When you consider the Republican Party to be an organized crime syndicate instead of a political organization, everything makes more sense.

Powerful people are working overtime to keep poor people from eating.

Kristi Noem is flat-out lying when she claims no U.S. citizen has been arrested in her violent crackdown. Do a web search on “immigration citizen arrested” and you’ll see. Here’s one of the many documented reports we found.

Mar Awa III, patriarch of the Assyrian Church of the East, also born in Chicago, gave Pope Leo a Cubs jersey.

🧵10 ways MAGA is NOT like the Nazis🧵
The right wing hates it when people compare MAGA to the Nazis, as I’ve done in the past, based on their fascist behavior. But to be fair, I’ve decided to provide the other side. So here’s a thread with my list of 10 ways the MAGA movement is NOT like the Nazis.

so I guess for the foreseeable future I’m going to have to wake up every couple of hours in the middle of every night to refresh supremecourt.gov to see if anything new has happened in the ongoing case of 𝙐𝙣𝙞𝙩𝙚𝙙 𝙎𝙩𝙖𝙩𝙚𝙨 𝙚𝙭 𝙧𝙚𝙡. 𝘽𝙪𝙣𝙘𝙝 𝙤𝙛 𝙇𝙮𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙎𝙤𝙘𝙞𝙤𝙥𝙖𝙩𝙝𝙨 𝙫. 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙍𝙪𝙡𝙚 𝙤𝙛 𝙇𝙖𝙬

A key difference between U.S. politics in past decades and now is that there is a better financed and more adept right-wing disinformation industry, reaching what political operatives call "low-information voters."
Lies are a growth industry. So is shamelessness. And that's a lethal combination.

When you spent billions and destroyed your brand to recreate 1930's Germany and got 1780's France instead.

There's a huge danger that government agencies will be ordered to spread health pseudo-science and conspiracy theories under Trump and RFK Jr.
Jennifer Schulze (‪@newsjennifer.bsky.social‬) sounds the alarm.

This coulda been our president-elect tonight America but you chose authoritarianism instead

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