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Pragmatic in my politics which translates to progressive, liberal, moderate and conservative depending on the issue. “The power of the one needs the stupidity of the other.”
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ICE is a much greater threat to this country than illegal immigrants. The current administration ia by far the greatest threat this country faces. The problem is not st our borders. It is in the White House.

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I don't care if these monstrous ICE raids are a "federal operation". This is authoritarian violence, plain and simple. Just because Stephen Miller has kidnapping quotas for brown people he doesn't want to see on the street doesn't mean we have to think it's okay.

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Trump Calling People to Tell Them Privately That Elon Musk is ‘Big Time Drug Addict’. So Trump hired a drug addict to take down agencies in our government!!

submitted 21 hours ago • 0 comments

Three cheers for Scott Pelley.

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Had it not been for Trump’s tariffs, the Fed would have cut rates. It’s on him. He’s created uncertainly globally.

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Bill Ackman, hedge-fund billionaire, posted on social media that the two men “should make peace for the benefit of our great country.” So in other words cover-up that Musk torpedoed valuable programs for his business interests, DOGE was a fraud, Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” will heap Mtns of debt?

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Executive Orders Joe Biden had 167 over four years. Trump has had 152 over four months. This is what Autocrats do.

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The government asked, among other things, for Harvard to bar students hostile to American values and to allow an audit of faculty and students to measure “viewpoint diversity” at the school. Is this China? Certainly is not my America. This is what autocracy looks like.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

The U.S. Supreme Court last week ruled in favor of a controversial Utah railway project that critics say erodes the National Environmental Policy Act, or NEPA, a bedrock of environmental law for the past half century. Here we go. Polluting America. It’s getting bad folks.

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Private sector payrolls rose by just 37,000 in May, coming in sharply below the Dow Jones forecast for 110,000. Trump took a strong Biden economy and drove it into the ditch.

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Since when did US presidents dictate corporate human resource policies? Did I fall asleep and wake up in Russia or China?

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When one listens to an Israeli spokesperson on NPR respond to questions I feel like I’m in the Twilight zone. She does no service to Israel behaving like this.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Where are all the tariff deals?

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Were you aware Kentucky receives nearly half of its annual budget from federal dollars? Takers.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

How does a man who promotes white nationalism get to claim he’s stamping out antisemitism?

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

CNN should NEVER state Ukraine taking out a third of Russia’s strategic Air Force is their “Pearl Harbor”. Irresponsible. These planes are used to attack Ukraine killing civilians.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Russia is a rougue state.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

When will Democrats offer an alternative tax plan?

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Jake Tapper has forever tarnished his reputation.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Republicans are anti- conservative, anti-religion, anti-compassion and anti- family.

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

Stephen A asserted if Trump formed a trade agreement with China, Dems could never win another election. What an ignorant man. Stephen A doesn’t understand China.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

I don’t understand how a Jew can defend genocide. Attacks against Jewish individuals is wrong. Killing innocent Gazans is also wrong.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Joni Ernst - how immature of you. How disrespectful of your own constituents.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Trade war with China heats up. Predictable. Trump has no clue how to negotiate with China. He breaks every rule. Somebody take him golfing for four months.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Unbelievably horrified by this attack in Boulder. We don’t know the full story of the attacker, but no matter what it is, let me be clear: Senseless, antisemitic attacks do not help Palestinians, Jews, or Israelis. Committing terror attacks against people standing for hostages is disgusting.

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

The former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert told CNN on Wednesday that he could no longer defend Israel against accusations of war crimes. Israel is "committing actions which can’t be interpreted any other way," Olmert said. "What is this if not a war crime?"

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

Routhat’s justifications for anything and everything Trump does is mind boggling.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Why has it become anti-Semitic to criticize the radical Netanyahu government? Isn’t that a total misuse of the term?

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments