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Just an astonishing, powerful op-ed that drives home what we are losing and what's already been lost. We are so incredibly fortunate to live with the advances modern medicine and health science. Destroying and stymieing it is just unforgivable. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
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If you're 60, 69.1% of all job growth since your birth occurred under Democratic administrations. If you're 45, that number is 74.7%. If you're under 28, the number is 100%. Happy Labor Day.
We’ll see next time she wants to send something. 😏 But I still paid the tax. 😒
“Rural states in the American South and West had some of the nation's highest violent crime and homicide rates in 2024, driven by violence in small communities, Axios' Russell Contreras writes from FBI data.” www.axios.com/newsletters/...
m.youtube.com/watch?v=5Nh2...
Can’t shake the feeling this isn’t a coincidence.
I am so tired of “we must.” Empty fist-waving. Where’s the plan?
Chicago will be invaded earlier that morning, pushing this story aside. Why do people take Rep. Khanna seriously?
m.youtube.com/watch?v=0FOF...
senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, former chief economist to Senator Rob Portman (R-OH) & director of budget and spending policy for Marco Rubio’s 2016 presidential campaign👇🏽
I have a daughter who lives in the U.K. We sometimes get boxes. Until last Wednesday, she could take the box to Royal Mail, and we’d get it a few days later. The only cost was postage. Now she has to use a private shipper, and, on top of the postage, we paid a $34 import fee. That is a tax.
The US brought in nearly $30 Billion in tariffs in July, triple the amount collected in previous years That's not good news Tariffs are taxes on Americans That $30B was collected from you and me when we bought food, clothes, electronics...
New Mexico is overriding the federal government on the topic of COVID19 vaccines to ensure their residents can access them. States hold a tremendous amount of public health power. They should use it.
Happy September.
Reminder . . . m.youtube.com/watch?v=9XEn...
Rabbit, Rabbit.
Good Night. Tomorrow is September. Namaste. (image: Oxford DPhil)
The United States killed American Indians and drove them from their homes in order to steal their land. Could it work in Gaza?
Waitresses.
Like they did w/Joe Biden. When word got out he uses a cpap machine - as 8 million Americans do - it was treated like some kind of scandal.
What the MSM repeatedly trashed Biden for doing.
For whom?
These MAGA justices are letting Trump get away with murder www.rawstory.com/raw-investig...
Okay. I just came back to this and you aren’t calling these efforts resegregation yet, you absolutely should be
Brilliant
🤣🤣🤣🤣🫵🏼
+ questioning her fitness to be president if she survived.
Remember when Hillary coughed and the media were practically writing her obituary?
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Both men intend it this way, meaning the don’t get into all the Bad News that they could, but this conversation with Bill McKibbin and @chrislhayes.bsky.social really is the most hopeful, optimistic thing I’ve heard in months. Smash the glass and use it. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w...
Martha, that’s REALLY disappointing. 🙄
RADDATZ: One of the things they are trying to do in DC with the National Guard is have them back up local law enforcement WES MOORE: They are picking up trash
Washington Post vs Democracy Docket. This one is easy. The Washington Post ignored Trump's latest attack on democracy entirely. It went with one about "grey rocking" instead. Support pro-democracy independent media. Subscribe to Democracy Docket today. hubs.ly/Q03jcjqP0
Won’t even try to top that. ✊🏼
When Biden wasn't in public, they accused him of hiding in the basement.
Hey, it worked for Reagan after the disaster in Beruit.
🚨 “The people united will never be divided!” Happening in OUR nation’s capital today. 1/2
NEW: The trump administration attempted to remove 600 terrified unaccompanied minors to Guatemala in the middle of the night on a holiday weekend. Judge Sooknanan stopped it. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/the-sookna...
$10 says it happens this coming Wednesday, to kick the Epstein victims’ press conference out of the media.
Pritzker: "No one in the administration -- the president or anybody under him -- has called anyone in my administration or me. It's clear that in secret they're are planning this invasion with US troops."
From layoffs to billion-dollar budget cuts and ideological battles over history itself, the National Park Service is facing one of the most turbulent moments in its 109-year history. This week on @revealnews.org:
Probably not that far off the mark.
Republicans want to legalize pedophilia.
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m.youtube.com/watch?v=20Hm...
Good Morrow from Woodley Park.
Yes, there is that . . . . Tonkin Gulf, y’know.
Explain to me how he accomplishes that. He has no power.
$10 Chicago gets invaded earlier that morning.
“For 8 in a row, Chicago has been voted the Best Big City in the U.S. by Condé Nast… And Chicago is in the top 10 cities seeing the most population growth in the country.” “I think that people are drawn to Chicago because of the city. It’s beautiful.” Via @thetriibe.com “Hellhole,” says Trump.
Good Night. (image: Rob Swanson)
They didn’t “trust the experts” in 2020. Hell, Dr. Fauci got death threats. 300,000 Americans died.
Some people will get this. 😏
Life for Palestinians in Gaza has gotten worse under Trump, not better. So where are Jill Stein and Cornel West now? They aren’t leading protests in DC outside the White House, no rallies. Almost like the whole 2024 thing was just performative.
He can propose anything he wants - he’s been proposing this for nearly 30 years (and it is a good idea) - but he will never have the power to make it happen.
"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:
Her and Collins. Rotted peas in a pod.
OMG. THIS is on the music system in the grocery store! 😳 m.youtube.com/watch?v=JoXV...
My students, who attend a working-class rust-belt college, openly talk abt how much they hate AI & are afraid of its consequences. I wonder how much of the oft-reported student enthusiasm for the tech is the merely result of the NYT’s Ivy League bias
You can't even make this crap up.......
HAH
The month before a shooter opened fire on children gathered in a Minnesota church this week, the Trump administration cut funding in the state for efforts to identify potential mass shooters and head off their violence. https://cnn.it/4lS986O
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Thank you, angry constituents! 🇺🇸
Washington Post vs Democracy Docket covering the latest on the GOP's redistricting power grab in Missouri. Who do you trust to give you pro-democracy news, information and analysis? Support DD and subscribe today: hubs.ly/Q03jcjqP0
Republicans have forced schools to stop teaching about slavery because it's too traumatizing for children. But watching their friends get shot to death at school is apparently the price of freedom. #ProudBlue #Pinks #TrumpIsUnfitForOffice
BREAKING! Television legend Stephen Colbert has just signed a $13.5 million deal with Netflix for a 7-episode series chronicling his extraordinary journey through decades of American television history. Fuck trump🖕
Republicans used to be against federal government overreach—but now they're silent as Trump seems to be forming a personal paramilitary force.
Platner is blunt, even proud, about how he’s benefitted from government programs. He went to college on the GI Bill. His healthcare is free—paid for by four tours in Iraq & Afghanistan. "But watching your friends die as the bar to meet for decent healthcare is disgusting.” trib.al/wOGSXj4
I'm beyond disturbed that this shit is still going on with the Dem "leaders":
Oh, can you point me to that? Source I used said 47 percent. Thnx.
Good Morning from Woodley Park.
Hacks. Will take any odds.
NPR, you DO understand how dangerous this is, right?
This is fascinating.
Dated May 12: www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
I wrote about my transition from The Washington Post and how I'm looking at my future. But mostly I wrote about who is trying to use your power for their own purposes. www.pbump.net/o/the-power-...
Wrote a little something about having been in Canada this week and coming back to the U.S. www.pbump.net/o/returning-...
Yep. Grew up in a hard-right Midwestern family that’s solid MAGAT. I can attest. FWIW: scaypgrayce.wordpress.com/2023/12/03/r...
The media needs to stop calling this an “immigration crackdown.” That’s not what Trump’s doing. He’s using the military and ICE to invade cities and occupy them. Trump is itching for a fight, and he wants it with blue-city mayors and blue-state governors. The good news: they’re not backing down.
Good Night. (image: Catrin Welz Stein)
Good.
Nope.
For years and years I believed Ted Cruz was evil but brilliant, because I read a quote once from one of his liberal Harvard law professors, who said Cruz was the smartest student he’d ever had. Then one day I looked it up and realized it was Alan Dershowitz.
My fellow white people are far too invested in their victimhood, spite, and racism.