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Empire Must Fall 🇵🇸🍉 General Strike

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Beautician ✨ 💖 IG @empiremustfall @ny_indivisible Blue Dogs GO AWAY #GeneralStrike It's the working class versus the predator class 24-7 No One Is Free Unless We Are All Free. Socialist. Not Dem. Not GOP. Not Libertarian.

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Empire Must Fall 🇵🇸🍉 General Strike @empiremustfall.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Protect PRESS FREEDOM / FIRST AMENDMENT in NYC. Read about Julie Menin trying to reduce these freedoms because she is a Zionist Notsee billionaire shill. #pressfreedom sign.moveon.org/petitions/pr...
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PROTECT INDEPENDENT JOURNALISM AND PRESS FREEDOM IN NEW YORK CITY
Our Press Freedom Should Not Depend on Who We Work For: Intro 1024-2026 would amend NYC’s Administrative Code to lower the evidentiary standard required to suspend or revoke a press credential. The pr...
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Empire Must Fall 🇵🇸🍉 General Strike @empiremustfall.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Of Course: The US was the lone NO vote in adopting this new map. #EmpireMustFall
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The U.N. backs a new world map showing Africa in its true relative size
The U.N. has backed a new map showing Africa in its true relative size, with the U.S. standing alone in opposition.
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Empire Must Fall 🇵🇸🍉 General Strike @empiremustfall.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
The same announcement further entrenched a persistent narrative that assigns responsibility for road safety to individual cyclists while downplaying the government’s role in designing safer streets.
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'Safety First'? Mayor Mamdani's Helmet Video Sends The Wrong Message - Streetsblog New York City
Mamdani’s announcement entrenched a persistent narrative that assigns responsibility for road safety to individual cyclists while downplaying the government’s role in designing safer streets.
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WIRED @wired.com · 26/08/2026
More than 15 politicians from across the country have signed on to the AI Pact, vowing to regulate data centers and AI. “We’ve got to get this right,” says Nebraska Senate candidate Dan Osborn. www.wired.com/story/candid...
wired.com
Candidates Are Signing a Pact Promising Action on Data Centers and AI Safety
More than 15 politicians from across the country have signed on to the AI Pact, vowing to regulate data centers and AI. “We’ve got to get this right,” says Nebraska Senate candidate Dan Osborn.
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Empire Must Fall 🇵🇸🍉 General Strike @empiremustfall.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
The same announcement further entrenched a persistent narrative that assigns responsibility for road safety to individual cyclists while downplaying the government’s role in designing safer streets.
nyc.streetsblog.org
'Safety First'? Mayor Mamdani's Helmet Video Sends The Wrong Message - Streetsblog New York City
Mamdani’s announcement entrenched a persistent narrative that assigns responsibility for road safety to individual cyclists while downplaying the government’s role in designing safer streets.
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Tad Stoermer @tadstoermer.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
How did they proceed to get rid of the president? They passed a law they knew he’d violate. He violated it. They impeached him for it. I love those guys.
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Crystal Fincher @finchfrii.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
The Number of Regular People Being Arrested for Protesting Data Centers Is Astounding
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The Number of Regular People Being Arrested for Protesting Data Centers Is Astounding
All over the United States, ordinary people are risking their freedom to take a stand against data centers in their communities.
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Joanne Hammond @joannehammond.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Israel is a terrorist state, the IDF a terrorizing occupation force. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
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IDF accused of ‘field execution’ of Palestinian driver bringing aid into Gaza
Local truckers’ association says it may suspend operations, after several eyewitnesses decried Ahmad Esleem’s murder
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Snowfloe @snowfloe.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
'I was so brainwashed': The 1980s doomsday cult that ensnared the young and beautiful
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'I was so brainwashed': The 1980s doomsday cult that ensnared the young and beautiful
Led by a New York socialite who claimed to be an alien, Eternal Values boasted an elite membership. Now an ex-follower, 1980s male supermodel Hoyt Richards, is telling his story.
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Lawrence @ldog562.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Trump ousts remaining members of the Election Assistance Commission. www.nbcnews.com/politics/202...
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Trump ousts remaining members of the Election Assistance Commission ahead of midterms
The dismissals hamstring a key bipartisan agency just months before the midterms.
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Empire Must Fall 🇵🇸🍉 General Strike @empiremustfall.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
The Trump administration has directly spent $2.7bn of taxpayer money on its crusade against wind power while pouring $1.125bn into boosting coal, which critics say is pushing up Americans’ bills.
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‘He’s forcing higher bills’: Trump spends billions to kill clean energy and keep coal alive
Critics accuse president of ‘fattening the wallets of his cronies’ as working Americans face higher energy rates
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Kristofer Goldsmith @krisgoldsmith85.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Millions of Americans oppose authoritarianism. So why does opposition so often feel exhausted, fragmented, and ineffective? Historian and Army veteran Tad Stoermer argues that one reason is that we’ve been taught to wait—for institutions, leaders, or history itself to save us. 1/2
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The Biggest Obstacle Isn’t Trump | Tad Stoermer
YouTube video by VALOR Media Network
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Tad Stoermer @tadstoermer.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
A sign of the times. #publichistory
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
🚨URGENT need for more people to join the protesters outside Delaney Hall as ICE escalates their violence, per people on the ground. show up if you can.🚨
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Empire Must Fall 🇵🇸🍉 General Strike @empiremustfall.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Vote Dan Goldman out of office. #FreePalestine
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Rep. Dan Goldman urges ‘no’ vote on proposed grocery Israel boycott, warning of antisemitism
The Park Slope Food Coop's divide over BDS resolution spills over into congressional race
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Empire Must Fall 🇵🇸🍉 General Strike @empiremustfall.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Tell NYS the Legislature to Include the $15 Million Daniel’s Law Crisis Response Programs in the FY ’27 Budget!. Write one here: actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...
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Tell the Legislature to Include the $15 Million Daniel’s Law Crisis Response Programs in the FY ’27 Budget!
We need your help to protect the rights of our neighbors, friends, and family members with mental health and substance use conditions. Write an email to elected leaders and tell them to include the Da...
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Empire Must Fall 🇵🇸🍉 General Strike @empiremustfall.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Stephen Colbert goes out with a bang "Only In Monroe" is epic legend stuff. #Colbert
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Only In Monroe --- May 22, 2026
YouTube video by Stephen Colbert
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Empire Must Fall 🇵🇸🍉 General Strike @empiremustfall.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
#Trump just admitted that he was involved in the creation of the Justice Department’s “anti-weaponization” fund. The DOJ created a $1.8B slush fund for Trump’s allies earlier this week at the same time that the president opted to drop his waning $10B lawsuit against the IRA. #corruption #DOJ
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Trump Desperately Tries to Convince Republicans to Support Slush Fund
Donald Trump is facing major backlash from both lawmakers and voters over the fund.
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Empire Must Fall 🇵🇸🍉 General Strike @empiremustfall.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Caught in the Crackdown: Cases Against Arrested Anti-ICE Protesters Keep Falling Apart @democracynow.org #AbolishICE
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Caught in the Crackdown: Cases Against Arrested Anti-ICE Protesters Keep Falling Apart
In cities across the country, from Los Angeles to Chicago to Minneapolis, residents have taken to the streets to oppose the militarized immigration sweeps, enforcement tactics and violence of ICE and ...
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Empire Must Fall 🇵🇸🍉 General Strike @empiremustfall.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
#Trump just admitted that he was involved in the creation of the Justice Department’s “anti-weaponization” fund. The DOJ created a $1.8B slush fund for Trump’s allies earlier this week at the same time that the president opted to drop his waning $10B lawsuit against the IRA. #corruption #DOJ
newrepublic.com
Trump Desperately Tries to Convince Republicans to Support Slush Fund
Donald Trump is facing major backlash from both lawmakers and voters over the fund.
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Rick Hasen @rickhasen.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
*Gabbard leaving *Lutnick gives $5 million to House Republicans before Epstein testimony What other Friday-of-Memorial-Day-weekend news dumps should be expect?
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 22/05/2026
NEW: After being asked to testify behind closed doors before Congress, Howard Lutnick made a $5M donation to House Republicans. After his testimony, Jim Comer said he was satisfied Lutnick was truthful. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/22/u...
nytimes.com
Lutnick Donated $5 Million to House Republicans Before Epstein Testimony
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Empire Must Fall 🇵🇸🍉 General Strike @empiremustfall.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Keep the patriarchy the patriarchy! #Tradwives FTW
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Ray Beckerman @raybeckerman.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
'They Were Afraid It Would Pass': House GOP Cancels Iran War Powers Vote for Second Straight Day www.commondreams.org/news/house-w...
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'They Were Afraid It Would Pass': House GOP Cancels Iran War Powers Vote for Second Straight Day | Common Dreams
After Senate Republicans helped advance a Democratic war powers resolution on Iran, the House GOP canceled a related vote, seemingly due to key absences.
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Empire Must Fall 🇵🇸🍉 General Strike @empiremustfall.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Tell NYS the Legislature to Include the $15 Million Daniel’s Law Crisis Response Programs in the FY ’27 Budget!. Write one here: actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...
actionnetwork.org
Tell the Legislature to Include the $15 Million Daniel’s Law Crisis Response Programs in the FY ’27 Budget!
We need your help to protect the rights of our neighbors, friends, and family members with mental health and substance use conditions. Write an email to elected leaders and tell them to include the Da...
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Empire Must Fall 🇵🇸🍉 General Strike @empiremustfall.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
The panel, created in the '80s, is composed of experts who scrutinize the latest evidence behind a wide array of disease prevention tools, such as depression screenings and the use of statins to prevent heart attacks. The panel updates guidelines w/letter grades showing the strength of the science.
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RFK Jr fires leaders of group that sets guidelines for preventive healthcare
US Preventive Services Task Force had already been largely sidelined before health secretary fired its two chairs
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DB Maggi @dbmaggi.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Needs to be repeated until everyone gets it... If capitalism is so great, why do corporations need tax breaks, subsidies, exemptions, grants, legal protections, bailouts, and trade protections? And why is it unacceptable for citizens to demand these things in the form of socialism?
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Human Rights Index 💙 @humanrightsindex.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Israeli strikes violating the ceasefire in southern Lebanon killed 19 people on Tuesday, according to the Lebanese Health Ministry. At least 29 others were injured, including a child.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Some good news! The Senate voted 50-47 today to advance a measure that would force Trump to either end the war in Iran or win authorization from Congress to continue it. The first time the effort has actually moved forward.
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💢Marx Was Right.🕊 @paulwalker44.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Trump administration lifts ban on cyanide bombs that kill animals www.humaneworld.org/en/blog/trum...
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Trump administration lifts ban on cyanide bombs that kill animals
In a recent memorandum of understanding, the Trump administration set the stage for the federal government’s renewed use of the M-44 cyanide bomb on lands managed by the Bureau of Land Management. Thi...
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Empire Must Fall 🇵🇸🍉 General Strike @empiremustfall.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
💢 The inclusion only adds to mounting scrutiny of the wider agreement announced after Trump said he was dropping a $10B lawsuit against the IRS in exchange for creating the compensation fund. The $1.7B fund will be run by five people and does not have to make public any details.
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US justice department ‘forever’ bars IRS from auditing Trump’s past tax returns
Addendum quietly slipped into widely criticized agreement creating a $1.7bn fund to compensate president’s allies
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Empire Must Fall 🇵🇸🍉 General Strike @empiremustfall.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
💢 The inclusion only adds to mounting scrutiny of the wider agreement announced after Trump said he was dropping a $10B lawsuit against the IRS in exchange for creating the compensation fund. The $1.7B fund will be run by five people and does not have to make public any details.
theguardian.com
US justice department ‘forever’ bars IRS from auditing Trump’s past tax returns
Addendum quietly slipped into widely criticized agreement creating a $1.7bn fund to compensate president’s allies
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DB Maggi @dbmaggi.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
“I will use every avenue at my disposal to flip all of your seats.” 🔥 Watch Louisiana Congressional candidate Lindsay Garcia deliver a powerful defense of democracy before the state legislature.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Trump posted that the UN just admitted climate change projections were “WRONG! WRONG! WRONG!” and declared victory over what he called 15 years of Democratic fearmongering. He has no idea what he’s talking about.
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Daniel Efram @thebeam.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
My thoughts and photos on #Nakba78 #NakbaDay. #FreePalestine
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Nakba Day 78: A Tribute to Resilience
Power to the fortitude of The Palestinian People and to those continuing to speak out against the Israeli genocide.
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Daniel Efram @thebeam.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Proud to have photographed my friend Molly Crabapple during her research on this epic book, that is now a NY Times Best Seller. Congratulations Molly! bsky.app/profile/theb...
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Daniel Efram @thebeam.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
@mollycrabapple.bsky.social on @democracynow.org speaking of her new Best Selling book.
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Daniel Efram @thebeam.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
The Jewish Bund formed in the waning days of the Russian Emp in an atmosphere of intense antisemitism, but it “rejected... calls to create a Jewish ethnostate in Palestine. They felt that Zionism was a capitulation to the same bigots that wanted to kick Jews out of EU.” @mollycrabapple.bsky.social
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“Here Where We Live Is Our Country”: Molly Crabapple on Resurfacing the Jewish History of Anti-Zionism
We speak with the acclaimed artist and author Molly Crabapple about her new book, Here Where We Live Is Our Country: The Story of the Jewish Bund. Although largely forgotten today, the Jewish Labor Bu...
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Defiance Dispatch @defiancedispatch.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Activists have disrupted a Lockheed martin summit. These are the people directly profiting off this war! Credits: @empiremustfall.bsky.social
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⚡️It’s Got Electrolytes⚡️ @themarchingmorons.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Kevin O’Leary’s Massive Data Center Project in Utah Gets the Greenlight, Locals Are Furious. More than twice the size of Manhattan & could consume more electricity than the entire state currently uses. The meeting became so heated that commissioners walked out & resumed the proceedings virtually.
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Kevin O'Leary's Massive Data Center Project in Utah Gets the Greenlight, Locals Are Furious
The project would be more than twice the size of Manhattan and could consume more electricity than the entire state currently uses.
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⚡️It’s Got Electrolytes⚡️ @themarchingmorons.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Major Homebuilder To Test Placing Mini Data Centers in Suburban Backyards. A California startup is betting that homeowners will embrace miniature versions right in their backyards. If large data centers are not wanted, wouldn’t mini data centers also be unwanted?🤦🏾‍♂️
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Major Homebuilder To Test Placing Mini Data Centers in Suburban Backyards
The California-based startup Span has developed small, distributed data centers, or “nodes,” called XFRA units.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Good news! A federal appeals court signaled that it was unlikely to clear the way for Def. Sec. Pete Hegseth to punish Sen. Mark Kelly over a video in which he and fellow lawmakers reminded active-duty service members that they are not only permitted but legally obligated to refuse illegal orders.
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Appeals court appears poised to reject Hegseth’s bid to punish Mark Kelly over ‘illegal orders’ video | CNN Politics
A federal appeals court appeared ready Thursday to reject Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s effort to punish Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly over his call to US service members to refuse illegal orders.
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Human Rights Index 💙 @humanrightsindex.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Israel is starting the construction of a new road in the West Bank to link occupied settlements with Jerusalem. Palestinians will reportedly not be allowed to use that road. This is apartheid.
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⚡️It’s Got Electrolytes⚡️ @themarchingmorons.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
You’ll Never Guess Trade Unions’ Position on AI Data Centers. These unions are abandoning their communities in favor of narrow self-interest — prioritizing immediate, short-term gains while ignoring the material harm data centers inflict on their communities.
futurism.com
You'll Never Guess Trade Unions' Position on AI Data Centers
Trade unions are increasingly siding with some of the most powerful billionaires on Earth against the wishes of their communities.
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Empire Must Fall 🇵🇸🍉 General Strike @empiremustfall.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
@justinjpearson.bsky.social at the Tennessee House today. www.instagram.com/reel/DYDBF23...
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Empire Must Fall on Instagram: "@justinjpearson’s powerful speech in the Tennessee State House after the GOP broke up the state’s only majority Black district. “These are rac1st tools of white supr€m@...
173 likes, 11 comments - empiremustfall on May 7, 2026: "@justinjpearson’s powerful speech in the Tennessee State House after the GOP broke up the state’s only majority Black district. “These are rac1...
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Empire Must Fall 🇵🇸🍉 General Strike @empiremustfall.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
If you are one of the People on this thing still blaming others for not voting for Kamala, please unfollow.
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
MAGA's All-Out Assault on Our Voting Rights After the Supreme Court gutted the Voting Rights Act, Republicans are following Trump's order & aggressively trying to implement minority, right-wing rule by attacking our voting rights. thelefthook.substack.com/p/magas-all-...
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
The journalist who is being sued by Kash Patel and reportedly being investigated by the FBI is out with a new story. Is there a Pulitzer for being a fearless badass? If so, she should win it. www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
With Vichy Democrats, Who Needs MAGA or Centrists? As the Democratic Party’s favorability plummeted, party leaders clung to restoration and moderation over transformation and progressivism. open.substack.com/pub/thelefth...
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With Vichy Democrats, Who Needs MAGA or Centrists?
As the Democratic Party’s favorability plummeted, party leaders clung to restoration and moderation over transformation and progressivism.
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Tim Hannan @timhannan.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Donald Trump is the most corrupt politician in US history. That some people haven’t caught onto that by now is fucking frightening.
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