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Experts nearly unanimously agree that public subsidies for sports stadiums are a poor investment, but that hasn’t slowed a wave of spending for billionaire team owners including Ohio GOP lawmakers looking to help pay for a new Browns stadium in Brook Park ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/06/13/p...

Precisely why he's going to go back to soft targets in the industries he just promised to withdraw from persecuting. These targets aren't going to lay down easily for his crap and his ratings will plummet.

We won’t amplify it, but the president posting that Dems are “sick of mind” and “hate our country” immediately after 2 Dem lawmakers and their spouses were shot in their homes is the opposite of leadership. Gas on the fire.

A nightmare. 🙏🏾

The Minnesota assassin appears to be a hate-filled right winger. So can we stop walking on eggshells about MAGA's legitimization of political violence? Yes, Republicans have also been the target of inexcusable violence, but this isn't a "both sides" issue. 1/ Ađź§µon the danger.

Drowning out Proud Boys in Atlanta at No Kings Day. Part 1/2

as always, @johnrogers.bsky.social said it best

Update on last night's shooting in downtown SLC: SLC Police Chief Brian Redd confirms a 39-year-old man, who was an "innocent bystander" at the "No Kings" protest has died.

I am driving out of DC. The center of 16th Street, which leads to the White House, is lined with anti-Trump signs for a five to six block stretch near Military Road and the Maryland border.

It's pretty obvious that a lot of US mainstream media either doesn't recognise authoritarianism or doesn't want to call it out. Either way, it's an excellent way to destroy trust in your institution.

Get in, loser! We’re going losing!

@msnbc.com reporter at the 1:15 mark. “The chaos you’re seeing is not the result of peaceful protestors, it’s the result of actions of law enforcement, specifically the Los Angeles sheriff’s department.” #nokings

It speaks of David Lynch’s absolute discipline that his first Oscar-bait feature didn’t opt for a hokey or crowd-pleasing  ending. The closing moments of

They'll just say "it's so we don't pay for it with taxes". It's really the oligarchy celebrating its power over its puppet. "raising ethical concerns". Ethical concerns have been raised every single day about numerous things since Trump came into office again. Nothing happens.

Just want to take a moment to shout out the international reporters helping us get the real story out. When an 80-year-old veteran with a walker is hauled off with his hands zip-tied behind his back, and the media spins it as a “threatening breach” of a police barricade

Remember that a month ago we heard that Trump wanted to pardon the guys that plotted to murder Gretchen Whitmer.

Via ABC News's Rachel Scott, let's never forget for a minute what a classless scumbag the President is. x.com/rachelvscott...

The radicalization of the American right is THE story of US politics over the last four decades and political reporters are still not allowed to talk about it

Why do some communists love to gatekeep protesting? They just can't seem to fathom that it's numbers that count most when it comes to protests, not the purity of one's adherence to Marxist theory.

I admit to not having seen "Vincent Price" and "grave" used together in this context before. Kinda inspiring... Darkness falls across the land For Trump and crew are in command Miller crawls in search of blood To terrorize your neighborhood

Actually there is! DC police were out in force yesterday and in every instance I saw they allowed people to protest peacefully. Having covered demonstrations in DC and past ones in Cali, I can say MPD is way less violent than LAPD or CA sheriffs.

They are literally smoking crack (of 47's ass)

Brought to you by Xi, Putin and Dugin.

You can always count on The New York Times to minimize the scale and impact of protest. Yesterday's 2000+ No Kings actions smashed records for the most demonstrations in a single day. So the Times decided to publish a horseshit map of just a handful of "confirmed locations." We're not fooled.

This is complete and utter nonsense. He is saying this because he knows people who watch this channel are basically the worst informed people in this country and to drum up support for US involvement, in the worst and most underhanded possible way.

Dunked on by nerds is not the corner you wanna back yourself into.

A textbook case of stolen valor.

the media didn't like biden and wanted to hurt him so they promoted the "truck caravans" as a major story to try to do that. by contrast, they like trump and want to help him (like they helped him win the election) and so bury or minimize coverage of anti-Trump protests

Sticking to this over the long term re hospitality workers and meatpacking etc. I continue to disbelieve that 47 won't fall back on his most racist instincts in order to shore up the only base besides end times zealots who won't abandon him. You can't trust him about anything even if $ is a factor.

Once again the correct response to this is to immediately push for a huge amnesty bill. If farm, hotel, and restaurant workers are so vital to the country that even donald trump can admit it, they should all be getting green cards now

The Department of Defense was created to protect us, but who is going to protect us from THEM?

I've seen too many people who are out and out pro-Iran solely because they are beefing with Israel, and like, what is wrong with yall??!?!

In honour of Joy Division's iconic album Unknown Pleasures being released on this day in 1979, I'm again sharing one of my favourite ever video clips (Peanuts vs Joy Division dance party)...

Kirk - one of the most reliable 🤡