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Uniting progressive activists & organizations with Democratic politics online to defeat Trump & GOP extremists and build a just, democratic, equitable New York!

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#UniteBlue is back connecting the left and building a resistance to the Trump Agenda! Join us: https://t.co/8mAnlwEUuE

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@tparsi He did the same thing with Zelenskyy, it’s kiss Trump’s ass or else…the problem of course is that Trump never should have listened to Netanyahu in the first place WHICH IS WHY the details of the meeting with Bibi were leaked to the NYT: Vance and Rubio opposed the Iran strikes!

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@woolyonezeez @WUTangKids Meanwhile they seem needed in all those scenes of people trampling on cars. Maybe they don’t assign so many when the president isn’t there jinxing us?

[Reuters @Reuters]

The $TRUMP meme coin generated about $616 million for the Trump family, while buyers lost more than $700 million, according to Reuters' estimates. The coin has tumbled 97% from its January 2025 peak https://t.co/D6RjrGkMnV @specialreports

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@DaveBaggett4 @amitylee13 He’s a true genious

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@RantoulRobert @nbaefficianato @EmmaVigeland Except when the agitators are planted Mossad, Kremlin or white nationalists right? https://t.co/pXdm35DXwo

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@EmmaVigeland Every single day is a pump and dump of commodities as Trump manipulates industry for profit and uses inside information - exactly the Republican complaint about Pelosi. Guess they don’t really care!

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@GeoRebekah I guess the folks watching the kids were catching a nap?

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@shannonfordUSA Kids are taught: if you make a claim, back it up with evidence.

Trump said he doesn’t need to. He thinks he is a king.

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@mkraju REPORTER: What evidence is there?

JOHNSON: You tell me…

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NBA superstars being checked for weapons is so on-brand for Trump who is insanely desperate for attention.

[L'Équipe @lequipe]

Wembanyama contrôlé à son arrivée, sécurité renforcée autour du Madison Square Garden avant la venue de Trump pour le match 3 de la finale NBA entre New York et San Antonio ➡️ https://t.co/i3TvW6SxCt

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@libertymaniacs @Acyn Can you share the evidence

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@HalosRamsFan @MocklerHQ How is it not a prohibited emolument? And what about contracts for his sons to build drones? They have never built a peas shooter before…

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@StaceyM91582 @Truegreta All 50 states have federal roads, bridges, parks + monuments crumbling to pieces as he is building ballrooms and totally useless decorative vanity arches.

So are you applying the same standard to Trump who campaigned on a $1T infrastructure bill but RENEGED once in office?

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NOT SURPRISED: The whole idea here is for Trump to reward criminals who commit crimes for him:

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NEW: A stunning new project from @lawfare's Katherine Pompilio finds that 97 Jan. 6ers who received clemency for their role in the Capitol riot then got arrested, charged, and/or convicted with subsequent crimes—a number much higher than previously reported.

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@StaceyM91582 @Truegreta It was designed to be a dark grey. Trump said the new color is “like a swimming pool”. So you’re ok changing the color but are you ok with Trump bypassing the National Historic Preservation Act process required before making changes to historic properties? https://t.co/Dz2yBF5ZmA

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@StaceyM91582 @Truegreta Would you agree the base color needs to be what the original designer intended?

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@nytimes https://t.co/RaNtIgCwLg

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

It's kind of wild to find out that the Republican in the NYT story that says she had a toxic relationship with Graham Platner is Lyndsey Fifield. Having been in DC for too long, I know a decent number of people who know her quite well. For a long time she was the co-host of a podcast with her best friend Bethany Mandel, called Ladybrains, though she has also worked for multiple super PACs, the Chamber of Commerce, and the Heritage Foundation.

Some background, presented without judgment: In 2014, Fifield began work as digital director for American Action Network, a Republican Super PAC that oversees House races. The next year she became social media manager for the Heritage Foundation, where she stayed for the next seven years.

In 2022, she joined the Super PAC backing Nikki Haley for president, switching to the official campaign side the next year, and staying until the campaign flamed out. She now lists herself as a visiting fellow at the Independent Women’s Forum, a prominent dark money group that is best known for helping usher Brett Kavanaugh on to the Supreme Court and giving Susan Collins the talking points she needed to make her decisive speech in his favor.

The NYT breezed past all this, saying she was "a Virginia conservative who has worked for right-leaning groups and Republican campaigns."

In an interview for a news outlet called Red Alert Politics that named her to a “30 under 30” list back in 2016, she said that she wanted to “emulate the late conservative blogger Andrew Breitbart’s approach to online activism.” Breitbart, known for pushing the boundaries when it came to political combat, is perhaps best remembered for having exposed Anthony Weiner’s penchant for sending nudes to young girls, and for his work elevating James O’Keefe.

That she worked for Independent Women's Forum recently is even wilder since IWF played a critical role in Kavanaugh's confirmation and in persuading Collins to support it.

Heather Higgins, chair of IWF, laid out the group’s role in a talk several years ago. “We wrote a memo. It was used by a lot of members of the Senate and the House, Fox News, and elsewhere. Most important, Susan Collins told me that without that memo, she would not see how to support him,” Higgins said. “And if you look at the speech she gave on the Senate floor, it’s entirely the playing out and architecture of how we said to structure the argument — what to say and how to say it, which is just so gratifying. We’re watching TV and we’re like, ‘That’s ours! That’s ours!’”

Meanwhile, the timeline Fifield gives of their relationship is confusing, because during at least some of that time she was actually dating a different person, her longterm boyfriend who became her fiancee before she called off the wedding in 2018. We all know this because she and Mandel did a podcast episode on it that went mega-viral in Republican circles back then. Apparently this is the kind of thing the NYT thinks is important now, so I guess it requires more reporting. I'll report back.

Here is Heather Higgins celebrating IWF's role in getting Susan Collins to confirm Kavanaugh:

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@Floridap8triot Almost like we needed the infrastructure bill Trump ran on and failed to deliver.

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Let me get a little technical here on the New York bill on Surveillance Pricing. It's a good bill, from @EmeritaTorresNY.

But what makes it a good bill is that people who are harmed by, say, being charged more for diapers because their data profile says they are in a rush, can sue.

Without that, all the harms would fall on the New York Attorney General to bring cases. And the NYAG ALREADY HAS authority to sue under the states unfair, deceptive, abusive pricing laws. I worked in that office, and its great, but it doesn't have anywhere near the resources we need to hold big tech accountable.

The key to making the law real is that people who are harmed who can sue. That's called the "Private Right of Action." Insist on it.

I promise you, it is THE thing the Chamber of Commerce is trying to pry out of there as we speak. They don't mind symbolic laws being passed, they mind laws that could actually be enforced being passed.