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The Texas Senate has approved a new film incentive program that rewards films which are "faith-based," promote "family values" or "portrays Texas in a positive fashion." I may be new here but that sure sounds like government-funded religious propaganda. apnews.com/us-news/bill...

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Even LITERAL Nazis trying to sabotage America during World War II were given 30 days' notice before being deported under the Alien Enemies Act -- so they could get lawyers and have their day in court. Trump is giving people 24 hours. Or zero.

submitted 8 days ago • 35 comments

15 years ago the Supreme Court decided corporations are people under the First Amendment. Today, billionaire political spending is up 160-fold since that ruling. Citizens United is among the worst decisions in history. It corrupts our system every day.

submitted 12 days ago • 310 comments

This part

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“The Trump administration has ordered State Department employees to report on any instances of coworkers displaying ‘anti-Christian bias’ as part of its effort to implement a sweeping new order on supporting employees of Christian faith.”

submitted 14 days ago • 1101 comments

We wouldn’t be here if SCOTUS had allowed the January 6th trial to go forward as scheduled.

submitted 18 days ago • 1205 comments

Great leaders do not remind you how great they are; they remind you how great we are and how great we can be together—Cory Booker

submitted 23 days ago • 12 comments

pro tip: if you can afford to blow $250 million on a losing campaign in Wisconsin, you can afford to pay a 90% top tax margin

submitted 23 days ago • 279 comments

The richest man in the world spent more money than most of us will see in our lifetimes to lose a state Supreme Court race by 10 points. And the fact his $25 million was a drop in the bucket compared to what he's spent on other elections is exactly why we must overturn Citizens United.

submitted 23 days ago • 1184 comments

What did America's largest corporations do with their spoils from Trump's tax scam? Between 2017 and 2022: -Stock buybacks jumped 98% -Dividends increased by 40% -Meanwhile, wages only grew by 14% In some years these corporations paid their CEOs more than they paid in taxes.

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Closing rural post offices will do the same thing that closing rural schools has done: Empty out rural towns. Why? To sell off farmland for rock bottom prices to the oligarchs. Water and mineral rights and CAFOs polluting with impunity. It’s been the plan for decades.

submitted 29 days ago • 737 comments

Why do we need Greenland to defend against Russia when we already work for Russia?

submitted 29 days ago • 645 comments

What in the George Orwell is _this_ revisionist history??? OMG

submitted 30 days ago • 351 comments

This aged badly

submitted 31 days ago • 604 comments

Since Tulsi Gabbard called Snowden a hero, I wonder what she will call Jeffery Goldberg.

submitted 31 days ago • 11 comments

👇👇

submitted 34 days ago • 388 comments

This. Is. Very. Good.

submitted 34 days ago • 185 comments

Sanders: Does anybody think it makes sense that we have a campaign finance system where one man (Musk) can put $270 million to get Trump elected and then his reward is that he becomes the most powerful person in government? That is not democracy. That is oligarchy.

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YouTube’s play button doing the lord’s work

submitted 37 days ago • 872 comments

You think it’s an accident Tesla sales are down almost 80% in Germany? They know what his salute meant.

submitted 37 days ago • 325 comments

Trump’s America

submitted 38 days ago • 413 comments

…………

submitted 37 days ago • 5 comments

Unless you wear a red hat.

submitted 38 days ago • 1028 comments

Cartoon by Dave Whamond

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They called him Sleepy Joe because we could sleep at night.

submitted 46 days ago • 1096 comments

"President Donald Trump honored a child cancer survivor during his joint address to Congress. Medical school faculty who helped treat him are facing potentially devastating federal funding cuts..." www.usatoday.com/story/news/e...

submitted 46 days ago • 308 comments

Imagine if Joe Biden had reposted a liberal pundit saying ‘shut up about gas prices’ in 2022. It would have led the news, all of the news, for days, weeks, on end.

submitted 48 days ago • 571 comments

Back in 2023, Elon Musk infamously posted and reposted a meme falsely claiming Republicans hadn't changed their views in the last decade, while Democrats had moved left. An FT study confirms that was a lie: Democrats are typical for Western democracies, and MAGA and Musk are _nearly off the chart_.

submitted 49 days ago • 95 comments

1 Al Green is worth 100 Hakeem Jeffries, 1000 Chuck Schumers

submitted 50 days ago • 300 comments

Welcome to America, the land of the fake patriots.

submitted 49 days ago • 9 comments

For the rest of my life, I will never understand how a country full of people busting their asses, working paycheck to paycheck, allow the fucking richest guy on Earth to call them "parasites" while calling the Social Security we contributed to our entire lives "a Ponzi scheme." Un-fucking-real.

submitted 50 days ago • 1230 comments

Who did this?

submitted 51 days ago • 814 comments

If you thought this state of the union was messed up, just think about how next year’s will be with him having 12 months of time to do more of his work! It’s only going to get worse before it has the chance to get better

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"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." —FDR, 1937

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This country is being run by stupid, petty children.

submitted 53 days ago • 4 comments