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What a petty weak man Trump is.

More sucking up to Putin.

We asked Nils Köbis, a social psychologist: when are we okay with getting bribed? "People seem to act more on what they think is common, rather than what they think is acceptable and right." 🧪

Some people haven’t been paying attention to the advances in health science have made in our world.

This is so short sighted. I think getting a more nuanced version of history helps us understand that people have also had to make hard decisions in the past. We are not alone in making hard calls.

So they have enough diplomatic juice for Bukele to gleefully offer up gulag services but not enough to get back the people they illegally renditioned there? Girl, Biden got Brittney Griner out of enemy *Russia* and you can't get your little friend to the south to undo your oopsies? Weaksauce.

1) Remember how media in 2024 painted "once peaceful Sweden" as collapsing in violence? Well, murder stats for 2024 came out today. Number of homicides per capita in 2024 was the lowest in 13 years, and one of the lowest in the past 50 years. Will media cover this? Not likely.

Kill a white millionaire, get the death penalty. Kill two black protesters, get invited to CPAC to be celebrated.

The GOP fought tooth & nail for decades against classifying acts of racial terrorism as federal hate crimes because they saw it as "federal over reach." Now they're all "ooh, let's make it a federal crime to vandalize cars built by the world's richest man who's also our biggest campaign donor."

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American women friends. Are you aware one of the policies listed in the SAVE Act, the GOP are pushing through, is that women’s birth certificate names must match your current name. All of it. Changed your name when you got married? You won’t be able to vote. Call your Congress members!

I am so tired. Aren’t you?

Watch Wednesday

So embarrassing. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Check out congressman @tomsuozzi.bsky.social during a 🏠 ways & means committee hearing questioning the vetting process 4 ketamine 👦 & his “DOGE” team, highlighting a lack of transparency & oversight. This display of badassery on 1 side & ignorance on the other should go viral. Worth the 👀 .

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Facebook is deleting Historian Heather Cox Richardson’s daily newsletters…

The wages of the richest 1% have skyrocketed 182% since 1979.  Meanwhile, the wages of the bottom 90% have seen just 44% growth.  Trickle down economics was always a hoax.

Yesterday the #Idaho Air National Guard deployed to "Southwest Asia" which is doublespeak for the Persian Gulf. A-10s are only good when we own the skies. They're fat and slow because of the armor protecting them from the ground forces they're chewing up. #idpol

#Resistance ✌️ #TeslaTakeDown #Poster #GunViolence

Leader of French far right Marine Le Pen found guilty of embezzling European Union funds

If I filed bankruptcy SIX TIMES no one would let me run a damn lemonade stand. But y’all let him run the damn “free” world!!! WHAT. THE. FUCK.

Remember: The billionaires who control our economy and democracy seek to divide us so they can become more powerful. They want us to turn on each other so we don't look up and see where all the wealth and power have gone. Don't fall for it.

Amen!

So we could lose $200B in tourism, $100B in immigrants paying taxes, $100B in weapons manufacturing, $500B in lost tax revenue from firing IRS employees… is it sinking in yet?

⚠️ Official Advisories List for Travel To United States (Latest Update) • Canada 🇨🇦 • United Kingdom 🇬🇧 • Germany 🇩🇪 • Finland 🇫🇮 • Norway 🇳🇴 • Ireland 🇮🇪 • Denmark 🇩🇰 • Belgium 🇧🇪 • France 🇫🇷 www.thetravel.com/these-are-al...

When you look at the list of institutions they want to defund: libraries, museums, the Smithsonian, public schools, PBS, NPR, archives, you can clearly see that the real threat to an authoritarian regime is an informed and educated public

🧪 Borrowed back from forbes '13(😀 for the sake of science-society connection) through Jo. Enjoy, in case of pledging with a grumpy uncle. To be fair, seems most examples are clearly the fact of vaccination, while for some it is more a combination of vax and healthcare improvement.

In 2019, Pfizer reported ZERO taxable profits in the US—despite selling $20 BILLION worth of drugs to American patients. By reporting their profits offshore, they dodged billions in taxes and paid a 5.4% tax rate. Don't tell me our tax code isn't rigged for giant corporations.

Since January, SpaceX has received over $560 million in government contracts—an amount projected to surpass $2 billion in taxpayer funding by year’s end, averaging roughly $6.1 million per day. Follow the money and see where it goes.

I turned on Fox “news” while I was out on an errand & I’m telling you - they just outright lie. And they all do the same exact thing Trump does - bully, name call, deflect, blame Dems, rinse repeat. They are state TV. They are complicit in all of this destruction.

Seriously -- he's broadcasting plans to violate state and federal election laws, in support of his quest to sway a state Supreme Court election. Arrest him. Yes, even though he's really rich. Arrest him.

Yep

We've heard concerning things about the Social Security Administration lately, so I decided to check for myself. SSA says Wednesday is the best day to call, so I called then. Their system told me there would be a two-hour wait time, told me to call back, and then just hung up.

Musk’s AI Grok calculates that Elon's DOGE cuts will kill at least 3.88 million people worldwide and 520,000 USians. #3E

Rich folks doing for rich folks. Dump the Republican party.

Everyone should make a pilgrimage to nmaahc.si.edu while they still can... The realest American history, told so powerfully. Allow at least a full day. (You need a timed-entry pass, but it's free.)

Always worth reading, todays overview is chilling. I’m not sure how to stop this decent into hell but something has to be done, yesterday. Afraid my writing and protesting hasn’t been enough. open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

Who would you fire?

Unbelievable.

Wonderful!

So very good to see! Bravo Jenner & Block!

Sweeping synthesis of 2,000 global studies leaves no doubt about scale of problem and role of humans, say experts.

In a democracy, there are checks and balances so official misconduct is investigated and people are held accountable. In a dictatorship, misconduct is standard operating procedure and is covered up. It's obvious which course the Trump regime is taking in the Signal texting scandal.