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Austerity Makes People Mean

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History repeats when you don't learn from it.

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Unelected billionaire Elon Musk attacks social security, which keeps millions of seniors out of poverty, as “the biggest Ponzi scheme of all time” The heartlessness is limitless Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DGpEHMK...

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We're used to seeing this type of propaganda coordination in Russia, and with all the Russia sycophants around the world. So to see this choreographed praise of dear leader in America adds a stomach-turning coda. As I wrote today, Trump isn't just fawning, he's imitating Putin.

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Screenshot of Rubio while Trump and Vance berated Zelenskyy

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Trump and Vance would NEVER, EVER, talk to Putin like that. And everyone knows it.

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Every single politician in America, especially Republican could learn a lesson about not cravenly debasing yourself like a pathetic meek coward. (There are other terms that come to mind.)

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We’ve got a friend in Wisconsin who said she wasn’t worried about potential cuts to Medicaid because she and her 3 kids don’t need it - they’re on BadgerCare. She was stunned when I told her they were all on Medicaid. Protecting people from shame by renaming MA has definite downsides.

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Hot take: Social security is good actually

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If the market continues to trend down, and the Atlanta Fed turns out to be right, the midterms will be very interesting. The battle between republican self preservation and MAGA will be intense

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Vance: I think it's disrespectful for you to come to the Oval Office to try to litigate this in front of the American media...You should be thanking the president... Zelenskyy: Have you ever been to Ukraine?... Vance: I know what happens is you bring people, you bring them on a propaganda tour...

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Elon Musk’s penis rocket and exploding car companies have been given $38 billion in government funding, but he’s cutting funding for children’s cancer research, gutting the VA’s suicide prevention hotline and letting palettes of desperately needed food expire because it’s “wasteful spending.”

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The emotions of the Ukrainian ambassador to the US during the emotional dialogue between the presidents…

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"Shortly after becoming CEO of a cash-strapped Tesla in 2008, Musk fought hard to secure a low-interest loan from the Energy Department...holding daily briefings with company executives about the paperwork and spending hours with a government loan officer." And now he hates government.

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And to think we could have had a sane, serious government run by an intelligent person who would have acted in the best interests of Americans, and not Vladimir Putin.

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“Off the rails — LA Times interviewed federal workers who supported Trump in the 2024 presidential election who are now fuming after being fired by Musk’s DOGE.” www.rawstory.com/trump-suppor...

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If you were in Congress, what would you do for the State of the Union? What do you think Dems should do?

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Where all my "Harris is just as bad as Trump" peeps at? Y'all have gone quiet. I wonder why?

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Just read this graf. Share it with people you know who don’t pay attention to politics or news.

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Yes

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"History will remember this day— when an American President and Vice President abandoned all we stand for."

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On behalf of many Americans, don’t thank us we THANK YOU Ukraine for your work.

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Austerity and the Rise of the Nazi Party Cutting the safety net for US What a Great Idea GOPutin www.cambridge.org/core/service...

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Talk about a good ROI. Vladimir Putin’s investment in Donald Trump is sure paying off. Read @davidcorn.bsky.social's timely newsletter from yesterday.

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Here I react to the shameful encounter between American leaders and media and the Ukrainian president. No doubt there were more, but I saw five failures on our side: of hospitality, decency, democracy, strategy, and independence. Please watch and share. snyder.substack.com/p/five-failu...

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The Oval Office meeting today between Trump and Zelensky “reeked of a planned attack,” @radiofreetom.bsky.social writes. “The Ukrainian leader did his best to stand up to the bullying, but Trump and Vance were playing to the cameras and the MAGA gallery at home.” theatln.tc/5tozgdyn

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How Henry James can help us make sense of the Gilded Age long gone—and the one now getting stripped of its shine.

submitted 19 hours ago • 4 comments

I’m in the anchor chair tonight on @thebeat.msnbc.com at 6 pm ET on MSNBC. After the utter chaos today in the Oval Office, we’ve got a lot to talk about. Hope to see you.

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AMANPOUR (with face in hands): “Never have I ever ever ever seen anything like it… the president and VP were taking all the Putin talking points.” Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DGolFp-...

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By intervening or even tipping the scale for a candidate, the U.S. president and his advisors could threaten four decades of democratic gains in Latin America and the Caribbean, Christopher Sabatini writes.

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I'm a Clinical Social Worker. I've served folks thousands of low income and unhoused folks during my career and I can tell you this is the absolute truth.

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Gotta love Betty, because she tells it like it is! ❤️✨

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Turns out Zelenskyy is good at standing up against dictators.

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The files confirm that President Donald Trump flew on Epstein's jets a number of times in the 1990s.

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Me: "Do you worry about civil war?" Former GOP Congressman Joe Walsh: "The MAGA base, they're welcoming violence... Trump wants violence, MAGA wants violence. I just don't think the American people fully understand..." Watch Part 1 of my interview with Walsh, on fascism: zeteo.com/p/trump-maga...

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We are here This ain’t the f-ing movies Bad guys can win.

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Trump has not uttered a critical word about Putin but he and his VP publicly belittled the leader of the nation Putin invaded.

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