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The GOP solution to this problem is to let you buy Sudafed.
Excellent question.
Food isn't expensive. Water isn't expensive. Even power isn't expensive. Mega-rich bosses demanding gigantic profits are expensive.
Why is the president carrying his own change of pants?
The NRA buys off Congress. No action on guns. The oil industry buys off Congress. No action on climate. Insurance companies buy off Congress. No action on health care. The list goes on and on. Money in politics is the root of our dysfunction.
Neil Young quits Facebook and Instagram over Meta's use of chatbots with children 'Meta's use of chatbots with children is unconscionable,' Young's team shared in a statement. www.cbc.ca/music/neil-y...
So she wasn’t Antifa?
PBS News Hour is, hands down, one of the most worthwhile news programs. Support public media: www.pbs.org/passport/
Scientists have studied mRNA for decades. The vaccine has proven to be safe & effective-saving millions of lives. Researchers are working on mRNA vaccine for HIV. RFK Jr is an ignorant nut. In 2019 he visited Samoa & told ppl measles vaccine is dangerous. Tragically he was believed. 83 kids died
“There’s an African proverb that says, ‘When you pray, move your feet.’ So I beg you, I ask you, please pray. But don’t stop with your words.” - Annunciation Catholic School Principal Matthew DuBois
Starbucks’ CEO made 6,666x more than the company's median employee in 2024. This was the widest CEO-to-Worker pay gap in the entire S&P 500. Remember this before you order your next pumpkin spice latte.
He looks like a charred piece of cauliflower, but okay.
This is a major story. “Trump wants Greenland”? King Leopoldo wanted the Congo. And took it. It’s naked imperialism. And espionage. More than 80% of the population of Greenland is indigenous. “Beautiful” Inuits are not “asking Trump to take over.” They categorically don’t want it.
The Fed was designed to be insulated from politics to maintain the stability and credibility of our financial system. The President is breaking the law, abusing his power, setting a dangerous precedent, and undermining our economy.
Two children were killed and seventeen people were injured in a shooting at Annunciation Catholic School. A Cracker Barrel logo change received far more scrutiny and attention than any fight against the epidemic of gun violence in this country. Our priorities remain idiotic.
Woody Allen is an inch away from begging for pierogies in Martha’s Vineyard.
TRUMP: “A lot of people are saying maybe we’d like a dictator.” He’s saying it. Are you listening? 🇺🇸
This is local law enforcement. Twice this morning, Hakeem Jeffries implored Democrats to "support local law enforcement."
"To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public." - Theodore Roosevelt
Claiming that *Greenwich Village* is a “lawless drug den” is fucking insane, even for the Post.
We elect people we assume will join together & fight for us, but at the end of the day, Congress is (mostly) made up of ill-qualified, out-of-touch people who, by virtue of where they live, won lucrative, high-paying, part-time jobs they are desperate to keep. It’s never been more clear.
This makes me want to go to Baltimore on vacation.
How does this square with Trump’s purported war on antisemitism?
Florida bans the Diary of Anne Frank. A literary classic that serves as a cautionary tale about the rise of fascism and the importance of documenting atrocities as they’re occurring. We all must document this time in history. Keep copies. Write everything down. Make sure that the truth will out.
we really do need to figure out how this guy managed to create an environment where he can say "i wasted an amount of taxpayer dollars so large I can't even tell you how much it was" & it doesn't cause immediate national outrage
Most of us have read or heard 1984. Most of us said, this could never happen. Well. it is. Incrementally and decidedly by the very republicans who have whined about government overreach since the Great Depression.
17-year-old Cracker Barrel waitress near interstates everywhere are breathing a sigh of relief.
Dear God. This clip needs to be on every major news broadcast this evening. @nbcnews.com @cnn.com @cbsnews.com Where are you ABC News?
I heard someone say “We have poverty not because we cannot care for the poor, but because we cannot satisfy the rich.” And if that ain’t the TRUTH
Our federal taxes are being used pretty much solely for disseminating (really cringey) propaganda, violating people’s civil and human rights, targeting political opponents, and extorting media, universities, blue states, and foreign countries
The numbers are in. The new maps republicans just passed in Texas reduce Hispanic Texans to one-third of a white person and Black Texans to one-fifth of a white person.
Now he wants to normalize hunting and hurting the elderly. So what does that leave? Angry white men and fertile white women? Sounds like the plan.
Life comes at you fast
Also without the posture.
The White House's memes about imprisonment, deportation, and death by alligator are designed to radicalize and desensitize. “What you have is this desire to get people to buy into the fun of sadism,” says Jason Stanley, an author who’s leaving the US because of “concerns over fascism.”
Wow— Republican Rep. Carl DeMaio hung a curveball over the fat part of the plate and Newsom’s crew was waiting on it and hit it into the Pacific Ocean 👀 They are not playing. Goodnight Carl.
He routinely steals people’s trophies, so I don’t think he cares whether he deserves it. Same as lying about his achievements. If he had the mental capacity to play Solitaire, he would cheat himself at that and win every time, too.
How come none of these “patriots” on Trump’s payroll know anything about the flag code?
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Someone interviewing Mullen should put up that picture & ask if he’s ever been as afraid for his life as he was the day he was cannon fodder for Trump. Ask who he was scared of that day & why he was hiding. Ask why Trump didn’t think anyone in congress’s life was worth a call to the National Guard.
Wow. What a frightened little man child “Markwayne” is. I’m a female senior citizen and I drive around Memphis & Little Rock in my Lexus - yes, I drive myself! - & obey all traffic laws. I don’t even have any great skills like nunchucks or bow hunting. Maybe time to grow up drop the toddler name.
New in PN: The slide toward "competitive authoritarianism" "Orbán subverted Hungary’s democracy with gerrymandering and by creating a nationwide right-wing media network. He put loyalists in the public prosecutor’s office, ensuring the judicial system would go after his enemies. Sound familiar?"
The moment he named his platform “Truth Social” we were headed this way.
This is a real tweet from Donald Trump:
How could this person accept such a position? Its a complete Idiocracy.
"Ghislaine Maxwell remains the only child-rapist in history to receive well-wishes from a president of the United States." Lawrence O'Donnell
"Get it all on record now. Get the films. Get the witnesses. Because somewhere down the track of history some bastard will get up and say that this never happened." – Dwight D. Eisenhower, Germany, 1945
The rich don’t spend the money they have, and the poor don’t have money to spend. This is a problem when 70% of the economy relies on consumer spending. Closing our nation's wealth gap isn’t just the right thing to do. It’s essential to save our economy. https://youtu.be/S6dCh48b4oI?feature=shared
They like to call themselves “boys” because then it doesn’t sound so bad when they talk about how much they like “girls.”
This could be the official GOP campaign poster at this point. They know he lies. He knows they know. And they still clap for the lies like it’s the gospel truth.
The social media accounts for federal law enforcement agencies keep posting the exact kinds of things you'd report to federal law enforcement agencies if a normal citizen posted them.
Imagine being so out of touch that you think people in homeless shelters are there just waiting for $2,400 apartments to become available. I wonder if Cuomo has any opinions on that old-fashioned word, “groceries.”
Block these accounts. They are posting identical fake content.
Every bank I go to has FOX News playing in the lobby. Trump is just looking for ways to use his auto sharpie.
Meanwhile, every working family wonders why they are not seeing the benefits of the “average family.” It’s because they are including multi-millionaires & billionaires in their averages which makes the “average family” upper, upper, upper class. Everyone else is suffering.
Stephen Colbert is going SCORCHED EARTH right now. To RFK Jr: “Fuck you, you roid-addled nepo carnie! Fuck you, you roadkill-munching Luddite human slim jim!”
Colbert and South Park are doing so much good. I don’t understand why entire networks aren’t falling over themselves to be the one most actively against the Tyranny of power thirsty imbeciles. Instead of folding to lawsuits for drops of blood money, they could be raking in money and fighting back.
Americans are relearning the lesson we learned during the Gilded Age of the late 1890s, when robber barons ran the government and the economy for their own benefit: Oligarchy is incompatible with the common good. I'm hopeful we'll respond with a new progressive movement.
My thoughts on Woody’s letter, exactly. Thanks for putting that into words. The food was a sumptuous feast served by “young women” but before that, meager, & later, a self-serve Chinese buffet… until bully & badger Soon Yi, no longer a child, taught the beast about manners & meaning of appetizers.
This is the full weaponization of intelligence AND law enforcement. One of the most autocratic actions the Trump administration has taken. A true sign of authoritarianism. Gabbard cooked up a phony intelligence report to create a sham investigation. They want Soviet-like show trials of Trump foes.
I remember this. Do you? Bleak future ahead
Wait— you mean guy who doesn’t trust the numbers doesn’t understand … numbers?
A thought...
BILL BURR: “There’s nothing wrong with being a billionaire, but if someone’s working 40 hours/week and can’t make rent you’re not paying them enough… maybe you should just be worth $900 Million. How do you take an 8 figure bonus and none of your employees have dental insurance?”
From now on, all job numbers will come from the guy who claims he’s 6’3” and weighs 215 lbs.
Never forget their plan was always to supplant Donald Trump with J.D. Vance. Now that Trump is wounded and more trouble than he is worth they will start to act on that plan. Look for rumblings about Trump's mental health.
The rule being that convicted sex offenders are disqualified from going to minimum security prisons? So “poof” - that magically goes away?
This is literally insane.
Carolyn Bryant, the woman who accused Emmett Till of whistling at her and whose lie led to his lynching, never apologized or recanted. She died in 2023. That lie was her identity. Giving it up would mean giving up her whole life. Trumpers are like that, too.
My flight tonight was delayed because the catering cart didn't have enough trays for the meals for the first class passengers. It felt like an apt illustration of the lengths to which this country will go to appease people with wealth.
Wow
Family of Virginia Giuffre re: Ghislaine Maxwell prison transfer "It's w/ horror & outrage that we object to the preferential treatment convicted sex trafficker G. Maxwell has received.. Maxwell is a sexual predator who physically assaulted minor children.. she should never be shown any leniency"
I had to scroll way too far to find a mention of Severance.
@linkedin.com this policy update was quiet but awful. www.engadget.com/social-media...
Edamame Fettuccine
“Spa or not spa”
Medicaid fraud, when it is committed, is committed by hospitals and administrators. Individual medicaid fraud is nearly non-existent.
NIH couldn’t even get people to wear masks. You think they coordinated a global pandemic?
Spas don't hire children to be around grown ass men. If a "Spa" is "employing" children to be around grown ass men, it's not a spa.
Today, the U.S. president admitted that a 16-year-old girl employee was trafficked from his resort to the biggest pedophile of the century but whined that the inappropriate part was that he lost a worker and bragged about how beautiful the spa she worked at was. I'm beyond words.
Noem would have been kicked off United Airlines in 2017, but she’s allowed to fly around and represent us on the world stage wearing her Walmart pjs.
He never had the privilege of going but he was offered the privilege, but he turned down the privilege. It must have seemed like a privilege. All 28 times, a privilege. Let’s just start calling it “Trump Island.”
I’ll never not use the em dash. They’ll have to pry it from my cold, dead keyboard.
Two things that shouldn’t be for profit: prisons and healthcare, because the incentive for harm is too great. Keep ’em sick. Keep ’em locked up. keep the checks coming.
Lindsey Graham tried to drag Obama into a debunked conspiracy to dodge Epstein questions—Kristen Welker shut him down live on air. “Are you trying to rewrite history to distract from Epstein?” she asked. He folded with a bitter “Whatever.”
This is serious. Very serious.
Trump somehow learned to drive a golf cart but has never driven an actual car or shopped for (or even seen) groceries. Such an Everyman. So relatable.
I don’t understand!😮💨😢
Endless grift with a side of cruelty @jojofromjerz.bsky.social
Convicted predators who rape and abuse children shouldn’t qualify for pardon consideration. A president who can’t immediately say “absolutely not” when I asked if he’s considering such a pardon should be hounded out of office.
the stupidest government that has ever existed in the modern world..
WATCH — @mehdirhasan.bsky.social : “They’re doing racial profiling, Piers. They’re just grabbing brown people.”