r.b.usher
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Fortunate grandfather standing on giants' shoulders seeking righteousness, justice, freedom and a more perfect Union for all. Ubuntu. ☮️➕💜
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The war will end when Russia stops fighting. Therefore, pressure has to be put on Russia, so that they stop believing that they will win. Why is that so hard to understand?
November 27, 2025 at 1:49 AM
The war will end when Russia stops fighting. Therefore, pressure has to be put on Russia, so that they stop believing that they will win. Why is that so hard to understand?
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That sound you heard was every GOP elected official with a lick of sense absolutely SHITTING themselves thinking about the visual of Mark Kelly back in uniform before a military court as Whiskey Pete's handpicked chucklefucks try to railroad him on bogus charges.
November 24, 2025 at 8:52 PM
That sound you heard was every GOP elected official with a lick of sense absolutely SHITTING themselves thinking about the visual of Mark Kelly back in uniform before a military court as Whiskey Pete's handpicked chucklefucks try to railroad him on bogus charges.
FEEL GOOD FRIDAY:
“The cyclists arrive at sunrise, rolling through Chicago’s Latino neighborhoods and stopping at tamale carts, elote stands and candy stalls. They buy out every last item. Then they load up the food and deliver it to shelters and families in need.” apnews.com/article/chic...
“The cyclists arrive at sunrise, rolling through Chicago’s Latino neighborhoods and stopping at tamale carts, elote stands and candy stalls. They buy out every last item. Then they load up the food and deliver it to shelters and families in need.” apnews.com/article/chic...
Chicagoans buy out street vendors amid a federal immigration crackdown
Across Chicago’s Latino neighborhoods, fear of a federal immigration crackdown has emptied the streets.
apnews.com
November 15, 2025 at 1:05 AM
FEEL GOOD FRIDAY:
“The cyclists arrive at sunrise, rolling through Chicago’s Latino neighborhoods and stopping at tamale carts, elote stands and candy stalls. They buy out every last item. Then they load up the food and deliver it to shelters and families in need.” apnews.com/article/chic...
“The cyclists arrive at sunrise, rolling through Chicago’s Latino neighborhoods and stopping at tamale carts, elote stands and candy stalls. They buy out every last item. Then they load up the food and deliver it to shelters and families in need.” apnews.com/article/chic...
"If I get the opportunity to fight like this for the rest of my life, I would be totally OK with that.” West Chicago brothers are on the front lines against ‘Operation Midway Blitz' - And they are teenagers!
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/14/c...
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/14/c...
West Chicago brothers are on the front lines against ‘Operation Midway Blitz.’ And they’re only teenagers.
The wave of youth activists who have been galvanized into action by “Operation Midway Blitz” follow a long tradition paved around the world by young activists.
www.chicagotribune.com
November 15, 2025 at 1:01 AM
"If I get the opportunity to fight like this for the rest of my life, I would be totally OK with that.” West Chicago brothers are on the front lines against ‘Operation Midway Blitz' - And they are teenagers!
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/14/c...
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/14/c...
Courier created a searchable database with all 20,000 files from Epstein’s Estate.
couriernewsroom.com/news/we-crea...
couriernewsroom.com/news/we-crea...
We created a searchable database with all 20,000 files from Epstein’s Estate
Easily find every mention of Trump, Clinton, blackmail, and potential sex crimes in the thousands of private messages between Epstein and his close associates.
couriernewsroom.com
November 15, 2025 at 12:56 AM
Courier created a searchable database with all 20,000 files from Epstein’s Estate.
couriernewsroom.com/news/we-crea...
couriernewsroom.com/news/we-crea...
College basketball players are more at risk than athletes in other sports, NCAA found, especially around March Madness, when thousands of abusive or threatening messages flood athletes, many of them from gamblers, some of it so severe and alarmingly specific that the NCAA must alert law enforcement.
November 15, 2025 at 12:52 AM
College basketball players are more at risk than athletes in other sports, NCAA found, especially around March Madness, when thousands of abusive or threatening messages flood athletes, many of them from gamblers, some of it so severe and alarmingly specific that the NCAA must alert law enforcement.
Donald Trump’s Deputy Attorney General, Todd Blanche, acknowledged today that yesterday’s email dump undermines his interview with Ghislaine Maxwell.
November 13, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Donald Trump’s Deputy Attorney General, Todd Blanche, acknowledged today that yesterday’s email dump undermines his interview with Ghislaine Maxwell.
The decade long conspiracy projections are unraveling for Qanon and MAGA in real time, the scrambling, the edits, the goalpost migration, the sudden “well actually.”
A movement built on projection can’t survive contact with the mirror.
Every new leak is another shattering event.
Don't look away.
A movement built on projection can’t survive contact with the mirror.
Every new leak is another shattering event.
Don't look away.
November 13, 2025 at 3:00 PM
The decade long conspiracy projections are unraveling for Qanon and MAGA in real time, the scrambling, the edits, the goalpost migration, the sudden “well actually.”
A movement built on projection can’t survive contact with the mirror.
Every new leak is another shattering event.
Don't look away.
A movement built on projection can’t survive contact with the mirror.
Every new leak is another shattering event.
Don't look away.
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81 years ago, FDR proposed a second Bill of Rights to guarantee every American the right to employment, healthcare, education, housing, and a living income. His words are as relevant now as they were then. Watch.
November 12, 2025 at 2:31 AM
81 years ago, FDR proposed a second Bill of Rights to guarantee every American the right to employment, healthcare, education, housing, and a living income. His words are as relevant now as they were then. Watch.
“Let this be a reminder: when they go low, we cave.”
Cartoon, by Brendan Loper, The New Yorker
Cartoon, by Brendan Loper, The New Yorker
November 11, 2025 at 6:58 PM
“Let this be a reminder: when they go low, we cave.”
Cartoon, by Brendan Loper, The New Yorker
Cartoon, by Brendan Loper, The New Yorker
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Please don’t think this beltway game of having retiring Dem senators vote yes while everyone else votes no is going to shield leadership from the end result. We see what is happening and can’t be fooled by those games.
November 10, 2025 at 1:15 AM
Please don’t think this beltway game of having retiring Dem senators vote yes while everyone else votes no is going to shield leadership from the end result. We see what is happening and can’t be fooled by those games.
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This right here.
Chris Murphy: "There will be pretty substantial damage to a Dem brand that has been rehabilitated if on the heels of an election in which the people told us to keep fighting, we immediately stop... if we surrender without having gotten anything, I worry it'll be hard to get them back up off the mat"
November 10, 2025 at 1:23 AM
This right here.
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The vote to reopen the government with no deal on health care is a brutal blow to all those who have stood together to save affordable health care for more than 20 million Americans.
I will vote ‘NO’ with every fiber of my being.
www.merkley.senate.gov/merkley-voti...
I will vote ‘NO’ with every fiber of my being.
www.merkley.senate.gov/merkley-voti...
Merkley: Voting No with Every Fiber of My Being - Merkley
Washington, D.C. — Oregon’s U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley issued the following statement announcing he is voting against the bill that funds the government but does not extend the Affordable Care Act’s en...
www.merkley.senate.gov
November 10, 2025 at 2:12 AM
The vote to reopen the government with no deal on health care is a brutal blow to all those who have stood together to save affordable health care for more than 20 million Americans.
I will vote ‘NO’ with every fiber of my being.
www.merkley.senate.gov/merkley-voti...
I will vote ‘NO’ with every fiber of my being.
www.merkley.senate.gov/merkley-voti...
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REWILDING SUCCESS
Finland expands successful daycare “rewilding” experiment nationwide after research showed that replacing sterile play yards with forest soil, plants, & natural materials strengthens children’s immune systems by diversifying their microbiomes.
www.ethicalmarkets.com/how-a-radica...
Finland expands successful daycare “rewilding” experiment nationwide after research showed that replacing sterile play yards with forest soil, plants, & natural materials strengthens children’s immune systems by diversifying their microbiomes.
www.ethicalmarkets.com/how-a-radica...
How a radical experiment to bring a forest into a preschool transformed children’s health - EthicalMarkets.com
By Phoebe Weston, The Guardian Jade Maksimainen (front) and Aurora Nikula play outside at the Humpula daycare centre in Lahti, Finland. Photograph: Liisa Takala/The Guardian In Finland, kindergartens ...
www.ethicalmarkets.com
November 7, 2025 at 3:28 PM
REWILDING SUCCESS
Finland expands successful daycare “rewilding” experiment nationwide after research showed that replacing sterile play yards with forest soil, plants, & natural materials strengthens children’s immune systems by diversifying their microbiomes.
www.ethicalmarkets.com/how-a-radica...
Finland expands successful daycare “rewilding” experiment nationwide after research showed that replacing sterile play yards with forest soil, plants, & natural materials strengthens children’s immune systems by diversifying their microbiomes.
www.ethicalmarkets.com/how-a-radica...
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They are so good at this.
November 6, 2025 at 6:13 AM
They are so good at this.
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The utter stupidity of pursuing a criminal trial against someone for throwing a sandwich that bounced off a bullet proof vest pissing away hundreds of thousands of dollars for this joke is the perfect encapsulation of this Administration.
November 6, 2025 at 3:41 AM
The utter stupidity of pursuing a criminal trial against someone for throwing a sandwich that bounced off a bullet proof vest pissing away hundreds of thousands of dollars for this joke is the perfect encapsulation of this Administration.
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Communism was clearly not a topic on the dementia exam.
November 6, 2025 at 2:24 AM
Communism was clearly not a topic on the dementia exam.
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Amarillo is one of the reddest towns in Texas.
But I showed up because our campaign is not writing off any community.
It was standing room only.
But I showed up because our campaign is not writing off any community.
It was standing room only.
November 6, 2025 at 12:23 AM
Amarillo is one of the reddest towns in Texas.
But I showed up because our campaign is not writing off any community.
It was standing room only.
But I showed up because our campaign is not writing off any community.
It was standing room only.
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After those results, the Democratic response to GOP pressure to cave on the shutdown should simply be
a man in a suit and tie is sitting in a chair and making a funny face .
ALT: a man in a suit and tie is sitting in a chair and making a funny face .
media.tenor.com
November 5, 2025 at 1:00 PM
After those results, the Democratic response to GOP pressure to cave on the shutdown should simply be
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Trump is very belatedly recognizing he can't coerce Democrats into voting to bolster his Regime, and with it his "war within" America. But the now inevitable GOP climb down will further demonstrate how rickety a dictatorship Trump's presiding over, as I discussed a few couple ago. 1/
November 5, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Trump is very belatedly recognizing he can't coerce Democrats into voting to bolster his Regime, and with it his "war within" America. But the now inevitable GOP climb down will further demonstrate how rickety a dictatorship Trump's presiding over, as I discussed a few couple ago. 1/
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If yesterday’s election results were a bellwether for the midterms and 2028, ending the filibuster would be a godsend to Democrats
New in PN: Trump wants Republicans to kill the filibuster. Great!
"The problem for Democrats is they simply want to do more things than Republicans do, so a status quo of near-total gridlock hurts them more than it hurts the GOP, for whom a govt unable to solve problems is a feature, not a bug."
"The problem for Democrats is they simply want to do more things than Republicans do, so a status quo of near-total gridlock hurts them more than it hurts the GOP, for whom a govt unable to solve problems is a feature, not a bug."
Trump wants Republicans to kill the filibuster. Great!
In the long run, it would be good for Democrats and democracy.
www.publicnotice.co
November 5, 2025 at 1:02 PM
If yesterday’s election results were a bellwether for the midterms and 2028, ending the filibuster would be a godsend to Democrats
We're not there yet. Will democracy return and prevail? Thomas Zimmer provides a glimpse into possibilities.
Where America stands, one year after the election.
A fascistic movement controls the government; they are building an authoritarian state; but they have not been able yet to extend authoritarian rule across society. A democracy no more, but not a consolidated autocratic regime yet.
New piece:
A fascistic movement controls the government; they are building an authoritarian state; but they have not been able yet to extend authoritarian rule across society. A democracy no more, but not a consolidated autocratic regime yet.
New piece:
Escalation, Authoritarian “Normalization,” or a Democratic Turnaround?
One year after the election: What we can say with certainty about the state of the Trumpist assault, where uncertainty lies, and where America might go from here
steady.page
November 4, 2025 at 4:06 PM
We're not there yet. Will democracy return and prevail? Thomas Zimmer provides a glimpse into possibilities.