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I just read your stuff and rarely engage. Don’t mind me. You’re all great.
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Jim Acosta announces on air that he's leaving CNN and says, "it is never a good time to bow down to a tyrant ... don't give in to the lies."

submitted 25 days ago • 3342 comments

Jon Stewart and @aoc.bsky.social on the thirst for leadership in the Democratic Party and the need for an actual agenda.

submitted 29 days ago • 60 comments

The LA Wildfires Prove that Elected Republicans Are Bad People Who Enjoy Watching Americans Suffer www.splinter.com/the-la-wildf...

submitted 38 days ago • 3 comments

Jealous Trump Throws Own State Funeral To Upstage Carter’s theonion.com/jealous...

submitted 44 days ago • 395 comments

Everyone should read this

submitted 45 days ago • 0 comments

My teenage kids and I watched the Eminem movie “8 Mile”, set in 1995, and I realized the time gap for them is the same as mine with the Johnny Cash movie “Walk the Line” and now I feel a thousand years old

submitted 49 days ago • 170 comments

How Democrats Can Drive a Wedge in the Republican Party www.splinter.com/how-democrat...

submitted 57 days ago • 3 comments

Over in the other place, the billionaire owner is threatening to fund ‘moderate’ (rightwing) candidates in heavily Democratic districts too. This is what oligarchy looks like. It’s the biggest threat to democracy today. Not ‘cancel culture.’ Not trans kids. Not college protesters. Oligarchy.

submitted 63 days ago • 338 comments

Probably should be a bigger deal that Musk, the richest man on Earth who is essentially acting as the leader of the GOP, endorsed the pro-Nazi AfD Party in Germany in a tweet the same a day a supporter of that party killed people in an act of terrorism. The VP Vance just supported Musk's tweet.

submitted 63 days ago • 147 comments

How Will The End Of Print Journalism Affect Old Loons Who Hoard Newspapers?

submitted 64 days ago • 27 comments

This is good. H/t @jvl.bsky.social Journalism's fight for survival in a postliterate democracy open.substack.com/pub/mattdpea...

submitted 65 days ago • 60 comments

Now we enter the stage where the Republican majority in the House won’t be able to pass their bill because of Republicans voting against it, and they will blame Democrats. I’ve seen this movie a few hundred times already.

submitted 65 days ago • 173 comments

News Happening Faster Than Man Can Generate Uninformed Opinions theonion.com/news-happeni...

submitted 65 days ago • 118 comments

"We are not proud of the death and paralysis our ancestors caused, but we assure you we have changed. Really, we are just looking for a warm place to live. There would be no cause for concern, and any associated sweating, fatigue, nausea, body aches or partial paralysis would be wholly unrelated"

submitted 69 days ago • 0 comments

Some folks are pretty good seeing things coming.

submitted 66 days ago • 1156 comments

Private healthcare scam

submitted 68 days ago • 0 comments