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Democrat | Retired | I vote for my kids and grandkids future | America needs to take a hard look in the mirror | How do we stop the evolution to stupidity in America?
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Elon Musk was a early adaptor of AI. gizmodo.com/microsoft-st...

The single most destructive force in American politics in 50 years.

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

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

There are no words that need to be added to this brilliant Sarah Cooper video. None. youtu.be/9cJ1IZsp750?...

Chicago Pride Pharmacy is a critical access point for patients with HIV in Lombard, but they're getting hit hard by pharmacy benefit managers. Unfairly high prices from PBMs have put a strain on them and their customers. It's past time we reform their unfair practices.

What could possibly go wrong with elon using AI to determine fraud via the government systems? Anything fed into AI tools can be easily shared and/or leaked. www.forbes.com/sites/emilsa...

I wonder how much of the government data elon has stolen over the last month was used to train his latest version of AI? www.cnbc.com/2025/02/18/e...

Math is hard

Steve Bannon has a point! www.forbes.com/sites/sarado...

Can a poll that CBS is involved with be taken seriously considering their capitulation to tRump? www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-a...

Even the most disturbing RFK Jr. headline always manages to have a detail inside creepier than you could have imagined. I’m sorry, did you just say Black kids should have a chance to get “re-parented”???? Gift link wapo.st/4hW2xGI

Headline: Exploding rocket company to oversee changes to airplane safety. buff.ly/3X86gt4

If you’ve been scolded by the Pope AND by the Auschwitz Memorial in the same week, it’s time to take a minute and reconsider your choices.

REPOST if you stand with AOC!

theintercept.com/2025/02/17/e...

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.

What a pathetic little man! www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Republicans in Congress have devoted their professional life to obtaining power and are now content to sit by and let Trump and Musk make their positions irrelevant by repeatedly violating the law.

1/29: First plane crash in 16 years in DC 1/31: Crash in Philly 2/5: Delta flight struck in Seattle 2/6: Flight wrecks in Alaska 2/10: Crash in Scottsdale 2/12: Military jet crashes in San Diego 2/16: Crash in Covington, GA 7 crashes since the WH congratulated itself for “restoring aviation safety”

Because of DOGE, countless Americans are going to die.

“We’ve Been Essentially Muzzled”: Department of Education Halts Thousands of Civil Rights Investigations Under Trump Since Inauguration Day, the Office for Civil Rights has only opened about 20 investigations focused on Trump’s priorities, placing more than 10,000 www.propublica.org/article/depa...

"the Department of Veterans Affairs announced the dismissal of more than 1,000 employees who had served for less than two years. That included researchers working on cancer treatment, opioid addiction, prosthetics and burn pit exposure, U.S. Sen. Patty Murray, a Democrat, said Thursday."

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“We must especially beware of that small group of selfish men who would clip the wings of the American eagle in order to feather their own nests.” -FDR, 1941

#FAFO

The irony of the richest man in the world almost single-handedly destroying an agency designed to help the world’s poor, so that the U.S. federal budget has more room for another giant tax cut for the richest man in the world and his pals, should not be lost on anyone. [Cartoon by Mike Luckovich]