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I know what you are doing Visa and Mastercard by sending paper statements on legal length paper so they can't be put into 3 ring binders. I don't care. I am still not opting out of paper statements. #CreditCardTips

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they're having a hard time hiding their boredom

submitted 5 days ago • 2127 comments

Is anyone else noticing a pattern here? #Trump tears up a diplomatic or trade agreement saying it's stupid, or they're ripping us off, or whatever. Then, he agrees to essentially the same thing and claims he's a great negotiator, yada yada. World leaders are laughing their asses off at this Goober.

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The Purpose of Trump's Terror: What Trump Wants In LA Is Blood "The goal isn’t to scare off a few undocumented gardeners and housekeepers or terrify asylum-seeking mothers. It’s to normalize the idea that active-duty troops can be used on American streets against American citizens." bit.ly/4dYG8Ig

submitted 9 days ago • 93 comments

Durbin to Bhattacharya: "I can't understand it. I disagree w/ this admin on so many things. But this is the one that really gets to me personally. To think this nation would walk away from medical research. For God's sake...cancer, your budget requests a 38% cut to the National Cancer Institute"

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Los Angeles 2025

submitted 9 days ago • 270 comments

The conductor on my #Amtrak train just welcomed "ladies and gentleman and non-binary passengers" and then signed off with #HappyPride and I am practically in tears. #Resist

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I have a big crush on #EzraKlein. There, I said it.

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Comparisons to Pearl Harbor are singularly inapt. This was not an unprovoked attack. The Russian bombers had been raining death on Ukrainian civilians; the West had failed to provide sufficient air defenses. So the Ukrainians took it upon themselves. open.substack.com/pub/charlies...

submitted 17 days ago • 24 comments

Still no answer to this question: Who paid off Brett Kavanaugh’s $92,000 country club fees plus his $200,000 credit card debt plus his $1.2 million mortgage, and purchased themselves a SCOTUS seat? Is this communism or socialism action to buy a Scotus?

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

A notable difference is the absence of the American flag in the latest portrait. It has served as the backdrop for every president since the 1970s.

submitted 16 days ago • 238 comments

HAWLEY: Let's see the Trump chart. You don't think it's a little bit anomalous that Trump has so many more nationwide injunctions against him? KATE SHAW: A very plausible explanation you have to consider is that he's engaged in much more lawless activity than other presidents

submitted 16 days ago • 1574 comments

I applied to start Social Security last week. This morning I see I've already received my first payment. So apparently Elon's and Donny's efforts to break the Soc Sec Administration haven't been entirely successful. I have trust in the Deep State! #socialsecurity

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Musk and Trump will be responsible for more death’s than the Khmer Rouge through the destruction of PEPFAR alone is something I think about constantly.

submitted 21 days ago • 11 comments

So #Trump is just now figuring out that he's being played by Putin. #Musk is just now figuring out that reforming large institutions is hard. I suppose what's next is RFK Jr will figure out #vaccines prevent disease. I believe this is called "getting mugged by reality."

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Trump told West Point cadets at their graduation that he wouldn't be able to shake their hands, a tradition among US presidents, because he had urgent matters to deal with on China and Russia. This was him "dealing" with China and Russia moments later. He went golfing.

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“Of the 121 pedestrians killed in traffic last year, 120 were struck by a car while one person died after being hit by an electric bike, according to city transportation department data...” Tisch’s criminalization of ⚡️ 🚲 is absurd and clearly not about safety. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/24/n...

submitted 26 days ago • 2 comments

Amazing you can write a whole article like this and not use the word “lie.” www.bostonglobe.com/2025/05/24/n...

submitted 26 days ago • 1 comment

The GOP Tax Scheme represents the largest wealth transfer from the poor to the rich in American history.

submitted 29 days ago • 317 comments

Will Joe Biden's Cancer Get the Jake Tapper Treatment, Or Will Corporate Media Finally Focus on MAGA Dismantling Our Health Care? open.substack.com/pub/thelefth... ...force corporate media to focus on the Trump Administration's aggressive annihilation of our public health care infrastructure'

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

I haven't had cable for years. Never watched CNN, MSNBC or any of it. #jaketapper may have single handedly put the final nail in the coffin of this kind of media. We have a complete nutcase actually in charge of the world, and he's on every outlet flogging his book about how BIDEN was old. JFC

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In my 30 year career as a lawyer, consultant, and government official, the only organization that actually made me cry (not in public, just at my desk) was #FEMA. But it needs reform, not elimination.

submitted 42 days ago • 0 comments

We will soon see the Trump Admin's incompetence as they try to update the country's air traffic control system. Governing is hard. #airtrafficcontrol

submitted 42 days ago • 0 comments

I am unapologetically telling you right now that Chicago is going to be insufferable about this, there is still a fading cardboard John Paul II in a Michigan Ave storefront looking out at Grant Park because he spoke there once.

submitted 42 days ago • 178 comments

Remember when words had meaning?

submitted 42 days ago • 40 comments

We should start planning now to make this a "day of rage" and put an end to this nonsense once and for all.

submitted 47 days ago • 0 comments

Kermit must die. Great book title amirite?

submitted 48 days ago • 0 comments

The fake Boston Globe front page of what a Trump presidency would look like from 2016 seems awfully fuckin' quaint now. All of it is happening, the only real difference is, in this fantasyland, the military refuses to do some of it.

submitted 48 days ago • 31 comments

Mike Waltz has been fired for outrageously adding his wife and brother to a classified chat about national security. Oh, I'm sorry, that was Pete Hegseth, who keeps his job.

submitted 49 days ago • 170 comments

This is Elon Musk's government efficiency. Get paid to do nothing and you can't even resign because you boss is on permanent leave and getting paid, too. The Amerifcan tax payer is forced to pay people who do nothing becaus they are being left in limbo, unable to work and unable to resign.

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