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I wonder how long we will have to wait until someone says it’s time to take away Grandpa’s keys 😬

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Macron shook one hand.

submitted 11 hours ago • 4202 comments

When we get left behind by China as they forge ahead with trade deals of their own, the damage is done. Even if we do a complete 180 in the next administration, we will be behind the eight ball and most likely at the table begging for trade scraps from countries that have leaned into elsewhere

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www.thegodpodcast.com/p/blessed-be...

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

Minnesota represents at the Hands Off rally yesterday

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

I am not an economist. However-this whole tariff business is the dumbest thing imaginable. In a global economy, what’s going to stop a country from saying “well f$@k you, we will trade with someone else.” Might have worked in 1890 - 2025 - not so much. Japan, South Korea already looking to China

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Congrats, Easton! Making the Land of 10,000 Lakes proud 🎣 www.startribune.com/young-minnes...

submitted 33 days ago • 35 comments

Obviously, Jeffrey Goldberg has the texts that Hegseth claims that he doesn’t have. The Senate or House Armed Services Chairs can easily and quickly verify who is lying about this. If Hegseth blatant lied about this on camera tonight, how in the world can he continue in this job?

submitted 32 days ago • 1675 comments

I sense a collective emotional weariness in kind people these days: the scar tissue created when you've absorbed more bad news, predatory behavior, and attacks on decency than your reserves can manage. Sustained brutality will do that to the soul. johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/the-cure-f...

submitted 33 days ago • 70 comments

Weingarten: This is a remaking of America to try to undermine the contract that America has had in its modern age that says, opportunity for all.

submitted 35 days ago • 22 comments

Listened to Trump explain his “Trump Card” to let Russian oligarchs into our country for a $5 million fee. Interviewer asked him what would happen if they turned out to be a bad guy. He “would give them their money back and send them home” - not send them to a concentration camp in El Salvador

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Saw that Markets have lost 5 trillion - yes TRILLION- since January. This seems to be like a side note in the news. I did the math and a guy like Musk who was lost 125 billion in roughly 75 days is losing 1 million per hour, which really amounts to what I’m hoping for in my retirement nest egg 🤬🖕

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“Behold! As the Ides of March approaches, witness as Earth’s shadow engulfs the moon! Or, put another way, a total lunar eclipse is set to occur on the night of March 13 and into the early-morning hours of March 14.” www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-...

submitted 50 days ago • 63 comments

A good reminder for the current political climate - a person who cares can feel this in their bones right now

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submitted 55 days ago • 214 comments

Gullible = easily persuaded to believe something Read this article about a TASS (Russian State) reporter “sneaking in” to the Oval Office during the Zelenskyy meeting (wink wink). I’m sorry, but how fucking stupid would you have to be to entertain that as truth, even for a split second.

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"What can I do?" That is the number 1 question I get asked. And at this time in our democracy -- or what remains of it when public servants put their loyalty to a person above their oaths of office— I am grateful that people are asking that question. Below is a video with my answer:

submitted 55 days ago • 365 comments

High tariffs are “a mere subtraction of so much money from the people, to increase the resources of the protected classes” - Robert Walker - Secretary of the Treasury - 1846 From the book “The Age of Jackson” - Arthur Schlesinger Jr. - 1945 Trump 2025 - “Let’s do tariffs - it will be good” SSDD

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Wisdom from John Kenneth Galbraith -

submitted 56 days ago • 11 comments

If you’ve ever suffered at the hands of a gaslighter, this feels familiar. Someone tries to convince you that your eyes didn’t see it. You shout from the rooftops hoping someone will listen “I saw this”. Somehow there needs to be a strategy for calling this out in real time in our political arena

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Gaslighting - the preferred tool of a manipulator with motives. It’s insidious in that what is said loud enough - often enough - by a gaslighter starts off as fuzzy truth that grabs a foothold and sticks around. #narcissist #trump Trust your gut - it never lies. Fight for what is right ❤️

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For years, many of us in independent media have been exposing Trump’s unwavering loyalty to Putin over the United States. Why has it taken mainstream/corporate media this long to admit it too 🤔 www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

submitted 56 days ago • 23 comments

Translation: We still can’t get our heads out of our asses long enough to get things done and govern, so we have to continue Nancy Pelosi’s 2022 budget AGAIN for a few more months and let Musk cause chaos so they will blame him and not notice our incompetence.

submitted 57 days ago • 343 comments