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submitted 16 hours ago • 347 comments

Now everyone will go look up the book and it will make NY Times. #sighs #booksky #writingcommunity

submitted 1 day ago • 1841 comments

Healthcare for seniors is *not* waste, fraud, or abuse. Food for hungry kids is *not* waste, fraud, or abuse. A $45 military parade for a draft dodging felon *is* waste, fraud, and abuse. Paying the National Guard to attack US citizens *is* waste, fraud, and abuse.

submitted 15 hours ago • 479 comments

Too funny

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

once again I must tap my own sign

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submitted 6 days ago • 248 comments

Great question! 😡

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submitted 15 days ago • 939 comments

Real Presidential Leadership focuses on the majority.......not the financial elite.......

submitted 15 days ago • 181 comments

I made 38K my first year teaching in Arkansas. I held a BA. I made 41K in Missouri after 16 years of teaching. I held an MA. See the problem?

submitted 28 days ago • 291 comments

The GOP’s “Big Beautiful Bill” is Robin Hood in reverse: it takes from the poor to give to the rich.SNAP (used to be Food Stamps…which Tabby and I used back in 1972) is gone. Medicare is going.

submitted 17 days ago • 718 comments

Heard some ignorance about Medicaid today, so I thought I would share this fun fact: Medicaid covers the costs for 63 percent of the nearly 1.3 million nursing home residents in the US. I wonder if folks consider them worthy of care or not.

submitted 17 days ago • 23 comments

So Ruby Bridges is still out here doing work... www.fox13memphis.com/news/civil-r...?

submitted 20 days ago • 31 comments

Dear press: Why do questions of mental acuity activate only with the prior but not the current administration? Asking for a nation.

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submitted 84 days ago • 183 comments

17 family members of Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán crossed the U.S. border last week from Mexico as part of a deal between a son of the former head of the Sinaloa Cartel, Ovidio Guzmán Lopez, and the Trump administration. Uh. Why?

submitted 25 days ago • 64 comments

RFK Jr. said multiple times during his house and senate hearings today that no scientists have been fired from federal agencies. Our reporting has shown that hundreds, if not thousands, of scientists have been let go from NIH/CDC/FDA

submitted 25 days ago • 611 comments

submitted 24 days ago • 353 comments

I will never forget that the week Qatar decided to bribe the president of the United States with a plane, CNN decided to focus on the age and health of an ex-president. Shame.

submitted 25 days ago • 1485 comments

submitted 27 days ago • 128 comments

Taking a bribe in a very public way doesn't mean you aren't corrupt, it means your corruption is shameless.

submitted 27 days ago • 513 comments

Worth repeating, yet again, that Jimmy Carter had to sell his peanut farm.

submitted 28 days ago • 1 comment

People who never read books now in charge of books.

submitted 29 days ago • 632 comments

Guess which is going wind up killing more Americans.

submitted 28 days ago • 702 comments

Article I, Section 9, Clause 8: “no Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under them, shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State.”

submitted 28 days ago • 2254 comments

submitted 28 days ago • 724 comments

Growing up in the '70s I'd read about strongman rulers in far-off places like Asia or Africa who had billion-dollar Swiss bank accounts and mansions in the French Riviera while their citizens were mired in poverty, and wondered how that could be allowed to happen Now I know

submitted 28 days ago • 148 comments

submitted 29 days ago • 68 comments

FRIEND: "We're at risk of slipping into fascism." ME: "Oh, honey . . . when they are arresting judges and mayors, we've already slipped."

submitted 29 days ago • 422 comments

submitted 29 days ago • 1122 comments

I feel like we've been saying this forever but it's worth saying again. Book bans do not exist in a vacuum. They're not one off events. Book bans are the canary in the coal mine. They usher in an era of censorship, fascism, violent scapegoating. Authors, join the fight: @authorsabb.bsky.social!!

submitted 33 days ago • 79 comments

I’m not sure how Duffy can fix any of the issues with air travel when he’s on Fox 24/7 complaining about it and blaming other people. STFU for 5 minutes and do your job! This isn’t a reality TV show - people’s lives and livelihoods are in the hands of these unqualified dipshits.

submitted 33 days ago • 736 comments

A man who holds the title of President of the United States, who took an oath to protect and defend the Constitution, who then says he doesn’t know if he’d uphold the Constitution, is unfit to be president and should be removed.

submitted 34 days ago • 1044 comments

Tariffs are taxation without representation. We wrote a whole Declaration of Independence about it. Threw tea in the harbor and everything.

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submitted 35 days ago • 554 comments