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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

You know what stories I would like to read and hear about? People who have been pushed even more to the left/progressive/ Dem socialist side after the last several years-- and after everything happening with the Dem establishment now.

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

Additionally, the removed content included information about groups such as the Buffalo Soldiers and the Tuskegee Airmen, both composed of Black service members who made significant contributions to U.S. military history. You can’t erase the past, and you can’t erase their legacy!

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

That is both messed up and disgraceful! You can’t just delete history! Arlington National Cemetery has removed information about prominent Black, Hispanic, and female service members, as well as topics such as the Civil War, from its website.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

I was pretty pessimistic going into the Trump sequel and I’ve got to admit it’s much worse to an even I imagined.

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

ICE agents are torturing a green card holder from New Hampshire, his mother says www.nhpr.org/nh-news/2025...

A New Hampshire man with a green card was detained by immigration officers at Logan Airport and is being held by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement at the Donald W. Wyatt detention facility in Central Falls, Rhode Island.

Fabian Schmidt’s family said they are unsure of why he is being held. They said he has a recently renewed green card, and no active issues in court.

Schmidt had been visiting Luxembourg and flew back to the U.S. on Friday. His partner had gone to pick him up at Logan Airport, and waited four hours before calling authorities.

“It was just said that his green card was flagged,” said Astrid Senior, his mother. She said she didn’t hear from her son directly until Tuesday, when she learned he’d been hospitalized.

Senior described Schmidt being “violently interrogated” at Logan Airport for hours, and being stripped naked, put in a cold shower by two officials, and being put back onto a chair.

She said Schmidt told her immigration agents pressured him to give up his green card. She said he was placed on a mat in a bright room with other people at the airport, with little food or water, suffered sleep deprivation, and was denied access to his medication for anxiety and depression.

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Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

Now I want an annotated Richard Scarry book that shows all of the federal funding supporting that work. Farmer Alfalfa's climate mitigation grant, the NIH and CDC helping Dr. Lion, the DoE supporting Miss Honey. Then we can explore how tariffs hurt Stitches the tailor.

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

Two days later, everyone at VOA has reportedly been fired.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

We’re not “heading” towards fascism. We’re there.

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Garrett Petersen @gpetersen.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

I know it's not taking Surrender Dem skulls but we *do* have local elections in a lot of places and people can take their pounds of flesh out of Republicans before the main event next year. I'm just saying.

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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

A teacher in Idaho has been told to remove posters reading "Everyone is welcome here" - specifically because it features different skin tones. As I wrote last week, this is a global political movement that has explicitly set the goal of eradicating the very concept of equality.

idahostatesman.com

West Ada teacher stands firm after she’s told to remove ‘Everyone is welcome here’ signs

Sarah Inama said she was told by administrators that her signs “don’t allow people to express differing opinions.”

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Matthew Noe @noethematt.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

You know how much you love the "magic" of ILL? Defend it by defending IMLS.

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Wasteland @citizenpioneer.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Spokane WA cops illegally arresting and assaulting immigrants

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Spokane WA cops illegally arresting and assaulting immigrants

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

'the good times are done. Go eat a shit sandwich while Musk plays video games and Trump golfs and you'll like it'

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13/03/2025

Merkley: "The best time to take on a tyrant is as early as possible. And this is the moment."

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13/03/2025

this is a taxpayer-funded public social media account

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synergize your boowards overflow @carodjah.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Every time I check the news:

Tony Stark saying, "Hate to be the american on the team, but can’t wr just beat him up? He’s got a very punchable face."

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Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 12/03/2025

Gutting the Department of Education will impact everything from internet access to school buses. Let’s not make it harder to learn.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

You don't have enough contempt for these people.

Among the politicos, Musk is particularly close with his top political advisor, Chris Young, the former GOP field organizer who was originally brought in to advise Musk during Trump’s campaign and currently serves as treasurer of America PAC. Young has turned into Musk’s right hand on all things Washington — from penetrating the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to handling personal logistics.

Upon Musk’s request, Young procured a massive TV for Musk’s office in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building so he could play video games, according to a person familiar with the situation granted anonymity to speak freely.

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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

If you can watch this without feeling something like fighting back an ugly cry, you're a Replicant or a Republican. Hopefully, a Replicant.

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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

The thing that Senate Democrats don't seem to understand is if *they*, the elected leaders and proud institutionalists, so easily *give up*, then the message they are communicating to is that this is either (a) all fine, actually or (b) utterly hopeless. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/the-k...

talkingpointsmemo.com

The Kabuki Cave

As you could see from my comments here and some occasional comments...

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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Bribes and cash-ins for their fiendish friends. Pain and paying a tax to Turbo Tax for you.

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Hari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

The ‘can machines do creative writing’ thing is mostly a distraction from the use of the machines to go through text and images to cancel grants and put people on deportation lists

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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

As Shock G once said, "All around the world, authoritarians have this hair."

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Adolf Hitler helping one of his biggest donors sell a car in 1938. History doesn't change it just repeats.

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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Only thing time has changed is our Nazi car makers now have hair plugs.

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Ann Monster Lipton @annmlipton.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

i genuinely have no idea what's best for southwest, financially, but i am reminded of the immortal words of Costco founder Jim Sinegal: "If you raise the effing hot dog, I will kill you. Figure it out."

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Abe @grinhoyz.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

In 1905, my great-grandfather helped @stevevladeck.bsky.social's great-grandfather escape arrest by Imperial Russian police who didn't like his speech. 120 years later, Steve has the best summary I've seen of key legal questions the case of Mahmoud Khalil: www.stevevladeck.com/p/131-five-q...

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131. Five Questions About the Khalil Case

The government's arrest and detention of a pro-Palestinian Columbia student (and green card holder) raises difficult questions about both technical immigration statutes and the First Amendment.

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Lily Mason @lilymasonphd.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

This is replacement theory. It is a debunked white nationalist conspiracy theory that was normalized by Tucker Carlson. It’s a blatant lie meant to turn Americans against immigrants.

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

if you find yourself reluctant to support the guy at Columbia because you find some of the politics he espoused distasteful or even abhorrent, you should know that this is exactly the reaction that they hoped for in choosing him as a target for unlawful detention based on political speech.

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Jacqueline Sweet @jsweetli.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Betar USA says today “expect naturalized citizens to be picked up within the month.”

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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Senator Kelly responds to Elon Musk

Senator Mark Kelly &
@SenMarkKelly
Traitor?
Elon, if you don't understand that defending freedom is a basic tenet of what makes America great and keeps us safe, maybe you should leave it to those of us who do.

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 10/03/2025

Since the start of COVID, the number of people reporting a disability soared. Yet the majority of the world acts like COVID is over, and Long COVID doesn't exist.

Chart: U.S. adults reporting a disability

The number of people reporting a disability soared. Many Americans struggled with long Covid and reported cognitive issues like “brain fog.”

Source: Census Here, adults refer to people older than 16.

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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

tesla stock is down 36% over the past month alone. any competent board of directors would’ve ousted a CEO destroying the price like this.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10/03/2025

GOP Rep. Don Bacon: "We were the leader of the free world, but it appears to many leaders and people all over, to include Republicans in Nebraska, that this administration is walking away from that legacy."

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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

He's doing for Tesla what he did for Twitter!

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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Gargamel seems unbothered by the smell of Smurf skin cooking

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Manisha Sinha @profmsinha.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Historian here: “To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.” ― Theodore Roosevelt

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 10/03/2025

This is why despite how bleak things may seem, I always make it a note to share organizing victories, even small ones. They matter more than you might think.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10/03/2025

checking in on state media 👀

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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

More than 24 hours since feds snatched someone from Columbia property and locked them up to punish them for protesting, with the President of the United States now boasting about it, and the university still hasn't said one word about it communications.news.columbia.edu/content/univ...

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University Statements and Announcements | Office of Public Affairs

Statements and Announcements from Columbia University

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