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I contain multitudes. We all do.
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US pushes nations facing tariffs to approve Musk’s Starlink. Wow the corruption. An internal State Department memo lays it bare:“As the government of Lesotho negotiates a trade deal with the United States, it hopes that licensing Starlink demonstrates goodwill and intent to welcome U.S. businesses.”
May 7, 2025 at 9:45 PM
How have we missed this?

This happened 5-2-2025. This is the first reference I’ve seen.

Wow.
May 6, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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THE PENTAGON BUDGET JUST HIT A TRILLION DOLLARS.

Not a single pundit from either political party said “how are we going to pay for it?!”

Don’t dare tell us we cannot ALL have healthcare, housing, and education.
May 6, 2025 at 12:02 AM
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The Washington Post bragging about Pulitzer winner Ann Telnaes, the political cartoonist who left the Post because it had turned into an anti-journalism partisan rag, is one of the most shameless examples of misplaced self-congratulations in recent memory.
May 5, 2025 at 11:35 PM
File under things I don’t care about:

- Met Gala
- Kentucky Derby

Anyone else find the rich people fashion parades even more offensive than usual this year?
May 6, 2025 at 1:00 AM
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Nobody stole our jobs, those jobs were offshored by capitalists trying to exploit third world labor to maximize profits. It’s cheaper for corporations to a pay third world worker 15 cents/hour, & then ship the product halfway around the globe, than it is to make it in the USA.
May 5, 2025 at 11:04 PM
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This is about all of us. Never forget that.
May 4, 2025 at 10:02 AM
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Now we know why he didn’t have his hand on the Bible when he took the Oath of Office.
May 4, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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May 1, 2025 at 11:37 PM
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Socialism is what they called public power. 

Socialism is what they called social security. 
 
Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations.
 
Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people.

—Harry Truman, 1952
May 1, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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By this Pam calculation, one pill has to kill more than five people. Math is hard.
May 2, 2025 at 12:35 PM
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Do you know how much CEO pay has skyrocketed since 1978?

100%? 500%?

Try 1,085%

Meanwhile, the $7.25/hr fed. minimum wage hasn't budged in 15 years and the tipped min. wage has been $2.13/hr since 1991.

This is what I mean when I say the system is rigged.
May 1, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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a formerly enslaved Black anarchist woman led the first American May Day parade in Chicago in 1886 and don’t you forget it!!
May 1, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Everybody and their grandma are speaking up about what Trump has done in 100 days to dismantle the US.

What I care more about: what are we doing in those same 100 days, not just to to restore it, but to envision and fight for and build a better and more just one?
May 1, 2025 at 12:05 PM
This is WILD and ignorant. Putting people who don’t science in charge of science is a dangerous choice.
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. intends to change how vaccines are tested. a move that the agency said will increase transparency, but that medical experts fear could limit access to vaccines and undermine the public’s trust in immunization depending on its implementation.
RFK Jr. will require shift in how new vaccines are tested, HHS says
The potential change outlined in a statement would require all new vaccines to undergo placebo testing, sparking concerns among medical experts.
www.washingtonpost.com
May 1, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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May 1, 2025 at 11:47 AM
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April 30, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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“And I’m like, what do you mean, you ‘do your own research’? You running a double-blind study in your living room, dawg?”
- A guy walking ahead of me with his friends on a NYC sidewalk in 2021, also my favorite overheard dialogue of the entire pandemic
April 30, 2025 at 11:36 AM
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The richest 0.1% of Americans control $22 trillion in wealth.

The bottom 50% control $3.8 trillion in wealth.

Read that back.

Folks, this is what oligarchy looks like.
April 28, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Gift article:

Donald Trump’s remarkable political comeback has made him feel like he’s invincible. @AshleyRParker and @michaelscherer report from inside a White House where loyalty is the most important credential and the boss always gets his way:
April 28, 2025 at 11:44 AM
I see Obama worship on here.

As a hardcore capitalist, he allowed the internet to be set up as a privatized thing which gave us tech oligarchs.

Choosing Wallstreet over people gave us billionaires.

He gave a 2011 speech about Russian interference and did nothing about it.

Obama got us here.
April 28, 2025 at 11:25 AM
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My Deep Dive: This Isn’t Just About Arresting a Judge—It’s an Authoritarianism Test Run

Sitting judge, Hannah Dugan, was arrested under murky pretenses. She DID NOT break the law—she questioned an unenforceable ICE warrant, as any judge should. This is testing unadulterated federal power.
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April 26, 2025 at 12:06 AM
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RFK Jr blames diet, lifestyle & vaccines for chronic illness.

Dr Oz says it’s a “patriotic duty” to lead a healthy life & be fit enough to serve in the military.

Neither of them are pushing for Universal Healthcare, basic income, an end to food deserts & inequality, clean water etc.

It’s eugenics
April 25, 2025 at 3:23 AM
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Walz: If you say you love freedom but you don't believe freedom is for everybody, then the thing you love is not freedom, it is privilege.
April 24, 2025 at 12:23 AM