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😕MARYVILLE, TN: “21 tractor-trailer loads of food coming to East Tennessee were canceled by TRUMP’s United States Department of Agriculture…”

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🔥 “Without a level playing field — without Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion — Meritocracy fails spectacularly… it’s ok to at any point stop and admit you didn’t think this all the way through.” cc: Rep. Aron Maberry (who is carrying yet another an anti-DEI bill)

submitted 3 days ago • 181 comments

Astros prospect Cam Smith fights through tears while he discusses making Houston’s Opening Day roster “(My mom) struggled to take me to baseball games and practice. I’m just happy to do it for her.” 😭

submitted 6 days ago • 13 comments

TODAY'S HOLLER: Disrupting Committee for Kids 🔥 Hollering at Marsha In Person🤷‍♀️ Shaw Threatens Kanew🧐 & more Check out today's links & videos & SUBSCRIBE: mailchi.mp/65b75de93c6c... Chip in and grab a Holler Hat: tnholler.com/holler-hats/

submitted 10 days ago • 6 comments

This is what's up chng.it/hSHrJCPcrv

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

Perhaps the Gamers are alright

submitted 11 days ago • 449 comments

Among the material devastation to everyday people, Senate Dems have now blown a hole in their ability to work with the House. We had an agreed upon plan, House took immense risk, then Senate turned around midway and destroyed it w/ a fear-based, inexplicable abdication. They own what happens next.

submitted 17 days ago • 6017 comments

Useless Democratic “Leader” Hakeem Jeffries Should Reisgn Along with these 17 Democratic Trump Allies www.splinter.com/useless-demo...

submitted 20 days ago • 1 comment

Today, social epidemiologist Justin Feldman explains the 'health freedom' / Make America Healthy Again worldview. It's morally hideous, includes elements of biological racism and eugenics, and is not something progressives or leftists can collaborate with. www.currentaffairs.org/news/health-...

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

I used Google to cheat on a wordle-type trivia question about LA Chargers kick returners for my own personal reasons and uncovered this gem from the "AI Overview":

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

Super important take from Jim, who has been right about everything. The quote that most resonates for me: "The fundamental problem with post-FDR liberalism is that it failed to recognize that capitalism itself is just as philosophically anti-liberal as communism or fascism."

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

1/ So everyone remembers this line of demeaning horse plop from Texas Rep. Ima Dingus, right? It was yesterday. Like many other Republicans right now, he's basically pulling the racist, Reagan-era "welfare queens" nonsense and giving it another run. So I looked at SNAP data for his district.

submitted 32 days ago • 97 comments

developmentally disabled people will no longer be able to see manatees, thanks to Republicans

submitted 38 days ago • 19 comments

I really appreciate the shout out, thank you! glad that the video is resonating with folks

submitted 41 days ago • 6 comments

As the Musk coup rampages through DC, most Americans don't understand there's a method to the madness that's even more terrifying They want to replace "outdated" democracy with AI, in a power grab that empowers billionaires with a lie about efficiency My new column www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...

submitted 48 days ago • 40 comments

Yes. “People are doing things. You will meet them when YOU start doing things.” Lots of information and resources in this one. open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...

submitted 49 days ago • 230 comments

🇺🇸 CHATTANOOGA: “NO MORE BILLIONAIRES!” Folks went to @RepChuck’s office and @senatorhagerty & @marshablackburn’s about Elon’s assault on our government & constitution: “As patriotic Americans we have to be the pebble in their shoe.” Full: www.facebook.com/share/v/1FRY...

submitted 52 days ago • 18 comments

This. Simply amazing.

submitted 58 days ago • 8 comments

Democratic Leaders Are Paralyzed By Their Own Cowardice and Incompetence www.splinter.com/democratic-l...

submitted 62 days ago • 4 comments

Regulators approved controversial therapies amid excess deaths, questionable efficacy, and conflicts of interest. www.levernews.com/the-deadly-s...

submitted 62 days ago • 0 comments

How Biden Broke His Promise on American Arms www.splinter.com/how-biden-br...

submitted 69 days ago • 0 comments

The story the media tried to ignore on Inauguration Day is that Trump's rapid mental decline was on full display -- from rambling, slurred digressions about wall building materials to paranoid conspiracy and revenge fantasies And there's 4 years to go. My new column www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...

submitted 69 days ago • 68 comments

WATCH: “We need resistance at the local and state levels.” Rep. Jones tells @rolandsmartin.bsky.social folks need to show up — and calls on members of his own Democratic Party to “stop trying to play patty-cake with fascists” Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DFGPWMf...

submitted 69 days ago • 71 comments

One of the ways to take at least a little something back is to patronize these companies as much as possible

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QQ: Is it an oligarchical gerontocracy? Or a gerontocracatic oligarchy? I'm writing a children's book and need to know. TIA.

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THREAD: In 2023, I received an envelope with no return address. Inside was a flash drive containing tens of 1000s of secret files. It came from a vigilante with a tumultuous past, who'd conducted a years-long undercover operation. He didn’t tell the FBI or his family. He only told me.

submitted 86 days ago • 897 comments

I’m finally ready to move on from that other place! What I want for Christmas (or at least New Year’s Day) is to reach 50K here! Can you please help this hard-hitting, democracy-defending investigative reporter get there? Happy Holidays!

submitted 97 days ago • 51 comments

I've won so many air fryers over the past couple of weeks. Just about the same time frame as these damned drones! Food for thought. #FFT

submitted 102 days ago • 0 comments

SEN. OSSOFF: “There’s one thing uniting us — banning members of Congress from trading stock.” Anyone who won’t support this is telling on themselves. @MarshaBlackburn @SenatorHagerty @RepMarkGreen @RepHarshbarger @timburchett @RepChuck @RepJohnRose

submitted 110 days ago • 128 comments

1/ Here’s a story about how journalism works. Spoiler Alert: This is how we decide not to publish. We were recently looking at Pete Hegseth’s different statements over the years about West Point, where he has said he was admitted. First stop: West Point.

submitted 110 days ago • 89 comments

If Democratic campaigns are basically just big money grifts then what incentive do they have to win? www.currentaffairs.org/news/how-muc...

submitted 109 days ago • 42 comments