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New report by LISEP lisep.org/mql For 60% of US households, a minimum quality of life is out of reach. Food, housing, education, & healthcare costs continue to surge. Households earning $38K in 2023 would need to earn $67K now to afford the items being tracked. www.cbsnews.com/news/cost-of...

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The difference in life expectancy between former Confederate states and Union states is getting vaster. This is what Republicans are trying to do to YOU: ysph.yale.edu/news-article...

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Mike Waltz has left the chat.

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It won't be long, and there won't be a TV show or news channel that speaks out against, or tells the truth about, Donald Trump and/or the Trump administration. The top producer at 60 Minutes quitting is the tip of the iceberg. I'm sure we'll see even more changes there. We must do more..now.

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www.nbcnews.com/news/world/f.... Haiti was never able to get its footing. It’s time to make it right

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Sen. Bernie Sanders and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez have drawn huge crowds on their “Fighting Oligarchy” tour, energizing a beaten-down Democratic Party. They've stuck to a simple argument: The system is broken, with the wealthy enriching themselves while others scrape by. nyti.ms/4idcRdb

submitted 42 days ago • 74 comments

www.politico.com/news/2025/04.... I think it’s time for AOC

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Yes, the stock market may be tanking and our national security apparatus has never been more vulnerable and we're on the verge of both economic collapse and war, but it was all worth it to keep pronouns out of email signatures.

submitted 55 days ago • 275 comments

And just like that, Elon Musks days were over

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finance.yahoo.com/news/live/st.... So tyranny. our allies hate us and the economy tanking. But so much better than having a black woman President. Right America?

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Unidentified men grabbing someone off the street and putting her in a car because she wrote an op-Ed. This as flatly authoritarian as anything we’ve seen in this country in a very long time.

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Yes. This.

submitted 65 days ago • 50 comments

I guess Hillary Clinton should have just been under the influence and texted rather than emailed anybody. Would have saved us all the massive congressional investigations and media scolding that Hegseth won’t get

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So Vance says Denmark is not a good ally. What a jerk

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"There is an understanding that Europe is now what’s left of the West," says an official at the German Foreign Ministry in this NYTimes piece by Steven Erlanger:

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#fuckchuck

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I’m a little confused. Has Trump waited for the parliamentarian to approve any of his actions? I thought that was mandatory

submitted 110 days ago • 1 comment

I’m going to say this as clearly as I can. I don’t give a fuck about the Grammys. I don’t give a fuck about the Super Bowl. America is entering a dark tunnel and we’re not going to entertain ourselves out of it

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x.com/march4progre.... Not a member of this club at all

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apnews.com/article/home.... Didn’t the Democrats run on being “joyful warriors”?

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Merry Christmas to everybody out there. It’s been a rough year. Just pull the ones close that you have in your life and enjoy both the holidays and a great 2025!

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So I guess Tennessee didn’t try to plant the flag at Ohio Stadium?

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Dems are better at fighting #AOC than #Trump

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On December 17 1969 we had just elected Richard Nixon and we were having people still be killed in Vietnam. Yet that night, a record crowd watched Tiny Tim marry Miss Vicki on Carson…. We’ve always been idiots

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This is a very important point. Please let everyone know.

submitted 185 days ago • 1104 comments

Writing about Northern Ireland this morning, I am thinking about something the novelist Glen Patterson told me when I was in Belfast in October: "Politics monopolizes language. Literature can try and claim it back.”

submitted 177 days ago • 8 comments