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Watching Glass Onion, and boy…the parallels are just too obvious to ignore.

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Something is shifting. They are still breaking things and stealing things. And they will keep trying to break and to steal. But the propaganda magic around the oligarchical coup is fading. (1/2)

submitted 8 hours ago • 1074 comments

Idiocracy was a documentary

submitted 1 day ago • 594 comments

I’d need a personal day if a Judge spoke to me like this in open court. 😳😳😳

submitted 19 hours ago • 0 comments

Rep Raskin has been great. Rep Ocasio-Cortez has been great. And Rep Frost and Rep Crockett. Senator Murphy. Maybe no one knew exactly what to do. But such people laid down a clear marker. Let’s respect these and other elected federal representatives who stood out these first few weeks.

submitted 23 hours ago • 1270 comments

This is some of the best writing I’ve read in a while.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Mr Garcia, I have drafted an appropriate response for you. You're welcome.

submitted 2 days ago • 248 comments

Tyranny requires your fear, your silence, and your compliance. Democracy requires your courage.

submitted 2 days ago • 1912 comments

Dark Pence is back.

submitted 3 days ago • 4564 comments

This is probably the most accurate take.

submitted 6 days ago • 2926 comments

I’m in Munich and people keep asking me to decode Vance’s speech. OK: In Vance English “free speech” means “Let Musk run your elections” and “democracy” means “let Russia run your elections.” Now move on. 2025 is about what Europeans do, not what Americans say.

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This:

submitted 7 days ago • 166 comments

Europe can’t rely on the strength of the transatlantic relationship to help contain Russia’s threat – it must lead from the front and be the true force of support that Ukraine needs. Not just for Ukraine’s sake, but for a free and sovereign Europe.

submitted 7 days ago • 2402 comments

It stops being about politics when you set out to intentionally hurt people just because you can and want to avenge some perceived wrong. This isn’t about efficiency, waste, fraud, or differences between left and right. This is a bunch of grown, insecure men who want to cause pain.

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On Feb. 14th I try always to give honor to one of the greatest contributors to American democracy in our nation’s history, Frederick Douglass. Born into slavery, Douglass never knew his actual birthdate, and adopted Feb. 14th as the day. His penetrating insights about our country inspire me daily.

submitted 7 days ago • 402 comments

👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

"No system of ordered liberty can allow the Government to use the carrot of dismissing charges, or the stick of threatening to bring them again, to induce an elected official to support its policy objectives." www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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