Also our country (current living generation) has been able to take democracy for granted. They don’t believe that it could happen here…they won’t until THEYfeel the pain personally. Europe has far more exposure to fascism and recognized it quicker.
Also our country (current living generation) has been able to take democracy for granted. They don’t believe that it could happen here…they won’t until THEYfeel the pain personally. Europe has far more exposure to fascism and recognized it quicker.
There are also some sound legal arguments for avoiding shutdown
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@hcrichardson.bsky.social Wondering if you’ve seen this? And could address it! Thanks!
My God, I feel this post as much as any I have read in the last month
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MAGA doesn't give a fuck about anyone but billionaires.
Musk may be better at blowing up things (budget deals, rockets) than any presidential puppet master to date. However, his most destructive ambition may be to destroy the conceit that “we the people” hold power and that the government is accountable to them. contrarian.substack.com/p/of-for-and...
My one wish for the inauguration is that there is a gift bag under the seats of Bezos, Zuck, Elon etc, with a single, embroidered , padded knee pad Need to protect themselves when they are on bended knee, kissing the ring 🤷😆
Hi, ASL interpreter of 30 yrs & a person w/ Deaf family here. In response to the anti-ASL horseshit going around: ASL and English are not the same language. ASL has no written form. Reading English subs is not = to seeing ASL & many Deaf ppl need sign to fully understand info.
🚨🚨 HOMEWORK 🚨🚨 A little Friday night mission, should you choose to accept it. Write to Merrick Garland and ask him to instruct the U.S. Atty in the SDFL to drop the appeal of the documents case. That’d end this report fight, and we could see BOTH volumes. www.justice.gov/doj/webform/...
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100%! We must never allow ourselves to be distracted by his trolling & bs. Pay attention to calling your Senators to oppose his horrific cabinet pics who will implement the worst aspects of Project 2025. www.cbsnews.com/live-updates... #resist #DoNotObey
According to Pete Aguilar, Republicans just introduced legislation to repeal the $35 cap on insulin for seniors on Medicare. x.com/democraticda...
Read this www.cjr.org/analysis/tru...
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They give us unconditional love, devotion & loyalty. They are a reliable source of peace, joy & contentment. That they have made this a better world is an undisputed FACT. 👁️❤️🐶🐕
Jimmy Carter has some bad news.
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Why does Elon Musk criticize the West constantly but he refuses to say ANYTHING AT ALL that’s critical of Russia or China? 🤨
Amy Klobuchar: "Our job is to hold them accountable and to make the case that they've gotta follow through on a bunch of the things they said this election."
Read this
I think journalists, policymakers and good govt types are struggling to understand DOGE because their mental model is that it is a government reform commission, operating like previous ones. Maybe. But it might be better to start thinking about it as a hostile takeover of the govt by oligarchs.
Mike Johnson claimed yesterday that he was reading a prayer written by Thomas Jefferson. Except it wasn't. Historians who are familiar with it say it’s not accurate to attribute it to Jefferson or to suggest he recited it daily. Clown. Show.
I’m not opposed to regulation at all. This goes right to the heart of Biden not speaking to tech. How can you find the right balance in regulation if you don’t communicate ? It’s the same as not talking to unions to get their perspective. You can’t be ignorant of either
If you told me people were lining up to write million dollar checks for the inauguration of a guy who a few short years ago laid siege to the Capitol in an attempted insurrection, I would've said you were crazy. It turns out I was the crazy one.
While we’re banning books… Finland is teaching children in school how to recognize fake news and propaganda as part of critical thinking and civic responsibility. Some of this will seem very familiar. Be. Like. Finland.
Folks: please be diligent about not disseminating Ann Telnaes' cartoon in a way that she's not getting the clicks on it (until she says differently). Her IP matters now more than ever. Make it go viral but make sure she benefits. anntelnaes.substack.com/p/why-im-qui...
Bravo, @anntelnaes.bsky.social. I guess the new slogan for the Washington Post ought to be: “Newspapers die in cowardice.” anntelnaes.substack.com/p/why-im-qui...
That’s me! I totally have that! And am totally grateful and hunkering down the next 2-4 years! 😂 🐶
The sad reality is, the overwhelming majority of Americans don't know there's a voter for the Speaker going on, don't care & won't be able to name him after the vote. This is what happens in a country where civics education is no longer universal. Its absence lets darkness settle in over democracy.
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70% of the world’s population has universal healthcare, but not the US We are the only highly developed nation without it Our healthcare is twice as expensive as the average wealthy nation US ranks last among industrial nations for deaths that could be prevented with timely access to healthcare
Is there any other country where poor people shun labor unions, free healthcare and free education because rich people told them to?
John Roberts is very upset that the public has lost confidence in John Roberts and the institution John Roberts leads following a series of confidence-cratering actions by John Roberts and his colleagues, and therefore would like everyone to know that this is not John Roberts' fault, it's yours.
I firmly believe that Democratic politicians like AOC, Jasmine Crockett, Pete Buttigieg, and others who can communicate messaging while not sounding like politicians are the future of our party.
I don’t have words for this article and this thread. 😵💫 www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/...
I need someone to explain to me why it’s always “if you can’t pay rent, buy fewer lattes and avocado toasts” and not “if you can’t pay your employees a living wage, buy fewer yachts and real estate”. Explain it to me like I’m in kindergarten.
I appreciate your posts. But, in this situation a look at the facts shows that the witnesses were refusing to testify. Would you have liked it to be prosecuted and lost?? Big difference between ethics report and beyond a reasonable doubt.Victims matter.They shouldn’t be put through fire unwillingly
The billionaires want you all to be divided to keep the heat off of them. This nightmare will all be over on the day that working people unite and realize that’s it’s YOU vs. THEM.
The puppet master and his puppet.
The ultimate question. On Jan 21, 2025, who gets to run the @POTUS account here and on twitter: Trump or Musk ?
This jackass was NOT elected to public office and has NO says so over the actions of Congress or the CURRENT President sitting in office. None. Zero.
Functioning democracies are cool.
If I had a dollar for every time I've warned people about this, I'd have a billion dollars.
I’m closing in on 500. 😂😂😂
Republicans or conservatives tend to spread more misinformation than Democrats. A significant factor influences this behavior. These are the findings from a study by researchers from University of California-Irvine.
Can confirm.
When they talk about privatizing Veterans’ care and Medicare, they mean allowing companies to provide healthcare for a profit. But how do companies make those profits? By *denying* care to many who need it. Don’t get fooled by the “privatization” label. It means “for profit” and YOU are the cost.
I can’t stand election post mortems. She was a brilliant candidate. She engaged a lost generation of voters and she almost won. I’m still with her.
This is going to save hospitals a lot of money ! www.pennmedicine.org/news/news-re...
I don’t take credit for this meme, but I do co-sign.
Congrats to Florida! #1 in book censorship #47 in SAT scores. Way to go! #floriduh
This is an oligarchy. The founders never intended people to have this much power… EVER Stop the oligarchy
Ugh FINE I'll show up to work "sober" to lead the department of defense. YES without "sexually assaulting" everyone, christ anything else?
Heard a Fox News reporter describe the proposed tariffs on Canadian imports as being paid 100% by companies there. Kids: Study economics.
🔥🔥A 2021 study found that Medicaid expansion as part of the ACA led to a substantial reduction in mortality, primarily driven by reductions in disease-related deaths. A 2018 study in the Journal of Political Economy found that, Medicaid reduced infant and child mortality since the 1960s and 1970s.🔥🔥
didn’t see quite the same level of outrage about these pardons
NEWS FLASH: tax cuts for the rich and big corporations only help the rich and big corporations.
Religion does NOT belong in our schools! Agreed? ✋
Such a simple cartoon that really speaks volumes.
Yes please!
Exactly this! I’m exhausted trying to pay a living wage to an employee while down the street the corporations doing huge buybacks: CEO pay but not pay workers enough to live on so my taxes have to help! The employers need to pull their weight!!
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*reads instructions for cooking turkey* Step 1: Let turkey chill in the sink for 2 hours✅
Watch this and try not to smile. You can’t.
Pathetic seeing people take Elon's DOGE BS seriously. People dislike government in the abstract but like most of the things it does. And we've been cutting gov for decades. Fed workforce is about half of what it was 50 years ago relative to population. There's not much meat left on the bone.
Dems stand a better chance if we have the courage accept demographic realities and to campaign and govern for that population. Let's stop prioritizing trans rights over the struggles of suburban families and run a white man who knows how to speak to other white men at the top of the ticket in 2024.
Wow. This video is truly eye-opening. Take a couple minutes to watch this. A mind-boggling visual representation of wealth inequality in America. This sh*t ain’t workin’, folks. #TaxBillionaires #UnionsForAll
Well this seems bad.
