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CEO pay is up 1,085% since 1978, while typical worker pay is up just 24%. Why do we always hear "we can't afford to pay our workers more" but never "we can't afford to pay our CEO more"?

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We miss your goodness and your leadership in the White House, Joe.

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It sure does seem that way doesn’t it.

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“When a man gives his opinion, he's a man. When a woman gives her opinion, she's a bitch.” ― Bette Davis Happy International Women's Day

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Eighteen Ukrainian soldiers died in Iraq. No one gave Kyiv any minerals open.substack.com/pub/countero...

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“Mr. Duffy said the young staff of DOGE was trying to lay off air traffic controllers. What am I supposed to do? Mr. Duffy said. I have multiple plane crashes to deal with now, and your people want me to fire air traffic controllers?”

submitted 2 days ago • 140 comments

of course

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I was accused of a man's crime. And in the courtroom and the media I was slutshamed and pitted against another woman, my friend Meredith. On this #internationalwomensday, I'm thankful for all those women (and men) who called out the misogyny when they saw it.

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What a wonderful idea…👇 Let’s. Do. This. ✨

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“Frightened for the safety of their families.” America, 2025.

submitted 1 day ago • 1135 comments

It’s borderline criminal.

submitted 1 day ago • 2970 comments

The battle of our day is no longer about Democrats versus Republicans or left versus right. The choice right now is democracy or dictatorship. And we're sliding faster than I ever thought possible into the latter. Everyone must choose which side they’re on.

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Since writing this article, I have received messages from federal civil servants who tell me it is accurate, and that they are frightened. Please share this with anyone who doesn't understand the scale of the transformation. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

submitted 2 days ago • 182 comments

I wrote section 230 to protect the little guys and the upstarts like Bluesky. Repealing section 230 only helps Meta, Musk, and Donald Trump.

submitted 2 days ago • 456 comments

Stalin blamed the kulaks for their own starvation. Anyone who blames Zelensky for Trump's decision to cut arms and intelligence has succumbed to the same logic.

submitted 2 days ago • 61 comments

30 short rules for a better life (from the Stoics).

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"Washington has become the court of Nero, an incendiary emperor, submissive courtiers, and a jester high on ketamine in charge of purging the civil service. This is a tragedy for the free world, but it is first and foremost a tragedy for the United States."

submitted 3 days ago • 107 comments

Russia’s leaders have said nothing about peace. They have made a list of demands on the US, the fulfillment of which allows them to broaden the war against Ukraine. And the US simply fulfills all of these Russian demands without question. That is only a peace process in the Orwellian sense.

submitted 3 days ago • 104 comments

Elon Musk has called for Amtrak and the Postal Service to be privatized. Be warned: this is a call to gut essential public services to pad corporate profits. Here are my 5 rules of thumb for when public services should NOT be privatized.

submitted 2 days ago • 199 comments

Trump has dropped or halted more than 1 in 5 investigations and enforcement actions against corporate lawbreakers. At least 34 of those companies — including Tesla, Amazon, and Wells Fargo — gave over $34M to Trump's inaugural. It's a new Golden Age for corporate criminals.

submitted 3 days ago • 164 comments

...unemployed in greeeeeenland...

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Socialism is what they called public power. Socialism is what they called social security. Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations. Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people. —Harry Truman, 1952

submitted 4 days ago • 143 comments

Trump’s latest Social Security plan is a bait-and-switch: short-term gains for the wealthy, long-term benefit cuts for future generations. Do not fall for it.

submitted 3 days ago • 60 comments

"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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“The people are what matter to government, and a government should aim to give all the people under its jurisdiction the best possible life.” Words from Frances Perkins, FDR's labor secretary and an architect of Social Security. Remember this as the program is under attack.

submitted 5 days ago • 131 comments

Interesting statement on Russia and Ukraine from leadership at the George W Bush Presidential Center. www.bushcenter.org/publications...

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This is Hitler in 1938 signing the Munich Agreement. (Mussolini is there too, although he didn't sign.) The British Prime Minister, Neville Chamberlain, famously returned home waving the signed document and announced they had agreed “peace for our time!”

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After we published a public audit on Saturday, Elon Musk’s DOGE deleted hundreds more claims from its mistake-plagued “wall of receipts,” wiping out an additional $4 billion in so-called savings that the group had claimed to secure for U.S. taxpayers.

submitted 6 days ago • 201 comments

This cartoon has never been more accurate than it is now.

submitted 6 days ago • 158 comments

The fundamental choice has not been as stark since World War II: democracy and freedom, or dictatorship and tyranny. Trump and his sycophants are siding with the latter. The rest of us must loudly, proudly, and boldly proclaim our allegiance to the former.

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Elon Musk called Social Security a "ponzi scheme." This is absolute rubbish. Social Security has paid every benefit owed to every eligible American for 85 years. Perhaps the bigger "ponzi scheme" is the $38 billion spent by taxpayers to prop up his corporations?

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These sites might be useful: 1. HealthMap – Real-time disease tracking system developed by Boston Children’s Hospital. (healthmap.org) 2. Global Incident Map – Displays disease outbreaks worldwide with alert notifications. (outbreaks.globalincidentmap.com)

submitted 7 days ago • 201 comments

We will never be a monarchy. Know that. To quote the LOTR trilogy: Gondor has no king. Gondor needs no king.

submitted 8 days ago • 790 comments

Uninstalled Twitter. I'll post here, and on Facebook and Substack instead for now.

submitted 8 days ago • 14 comments

Brutal.

submitted 8 days ago • 1068 comments

Hundreds of NOAA employees are being fired by Trump and DOGE. The National Weather Service, which is part of NOAA, provides life saving weather forecasting in the US. A study found that for every $1 invested in NWS, it produces $73 in value to Americans. Again, this isn't about efficiency.

submitted 8 days ago • 286 comments

Dusting off my old Oxford English Dictionary and consulting carefully, I could not find "attack friends and submit to enemies" as a definition of the word "strength."

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People have asked me for my thoughts on the most popular book on Native American history written in the past couple of decades ("Empire of the Summer Moon"). Here's my answer. I'm afraid I won't win friends with this. danielebolelli.substack.com/p/making-thr...

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DOGE recommends cuts to the FAA. Hundreds of workers get fired, including those tasked with producing air traffic navigation maps. Now Starlink is reportedly in line to take over a $2 billion contract to upgrade the nation's air traffic control systems. See how this works?

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Medicaid covers nearly half of all children born in the country and around two-thirds of nursing home care for seniors. The Republican Party is voting today on a budget framework with will gut Medicaid to finance more tax cuts for the top 1%. "Party of family values."

submitted 12 days ago • 170 comments

The United States now playing the role that communist satellite states once played in the UN: sponsoring resolutions in its own name but on behalf of Moscow.

submitted 12 days ago • 366 comments

Halfway to the weekend. LFG!

submitted 11 days ago • 128 comments