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🚨BREAKING: Motions panel for the CA Ninth Circuit appeal Bennett (Trump), Bumatay (Trump), Sanchez (Biden) has scheduled oral argument tomorrow at 1 pm PT.
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Amy Goodman: I don't call the corporate media the mainstream media. I think we represent the mainstream.
Those who care about war and peace, the climate catastrophe, LGBTQ issues, racial justice, the immigrant crackdown—are not a fringe minority.
Not even a silent majority, but the silenced majority, silenced by the corporate media, which is why we have to take it back.
Mark P Jaramillo retweeted
This is exactly right — it’s corporate media, not “mainstream” media. It’s literally not the mainstream.
Amy Goodman: I don't call the corporate media the mainstream media. I think we represent the mainstream.
Those who care about war and peace, the climate catastrophe, LGBTQ issues, racial justice, the immigrant crackdown—are not a fringe minority.
Not even a silent majority, but the silenced majority, silenced by the corporate media, which is why we have to take it back.
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Make him veto Medicare for All
Make him veto a $25 living wage
Make him veto free childcare
Make him veto Block the Bombs to Israel
Make him veto zero aid to Israel
Make him veto free college
Make him veto erasing student loans
Make him veto taxes on billionaires
.@SenBrianSchatz says that if Democrats take the Senate, the party's left wing needs to be strategic about not proposing things "that the president of the United States is guaranteed to veto."
"If we want to be more aspirational, if we want to make more bold policy changes... that's for 2028."
Mark P Jaramillo retweeted
Try to imagine a prominent host on any news or entertainment network in America asking a fellow on-air panelist ‘You want more Jews in positions of power? You want more Black people in positions of power?’
Just try and imagine that. Try.
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To be clear: the Republican guest said Abdul El-Sayed goes to bed in "Bin Laden's jersey" and CNN host Dana Bash said nothing, not a word of condemnation of her Republican guest - only the Democratic guest Guy Cecil pushed back, on his own.
At the end of the segment, Bash said she "appreciated" the Republican guest coming on. Is it because she shares his bigoted view of El-Sayed being a Bin Laden sympathizer?
Either way, it's insane how normalized the Islamophobia has become on mainstream cable news.
CNN's ‘Inside Politics’ panel on Wednesday blew up when former NRSC director Jason Theilman echoed Louisiana GOP Senator John Kennedy, saying that when El-Sayed “goes to bed at night, it looks like he’s sleeping in Bin Laden’s jersey,” which was followed by brief outrage from Dana Bash and former DSCC director Guy Cecil.
At the end of the interview, Bash thanked Cecil for freaking out and telling the Republican, “you’ll apologize later,” and said, “I think it was important what you said.”
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Michigan senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed (@AbdulElSayed) is noticing a disconnect between the questions voters are asking and the media's fixations. New pod tomorrow!
Mark P Jaramillo retweeted
As you watch Elon Musk burn through 300 million dollars plus in these midterms, like it’s nothing (it is nothing to him!), on candidates who are crooks like Ken Paxton, remember the case for a wealth tax.
Mark P Jaramillo retweeted
Cruelty is the point: Rachel Maddow is reporting 10 million Americans will be kicked off Medicaid on Jan 1, and 20 million more will be ruined by skyrocketing ACA premiums.
The Trump regime's timing is pure barbarism. It was designed to brutalize regular Americans by pulling the rug out from under people the second the midterms ended and all the votes were locked in — with ZERO fucks given to the human suffering it will cause.
Forcing working class families to choose between buying food and losing life-saving healthcare isn't just a cynical Republican policy decision, it's a cruel and sadistic betrayal of 30 million Americans.
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In case you were wondering if Larry Ellison would use his partial ownership of TIKTok to shut down the exposure of his billionaire buddies and their weirdness, corruption and grifting … wonder no more. TikTok just shut down the media page of the world renowned, Oscar winning director Alex Gibney’s documentary film “MUSK”. The comprehensive documentary on all things Elon. It’s more f&@&’d then you can imagine. The best thing any of us can do now is to go see it! It will blow your mind. Billionaire broke mind virus. Hear it from the people who have known Elon over the years. #BrokeMindVirus
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CNN pay a contributor who puts the word Islamophobia in scare quotes. I’m trying to imagine CNN paying a contributor who attacked a Jewish candidate while dismissing antisemitism in scare quotes.
I can’t.
This is how liberal media normalizes rightwing Islamophobia. Sadly.
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How about we stop using troops as performing monkeys?
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The portion of Lesley Stahl's story where she both sides the "rigging claim" with an Obama clip felt forced. I wonder if we will learn more about how and why it was inserted there.
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Here is a preview of election day in November.
On Friday, the Justice Department threatened to prosecute California election officials who knowingly count mail-in ballots from people the Trump administration identified as “likely noncitizens.”
This Sunday, 60 Minutes reports on state and local election officials who are resisting what they see as pressure from Washington. 60Minutes.com
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The GOP is filled with Nazis at every level, across the country.
Meanwhile the ADL and Greenblatt are laser focused on pro-Palestine college students and Muslim members of Congress.
Madness.
#NV03
AP: Online forum controlled by Nevada GOP House candidate Marty O’Donnell contains slurs and Nazi talk
A user suggested in March 2024 that the Nazis “did some good things” that were “completely overshadowed by the terrible things they did.”
Another that month asked, “Was Hitler really an evil guy?”
“Like aside from the Holocaust,” the user added, “did he really even do anything wrong?”
In February, a third member posted, “Heil Hitler.”
apnews.com/article/marty-odo…
Mark P Jaramillo retweeted
Not staying quiet about a failed status quo in the name of unity. Not going to betray voters done with the donor class.
Tax the Billionaires
Medicare for All
Free childcare
Free college and trade schools
No Aid to Israel
I am a New Deal Democrat, not a Chuck Schumer Democrat.
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