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"We have the government we deserve. The American age is over. And it ended because the American people were no longer worthy of it."

submitted 4 days ago • 289 comments

This is the thing. Manufacturing jobs 100 years ago were dangerous, precarious, and poorly paid. Manufacturing jobs 70 years ago were a golden ticket to the middle class. The jobs didn't change. What changed was the New Deal and unions.

submitted 5 days ago • 20 comments

If you accept that non-citizens have no right to due process, you are accepting that citizens have no right to due process. All the government has to do is claim that you are not a citizen; without due process you have no chance to prove the contrary.

submitted 15 days ago • 326 comments

The Massachusetts governor, the city, and the university needs to drop everything to locate and free this girl and make sure this doesn't happen again. This is DEFCON-1. If they do this to someone who wrote an op-ed in a college newspaper, they will do this to anyone they don't like.

submitted 13 days ago • 514 comments

Imagine calling yourself the master race and have to resort to erasing the achievements of minorities to make yourself feel better.

submitted 20 days ago • 967 comments

Meet Evan Anzoo, a five-year-old boy in South Sudan who died when Elon Musk shut down USAID and the boy lost access to his HIV meds. Musk says no one has died because of the aid shutdown, but that's because he didn't look. RIP, Evan, you deserved better. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

submitted 22 days ago • 153 comments

"The last few months have been a moral catastrophe. At least there’s no economic upside."

submitted 23 days ago • 6 comments

submitted 33 days ago • 12 comments

Yes, Trump just rescued the Russian economy

submitted 34 days ago • 82 comments

My latest. stephaniekelton.substack.com/p/elon-musk-...

submitted 36 days ago • 3 comments

An underrated part of this video is you can watch the Dow go down in real time in the bottom right

submitted 36 days ago • 16 comments

The Washington Post refused to run this ad. Sure would be a shame if it went viral.

submitted 50 days ago • 133 comments

This isn't a normal detention center at Gitmo just for the grotesque optics of that location. They're disappearing people. No disclosure of who's there, or how many, or any way for lawyers to find out. And no transparency on any deaths in custody there, either. Consider the implications of that.

submitted 57 days ago • 36 comments

I just posted this on Facebook because while super online people see what's going on, normies don't. I just re-read it and it sounds unhinged. But it's what's happening. And even I can't believe it, even if we're seeing it.

submitted 63 days ago • 29 comments

Prediction: 1. Mexico and Canada make some kind of “concession” on immigration (or Trump claims that they have made an imaginary concession). 2. The media takes his word for it. 3. Trump cancels the tariffs and claims victory. 4. No one calls him out on his bullshit.

submitted 65 days ago • 1 comment

ICE Agent Decides He Wants Kids After Seeing Incredible Love And Devotion Of Parents Begging Him Not To Take Their Child theonion.com/ice-age...

submitted 67 days ago • 315 comments

So the most powerful man in the world and the richest man in the world clumsily fired a bunch of senior air traffic staff, caused the worst domestic air disaster since 9/11, and then tried to blame black people

submitted 68 days ago • 60 comments

Since the moment Trump began tweeting about Mexico in 2014 or whenever that was, it's been obvious that this was a racist project and that neither he nor his followers care about citizenship as opposed to skin color and language. And of course it's playing out that way now. bsky.app/profile/aura...

submitted 69 days ago • 0 comments

check out that chyron. this is where we're at.

submitted 70 days ago • 1565 comments

The money we’ve sent to Ukraine is basically the only smart military spending we’ve made this century

submitted 90 days ago • 3 comments

This is so spot-on it’s scary.

submitted 100 days ago • 1165 comments

I know this is polarizing among suburban white voters but i don’t think we need to pay anybody to ram down front doors and murder teens.

submitted 102 days ago • 159 comments

youtu.be/VwcKwGS7OSQ?... Sorry people. Looks like this prediction was wrong. 😡🤬

submitted 149 days ago • 0 comments

New research shows Walmart Supercenters bring a hidden price: falling wages and rising poverty. Walmart's monopoly power is devastating communities and their local businesses.

submitted 151 days ago • 0 comments

We better at least get a televised military tribunal of Mitch McConnell out of this shit.

submitted 153 days ago • 0 comments

The fact that this election is close is forever a stain on America. How much of a stain, we’ll soon find out. But an authoritarian felon, sexual abuser, who already incited a violent mob to attack the Capitol in a failed plot to steal an election…should never have been viable.

submitted 154 days ago • 8 comments

Incredibly, people are still writing stories about how only the elite has benefited from the strong economy. In fact, the biggest gains have gone to low-wage workers

submitted 155 days ago • 13 comments

We’re forgetting something. Trump is a rapist. open.substack.com/pub/virginia...

submitted 170 days ago • 8 comments

Which is more amazing: the fact that America has vastly outperformed other advanced economies without higher inflation, or the fact that Biden gets no credit?

submitted 169 days ago • 47 comments

even more than we’ve seen recently, this is just straight up fascism. i don’t think there’s another word for it.

submitted 169 days ago • 11 comments

Supporting Trump means believing Harris will do all kinds of stuff she has never mentioned (banning cows & cars! voting rights for migrants!), while insisting Trump won’t do the crazy shit he’s openly promising. www.nytimes.com/2024/10/14/u...

submitted 172 days ago • 13 comments

Fascism has come to America. What else can you say? These images are just from today. He calls his enemies "vermin," wants to revoke media broadcast licenses, and foments hate against members of ethnic minority groups, whom he promises to deport by the millions in order to fix country's problems.

submitted 179 days ago • 22 comments

If you don't see in this the genesis of a genocide, you aren't looking

submitted 179 days ago • 7 comments

Look I never play this card but I studied German politics and the rise of fascism and this IS THAT. We have arrived at the end game. Not hyperbole or exaggeration this is THE EXACT LANGUAGE. Anyone who has studied this recognizes it like a meteorologist seeing a gathering hurricane

submitted 179 days ago • 94 comments

There is a 180 mph hurricane in the gulf a couple of weeks after parts of Western North Carolina, a supposed climate “haven”, were nearly wiped off the map by another storm. Please vote for candidates who take climate change seriously.

submitted 183 days ago • 0 comments

This is who Trump supporters want to see elected, an incoherent, lying, rambling man. Gift article, share it widely. www.nytimes.com/2024/10/06/u...

submitted 185 days ago • 46 comments

Appeals to humanity sadly don't seem to do much, but Trump's strongest issue is "the economy" so Dems should be doing more to point out that Trump's "economic" plan is to crash our GDP with mass deportation while generating inflation with sweeping tariffs on most consumer goods.

submitted 188 days ago • 6 comments