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When they talk about privatizing Veterans’ care and Medicare, they mean allowing companies to provide healthcare for a profit. But how do companies make those profits? By denying care to many who need it. Don’t get fooled by the “privatization” label. It means “for profit” and YOU are the cost.

submitted 172 days ago • 1105 comments

interesting choice to make today

submitted 175 days ago • 11 comments

Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer on Tuesday signed into law House Bills 4127 and 4128. The bills, sponsored by Democrats and introduced last year, prohibit the possession of firearms at polling locations on Election Day and during early voting. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

submitted 176 days ago • 267 comments

I'm glad Pete Hegseth has pledged not to drink if he is confirmed as Defense Secretary. So, I guess he can still sexually harass women, mismanage funds, discriminate against women service members, push for a Christian Nationalist agenda, and be a virulent Islamaphobe? Super duper.

submitted 175 days ago • 1361 comments

The true enemies are the billionaires, their corporations, and the politicians who enable them. These idiots who think the orange turd is on their side because he is "not a politician" forget he IS a billionaire who enables OTHER billionaires:

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Today, #KashPatel sent a letter to my counsel @markzaidesq.bsky.social threatening to sue & demanding I retract my MSNBC comments on his unfitness to serve as FBI Director. This follows his threats against media & political opponents, showing how he might act if confirmed. I stand by my statements.

submitted 176 days ago • 4607 comments

Imagine issuing a press release boasting that you are trying to disenfranchise more than 60,000 voters. That is what it means to be the North Carolina GOP.

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If you see this post, can you please help spread this information? #ASafeChoice is a referral network of physicians who provide medication abortion services ACROSS THE US. People everywhere need to know about this option. These doctors have capacity to help more women! Let’s spread word! ❤️✊

submitted 176 days ago • 667 comments

The thing about all of these many hits on Kash Patel and Pete Hegseth about them being unqualified, malignant, possibly criminal, and unfit is that they are also forgetting that they are both really awful people too. I mean...these are truly terrible men.

submitted 175 days ago • 519 comments

A manager at McCormick Place and an associate were arrested Wednesday on federal fraud charges alleging they collected kickbacks they referred to in coded communications as “bottles of wine” from inflated bills for snow removal projects at the Chicago convention center.

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Breaking News: The Memphis police used excessive force and treated Black people more harshly than white people, the Justice Department found.

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BREAKING: Jerry Nadler has stepped back after a challenge for leadership of the Judiciary Committee by Jamie Raskin. Nadler endorsed Raskin in a letter to colleagues. It’s good to see Democrats making way for new leaders.

submitted 176 days ago • 173 comments

While Hegseth complains about the “Left” smearing him with “fake, anonymous sources & BS stories,” remember that the abuse allegations against him came from his own mother.

submitted 176 days ago • 1482 comments

Recall what happened with the FBI when Nixon politicized it by appointing Patrick Gray director. The rank and file leaked, leaked and leaked up to the assistant director (aka Mark Felt/Deep Throat) level. They destroyed Nixon. Trump is inviting big trouble with Kash Patel.

submitted 179 days ago • 476 comments

This is not great

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A regional public health department in IDAHO is NO longer providing COVID vaccines to residents in 6 counties after a narrow decision by its board of 4-3. SHARE EVERYWHERE! apnews.com/article/covi...

submitted 178 days ago • 118 comments

Why is there any discussion about this? It is utterly and totally disqualifying. Sex with an unconscious person is rape.

submitted 179 days ago • 216 comments

Home insurance in areas hit by repetitive disasters is going to be the number one housing affordability issue over the next 4 years. And possibly going into the midterms. More so than interest rates. Florida in particular is going to have huge problems.

submitted 179 days ago • 1670 comments

It's true it was a malicious political prosecution; it's also true that all the way back in 2019 it was obvious that Hunter Biden would be an easy target and that Joe Biden was sacrificing his damaged son on the altar of his own ego by choosing to run for president

submitted 178 days ago • 33 comments

"President Biden's new legislation aims to make critical policies 'Trump-proof,' ensuring they can't be easily reversed by future administrations. 👏 #Biden #Policy #Legislation"

submitted 180 days ago • 21 comments

World Central Kitchen announces it is halting operations in Gaza after Israel targeted one of its vehicles in an airstrike, reportedly killing three WCK staff and then two rescue workers. The IDF claims—without providing evidence—that one of the WCK workers was a “terrorist.”

submitted 179 days ago • 21 comments

There is a $2,000 cap on prescription drugs for seniors that will go into effect in 2025. To be clear, Trump didn’t do that!

submitted 179 days ago • 328 comments

Fact: The Counting Crows lyric “it’s been a long December” was written halfway through the first day of December.

submitted 179 days ago • 143 comments

Another word for this is "corruption." It is wrong to abuse public positions for personal profit.

submitted 179 days ago • 144 comments

So here’s what’s wrong with that school choice bullshit voucher scam the outgoing GOP legislature is attempting to fund with the money that WAS supposed to go to Hurricane Helene relief for Western Carolina. Everybody call your reps and tell them hell no do NOT override that veto! Be ashamed!

submitted 179 days ago • 1 comment

here's today's post: "Charles Kushner and Kash Patel join Donny’s Confederacy of Sewer Clowns" — a kakistocracy the likes of which no one has ever seen. thanks for reading, and please sign up for my daily newsletter so you never miss a post —

submitted 179 days ago • 360 comments

Walmart eliminated its DEI initiatives. This is what that looks like in reality: *Discontinued use of quotas for working w suppliers owned by women, minorities, veterans & LGBTQ community members. (1/ )

submitted 179 days ago • 1 comment

Boycott Walmart when possible. Target will price-match Walmart at the register. The greedy Waltons have gone too far. www.shopyourway.com/blog/is-walm...

submitted 179 days ago • 2 comments

BAM

submitted 179 days ago • 202 comments

I was surprised that social scientists who study authoritarian personalities remained largely silent during the 2024 presidential campaign. They now have almost a decade of hard data on Trump and his followers. Will this silence continue?

submitted 180 days ago • 59 comments

Resharing this piece from my newsletter Civil Discourse earlier this week in case you missed it while you were stuffing your turkey (or whatever). I get the burnout, the anger, the disgust with everything Trump. But we cannot afford to look away right now. joycevance.substack.com/p/not-broken

submitted 179 days ago • 135 comments

Insane article. The vast majority of this increase is because we were exposed to burn pits in Iraq and Afghanistan. It’s our generation’s agent orange. As a burn pit veteran myself, the economist is absolutely wrong here. My guess is there were no burn pit vets on the board that wrote this

submitted 179 days ago • 1180 comments

Urge you to read this piece with a focus on American Exceptionalism 3.0. You will see how Trumps goal of tearing down everything and isolating Americans from the world is exactly what we should not be doing. Everything old should not be new again! www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...

submitted 179 days ago • 5 comments

Trump’s clown car of appointees only make sense if his intention is to delegitimize and dismantle the US government and sell it for parts. Kash Patel RFK Jr. Pete Hegseth Tulsi Gabbard Charles Kushner Matthew Whitaker Russell Vought Linda McMahon

submitted 179 days ago • 184 comments

Russian soldier suffers radiation poisoning after laundry incident defence-blog.com/russian-sold...

submitted 183 days ago • 18 comments

Russia literally launched dozens of bomb threat attacks against black majority precincts in swing states on Election Day causing many to be closed for hours during the heat of voting and we aren't even supposed to ask about a recount? www.bbc.com/news/article...

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-Georgia's President and citizens in open revolt of a rigged election. -Europe doubling down on support for Ukraine. -Assad fleeing Syria as his army and allies collapse under a shock rebel assault. -NATO members openly talking about Russia's war against the West and Article 5. 1/

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🌽🌾 SEED MONOPOLY: “Large powerful seed companies make your food more expensive by holding farmers hostage.” Four multinational corporations control more than 60 percent of global seed sales. Less competition = higher prices for farmers and consumers Post: www.tiktok.com/t/ZTYAANH9E/

submitted 179 days ago • 28 comments

RFK Jr. is a fraud. Always has been.

submitted 179 days ago • 1500 comments

Here’s what Trump’s nominee said on Bannon’s War Room.

submitted 179 days ago • 596 comments

🚨 W @melissjpeltier.bsky.social @morganfair00.bsky.social & Richard Schiff , we created a podcast imagining how Trump’s politicized DOJ/FBI would look and feel. We called it “the Department of Retribution.” Today’s FBI nomination will do exactly what we imagined: open.substack.com/pub/davidpep...

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