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We should have a memorial day for COVID. It is horrific that we as a society have done virtually nothing to remember the millions who have died. Rushing to forget what happened also makes it much more likely that we will continue to repeat our deadly mistakes.

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BREAKING: Scott Pelley just risked everything to make one thing clear: The attack on free speech isn’t coming—it’s already here. Journalists are being silenced, critics are being punished, and most of the media’s playing dead. This is state-sponsored suppression. This is dictatorship in real time.

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The Public Broadcasting Act of 1967 created the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. I reread it today; nothing in the law allows a president to defund PBS and NPR. In fact, Congress specifically sought to insulate public media from political pressure.

submitted 26 days ago • 400 comments

No question. The Dems failed to do the bare minimum to verify the results. A tragedy.

submitted 26 days ago • 298 comments

Whoa.

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"I do not like trout or my family." This appeared in my neighborhood feed tonight. No one has commented on his feelings about his family. Personally I like trout. 😆 #thebestofnextdoor

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The number of people jailed pretrial has nearly quadrupled since the 1980s; people with mental-health issues tend to be detained much longer than the rest of the population. Sarah Stillman reports on a crisis of care in county jails across the nation.

submitted 45 days ago • 24 comments

Gut wrenching. This is gold standard reporting. Mental illness is NOT a crime. What's happening in this country is ...

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“.. Our worst enemies could not design a better way to harm our government than what is going on right now ..” @nbcnews.com www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...

submitted 45 days ago • 223 comments

Même problème en France.

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RAND PAUL: “.. When McKinley most famously put tariffs on in 1890, [the GOP] lost 50 percent of their seats in the next election. When [Smoot and Hawley] put on their tariff in the early 1930s, we lost the House and the Senate for 60 years.” @washingtonpost.com t.co/ONtPfv9On2

submitted 55 days ago • 749 comments

Forever reject the trope that Dems lost because we were too “woke.” Trumpers voted for an incompetent, treasonous con man because THEY were too hateful.

submitted 56 days ago • 745 comments

I for one am amazed that allowing the world's stupidest man to bellow like an idiot while swinging a sledgehammer into every surface encountered has not fixed all of our problems but has instead made all problems worse and caused new ones. It makes no sense; he had the longest tie, the goldest hair.

submitted 55 days ago • 118 comments

So weird how this keeps happening. www.axios.com/2025/04/02/t...

submitted 56 days ago • 620 comments

It’s stunning to me that the New York Times did not put the story on the bloodbath at the NIH, CDC, and FDA on its front page this morning.

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Love. This. Right. Here. ❤️✨

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Goldberg on Waltz: "This isn't The Matrix. Phone numbers don't just get sucked into other phones. I don't know what he's talking about ... my phone number was in his phone because my phone number was in his phone. He's telling everyone that he's never met me or spoken to me. That's simply not true."

submitted 60 days ago • 665 comments

Sen. Jeanne Shaheen is introducing a constitutional amendment to overturn Citizens United, the case that opened the floodgates to dark money and the buying of elections by billionnaires. 👏👏👏

submitted 60 days ago • 408 comments

Goldberg: "Hegseth is promising that US warplanes are taking off in 30 minutes to bomb enemy targets that we know are protected by anti-aircraft batteries. If that's not the most sensitive information, the most secret info in the world, I simply don't know what the meaning of 'classified' is."

submitted 60 days ago • 503 comments

Also, a woman was handcuffed at a subway station in NYC (Franklin Ave) when she intervened asking why a delivery man was asked to show work permit by undercover agents. There is a video of that.

submitted 60 days ago • 442 comments

“There is no administration in the world — beyond this one — where a blunder of these proportions happens and nobody gets fired or resigns. Not in London. Not in Moscow. Not in Tokyo. Not in Pyongyang. Nowhere.” www.politico.com/newsletters/...

submitted 63 days ago • 801 comments

I love this woman. #hotwheels 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣

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the thing that kills me about "Obama doesn't owe you ANYTHING" is: the reason people want or expect him to speak up and be more active is THEY LIKE HIM. They're expecting him to fulfill an elder statesman role in the Democratic Party because he's the only two term democratic president in 20 years

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You were told that it was 'impossible' to dismantle institutions. And abolitionists told you this wasn't true and that there were many institutions that SHOULD BE dismantled. But lots of people can't "imagine" the end of prisons, policing, etc... In reality, every single thing can be dismantled.

submitted 68 days ago • 57 comments

Fuck Stephen Miller and Tom Homan to hell. Goddamn bastards, both of them.

submitted 67 days ago • 2254 comments

“There are decades where nothing happens, and there are weeks where decades happen.” - Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

submitted 68 days ago • 181 comments

Schumer must have realized his Chris Hayes appearance was disastrous. Today on Meet the Press, Schumer said he DOES think democracy is at risk. Two days ago he said "we aren't there yet." Keep up the pressure, keep calling your Senators - Schumer must FIGHT or step down! 📱(202) 224-3121

submitted 69 days ago • 556 comments

Target’s stock plummeted by ~ $27.27 per share by the end of February, erasing about $12.4 billion in market value. The drop came on Feb. 28, the designated economic blackout day, and coincided with mounting backlash over the retailer’s decision to abandon its DEI commitments.

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This image is brilliant. Whoever made it deserved an award.

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This is just crazy. Each paragraph is more crazy than the last. WTH?!? At the U.S. Institute of Peace, It’s War When Musk’s Team Arrives www.nytimes.com/2025/03/17/u...

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Erasing service members like this is fucking horrid.

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What the heck did Bhutan do?

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submitted 77 days ago • 3 comments

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