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Pay attention to how GOP leaders are attempting to convince their voters that undocumented immigrants and green card holders can be summarily detained and deported. It’s simply not true.
August 13, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Pay attention to how GOP leaders are attempting to convince their voters that undocumented immigrants and green card holders can be summarily detained and deported. It’s simply not true.
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It’s amazing that Washington DC can achieve its lowest crime rate in 30 years when 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue is experiencing its highest crime rate in history.
August 13, 2025 at 7:56 PM
It’s amazing that Washington DC can achieve its lowest crime rate in 30 years when 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue is experiencing its highest crime rate in history.
“Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear.”
Harry S Truman
Harry S Truman
May 8, 2025 at 10:58 AM
“Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear.”
Harry S Truman
Harry S Truman
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Incredibly moving. 1000s of Lithuanians lined the streets of the capital Vilnius yesterday to honor the four US soldiers killed on their soil.
As their bodies are repatriated to the US, their President will be nowhere to be seen, except on a Florida golf course.
(📸 Gedinimas Varvuolis)
As their bodies are repatriated to the US, their President will be nowhere to be seen, except on a Florida golf course.
(📸 Gedinimas Varvuolis)
April 4, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Incredibly moving. 1000s of Lithuanians lined the streets of the capital Vilnius yesterday to honor the four US soldiers killed on their soil.
As their bodies are repatriated to the US, their President will be nowhere to be seen, except on a Florida golf course.
(📸 Gedinimas Varvuolis)
As their bodies are repatriated to the US, their President will be nowhere to be seen, except on a Florida golf course.
(📸 Gedinimas Varvuolis)
“The world is fast approaching temperature levels where insurers will no longer be able to offer cover for many climate risks,”
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Climate crisis on track to destroy capitalism, warns top insurer
Action urgently needed to save the conditions under which markets – and civilisation itself – can operate, says senior Allianz figure
www.theguardian.com
April 3, 2025 at 2:32 PM
“The world is fast approaching temperature levels where insurers will no longer be able to offer cover for many climate risks,”
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Ten minutes well spent.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXR5...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXR5...
20 Lessons on Tyranny: by Timothy Snyder / read by John Lithgow
YouTube video by PoliticsGirl
www.youtube.com
April 1, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Ten minutes well spent.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXR5...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXR5...
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International tourism is worth $200 billion every year to the US economy.
Sorry, *was.
Sorry, *was.
March 28, 2025 at 10:08 PM
International tourism is worth $200 billion every year to the US economy.
Sorry, *was.
Sorry, *was.
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Prices are up.
The market is down.
401k’s are in the tank.
Social Security and Medicare are under attack.
Donald Trump has broken every campaign promise he made – except one.
Tax cuts for billionaires. Arriving right on schedule.
The market is down.
401k’s are in the tank.
Social Security and Medicare are under attack.
Donald Trump has broken every campaign promise he made – except one.
Tax cuts for billionaires. Arriving right on schedule.
March 30, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Prices are up.
The market is down.
401k’s are in the tank.
Social Security and Medicare are under attack.
Donald Trump has broken every campaign promise he made – except one.
Tax cuts for billionaires. Arriving right on schedule.
The market is down.
401k’s are in the tank.
Social Security and Medicare are under attack.
Donald Trump has broken every campaign promise he made – except one.
Tax cuts for billionaires. Arriving right on schedule.
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“Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.”
Abraham Lincoln, 16th US President (1809-1865)
Abraham Lincoln, 16th US President (1809-1865)
February 12, 2025 at 2:00 PM
“Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.”
Abraham Lincoln, 16th US President (1809-1865)
Abraham Lincoln, 16th US President (1809-1865)
The forest was shrinking but the trees kept voting for the axe. For the axe was clever and convinced the trees that because his handle was made of wood he was one of them.
-Turkish proverb
-Turkish proverb
December 6, 2024 at 10:26 AM
The forest was shrinking but the trees kept voting for the axe. For the axe was clever and convinced the trees that because his handle was made of wood he was one of them.
-Turkish proverb
-Turkish proverb
"Concern over the climate crisis may evaporate in the White House from January, but its financial costs are now starkly apparent to Americans in the form of soaring home insurance premiums."
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
How climate risks are driving up insurance premiums around the US – visualized
‘Tight correlation’ between premium rises and counties deemed most at risk from climate crisis, experts say
www.theguardian.com
December 5, 2024 at 3:23 PM
"Concern over the climate crisis may evaporate in the White House from January, but its financial costs are now starkly apparent to Americans in the form of soaring home insurance premiums."
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
