The old America is dying.
A new America is struggling to be born.
Now is a time of monsters.
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I get it now.
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"While our diversity is what makes the U.S. the greatest country in the world, it also poses our biggest challenge to putting a successful soccer team on the field."
Subscribe to @AlexiLalas' State of the Union Podcast: foxs.pt/2nApPt2
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"He glanced at the sun and sky, taking his leave of earth, and said to his companions: 'This is a beautiful country; I have not cast my eyes over it before—that is, in this direction.'"
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A new polls finds that 59 percent of US adults disapprove of the Republican-controlled Supreme Court.
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Bernie Sanders is Jewish
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Around the millionth time I read that the Jewish "mainstream" is insisting to the Biden admin that the IHRA def of antisemitism is the one and only, I decided to expose the power play of the "mainstream."
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So…what then would fix the current problem? The thing you absolutely cannot get, ie, actual negotiations where both sides get something of value, rather than one side agreeing not to do something existentially insane? Wake up!!!
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A review essay I wrote in current issue of NYRB on Jim Oakes's new book on antislavery constitutionalism. History for open minds.
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Great story from in on Punjabi-run roadside stops, called dhabas, that have waaaay more delicious food than stopping by name-your-same-old-fast-food-chain.
They are all over the U.S. and started a map...
wapo.st/43fEyuX
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"A stone found in the eye of a sea turtle, placed under the tongue, provides knowledge of the unseen world."
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The Pentagon announced in March its largest-ever budget: $842 billion. Almost half will go to defense contractors. A six-month 60 Minutes investigation found that contractors are overcharging the Pentagon on almost everything.
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In this era of corporate greed and union busting, management seems to hold all the cards. Except for the most important ones: Unity; Solidarity; Fraternity. All of us win when the writers win. And we will win. Union! Strike! #wgastrike #UnionStrong #Succession
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Along U.S. highways, roadside Punjabi restaurants called dhabas are popping up to serve American truckers, almost 20% of whom are of Punjabi descent.
I visited one along the I-40 in Vega, a small town in the Texas Panhandle. Read the story here:
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NEW: 66 CPC members are calling on to prepare all possible measures, including invoking the 14th Amendment, to protect our economy.
We don't need to give into Republican extortion or default. The Constitution grants the President another option.
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“Countries look around the world, and they just can’t understand it”
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You can donate to my campaign for change from change here:
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This is so clear-eyed and so funny and so depressing
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‘To swing is not only to play, but to open disorienting passages into transgressive spaces.’ On the rich history of the swing
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“As an expression of love at first sight, daguerreotype romances offered a particular advantage; they made encountering a stranger a less unwieldy experience.”
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The divine love and mystic connection of qawwali, always leads us to meet the great spiritual experience. The album features Jogi De Naal by Zain Zohaib, performed in Music of the Mystics (Qawwali Documentary series).
fanna.bandcamp.com/album/qawwali-
#zainzohaib #fanafillah #HAIDERIUM
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AOC spoke to Playbook about the hand Kevin McCarthy is playing in the debt limit talks, progressive backlash to Biden’s remarks on work requirements and how she thinks about using her public influence at a moment like this. More in Playbook:
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“The sun casts pyramid shadows on packed sand. A girl awakens to be seventeen. The heat is hot on the street. Sand in teeth. "Sister!" her boyfriend says. He gives her love poems written with the picture language.“
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Adams is fond of quoting Tutu saying "We need to stop just pulling people out of the river. We need to go upstream and find out why they’re falling in." suggests he's doing the opposite.
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Interesting study of how the transition to proportional representation in Norway, shortly after women were granted the franchise, reduced the gender turnout gap.
"Electoral systems, more than gender, made women peripheral voters."
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Can certain electoral systems reduce the gender gap in voting? Dawn Langan Teele finds transitioning from a majoritarian system to a proportional representation system produces a "dramatic fall in the gender turnout gap."
#APSRNewIssue
#PoliSciResearch
ow.ly/mBCL50OkACz
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DC friends, join , , , , , , , and us for a special evening on May 24 to support the Squad Victory Fund and help build national progressive power!
RSVP: Squadfundraiser.com
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A change from change? Lol
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Today, I announced my primary challenge against @JamaalBowmanNY to millions of my supporters. It’s time for a change from change.
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Today, I announced my primary challenge against @JamaalBowmanNY to millions of my supporters. It’s time for a change from change.
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saying “the dinosaur” establishment “roared” against the work of grassroots orgs and everyday Philadelphians building power within their communities isnt the “win” he thinks it is…
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@BobBradyPHL, Chairman of the @PHLDems released this statement following Tuesday’s Primary Election:
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Today, I announced my primary challenge against to millions of my supporters. It’s time for a change from change.
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The political purpose and outcome of Republican racism is clear as day here.
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Marjorie Taylor Greene wants her base to fear because he’s building a multiracial coalition capable of making her billionaire GOP donors pay their fair share and provide health care for all. Her divide-and-conquer politics must end.
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Sen Fetterman signs onto the push by Senate progressives to encourage President Biden to use the 14th amendment to avoid default -->
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President Biden needs to consider using the 14th Amendment if necessary.
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Marjorie Taylor Greene says that when people like Jamaal Bowman call her a white supremacist it's "like calling a person a color the n-word"
"His physical mannerisms are aggressive ... I feel threatened by him," Greene adds of Bowman
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Most Americans probably don’t realize that the United States is one of the *only* developed democracies in the world with a semi-permanently gridlocked government because of its perpetually divided executive and legislative branches.
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What is it like living under Israeli occupation?
In the latest ep of Bloc Party, chats with and about the freedoms, big & small, that are stripped from millions of Palestinians living under occupation.
Full ep: pod.link/blocpartypodca
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Scoop: 5 Senate Ds circulating letter urging Biden to prep 14th Amendment, bypass GOP on debt limit, per copy we got
Signals strong anger w/ direction of talks, work requirements floated by WH
“Seemingly impossible” to reach bipartisan deal right now
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