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Path forward: "Instead of defending a system that has been rejected, we need to articulate an alternative vision for what kind of democracy comes next."
Gift article - please read!
nytimes.com/2024/11/08/opini…
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We have a loved one scheduled to be on this flight. He will be killed if he’s returned to the Taliban. He supported the US mission in Afghanistan. He has broken no laws. He came here legally. Seeking asylum should not be a death sentence.
Breaking News: The Trump administration has detained dozens of Afghan immigrants in Louisiana — including relatives of those who helped the U.S. military — and plans to deport them to Afghanistan, according to U.S. officials. nyti.ms/4jPVvrw
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Breaking. This week alone, the U.S. Treasury has borrowed a record $839 billion,
In just 7 days, Trump’s added more to our national debt, than Biden averaged for each year of his presidency, even including the Covid stimulus.
Where’s it all gone to, and where’s that tariff money?
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Economist (and Nobel laureate) Paul Krugman: “Control of Starlink must, one way or another, be taken away from Elon Musk. It’s a matter of national security: we cannot let private individuals make foreign and defense policy, and it would be totally irresponsible to leave a crucial military asset in the hands of a racist, authoritarian conspiracy theorist.”
paulkrugman.substack.com/p/i…
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What a betrayal. The US is not good to its word.
Breaking News: The Trump administration has detained dozens of Afghan immigrants in Louisiana — including relatives of those who helped the U.S. military — and plans to deport them to Afghanistan, according to U.S. officials. nyti.ms/4jPVvrw
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Thanks to Trump, we Dutch have gone from respecting the United States to shaking our heads in disbelief at what America has become. Every year, on May 4 and 5, we remember the horrors of World War II and celebrate our liberation. We have never forgotten the American soldiers who helped free us from the Nazis. We still honor those who gave their lives on Dutch soil.
And what happened under Trump? American authorities removed memorial panels honoring Black American soldiers at the military cemetery in Margraten, because they feared angering his administration. Imagine that. Men who helped liberate our country, whose sacrifices we still honor more than 80 years later, had their stories taken off display because of Trump's political agenda.
What a fucking disgrace.
We haven't forgotten what those American soldiers did for us. And we won't forget what happened in Margraten either.
It's time for America to turn the page on Trump. We Dutch dealt Geert Wilders an electoral defeat. You Americans have the power to do the same to Trump and his sick, far-right political movement.
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🧵Three blacklisted supertankers holding 140,000 tons of Russian fuel are drifting in circles in the Atlantic because the White House begged US traders to buy Putin's diesel, and literally zero buyers answered the phone. 1/🧵
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"New records obtained by KARE 11 show the company that owned a vacant private prison in Appleton, Minnesota offered to sell it to the state in 2025 for $75 million.
One year later, the Trump administration agreed to use taxpayer funds to buy the same abandoned prison from CoreCivic, Inc., for $495.6 million.
The price difference, $420 million, is more than taxpayers are estimated to have lost in Minnesota’s much-publicized Feeding Our Future fraud scandal." kare11.com/article/news/inve…
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Trump promised to “Drain the Swamp.” Then he made $2 billion off the presidency.
He promised to “Make America Healthy Again.” Then he took healthcare from 15 million people.
He promised “No More Wars.” Then he attacked Iran.
Say NO to Trump. Say NO to a Republican Congress.
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Remember the diesel deal Trump made with Putin?
Well, the diesel isn't coming to the US because importing Russian fuel has been illegal since 2022.
Yet, the US paid for it anyway.
The art of the deal, baby.
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这女子叫Lulu Freistadt，她是“智能选举（Smart Elections）”组织的联合创始人兼执行董事。她表示自己从 2021 年起一直在纽约市担任投票站监督员（poll watcher）。
事件经过：
她提到昨天（投票期间）她在纽约布朗克斯（Bronx）的一个投票点做监督工作。
起初一切正常，投票人数与扫描的选票数量对得上，她本准备离开。
但随后她发现一件非常奇怪的事：所有的投票站工作人员（poll workers）都在清点并准备离开，而投票机却仍然开着、没有上锁、没有密封，选票也还没有被取出。
按照正常程序，每台投票机都应由指定的投票工作人员负责关闭、密封并取出选票。但现场的机器和选票完全处于未密封状态。
交涉与冲突：
当她坐下等待工作人员按规定处理选票时，协调员（coordinator）开始变得焦躁不安，并打电话给副首席书记官（deputy chief clerk）。对方告诉她必须离开。
她指出根据法规，投票监督员有权留在现场直到投票结束、选票被取出并放入密封容器中。
尽管她据理力争，但工作人员和警察还是要求她离开，现场只留下一名技术人员在无人监督的情况下关闭投票机。
结尾：她强调这种不符合规范的做法为作弊提供了可乘之机，并呼吁大家关注和转发。
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Today we’re releasing our tally of corruption in Trump’s Washington.
$377 billion. And that’s just what you can see.
The documentary & data are now LIVE at CORRUPTIONLAND.org
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Alex Pretti's father: Our son was shot and killed by the government, federal immigration agents, on January 24th, 2026. We learned about his death from the media as we saw him being shot repeatedly in the back after helping a woman from his community. This was not a protest that Alex was at. His hands were in the air, and his face was on the ground when he was executed by ICE agents. We know exactly what our eyes saw. No one from the federal government called us on that day. But they did go on TV to tell lies about Alex. No one has called us since. No one has recanted those lies.