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I’m the dairy farmer running to replace Elise Stefanik in New York’s 21st Congressional District. Can you repost this, give me a follow, and help spread the word?

submitted 11 days ago • 141 comments

They're using fear to bully you into compliance. Fear of losing your job, your savings, your Medicare/medicaid, your rights, your freedom. They're using fear to bully our allies, to break our alliances and promises. What do they have to fear? Nothing so far. That needs to change.

submitted 11 days ago • 580 comments

Melania Trump declined Jill Biden’s invitation for tea at the White House, and yet I haven’t seen a single Republican call her out for disrespecting “protocol.”

submitted 43 days ago • 836 comments

According to Republicans, honoring Jimmy Carter, who never incited a deadly attack on our Capitol, is less important than honoring Donald Trump, who very much did.

submitted 45 days ago • 323 comments

For the next 4 years, it's time for Democrats to stop being so eager to play nice and appease Republicans. They're not really Republicans any more. They are MAGA. If your name isn't Donald trump, they're not interested. They're not playing by the same rules. They're not playing by ANY rules.

submitted 43 days ago • 737 comments

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submitted 43 days ago • 50 comments

Fox continues to stoop lower and lower.

submitted 45 days ago • 128 comments

C-SPAN combines two of the main dysfunctions that destroyed journalism: mindless "balance"-seeking and total abandonment of editorial judgment, and the notion of "giving everyone a voice," regardless of what that "voice" was saying. And it did those things first.

submitted 46 days ago • 9 comments

4 out the top 5 states in acres of land burned in 2024 have Republican Governors. I don’t hear Trump or Musk attacking Texas, North Carolina, Montana or Florida or calling their governors “scum”. What a sad sad man Trump is.

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submitted 67 days ago • 165 comments

In many areas, Planned Parenthood is the only maternity service Regardless, South Carolina wants to prevent the provider from receiving Medicaid For NON-ABORTION treatments Like cancer screenings Their case will be heard by the Supreme Court The cruelty is the point www.npr.org/2024/12/18/g...

submitted 67 days ago • 350 comments

The core far-right conspiracy theory about January 6 has for years been that law enforcement set the Proud Boys up. What do you know? It was exactly the opposite. Law enforcement was in fact trying to help them. As ever, take whatever the far right is saying, reverse it, and you have actual reality.

submitted 67 days ago • 417 comments

It’s morally treasonable to the American public…

submitted 67 days ago • 20 comments

Nope. Don't say shit about trump's "mental health". Don't give them an excuse. Don't let them 25th amendment his ass so Shady Vance can become president. Nope. They own trump. Let them live with the results just like the rest of us.

submitted 68 days ago • 0 comments

I'd just like to remind you that the guys who have protected this man up until his last days in office tried to destroy teachers' lives for putting up a rainbow sticker.

submitted 68 days ago • 36 comments

Matt Gaetz, a Florida Republican who briefly stood to become President-elect Donald Trump's nominee to be attorney general, was found by congressional ethics investigators to have paid numerous women — including a 17-year-old girl — for sex, and to have purchased and used illegal drugs

submitted 68 days ago • 37 comments

Not surprised. It's Texas where the ecology doesn't matter. Only money.

submitted 68 days ago • 0 comments

I agree. Don't give in to his authoritarianism. When he accidentally proposes something that is beneficial to all Americans then vote for it. Otherwise don't do anything that might help him.

submitted 68 days ago • 0 comments

The party that loves to moralize about fabricated child sex trafficking scandals literally nominated a man who paid a minor for sex to be in charge of the entire Justice system of the United States. The irony is almost too rich to handle.

submitted 68 days ago • 15 comments

The only thing worse about the House Ethics committee report saying Matt Gaetz paid an underage girl for sex is the realization that so many other Republicans were ready to hide that shit. So. Fucking. Gross.

submitted 68 days ago • 789 comments

Let’s keep this in mind, devout Christian Speaker Johnson tried to keep the house from releasing this report because he wanted Gaetz to be attorney general. Typical

submitted 68 days ago • 1231 comments

submitted 69 days ago • 96 comments

A government of the billionaires by the billionaires for the billionaires.

submitted 72 days ago • 20 comments

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submitted 69 days ago • 45 comments

- Amplify disinformation - Embolden right wing extremism - Stoke division and unrest - Buy off politicians - Meddle in elections - Destabilize governments - Install compliant leaders This is the Musk playbook. He's using it all over...Brazil, the UK, Germany...and most successfully in America.

submitted 69 days ago • 228 comments

If you still think his administration is going to change the systems that made them millionaires and billionaires, bless your heart.

submitted 69 days ago • 318 comments

Kay Granger, a still sitting Republican Congresswoman, has been missing votes in DC because she's been living in a nursing home for the past six months, and none of her colleagues said a damn thing. But they were out there saying Biden was “mentally unfit.” Are you f’ng kidding me?

submitted 69 days ago • 531 comments

"One of the great tragedies of mankind is that morality has been hijacked by religion. So now people assume that religion and morality have a necessary connection. But the basis of morality is really very simple and doesn't require religion at all." Arthur C. Clarke

submitted 70 days ago • 479 comments

MAGA Republican agenda: Anti-WOKE, anti-LGBTQ+, anti-transgender, anti-public education, anti-Black-Hispanic-Asian, anti-history, anti-science, anti-healthcare. Pro-national abortion ban, pro-insurrection, pro-Trump. Nothing to improve our lives. http://dlvr.it/TGxk7R

submitted 69 days ago • 0 comments

I've seen a lot of posts lately saying that to support a library, you should get a card. Other things you can do: 1. Be promiscuous in using that card 2. Go to board meetings 3. Join the Friends 4. Demand the books that represent you, you can challenge absent books as much as present ones 5. Donate

submitted 69 days ago • 114 comments

Arkansas is also #40 in economy, #47 in healthcare and #49 in crime but go off.

submitted 69 days ago • 1204 comments

Is the eating of dogs and cats in Springfield OH still a national emergency? Or were those people’s lives upended just so Donald Trump could demagogue his way back into the White House?

submitted 69 days ago • 219 comments

Comedians are far more than entertainers who make people laugh. In my opinion, as a whole, they have much closer relationship with reality and truth than politicians. I can get a very good idea of what’s really happening in society by listening to an hour of stand up comedy.

submitted 69 days ago • 210 comments

"President Elon Musk." Not only is this likely precisely how the real hierarchy is working, but...from a National Security perspective, it's disturbingly....well...disturbing. From where I stand, it appears that we have plenty of people who recognize the problem....but.....

submitted 72 days ago • 25 comments

President-elect Musk is really setting down the marker of how he wants to run his administration. VP Trump better pay attention.

submitted 72 days ago • 1183 comments

Is everyone aware of what Musk is doing? He's telling the GOP to shut down the government and... wait for it... raise the debt ceiling so they can borrow money against the debt ceiling and issue it as tax rebates to the rich. Musk is going to rob the treasury blind, right in front of our eyes.

submitted 72 days ago • 5 comments

Authoritarians seize power when others surrender and stand aside. Resistance, determination, and unwavering action are the only barriers to dictatorship. Never back down or give in—your resolve can uphold freedom and democracy.

submitted 72 days ago • 8 comments

“And the reality is that the sternest warnings about Trump’s second term came not from Never Trumpers, but from the men and women who worked directly for Trump in his first term.” @jvl.bsky.social

submitted 72 days ago • 44 comments

Under past government shutdowns as many as 620,000 Americans were not paid for weeks. This is so incredibly out of touch during the holiday season that my head is about to explode. Fund the government until January 20 and then let Trump worry about it.

submitted 72 days ago • 19 comments

How Republicans got themselves (and the rest of us) here

submitted 72 days ago • 42 comments

The richest man on the world bought Twitter for $44B to influence and interfere in the 2024 election. The richest man on earth then purchased the presidency and the country for $250M+. Now, the richest man on earth has become a shadow president who is instructing The House of Rep.. We are here. 😡

submitted 72 days ago • 58 comments

But the rest of us will have to get by on less. Thanks MAGA.

submitted 72 days ago • 0 comments