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Under Bush we had attacks on free speech.
Under Obama we had attacks on free speech.
Under Biden we had attacks on free speech.
Under Trump we have attacks on free speech.
Democrats and Republicans both want to take away your constitutional rights as American citizens and crush dissenting voices that expose corruption in government.
Neither team fights for you. Stop fighting for them.
We need a general strike.
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They killed a 14 year old kid for "intending to throw a stone".
הלילה, במהלך פעילות מבצעית יזומה של כוחות צה"ל לסיכול זריקות אבנים ואירועי טרור בפאתי הכפר בורקא שבחטיבת שומרון, זיהו הכוחות מספר מחבלים שהתכוונו לזרוק אבנים לעבר כביש מהיר בו נוסעים רכבים ישראלים. זאת, במרחב בו יידו אבנים לעבר רכבים ישראלים בעת האחרונה.
הכוחות הגיבו בירי לעברם להסרת סכנה, זוהו פגיעות
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Democrats will have a 56-seat majority in the US Senate. We need to use it. Pass Medicare for All.
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If leadership is cruel to people who challenge them, if they bully members "mafioso-style" to get in line, as one incoming member said - that's even MORE of a reason to reject that leadership.
I mean, am I on another planet here? What the hell is going on? They are saying "We must vote for them because they are threatening us". Dude, that's literally DISQUALIFYING.
You're clearly telling us the party is run by soulless bullies and STILL VOTING FOR THEM.
wtf?
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Israel is still bombing Gaza. They never listened to the ceasefire. Now, they’re bombing the tent encampments. No morality, no decency. Jeffries and Schumer want us to support and fund this. It’s unacceptable to have them as our “leaders” when Democrats voted for exact opposite!
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Nearly a decade in and not a single legislative accomplishment to her name. Just her endorsing people who committed genocide while supporting war against Russia
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Just remember, Jeffries and Schumer oversaw a genocide, an illegal war, a president freely grabbing power and did nothing.
Anyone who tells you that Jeffries is a foregone conclusion is lying to you for personal gain.
Your elected officials making this excuse do not care about your struggles, they only care about their political career aspirations.
"Nothing will fundamentally change" is their motto, including the progressive caucus.
⭕️ It would take just ~43 House Democrats to keep Hakeem Jeffries from becoming speaker. The Congressional Progressive Caucus alone expects more than 100 members in January.
🔹Its chair, Rep. Greg Casar (D-Texas), co-sponsored Rep. Rashida Tlaib's November 2025 resolution "recognizing the genocide of the Palestinian people in Gaza." Now he says he expects to "deliver the votes" for Jeffries. Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.), another co-sponsor, told MS NOW on Monday that Jeffries will have the caucus's unanimous support, calling his expected rise a "pretty historic moment." In all, 22 House Democrats backed the genocide resolution and well over 40 have described Israel’s actions as genocide.
🔹Jeffries has been one of the strongest supporters of Israel’s military response in Gaza. He opposed a July bid to cut off US military aid to Israel, saying it would "restrict our country's ability to confront Hamas, Hezbollah and other terrorist organizations in the region." His promised "reset" wouldn't touch aid until the current 10-year deal expires in 2028.
🔹The math: Speaker needs 218 votes cast for a person by name on Jan 3, 2027. With roughly 260 Democrats, if 43 commit to naming someone else and every Republican votes against Jeffries, he falls short.
🔹It's been done before. In January 2023, about 20 Republicans withheld their votes from Rep. Kevin McCarthy through 15 rounds of voting. He won only after major concessions, including a rule letting any single member force a vote to remove the speaker, which Rep. Matt Gaetz used to oust him nine months later.
🔗 Drop Site's Julian Andreone asked Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), another co-sponsor of the genocide resolution who backs Jeffries, whether progressives could use that kind of leverage.
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Again, you don't need an "alternative." You can write in "Janet Jackson" and if Jeffries doesn't get 118 votes, he's not speaker.
Republicans did this to McCarthy in 2023 over 15 rounds of voting.
“More than a million people signed a petition asking @HouseDemocrats to not elect @RepJeffries speaker— will that carry weight?”
@AOC reiterates that nobody is running against Jeffries, telling @JulianAndreone “it’s not a race right now” so 40+ Dems opposing is unlikely
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Incoming Rep. Don Leonard says top House Democrats have threatened to “make [his] life a living hell” and cost him re-election if he continues attaching conditions to his support for Hakeem Jeffries for speaker.
His conditions: 1) a vote on an amendment to end Citizens United and 2) “end U.S. support for the war in Iran and the country, Israel, that led us into it.”
He says Jeffries is refusing to meet with him and the threats are like something “out of a movie.”
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Everything that's being said is intended to keep you hopeful. Not get results.
"We'll get 'em next time!"
"Wait and see!"
"Keep up the pressure!"
"If X, then we'll y" (when we know x is 100% going to happen, and Y will not).
The progressives' role is to keep you on the Democratic treadmill. Not achieve results. Results require actually challenging their bosses. And they don't get job security doing that.
“If Hakeem and Schumer is elected Speaker [and Majority Leader], don’t immediately pivot to: ‘Burn it all down, it’s all corrupt, we did all this work for nothing, F the system.’ Please DO NOT DO THAT.”
Jamaal Bowman urging people not despair and remain focused should Jeffries and Schumer be elected into leadership
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This video just reminded of how she voted against the railroad union... and thought we wouldn't notice
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Israel did not just commit genocide in Gaza, it committed a systemic ecocide to make the land itself uninhabitable for Palestinians:
Since 2023:
-97% of tree crops have been lost
-95% of shrubland has been lost
-82% of annual crops have been lost
By December 2024, 75% of agricultural land had been damaged or destroyed. 96% of livestock had been lost. 67% of agricultural wells had been destroyed.
34% of Gaza’s coastal zone has been destroyed.
This genocide and ecocide was armed and enabled by the same countries that claim to care about human rights and the environment.
Abby Martin: ‘Wars in the Middle East have gone from GENOCIDE to ECOCIDE.’
‘You look at just the maintenance of a global military empire, the toxification, the dumping, the callous disregard for the environment.
That’s just to maintain the arsenal of military equipment because of the cleaning of the engine parts, the pointless missions of flying these Boeing Pegasuses, which are basically mobile gas stations around, just to keep these machines mission ready.
We're not even talking, we don't know the application of the actual weaponry. We can't even begin to quantify the impact on the environment that war causes.
One just has to look at what is happening across the Middle East today. It is an ecocide in front of our eyes. Genocide turned ecocide.
We see the black soot, the rain, the intentional targeting of oil infrastructure and civilian oil depots and ships. These are crimes against the environment every single day that are not being held to account.
And this isn't even being calculated.
This is just part of the mythology of having a military empire, part of that necessity that's dictated to us by the ruling class that we need this global military empire, that in fact it keeps us safe and in fact it's the solution to climate change.
There's a complete failure of imagination of how we can solve these problems and they just look to the military, the same force that's protecting the fossil fuel corporations and the same force that has exacerbated the crisis that we're in today.’
—@AbbyMartin, Co-Director of ‘Earth’s Greatest Enemy’
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Translation: "Israel starved a Palestinian child to death"
Israel to release body of Palestinian teen who died malnourished in prison haaretz.com/west-bank/2026-1…
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She would be a horrible candidate. She has no legislative accomplishments to her name, she performs abysmally on camera under pressure, and most importantly, lost all credibility as pro-Palestine advocate when she lied about Kamala “tirelessly fighting for a ceasefire.”
Everyone who supports Hakeem Jeffries for speaker because he'd be the first black speaker is just as bad as everyone who supported Hillary Clinton for president because she'd be the first female president.
Americans don't give a fuck about your identity politics when we can't afford groceries, gas, housing, education, and healthcare.
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Called it! Hakeem Jeffries is claiming if you don’t support him for speaker you’re racist! I’m black Hakeem. And I don’t support you for speaker because you support genocide and apartheid just like your buddy Jared Kushner.
CNN: Hakeem Jeffries responds to DSA supporters who chanted "You're next!" at victory party
"It was very interesting to me, as observed by others, that there was almost zero diversity in that crowd."
Link: edition.cnn.com/2026/11/08/p…
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Ro Khanna: “Hakeem Jeffries is going to be speaker and will have the unanimous support of the caucus.”
The people do not want Jeffries for Speaker but the party is going to install him anyway.
Let this be the moment that you finally face the truth: Democrats do not serve the people.
They serve corporations, billionaires, and the Zionist war machine just like Republicans.
