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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 29/01/2026
“The only way that we’re able to win against a company that has as much power and influence as Palantir, is if as many people get involved as possible."
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Who takes Palantir's money? A new tracker finds out.
ICE relies on the firm for deportation tech—and its PAC pays it forward to Congress.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
Mike Johnson said this kind of rhetoric is highly inflammatory and incites people.
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WIRED @wired.com · 27/07/2025
Chat, is cancer research woke? The Trump administration seems to think so, having erased hundreds of millions of dollars being used for cancer research in a move that seems to be part of its anti-DEI, anti-trans, and anti-vaccine agendas.
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How Trump Killed Cancer Research
Attempting to eliminate funding for certain kinds of “woke” studies, the Trump administration erased hundreds of millions of dollars being used for cancer research.
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
$4 trillion.
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Jacobin @jacobinmag.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
America’s animal shelter system is a disaster. We need a well-funded, fully public system that no longer treats animals as expendable commodities — and empowers the workers who staff public shelters.
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Socialize the Animal Shelters
America’s animal shelter system is a disaster. We need a well-funded, fully public system that no longer treats animals as expendable commodities — and empowers the workers who staff public shelters.
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Common Dreams @commondreams.org · 24/07/2025
The problem isn’t just data centers—it’s what’s powering them, and that dirty power is costly in so many ways, says Maria Chavez of @ucs.org. www.commondreams.org/opinion/cost...
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How to Make Sure People and the Planet Don’t Pay for the Data Center Buildout | Common Dreams
Decision-makers must do their due diligence to prioritize the needs of a community before the needs of a data center.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
Same scare tactics, different century.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 22/07/2025
Breaking news: Ozzy Osbourne, the howling singer, madcap showman and self-anointed “prince of darkness” who helped pioneer heavy metal’s thunderous, earsplitting sound as the front man for Black Sabbath, has died. He was 76.
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Ozzy Osbourne, hard rocking ‘prince of darkness,’ dies at 76
He fronted the British band Black Sabbath in the 1970s, launched a successful solo career in the ’80s and starred in a hit MTV reality series.
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JamBase @jambase.com · 22/07/2025
The Grateful Dead's 1975 album 'Blues For Allah' is next up for a 50th anniversary deluxe reissue. Read about all the extras studio and live + listen to a newly remastered recording of the 1st single from the original LP ...
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Grateful Dead’s ‘Blues For Allah’ Gets 50th Anniversary Deluxe Reissue Treatment
‘Blues For Allah,’ the Grateful Dead’s 1975 studio album, is the latest of the legendary band’s records to get a 50th anniversary deluxe reissue.
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Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 22/07/2025
Ozzy Osbourne, the singular metal legend whose Black Sabbath virtually invented heavy metal and in later years became a reality TV pioneer, has died at the age of 76. Access the free article here: www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...
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In Otter News @in-otter-news.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
Timeline cleanse
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Eric Alper @thatericalper.com · 23/07/2025
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Common Dreams @commondreams.org · 22/07/2025
The GOP-led House Rules Committee has halted activity in the House this week to avoid having to take a vote on the Epstein files. "They'd rather shut down Congress than vote to release the files," said Rep. Teresa Leger Fernandez. www.commondreams.org/news/congres...
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House GOP Has 'Shut Down Congress' to Avoid Voting on Epstein Files | Common Dreams
The GOP-led House Rules Committee has shut down activity in the House this week to avoid having to take a vote on the Epstein files. It may not resume activity until September.
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In Otter News @in-otter-news.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
He's so talented 🤩
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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
Raise your hand if you agree. ✋✋
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Common Dreams @commondreams.org · 12/07/2025
A federal judge in Los Angeles has ordered federal agents to stop "indiscriminately rounding up" immigrants, citing a "mountain of evidence" that they have engaged in unconstitutional racial profiling. www.commondreams.org/news/la-cour...
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LA Judge Orders ICE to Stop 'Indiscriminately Rounding Up' Immigrants Using Racial Profiling | Common Dreams
A federal judge in Los Angeles has ordered federal agents to stop "indiscriminately rounding up" immigrants, citing a "mountain of evidence" that they have engaged in unconstitutional racial profiling...
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 05/07/2025
No matter where you live, there’s likely an Indivisible group near you that’s organizing the pro-democracy majority to reclaim its power. Find your local group: indivisible.org/groups Or let us help connect you with your nearest organizers: indivisibleproject.formstack.com/forms/organi...
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
Can’t make this up.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE. This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined. It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 03/07/2025
Protecting his stock portfolio while ripping away health care from 17 million Americans. This is Washington at its worst. We need to ban Congressional stock trading.
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Stand Up America @standupamerica.com · 02/07/2025
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Public Citizen @publiccitizen.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Do you want your electricity bill to go up? Do you want kids to lose their school lunches? Do you want to throw millions of Americans off health care? The GOP budget bill will do all of that & more. The House must vote NO on this bill.
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 30/06/2025
BREAKING: A federal judge in Tennessee ruled that Kilmar Abrego Garcia will stay in jail for now over concerns that he could be deported if he’s released.
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Judge again delays Abrego Garcia’s release from Tennessee jail over deportation concerns
A federal judge in Tennessee has ruled that Kilmar Abrego Garcia will stay in jail for now over concerns that he could be deported if he’s released.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
It’s a shame that so many Republicans vote for something they know will hurt their constituents & the country simply because they are afraid that Trump will threaten them if they don’t go along with it, & they are more concerned about his vindictiveness than they are about them.
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 29/06/2025
UPDATE: Senate Republicans made Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill even worse. Now, this bill rips health care coverage away from 17 MILLION people—that’s an additional 1 MILLION people. Health care cuts now total over $1 TRILLION.
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Six String Samurai @sixstringsamurai72.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
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NPR @npr.org · 29/06/2025
EXCLUSIVE: The Department of Homeland Security, with help from DOGE, has rolled out a tool that purports to be able to check the citizenship status of almost all Americans.
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The Trump administration is building a national citizenship data system
The Department of Homeland Security, with help from DOGE, has rolled out a tool that purports to be able to check the citizenship status of almost all Americans.
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Eric Alper @thatericalper.com · 29/06/2025
40 years ago today, Dire Straits released “Money for Nothing” as the second single from Brothers in Arms. The track became a landmark moment in music video history—later becoming the first video aired on MTV Europe in 1987.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 28/06/2025
More than 100,000 people marched in Hungary’s annual Pride parade in Budapest on Saturday after Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s ban on the event backfired, turning what is usually a low-key parade into a mass rally against his government. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/28/w...
A bridge is packed with people, with scattered pride flags in the crowd. A headline reads: "Budapest Pride Parade Was Bigger Than Ever, Despite Government Ban." Photo by Janos Kummer/Getty Images.
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Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
David Hogg is cooking lately
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ACLU @aclu.org · 27/06/2025
BREAKING: We're filing a new class-action lawsuit to challenge President Trump's lawsuit restricting birthright citizenship. The 14th Amendment is clear: Every child born on U.S. soil is a citizen, whether the president likes it or not.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Socialism is what they called public power. Socialism is what they called social security.    Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations.   Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people. —Harry Truman, 1952
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Truthout @truthout.org · 26/06/2025
The Department of Justice has filed a lawsuit in Maryland, naming every federal judge within that court as a defendant in its complaint. The lawsuit centers on a court order issued last month by a judge in that federal district, which attempted to slow down deportations without due process.
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DOJ Files Anti-Immigration Lawsuit in Maryland Federal Court, Demands Every Judge Recuse From It
The suit seeks to upend an order from a Maryland judge last month protecting immigrants’ due process rights.
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Common Dreams @commondreams.org · 25/06/2025
Mamdani Shows Us How to Defeat Trump's MAGA Vision www.commondreams.org/opinion/mamd...
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Mamdani Shows Us How to Defeat Trump's MAGA Vision | Common Dreams
A democratic socialist won by acknowledging what everyone already knows—life has become unaffordable—and saying we're going to build our way out of it. He's shown Democrats how to stop lying and start...
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 26/06/2025
A divided Supreme Court on Thursday ruled patients cannot sue to get non-abortion care from Planned Parenthood in states that cut Medicaid funding.
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Supreme Court rules against Planned Parenthood in patient rights case
Ruling says Medicaid patients cannot sue to get non-abortion health care from Planned Parenthood if states have cut off government funding for those clinics.
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Jacobin @jacobinmag.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
There is a hunger for bold, transformative politics in the United States right now. Zohran Mamdani shows how the Left can run on a principled, disciplined message that speaks to voters’ lived concerns — and win.
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In Zohran Mamdani’s Win, Socialism Beat the Status Quo
There is a hunger for bold, transformative politics in the United States right now. Zohran Mamdani shows how the Left can run on a principled, disciplined message that speaks to voters’ lived concerns — and win.
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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Trump's America. They literally just zip-tied the hands of disabled Medicaid activists in wheelchairs before Capitol police arrested them at the Russel Senate Office building. How about we arrest the people scamming Americans, like the president?
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D.O.G @dirty-old-goon.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
#ArtistFave90s #ThisWasThe90s #MusicChallenge (unranked) 5
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Rage Against The Machine - Testify (Official HD Video)
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Six String Samurai @sixstringsamurai72.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
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Drivin' N' Cryin' - Smoke
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Eric Alper @thatericalper.com · 24/06/2025
Vinyl NYC is a love letter to indie record shops, capturing their soul through stunning photos and rich stories. From punk to reggae, this book is for crate-diggers and music lovers everywhere. zurl.co/zkmtU
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‘Vinyl NYC: 33 1/3 of the Best Record Stores Across All Five Boroughs’ Celebrates the Soul of Music Shops - That Eric Alper
Perhaps there is nothing so modern as the vinyl record, its streamline design elegantly enclosed in a dazzling 12” cardboard sleeve that promises untold pleasures. For record collectors like the husband and wife photography team of James T. and Karla L. Murray, it all begins with the thrill of the hunt: a trip to the […]
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 24/06/2025
If you need a mask to enforce the law, you don’t deserve a badge. Federal agents are snatching people off the streets—faces covered, names hidden. This isn’t safety. It’s secrecy. It’s not America. adamkinzinger.substack.com/p/why-are-fe...
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Why Are Federal Agents Wearing Masks? It’s a Threat to American Democracy
Masked Federal Agents Are Undermining Trust—and Democracy
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 24/06/2025
NYC Mayoral Primary Day: Zohran Mamdani on Building a Movement & Campaigning for an Affordable City
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NYC Mayoral Primary Day: Zohran Mamdani on Building a Movement & Campaigning for an Affordable City
Today’s mayoral primary in New York City features two very different frontrunners, the scandal-ridden former governor of New York, Andrew Cuomo, and the young Democratic Socialist state assemblymember,...
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Common Dreams @commondreams.org · 24/06/2025
"I've been briefed on the intelligence—there is no evidence Iran posed an imminent threat to the United States," U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy says of Trump's strikes. www.commondreams.org/news/trump-s...
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'There Was No Imminent Threat,' Says Sen. Chris Murphy After Iran Intelligence Briefing | Common Dreams
U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy pushed back against House Speaker Mike Johnson's claim that President Donald Trump "made the right call" attacking Iran's nuclear sites.
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Phish @phish.com · 22/06/2025
Maybe So… ✨🎥 “Stash” from last night’s show in Manchester. Phish’s YouTube channel has the 17 minute “Stash” playing in its entirety → youtu.be/r7HtDZc5X6c?...
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Jon Cryer @mrjoncryer.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
The Roberts court will be considered the most shameful in American history.
Photo of a smiling John Roberts, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 24/06/2025
Mick Ralphs, founding member of Mott the Hoople and Bad Company, dies aged 81
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Mick Ralphs, founding member of Mott the Hoople and Bad Company, dies aged 81
The English guitarist, who had been bedridden after a stroke in 2016, is set to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in November Mick Ralphs, singer, songwriter, guitarist and founding member of the classic British rock bands Bad Company and Mott the Hoople, has died aged 81. A statement posted to the band’s official website on Monday announced Ralphs’ death. Ralphs had a stroke days after what would be his final performance with Bad Company at London’s O2 Arena in 2016, and had been bedridden ever since, the statement said. No further details on the circumstances of his death were provided. Continue reading...
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