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Grandfather, Father, husband. Union laborer working primarily in Oil and Gas for over 25 years. Former Political Director and Regional Director of Organizing. I have opinions that are my own.
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"If Russia captures Ukraine, its next target will be Poland." - says head of HUR Kyrylo Budanov. According to the chief intelligence officer, Russia aims to restore an empire similar to the Soviet Union, but with Warsaw Pact countries included.

All crypto is a scam.

Source: CNN

3rd day in a row on the golf course while Musk runs the country. He didn’t even know yesterday that the head of the Social Security Admin resigned, and didn’t know SpaceX employees were working at the FAA/DOD, and claimed Medicaid wasn’t being cut when it’s being cut massively.

Speaking at the Munich Security Conference, Finnish President Alexander Stubb has emphasized that Ukraine’s membership in the European Union and NATO is non-negotiable, adding that these alliances are essential for ensuring the country’s sovereignty and security.

Meteorologists warn that the coldest burst of Arctic air this season is coming to put an icy and prolonged exclamation point on America’s winter of repeated pol…

Hey, where the fuck is that person who keeps showing up every four years, peels away a bunch of critical votes, and then disappears for another four years? How do people keep falling for that shit?

Aboutbyesterdaybin Ohio. A new hate grouo begins. Learn more here. www.tiktok.com/t/ZT2kvvAPE/

Tesla paid $0 in federal income tax last year. 2022: $0 2021: $0 2020: $0 2019: $0 2018: $0 Tesla reported $6.7 billion in profit in those years.

Listen, they can keep lying about USAID, but gutting the program is hurting the American Ag sector. That is the point though. Destroy American Ag to make way for other authoritarian countries to take over the market.

Republican state attorneys pressure Costco to drop diversity policies - www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

Staff at the CDC are bracing for a significant reduction in the work force that appears to be targeting staff with the fewest worker protections.

President Trump kicked off his second term with a dramatic crackdown on immigration. Critics call those moves cruel and unnecessary. But many of Trump's supporters are applauding these early steps.

Instead of gutting government programs that make the world a safer place we should be cracking down on ubiquitous tax avoidance by our country’s biggest corporations.

NEW: Shortly after Pam Bondi was sworn in Wednesday, Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger asked her to drop the Department of Justice’s lawsuit challenging the state’s 2021 voter suppression law, S.B. 202. I warned you, Raffensperger is no hero. He is a GOP vote suppressor.

The bill is aimed at protecting "Greenland's political integrity" and will take effect immediately, according to a translation of a parliamentary document in Danish outlining the measure.

We really are though.

they are mostly targeting black employees so this is quite literally just a repeat of woodrow wilson’s segregationist purge of the federal government

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Putin is full out celebrating our idiocy.

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TRUDEAU: “I want to speak directly to Americans — our closest friends and neighbors… yes, this will harm Canadians, but it will also have real consequences for you.” #TrumpTradeWar

❗️Two security managers at the 🇺🇸United States Agency for International Development (USAID) have been placed on administrative leave after they refused to provide access to the agency's systems to representatives of the Department of Government Efficiency, headed by billionaire Elon Musk.

A WW2 history lesson thats is repeatingbitself right now. Speak up. www.tiktok.com/t/ZT265TnBn/

Media purges have started. If you’re keeping score at home yes, we’re on pace with 1933 level shit and speed

NBC News is being kicked out of its space in the Pentagon and replaced by OANN.

Pete Buttigieg responds to Trump:

Dozens of Jan. 6 defendants who received pardons from President Trump had past criminal convictions for charges including rape, manslaughter, domestic violence and drug trafficking.

Well.. I’m sure this will only increase safety in the sky. It seems only yesterday that 67 people died in a mid air collision over a major airport…

Let Denmark cook.

Trump imposes tariffs, sanctions on Colombia after it refuses deportation flights - www.reuters.com/world/americ...

This guy is the most unqualified asshole to ever have held the post as defense secretary. Hegseth narrowly wins confirmation to become US defense secretary - www.reuters.com/world/us/heg...

Trump pardons Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht for online drug scheme - www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

The price of eggs in the US is spiking, mostly due to #H5N1 bird flu. Solving the problem requires urgent, important communications from the CDC & FDA* and rapid development of research by the NIH** * Currently paused by Executive Order ** Grant reviews now all canceled www.kcur.org/news/2025-01...

The Supreme Court has revived a requirement that owners of millions of small businesses register with an arm of the Treasury Department under an anti-money laun…

Former Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen was a driving force behind talks led by the OECD that resulted in more than 130 countries agreeing to implement global ta…

A group of 18 state attorneys general signed on to a lawsuit filed Tuesday seeking to block the administration's move, describing it as unconstitutional.

In fairness the resulting fire and explosion might have set off the sprinklers.

I’m sure that is what the Christian god wants. I mean, didn’t Jesus welcome the money changers to the temple ? I’m sure I read about that somewhere….🤔

Back on the grind tomorrow

An enormous water reservoir — likely the largest aquifer of its kind in on Earth — sits inside the volcanic rocks of the Oregon Cascades, scientists have reveal…

May she rest in peace