Political news junkie hanging on for dear life. Had no idea Corp America were such cowards. Never thought I'd live in a fascist country.
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đNOTE: Apparently, our legacy national media suddenly have other things to do than report on the failing health of the greatest threat to America since the Civil War â which is odd when all we heard about for two years leading up to the 2024 election was Joe Bidenâs age and fitness for office ...
Birth control most definitely has an impact on political behavior. Self determination, non-dependence on patriarchy, career/family choices, family planning, mobility (geographical and socio/economic), and oh so many more ways women have political power when we have rights over our own bodies.
Trump didn't write this post.
The only good thing Trump has ever done is Operation Warp Speed, from which the final steps for the COVID vaccine were developed and made available to everyone. Then he turned around and shat on it, as did almost all elected Republicans.
Trump "picked" him, but MAGA REPUBLICANS CONFIRMED HIM!!
Has tourism been impacted? Fewer cars for jackers to choose from?
Just like with COVID, the Trump Administration forces disorganized and disparate delivery of vital health care based on the sheer luck of which state you live in. Kudos to those states & folks who'll do their best. Red states, not so much.
Any time we do address the human over the gun, we discover that person shouldnât have had a gun in the first place and they couldnât receive any help or guidance because itâs either too expensive or too limited. www.lifeafterhate.org
âI may not win them over, but Iâll be able to sleep at night knowing that I at least listened to them.â Hearing but not listening is patronizing. You don't get any points for that. $50 Billion to keep rural hospitals open across the country is a bad MAGA joke.
We have a decades of scholarship on how pro-democracy forces win in competitive authoritarian systems: they form a united opposition that brings together people with otherwise profound political disagreements.
This crime at Social Security might amount to the biggest data theft in human history. Committed by a government against its own citizens. I donât think anyone has begun to grasp the sheer scale of corruption and institutional destruction that has occurred in the last few months. Era-defining.
Note...this is scam and is not the real Senator Ed Markey. I've reported. Please do the same. @markey.senate.gov
Putin gives Trump the names of people he wants gone. Remember McCabe and Strzok? Both had expertise in Russian affairs.
Right. It's unwarranted federal occupation of a state. States' rights, anyone? Illegal occupation? Our media has failed us in so many ways.
He could get struck by lightening in full view of his religious advisors and we libtards will be blamed. The conspiracy stories will be off the hook, no matter what/how it happens.
Congressmen Massie & Kanna will announce the bill these 2 men have written to release Epstein Files. 10 of the survivors of Maxwell & Epstein will be present at the news conference. Please repost and #VoteBlueforOurFuture #wtpBLUERESISTS #ProudBlue #DemVoice1
After watching the stock market these past few months go UP-UP-UP following every terrible financial decision, I don't think the button works.
Describes a couple of my relatives to a tee.
The Bondi family business. Charges droppedâŠfor those with the right connections.
What @stuartpstevens.bsky.social says here:
Time for Microsoft to make another Trump payment.
I hope people realize how absolutely fucked this situation is. This isnât normal. People are resigning all over the place because the government is mishandling our data, ruining our public health services, and generally making Americans less safe.
Republicans in Congress have proven themselves impotent, so Trump will do as he pleases.
Trump already gutted $9 billion in foreign aidânow heâs back for $4.9 billion more. This time he's trying to let Republicans dodge a vote. These cuts hit vital counterterrorism, food security, and democracy programs with zero accountability. This is illegal, plain and simple.
Full video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kx-F...
It's already starting with cutbacks to state Medicaid reimbursements. Also bad news is coming up quickly about ACA premiums that'll hit all sorts of people.
ACB doesn't have moral qualms.
A good lawyer could use this photo and others as a reason to change venues, or certainly judges, depending on the case.
Republicans have loosened or eliminated most gun laws. They have also drastically cut mental health services, red flag laws, and domestic violence protections. Yes, Speaker Johnson, the problem IS guns. And Republicans.
This isn't just a political claim, it's an empirical one. If "the problem is not guns" then we shouldn't see any correlation between gun ownership and oh wait platform.vox.com/wp-content/u...
The extreme left wants healthcare for all, personal rights for all without government interference, education for all, food for all. The far right wants Project 2025, white nationalism. The extremes are not the same.
Kennedy's brain was damaged by a worm and all of the heroin he pumped in his veins. Kennedy shouldn't be saying a damn thing about anybody's agenda.
We've seen awful polling numbers for Susan in the past, and by some miracle she gets reelected. I hope the good people in Maine will get to the voting booth next year and do what needs to be done. We're trying really hard here in NC as well!!
Prayer certainly stopped the release of the Epstein files, why not a barrage bullet?
It has Kim's name on it, but who is really sponsoring this lawsuit? It ain't Kim.
Babbitt is still dead. Because she broke the law and blindly followed a corrupt conman. Nothing will bring her stupidity back to life.
Ahhhh, so maybe it will awaken a few???
It's not likely that rural MAGA voters get overseas mail.
Trump can bestow whatever âhonorsâ he chooses. But Babbitt is still dead because she did Trumpâs bidding. And nothing can change that.
Brief đ§”, as someone who has studied mass shootings for 13 years: -gender does not cause them -SSRIs, no -mental illness, no -internet/gaming, no Above can be compounding factorsâbut motive is complex, often very. The most fundamental combo: suicidality + rage + isolation + easy access to guns
But the market holds steady or even rises. Why?
If you choose to add a percentage to your donation to cover the credit card fees, itâll be an odd number. Most campaigns ask you to do so.
Including elected Republicans.
I know there is some anxiety around how to protect yourself in light of Muskrat and his herd of shitler youth getting their hands on all our personal information so here are the steps you can take to protect yourself. Iâve seen these in various threads but thought it worth putting them together𧔠1/?
It's about white rule.
Does she still "hate effing Chreesmas"? It's coming up soon.
Fully embraced by elected Republicans who have no intention of protecting our Constitution or rule of law.
Hard to convince younger generations, but for decades, Republicans went on and on about how two of the worst things imaginable were (1) state intervention in the market and (2) DC using federal troops against US states; both so bad the people should be ready for armed rebellion in case it happens.
It was never about "tyranny". It's about white rule. The 2A group supports white rule no matter how it transpires. They don't realize that they, too, will eventually be targeted.
EOs are not law.
Pritzker: To the members of the press who are assembled here today and listening across the country, I am asking for your courage to tell it like it is. This is not a time to pretend here that there are two sides to this story.
Not if youâre part of the coup.
Gov. Pritzker: âEarlier today in the Oval Office, Donald TrumpâŠasked for me personally to say, âMr. President, can you do us the honor of protecting our city?â Instead, I say, âMr. President, do not come to Chicago. You are neither wanted here nor needed here.ââ
If the DoJ thought Bolton committed crimes, they'd be all over FOX spilling the details. Trump et al are relatively mum right now, which is out of character.
The precise moment when and where in recent weeks America crossed that invisible line from democracy into authoritarianism can and will be debated by future historians, but itâs clear that the line itself has been crossed. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/america-ti...
If he weren't an "angel", DoJ could prove that in a court of law. So far, they've only made brash accusations on social media and FOX. DoJ seems to be avoiding the courts that due process requires. I wonder why.
Fuck no. Listen to yourself. Canada wouldnât have taken him, itâs too hot. Of course Garcia didnât choose this but heâs now the face of it, like it or not. Without his story weâd likely not know any of the stories. Godspeed to him & his family.
That he didn't, I think shows what a strong man Garcia is. He has a lot of support, good lawyers and he's willing to be a martyr shining daylight on what is happening to 1000s of people at the hands of the US govt.
53 cities in Louisiana, Mississippi, Ohio, South Carolina, Tennessee and West Virginia had higher crime rates than D.C. in 2024. Despite this, these states deployed their own National Guard troops to help address D.C.'s newly declared "crime emergency." www.democracydocket.com/analysis/the...
You wouldn't believe the crap I get from my Rep & Senators..."Trump has the authority to..." "Trump was elected to..." "I'm concerned BUT..." "Crime crime crime" "Biden's fault x100". They're insufferable, they're ruining our country. And white people will STILL be in the minority in a few years.
And boils and rashes on parts he used to abuse girls.
HD TV, Nav System for your electric Mustang, better medicine, LED lights, solar panels on your home, Spotify, an app for any reason, air tag trackers, better food, smart climate control, vaccines, car back up camera If kids today went back to the '80s they'd have to delay gratification.
What does 2025 have? Computers, cell phones, computer games, Netflix, clean energy (if Trump doesn't kill it), better food, better hair styles, Amazon, online classes, work from home. NOBODY misses the '80s.
And even if he did "find" Christ in the parking lot, WTF does that have to do with Cracker Barrel updating their logo and restaurants?? Does Daniels PAY Cracker Barrel? Nope, just whines on X.
In other words, they looked and acted just like ICE agents.
Biden and Democrats set up this grant to fill a serious need in a rural NC. Trump and Republicans killed it. Does your article point this out? If not, you aren't reporting the truth.
Trump has botched US foreign policy with UKR and our EU allies since Day 1. Why can't you say that??? He's still trying to blame Biden for blahblahblah yet he's done nothing to help UKR or to end the war, not even a ceasefire. When will WAPO report the truth??
My name is Captain Dylan Blaha, and this message is for members of the National Guard across the USA. I've served in the Illinois Army National Guard for over 12 years, including a deployment to Afghanistan and three years on active duty in Europe. What's going on right now is not normal.
Has Fox News told them yet?
It's not a systematic process with controls and oversight. It's simply "resign or give me 10%" to Intel. I support a wealth tax, but what Trump is doing with Intel is not that.
No matter what you think about Mr. Abrego Garcia, if you believe in due process you should be infuriated by this. The Trump admin is threatening to dump him in Africa as punishment for not pleading guilty to criminal charges they brought to avoid complying with a court order.
If it's struck down at the state level, just take it to SCOTUS. They've already greenlit it in North Carolina.
Not enough people are talking about the blatant, consistent targeting of Black people, and especially Black excellence, and especially Black women. From major cities with Black mayors, including LA, DC, Chicago, NYC & Baltimore; to Tish James to Lisa Cook to General Charles Brown (and much more).
Luttig is communicating vastly more clearly and honestly about Roberts and Scotus than most Democratic officials are. Itâs absolutely flabbergasting.
Bondi has no intention of letting justice play out. Trumpâs entire schtick is to claim heâs investigating crime, screeching over Fox News and then doing nothing. Who he ruins in the process is folly to him and his minions.
The only thing worth saying on Maxwell: sheâs denying her own criminal conduct for which she was convicted & sentenced. So she has zero credibility & her statements on Trump doing nothing wrong are meaningless. DOJ in any semi-normal time would say that (well not interview her in first place butâŠ).
There will come a day when there is a true national emergency and there will not be anyone in our government who can put forth an adequate, rational response. Putin is counting the days.
If Biden had taken 10% of Intel, at least it would have been in exchange for the billions in Chips Act funding granted to the company. Trump's taking this in exchange for deciding not to destroy the company. It's literal protection money.
Oh, a lot more than that...personnel cost, equipment, vehicles, and it will likely be thrown out of court because it's minor and stupid.
How was this "transcript" created? It was my understanding no one was in the room except Blanche, Maxwell and her attorney. Was there a court reporter? Was the interview taped, and who controlled the tape?
That sounds great. But, honestly, we're on the verge of a national dictatorial takeover. Let's put energy where it might actually have an impact.
Hereâs what was NOT released today: - the proffer agreement between Maxwell and the DoJ - the agreement transferring Maxwell to club fed - communications showing who waived Maxwellâs sex offender status allowing her transfer and possible work assignments outside prison - the Epstein files
People will feel threatened and unsafe, and turn against our revered Guard and military.
By calling for the CEO to be fired (Trump on August 7), applying pressure to the Intel Board, and then graciously accepting a 10% "free" cut on August 22 to stop criticizing the CEO. It's extortion. Elected Republicans are letting him do it, just like his first impeachment re: UKR.
Trump said it. Trump's people said it. It was written down in Project 2025. And people still voted for him, or stayed home because they didn't like how she laughed. I'll never get over this.
It's also socialist. I thought MAGA was against socialism. Our US business leaders are incredibly weak, I truly did not see that coming.
Virginia Giuffreâs lawyer Sigrid McCawley reacts to the Maxwell transcripts, saying Maxwell ârepeatedly and brazenly liedâ to the government and is trying to ârecreate history.â Full statement
As Guardsmens' tours expire, we'll see a mass exodus from the Guard, leaving states without adequate emergency response personnel. Another impact is that people really aren't going to love seeing armed, uniformed men patrolling their work places & towns, and they'll turn against the Guard.
Plus: Google wants billions of Chrome users to install an emergency fix, Kristi Noem is on the move, and North Korean IT workers are everywhere. www.wired.com/story/us-gov...
Maxwell believes sex with minors is "appropriate" because she did it, she arranged 100s of girls to have sex with men. Was she in the room when those men abused these girls? Not likely, except with Epstein. So she can now say she didn't "see" anything inappropriate. Republicans will cover it up.
Holy shit. This legit gave me chills. Texas State Rep. Ann Johnson clapped back at GOP members amid Wednesday's redistricting vote. WHITE WOMEN, this is the model. We have more power than others. We are the last to be silenced. We have a responsibility to SPEAK so others are HEARD.
Yes. But MAGA doesn't understand either word, so they will not care.
Amen.
Uganda's agreement with Trump is that they will not accept anyone with a criminal background. Thus, another admission by Trump that they made up all of that baloney about Garcia.
Stenography.
Trump also has some land to sell them down in the Everglades, a vacated concentration camp going on the market soon.