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If you were too young in 2003 here is what Bush told the American people: 1) The Iraq War won’t cost a lot of money 3) We won’t need a lot of troops 4) We’ll bring peace and freedom to Iraq 5) We’ll find WMDs 6) We’ll be welcomed as liberators 7) It will be easy 8) It won’t take long All lies.

submitted 6 days ago • 1648 comments

🚨 There’s a lot of horrific news out of Washington right now—but you might have missed this: Senate Republicans just introduced a plan to sell off 120 million acres of our public lands. Let me break down what’s in the bill and why it’s a full-scale land grab. 🧵

submitted 11 days ago • 235 comments

Just incredible

submitted 58 days ago • 1460 comments

AAAAAAAAUUUUUUUUUGH. TARIFFS ARE TAXES ON CONSUMERS.

submitted 93 days ago • 85 comments

now this is posting

submitted 108 days ago • 13 comments

This is really funny because after congestion pricing launched and the haters were instantly proved wrong — traffic really did go down, transit use really did go up — they clung to "well let's see the business receipts!" as a last resort. And now we know business receipts are through the roof!

submitted 120 days ago • 30 comments

The U.S. betrayal of Ukraine & Europe will go down in history as one of the greatest betrayals of democracy. The U.S. is acceding to a brutal dictatorship’s conquest of part of a democratic nation. This capitulation will do nothing but embolden Putin & other autocrats to grab land from democracies.

submitted 134 days ago • 2 comments

Congestion pricing seems to have triggered a surge in Manhattan pedestrian activity: “Nearly 36M people last month were in areas south of 60th Street in Manhattan, a 4.6% boost from January 2024.” (The increase was 1.6% outside the zone.) Suggests retail sales are growing within the zone, too.

submitted 141 days ago • 6 comments

Imagine if media literacy as a high school class. Literally teaching kids how to read and parse and fact check consumed media. I see no downsides. Maximum real life applicability.

submitted 163 days ago • 132 comments

TARIFFS ARE TAXES ON DOMESTIC CONSUMERS.

submitted 158 days ago • 18 comments

Rickey: 14th all-time in WAR. Scored 2295 runs (Freddy Freeman is the active leader with 1298). Walked 2190 times. Stole 1406 bases. Won 1 MVP and deserved at least two more (finished 3rd in '85, lost to his own teammate). 28 HoF voters voted "no" and should've been kicked out of the BBWAA.

submitted 188 days ago • 42 comments

BREAKING: Kyrsten Sinema and Joe Manchin KILL Biden nominee for Nat'l Labor Relations Board (NLRB), which would've meant Dem majority till '26 Instead Trump gets to set labor rules So when EVERYONE in America loses overtime - as Project 2025 promises - thank Sinema and Manchin

submitted 198 days ago • 254 comments

Huge document drop on the California State Rail Plan website, including a statewide network takt diagram and full list of infrastructure projects. For the first time, we are seeing the state planning an electrified "Sac-OAK-SF-SJ Mega Corridor": dot.ca.gov/-/media/dot-...

submitted 199 days ago • 7 comments

If they proposed to build the Golden Gate Bridge now, it would never happen.

submitted 217 days ago • 0 comments

We lost the thread on the common good.

submitted 218 days ago • 0 comments