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I love all that is good in my country, and I don't want to see it destroyed by a bunch of fascists and grifters who love nothing but money and power. It's as simple-and as painful-as that.
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I want politics to be about a better everyday life.
Here's what that can look like:
Here's what that can look like:
April 24, 2025 at 7:20 PM
I want politics to be about a better everyday life.
Here's what that can look like:
Here's what that can look like:
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The head of our country’s government is in the early stages of consolidating total power. We must of course reject this, but that is not enough. We have to respond by creating a different and better kind of American politics than we have seen before.
April 17, 2025 at 6:21 PM
The head of our country’s government is in the early stages of consolidating total power. We must of course reject this, but that is not enough. We have to respond by creating a different and better kind of American politics than we have seen before.
You know it’s been a bad week when your 401(k) provider sends an email with the subject line “continued support during market volatility.”
April 5, 2025 at 1:22 AM
You know it’s been a bad week when your 401(k) provider sends an email with the subject line “continued support during market volatility.”
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“People should see the texts in order to reach their own conclusions.” @jeffreygoldberg.bsky.social and @shaneharris.bsky.social share the group chat in which officials planned strikes on Yemen. theatln.tc/AHkpb39A
Here Are the Attack Plans That Trump’s Advisers Shared on Signal
The administration has downplayed the importance of the text messages inadvertently sent to The Atlantic’s editor in chief.
theatln.tc
March 26, 2025 at 12:24 PM
“People should see the texts in order to reach their own conclusions.” @jeffreygoldberg.bsky.social and @shaneharris.bsky.social share the group chat in which officials planned strikes on Yemen. theatln.tc/AHkpb39A
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A new analysis reveals that Trump’s tax plan will “actively transfer money from low-income people to the top 0.1% of income earners.”
🔗: www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
🔗: www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
March 19, 2025 at 2:20 PM
A new analysis reveals that Trump’s tax plan will “actively transfer money from low-income people to the top 0.1% of income earners.”
🔗: www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
🔗: www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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I’ve got some free time this afternoon - let’s do a quick Q&A. Share your questions below, and I’ll answer as many as I can.
March 6, 2025 at 1:48 PM
I’ve got some free time this afternoon - let’s do a quick Q&A. Share your questions below, and I’ll answer as many as I can.
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If you wanted to cut waste, fraud, and abuse, you would empower the inspectors general.
If you wanted more waste, fraud, and abuse, you would fire them.
If you wanted more waste, fraud, and abuse, you would fire them.
February 17, 2025 at 2:17 PM
If you wanted to cut waste, fraud, and abuse, you would empower the inspectors general.
If you wanted more waste, fraud, and abuse, you would fire them.
If you wanted more waste, fraud, and abuse, you would fire them.
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If Pete Buttigieg is so powerful that him taking a shit job as a “shadow press secretary” can save our democracy, then all the people calling for that should be completely fine with him instead running for office and giving daily speeches/rallies in that role, right?
February 16, 2025 at 9:18 PM
If Pete Buttigieg is so powerful that him taking a shit job as a “shadow press secretary” can save our democracy, then all the people calling for that should be completely fine with him instead running for office and giving daily speeches/rallies in that role, right?
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Like everyone recognizes we have this problem with democrats sidelining their best younger people, and at the same time big posters on this site are insisting we sideline one of democrats’ best younger people into a congressional mouthpiece role? Make it make sense.
February 16, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Like everyone recognizes we have this problem with democrats sidelining their best younger people, and at the same time big posters on this site are insisting we sideline one of democrats’ best younger people into a congressional mouthpiece role? Make it make sense.
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Real “if you can keep it” vibes today
February 1, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Real “if you can keep it” vibes today
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Even with a fairly good memory of just how stupid 2016-2020 was, I had forgotten just how viscerally stupid it is to have this man as president.
Trump on wildfires: "Los Angeles has massive amounts of water available to it. All they have to do is turn the value, and that's the valve coming back from and down from the Pacific Northwest."
January 21, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Even with a fairly good memory of just how stupid 2016-2020 was, I had forgotten just how viscerally stupid it is to have this man as president.
I love all that is good in my country, and I don't want to see it destroyed by a bunch of fascists and grifters who love nothing but money and power. It's as simple-and as painful-as that.
January 20, 2025 at 4:53 PM
I love all that is good in my country, and I don't want to see it destroyed by a bunch of fascists and grifters who love nothing but money and power. It's as simple-and as painful-as that.
OMG-I sarcastically suggested this to someone the other day, but I didn't think he'd actually do it. Tacky ass grifter.
blasphemous grifting -- Lee Greenwood says Trump may take the oath of office on a new limited edition Trump bible that is going to be released tomorrow
January 19, 2025 at 10:31 PM
OMG-I sarcastically suggested this to someone the other day, but I didn't think he'd actually do it. Tacky ass grifter.
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My heart is broken. Mostly I've been angry lately, but today I'm just very very sad.
We are losing everything that makes America great and replacing it with hate and stupidity.
The America I know and love will never be the same.
I'm so very very sad. This is a tragic loss.
We are losing everything that makes America great and replacing it with hate and stupidity.
The America I know and love will never be the same.
I'm so very very sad. This is a tragic loss.
January 16, 2025 at 1:29 AM
My heart is broken. Mostly I've been angry lately, but today I'm just very very sad.
We are losing everything that makes America great and replacing it with hate and stupidity.
The America I know and love will never be the same.
I'm so very very sad. This is a tragic loss.
We are losing everything that makes America great and replacing it with hate and stupidity.
The America I know and love will never be the same.
I'm so very very sad. This is a tragic loss.
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It’s also just an absolute logistical nightmare. Most people have some way of proving where they were born. How many people have readily available documentary proof of their parents’ citizenship status?
The birthright citizenship portion of the US Constitution is totally, inarguably unambiguous. No wiggle room. If the supreme court agrees to throw it out they are explicitly throwing out the entire document and our entire system of government.
December 8, 2024 at 10:37 PM
It’s also just an absolute logistical nightmare. Most people have some way of proving where they were born. How many people have readily available documentary proof of their parents’ citizenship status?
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“Five years on from an epidemic that has traumatised a generation, Samoan health officials are among those sounding alarm over the nomination of Kennedy as US health secretary.
“We cannot and should not stay silent. We know what this appointment means… It must be treated as a threat to our health”
“We cannot and should not stay silent. We know what this appointment means… It must be treated as a threat to our health”
‘We learned the hard way’: Samoa remembers a deadly measles outbreak and visit from RFK Jr
‘We learned the hard way’: Samoa remembers a deadly measles outbreak and visit from RFK Jr
A few months before the outbreak in 2019, Kennedy travelled to Samoa and met with anti-vaccine figures, contributing to what health experts claim was a ‘significant disinformation campaign’
The week before her three children died, Fa’aoso Tuivale and her…
www.theguardian.com
November 26, 2024 at 3:55 AM
“Five years on from an epidemic that has traumatised a generation, Samoan health officials are among those sounding alarm over the nomination of Kennedy as US health secretary.
“We cannot and should not stay silent. We know what this appointment means… It must be treated as a threat to our health”
“We cannot and should not stay silent. We know what this appointment means… It must be treated as a threat to our health”
I had previously considered the high-water mark for a country deciding to commit national suicide to be Brexit. This feels orders of magnitude worse. "A republic, if you can keep it" indeed.
November 14, 2024 at 10:07 PM
I had previously considered the high-water mark for a country deciding to commit national suicide to be Brexit. This feels orders of magnitude worse. "A republic, if you can keep it" indeed.
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To state the very obvious, this would put an avowed anti-vaxxer in charge of vaccines, allowing him to thwart the development and approval of life-saving shots. It's almost too horrific to fathom—a potential death sentence for our families and children. It's lethal. www.politico.com/news/2024/11...
Trump expected to select Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to lead HHS
The choice will roil many public health experts after his years of touting debunked claims that vaccines cause autism.
www.politico.com
November 14, 2024 at 8:37 PM
To state the very obvious, this would put an avowed anti-vaxxer in charge of vaccines, allowing him to thwart the development and approval of life-saving shots. It's almost too horrific to fathom—a potential death sentence for our families and children. It's lethal. www.politico.com/news/2024/11...
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The RFK has Health Secretary is fucking insane. He’s a vaccine denier and a tin foil hat conspiracy theorist. He will destroy the NIH and our vaccine distribution systems. This is going to cost lives.
November 14, 2024 at 8:57 PM
The RFK has Health Secretary is fucking insane. He’s a vaccine denier and a tin foil hat conspiracy theorist. He will destroy the NIH and our vaccine distribution systems. This is going to cost lives.
This one scares me almost more than any of the others. It has the (very high) potential to actually kill people.
Trump is reportedly expected to nominate anti-vaccine activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to lead the Department of Health and Human Services
Trump expected to select Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to lead HHS
The choice will roil many public health experts after his years of touting debunked claims that vaccines cause autism.
www.politico.com
November 14, 2024 at 9:01 PM
This one scares me almost more than any of the others. It has the (very high) potential to actually kill people.
I will never forgive the people who caused this. Never ever ever.
November 13, 2024 at 9:13 PM
I will never forgive the people who caused this. Never ever ever.