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I'm a nobody. It's a problem everywhere that people care more about the price of oil and gas, than they do about genocide that isn't happening to them.
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Tonight an unbelievable **34,000 people** gathered for our Denver rally to take on billionaires and win our country back. This was the largest political gathering in Denver since Obama in 2008. Also bigger than the 2024 DNC. And the largest ever rally in Bernie’s career (and obviously, mine too).

More people waking up to the realization they voted for the devil because they didn't bother to understand the details. The devil is always in the details.

I needed this today

For three years, Odesa — Ukraine's fortress city just 150 km from Romania — has faced relentless Russian drone attacks. Day after day, it endures explosions, destruction, and fear. Yet Odesa stands strong, defiant, and unbreakable.

Drawings by one of the children abducted by Russia and returned from captivity. Ilya, 11, from Mariupol

The United States of America is the only major country on earth that does not guarantee health care as a human right. The result: We rank dead last among wealthy nations in life expectancy. We must end that international embarrassment. Yes. We need Medicare for All.

When a state creates too wide a gap in rights between citizens and lawful residents, expect the next step - to reproduce the same divide between higher and lower citizens, the latter eventually to be seen as an alien force.

I'm so over these shameless hypocrites.

No way what would be a very small and obscure contract gets axed without a specific request to do so from the Kremlin. newrepublic.com/article/1929...