Alexandra
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Democracy dying in broad fucking daylight, as it were.
Ann Telnaes, who has worked at The Washington Post as an editorial cartoonist since 2008, says her cartoon criticizing billions currying favor with Trump was spiked — and now she has quit the paper
Why I'm quitting the Washington Post
Democracy can't function without a free press
anntelnaes.substack.com
January 4, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Democracy dying in broad fucking daylight, as it were.
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Everything stated in this post is a provable fact.
You are entitled to your own opinion.
You are not entitled to your own facts.
Looking at YOU, 2020 election-deniers.
You are entitled to your own opinion.
You are not entitled to your own facts.
Looking at YOU, 2020 election-deniers.
January 4, 2025 at 12:03 AM
Everything stated in this post is a provable fact.
You are entitled to your own opinion.
You are not entitled to your own facts.
Looking at YOU, 2020 election-deniers.
You are entitled to your own opinion.
You are not entitled to your own facts.
Looking at YOU, 2020 election-deniers.
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Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema are no longer in the Senate.
But the damage they've done to our political system on behalf of Big Money will linger for years.
Memo to Democrats: you can't win back working-class voters by following corporate cronies like Manchinema.
But the damage they've done to our political system on behalf of Big Money will linger for years.
Memo to Democrats: you can't win back working-class voters by following corporate cronies like Manchinema.
The Failures of "Centrism"
YouTube video by Robert Reich
www.youtube.com
January 3, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema are no longer in the Senate.
But the damage they've done to our political system on behalf of Big Money will linger for years.
Memo to Democrats: you can't win back working-class voters by following corporate cronies like Manchinema.
But the damage they've done to our political system on behalf of Big Money will linger for years.
Memo to Democrats: you can't win back working-class voters by following corporate cronies like Manchinema.
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Blue Jays in the midst of some Blue Jay drama
January 4, 2025 at 12:07 AM
Blue Jays in the midst of some Blue Jay drama
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Trump has tapped Ken Kies, a lobbyist for Microsoft and other huge corporate interests, to fill a key tax policy role at the Treasury Department.
His hiring means Big Business will have yet another ally on the inside to craft Trump's next round of trickle-down tax cuts.
His hiring means Big Business will have yet another ally on the inside to craft Trump's next round of trickle-down tax cuts.
Trump Picks Corporate Lobbyist for Key Tax Policy Role | Common Dreams
Ken Kies has a client list that includes Microsoft, which stands to benefit from the president-elect's proposed corporate tax cut to the tune of $4 billion per year.
www.commondreams.org
January 4, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Trump has tapped Ken Kies, a lobbyist for Microsoft and other huge corporate interests, to fill a key tax policy role at the Treasury Department.
His hiring means Big Business will have yet another ally on the inside to craft Trump's next round of trickle-down tax cuts.
His hiring means Big Business will have yet another ally on the inside to craft Trump's next round of trickle-down tax cuts.
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What I always hear: “We can’t afford to pay our workers more than $15 an hour.”
What I never hear: “We can’t afford to pay our CEO millions of dollars a year.”
Funny how that works.
What I never hear: “We can’t afford to pay our CEO millions of dollars a year.”
Funny how that works.
January 4, 2025 at 1:00 AM
What I always hear: “We can’t afford to pay our workers more than $15 an hour.”
What I never hear: “We can’t afford to pay our CEO millions of dollars a year.”
Funny how that works.
What I never hear: “We can’t afford to pay our CEO millions of dollars a year.”
Funny how that works.
Love and light
Happy, happy Hanukkah
Happy, happy Hanukkah
December 25, 2024 at 9:07 PM
Love and light
Happy, happy Hanukkah
Happy, happy Hanukkah
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King Neptune
Cr: NASA
Cr: NASA
December 22, 2024 at 1:06 AM
King Neptune
Cr: NASA
Cr: NASA
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No, school shootings do not have to be a "fact of life."
— Gun laws in other countries have stopped mass shootings
— More guns don't make us safer
— A majority of Americans want gun reform
We do not have to live like this. No other country does.
— Gun laws in other countries have stopped mass shootings
— More guns don't make us safer
— A majority of Americans want gun reform
We do not have to live like this. No other country does.
December 16, 2024 at 11:09 PM
No, school shootings do not have to be a "fact of life."
— Gun laws in other countries have stopped mass shootings
— More guns don't make us safer
— A majority of Americans want gun reform
We do not have to live like this. No other country does.
— Gun laws in other countries have stopped mass shootings
— More guns don't make us safer
— A majority of Americans want gun reform
We do not have to live like this. No other country does.
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Saturn through a 6-inch telescope.
December 17, 2024 at 3:09 PM
Saturn through a 6-inch telescope.
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I’ve shared with you the plans of Trump’s unelected multi-billionaires to undermine Social Security — the most popular and successful program in the federal government.
Today, I want to share their plan to gut Medicaid.
Today, I want to share their plan to gut Medicaid.
How the DOGE billionaires plan to kill Medicaid
Friends,
robertreich.substack.com
December 17, 2024 at 4:30 AM
I’ve shared with you the plans of Trump’s unelected multi-billionaires to undermine Social Security — the most popular and successful program in the federal government.
Today, I want to share their plan to gut Medicaid.
Today, I want to share their plan to gut Medicaid.
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Walk and chew gum, people.
Saw someone upbraiding someone else for having a hobby while the world is on fire, and, my friends:
1. The world is ever on fire, this is today's conflagration;
2. If you don't find time for rest and joy the fire will consume you;
3. Don't let people shame you for being an entire human.
1. The world is ever on fire, this is today's conflagration;
2. If you don't find time for rest and joy the fire will consume you;
3. Don't let people shame you for being an entire human.
December 17, 2024 at 4:18 PM
Walk and chew gum, people.
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Just a reminder that in 2019, RFK Jr.'s anti-vaccine misinformation campaign helped cause a measles outbreak in Samoa that killed 83 people, mostly kids.
Do you really want him to lead the Department of Health and Human Services?
Do you really want him to lead the Department of Health and Human Services?
December 17, 2024 at 10:14 PM
Just a reminder that in 2019, RFK Jr.'s anti-vaccine misinformation campaign helped cause a measles outbreak in Samoa that killed 83 people, mostly kids.
Do you really want him to lead the Department of Health and Human Services?
Do you really want him to lead the Department of Health and Human Services?
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Millions of Americans — especially seniors, small businesses, and rural communities — rely daily on USPS's affordable rates and universal service.
Privatization would make the mail more expensive and less reliable — all to enrich the billionaire class.
We cannot let it happen.
Privatization would make the mail more expensive and less reliable — all to enrich the billionaire class.
We cannot let it happen.
December 17, 2024 at 10:36 PM
Millions of Americans — especially seniors, small businesses, and rural communities — rely daily on USPS's affordable rates and universal service.
Privatization would make the mail more expensive and less reliable — all to enrich the billionaire class.
We cannot let it happen.
Privatization would make the mail more expensive and less reliable — all to enrich the billionaire class.
We cannot let it happen.
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Anyone, any entity, anywhere in the world can just pay him any amount (for anything he promises in return), and there's no disclosure of the payments, no oversight of any of it by anyone, and of course no potential bribery prosecution (of him) because... immune.
www.nytimes.com/2024/11/24/u...
www.nytimes.com/2024/11/24/u...
November 25, 2024 at 10:28 PM
Anyone, any entity, anywhere in the world can just pay him any amount (for anything he promises in return), and there's no disclosure of the payments, no oversight of any of it by anyone, and of course no potential bribery prosecution (of him) because... immune.
www.nytimes.com/2024/11/24/u...
www.nytimes.com/2024/11/24/u...
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Hey, should we be, like, downloading the Library of Congress or something?
November 25, 2024 at 3:06 AM
Hey, should we be, like, downloading the Library of Congress or something?
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So let me get this straight.
If you apply for a job at a grocery store, you have to undergo a background check.
But, if you apply to be Director of National Intelligence, you don't?
Got it.
If you apply for a job at a grocery store, you have to undergo a background check.
But, if you apply to be Director of National Intelligence, you don't?
Got it.
November 25, 2024 at 9:59 PM
So let me get this straight.
If you apply for a job at a grocery store, you have to undergo a background check.
But, if you apply to be Director of National Intelligence, you don't?
Got it.
If you apply for a job at a grocery store, you have to undergo a background check.
But, if you apply to be Director of National Intelligence, you don't?
Got it.
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