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The US has now been added to a human rights watchlist. It is up to EVERY one of us to defend our civil liberties for ourselves and future generations.

submitted 79 days ago • 10 comments

The Russians often find gullible U.S. politicians to do the heavy lifting for them. They used James Comer on the Bidens, and now they may have played Tom Cotton (and Trump) over Greenland. My write-up: https://buff.ly/40f8OGp

submitted 135 days ago • 30 comments

I’m just gonna send this to the next Elon fan boy who tries to explain to me that Elon is an engineering genius.

submitted 135 days ago • 68 comments

He orchestrated a coup. It failed. He was a convicted felon. He rose to power on a wave of divisive propaganda and hateful anti-immigrant rhetoric. He promised to make things great again. He threatened to annex his neighbors. I'm referring, of course, to Adolf Hitler.

submitted 135 days ago • 320 comments

New in PN: North Carolina Republicans restart the steal "The entire state supreme court affair is a microcosm of the last several years, a one-stop-shop highlighting all the ways in which Republicans have used the nonexistent problem of election fraud to destroy trust and make it harder to vote."

submitted 138 days ago • 70 comments

Donald Trump was found guilty of 34 charges but won't face any punishment — and will be back in the White House this month. Nearly 800 prisoners are now helping to battle Los Angeles fires, making as little as $5.80 per day. A tale of two justice systems.

submitted 138 days ago • 257 comments

Things are going great 🤦‍♂️ Catch up now: www.meidasplus.com/p/today-in-p...

submitted 140 days ago • 103 comments

None of this is normal. Ron's daily recap is live now. 👉 www.meidasplus.com/p/today-in-p...

submitted 141 days ago • 201 comments

To everyone who doesn’t believe Trump would ever use military force to try to take over Greenland or the Panama Canal, remember what Trump said when he first heard of Putin’s invasion of Ukraine: “This is genius.” He called Putin’s invasion of a sovereign country a genius move.

submitted 141 days ago • 79 comments

It seems a discussion is in order of the Laken Riley Act that I happily voted against on the House floor today. It is a bill that served no purpose than to stir up anger. But let’s quickly review why:

submitted 141 days ago • 31 comments

I'm screaming at my screen. "Emboldened Trump." "Territorial Expansion." HE THREATENS WAR AGAINST ALLIES--not to mention Gaza--and these are the #BrokenTimes' latest white-gloved euphemisms for totalitarianism. This is how they cover fascism, covering it with niceties.

submitted 141 days ago • 18 comments

Here you have Trump articulating Kremlin talking points on NATO & justifying the invasion of Ukraine. And in the last month he’s threatened to take territory from Denmark, Panama, & made reference to Canada as the 51st state. It’s not a “distraction”. It’s alarming.

submitted 141 days ago • 16 comments

Five alarm fire in North Carolina, where right-wing GOP majority on State Supreme Court just blocked certification of Democratic Justice Allison Riggs’ victory & appears to be laying groundwork to overturn the election www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

submitted 141 days ago • 66 comments

Outrageous! This needs to blow up. They want to throw out 60,000 votes and steal the state Supreme Court election in NC!

submitted 141 days ago • 1675 comments

Exactly this

submitted 146 days ago • 769 comments

News: 78 year old felon/rapist with dementia confuses 'windfall tax' with windmills and demands UK get rid of their windmills to open up the North Sea. The next president, folks...

submitted 145 days ago • 99 comments

“As an editorial cartoonist, my job is to hold powerful people and institutions accountable. For the first time, my editor prevented me from doing that job. So I have decided to leave the Washington Post” — Ann Telnaes, after drawing this cartoon, which included the image of a supplicant Jeff Bezos

submitted 145 days ago • 332 comments

Exactly

submitted 147 days ago • 230 comments

Please pass this along, thank you.

submitted 148 days ago • 212 comments

What an excellent opportunity for Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy to prove that DOGE is really about helping taxpayers by cutting waste and not just a cover for billionaires to plunder the treasury.

submitted 148 days ago • 67 comments

This is one of those jokes that I love so much that I wish I had thought of it.

submitted 149 days ago • 254 comments

Who here pretty much agrees?

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submitted 150 days ago • 110 comments

Trump’s team claimed that their tax cuts would boost household income by $4,000. But research shows that the lowest paid workers saw no change in earnings. Meanwhile, exec salaries increased sharply. Trump and Republicans want to double down on yet another trickle-down scam.

submitted 150 days ago • 93 comments

Memo to the MAGA base: There isn’t really going to be a mass deportation or securing the border. Or lower food prices. Or lower gas prices. Or lower deficits. Or better health care. Or higher wages. There’s just gonna be you getting poorer faster.

submitted 151 days ago • 104 comments

Wow: 69 percent of Americans believe the healthcare system was at least partly responsible for the UnitedHealthcare CEO's murder, per new poll

submitted 152 days ago • 539 comments

Elon Musk bought Tesla. Elon Musk bought SpaceX Elon Musk bought Starlink. Elon Musk bought Twitter. Elon Musk bought Trump. Elon Musk is not a super genius. He is a good shopper... #ElonMusk

submitted 152 days ago • 30 comments

Terrorist testing the fences for weak spots?

submitted 151 days ago • 0 comments

These billionaires don’t look at America and see the land of the free and the home of the brave. They look outside of America to places like Russia … and they get off thinking about the kind of wealth that could yield, a wealth which they would wield. 👇🏼 banters.substack.com/p/our-most-d...

submitted 152 days ago • 53 comments

This graphic suggests that segregation in in the past. It's not. Thanks to SCOTUS rulings forbidding DEI, colleges are, predictably, getting more white with "legacy" white students. And thanks to "charter schools," tax money is going to private Christian schools that only admit white students.

submitted 151 days ago • 34 comments

Hey MAGA, remember that time when Trump said, “I don’t care about you, I just need your vote”? How is that sitting with you right about now?

submitted 151 days ago • 103 comments

Twitter today would literally not run if not for workers who are essentially H1B hostages.

submitted 151 days ago • 54 comments

If you think this country is going broke taking care of the poor, you should see how much it spends taking care of the rich.

submitted 152 days ago • 68 comments

I love how Denmark isn’t taking any shit from Donald Trump. 🇩🇰 🤣

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submitted 155 days ago • 114 comments

This should be read as an admission from Sen. Hagerty that his staff is completely incompetent and/or illiterate. “We were unable to read the bill until Apartheid Clyde started tweeting random lies about it! We’re total idiots.”

submitted 157 days ago • 143 comments

"There are plenty of studies showing massive government waste, but it’s not in the Federal workforce. It’s in procurement, the place where the government buys from the private sector, everything from pencils to software to nuclear submarines," writes @matthewstoller.bsky.social:

submitted 157 days ago • 0 comments

Your Saturday words of wisdom……

submitted 158 days ago • 112 comments

Jacob Marley: Tonight you will be visited by 2 ghosts. Scrooge: I thought it was 3. Jacob Marley: LOL no it's 2024 there is no future.

submitted 157 days ago • 29 comments

Donald Trump absolutely HATES the “President Musk” meme with a passion. Let’s keep spreading it.

submitted 157 days ago • 584 comments

Murica.

submitted 157 days ago • 51 comments

Arkansas also has the highest rate of maternal mortality, horrible schools, and children working in meat packing plants. So congrats on that conservative leadership, hun.

submitted 157 days ago • 102 comments

AOC: “Oh, I don’t think we’re witnessing the START of an oligarchy. I think we are fully here.” 🇺🇸

submitted 157 days ago • 1683 comments