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"Americans Are Still Suffering From a Failure Of Imagination" Too many Americans still have their heads in the sand and refuse to acknowledge and confront a right-wing authoritarian regime that is currently in power and playing for all the marbles. thelefthook.substack.com/p/americans-...

submitted 7 hours ago • 17 comments

Elon Musk did not leave the Trump administration. He's making a sleight-of-hand show of leaving the Trump administration while still being very much part of it behind closed doors, and yet, reporters who should know better continue to put out shit like this uncritically.

submitted 7 hours ago • 23 comments

#GVerse #MustWatch: #MAGA is losing their minds at this excellent speech delivered by 60 Minutes' Scott Pelley, slamming the #OrangeBuffoon for attacking pillars of democracy. “Law is under attack. Journalism is under attack. Universities are under attack.” Share widely. Repost!!!

submitted 15 hours ago • 1 comment

Scott Pelley at commencement.

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No. Universities do not have to be "in sync with the administration and what the administration is trying to accomplish." They are institutions of learning led by scholars who follow their research in search of knowledge. They support free inquiry and learning. They are not political pawns.

submitted 15 hours ago • 59 comments

WATCH: @repbrendanboyle.bsky.social boils down the Republican heist

submitted 18 hours ago • 50 comments

If you're launching a rocket program, maybe don't name it for the band whose biggest hit was "We Built This City" www.nytimes.com/2025/05/27/s...

submitted 18 hours ago • 8 comments

Awful: Trump just blamed foreign students for taking the slots of American kids. But the cuts in the House GOP bill he's pushing could cost hundreds of thousands of working class kids their route to college. Those two things are connected. 1/ (new piece) newrepublic.com/article/1957...

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“The fear to speak. In America?” CBS’ Scott Pelley asked. “If our government is—in Lincoln’s words—‘of the people, by the people and for the people’—then why are we afraid to speak?” www.americaamerica.news/p/snapshot-s...

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Our current president is severely mentally unwell, and the media needs to cover it now.

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This Is Embarrassing And Disturbing… 🇨🇦🇩🇪🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇩🇰🇳🇱🇫🇷 Canada, Germany, England, Denmark, Netherlands, and France all have travel advisory warnings for visiting America. Let that sink in.

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Happy Publication Day to Randy Rainbow and the Marvelously Magical Pink Glasses! Get your copy now wherever books are sold. Also available on @audible_com with narration by yours truly! 💖📖 Link to order: tinyurl.com/5cj96daw @MacKidsBooks @MacmillanUSA

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CBS reporter Scott Pelley: This is a warning that I fear many will look back on in five or six years and think “he was so right”. If you haven’t already shared this, please do.

submitted 1 day ago • 468 comments

60% of American households can’t afford a minimal quality of life. Meanwhile, the 19 richest households saw their wealth increase by $1 trillion in 2024 — the biggest one-year increase ever. Our problem isn't a lack of resources. Our problem is ever-expanding inequality.

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This is from post-9/11. It just keeps fitting.

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They pretend that the USA was founded as a Christian nation. Then they pretend and insist they’re Christians. Then they govern like the motherfucking antichrist.

submitted 2 days ago • 644 comments

(First term) #Trump didn’t really care about the #Covid19 #pandemic, but raved about the #ratings of his #pressconferences.

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5/26/25 - A clip of Trump’s speech for Memorial Day at Arlington National Cemetery https://www.reddit.com/r/trumptweets/comments/1kw53hk/52625_a_clip_of_trumps_speech_for_memorial_day_at/ #truthsocial #trump

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Why You Shouldn't Say "Happy Memorial Day" msahno.com/articles/why... #MondayBlogs #MemorialDay

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Just a reminder that enslaved people invented Memorial Day in the aftermath of the Civil War. I wrote about this history and it’s published in TIME MAGAZINE. time.com/3894406/who-...

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"I'm Innocent": Keith LaMar Speaks Live from Death Row About His Case, Conditions & Pending Execution

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The new documentary "Heightened Scrutiny" follows ACLU lawyer Chase Strangio as he argues before the Supreme Court against Tennessee’s ban on transgender care for minors.

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THE TRUMP MENTAL ILLNESS CRISIS (AND COVER-UP) WORSENS: Trophy Wives? Demanding a cut of Harvard tuition? Writing 52 Million for 52 BILLION? He's unraveling JAKE TAPPER BIDEN BOOK fact-check scandal escalates GET THE NEW MONDAY COUNTDOWN PODCAST HERE: tinyurl.com/ywpyrnej

submitted 2 days ago • 11 comments

Fuck these heartless CBP agents.

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Trump's "Big Beautiful Bill" cuts Medicaid. Cuts to health care for babies and new moms. Cuts to heath care for seniors in nursing homes. Cuts to health care for rural hospitals. Cuts to health care for people with disabilities. Republicans in Congress approved these cuts.

submitted 3 days ago • 142 comments

National missile defense is the longest-running scam in the history of the Department of Defense. Musk didn’t invent it, but he’s about to get a whole lot richer by perpetuating it. https://trib.al/Qpb9WJE

submitted 3 days ago • 27 comments

Ask your neighbor if habeas corpus is right for them Why the Trump regime is after the right that kings love to take away.

submitted 3 days ago • 12 comments

Start every day with this reality: EVERY HOUSE SEAT and 33 Senate seats are up for election in 2026. THAT must be the focus. Let’s get disciplined. #LeaveNoPowerOnTheTable ballotpedia.org/United_State...

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pssst...the Constitution makes no mention of House party composition within any section mentioning impeachment. The House ITSELF has the duty to impeach—not the majority party, nor the minority party. The House. As a whole. In the name of itself and of the people of the United States of America.

submitted 4 days ago • 32 comments

Trump has created a permanent crisis state. Yet the real crisis began when tens of millions of Americans made the mistake of putting a fascist back in office after his first attempt to overthrow the government.

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In 1918, the US government became the nation's largest housing developer, building 80+ communities in just 2 years. These weren't barracks, but thoughtfully designed neighborhoods of single-family homes with parks, schools, and sewer systems. An urban planning scholar explains:

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He is stupid. He is incompetent. He is cruel. He is sinister. And people will die because of what he’s done. https://trib.al/zLgPMih

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Abortion providers challenge FDA’s remaining mifepristone restrictions in federal court | via @sofiaresnick.bsky.social and @charlottewords.bsky.social #ksleg

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The financial wreckage caused by one “We Buy Ugly Houses” franchise owner is strewn across Texas, having swept up both wealthy investors and older people with modest incomes.

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Good advice……

submitted 4 days ago • 97 comments

Unhuh WWJD?

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Trump is taking a $400 million luxury jet bribe from Qatar while denying North Carolina $200 million in disaster relief funding.

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Nothing says ‘heartbreaking realization’ like finding out the guy who bankrupted four casinos might not be great at economic policy.

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