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"We had come to the stage where for our people what was needed was a real democracy; and of all forms of tyranny the least attractive and the most vulgar is the tyranny of mere wealth, the tyranny of a plutocracy" Teddy Roosevelt
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Bruce Springsteen 2/4: "In America, the richest men are taking satisfaction in abandoning the world’s poorest children to sickness and death. This is happening now. "In my country, they are taking sadistic pleasure in the pain they inflict on loyal American workers (more)

submitted 34 days ago • 21 comments

Honestly? The $400M plane from Qatar is quaint compared to his crypto scam, memecoin con, insider trading, and tariff shakedowns.

submitted 42 days ago • 907 comments

No. Trump is an inveterate liar. His statements should never be put in headlines. News outlets must find out what actually occurred, put that in the headline, and then put Trump statements, with fact checks, at the end of the article. apple.news/AGkI8kRVEQC6...

submitted 43 days ago • 74 comments

Every state needs to do this ASAP

submitted 60 days ago • 693 comments

Forcing people to pay $130 for a passport in order to vote is just a Jim Crow poll tax by another name. It is blatantly unconstitutional.

submitted 73 days ago • 1511 comments

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submitted 103 days ago • 604 comments

There are 813 billionaires in the US or 1 for every 409,000 people. And that's how many I want to see in our executive, legislative and judicial branches of government, which rounds out to zero.

submitted 106 days ago • 0 comments

Post-Ipsos:"This past summer, 50 percent of Republicans rated the economy as poor. Today, it’s just 11 percent." Oh wow, what changed?

submitted 122 days ago • 0 comments

When you destroy trust in institutions all across a society, the only thing that works is a dictatorship. This is the playbook.

submitted 126 days ago • 0 comments

Yet again, freedom of speech is under attack by the GOP

submitted 126 days ago • 0 comments

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submitted 127 days ago • 757 comments

We're going to have to get off the planet and to another one because of all the damage being done to the planet by SpaceX trying to leave the planet.

submitted 128 days ago • 1 comment

The CFPB is one of the American people’s best defenses against waste, fraud, and abuse. Demolishing it will, of course, lead to more waste, fraud, and abuse.

submitted 131 days ago • 1359 comments

I'm hearing now that *every* technologist CFPB hired to investigate Big Tech was fired this evening. That's somewhere between 70-100 people. wired.com/story/dozens-of-cfpb-workers-terminated-in-after-hours-firing-blitz/

submitted 129 days ago • 480 comments

The richest man in the world eliminating aid for the most needy is as truly evil as it gets.

submitted 130 days ago • 0 comments

You know the CFPB that the Republicans just shut down? The Bureau was handling 100s of consumer complaints about . . . Teslas

submitted 130 days ago • 0 comments

When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty.

submitted 132 days ago • 625 comments

Received a letter from POTUS today purporting to remove me as Commissioner and Chair of the FEC. There's a legal way to replace FEC commissioners-this isn't it. I've been so fortunate to serve the American people and stir up some good trouble along the way. That's not changing anytime soon.

submitted 136 days ago • 6490 comments

It makes little difference whether the field be economics, education, foreign affairs, propaganda, movies, music or women's dress. In each and every field he believes himself to be an unquestioned authority. A Psychological Analysis of Adolf Hitler

submitted 135 days ago • 0 comments

The first mass privatization of state property occurred in Nazi Germany between 1933 and 1937: "It is a fact that the government of the National Socialist Party sold off public ownership in several state-owned firms in the middle of the 1930s. The firms belonged to a wide range of sectors:

submitted 135 days ago • 1 comment

Something that I think we can all agree on is that the current generation of Democratic leadership is simply not optimized for the Attention Age. Not really their fault! And honestly, they may be better people for it, but it's a pretty pressing political problem.

submitted 143 days ago • 1852 comments

He's not blaming DEI, he's blaming women and non white people.

submitted 143 days ago • 2812 comments

FAA says a military helicopter collided with the American Airlines passenger jet from Wichita near DCA. There must be immediate hearings on how the federal government/Department of Defense allowed this to happen and if removal of safety protocols and recent personnel changes led to this incident.

submitted 144 days ago • 1631 comments

I saw a post saying that ICE is pausing its tip line, so I decided to call myself to verify. The recorded voicemail said they are not currently accepting immigration status tips. Good job, friends.

submitted 145 days ago • 959 comments

As well as misspelling the name of Colombia, Donald Trump is going to push our allies into the loving embrace of China. But don’t say we didn’t tell ya. We did

submitted 147 days ago • 666 comments

How many more friends and allies are we going to drive away into the open arms of China?

submitted 147 days ago • 318 comments