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Focused on the crises of oligarchy, fascism, climate change, COVID-19, A.I. & related issues. REMEMBER: You cannot shop your way out of capitalism. You cannot vote your way out of fascism. Direct action is required. There is no war but the class war.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 27/06/2026
Ossoff: "When they gathered in Atl to remove Black elected officials not by defeating them at the polls, but by manipulating maps to dilute minority power, they saw you mobilize & they backed down. A wave is building ... let's make sure they hear it down at Mar-a-Lago, that GA will bow to no king!"
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 28/06/2026
These women mobilized “the housewife image to fulfill … deep political ambitions—a model for everyone from Ann Coulter in the 1990s to the tradwives of today.” trib.al/aC4fUex
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Gwyllm Llwydd @gwyllm.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
“You cannot make billions of dollars without hurting lots of people. And you can’t hurt lots of people without, in some sense, believing that they’re not really people.” Corey Doctorow
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Steve Rattner @steverattner.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
The cost of the Iran War has been massive. Direct military costs will likely approach $100 billion. But the total could be closer to $1 trillion when long-term costs from inflation impacts, debt interest payments, and veterans’ benefits are included. My @morningjoe-msnow.bsky.social Chart
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 25/06/2026
Trump has repeatedly referenced running for a third term, and the Trump Organization even sells “Trump 2028” hats for $55. (Last year, the price was $50, but the Trump family is clearly in a hard spot financially: They’ve only made $4 billion since Trump’s second term.) trib.al/Q65tam8
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Trump, 80, Wants to Run for President Again
Legally he can’t, but is he even physically able to?
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Secretaries of state are condemning the Trump administration’s latest reported attempt to exert control over elections by withholding homeland security funds from states unless they adopt draconian changes to their election procedures. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Election chiefs say ‘desperate’ Trump DHS plan to blackmail states into purging voters ‘endangers American lives’
“The Constitution is clear: states run elections,” Oregon Secretary of State Tobias Read told Democracy Docket.
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🇺🇲📎Gigi Alexander 🇺🇦 Democracy Defender! 🌊 ❤️America.🌈 @gigialexander123.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
The Judge in Minneapolis has Voided Subpoenas the DOJ issued to MN Officials. The Judge understood the assignment and ruled these cases were unethical. Clearly brought for Trumps retribution and revenge and not on the merits of the law.
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Taylor Lorenz @taylorlorenz.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
If lawmakers are serious about protecting children, they should roll back age-verification policies and start targeting the systems that incentivise mass surveillance. Read my latest print piece for The Guardian 👇 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 18/06/2026
There is nothing actually enforceable in the text of the agreement itself. trib.al/DWK7IXr
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Trump Says Only One Way to Enforce Iran Deal—and It’s a Bombshell
There is nothing actually enforceable in the text of the agreement itself.
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 18/06/2026
After months of insisting that the purpose of the war was to get rid of any nuclear capability, demanding “zero enrichment,” Trump is now saying that the country can use nuclear power for electricity. trib.al/Xm9MfdB
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The Onion @theonion.com · 16/06/2026
Daring Fusion Restaurant Mixes Texan, Mexican Flavors theonion.com/daring-fusion-restaura…
Daring Fusion Restaurant Mixes Texan, Mexican Flavors
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 16/06/2026
We still haven’t seen the document, but all of the reporting suggests a very simple story: Trump lost. trib.al/x53b5Gp
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 16/06/2026
PM Benjamin Netanyahu says Israeli forces will maintain a ‘security zone’ in occupied Palestinian, Syrian, and Lebanese territories. The remarks come amid questions over whether Israel will align with a US-backed regional deal and ceasefire with Iran.
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maia arson crimew 🏴 @crimew.gay · 16/06/2026
SCOOP: So remember Dialog, Peter Thiel's private society that doesn't have a public website and no public list of members? I (along with a number of other journalists) have just been tipped off that embedded in the code of their closed off website there IS what seems to be a list of some members.
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
The hero we need 🔥
Clarkston man accused of smashing nearly
$10K worth of Flock license plate reader
cameras
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David Sirota @davidsirota.com · 16/06/2026
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Heavy Metal™ Official @heavymetalofficial.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Sick of AI stealing artwork and photos while people laugh and scoff, but don't know what to do? Californians can sign this PETITION in support of AB-412, "The AI Copyright Transparency Act." It takes 2 minutes! Share with friends! tinyurl.com/4uxbp963 We have to save the future.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 16/06/2026
jezus
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Today we learned a 36-year-old white Texan man was caught in Bogota Colombia raping an adopted 7-year-old boy in broad daylight.
Cops entered his apartment & also rescued
4-year-old & 15-year-old rape victims.
Trump pushed the racist lie that Mexico is sending "rapists" to the USA. In reality-77.1% of CSAM distributors & 75.2% of CSAM producers are White. Not immigrants.
Not Black or brown people. Not drag queens. White men-like Trump in the Epstein files. Every MAGA accusation is a confession.
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Jacobin @jacobinmag.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
As workers at the University of Pennsylvania pursued a first contract, Trump’s second presidency rendered the administration cowed, the labor board unreliable, and international workers afraid. The antidote: high-participation, worker-led organizing.
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How Penn Graduate Workers Got Their Union Contract
As workers at the University of Pennsylvania pursued a first contract, Trump’s second presidency rendered the administration cowed, the labor board unreliable, and international workers afraid. The antidote: high-participation, worker-led organizing.
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Samantha Michaels @samanthamichaels.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Imagine being a kid and learning both your parents were arrested by ICE. You’ll have to pay rent and survive on your own. I shadowed four siblings—US citizens near Mar-a-Lago—as they try to do that. I'll be thinking about their story for a long time 1/x www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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ICE took Mom and Dad. Now the Perez kids are home alone.
Four American siblings left to fend for themselves—and they're not the only ones.
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 13/06/2026
“Tangential speech is one of the diagnostic criteria for dementia,” Dr. John Gartner, a former assistant professor at Johns Hopkins University Medical School, said. “What he’s obsessed with is a function of malignant narcissism. He’s obsessed with things that reflect glory on him.” trib.al/WEpIzht
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Sen. Adam Schiff @schiff.senate.gov · 13/06/2026
There is something terribly wrong about an economy that produces its first trillionaire, but cannot provide health care for its people. Or one in which the richest handful of families have the combined wealth of almost forty percent of the rest of the country.
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 12/06/2026
“When politicians don’t believe there’s accountability, that allows for those politicians to advance either their personal interests or … [those of] the well-connected, corporations,” and as a result, Congress will become “less and less responsive to the needs of everyday Americans.” trib.al/IX0q3qm
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David Sirota @davidsirota.com · 12/06/2026
🚨NEWS: The Trump administration quietly waived key longstanding investor protection rules ahead of the IPO for Elon Musk's SpaceX, according to government documents reviewed by @levernews.com. The exemption "has never been provided before," according to one financial watchdog.
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Regulators Waived Investor Protections For SpaceX’s Wall Street Moonshot
As Wall Street gears up for SpaceX’s record-breaking IPO, regulators quietly granted brokerages an extraordinary exemption from rules protecting customers if markets turn volatile.
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Tea Pain @teapainusa.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Let's just be clear about one thing. Trump ain't spending all that time and energy suppressing the #EpsteinFiles to protect his "friends." (He ain't got any.) He is guilty as sin.
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 11/06/2026
Cecilia Vega was fired by CBS head Bari Weiss in the middle of producing a feature on U.N. Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese—perhaps the most prominent institutional voice against Israel’s genocide of Palestinians. trib.al/VqWBL96
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The Onion @theonion.com · 10/06/2026
Hims Introduces New Line Of Folders To Hold In Front Of Embarrassing Boners theonion.com/hims-introduces-new-li…
Hims Introduces New Line Of Folders To Hold In Front Of Embarrassing Boners
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HasanTheHun (automated mirror) @hasanabirepeater.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
NYC!!🤬IRANxAMERISRAEL WAR HEATS UP🤬TRUMP CAUSES KNICKS TO FAIL AMIDST LOUD BOOS🤬IRAN SHOOTS US CHOPPER🤬TRUMP VOWS RETALIATION🤬EF102🤬MSG CHAOS!! GET IN NOW!!! twitch.tv/hasanabi
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WIRED @wired.com · 09/06/2026
Utah’s measles outbreak means adapting to America’s new reality, in which vaccine-preventable diseases become common again.
wired.com
Anguished Parents, Crying Doctors: Life Amid Utah’s Measles Outbreak
The state’s outbreak means adapting to America’s new reality, in which vaccine-preventable diseases become common again.
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ACLU @aclu.org · 09/06/2026
The LGBTQ community has fought for our right to exist for generations. We’ve always been here, and we always will be.
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The Nation Magazine @thenation.com · 09/06/2026
Police fired tear gas into the crowd; lines of riot cops and officers mounted on horses sought to disperse the protesters. bit.ly/4ebnJbL
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Inside the Anti-ICE Protests at Delaney Hall
As federal agents increase the use of force at the facility, demonstrators are adopting new tactics.
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Jacobin @jacobinmag.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
The awful billionaire James Dolan’s stranglehold on one of sports’ greatest franchises is holding the New York Knicks back. The solution? Yes, that’s right: public ownership of the Knicks.
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Everyone Loves the Knicks. Everyone Hates James Dolan.
The awful billionaire James Dolan’s stranglehold on one of sports’ greatest franchises is holding the New York Knicks back. The solution? Yes, that’s right: public ownership of the Knicks.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 08/06/2026
As private prisons and local sheriffs make millions from ICE contracts, Oklahomans are still reeling from the loss of parents, children, and friends.
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The Oklahoma Communities Gutted by ICE
As private prisons and local sheriffs make millions from ICE contracts, Oklahomans are still reeling from the loss of parents, children, and friends.
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 08/06/2026
"I just couldn’t go back to life as usual, because what I witnessed there wasn’t a war. I witnessed a level of destruction I had never experienced before. What I witnessed was really a genocide."
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Adam Hamawy, Ex-Volunteer Doctor in Gaza, Wins NJ House Primary Calling for End to Israeli Aid
We speak with Dr. Adam Hamawy, the former U.S. Army combat surgeon who just won the Democratic nomination in New Jersey’s 12th Congressional District. He is now the heavy favorite to win the Democrati...
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 08/06/2026
The lawsuit asserts that ChatGPT has “aided and abetted [mass shooters] in deadly rampages” and has pushed vulnerable people to take their own lives, among other allegations.
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Florida's GOP OpenAI lawsuit shows the GOP splintering over AI
The lawsuit asserts that ChatGPT has "aided and abetted [mass shooters] in deadly rampages” and has pushed vulnerable people to take their own lives, among other allegations.
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Mediaite @mediaite.com · 07/06/2026
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani said it is time for the Democrats to ignore party leaders, embrace a “new vision,” and call for the abolishment of U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement.
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 07/06/2026
"We don't have a lot of time," says Hasan Piker. "Fascism is here, and someone has to fight back."
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Hasan Piker on His U.K. Ban, Traveling to Cuba & Supporting Israel Critics in Midterms
The British government earlier this week barred left-wing political commentators Hasan Piker and Cenk Uygur from entering the U.K. ahead of several speaking events. The Home Office said it was canceli...
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The Onion @theonion.com · 07/06/2026
Dad’s Eyes Well Up At Sight Of Perfectly Packed Cooler theonion.com/dad-s-eyes-well-up-at-…
Dad’s Eyes Well Up At Sight Of Perfectly Packed Cooler
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 07/06/2026
Republicans are moving to eliminate at least half a dozen majority Black districts in the Deep South.
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Republicans are reviving Jim Crow in the old Confederacy
The GOP is moving to eliminate at least half a dozen majority Black districts in the Deep South.
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Barb McQuade @barbmcquade.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
We have a housing expert in charge of our intelligence community. What could possibly go wrong? I discussed the risks on The Weekend on MSNOW. www.ms.now/the-weekend/...
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New book talks fighting back against Trump’s ‘mob-style government’ as he floods admin. w/ loyalists
President Trump’s planned nomination of Todd Blanche to permanently fill the role of Atty. General and his announcement of Bill Pulte as the next acting Director of National Intelligence are being cit...
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God @thegodshow.com · 07/06/2026
MAGA didn’t succeed in making America great again, but it did succeed in bringing back extremely dangerous flesh-eating maggots.
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Jacobin @jacobinmag.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
Barack Obama has attacked his party for its unwillingness to challenge institutional obstructions to enacting their agenda. It’s a fair criticism, but the 2009–10 retreat on a public option in Obamacare might be Exhibit A of this tendency.
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Obama Blasts Dems for Their Most Obama-Like Traits
Barack Obama has attacked his party for its unwillingness to challenge institutional obstructions to enacting their agenda. It’s a fair criticism, but the 2009–10 retreat on a public option in Obamacare might be Exhibit A of this tendency.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 07/06/2026
Senator Andy Kim entered ICE’s Delaney Hall—and found a woman curled up in pain.
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Inside Delaney Hall's black box
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 07/06/2026
60 Minutes correspondent Scott Pelley blows the whistle on Bari Weiss' CBS News.
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"Can we make the protesters look more violent?"
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
Do not doubt that if a major pandemic hits, millions of Americans will die because of this grotesque man. *Millions*. And not a single person in America better say that we didn’t know it was coming. The alarm bells have been ringing non-stop that this sick buffoon is going to kill innocent people.
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Kennedy Shows Minimal Engagement With Vast Health Portfolio
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pmamtraveller.bsky.social @pmamtraveller.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
"Danse macabre" (2023), acrylic painting created by the Iranian artist Bahman Pezeshkzad.
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Peggy Stuart @peggystuart.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Unearthed footage shows Elias Irizarry joining a mob to breach the US Capitol. Now, he’s been rewarded with a top counterterrorism job at the Pentagon. You literally cannot make this up. Apparently, invading a government building is great resume building for national security now. 🙄
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The Nation Magazine @thenation.com · 07/06/2026
Will Congress agree with JD Vance that the War Powers Act is "fake"? bit.ly/4ftofUG
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The House Voted to End the Iran War. Now the Real Battle Begins.
Congress took an important symbolic step toward reasserting its authority over war powers. But much, much more needs to be done.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 07/06/2026
The DOJ’s hollowed-out Civil Rights Division has a new focus: the Second Amendment.
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Trump's Justice Department is suing cities and states to dismantle gun laws
The DOJ’s hollowed-out Civil Rights Division has a new focus: the Second Amendment.
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