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Socialist. Recovering journalist. Photographer. Classic film enthusiast.
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Heck yeah. Raffi (your favorite singer from childhood!) is an ally

"The law"

The stupidest country in history

Who wants E. Coli, salmonella, and other food-bourne illnesses to go unchecked?

just what we need is to be tied to another sinking ship. The unholy alliance of kleptocrats, christian fundamentalists, and white supremacists united in running (robbing) dead or dying empires into the ground

Bright passionate people who wanted to dedicate their lives to public service were fired in a mass email over the holiday weekend. This has absolutely nothing to do with efficiency, fraud, waste, or abuse. And your life will be worse because of it.

The racists in charge won't even let the Maryland National Guard perform a flyover for a Frederick Douglass celebration. www.military.com/daily-news/2...

(1/4) Recent layoffs of federal workers has a disproportionate impact on Native Americans, but is receiving almost no media attention. In Indian Health Services, which provides healthcare to 2.8 mil NAs, 2,200 people were laid off, including 1,400 who provide direct patient care.

Again, Trump fired SBA Inspector General Mike Ware after he found $200 billion in fraud in Trump's COVID programs and returned $40B to the US Treasury. Instead, Trump brought in a bunch of fascist boys who know nothing about accounting. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Imprisoning journalists is fine when we do it

Calling NASCAR drivers the most talented in the world ignores Rally and F1 drivers, who drive up and down hills AND make right turns. F1 is open wheel too; those drivers have to be much more accurate drivers in close spaces.

The thought of the US leaving NATO terrifies me. Our government is clearly being run by Putin. The enemy has conquered our country, Putin's btch is sitting in the oval office & destroying our country brick by brick & the media is going along with it. Fk that! Fk them! Fk MAGA & Fk Trump!

It's annoying how clearly this is going to play out. They gut the FAA. Therefore, the FAA can't do its job well because it was gutted. Therefore, they say "The FAA sucks, we have to privatize it." which is what Project 2025 wants to do. They're manufacturing the crises for their end goal.

Don’t assume “DEI related” destruction of materials related to scientific research, worker safety, and so on are an accident or a sign of stupidity. The goal is to gut everything; “diversity language” is just the wedge Democratic politicians and the chattering class were stupid enough to accept.

New: Last night, hundreds of CDC post-doc fellows were fired, including all in the group who call themselves the "disease detectors," and are the future of public health lab leaders. One senior official told me, "It is going to cripple public health for decades." www.nbcnews.com/politics/dog...

Homan on CNN suggests AOC is committing a crime by informing people about their constitutional rights

At some point, I hope enough people start reading the room with these people. No one elected a king or a dictator, and he damn sure didn't have a mandate.

As President Trump takes office be reminded that he is beholden to his oligarch overlords (Musk, Murdoch, et al). They are all master class chaos monkeys that will keep fueling culture wars in order to avoid a class war. #Truth #Resist and fight the #ClassWar - not a #CultureWar!

Super glad we torched our reputation with one of our closest allies by continually dangling a self-destructive trade war threat over their head, brilliant 14 Dimensional Chess move here

I'm 42 years old and only now getting into Rage Against the Machine. I should have done this sooner

you can look at this and say we're divided or you can look at this and say that a majority of americans oppose every one of these things

IRS enforcement is the most highly-efficient investment the government makes. $1 for enforcement brings back between $5 and $9 from tax cheats. Cutting the IRS is about one thing and one thing only: Making it easier for scumbags like Elon Musk to cheat the rest of us out of billions.

NEW: Elon Musk and his team have posted classified data on DOGE's new website www.huffpost.com/entry/elon-m...

The lead prosecutor in the Eric Adams case has resigned over DOJ's order that the case be dismissed. "I expect you will eventually find someone who will be enough of a fool, or enough of a coward, to file your motion. But it was never going to be me." www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

"Do I need to call Elon?” one DOGE member barked at a federal security official while demanding access to sensitive information at one agency this month, a source familiar with the exchange tells Rolling Stone." Come on, man, you’re being bullied by twerps.

I'm so angry all the time

Missouri's AG Andrew Bailey is suing Starbucks, arguing that its workforce is too "female" and "non-white" and as a result Missouri consumers “pay higher prices and wait longer for goods and services" because its workforce is "less qualified" This is a brazenly racist and sexist lawsuit.

The American public restored a felon and insurrectionist to the presidency. He has outsourced key decision-making powers of the executive to his top donor, a billionare whose riches owe significantly to government contracts. This donor has, in turn, lawlessly seized powers from a compliant Congress

This exchange is going to slip by and go undercovered but this is a very revealing moment. Trump’s government won’t study anything, they will just tell us everything is going great no matter who gets hurt. ‘1984’ is upon us.

Congrats to RFK Jr., who fits in with the Trump/Musk administration in one very important way: all of his family hates him.

At this point, there are only two options: A) Elon is so dishonest that he is willing to peddle obvious lies to score PR points B) Elon really is this stupid

"Everything I don't like is woke" in real life

What Linda McMahon is prepared to do to dismantle the Department of Education is bad enough. But even if none of that was in play, she’d still be horrendously unfit — at least by any pre-Trump standard. www.publicnotice.co/p/linda-mcma...

PRE HEATING IS FAKE - dashare.zone ADMIN

President Trump promised voters that he would enact policies to bring prices down on “Day 1.” Inflation figures released on Wednesday showed that consumer prices ticked up unexpectedly, with the cost of food at home, primarily eggs, as one of the biggest factors fueling the increase. nyti.ms/4hBg4nu

Performative public lying is a hallmark of far right authoritarian parties & regimes

this is literally the entire budget for Medicaid btw. this is a literal death sentence for millions of people

The uncomfortable truth is the "Trump campaigned on egg prices" thing is something Dems tell themselves to rationalize what happened in November. Trump actually campaigned on hate and abusing power -- and won! The sorry state of the American electorate is a difficult thing to come to terms with.

Good. Keep it up. Shutter the company

Oligarch, fascist, weirdo. Everyone who partakes in "Twitter (X?) Money" is going to lose real money, just like the crypto goons who were swindled by (insert any recent crypto scam)

Vince McMahon's wife Linda spent at least $22 million in support of Trump's candidacy, including paying for his pre-election rally at Madison Square Garden. She got a cabinet position and her husband got his case dropped. www.forbes.com/sites/zachev...

The CHAMPIONS and ONLY TRUE DEFENDERS of women’s sports did WHAT?

"[For the Right], D.E.I...is the mere presence of a woman or nonwhite person or disabled or transgender person in any high-skilled, high-status position. And their alternative isn’t some heretofore unknown standard of merit; it is the reintroduction of something like segregation." (gift link)

It’s so frustrating for folks who have worked really hard and who have been continually sold the idea of meritocracy to see people who objectively do not meet a high standard of merit and lack a basic understanding of the bare minimum of civics, history & government… get coveted jobs & get promoted

Donald Trump is not going to run for a third term. Because he is old and he is lying about his health.

In a statement, AP editor Julie Pace said the White House told the AP if it did not align its editorial standards with Trump’s executive order renaming the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of America, it would be barred from accessing Trump's executive order signing

Biden was Not Great™ on Gaza-Israel but he at least wanted some degree of self-determination for Palestinians. Yet this guy is openly espousing ethnic cleansing and occupation of Palestinian land.

Yeah yeah he’s cringe but can you imagine being dumb enough to fall for this shit? Like oh sure the worlds richest man with billions in government contracts is saying that disability payments are the real scam, he seems legit lol

Force him to buy it so he can ruin it like he did Twitter. This'll help end this AI slop

"The core argument emerging in their legal filings and executive orders — one without support anywhere in the Constitution or the law — is that simply by being elected, Trump has the power to do whatever he wants."