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Brenda Cardenas

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Wisconsin Poet Laureate, author of TRACE (Red Hen Press, 2023) and BOOMERANG (Bilingual Press), and three chapbooks. Co-editor of Between the Heart and the Land: Latina Poets in the Midwest and Resist Much/Obey Little: Inaugural Poems to the Resistance.

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Airlines Are Collecting Your Data And Selling It To ICE An aviation industry clearinghouse is collecting passenger information from billions of past and future flights and selling it to Trump’s immigration enforcers.

An aviation industry clearinghouse is collecting passenger information from billions of past and future flights and selling it to Trump’s immigration enforcers.
www.levernews.com/airlines-are...

12.05.2025 17:28 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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The rise of end times fascism | Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor The governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them

www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

16.04.2025 04:10 👍 2 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0

Right on! He was smart, impassioned, and truthful throughout. I watched almost the entire speech. I had hope for the first time since the fascists took over.

02.04.2025 03:38 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Thank you so much Senator Booker. I watched almost almost your entire 25 hour speech, and I was moved, and I had hope for the first time since the fascists took over a country.

02.04.2025 03:36 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

money can’t buy everything, eLon

02.04.2025 02:48 👍 2456 🔁 262 💬 61 📌 24
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Hands Off! South-East Wisconsin Fights Back · Hands Off **Donald Trump and Elon Musk think this country belongs to them. South-East Wisconsin is fighting back at the Federal Building location! They're taking everything they can get their hands on—our heal...

mobilize.us/s/vVjNYH
Protests throughout the country, including Milwaukee, Wisconsin this coming Saturday, April 5.

01.04.2025 19:50 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Senator Cory Booker (@senbooker) is LIVE - TikTok LIVE Speaking on Trump, Musk, and Ame | Watch Senator Cory Booker (@senbooker)'s LIVE on TikTok and interact with others in real time.

Corey Booker has been holding the senate floor for 18 hours in an attempted filibuster! Sign out to his TikTok account and give him some love and support! www.tiktok.com/t/ZT2Tao1Tb/

01.04.2025 17:07 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Free Mahmoud Khalil and protect students exercising their First Amendment rights! Sign the petition to demand Mahmoud Khalil be immediately released and threats against his legal status be dropped! And call on members of Congress and university leaders to protect and defend the rig...

Sign the petition to demand Mahmoud Khalil be immediately released and threats against his legal status be dropped! And call on members of Congress and university leaders to protect and defend the right for students to organize and protest. sign.moveon.org/petitions/fr...

19.03.2025 19:31 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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West Ada teacher stands firm after she’s told to remove ‘Everyone is welcome here’ signs Sarah Inama said she was told by administrators that her signs “don’t allow people to express differing opinions.”

A teacher in Idaho has been told to remove posters reading "Everyone is welcome here" - specifically because it features different skin tones. As I wrote last week, this is a global political movement that has explicitly set the goal of eradicating the very concept of equality.

15.03.2025 11:12 👍 7742 🔁 2930 💬 303 📌 364
Rep. Jasmine Crockett

Rep. Jasmine Crockett

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Gov. JB Pritzker

Gov. JB Pritzker

Gov. Tim Walz

Gov. Tim Walz

these are our party leaders now, ignore all other opinions

15.03.2025 13:54 👍 69233 🔁 13205 💬 2772 📌 1063

That is both messed up and disgraceful! You can’t just delete history!

Arlington National Cemetery has removed information about prominent Black, Hispanic, and female service members, as well as topics such as the Civil War, from its website.

15.03.2025 15:07 👍 24863 🔁 7556 💬 1332 📌 738
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Green card holder from New Hampshire 'interrogated' at Logan Airport, detained Fabian Schmidt’s family said they are unsure of why he is being held. They said he has a recently renewed green card, and no active issues in court.

“Schmidt being “violently interrogated” at Logan Airport for hours, and being stripped naked, put in a cold shower by two officials, and being put back onto a chair.”

Whatever happened to #abolishICE? It needs to be abolished. This is torture.

15.03.2025 16:32 👍 15410 🔁 6161 💬 937 📌 674
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a black and white photo of a man in a suit and hat ALT: a black and white photo of a man in a suit and hat

I’m not leaving the Dem party. I’ve been here for 33 years. If guys like Schumer wanna vote with republicans, THEY can leave the Dem party and join the GOP.

15.03.2025 18:43 👍 12790 🔁 1806 💬 558 📌 126
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Indivisible Calls on Schumer to Step Aside

NEWS: After an emergency meeting of Indivisible groups across the country, Indivisible is officially calling on Senate Minority Leader Schumer to step down from his leadership position. indivisible.org/statements/i...

15.03.2025 21:47 👍 33430 🔁 8102 💬 912 📌 681

I think some in the Senate have convinced themselves that the backlash to folding will be limited to “the left” and therefore ignorable.

Those people are deeply and profoundly misreading the moment and the stakes.

Virtually every swing district House Dem walked the plank to vote NO for a reason.

14.03.2025 02:46 👍 131855 🔁 24407 💬 4972 📌 1463
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AOC Claps Back With Brutal Reminder After Mike Johnson Tried To Blame Democrats For Possible Shutdown Preach, AOC!

Tell 'em, AOC!! 👏

14.03.2025 15:32 👍 6413 🔁 1076 💬 108 📌 45

Fuck every single one of those Dem sellout who screwed us all. Pieces of shit. No wonder so many people didn’t vote in the last election. We could never count on them.

15.03.2025 06:22 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Thou Shalt Fire Chuck Schumer! God has spoken.

Can God get an amen?

The coward Chuck Schumer should have been replaced eight years ago. Just look this at picture from 2017. This should have been enough right here!

14.03.2025 18:35 👍 9613 🔁 1738 💬 448 📌 103
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14.03.2025 20:27 👍 30221 🔁 8452 💬 1353 📌 429

These are the senators who collaborated with the GOP.

Schumer
Fetterman
Cortez Masto
Durbin
King
Shaheen
Gillibrand
Schatz
Hassan
Peters

Don’t let them forget it. No peace for them.

14.03.2025 20:57 👍 59101 🔁 19806 💬 4021 📌 2285

Cool so what happens if GOP attach a national abortion ban to a CR? You'll vote for that too?

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14.03.2025 22:50 👍 85998 🔁 13842 💬 5038 📌 817

I’m so pissed at those sellouts. This is exactly why a number of people didn’t vote at all. I wasn’t one of them. I voted for Harris. However, I understand how disenfranchised people are sick of so many Democrats not having a damn spine.

15.03.2025 06:19 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Among the material devastation to everyday people, Senate Dems have now blown a hole in their ability to work with the House.

We had an agreed upon plan, House took immense risk, then Senate turned around midway and destroyed it w/ a fear-based, inexplicable abdication.

They own what happens next.

14.03.2025 23:18 👍 129366 🔁 25265 💬 5680 📌 1532

Enough support? These fragile Dems should not be providing any support at all--not one damn vote. It's time for them to take off the fucking gloves and overthrow these SOBs.

12.03.2025 22:21 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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12.03.2025 21:22 👍 16031 🔁 3315 💬 710 📌 137
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Trump Is Still Trying to Undermine Elections Now that Trump has installed election deniers throughout his Administration, he has been busy dismantling the guardrails protecting voting and voters.

Felon 47 is doing everything he can to undermine fair elections.
www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

12.03.2025 22:18 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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12.03.2025 19:38 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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The universities are next Friends,

The universities are next
open.substack.com/pub/robertre...

11.03.2025 03:07 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0