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Trump is doing everything Putin wants him to do: abandoning our nation’s core values, attacking longtime allies, and picking Tulsi Gabbard for a critical national intelligence role. Putin has us right where he wants us, with his puppet as our President. America first? youtu.be/iPXXFfXk5aM?...

submitted 26 days ago • 189 comments

Stop what you're doing & read this exceptional piece from @brennancenter.bsky.social's @mawaldman.bsky.social that explains how the pending SAVE Act will make it more difficult for Americans to vote, ending advances in online and mail in registration brennancenter.substack.com/p/restrictin...

submitted 26 days ago • 274 comments

This is what Project 2025 looks like.

submitted 26 days ago • 1254 comments

The most common question I receive is how everyday citizens can help in the fight for democracy. My advice, take the first step, start with something small and see what works for you. Here are ten things all of us can do. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/10-t...

submitted 27 days ago • 166 comments

Ahh, policing to hit the numbers for the politicians. Wasn't this season three of The Wire?

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

This is 67 cases--a tiny fraction of TB's global burden, which exceeds 10,000,000 active cases per year. But the longer we allow a curable illness to infect and kill millions, the more TB we'll see in the U.S. Tuberculosis is an airborne disease, and TB anywhere is a threat to humans everywhere.

submitted 27 days ago • 24 comments

JUST IN: Trump releases the Epstein files.

submitted 27 days ago • 213 comments

As we continue to analyze what went wrong in November, it's important to acknowledge that the political media landscape has shifted from TV to digital. In a guest piece for The Big Picture, writer Tristan Snell offered ideas for how Democratic campaigns can succeed in this new media environment.

submitted 27 days ago • 139 comments

DOJ is wiping evidence of rioters’ crimes from the internet www.cnn.com/2025/01/25/p...

submitted 27 days ago • 13 comments

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submitted 27 days ago • 31 comments

Trump seems determined to take a blow torch to alliances and partnerships around the world that a couple dozen of his predecessors painstakingly established over a century of war and diplomacy, which pleases nobody on planet earth more than his friend Vladimir Putin.

submitted 64 days ago • 291 comments

I am late and others have already shared, but this is a good reminder that fundamental principles and ideals of human rights matter - it is who we are and we need to become better at it. Thanks for sharing @hcrichardson.bsky.social December 10, 2024 open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

submitted 73 days ago • 1 comment

UPDATE: Here's an updated version of my recent column that corrects an erroneous photo caption and a refocus AG pick Pam Bondi toward the election lies she told at Philly news conferences and on Fox News in 2020. Earlier posts with the error have been deleted www.inquirer.com/opinion/pam-...

submitted 89 days ago • 17 comments

Brendan Carr, Trump's FCC chair pick, is signaling his intention to punish broadcasters that the incoming administration believes has been unfair to them. He's doing something else here, too: he's discouraging broadcasters from critically covering Trump moving forward.

submitted 91 days ago • 323 comments

Hey, I've written something for MSNBC (first time I've written for them). www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

submitted 95 days ago • 34 comments

When people blame all the wrong entities for Kamala Harris's loss... They try to tell you where it all went wrong, now you don't need to argue, just sing this song...

submitted 97 days ago • 135 comments

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submitted 104 days ago • 26 comments

Dodge v. Ford Motor company (1918) creates the shareholder supremacy doctrine. (In short) All decisions by a corporation with public shareholders must favor shareholder interests (profits). After 100 years this doctrine has “forced” corps to eat our society alive and will lead to a collapse.

submitted 97 days ago • 1 comment