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I think the question is never “why is the paper doing this.” It’s “why are the owners doing this?” In this case the Sulzbergers. I’ve never believed for a second that owners don’t influence content and editorial policy. That editorial independence was ever a real thing is laughable.
The first thing a Democratic legislature must do is remove all the Leonard Leo judges starting with the six in the SCOTUS.
“.. with the exception of the pandemic, Black women have never seen such staggering losses in employment.” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/u...
Heads Up!
Assuming he's sick, l just pray he follows the medical advice of "one of the world's foremost voices, advocates and experts on public health," RFK Jr.
Trump’s plan to rename the Department of Defense as the Department of War shows (once again) that his self-characterization as the “pro-peace” candidate was complete bullshit. www.wsj.com/politics/nat...
Go on. Take a wild guess who was president both times.
Weeks before an assailant opened fire on a Catholic church in Minneapolis, the Trump administration cut funding to a program in Minnesota aimed at preventing acts of mass violence, documents show.
If we will never be a Socialist [sic] or Communist [sic] Country [sic], then why are you giving billions of dollars to farmers to make up for losses from your stupid tariffs (SOCIALISM) and having the US government own part of Intel (COMMUNISM)?
#bannedbooksweek #censorship bannedbooksweek.org
I think excommunicating some Catholic judges, lobbyists and politicians would be way more effective.
And people from Nevis are way more cool today than way back when.
If all the documents were released, all the records, all the interviews, if every shred of paper written on the Epstein sex trafficking operation were released tomorrow, there would still be horrific things we’ll never know. Think about that.
Anyone that cuts funding for cancer/Alzheimer's research, especially as the research is constantly bearing fruit and recently FINALLY, a major break through in Alzheimer's,giving hope to so many, has only very, deep, dark, evil desires for all of humanity. THERE IS NO OTHER PLAUSIBLE EXPLANATION
Gavin’s is better Just sayin’
Those of us that treasure democracy want to crush the media for obeying their oligarch owners and colluding with the fascists. The fascists want to crush the media for not colluding enough. I think we all need to follow the money and aim our fury at the oligarchy pulling the strings.
If you want to run a theocracy, poor, hungry and ignorant is what you want in a population.
And none of the billionaire controlled networks will ever mention it.
#FascismIsHappeningRightNowWakeTheFuckUp 😖
Leonard Leo chose them to turn the US into a Führer state controlled by Christian Nationalists. He has always been an agent of Opus Dei, the same gang of fascists that ran Spain for Franco and murdered several hundred thousand for not being Catholic enough. They're just getting started.
"The lunatics are running the asylum."
Reminder: Most mass shootings are carried out by cisgender men.
I don’t believe for a second that Trump ever asked Putin for cease fire. It was all a performance.
🙃 #GavinNewsom #EpsteinFiles
The oath we swore means nothing to draft-dodger Trump and the shitheels he brought with him.
"Here’s the truth we cannot escape: If Ashli Babbitt is honored, then few things are sacred. If loyalty to the Constitution and an attempt to overthrow it are treated as equal, we lose the very meaning of service." www.thebulwark.com/p/honoring-a...
Or maybe just because he's a dangerous fucking nutjob.
"Farce" is too kind. (D) Senators and Congressmen keep trying to hug it out with a GOP that is openly committed to a Nazi-style Führer state. No one believes Jeffries and Schumer will ever grow a pair and have lost all confidence. And David Hogg? Letting that narcissistic child run wild at the DNC?
Television legend Stephen Colbert has just signed a $13.5 million deal with Netflix for a 7-episode series.
What in the ever loving fuck is going on here
This is the most compelling case I’ve seen yet that America is no longer a democracy but an authoritarian state. Not a *soon-to-be* authoritarian state—a *current* one.
Snake Oil Salesman in the Old Days peddled their “Cures” to Rural Communities who were Less Educated…History Is Repeating Itself!
Distinguished graduate of a Beirut YWCA secretarial class.
Remember when his other boyfriend “fell” off a balcony right when he was excited about his new career? I guess you don’t break up with Peter Thiel www.businessinsider.com/male-model-k...
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It's not happenstance that Bezos built a rocket ship to ferry rich people into low orbit that looks like a penis. Kinda a "fuck you" to everyone that can't afford to ride on his toys.
You know better than anyone that our economy is rigged for vulture capitalism.
CARTOON OF THE DAY (From @mluckovichajc)
Chief Steven Sund didn't give a "weapons free" order expecting his officers to accepting being beaten to death without defend their lives or their fellow officers, then afterward blamed everyone but himself. Absolute disgrace to the profession. If you can't make the hard calls, don't take the job.
We can thank Sgt. Michael Byrd for defending the oath of his office that day. He's a hero
Does anyone believe Peter Thiel never fucked this guy when he worked at Palentir, but bought him a senate seat and vice presidency for no particular reason? Those two just seem like a natural fit, so to speak.
More harping on the Constitution? Every judge Leonard Leo put on the bench is there to throw the Constitution in the trash and is zealously doing so. The GOP is 100% committed to a Führer State. Legal arguments will not stop them and will not save us.
I will never understand black people who side with the wealthy white men who not only despise them, but would return them to slavery if they could. It's just insane. www.the-independent.com/arts-enterta...
As a US Army veteran and former police officer my only regret is that I wasn't there to shoot that insurrectionist traitor myself.
"She did not die defending the Constitution. She died trying to overturn it. She was not protecting lives at a gate in Iraq; she was forcing her way through windows in the Capitol to stop the peaceful transfer of power." New from @markhertling.bsky.social:
This is not a legally valid executive order.
Only the best experts for 47.
Worth the read open.substack.com/pub/levremem...
Hi, immunologist here: (a scientist who studies immune & inflammatory processes) RFK Jr is talking absolute bullshit when he says he can “see in kids faces that they have inflammation” That’s NOT how immunology works. He is an anti-science profiteer. Start calling him such.
Learn to decipher the codespeak.
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Evangelicals think they have an irrevocable "get out of hell free card", so they never worry about their own sins. Just the sins of others.
We can rest easy knowing that like Charlie they'll all have the IQs of a tapeworm.
Dear @apnews.com Ashley Babbitt was not merely a "rioter." She swore an oath to uphold and defend the Constitution, committed insurrection and treason, "levying war against the United States." Giving her military honors insults every veteran and military member who've faithfully kept that oath.
There is an epidemic of shootings by hetero white men. They commit mass murder it's "our mental health system is broken." When it's not a white guy it's "minority gangsterism." If they could find a smaller and more powerless minority than trans people to blame and bully, believe me they would.
Well, I guess they don't want you to be high when you shoot up a music festival or a children's mass. It might spoil your aim.
Excellent question.
"Limited Government" is never limited when conservatives control the legislature and White House. They've always spent like drunken sailors at an Amsterdam whore house.
Yep. Didn’t end too well for Herr Rohm, either.
Meiselas on GOP now saying it's the states' job to lower costs: So everything that happened with the economy while Biden was trying to put out the fire created by the arsonist Trump during his first administration, was blamed on Biden. But Trump makes everything worse, now its a state issue?!
Mike always has his knee pads handy in case Trump needs a BJ. He has fight with VP Useless Appendage and Karolying Leavitt to be first in line.
Meanwhile in Russia: state Duma member Oleg Morozov boasted about Russia's latest strikes, which he described as Moscow's new strategy. He snickered at Trump "the Joker" who threatened to sanction Russia 10-15 times since January, but never did it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=JN9K...
The pious religiosity of Matt Schlapp and the other con artists that Jerry Falwell's Immoral Majority produced was always a fraud and a pose, predicated on the undeniable gullibility of people who believe in sky daddys. You never lose money betting on the stupidity of such people.
I can’t tell if I’m burnt out or just having a reasonable reaction to the never ending clusterfuck chain reaction of batshit chaos that is working in American politics in 2025.
Fragile Racists Fear Strong Intelligent Women Who They Know Are Better Than Them. www.msnbc.com/msnbc/amp/sh...
I'm nostalgic for the time I didn't know what a "Mike Johnson from Louisiana" was. He is a horrible, servile enabler with no moral compass.
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America is a joke
Rudolf Hess thought he’d make a great fuhrer too. Let’s hope for America’s sake that JD Vance’s vice presidency ends the same way
Are we no longer talking about the EPSTEIN FILES? EPSTEIN FILES? EPSTEIN FILES? EPSTEIN FILES? EPSTEIN FILES? EPSTEIN FILES? EPSTEIN FILES? EPSTEIN FILES? EPSTEIN FILES? EPSTEIN FILES? EPSTEIN FILES? EPSTEIN FILES? EPSTEIN FILES? EPSTEIN FILES? EPSTEIN FILES? EPSTEIN FILES? EPSTEIN FILES? Are we?
Whoever has been writing headlines at @the-independent.com recently is doing a great job
If I were charged with a federal crime, I’d hire Pam Bondi’s brother as my lawyer. Because I don’t think this is a coincidence.
flip.it/0-sReH THIS IS SO VERY TREASONOUS, DESPICABLE & UNPATRIOTIC. IT DISHONORS EVERY SINGLE AMERICAN SERVICEMAN WHO FOUGHT BRAVELY & THE MANY WHO LOST THEIR LIVES TO DEFEND DEMOCRACY UNSELFISHLY FOR THE REST OF US. IS CHICKEN SHIT LIUTENENT BONE SPURS ALSO GOING AWARD HIMSELF A PURPLE HEART?
The corporate euphemisms for price hikes are hilarious. Urban Outfitters: "gentle" price adjustments Victoria's Secret: "evolving promotional approach" Hormel: "targeted pricing actions” @wsj.com $HRL www.wsj.com/business/ear...
* ITALY PM MELONI SAYS RUSSIA'S LATEST STRIKE ON KYIV SHOWS IT HAS NO INTENTION OF NEGOTIATING END TO WAR @reuters.com
The Nazis had the SA and Ernst Rohm. We have ICE and Tom Homan. There’s definitely a type.
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)
It's definitely a cult!
Trump biographer Michael Wolff examines why the president feels compelled to dish out a pardon to the sex trafficker.
RFK Jr. will kill Americans, sure as death. You have the GOP to thank you for that.
Firing RFK Jr would unburden a lot of overworked mitochondria in this country
Between RFK decimating the CDC, normalizing Ashli Babbitt & the umpteenth school shooting... I'm losing the will to post. #ReleaseTheEPSTEIN_Files
THE WALL A Monument to Racism open.substack.com/pub/badchoic...
Just in case you forgot…
The Constitution means nothing to the Opus Dei fascists in the SCOTUS, or any Federalist Society judge, or any Republican member of the House, the Senate or in any state office, certainly means nothing to Trump and his hand-picked henchmen. The people will fight or the republic will fall.
Say hi to my dad. Dad was a WWII Navy Chief. I think I was in kindergarten before I realized my mom's name wasn't "Goddamnit Jeanne!"