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You're leaving out the biggest factor: US racism. Cities are understood to be where the black and brown people are. Rural and suburban areas are generally the locus of homogeneous white folk who yes typically subscribe to an individualistic/family-focused not community mindset.
Life for Palestinians in Gaza has gotten worse under Trump, not better. So where are Jill Stein and Cornel West now? They arenโt leading protests in DC outside the White House, no rallies. Almost like the whole 2024 thing was just performative.
On why the media is suddenly covering Epstein: sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/mafia-stat...
The appeasement of slave states has come home to roost
Godspeed
@Apple is a sponsor of war and a willing participant of Russiaโs genocide of Ukrainians. They just do it undercover, using parallel supply markets to distance themselves from direct supply chains. 3/3
NEW: Russia reportedly leveraged the August 15 Alaska Summit to stall for a planned Fall 2025 offensive. Russian forces also notably took advantage of the summit to intensify ongoing offensive operations in certain areas of the theater and to stockpile drones and missiles.๐งต(1/3) isw.pub/UkrWar082925
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Ha! He looks like the Goblin king from Hobbit 1
*Dr. Lisa Cook PhD
Dr. Lisa Cook doing the same with her lawsuit against Trumpstein.
#NIH is hanging by a thread. The #CDC has been decimated. #RFK Jr. and Russell #Vought are psychopaths--I don't say this frivolously--they are cold, calculating, inflicting violence on millions through public policy. It is where we are right now. These men are not normal. 1/
In Chicago, overall crime is already down 13%. Murder is down 31%. Robbery is down 33%. Car jackings are down 26%. Trump calls a 31% DROP in murder a โkilling field,โ all while ignoring that nationwide red states have a 40% HIGHER murder rate than do blue states. Donโt fall for his corrupt fascism
Boom!!!!
New in PN: Trump's red state army threatens America's cities "What this latest executive order purports to do is to allow Trump to send red state guard members into blue states, shattering the entire concept of state sovereignty."
You Can't Make This Up GOP Quotes Goebbels on the Floor!
Todayโs Executive Order creating a *nationwide* military โquick reaction forceโ and setting up an online portal to permit random fascist vigilantes to join soldiers is one of the scariest things Iโve seen in U.S. politics in my adult life. Why is it not getting more attention?
Due to the pandemic, the 2020 election showed what increased mail in voting does: it leads to massive voter turnout especially for Democrats. Look at the Biden 2020 numbers vs Harris 2024. That's why Trump is targeting it under the seemingly neutral aegis of preventing fraud (lol).
The day will come when the guilty face the judgment they thought would never arrive.
Which is why you should refer to her as *Dr. Lisa Cook (PhD, UC Berkeley).
Afraid of big cities? Then donโt come. โค๏ธ this video.
Both fail to use the honorific *Dr. Lisa Cook (PhD, UC Berkeley). That can undermine her legitimacy. Ironically the firing letter does use it.
*Dr. Lisa Cook (PhD, UC Berkeley)
*Dr. Lisa Cook (PhD, UC Berkeley)
*Dr. Lisa Cook (PhD, UC Berkeley)
SCOTUS thought they could ride the tiger and get what they wanted ideologically. In exchange, they would give him everything he wanted except the Fed. Just leave the Fed alone and you can ignore all federal law. But it ended the same way it has for everyone who tried to ride the tiger since 2016.
*Dr. Lisa Cook (PhD, UC Berkeley)
*Dr. Lisa Cook (PhD, UC Berkeley)
One more time ๐๐๐
To Donald Trump and his administration: If you hurt my people, nothing will stop me โ not time or political circumstance โ from making sure you face justice under our constitutional rule of law.
๐ข๐ฅ When you buy a Tesla, you fund Donald Trump When you buy a Tesla, you fund ICE thugs When you buy a Tesla, you pay for Elonโs drugs Stop funding Tesla, your countryโs getting mugged
They want us focused on street crimes so that we won't be focused on theirs. And the toll of theirs in lives and money and total victims dwarfs anything happening on the street. Street crime is realโbut if you're obsessed with it, they've got you right where they want you, pal.
Governor Gavin Newsom says that it's time for Democrats to fight back against Trump. But Sierra Wang-O'Neil, who works as a kombucha sommelier at a Silver Lake vegan tapas bar and usually supports Democrats, says that such an aggressive approach leaves her deeply uneasy.
Yes, it means Congress has grounds to impeach and remove them, should there be sufficient majorities who believe so.
But I did call out the National Guard when people were about to see proof that I'm a pedophileโฆ
Trump actually thinks it's good PR for a convicted rapist and child-trafficker to vouch for his 'character' from prison - in a testimonial acquired under extortion from his own criminal defense attorney.
After the Red Army conquered Eastern Poland in September, 1939, the NKVD (the KGB's predecessor) killed nearly 22,000 Polish citizens. For 50 years, the U.S.S.R. blamed this on Nazi Germany. In 1990, Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev finally admitted that the NKVD was responsible for the massacre.
Why is it that 26 women can credibly accuse Trump of sexual misconduct and nobody seems to care, but if sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell says Trumpโs a โgentleman,โ weโre expected to accept that like itโs the word of God?
Completely ignorant, combined with lying seemingly authoritatively to an ignorant audience for effect.
Old cheater wants another cheater to be treated like he's not a cheater. Yep, tracks.
What an idiot
Ghislaine Maxwell targeted 17-year-old Virginia Giuffre at Mar-a-Lago, where she worked, and trafficked her to Jeffrey Epstein. Virginia once said, โI would like to see Ghislaine stay in jail forever.โ She died by suicide on April 25, 2025. Sheโs no longer here to speak her truthโso we will. ๐๏ธ
The only thing we can โdoโ to stop this is mass, sustained protests. Iโm talking protests that are big enough to impact the economy. Folks who arenโt on political social media donโt think itโs bad enough for that yet, though, and I honestly question whether we have the attention span for it at all.
Strange how so many Americans seem to have not a clue that Black people couldnโt get a mortgage in the United States until the 1970s They know even less about discrimination against Asians A white only America existed in television and movies because they were racist in charge of hiring
Lawyers for Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who has been released, have been informed by ICE that he could now be subject to deportation to Uganda, and he's been told to report to ICE next week, a source confirms to me. A few points about this, because there will be a lot of bullshit about it. 1/
We should take Maxwellโs quid pro quo statement for what it is. An admission of Trumpโs guilt. Release the Epstein files.
Hey Buddy!โ๏ธ๐Hope you're having an awesome day! An amazing world we live in, where we believe hearsay from a convicted pedophile over the word of so many victims! ๐โ๏ธ๐โ๏ธ๐
Maxwell is a liar and the DOJ is engaged in a cover up. #DonThePedo #EpsteinFiles
Such an important and scary thread on what's happening to education in the state of Oklahoma.
Not only not true, but how untruth is used by certain political actors for certain effects, how it fits into a plan to undermine democracy itself.
Here's how prosecutors described Ghislaine Maxwell in a pretrial motion during her criminal trial: "The defendant's willingness to brazenly lie under oath about her conduct โฆ strongly suggests her true motive has been and remains to avoid being held accountable for her crimes."
Here is the bottom line. If any information in this horse shit interview with Maxwell is accurate, if Trump was never inappropriate with anyone, there is absolutely no reason NOT to release the entire Epstein file. If there is no wrong doing, then why is it not released immediately? I call Bullshit.
The issue isnโt that Maxwell lied throughout her entire proffer. She has been lying, deceiving and manipulating people her entire life. I expect it from her. The issue is that the US Department of Justice gave her very tangible benefits already for those lies with more to come.
Virginia Giuffreโs lawyer Sigrid McCawley reacts to the Maxwell transcripts, saying Maxwell โrepeatedly and brazenly liedโ to the government and is trying to โrecreate history.โ Full statement
6. Money, both love money and the power it brings. 7. Both love flowery gold decorations. For Putin/Russians, it invokes the Tsars. For Trump, he just copies and it's tacky AF
CALIFORNIA IS NOT ENOUGH TO FLIP THE BALANCE!
Breaking News: The Trump administration ordered construction stop on a large democracy that has already mostly been built.
Whether itโs freaking out about the new Cracker Barrel logo or some other bogeyman, remember this: The GOPโs nonsensical culture wars are meant to distract you from corporate corruption, worker oppression, and staggering wealth inequality.
They want to flood it with MAGAs.
Actually, one might call it National Socialism.
Itโs all about sending a message. The raid is the message. Itโs all about retribution. He is the retribution president. As with troops on our streets, itโs all about normalizing fascism. This is fascism. Fascism is here. Too many Americans are too โbusyโ to care. But itโs here.
What was released today was not the Epstein files; it was spin to try and clear Trumpโs name. Release the REAL Epstein files !
Hereโs what was NOT released today: - the proffer agreement between Maxwell and the DoJ - the agreement transferring Maxwell to club fed - communications showing who waived Maxwellโs sex offender status allowing her transfer and possible work assignments outside prison - the Epstein files
That is the shallow, narrow history part. I was going to say they've forgotten WWII but the Cold War should have clued them in that Russia is the biggest threat to world peace. 'Communism' at the time was just the latest form of control and excuse for expansion.
This is what happens when you make a former Corporal the Vice President.
The problem with my fellow American hippie democrats is they need to pretend they're on the moral high ground with their opposition to our wars of choice in Vietnam, Panama, Persian Gulf, Iraq. But that's shallow, narrow history. Now that a real defensive war is here they can't see the difference.
I took Lehrer's "Nature of Math" class at UC Santa Cruz ca 1991 to fulfill a GE requirement. What a hoot! I vaguely remember him performing "Poisoning Pigeons in the Park" but my mind could be playing tricks on me...
Trumpstein Trumpstein Trumpstein Trumpstein Trumpstein Trumpstein...
ยกAdios pendejo!
Iโve been critical of Gavin Newsom in the past, but what heโs doing now sure beats a strongly written letter from Chuck Schumer.
WORD. -from California
Greatest *incompetent*obsequious*power-hungry ag of all time. And that's saying something (hello Bill Barr?)!
History repeats itself.
Pam Bondi is just another Chump Tool.......
This is Ukraine. A nation that does not seek to take what is not ours. Not even from Russia โ the very country that invaded us. And to those who dare to pressure Ukraine into surrendering its land: start with yourselves.๐
Iโve never in my 55 years heard a party in power cry and whine so much about being victimized. Pathetic cucks.
Bill Barrโthe AG when Epstein diedโwas in the hot seat today. But let me remind you: DOJ owes us the Epstein files beginning tomorrow. All of them. Client list included. (1/2)
Sure, we can talk about the pros and cons of mail-in ballots, but whatโs really bad is when a guy in office needs 1,000 FBI agents to search for his name in the Epstein files to cover up all of his child raping.
โฆโyou stood there like a little wet noodleโโฆ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Kym... He needs much more Abo's on Youtube. Vatnik Soup is each time interesting. - He is also on Bluesky! @vatniksoup.bsky.social ๐ซถ๐บ๐ฆ๐ช๐บ
Just call it the Trump Prize. Forever. Obviously.
Stand with Ukraine #NAFO #NAFOFellas #StandwithUkraine
Dear Dems: please invite Zelenskyy to the United States. Thanks.
I am thinking of this great man President Zelenskyy This "so called summit " was supposed to last like 6 hours they said Didn't last half of that We heard nothing If SOMETHING GOOD HAPPENED Trump would HAVE GONE ON and ON Because the whole world was watching IT WAS ALL ABOUT PUTIN
โThe Art of the Kneel.โ
51 years ago today Jeffrey Hyman, John Cummings, Douglas โDee Deeโ Colvin and Tommy Erdelyi made their first appearance at CBGB on August 16, 1974. The rest is history. #punk #punks #punkrock #ramones #cbgb #history #punkrockhistory #otd
This is your daily reminder that Trump is Putinโs little bitch.
#ProudBlue #Voices4Victory No one wants peace more than the Ukrainians. Russia invaded their homeland & theyโve been fighting for their freedom ever since. Russia needs to leave & Ukraine needs assurances they will not return. The aggressor doesnโt get to determine the outcome. #IStandWithUkraine
๐บ๐ฆ Re-upping this one in the name of decency and democracy. Slava Ukraini!
This is a real AP photo
