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"To my friends in Europe... I am profoundly sorry that Americans are failing you... after you have stood with us over so many years. But...Europe needs to become one of the great powers of the world, and do it fast—or you will get carved up by them." [email protected] in @theunpopulist.net

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Conservatives went from "Don't treat on me" to wanna be groveling peasants faster than Shawn Hannity could hit a vape pen.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

NEW — In an alarming email last night reviewed by me, Coast Guard members learned that 1,135 members' direct deposit account routing information was compromised due to a data breach from unauthorized access. It was only discovered because an officer “reported anomalous activity” on their account.

submitted 9 days ago • 419 comments

This website shows how trickle down economics has destroyed worker's wealth. trickledown.fail

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

I missed this entirely: The FAA Administrator criticized Space X’s safety record and threatened fines. Musk demanded he resign. He did. On January 20th. www.thedailybeast.com/faa-chief-mi...

submitted 24 days ago • 1049 comments

This sudden freeze in federal funding is so sweeping that it could cause widespread harm across our state—delaying disaster recovery, undercutting law enforcement, and affecting children and veterans. It violates constitutional power over federal spending, and I’m taking legal action to stop it.

submitted 25 days ago • 132 comments

I've decided to make rising egg prices my whole personality for the next four years

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

At least 15 Indigenous people in Arizona and New Mexico have reported being stopped at their homes and workplaces, questioned or detained by federal law enforcement and asked to produce proof of citizenship during immigration raids since Wednesday, according to Navajo Nation officials.

submitted 27 days ago • 348 comments

Democrats won’t save us but it would be nice if they were an actual opposition party instead of whatever the fuck this acquiescence bullshit is.

submitted 28 days ago • 19 comments

Democrats need leaders, and we need them fast.

submitted 30 days ago • 229 comments

Time to give up Billionaires! We need to spend our money at places where workers and consumers are treated well. Billionaires won't give up their power we need to take it back. We need a mixture of small businesses, consumer and worker cooperatives and non profits to run our economy.

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

We are facing a moment when much will change for the worse, not just in policy, but in the structure of politics itself. We need to be imagining a better America. A Shadow Cabinet would be a positive form of opposition. snyder.substack.com/p/shadow-cab...

submitted 47 days ago • 214 comments

Research shows when dollars are spent at locally owned businesses, those dollars recirculate through the local economy. One study found that $100 spent at local stores generated $45 of local spending, compared to $14 for a big-box chain. The Local Multiplier Effect works. amiba.net/local-multip...

submitted 47 days ago • 4 comments

Democrats refuse to learn their lesson. Refuse to take generational change seriously. Refuse to spotlight the party’s most effective communicators.

submitted 68 days ago • 753 comments

Electric co-ops disproportionately serve rural areas, where conservatives happen to be. Don't tell them that their businesses and homes are being powered by socialism, as they may enter a McCarthy-ite frenzy and rage at you about the evils of democratic ownership and its death toll of two bajillion.

submitted 71 days ago • 2 comments

The FTC under Lina Khan has done things to help NORMAL people and prevent them from getting SCREWED over. Most people don't hear about this stuff, so here are some of the biggest wins and actions 🧵

submitted 74 days ago • 9 comments

If you're looking for the reason why Democrats lost it's because of the "moderate" democrat. Being anti worker is anti American.

submitted 73 days ago • 0 comments

Thou shalt not kill' also means 'thou shalt not let profit margins decide who lives and who dies.'

submitted 74 days ago • 536 comments

Counterpoint: Do

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