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I am 75.5 years old, former instructor of journalism at Ball State, life-long Democrat, 3 cats, devastated by election results. No DMs.
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If Trump's idiotic statements torpedo the hostage deal he'll be responsible for their and their families' ongoing hell.. and he's likely blown any chance at his Saudi deal. Such a destructive ignoramous

It’s Day 16. Our country is being dismantled 24/7. If “…just 53 days.” applies to us, like it did in 1933 Germany, that means March 13, 2025, could be the last day of our country, as we know it to be. Tick tock, tick tock… #SheShed

ABC hits a new rock bottom. “Obstruct” and “troops” give me a break.

At 4am in Riyadh, they put out this statement. 👇

In case you took a 20-minute nap and missed it, apparently America is now going to be invading and seizing Gaza and holding it permanently according to co-president Trump, which (someone check me on this) pretty sure is unilateral war and therefore a war crime

Fuck John Fetterman.

I'll be honest, the "End Racism" thing in the endzones was the emptiest of empty gestures for an organization that chased a Black man out of the league for protesting the police murdering Black people, and where one of the teams in the Superbowl is named the Chiefs and whose fans do a Tomahawk Chop.

PROGRESSIVES AGAINST KAMALA HARRIS IN 2024: "Don't vote for her!!!! She isn't good for Palestine!!!!" DONALD TRUMP IN 2025: "We should ethnic cleanse the Palestinians from Gaza so I can build some Mediterranean-view condos."

They just stranded thousands of Americans and their families around the world illegally. This is fucked up beyond belief. They nuked our entire foreign aid. China will fill the gap a happily.

Donald Trump is now talking about the United States “OWNING” Gaza. Owning it. What the actual fuck.

THIS! 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼

Today’s front page of the largest newspaper in Quebec, Canada and they nailed it 🤣🎯

NEW: DoJ employees asked for guarantees in writing for the deferred resignation Fork in the Road plan. They were sent this. It strips the signer of the right to sue, and also says if you commit a felony, you’re not eligible for federal employment. Oh, the irony.

Senator Alex Padilla: Rudy Giuliani told these lies and was disbarred. Pam Bondi told these same lies and you want to make her the Attorney General of the United States?

Two new lawsuits against music mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs have been filed alleging he participated in the rape of several women at a Trump hotel.

Imagine the outrage if Pete Buttigieg had presided over a 5-day period with 2 deadly airplane crashes, several serious incidents on runways including a plane fire & crash, and a critical NOTAM flight safety computer system crash resulting in 1400 flight delays & cancellations

All these federal people losing their jobs because of that fucking moron Biden had 48 straight months of job gains. I still cant believe people voted for this shit

So naturally, you know what to do…👇 Enjoy. 😎✨

Judge rules that Black church in DC, which won a $2.8 million default judgment against the Proud Boys, now gains control over the trademark “Proud Boys.” The far-right group is barred from selling any related merchandise or symbols without the consent of the church. Gift link:

They pulled Hillary's fingernails out one by one over an email server. And now we've got an unelected official and some hackers stealing everything. No wonder half their voicemail boxes are full. WE. HAVE. HAD. IT. Thank you! @repjasmine.bsky.social @maxwellfrost.bsky.social

Trump during the election: No new wars! Trump after inauguration: We’re going to send the U.S. military in to conquer Gaza, Greenland, Canada, Mexico, and the Panama Canal!

Had to look at this local TEXAS headline twice but yes - accessing any citizen’s private Medicare data is, in fact, AGAINST THE LAW. Lawyer friends, here’s a super relevant case study. Go! www.ksat.com/news/texas/2...

In 2016 the NYT ran multiple front page stories page about the grave national security risk of Hillary Clinton's server. Today's front page, and nary a mention of the successful "plutocratic coup" (said by a sitting House member) or "constitutional crisis (said by a sitting Senator) unfolding

Senate Democrats are considering voting NO or delaying every Trump nominee as retaliation for his overreach on ending USAID. Smash the RT if you SUPPORT this plan. ZERO votes from Democrats!!

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Amidst all of the chaos, the orange felon withdrew the United States from the UN Human Rights Council today. He’s made this country an unstable enemy of the world in just 2 weeks.

Remember this?

The Proud Boys organization no longer controls the trademark, “Proud Boys”, and is now “barred from selling any merchandise with either its name or its symbols without the consent of a Black church in Washington that its members vandalized.” www.nytimes.com/2025/02/03/u...

The way Republicans have been voting to approve OBVIOUS, unfit buffoons like Pete Hegseth and RFK Jr proves that either they think those cabinet positions are utterly meaningless, or they're just too cowardly to stand up to trump for anything. Or both.

Left-leaning physicians group sues over federal websites scrubbing health information: The physicians' advocacy group Doctors for America is suing federal agencies for removing information from their websites that health care professionals and researchers regularly use. The left-leaning nonprofit…

To all of you who voted third party or worse yet “sat this one out” because of Gaza? Yeah, you need to take a HARD look at what you helped to create. You really thought your “protest vote” was going to “show them”? foreignpolicy.com/2025/02/04/t...

Our United Airlines pilot made sure to emphasize *Mexico* when he said we'd be flying over the Gulf of *Mexico* today. It's the little things. Microdose hope.

If you’ve taken the oath to serve, today would be a good day to honor it.

Wonder how illegal it is to post their bios!? 🤔

📌UPDATE, 2:21 p.m.: The Capitol switchboard is STILL jammed and inoperable. This has been going on for hours, is beyond unacceptable, and receiving little to no coverage in the media. I ask again: What the hell is going on here????

Not for nothing but everyone realizes that these teenagers and 20 somethings who have complete access to the Treasury payment source code are now #1 espionage recruitment targets for Russia and China, right?

"Just one more thing. You say you're trying to save the government billions, yet you're taking $30B to blow up rockets indiscriminately. You have this crazy scheme where you pretend we're going to colonize Mars. To be perfectly frank with you, Mrs. Columbo thinks you're on drugs."

Last time China directly targeted soy bean farmers in the US to specifically hurt Trump states with it. It got so bad, that Trump had to bail them out with billions of dollars. It cost a lot more than he claimed would come in with the tariffs. It repeats itself now. apnews.com/live/trump-p...

USAID annual report says in 2023 it protected 92 million from malaria with insecticide-treated nets. Trump and Musk want to shut this down.

“Trump is acting like a king because he is too weak to govern like a president. He is trying to substitute perception for reality. He is hoping that perception then becomes reality. That can only happen if we believe him.” - Ezra Klein

This needs to be on the news!

Republicans move to repeal lead limits imposed by Biden-era rules. US government would be prohibited from ever mandating lead pipe replacement or lowering lead limits in water. Lead poisoning anyone?? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Every time.

“I will oppose unanimous consent. I will vote no. I will do maximal delays until this is resolved.” Go @schatz.bsky.social 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

He’s 53 years old, people. Sick puppy.

Marco Rubio's new acting undersecretary of state for public diplomacy, ladies and gentlemen.

Trump swore the market would boom—but his reckless trade war is tanking it instead. Trump is an economic arsonist, lighting fires he can’t put out. Remember: he did this 👇