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Cruel hoax: the political economy of anti-immigration - Asia Times
Deporting immigrants may deliver electoral wins to politicians if voters have been sufficiently cultivated by years of demonizing and scapegoating them.
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That “great” American past that MAGA celebrates comprised many decades of massive and successive waves of immigrants. Impressive US GDP growth in the 19th and 20th centuries owed more than a little to the subsidies provided by immigrants.
"Radical reform can sometimes require radical pragmatism."
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To Win Radical Success, Mamdani Understands, Is To Know When and Where To Compromise
Mamdani’s ultra-disciplined campaign focused on a handful of policies that New Yorkers both needed and wanted: affordable housing and universal child care above all, along with free buses and a handfu...
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November 28, 2025 at 12:55 PM
"Radical reform can sometimes require radical pragmatism."
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“Under the pretext of a sexual fantasy, this is about power and domination over women’s bodies … through humiliation and control.”
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‘I didn’t even know this type of attack existed’: more than 200 women allege drugging by senior French civil servant
In a case echoing the Pelicot trial, dozens of women allege they were given hot drinks mixed with a diuretic to make them urinate. Three of them speak out here
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November 27, 2025 at 2:05 PM
“Under the pretext of a sexual fantasy, this is about power and domination over women’s bodies … through humiliation and control.”
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'This Is the Scandal': DHS Data Shows ICE Mostly Targeting People With No Criminal Convictions www.commondreams.org/news/immigra...
'This Is the Scandal': DHS Data Shows ICE Mostly Targeting People With No Criminal Convictions | Common Dreams
The libertarian Cato Institute further undermined the Trump administration's claims that it is targeting "the worst of the worst" with its violent immigration operations by publishing data about the c...
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November 26, 2025 at 9:54 PM
'This Is the Scandal': DHS Data Shows ICE Mostly Targeting People With No Criminal Convictions www.commondreams.org/news/immigra...
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Sign our petition for the government to hold social media companies accountable for posting ads that could scam consumers action.consumerreports.org/sm-20251117-...
November 20, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Sign our petition for the government to hold social media companies accountable for posting ads that could scam consumers action.consumerreports.org/sm-20251117-...
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I was just thinking about contributing to the "charity" Feeding America. Until I discovered that the salary for its CEO, Claire Babineaux-Fontenot, was approximately $949,866 in 2024, with her total compensation being $1,113,502. Apparently, feeding America isn't her top priority.
November 26, 2025 at 1:52 AM
I was just thinking about contributing to the "charity" Feeding America. Until I discovered that the salary for its CEO, Claire Babineaux-Fontenot, was approximately $949,866 in 2024, with her total compensation being $1,113,502. Apparently, feeding America isn't her top priority.
The people are waking. Workers unite!
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On Who Healthcare Serves
truth does not come crashing in like some cowboy in a western… the truth steps forward the way a weary actor does after the final curtain… stripped of costume, stripped of pretense, carrying only the ...
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November 26, 2025 at 2:55 PM
The people are waking. Workers unite!
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Stop arms for genocide in Sudan actions.eko.org/a/uk-governm...
UK Government: stop arms for genocide in Sudan
RSF paramilitaries just murdered 460 patients, families and medical staff in a maternity hospital in Darfur, in western Sudan. This is the latest horror in Sudan’s two-year genocidal war which has see...
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November 26, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Stop arms for genocide in Sudan actions.eko.org/a/uk-governm...
'Make Corporate Complicity Unprofitable': Boycott Targets Companies Tied to ICE www.commondreams.org/news/trump-ice
'Make Corporate Complicity Unprofitable': Boycott Targets Companies Tied to ICE | Common Dreams
A Gen Z-led advocacy group launches a boycott campaign against
corporations backing ICE and the Trump administration's racist policies.
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November 26, 2025 at 1:19 PM
'Make Corporate Complicity Unprofitable': Boycott Targets Companies Tied to ICE www.commondreams.org/news/trump-ice
Attention holiday shoppers! Here's a convenient feminist guide to the businesses we're boycotting this year. Pledge to shop at these alternatives instead. share.weareultraviolet.org/s/RfHwXMTi
If money is power, women wield a lot of it as consumers.
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November 25, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Attention holiday shoppers! Here's a convenient feminist guide to the businesses we're boycotting this year. Pledge to shop at these alternatives instead. share.weareultraviolet.org/s/RfHwXMTi
What Pam Bondi and Lindsey Halligan did was not incompetence--It was intentional misconduct. They both must be disbarred.
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What Pam Bondi and Lindsey Halligan did was not incompetence--It was intentional misconduct. They both must be disbarred.
Only way to deter other lawyers.
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November 25, 2025 at 2:56 PM
What Pam Bondi and Lindsey Halligan did was not incompetence--It was intentional misconduct. They both must be disbarred.
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“if it is accepted that a dictatorship was not such a bad thing, the idea of an authoritarian government becomes more socially acceptable. It’s that simple”
50 Years After Franco’s Death: Vindicating Democratic Memory
“Those who are condemned to repeat the past are not those who do not remember it, but those who do not understand it.”Daniel Giglioli
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November 25, 2025 at 10:26 AM
“if it is accepted that a dictatorship was not such a bad thing, the idea of an authoritarian government becomes more socially acceptable. It’s that simple”
70% of US Public Opposes Military Attack on Venezuela as Trump Eyes 'Deadly New Phase' www.commondreams.org/news/america...
70% of US Public Opposes Military Attack on Venezuela as Trump Eyes 'Deadly New Phase' | Common Dreams
"It should come as no surprise by now that the president who campaigned on keeping the US out of wars and then promptly bombed Iran has now found another conflict in which to embroil the country."
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November 25, 2025 at 12:01 AM
70% of US Public Opposes Military Attack on Venezuela as Trump Eyes 'Deadly New Phase' www.commondreams.org/news/america...
Rich Venture: Stop the bamboo plantation now! action.eko.org/a/rich-ventu...
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November 24, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Rich Venture: Stop the bamboo plantation now! action.eko.org/a/rich-ventu...
The president’s history of raping children.
🚨 HIDDEN Trump Videos FOUND by Meidas as SECRETS SURFACE
YouTube video by MeidasTouch
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November 23, 2025 at 8:54 PM
The president’s history of raping children.
“we don’t need more documentation in order to believe that Trump not only “knew about the girls” but participated in the rape of children alongside his friend, Jeffrey Epstein. The evidence has been sitting there, damningly, all along”
They Tried to Bury the Katie Johnson Story
And we, the public, let them convince us it was bogus.
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November 22, 2025 at 1:37 PM
“we don’t need more documentation in order to believe that Trump not only “knew about the girls” but participated in the rape of children alongside his friend, Jeffrey Epstein. The evidence has been sitting there, damningly, all along”
Fascism is cannibalism
What the Dictator Wants: The Normalization of Violence and Oppression
Trump is openly calling for the execution of his political enemies. We've stepped into a new chapter of this crisis
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November 22, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Fascism is cannibalism
'Maybe It's Time to Pick a Fucking Side,' Says Murphy After Trump Calls for Execution of Lawmakers www.commondreams.org/news/trump-s...
'Maybe It's Time to Pick a Fucking Side,' Says Murphy After Trump Calls for Execution of Lawmakers | Common Dreams
"Clearly, Trump has learned something from his good friend MBS: If you don't like what your political opponents say, execute them," said Sen. Bernie Sanders. "Unfortunately for Mr. Trump, that's not w...
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November 21, 2025 at 2:41 PM
'Maybe It's Time to Pick a Fucking Side,' Says Murphy After Trump Calls for Execution of Lawmakers www.commondreams.org/news/trump-s...
"there are more working families than billionaires. Democracy still works when leaders inspire and mobilize ordinary people"
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Other Victories for Working Families
When the Working Families Party was founded in 1998, the idea was to take advantage of the fusion law in New York that allows candidates to run on more than one ballot line. That way, the WFP could wo...
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November 21, 2025 at 2:39 PM
"there are more working families than billionaires. Democracy still works when leaders inspire and mobilize ordinary people"
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Skyrocketing rates, dropped policies, and unpaid claims. The home insurance market isn’t working for consumers, and it’s time for that to change. Sign CR’s petition urging insurers to adopt the Homeowners Insurance Bill of Rights.
Americans deserve affordable home insurance
Fed up with skyrocketing home insurance rates? Demand home insurance companies adopt basic protections for all policyholders. Take action by signing Consumer Reports’ petition today.
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October 27, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Skyrocketing rates, dropped policies, and unpaid claims. The home insurance market isn’t working for consumers, and it’s time for that to change. Sign CR’s petition urging insurers to adopt the Homeowners Insurance Bill of Rights.
Trump trashing female reporters was despicable. The other reporters not standing up to Trump was inexcusable
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Trump trashing female reporters was despicable. The other reporters not standing up to Trump was inexcusable
Corporate media failed us again
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November 20, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Trump trashing female reporters was despicable. The other reporters not standing up to Trump was inexcusable
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I just signed a petition launched by the gender justice nonprofit UltraViolet demanding that SiriusXM drop Megyn Kelly. Kelly's comments minimizing Jeffrey Epstein's abuse of teen girls are reckless and irresponsible. Pedophile apologists should not have a national platform. app.sosha.ai/s/LLCkQtKF
Tell SiriusXM: Drop Megyn Kelly
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November 19, 2025 at 7:38 PM
I just signed a petition launched by the gender justice nonprofit UltraViolet demanding that SiriusXM drop Megyn Kelly. Kelly's comments minimizing Jeffrey Epstein's abuse of teen girls are reckless and irresponsible. Pedophile apologists should not have a national platform. app.sosha.ai/s/LLCkQtKF
“Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE, We’re prepared for this to become the biggest and longest [unfair labor practices] strike in Starbucks history. DON’T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike!”
Starbucks Workers Have Launched a Nationwide Strike and Consumer Boycott of the Coffee Chain
As hundreds of Starbucks workers go on strike across the US to protest the company’s unfair labor practices, its union is telling customers to boycott the company in hopes of pressuring it to return t...
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November 19, 2025 at 5:54 PM
“Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE, We’re prepared for this to become the biggest and longest [unfair labor practices] strike in Starbucks history. DON’T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike!”
The republican flip flop over the files has started
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The republican flip flop over the files has started
These folks will flip flop to fit whatever the president says as long as it protects him
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November 19, 2025 at 4:58 PM
The republican flip flop over the files has started
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Tell tech companies: end all contracts with ICE and stop enabling Trump’s deportation machine action.eko.org/a/tech-compa...
Tech companies: stop enabling Trump’s deportation machine
Trump’s deportation machine is tearing children from their parents — and Big Tech is powering it. These companies are making millions while families are ripped apart, and they’ll keep doing it unless
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November 19, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Tell tech companies: end all contracts with ICE and stop enabling Trump’s deportation machine action.eko.org/a/tech-compa...
The truth about socialism
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On The Words We Are Taught To Fear
Writer, songwriter, story teller, I write poems and songs and essays. I post them here and hope they find who they are supposed to find.
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November 19, 2025 at 2:35 PM
The truth about socialism
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