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The problem with Social Security isn't "fraud" like some might have you believe. The problem with Social Security is that as the rich have gotten richer, more of their income has escaped the cap on the SS payroll tax. We can fix this by scrapping the cap.

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DOGE having access to Americans' Social Security data isn't just a major security breach. It's part of a deliberate ploy to cut benefits — using the false pretext of "waste and fraud" — and have Congress use the savings to give billionaires another giant tax cut. Be warned.

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“As far as Mr. Trump is concerned, Russia is not responsible for the war that has devastated its neighbor. Instead, he suggests that Ukraine is to blame for Russia’s invasion of it.” Like all the weakest bullies, Trump specializes in blaming the victim. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/u...

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"The ideal of a life without suffering makes one group of people apathetic and brutal towards other groups, which are supposed to pay the price...It is only the dignity of solidarity in suffering which makes people capable of fellowship". Moltmann 1975, TCPS, p.167

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If our Christianity causes kids to go hungry, the sick to go without healthcare, the stranger to be unwelcome, and the elderly on social security they paid into to be called a “parasite,” all while billionaires get richer, we’ve profoundly misunderstood the most basic elements of Jesus’ teachings.

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“We need culture makers, not culture warriors, who create culture that is pervasively Christian, not warriors re-tasking the spoils of war.” -Rondall Reynoso (Original art by www.Rondall-Reynoso.com )

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"It is a government of billionaires, by billionaires, for billionaires... I can't think of a parallel... DOJ, SEC, were investigating Musk companies, that all goes away now, and he makes money at the same time." I was on MSNBC with @joyannreid.bsky.social tonight, talking Elon Musk & corruption.

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“Trump has packed so much illegal, unconstitutional, lawless activity into three-and-half weeks that the press, politicians, and many Americans have already forgotten or normalized activity that can only be described as a coup.” — Robert Hubbell Newsletter Feb. 13, 2025

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America seems to be taking on the appearance of a failed state.

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This has always been the GOP's strategy: 1) Cut taxes for the wealthy & corporations by claiming they'll pay for themselves. 2) Explode the deficit. 3) Demand cuts to programs that millions of people rely on. 4) Repeat. Don't let them get away with it.

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Whole Foods, which is owned by notorious union-buster Amazon, is arguing that Trump's dismantling of the NLRB means the company doesn't have to recognize a newly unionized store in Philadelphia. Looks like Jeff Bezos's investment in Trump is paying off.

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Clean green NZ? Serial offenders Silver Fern Farms are at it again. In 2021, fined $337 K for an ammonia leak- well that sure taught them a lesson! 🙄 And what are those useless bums at ECAN doing?

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DOGE is a trojan horse for Elon to gut labor, consumer, and environmental protections. If he actually wanted to cut waste, he'd look at the massive tax loopholes, government contracts, and subsidies that benefit the wealthy and large corporations. Watch my latest video: youtu.be/2hVMghqarHY?...

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It’s all theatrics and performative. Trump creates the problem or challenge. Trump then offers a fake fix or solution to the fake problem or challenge. Trump sycophants then cheer him as a genius and a political leader and problem-solver for the ages. Rinse and repeat. Theatrics. That’s it.

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A reminder that on this site folks may be aware that Trump got basically nothing new or substantive from Mexico or Canada but over on the other place, and out in parts of the real world, the GOP are successfully and ruthlessly spinning these as wins. They are messaging masters, Dems aren’t. Sorry 🤷🏽‍♂️

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Thoreau explains that "civil disobedience" means the possibility for individuals to take actions of resistance that protest aspects of governments, laws, or policies that they feel to be unjust. #strongertogether #RiseUp #OneVoice

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That's how you do it! 👏🏼

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Yes. While there are absolutely things Democrats can and must do to slow, obstruct, etc, GOP hold both House and Senate majorities, severely limiting our options. Johnson and Thune are handing over the own keys and relinquishing their own power. Even for the cynics this should be a shock.

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Why does the world’s richest man, a man no one voted for, have access to my Social Security number?

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History repeating itself?

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Trump and his lackeys want to divide us. They want white people to blame Black and Latino people for every tragedy. And they want Black and Latino people to react not only with hurt but with justifiable anger. We must not let them win.

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After claiming he doesn't know who Laura Loomer is and merely took a photo with her at a book event, Kash Patel is asked if he's familiar with Stew Peters, an antisemitic podcast host. Patel: "Not off the top of my head." Durbin: "You made eight separate appearances on his podcast..."

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In holding that anyone born in the U.S. is automatically a citizen, race was the central issue — asTrump and his advisers must know. This makes Trump’s order an act of performative racism that tells us what kind of U.S.-born Americans he wants to exclude. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

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The number of hospital patients who come to us in Psychology for help with anxiety, when what's actually happening is basic care needs arent being met. Many of these people dont really need to see a psychologist, & it's important to acknowledge how it's our ragged system that's driving the anxiety.

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The positive meaning of a classless society free of domination, without repression and without privileges, lies in friendship. Without the power of friendship and without the goal of a friendly world there is no human hope for the class struggles and struggles for dominance" (Moltmann, 1975:116)

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Jesus laying down his life out of love for the world rather than using all cosmic and political power to force the world to obey him will forever be the greatest critique of any Christian movement that seeks to secure power in order to ensure that others conform to their will.

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Apparently Joe & Jill will ride with Trump & Melania to the Capitol tomorrow. Either Trump is a threat to democracy, & guilty of an insurrection, or not. I believe he is. Biden claimed to believe he is, too. But Biden & many top Dems didn't actually believe it. Otherwise, how to explain this?

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The CFPB is suing Capital One for lying to its customers and cheating them out of billions in interest payments on their savings accounts. Is there really any doubt as to why corporate cheats and rip-off artists want to "delete" the CFPB?

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120+ Indigenous tribal leaders have sent a letter asking for Executive Clemency for Leonard Peltier “A survivor of the federally funded boarding school system where he endured years of physical, emotional, and spiritual abuse” ndncollective.org/120-tribal-l... @ndncollective.bsky.social

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A new @FTC report finds that the "Big Three" pharmacy benefit managers — middlemen for 80% of prescriptions — jacked up the price of lifesaving medications by hundreds and thousands of percent, raking in over $7.3B in extra revenue. Corporate greed is a threat to public health.

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Conditions on Congressional aid to your fellow Americans but not on Congressional aid to foreign Israelis. Gotcha.

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It would be a tragedy if President Biden dIdn’t pardon Leonard Peltier, who deserves clemency if anyone does and who is emblematic of our nation’s grotesque mistreatment of Native Americans. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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More Moltmann True dominion does not consist of enslaving others but in becoming a servant to others; not in the exercise of power, but in the exercise of love; not in being served but in freely serving; not in sacrificing the subjugated but in self-sacrifice. - J. Moltmann (1975:103).

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Waiting for Dem leadership to acknowledge the mistakes made this cycle and develop a plan to course correct.

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