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"The world is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion." ~ Thomas Paine
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American justice in 2025:
Armed gangs wearing masks and hoods surprise law-abiding people on streets, disappear them to prisons on other side of country or fly them to prisons in 3rd world countries, at sole discretion of chief executive who claims no obligation for due process.
March 28, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Bloodlines
YouTube video by The Lincoln Project
youtu.be
March 19, 2025 at 6:24 PM
For all those who voted for the current mess because they wanted to flip off the 'liberal elites'...
March 18, 2025 at 8:17 AM
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March 11, 2025 at 3:15 PM
March 11, 2025 at 6:41 AM
"I’ll wear a costume like yours when the war is over," Zelensky replied and shifted in his golden chair, rolling his eyes.

Fundraiser to support armored medical evacuation vehicles to help save Ukraine’s defenders on the front.

donorbox.org/help-ukraine...
Let’s Help Ukraine Finish the War: a Raffle to Support a Life-Saving Fundraiser | UNITED24 (Ukraine House DC Foundation) (Powered by Donorbox)
We’re raffling off 100 T-shirts among those who donate $24 or more towards armored medical evacuation vehicles to help save Ukraine’s defenders on the front.They’re emphasizing the words of our Presid...
donorbox.org
March 6, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Cartoon by Benjamin Slyngstad
March 5, 2025 at 11:32 PM
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Will he impeach himself?? 🤔
March 4, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Old Soviet joke for our times:

Guy stops by the newsstand every day, scans the front page, doesn’t buy the paper. One day the vendor asks what he’s up to.
Guy says: “looking for an obituary.”
Vendor says “those are towards the back of the paper, comrade.”
Guy says: “not the one I’m looking for.”
March 4, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Not your grandfather's Republican party.
March 3, 2025 at 9:52 PM
So how many MAGA reporters have heckled Elon Musk about not wearing suits to the White House?
March 3, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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March 1, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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Viral On The Way!
NEW: Senator Marshall (R-KS) RUNS AWAY, fleeing his own town hall after being asked about DOGE firing Veterans. MAKE HIM GO VIRAL.
March 1, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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March 2, 2025 at 2:32 AM
March 2, 2025 at 12:39 AM
Trump would not have gotten along with Churchill either. "America First" sympathized with Hitler.
March 2, 2025 at 12:04 AM
A federal judge in California sided with a coalition of unions, temporarily barring the Office of Personnel Management from ordering federal agencies to terminate probationary workers, adding that the firings were “illegal, should be stopped and rescinded.”
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/02...
Update from Zach Montague
www.nytimes.com
February 28, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Firing random people without talking to their supervisors or even understanding what they do is not how you improve government efficiency.
youtube.com/shorts/sfcV4...
Fired federal workers speak on the importance of their former roles
YouTube video by MSNBC
youtube.com
February 27, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Thank you.
npr.org NPR @npr.org · Feb 25
Twenty-one members of the United State DOGE Service have resigned, they said in an anonymous letter, citing DOGE's ongoing work dramatically reshaping the federal government.
21 DOGE staffers resign, saying they won't help 'dismantle' public services
Twenty-one members of the United State DOGE Service have resigned, they said in an anonymous letter, citing DOGE's ongoing work dramatically reshaping the federal government.
www.npr.org
February 25, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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If you’re cheering for a South African sociopath to fuck over US military veterans then you should probably stop with that America first bullshit.
February 25, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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February 25, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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February 24, 2025 at 9:51 PM
February 24, 2025 at 6:28 PM