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Blue dot in a blue city in a red state. Our Medicare and Social Security, ACA, voting rights, women’s rights, human rights, workers rights, and the planet are all in danger. No one can fix it but us.
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From United Humanists on FB

NOT solidly MAGA! Many of us are progressives and Dems but we are mostly in and around the KC and StL areas and gerrymandered out of our voices.

Elon Musk: Billionaire, But Not a Genius? Biographer Seth Abramson shreds the myth: “Zero intellectual achievements.” Fired from PayPal & Zip2, nearly ran Tesla & SpaceX into the ground, bailed out by Obama. Buying companies ≠ brilliance. The Musk “genius” illusion is collapsing.

— Accidentally fired workers trying to contain bird flu — Accidentally fired workers overseeing our nuclear stockpile — Accidentally fired workers providing health care to Native Americans “Accidentally.” More like gross incompetence and mismanagement. Opposite of efficient.

📢 “He’s trying to steal Medicaid to enrich himself. He’s gutting NASA to line his pockets with SpaceX. He’s looting everything good in America for private profit.” - @aoc.bsky.social at today’s #SaveOurServices NYC rally. The fight isn’t over. Join us: go.savepublicservices.com

(Throwing hand-up classroom gesture) I know! Let’s send Musk & Bezos et al. (aka Pigs in Space) to investigate!

This is what I was talking about last week.

He will burn down whatever he can, however he can Our systems of governance, rule of law, global alliances, even the Constitution. Consumed by vengeance and greed, he is the greatest threat to our Republic since its founding. We must meet this moment with the force of a thousand suns. Or perish.

If you were wondering if there is a word to describe how the United States is currently being governed, why, yes, there is: kakistocracy!

European Parliament member 👇🏽

DOGE recommended firing workers at: -FDA, which oversees Neuralink -FAA, which oversees SpaceX -USAID, which probed Starlink -CFPB, which oversees Tesla's financing arm and a potential payment platform on X. "Conflict of interest" is a severe understatement.

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.

Jeff Bezos’ Washington Post would not run this ad. This is the power of oligarchy.

Trump loves breaking records.

What a disgrace. Bezos and the newspaper he has destroyed should be grateful that anyone thinks it’s still worthwhile to buy ad space from them. *This* is how democracy dies.

@rondorland.bsky.social

Elon musk is the richest man in the world, he could be funding hospitals, medical research and universities. He could be solving the climate crisis. He could be feeding, hungry children. Instead, he’s trying to make sure that your grandmother doesn’t get an extra dollar of Social Security.

Wow, this is outrageous! DOGE claims they found fraud where 150 year olds were receiving Social Security! What a joke these incompetent, inexperienced folks running this department are! #BlueCrew #BlueCircleFamily🌈🦋 #BluePetPatrol💙🐾 #ProudBlue #Resist #TruthWarriors #antitrump #antimaga

This caught fire on X.

A cartoon from several years ago finally coming to fruition, via Paul Noth.

It’s a coup.

Remember: The oligarchs who control our economy and democracy seek to divide us so they can become more powerful. They want us to turn on each other so we don't look up and see where all the wealth and power have gone. Don't fall for it.

It’s FUKKKING tiring already!

Portuguese editorial cartoonist Zez Vaz reaches back to Tiananmen Square to call on American defiance.

🤣. 🤔. 😮.

Those who uphold the rule of law save their country.

Make that “Mobsters”.

Still looks like a down-market cheap-ass imitation of a Delorean to me.

Gear Up For The Fight Of Your Life!!

“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

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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]

If only more people realized this we would have far fewer of them voting against their own best interests.