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SCOOP: The State Dept has started asking career diplomats up for promotion if they voted for Trump in 16, 20, 24.
Federal law prohibits politically based hiring for career staff.
State tells @washingtonsun it's screening for "fidelity" and execution of the president's vision👇
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Enemies of Labor 13: J. Edgar Hoover.
Hoover spent nearly 50 years running the FBI—and much of that time was spent monitoring people he considered political radicals, including labor organizers.
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"Ordinarily, moving historical items within the building is a deliberate process overseen by curators. Hegseth’s staff dispatched its own team to relocate an Eisenhower globe. They dropped it...The resulting gash appears to be several inches wide."
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Billionaires and corporate America didn’t get lucky in court. It rigged the bench against working people, judge by judge. Our new report with @Groundwork exposes the judges doing billionaires' bidding: nominationnotes.substack.com…
For the conservative legal movement, the only constitutional response to inequality is to perpetuate it. ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/a…
This is neither normal nor acceptable. Why won’t the GOP live in the reality-based community? It’s like they want to throw this country into chaos. It’s not going to pay off the way they think it will.
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A brief review of recent technical “errors” at Meta:
1. Restricting the Facebook pages of Brazilian president Lula who is in a runoff election against a Trump-favored candidate
2. Shutting down the pages of Albanians protesting Jared Kushner’s plans to build a luxury resort in the country
3. Rejecting ads for a documentary critical of Elon Musk
4. Shutting down the No Kings instagram page in the middle of a major anti-Trump protest
The Alito Book Hides the Real History Of Originalism ballsandstrikes.org/legal-cu…
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Yesterday, during the No Kings nationwide early voting Day of Action, the group’s Instagram page was taken down for 90 minutes and its administrators were locked out.
@Meta owes the organizers and the American people an explanation of why it silenced No Kings and undermined its Day of Action.
Today, Saturday, October 17, at ~1:30 PM ET, the administrators of the main #NoKings instagram account lost access & are unable to log in, right in the middle of the day of action. Spread the word & use alt accounts such as #Indivisible. #FreeSpeech #NoFascism
No thank you.
Rahm Emanuel tries out a new primary lane: Democratic ‘consultant in chief’
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Wage theft is a crime. When was the last time anyone went to jail for it? Don’t let it happen to you. Report it and get the money you’ve earned. ✊ #PowerToThePeople
There have been two high-profile instances of suspected wage theft just in the past few weeks. Sergio Flores from NBC 7 and Telemundo 20 Responds explains what to do if this happens to you. trib.al/tb7mOKP
To my mind, there is only one Vision Quest. And it definitely connected emotionally. @MatthewModine
ALT A still of Elmo giving the "six minutes" speech to Louden Swain in the original Vision Quest (1985).
REVIEW: Marvel’s “VisionQuest,” like its protagonist, struggles to connect emotionally.
“The show plays with some clever concepts, particularly in its visual presentation,” writes Variety’s Alison Herman. “But this imagery is larded with so much convoluted backstory and abstract concepts that ‘VisionQuest’ ends up in the exact same predicament as Vision himself, a synthetic being trying and mostly failing to connect with his emotions.”
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She’s right: expand the Court. Working people are getting screwed over by a corrupt court that rules for the oligarchy over workers every time. @KamalaHarris agrees, @KekePalmer agrees: it's time to add justices to SCOTUS.
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No, it’s not illegal for a journalist to record a politician at a press availability when the politician invited the press! Classic Andy Harris. We served together in the Maryland State Senate and Congress for two decades — he's an authoritarian through and through, and can be counted on by tyrants all over the world — Trump, Putin, Orban, J6 insurrectionists. How dare he lecture his constituents about the First Amendment when he wanted to cut off all funds to the University of Maryland because he didn’t approve of a movie a student group showed on campus. If you want to support freedom and progress in Maryland and across America, please help out Dan Schwartz, @Schwartz4_MD1st in these final 20 days!