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This country has seen some bad moments in the 61 years, 5 months, 16 days I’ve been on this Earth. But it has never, ever before come close to the supertoxic level of stupidity, mendacity, narcissism, nihilism, and moral apathy that threaten to destroy it today.

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REPOST if you support our federal workforce and know how dedicated they are to their jobs. Show them you appreciate them!

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NEW: An internal email obtained by WIRED from a threat intelligence team monitoring US Treasury systems advised labeling DOGE operatives an "insider threat," adding that it recommended suspending their access "immediately." | www.wired.com/story/treasu...

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i love that in addition to everything else, elon musk is the dumbest asshole on the planet

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Really terrific journalism here.

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Jasmine Crockett: "The problem is that Americans thought it was okay to take a full fledged criminal and make him the President of the US and then they want to act aghast when he does criminal things. Let me tell you, we have a thug in charge of the US and if we don't wake up we may not have a US"

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'Prices at the pump' dominated the news when gas prices were going up. (Now .... when was the last time you saw a news segment filmed at a gas station?) 'Have you seen the price of eggs?' was taken as "people who really understand the country" insight circa Oct 2024. And now...

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I’m embarrassed for the New York Times.

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from pope Benedict XVI’s speech to the Bundestag in Berlin (22 September 2011), for USA VP JD Vance

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It’s almost as though the government has been turned over to a bunch of sociopaths

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We will have victories and setbacks, good days and bad. We must understand that this will not be over in one election or with the defeat of any one candidate. This is the fight of our generation, and it will take time. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/10-t...

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“True ignorance is not the absence of knowledge, but the refusal to acquire it” — Karl Popper.

submitted 31 days ago • 35 comments

I think of this video often. We shouldn’t be fighting the same fight. Waiting for comfort and decorum isn’t the way. Progress happens when you don’t stop.

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It’s interesting to see FFOTUS exposed to actual Christianity.

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The "he's not gonna listen to her" reactions are missing many points. Lots of other people are also hearing it. Lots of people can see him hearing it, then weigh what she's said with what he'll do. Lots of people can see her refusal to surrender these ancient teachings to the latest face of empire

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Form meets function

submitted 34 days ago • 272 comments

Crazy when you got a peek under the hat

submitted 33 days ago • 535 comments

For today's Boston Globe, the cartoon I'd wished I'd never have to draw:

submitted 34 days ago • 45 comments

They're not "smears" if they're true, and they don't become "anonymous" because your political allies pressured the FBI not to interview your victims.

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Modern tyranny is terror management. When the terrorist attack comes, remember that authoritarians exploit such events in order to consolidate power. The sudden disaster that requires the end of checks and balances, the dissolution of opposition parties, the suspension of freedom #ShieldOfResistance

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2024 was a great year for billionaires, as wealth disparity grows. Turns out trickle-down economics did not raise all boats. Welcome to the new gilded age.

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A decent man is a rare thing. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...

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Whitehouse: "You had a guy who Trump was proposing to be the top prosecutor for the US whose only experience with criminal investigations was to be the subject of them ... the reflection of this on the judgement of Trump is perhaps the most remarkable part of this story"

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One of the lessons of the last month is that great wealth cannot buy courage but it can reveal cowardice.

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