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outrageous egregious preposterous Oh, and Dems? Not another penny until you do your fucking jobs. The job of the opposition is to oppose. You get paid AFTER you do the work. Do your job!
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By accepting Trump’s anti-Black premise and regurgitating the narrative that equates anything Black as DEI, the NY Times has become part of the propaganda machine

submitted 15 hours ago • 251 comments

I was SO wrong about Elon Musk years back. I was caught up in the allure of the ideas of some of the companies. I love the concept of Tesla. LOVE space exploration. But this has become the timeline of a bad B movie of how an empire falls into a dystopian Technocracy/Kakistocracy.

submitted 12 hours ago • 6 comments

Tyranny requires your fear, your silence, and your compliance. Democracy requires your courage.

submitted 3 days ago • 1921 comments

Donald Trump is making sure his friends, from Jeff Bezos to Elon Musk, are getting massive tax cuts. Instead of lowering prices for working families, his taxes will make life harder than ever. Here in Illinois, we're finding a way forward together to fight the challenges.

submitted 11 hours ago • 78 comments

Peter Greene remembers his favorite teacher, with love and reverence. open.substack.com/pub/curmudgu...

submitted 14 hours ago • 0 comments

We need EVERY elected Democrat to be thinking, acting & speaking like this. Plus every elected Republican who hopes not to cast their descendants in shame for the next 100 years.

submitted 17 hours ago • 1 comment

Performative naivety is the price of entry to VSP circles.

submitted 17 hours ago • 7 comments

Here's video of Steve Bannon doing a Sieg Heil today at CPAC. It is what it is and it's what Bannon intended. Don't let yourself be gaslit.

submitted 2 days ago • 1494 comments

The 1st step is to be aware. The American people can't properly react to the situation if they have no idea what is happening: A hostile takeover of government by corporate maniacs who despise democracy and enrich themselves by destroying the public good. www.theframelab.org/elon-musk-do...

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Brave individuals can get attention & make a difference. Someone should tell the Democrats.

submitted 2 days ago • 7 comments

Women tell jokes and have beers with friends. It’s not “masculine.” Fake victimhood to justify darker behavior like rape.

submitted 2 days ago • 25 comments

From Dean Obeidallah. Twice this week Trump vowed to end Social Security for “millions”—believe him. open.substack.com/pub/deanobei...

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

#EduSky

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

"Traded insults"? Seriously, WaPo? Trump lied, Zelensky calmly pointed out that Trump lied. That's not "trading insults".

submitted 2 days ago • 26 comments

“I am a king and my will is law” isn’t a clever distraction from what he’s doing, it’s the central underlying justification for everything he’s doing.

submitted 3 days ago • 298 comments

Trump was always on Putin's side. 77 million American voters decided that our country should be on Putin's side too.

submitted 3 days ago • 93 comments

This goes to the dark heart of m MAGA, though: the urge to dominate, embodied in the child’s taunt “stop hitting yourself.” Every generation of kids teaches itself that taunt because it so perfectly captures the psychic reward of bullying: hurting someone while blaming them for their own suffering.

submitted 4 days ago • 16 comments

She was AMAZING. She puts @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social to SHAME.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Next from Peter Baker: "Mass deportations ease traffic woes in blue cities, creating predicament for Dems." PB doesn't just miss the point, he actively avoids it. From Parker Molloy: Stop Analyzing Trump's Unhinged Ideas Like They're Normal Policy Proposals open.substack.com/pub/readtpa/...

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

From Peter Greene. Does Trump Want To Dismantle The Best US Schools? open.substack.com/pub/curmudgu...

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

It is perfectly legal to know your rights and to educate others about them, too. EVERYONE in the United States, citizen or not, has rights. I will not allow this administration to intimidate us from helping you know about them. Here’s our shareable guide ⬇️: (pt. 1/2)

submitted 8 days ago • 1909 comments

RIGHTS. In DEMOCRACIES, we HAVE THEM. Is that CONFUSING, TOM HOMAN, you WHINY ARYAN NAZI?

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

Trump administration laying off more than 200,000 workers--in addition to 75,000 who took buyouts. How will this impact you? There will be NO ONE there to help you with Social Security issues, Medicare payments, veterans services, etc. All of this is to save $ for tax cuts for Trump's oligarchs.

submitted 4 days ago • 19 comments

Wrote about the morally vacuous, strategically unsound (and also wrong!) anti-“woke”diagnosis everyone’s still sticking with, even in the midst of civil rights apocalypse.

submitted 4 days ago • 116 comments

From Mark Jacob. Why won’t the media call fascists ‘fascists’? open.substack.com/pub/stopthep...

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Basically the last 30 years of the push to privatize schools too

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

Head of the NY State Young Republicans says,"NY's core identity is the NYer. Not some person that came over from Guatemala or somewhere else...Like my great-grandparents. Italian, obviously. Very different set of values than, I would argue, than some of the migrants that have come over today have."

submitted 5 days ago • 15 comments

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submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

you should read david’s thread for a thorough dismantling of this article. i will only add that it is very disappointing, although not altogether surprising, to see some progressives treat trump’s war on DEI as a legitimate policy difference and not as an explicit effort to resegregate the workforce

submitted 7 days ago • 138 comments

The IRS was a simple test for DOGE: was it really interested in efficiency and state capacity? If so, you support the tax enforcement, the biggest ROI in govt. Or did it want to minimize parts of the state that bothered billionaires? We have our answer. open.substack.com/pub/donmoyni...

submitted 8 days ago • 136 comments

Meeting ID: 493633106

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Meeting ID: 493633106

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

"The future of the [DOE]—and of the students with disabilities who depend on it—will likely hinge less on the person appointed to lead it than on the world views of two billionaires who abhor what they perceive as weakness and waste." The plan to "euthanize" pub ed & its impact on the vulnerable.

submitted 9 days ago • 6 comments

Echo?

submitted 8 days ago • 19 comments

Every worker deserves to come home at the end of the work day safe and healthy. America’s unions stand in solidarity with @lettercarriers.bsky.social as they #FightLikeHell for a strong new contract.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

The truth about the future, once again, from the sensational Elie Mystal. www.thenation.com/article/poli...

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

I cannot emphasize how much Politico sucks and has always sucked elephant ass.

submitted 9 days ago • 9 comments

Don’t forget: It’s a convicted felon and litigated sexual assaulter whose company was found guilty of fraud and who was first elected to the White House with covert Moscow assistance who’s trying to destroy much of the federal government and impose authoritarian rule.

submitted 9 days ago • 52 comments

There is literally HIV being transmitted from mom to baby because of the illegal shutdown of US AID and now Trump’s State Department wants to spend 400 million dollars on Tesla cyber trucks. This is not about efficiency. It’s a smash and grab.

submitted 10 days ago • 247 comments

Just more for 21st Century Hitler’s murder count.

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

Feel like @schumer.senate.gov and @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social need a locker room sesh with Coach Hines right about now. youtu.be/p6LAM1K9_BI?...

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

For anyone who suddenly claims concern about the national debt -- and claims Trump and Musk are doing something about it: The president who added the single biggest amount to the national debt ever in US history, $8.8 TRILLION? Donald Trump.

submitted 10 days ago • 90 comments

They cut $900 million in federal grants to our kids today, knowing that what they’re doing is illegal. Fuck these people. Call your reps and Senators NOW. Red or blue, call them and tell them that THIS MUST NOT STAND. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/11/u...

submitted 11 days ago • 11 comments