the Democrats’ establishment wing against the insurgent bloc, says Maine journalist Alex Seitz-Wald.

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Harvey J Kaye @harveyjkaye.bsky.social · 1d

The Lawyers Who Gave Up Big Money to Fight Trump: The president’s attacks on Big Law might have accidentally done what nothing else could: make highly paid attorneys stand up for what they believe in.
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The Lawyers Who Gave Up Big Money to Fight Trump

The president’s attacks on Big Law might have accidentally done what nothing else could: make highly paid attorneys stand up for what they believe in.

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Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) @axidentaliberal.bsky.social · 1d

You know who hates America

The guys who took healthcare away from millions of Americans

The ones who CUT billions of dollars for programs like cancer research and FEMA

Who sit and watch the president use military troops to attack our cities

That’s Mike Johnson

HE hates America

NO KINGS
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 2d

WAR-TORN PORTLAND

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Harvey J Kaye @harveyjkaye.bsky.social · 2d

Coal Miners With Black Lung Say They Are ‘Cast Aside to Die’ Under Trump:President Trump has been a cheerleader for coal miners. But these miners say his administration is failing to enforce limits on a lethal workplace hazard
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Coal Miners With Black Lung Say They Are ‘Cast Aside to Die’ Under Trump

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Harvey J Kaye @harveyjkaye.bsky.social · 3d

Do Trump, Vance, Johnson, Noem, Leavitt, & Patel et al actually think their lies and viscous attacks are enlarging their base by fooling independents and persuading anti-MAGA Republicans to join them in their campaigns to secure authoritarianism in America? 🇺🇸

Harvey J Kaye @harveyjkaye.bsky.social · 3d

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Gerald Friedman @gfriedma.bsky.social · 3d

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Pinochet and the Vans of Death | Ariel Dorfman

In 38 Londres Street Philippe Sands investigates a Nazi war criminal’s collaboration with the Chilean dictatorship’s system of repression, torture, and murder.

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Harvey J Kaye @harveyjkaye.bsky.social · 4d

#ThomasPaine made the fundamental case for #NoKings in Common Sense (1776) and turned our colonial rebellion into a Revolution for American independence and a democratic republic 🇺🇸

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Harvey J Kaye @harveyjkaye.bsky.social · 4d

We know what we have to do!

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God @thegodpodcast.com · 4d

Mike Johnson referred to the upcoming “No Kings Day” (October 18!) as “America Hating Parties” but there is no one on the planet who hates the USA more than Donald Trump, he never shuts up about it

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Harvey J Kaye @harveyjkaye.bsky.social · 5d

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Letitia James, New York’s Badass AG

The state’s attorney general, Letitia James, has emerged as a North Star in the chaos of the second Trump administration.

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Harvey J Kaye @harveyjkaye.bsky.social · 5d

A new low
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Trump’s Vendetta Prosecution of Letitia James Is a New Low

The New York attorney general has led the legal fight against Trump, and now he has mobilized the Justice Department to go after her.

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Harvey J Kaye @harveyjkaye.bsky.social · 5d

Good response
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MIT President Says ‘We Cannot Support’ Trump’s Compact

The institution’s president, Sally Kornbluth, wrote: The proposal “is inconsistent with our core belief that scientific funding should be based on scientific merit alone.”

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Harvey J Kaye @harveyjkaye.bsky.social · 5d

The Insidious Effort to Rationalize Trump’s Lawfare
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The Insidious Effort To Rationalize Trump’s Lawfare

This is not a president justified in going after those who went after him. It’s a person making a mockery of our justice system.

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Harvey J Kaye @harveyjkaye.bsky.social · 5d

President Trump and his administration are amplifying the voices of pro-White House podcasters and streamers eager to ratify the president’s description of Oregon’s largest city as a “hellscape.”
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