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Retired Therapist who can’t believe how the right-wing media ecosystem has hijacked our country and that so many Democratic pundits and politicians act like it’s politics as usual.
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We also need to deal with the anti-democracy Fox, Newsmax, Real America’s Voice… But mostly Fox.

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Last night's Pentagon massacre is much more than realized. Not just firing the black CJCS and first woman CNO but all the senior JAG officers and hiring a man who just joined 3 different crypto firms tied to Kushner and Thiel as Chairman. I did a deep dive into it open.substack.com/pub/fpwellma...

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February 22, 2025

submitted 14 hours ago • 63 comments

I hope there is some media outlet, nonprofit institution, or university that has set itself the simple task: *remember this*. One of the most shocking & disturbing things about Trump's first term was how the vast bulk of it just vanished down the memory hole almost as soon as it happened.

submitted 1 day ago • 34 comments

This seems correct.

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"Surely all those hawkish Republicans on the Hill, many of whom criticized the Biden administration for not doing enough to help Ukraine, would be moved to speak out in protest? Surely you jest."

submitted 13 hours ago • 24 comments

They don’t want to face exceptionalism in a black man or white woman because it would expose their lack of competence. They attack “DEI” to hide their unearned white male privilege. Snowflakes.

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Every day, the goals become clearer: The point of DOGE is not efficiency, but regime change www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

submitted 13 hours ago • 120 comments

If any other president did this in the past, outside of MAGAstan, this would be an unbelievably insane scandal. And seen for what it is: preparing to turn the military into an instrument of the president's personal power.

submitted 14 hours ago • 2 comments

First the Kennedy Center, the JFK Library, and now the Jimmy Carter Presidential Library. You know you live in a totalitarian state when only the diapered Leader can determine what is acceptable. Get ready for women to lose the right to vote, too, cause you know that's coming as well.

submitted 14 hours ago • 22 comments

This cause is close to my heart - please sign: sign.moveon.org/petitions/re...

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Trump’s Pentagon purge has included the top military lawyers. Nobody should be surprised. Dictators politicize the military. Trump wants those with the biggest guns loyal to him, not the Constitution He says he’s demilitarizing it. I call BS. Orwellian to the core. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/u...

submitted 1 day ago • 140 comments

I thought a guy from Brooklyn would have some fight in him.

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@booker.senate.gov

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My cowardly, nepo baby Congressman Tom Kean, Jr, won’t even have town halls.

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And to think just four days ago, after lecturing the Europeans on free speech, JD Vance was in my Twitter replies lecturing me about free speech too. Oh the shamelessness! This is who they are:

submitted 2 days ago • 128 comments

Can we just seize the Russian assets already and give them to Ukraine? Good lord just do it

submitted 2 days ago • 612 comments

This is just disgusting. Can you imagine spending an entire legal career and life supposedly invested in the American legal system only to try in curry favor with a fascist by undoing it for him? Shameful.

submitted 3 days ago • 39 comments

Hillary was right about this fucking puppet.

submitted 2 days ago • 309 comments

LITERALLY EVERY FBI DIRECTOR HAS BEEN A REPUBLICAN. EVERY SINGLE ONE.

submitted 2 days ago • 164 comments

fucking incompetents and/or malicious... they own every repeat offender who commits police misconduct www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

submitted 2 days ago • 67 comments

Enrique Tarrio and the Proud Boys, Stewart Rhodes and Ivan Raiklin (the self proclaimed “Secretary of Retribution”) have announced they’ll be holding a press conference at the US Capitol today… Nothing to see here. Just far-right extremist groups feeling legitimized & emboldened.

submitted 2 days ago • 63 comments

This would be completely illegal. But you wouldn’t know that from reading this post, the headline, or the lede. Unbelievably bad.

submitted 2 days ago • 988 comments

“If FBI agents who are just doing their jobs aren’t free of the risk of political prosecution, then who is? In a country run by a president who has accumulated all power into his own hands, you never know who might run afoul of the leader’s good graces.” joycevance.substack.com/p/kash-patel...

submitted 2 days ago • 242 comments

1. The Philadelphia Inquirer has 2 journalists - our chief political writer and foreign affairs columnist - in Germany for its critical election. A friend yesterday called us "a regional newspaper" but I'd say we're a historic legacy news org (with 23 Pulitzers)... www.inquirer.com/politics/ger...

submitted 2 days ago • 26 comments

Excellent question.

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@schumer.senate.gov @booker.senate.gov

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Excellent. The @nytimes.com is totally complicit. They continue to find euphemisms for every shameful thing Trump says or does.

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@booker.senate.gov When are you going to start saying this? We are no longer the good guys!

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Why don’t more people see this? Because Fox and other right wing media paint him as a strong leader.

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They also said “rewrites history.”

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@booker.senate.gov @andykimnj.bsky.social

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Correct. He’s not capable of playing multidimensional chess. Or chess. Or checkers. Or tic-tac-toe. As one of his aides put it during Shit Show I, “he’s just eating the pieces” on the board. Nothing he does is strategic. He’s purely guided by narcissistic, sociopathic impulses at all times.

submitted 3 days ago • 1267 comments

She’s SO right!!

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Calling empty suit, Tom Kean, Jr!

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Perhaps one of the differences between the midcentury right and MAGA is that the earlier conservatism seemed to have a world it sought to preserve—as hierarchical as it may have been—whereas today, the right seems bent on destruction, compelled only by fantasy and rage.

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In a lifetime of bitch ass moves Trump’s attacks on Zelensky reveal his core defects. He is a coward from a long line of them. A weak man is proud of serving a stronger one, Putin OWNS Trump. He has since the Russian mob opened its first brothel opened in Trump Tower. Fact.

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"With every meter of territory they liberate, Ukrainian soldiers win the war NATO was created to fight. Ukrainian heroes fight and die daily to defend NATO’s peace. Ukraine offers NATO the greatest deal ever presented in military history."

submitted 3 days ago • 14 comments

My congressman, Tom Kean, Jr, used to proudly say he was pro-Ukraine. Since Trump was inaugurated, crickets. Coward.

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The @nytimes.com said he was “rewriting history.” You have to hand it to them- they can really find a euphemism for every authoritarian thing Trump does.

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Put aside the nastiness of this post, & the way in he attacks Zelenskyy as a dictator but says not a word about his pal Putin, & just focus on the way it is written: would you hire this weird person to work for you? Would you trust this odd person to teach your kid in school?

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Would have liked more attention about Kushner/Saudi arrangement from the @nytimes.com back when it happened.

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Trump wants you to forget that he gutted the Aviation Safety Committee and ousted the FAA administrator during his first week in office. Don’t forget.

submitted 4 days ago • 301 comments

Chris Murphy: "My prediction is that if you vote for Kash Patel, more than any other confirmation vote you make, you will come to regret this one to your grave."

submitted 3 days ago • 739 comments

Kamala was right. And it only took him less than 30 days to roll over for Putin.

submitted 4 days ago • 2186 comments

Blumenthal: "What world is he living in? It is not only contrary to the facts and the truth but utterly despicable. A disgusting betrayal of a country that has bled and fought and died for freedom ... the president's surrender is pathetic and weak."

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DOGE recommended firing workers at: -FDA, which oversees Neuralink -FAA, which oversees SpaceX -USAID, which probed Starlink -CFPB, which oversees Tesla's financing arm and a potential payment platform on X. "Conflict of interest" is a severe understatement.

submitted 4 days ago • 1219 comments

The dude really does fancy himself a king.

submitted 3 days ago • 275 comments