Itās time to kick ICE out of all our cities, everywhere. This armed, violent, lawless agency has terrorized one city after another…
Gaza is being starved ā deliberately, with cruel intention and shocking inhumanity. The photos of skeletal children haunt me. At night when I close my…
After spending months firing federal workers, slashing public services, gutting healthcare, and raising taxes for everyone but the rich, our country just wasted hundreds…
Itās been a long six weeks since Donald Trump was sworn into office amid a Nazi salute and a machine-gun barrage of 89…
DOGEās hiring site has become a focal point for cathartic and even strategic outrage, underscoring the important role humor and rebellious defiance…
Iām tired of the violence. Arenāt you? Some days, it seems relentless. A mass shooting at a school. Another youth killed by…
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After the shooting at former President Trumpās campaign rally, many people rushed to say that āpolitical violence has no place in our…
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