If you follow me, but aren't horrified/angered by Israel's campaign of slaughter and starvation in Gaza and ethnic cleansing in the West Bank, please explain.
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I'm RT-ing my response to someone yesterday.
Our government wasn't like this, even 30 yrs ago.
There's one main reason why it's this way.
It doesn't have to be.
Federally fund campaigns.
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What you're describing is a symptom, rather than a root cause.
An @npratc piece circa 1980 said big business was afraid voters would punish them if they donated too heavy-handedly and appeared to be buying the government they wanted. (Remember that PACs were a new thing.)
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Professor Richard Wolff, a highly prominent American Marxian economist, author, and professor emeritus.
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Trump: We were in the midst of negotiating and a lot of stupid people said why aren’t you putting Russian sanctions—
Collins: But you said you didn’t give anything for his release
Trump: If I didn’t do that, you wouldn’t have him coming back.
Collins: So you did give something.
Trump: You don’t know anything. You’re fake news CNN.
Collins: You’re saying you lifted the sanctions in exchange for his release?
Trump: You don’t know what you’re talking about. You’re a low IQ person. You’re a dummy.
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Democrats can’t afford to return to the pre-Trump status quo. Working Americans were being screwed then & it's worse now.
We need to pass Medicare for All, tax billionaire wealth, ban SuperPACs & change our overly militarized foreign policy.
We must rewire our broken politics.
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An investigation suggests that the "American company Axon still supplies Israel with Taser weapons despite evidence they have been used to torture prisoners." trib.al/nIIyaow
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UPDATE: 3 Charlotte cops resign after an internal investigation revealed a competition to see who can arrest the most Black people
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Now with the full return of measles to America we’ll need to find ways to protect infants 5-11 months not yet old enough to receive their first dose of MMR vaccine. In low income countries with lots of measles transmission they recommend a dose at 6 months and then again at 12 months and a third dose by age 5. We’re pretty much at that tipping point here’s my article @AnnalsofIM acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/…
Protect your baby from measles with 2 doses of measles vaccine.
1️⃣ In countries where measles is common, it is vital to give the first dose around 9 months of age; in other countries, at 12-15 months of age.
2️⃣ Give the second dose later in childhood to ensure full protection.
Remember: Infants can be vaccinated around 6 months of age if there is an outbreak or before travel to endemic countries.
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GRANDPASAURUS: “FARMERS — Most of the $8 BILLION bailout will go to corporate farms… meanwhile you’re losing billions from Trump’s SNAP & USAID cuts… what’s your plan for 2027?” 🧑🌾
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The man was Somali. I wanted to add that since that community has become a punching bag of sorts in rightwing media.
A SOMALI American rescued a busload of children.
A Minnesota man is opening up after he saved nearly 20 children when their school bus driver suffered a medical emergency.
Read more: abcnews.link/t1I488m
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🚨 Oracle publicó hoy una alerta de seguridad para Java: CVE-2026-91403, CVSS 9.1.
Está en JSSE (el TLS de Java) y es explotable por red sin credenciales.
Versiones afectadas que lista: Java SE 8u511, 11.0.33, 17.0.21, 21.0.13, 25.0.5 y 27.0.1, y GraalVM.
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NOW: Haaretz, citing White House sources, states that the United States is shifting in favor of a preemptive strike on Iran.
The reason? Because Hegseth has new intelligence that was given to him by Bibi Netanyahu after his surprise visit to Israel.
You’ve GOT to be kidding me…
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James Talarico: “We’ve all been focused on the wrong 1%. You heard a lot about trans people in this race, they’re 1% of the population. You’ve heard about Muslims in this race from Republicans, they’re 1% of the population. Even undocumented immigrants are 1% of the population. We are focused on the wrong 1% because the only minority destroying America is the billionaire class and it’s time that we tax them, make them pay their fair share so we can invest in education and healthcare”
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The Department of Homeland Security is openly engaging in an unprecedented, partisan campaign to intervene in the midterm elections. My latest piece @NewYorker surveys the effort and looks at what it means at the local level: newyorker.com/news/the-polit…
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New Hampshire Gov. Kelly Ayotte signed a law easing oversight of data center power providers.
She previously sat on the board of one such company — and her former stock holdings could now be worth more than $1 MILLION. Now she's calling for a data center pause.
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BREAKING: major development in our case on ICE at the polls
The judge granted our request for expedited discovery & we’ll seek answers about threats & their impact on voters
@dd_fund @NAACP @OCANational @NatUrbanLeague @SEIU @AFTunion @UFCW
@GoIUPAT MFenAccion MN8 &others-TN
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This response is so telling. They literally can't imagine that Brad + the Jews who went with him feel a genuine moral + even religious obligation to try to protect Palestinians from harm. It's like looking at the Jews who went to Mississippi for Freedom Summer and asking: What's their real angle?
Is @bradlander a provocateur? Absolutely. Did he come looking for a spectacle to burnish his far-left credentials? Without a doubt.
Was the IDF justified in removing him from an area where an uncoordinated olive harvest was taking place? Yes. But did doing so play directly into his hands? Also yes (just google his name and see the number of articles all over the world).
We can argue all day that Lander was wrong and Israel was right, but that misses the point. In his political circles, he is now the victim of Israeli aggression, which is exactly the image he came looking for. Israel should have known better than to give him what he wanted.
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This a good piece on what’s driving nurse turnover at hospitals. Most of the factors are shaped by the employer (hospitals) and reflect monopsony power. Low pay drives turnover. Understaffing drives turnover. Even safety is shaped in part by the hospital—patients get irate when they wait too long. Good anecdote at the end of how Emory cut turnover by boosting pay.
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In psychology, it’s called outgroup, homogeneity bias. White folks are allowed to be individuals. You can’t collectively judge them. But Somali are called criminals by Trump even when this man is a hero.
He’s Somali-American & Muslim. But no mention of his ethnicity or religion.
Because if it l were to be a crime he committed then his race would have been mentioned. #Minnesota