Get the money out of policymaking. It is the root of all political evil.
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Get the money out of policymaking. It is the root of all political evil.
Good morning Everybody! Have a wonderful day !
Adios, Bubba.
The president is sending the military to control American cities and if you're a reporter who's framing that illegal power grab as "pushing the boundaries of constitutionality" or "acting boldly to fight crime" or whatever, please go find another line of work where you won't get us all killed.
We have to keep on keeping on.
🚨Governor Pritzker has no fucks. He is not playing games with the host in D.C. Chicago is not a piece on a board, it is a city - just like LA and DC. Rolling over is not an option.
Pritzker: Any rational person who has spent even the most minimal amount of time studying human history has to ask themselves one important question: Once they get the citizens of this nation comfortable with the current atrocities committed under the color of law, what comes next
Not the least bit surprised. Or doubtful.
Absolutely this.
So much is so wrong right now.
The bounties are the point.
I totally identify with this. My dictionary was my favorite thing, going from word to word as each triggered an exciting new idea. Now I have to use a digital dictionary to combat my ADHD!
This hits harder than when I saw this movie the first time. #CaptainAmerica
Why?? Why. Does. She. Have. This. Power???
Sing it.
Both things can be true.
I'm shocked.
This is going to keep happening as long as these guys are paid a bounty. There has to be a way to challenge the legality of "anybody brown." They're basically net fishing. youtube.com/shorts/cFX6q...
This is the bullshit that is going on in Gaza. youtube.com/shorts/6xi_0...
Keep them busy so no one has time to look at illegal military deployments.
The sad thing is, this gets reported with a straight face and people in other countries believe it. Well, ONE of the sad things. Lying scum.
Translation: there will be no white West.
All that hullabaloo about Tx State Democrats leaving to avoid Quorum. Meanwhile, Republicans ceded legislative authority to POTUS 4 illegal executive orders. 8 months & still getting paid. GOP refusing their legislative duties. Would your boss pay you? Has GOP Congress resigned? Email them & ask.
The Russian Republicans are not. 1. The Party of Family Values. 2. The Conservative Party. 3. The Party that backs the Blue. 4. The Party that backs Veterans. 5. The Party of the Working Class. 6. The Party of Small Government. They are only interested in Enriching themselves. Plain & Simple. VOTE 💙
Sad but true.
A nice bit of prose.
What would most Americans think if right-wing media actually covered stories like this? wapo.st/4lR1ids
Makes logical sense. But it was as if nobody stopped them. WTF. No court has power. GOP has legislature licked up. It’s time for a full court press for getting the votes for 2026 some way somehow. Such dirty business like in Texas with the out of control AG - it’s going to take a miracle.
It’s not just that Congress allowed the CDC crisis. Key lawmakers, on your payroll, allowed it despite statements showing they believe RFK’s views on vaccines are wrong. RFK can say he is doing what he believes; the lawmakers can’t. open.substack.com/pub/steveins...
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See, now I know you're passionate and learned a lot ... without having to roll my eyes! 😉
*threw*!!!
Firefighting while brown. "Trump, Vance, and Miller are going to burn the country to the ground so they can rule over the ashes." youtube.com/shorts/6z1GV...
Heinous, and putting an entire community at risk with her vile thoughts, while conveniently ignoring that the majority (60%) in the top ten cases are heterosexual white males.
And who takes time every time to review?? (my phone just through the word "conversation" in the middle of that for me ... worse when it also tries to think for you!)
We need that correction capability!
You're my kinda people.
Makes me think there's a history thought there ...
I kinda want him to "fire" JD Vance first, preferably by tweet. In my fantasy, this somehow exposes Peter Thiel and Project 2025 to the other half of the public. I don't know how yet. My imagination hasn't gone that far.
Cassidy: impeach RFK Jr.!
Money and the greed it b follows.
The idiocy of this is that Sharia states, "you follow the law of the land. " But when did we ever expect anything but ignorance from these goons?
And they wonder why we're cynical.
Brilliant campaign! "Find the vulnerability" should become as well-known to us as "follow the money" in boycott, divestment, sanctions movements. But isn't it interesting how often one leads to the other? #StoptheGenocide
The "President of Europe's" Nobel chances appear to be dwindling. Who'd a thunk? youtu.be/jpLpKDzlnGA?...
Unless you worked in the Oval office & personally heard her agreeing with the president's stand, you cannot say she "participated." She is not JD Vance, someone who actively undermines his boss. Her positioning in her campaign was anti-genocide, pro-rebuilding. Not Trump's "end it now" Riviera plan.
The new ICE song by Jesse Welles nails it. ICE isn’t recruiting heroes, it’s recruiting the bitter, the rejected, the ones desperate for a badge to cover their failures. Losers with power become the most dangerous kind. (c/o Caroline Codsi)
Let alone make medical decisions that impact a whole nation's health!
Along with everything else we demand of our elected officials, demand a ceasefire now and block all aid to Israel, for anything, until they lift the blockade of Gaza, and if they subsequently violate the ceasefire.
You're right. She was the #2. Every indication is that she would not have had a warm and cozy relationship with "Bibi."
Will wonders never cease?
New rule. A parent may only propose removing a book from the school library only after reading it in its entirety and delivering a book report to the librarian. Until then no discussion shall be entered into.
Yes!
Sadly, he won't, and they won't make him. This is exactly what they want.
Wait ... isn't that what Putin hired her to do??
Donate to these folks...they reject AIPAC dollars.
If someone tells you there's nothing we can do about gun violence beyond thoughts and prayers, remind them: —Gun laws in other countries have prevented mass shootings —More guns don't make us safer —A majority of Americans want gun reform We don't have to live like this.
That doesn't hold up when you look at what she did and said. She was the one who pissed off Netanyahu by demanding he minimize harm and protect citizens. Her plan called for global support to rebuild Gaza. Her votes went to humanitarian aid. She demanded immediate relief of the humanitarian crisis.
I have a dream… That one day people will care about children the way they care about embryos.
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I've been asking myself that every day since Monday.
In every country, sir.
That.
I wake up thinking this most days. No 18-22 year-olds involved.
Fuk that.
We are in very dark times. It’ll take an entire political/social movement, an overwhelming rebuke at the polls, and a new vision of governance to unstick this country from whatever this collapse is.
It’s almost as if appointing an anti-vax lunatic with zero qualifications to oversee America’s health was a numbskull idea and everybody with a functioning brain knew it.
AMERICA: “It’s a mental health issue.” REST OF THE WORLD: “We have those. But don’t have mass shootings.” AMERICA: “It’s video games.” WORLD: “We have those too. But don’t have mass shootings.” AMERICA B: “It’s cause they took Jesus out of the classroom.” WORLD: “God, you’re stupid.”
After reviewing "the circumstances of her death" ... are you kidding me???
Thanks, I needed that!
Yes! I can't think of anyone more deserving. When others could not get through in Gaza, he did, losing team members, coming back, staying until nothing more could get through.
So glad yours isn't.
*Scientologist
You are accusing ME of supporting genocide? You don't know much about me at all.
This train is leaving the station. With the Republicans still on the platform.
Yeah, that's what they said about Kamala and Gaza and look where that got us. Let's do it again!
Here's a check- on with CoPilot, Gemini, and ChatGPT: "Is Gavin Newsom a Scientologust? Please cite your sources and their bias."
Good enough for me.
For all reps sending thoughts, prayers, and condolences, please end your statement with, "And my vote is for... " Keep initiating resolutions to keep these tragic, heinous situations in the open, not swept away till the next one.
One wonders how they can even complete these sycophantic statements without the bile rising in their throats to choke them off.
This was an amazing discussion about media, democracy, and community. Heather Cox Richardson Leigh McGowan (Politics Girl) Joanne Carducci (JoJoFromJerz) Dana Goldberg substack.com/@muellershew...
First, they came for John Bolton And I did speak out Because even though I'm not a nutty right-wing warmonger with a ridiculous mustache, I am an American who is horrified by a simple-minded tyrant using our Justice Department to avenge his petty, personal grudges.
Just sayin' ...
I have a pair identical to this on my deck right now. Trying to socialize them to one day soon make somebody as happy as you are. Litter success this week!
Jesus Christ. If your credit isn’t frozen at all three bureaus, I would strongly consider doing that now
True.
Tim Walz: "I always get in trouble for it and I'll continue to say it, I don't think we do any favors when we don't name it -- these are fascist policies."
But do they?
If you take time for no other read today, make this the one. Takeaways: The sound of silence is terrifying. WE cannot be silent. Also interesting to think about the reported whispers among Repub senators about threats to family. This makes it all make sense.
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Why doesn't this happen at MY house? Oh. Chihuahuas.
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Yes! The people must speak in every way that we can!