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If you'd like to see and hear @hcrichardson.bsky.social deliver her blow-by-blow account of the lighting of the lamps in the Old North Church – where she gave this address – and the Ride of Paul Revere 250 years ago, someone did us the service of recording it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bv5l...

submitted 56 days ago • 17 comments

Has anyone noticed that the Republican discourse about North Carolina’s storm recovery vanished after the election? Nothing. Not a peep from them. Probably because they don’t want you to know THEY LITERALLY DENIED FUNDING FOR NORTH CAROLINA THIS WEEK! Crazy how that works!

submitted 56 days ago • 102 comments

I don’t think a better headline could have been written about what happened yesterday. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

submitted 61 days ago • 1191 comments

The parents should be charged with manslaughter or child neglect at the very least.

submitted 96 days ago • 1 comment

Bernie Sanders: "I think this is a prelude not only to cutting benefits, but to privatizing Social Security ... why do you lie so much about Social Security? Why do you make it look like it's a broken system? The reason is to get people to lose faith in the system so you can give it over to Wall St"

submitted 96 days ago • 500 comments

Being a historian, people ask me if I think the US is living through Germany 1933. I answer no, analogies are always imperfect but to me it feels more like Russia 1999: a blatant theft of state assets and liberals in a fugue state, refusing to believe the arc of progress is bending against them.

submitted 100 days ago • 808 comments

Throwback Thursday… Remember that time Biden cornered the entire Republican Party into denying they’d cut Social Security, Medicare & Medicaid for a $1T tax break for billionaires? That was only a year ago. Now, the biggest earned benefits cut in history is in their budget.

submitted 101 days ago • 134 comments

French Senator Claude Malhuret: "Washington has become Nero’s court, with an incendiary emperor, submissive courtiers and a jester high on ketamine... We were at war with a dictator, we are now at war with a dictator backed by a traitor."

submitted 102 days ago • 1733 comments

The Dow has dropped 1300 points over the last two days as Trump defiantly plows forward with tariffs against Mexico, Canada and China — America's most prominent trading partners.

submitted 102 days ago • 90 comments

Donald Trump is lying to you.

submitted 102 days ago • 519 comments

NEW: The Trump administration claims gutting federal agencies will save money, but cutting the IRS means the government collects less taxes. “If you’re interested in the deficit and curbing it, why would you cut back on the revenue side?” one expert asks. By @andykroll.bsky.social

submitted 102 days ago • 85 comments

COLBERT, on Rep. Al Green’s removal: “Some people questioned why so much muscle was needed to remove an old man with a cane. But it turns out it was for a serious reason. When security searched him, they found that he smuggled in a spine." @latenightercom.bsky.social

submitted 102 days ago • 216 comments

Sign of the day…

submitted 111 days ago • 1420 comments

70% of people on SNAP already have full time jobs. They're not lazy. They're underpaid.

submitted 125 days ago • 0 comments

Chuck Schumer: "Today Leader Jeffries and I are joining together to push legislation to prevent unlawful meddling in the Treasury Department's payment systems & protect Americans across the country ... we call our legislation, 'STOP THE STEAL'" 😂 Funny, but not! Sure hope the legislations passes!

submitted 130 days ago • 225 comments