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Most Americans agree we need to get money out of politics. If that takes a constitutional amendment, then that's what we have to do. And if that's going to take years, then it's all the more reason to begin pushing now.
November 14, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Most Americans agree we need to get money out of politics. If that takes a constitutional amendment, then that's what we have to do. And if that's going to take years, then it's all the more reason to begin pushing now.
100% truth
And we knew this. This wasn't speculation. We studied it, we had the talking points. We trained volunteers to explain this to people. It's not a surprise. Rich people don't flee places with good quality of life when we increase the quality of life. They might try to cheat us, but they don't leave.
NEW: The first two years of Massachusetts' millionaire tax has raised $3 billion more than expected.
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
November 14, 2025 at 6:12 PM
100% truth
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I see the “technically it’s ephebophelia” crowd is out today, so just a reminder that A) this is NOT a case where technically correct is the best kind of correct and B) the minute you say this, the gods dump you in the “irredeemable creeper” basket and wash their hands thoroughly after touching you.
November 13, 2025 at 6:57 PM
I see the “technically it’s ephebophelia” crowd is out today, so just a reminder that A) this is NOT a case where technically correct is the best kind of correct and B) the minute you say this, the gods dump you in the “irredeemable creeper” basket and wash their hands thoroughly after touching you.
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The one true generational marker I retain. I’m not sure I’ll ever get over it. (Or want to do so.)
Growing up in a time when “selling out” was the most shameful thing you could do and then being forced to live through the 2020s feels like being kicked in the head by a horse every day
November 13, 2025 at 5:52 PM
The one true generational marker I retain. I’m not sure I’ll ever get over it. (Or want to do so.)
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I’m voting no on the continuing resolution that would double healthcare premiums for 20 million Americans, kick 15 million people off Medicaid & allow 50,000 Americans to die unnecessarily every year.
All to give $1 trillion in tax breaks for billionaires.
All to give $1 trillion in tax breaks for billionaires.
LIVE: I Won't Support Doubling Health Care Premiums
YouTube video by Senator Bernie Sanders
www.youtube.com
November 10, 2025 at 1:39 AM
I’m voting no on the continuing resolution that would double healthcare premiums for 20 million Americans, kick 15 million people off Medicaid & allow 50,000 Americans to die unnecessarily every year.
All to give $1 trillion in tax breaks for billionaires.
All to give $1 trillion in tax breaks for billionaires.
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People are not going to spend 50% if their income on healthcare. They won’t have healthcare.
He also reminds people that the pinky promise is only for a SENATE VOTE. NO GUARANTEE of HOUSE VOTE. @housedemocrats.bsky.social
@democrats.senate.gov
@democrats.senate.gov
I’m voting no on the continuing resolution that would double healthcare premiums for 20 million Americans, kick 15 million people off Medicaid & allow 50,000 Americans to die unnecessarily every year.
All to give $1 trillion in tax breaks for billionaires.
All to give $1 trillion in tax breaks for billionaires.
November 10, 2025 at 1:57 AM
People are not going to spend 50% if their income on healthcare. They won’t have healthcare.
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"Poverty exists not because we cannot feed the poor but because we cannot satisfy the rich.”
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November 7, 2025 at 4:41 PM
"Poverty exists not because we cannot feed the poor but because we cannot satisfy the rich.”
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Interesting reading
Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative
electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
Australia has so much solar that it's offering everyone free electricity
Australia's extensive solar power penetration makes so much energy that the government wants to offer free electricity at peak hours.
electrek.co
November 6, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Interesting reading
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For years, but especially for the past year, Democrats have been in thrall to the idea that they need to chase an imagined median voter, and adopt that voter’s positions. Mamdani’s victory shows another way: hold principles, and persuade people to share them.
I wrote about Zohran’s victory. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Mamdani’s victory is a rebuke to the failed strategies of the Democratic party | Moira Donegan
The Democratic party appears listless and unprincipled, unwilling to fight because they do not believe in anything. Zohran Mamdani is the opposite of this
www.theguardian.com
November 5, 2025 at 6:13 AM
For years, but especially for the past year, Democrats have been in thrall to the idea that they need to chase an imagined median voter, and adopt that voter’s positions. Mamdani’s victory shows another way: hold principles, and persuade people to share them.
It is not shocking that this President refuses to give hungry people food, even when the courts tell him that he must.
In a shocking reversal, Trump said federal food benefits won’t be distributed during the shutdown, despite a court order
Trump Says He’ll Defy Court Order And Won’t Give Out SNAP Benefits
The president appears to want to ignore a court order to pay the benefits.
www.huffpost.com
November 5, 2025 at 12:23 PM
It is not shocking that this President refuses to give hungry people food, even when the courts tell him that he must.
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The failure of the “blue no matter who” crowd to rally behind Mamdani really just lays the reality of that position bare, doesn’t it?
November 4, 2025 at 5:00 PM
The failure of the “blue no matter who” crowd to rally behind Mamdani really just lays the reality of that position bare, doesn’t it?
RIP Teen Vogue. Here is an example of what we have lost.
We are honored to receive the @rooseveltinstitute.org's 2025 Four Freedoms Award for Freedom of Speech and Expression, and to be among a stellar class of laureates including @wck.org, @cvt.org, and more. Details: tnvge.co/ZMIUg7v
November 4, 2025 at 12:42 PM
RIP Teen Vogue. Here is an example of what we have lost.
Conde Nast ruins the one publication worth reading. Teen Vogue is being absorbed into Vogue and stripped of the BIPOC and trans people who made it an award winning publication.
November 4, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Conde Nast ruins the one publication worth reading. Teen Vogue is being absorbed into Vogue and stripped of the BIPOC and trans people who made it an award winning publication.
I'm putting this on my timeline as the point of no return. If this is the new direction, count me out.
October 27, 2025 at 8:40 PM
I'm putting this on my timeline as the point of no return. If this is the new direction, count me out.
All eyes on Jamaica and Haiti. Hurricane Melissa is a monster. Rebuilding lives and structures will be an enormous task.
October 26, 2025 at 12:37 PM
All eyes on Jamaica and Haiti. Hurricane Melissa is a monster. Rebuilding lives and structures will be an enormous task.
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Happy birthday to the fabulous and multi talented Pauline Black.
I remember her and The Selecter bursting on to the music scene with great songs and energy that still sound fresh and vibrant today.
#TheSelecter #2Tone #Ska #MusicSky
youtu.be/074AfC9tw48?...
I remember her and The Selecter bursting on to the music scene with great songs and energy that still sound fresh and vibrant today.
#TheSelecter #2Tone #Ska #MusicSky
youtu.be/074AfC9tw48?...
October 23, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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National Guardsman Awakes Screaming From Nightmare About Americans Going About Daily Lives
National Guardsman Awakes Screaming From Nightmare About Americans Going About Daily Lives
FORT WORTH, TX—Catching his breath and wiping the sweat from his brow after he realized it was all just a bad dream, Texas National Guard member Jason Ringgold reportedly woke up screaming at 3 a.m. T...
theonion.com
October 23, 2025 at 3:00 PM
National Guardsman Awakes Screaming From Nightmare About Americans Going About Daily Lives
1 plane for her and one plane for her makeup and hair products plus stylists. Gross and evil
Imagine thinking they ever cared about debt, fraud, waste, abuse, or anything of the sort. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/u...
October 20, 2025 at 4:15 PM
1 plane for her and one plane for her makeup and hair products plus stylists. Gross and evil
I'm living for this.
Kanoya Kanpachirou (PR chief of Kanoya City) is a skilled dancer with the head of an amberjack.
October 18, 2025 at 7:57 PM
I'm living for this.
Source checking is important, but also assuming that this administration is lying is a fair guess.
A terrific AFP fact check uses reverse image searches to expose how a White House video took scenes from Florida, Texas, South Carolina and Nebraska and lied that they showed "Chicago is in chaos."
factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com....
factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com....
October 18, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Source checking is important, but also assuming that this administration is lying is a fair guess.
They are fighting like they are all in the Epstein files. Do your job for Pete's sake.
I continued to be baffled at this. It looks terrible for Johnson, for the GOP, and most of all for Trump - drawing extra attention to the Epstein story - while further energizing Dems. And for what? To postpone by a bit one moderately tough vote?
Rep. Johnny Olszewski D-MD (lower left) tried but failed to get recognized on the House floor today to get Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva D-AZ sworn in. Speaker Johnson has refused to seat Grijalva for more than 3 weeks. "This is wrong and you know it Mr. Speaker."
October 17, 2025 at 9:06 PM
They are fighting like they are all in the Epstein files. Do your job for Pete's sake.
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Taxpayers are paying for this and other abuses of power. 170 is an undercount.
NEW: The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did.
We found more than 170 such incidents since the start of the second Trump administration. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes nearly 20 children, two of whom have cancer.
We found more than 170 such incidents since the start of the second Trump administration. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes nearly 20 children, two of whom have cancer.
More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.
The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...
www.propublica.org
October 16, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Taxpayers are paying for this and other abuses of power. 170 is an undercount.
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Nine universities across the country, including MIT and Dartmouth, were given a test of loyalty from the Trump administration. Now, students are demanding their schools not sign the president’s 10 point compact agreement.
Read the full story:
Read the full story:
College Students and Faculty Resist Trump’s “Free Speech” Funding Scheme
Nine universities across the country were given a test of loyalty from the Trump administration. Now, students are demanding their schools not sign the president’s 10-point compact agreement.
www.teenvogue.com
October 15, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Nine universities across the country, including MIT and Dartmouth, were given a test of loyalty from the Trump administration. Now, students are demanding their schools not sign the president’s 10 point compact agreement.
Read the full story:
Read the full story:
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“.. On closer inspection, however, it turned out that the image was not a photograph of a real event in Portland, but instead a fabrication created by combining two photographs of scenes that unfolded in South America nearly a decade apart ..”
@theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
@theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
October 7, 2025 at 11:47 AM
“.. On closer inspection, however, it turned out that the image was not a photograph of a real event in Portland, but instead a fabrication created by combining two photographs of scenes that unfolded in South America nearly a decade apart ..”
@theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
@theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...