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So maybe the Dems turn up to the State of the Union, but not in suits?

Candidate announces policies. Voter votes for candidate. Candidate implements policies. Who's the fool again? 🤔

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old Soviet joke for our times: Guy stops by the newsstand every day, scans the front page, doesn’t buy the paper. One day the vendor asks what he’s up to. Guy says: “looking for an obituary.” Vendor says “those are towards the back of the paper, comrade.” Guy says: “not the one I’m looking for.”

ACTUAL QUOTES: JD Vance welcomes Zelenskyy to the US: “have you ever said thank you once?” King Charles welcomes Zelenskyy to the UK: “we’ve all been worried about you for so long”

The world’s mood toward the USA right now. Also Slava Ukraini

Oh to go back to the days when you got your news once or twice a day, and in between you just lived with the mystery!

Here’s the good news: we’re still at that point in the dystopian novel where it’s not too late to do something about it.

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Who’s going to tell Elon about the new “formal” dress code in the Oval Office?

Per Dr Atul Gawande, ex USAID: “All malaria supplies protecting 53 million people, mostly children, including bed nets, diagnostics, preventive drugs, and treatments – terminated.” There are no words that sufficiently describe this level of cruelty and sadism.

"Trump says Putin would keep his word on a Ukraine peace deal." Well that's a relief. I was concerned that maybe Putin might not keep his word, so it's good to know that he will.

I'd flip this. The right has an ideologically coherent project, which is the defense of hierarchies that have dominated American society and opposition to policies that undermine them. Liberals and the left by contrast believe vaguely in helping people they feel sorry for but don't agree how or why.

You wouldn’t know this from reading the news, but the Tesla share price has fallen 3% today and 20% for the week. Karma train’s a’coming!

It’s not “indoctrination”. It just turns out when you give young people accurate facts along with critical thinking skills they tend to become left wing. Sorry. I wonder what it could be telling us?

Maybe people who identify as christians but don’t follow any of Jesus’s teachings shouldn’t lecture others on how they can, can’t, should or shouldn’t identify?

In New Zealand at the start of the 1980s the top rate of income tax was 66%. This was under a RIGHT WING government. It wasn't even particularly controversial. It was just understood that if you made a lot of money you should contribute 2/3rds of it to the community and keep a third for yourself.

We’ve gone from the audacity of hope to the mendacity of dopes.

So the first Trump administration claimed full credit for developing a covid vaccine at a cost of billions. Now the second Trump administration wants you to believe said vaccine is dangerous and ineffective. Oh, and they’re cracking down on government waste. 🤷🏻‍♂️

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Parents, please encourage your children to hit the books now, so they don’t want to burn them in later life.

The problem is that the checks and balances are more interested in collecting the checks and watching their bank balances grow.

One of the problems is that we don’t seem to have a shared understanding of whether an “apocalypse” is a good thing or a bad thing.

look, it’s really simple: owns several car dealerships, can’t spell bourgeois: blue collar working class adjunct professor surviving on black coffee and tofu, can spell bourgeois: bourgeois

You may die of an infectious disease, you may die in a plane crash. You may die of a gunshot wound, you may die of a climate induced fire. But at least you will DIE FREE!

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Just a few short years ago if you’d complained to me that a restaurant was too noisy I would have said “relax, chill out grandpa, just live a little!” Now I’ll just say “WHAAAT?!?”

Killing healthcare programmes kills people.

Spare a thought for Big Pharma. Decades of shovelling cash to Republican politicians in exchange for favours and they repay them by putting an anti-vaccine, anti-pharmaceutical, Democrat in charge of the FDA!

If you want to know what it looks like to watch a pandemic sweep through a population of unvaccinated people who don’t believe in the germ theory, I can recommend some great documentaries on the Black Death.

Once, America tried to stop infectious diseases at the border and rolled out the welcome mat for immigrants. Now it tries to stop immigrants, and rolls out the welcome mat for infectious diseases.

So the CDC resumed publication of its weekly scientific report after its first interruption since 1952 but removed information about H5N1 bird flu. They can hide the information but they can’t hide from the virus.

So it turns out no one wants to buy Tesla's loser cruisers anymore. The MAGA nuts won’t be seen dead in an electric vehicle, and the rest of us don’t want to end up dead in an electric vehicle.

Spending on overseas aid is like buying toothpaste. A small investment now saves big bucks and a lot of pain down the track.

Don’t worry the CDC data will be back. It’s just popped out for a massage.

All those people who resented being forced to read Animal Farm, 1984, and Z for Zachariah at High School: NOW Do you understand??

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The President of the United States has just announced massive tariffs on its three biggest trading partners will begin tomorrow. And it’s barely registering in the news because there’s so much else going on.

Of all the Kennedys fate could have chosen to spare, she picked this one

Apologies for the Woke nonsense, but we could just let the experts investigate and tell us what happened?

Well, I'm pretty unhappy with Past Me, who seems to have curated a feed that has a ton of current events and politics in it. Probably due to the fact that I've always been pretty keen on current events and politics. A kinder Past Me would have chosen animals and gardens and such instead.

Putting RFK Jr in charge of the health system would be like putting a conscientious objector in charge of the military.

Kennedy defending himself by pointing out HIS OWN KIDS ARE VACCINATED is not the flex he thinks it is.