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In the 42 years since the start of the Reagan revolution, bought-off politicians have so altered our tax code that fully $51 trillion has moved from the homes and savings of working-class Americans into the money bins of the morbidly rich money hoarders. https://trib.al/yRIfQlY

submitted 19 hours ago • 14 comments

They’re not behaving as if they’re in a four-year term. They’re behaving as if they’re in an everlasting dictatorship. Are we all clear on this?

submitted 1 day ago • 581 comments

Okay there it is.

submitted 1 day ago • 61 comments

I loathe Musk as much as anyone else but for a sitting president to openly threaten a private citizen over what political donations he or she chooses to make is a reminder of how authoritarian this country is becoming by the day - by the hour even!

submitted 1 day ago • 214 comments

It was on Normandy's beautiful beaches at the crack of dawn on June 6, 1944, that the Allies finally gained a foothold in France, and Nazi Europe began to crumble. Freedom was at risk — and to defeat Nazism, 47 nations worked together, heroically, for an ideal much greater than any one country.

submitted 2 days ago • 8 comments

Reminder that California subsidizes red states.

submitted 2 days ago • 1487 comments

There it is. Rep. Mike Collins (R-GA) says Republicans’ next goal is to kick seniors off Social Security: “Get off of Social Security. Get back into the workforce.”

submitted 2 days ago • 1627 comments

Elon Musk might be giving us a “Nixon goes to China“ moment. As he points out the obvious (“tariffs are bad, actually”), maybe it will penetrate the MAGA bubble. But honestly, probably not.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

News flash: loathsome transactional people loath each other when they can no longer transact.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Most of Elon Musk’s contract with the government should’ve been canceled for cause years ago. Now I am in the awkward position of having to defend his contracts if Trump tries to cancel them “the wrong way”. This is your lot in life if you are an ethical person.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

What’s ridiculous about this is how immature it is. The world‘s richest man and the world‘s most powerful man have no admirable qualities, they are immature, petty, rude, disrespectful, and unkind. This is not a person to look to as a prototype of anything but cruelty.

submitted 3 days ago • 25 comments

I worry that not enough of a big deal is being made about how long-term the devastation of these budget cuts to our scientific and health agencies will be, beyond the absolute ruin they will cause in the acute period.

submitted 5 days ago • 49 comments

Not sure if it’s the Mai Tai or the Jungle Bird that is my favorite tiki drink. But there were some terrific pineapples at my local farm stand, so here’s a Jungle Bird for you.

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

DOGE was a smash and grab robbery of our personal data.

submitted 6 days ago • 102 comments

As an indication of the upside-down we are now living in, a Ukrainian friend who lives in Kyiv under the daily threat of aerial bombardment reached out to me today: “Are you doing OK? I’ve been following the news about American universities and it sounds bad.” 🙃

submitted 7 days ago • 32 comments

Zelensky just posted this: One year, six months, and nine days from the start of planning to effective execution. Our people involved in preparing the operation were withdrawn from Russian territory in time. Russia started this war, Russia must end it. Glory to Ukraine!

submitted 7 days ago • 138 comments