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On the eve of his second election — on October 31, 1936 — FDR delivered his coup de grace, explaining the stakes in his fight with the moneyed interests.
Today’s economic royalists are backing Trump, and the fight is much the same.
Today’s economic royalists are backing Trump, and the fight is much the same.
October 31, 2025 at 4:44 PM
On the eve of his second election — on October 31, 1936 — FDR delivered his coup de grace, explaining the stakes in his fight with the moneyed interests.
Today’s economic royalists are backing Trump, and the fight is much the same.
Today’s economic royalists are backing Trump, and the fight is much the same.
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Legal scholar Lisa Graves on why this Supreme Court chief justice is the worst in history.
John Roberts betrayed America for Donald Trump
Legal scholar Lisa Graves on why this Supreme Court chief justice is the worst in history
www.salon.com
October 31, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Legal scholar Lisa Graves on why this Supreme Court chief justice is the worst in history.
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Medicare for All would save $450B a year.
Every dollar spent on food stamps generates $1.50-$1.80 in economic activity.
Each dollar going to low-wage workers adds $1.20 to the economy overall.
It’s not about what this country can or can’t afford.
It’s about priorities.
Every dollar spent on food stamps generates $1.50-$1.80 in economic activity.
Each dollar going to low-wage workers adds $1.20 to the economy overall.
It’s not about what this country can or can’t afford.
It’s about priorities.
October 31, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Medicare for All would save $450B a year.
Every dollar spent on food stamps generates $1.50-$1.80 in economic activity.
Each dollar going to low-wage workers adds $1.20 to the economy overall.
It’s not about what this country can or can’t afford.
It’s about priorities.
Every dollar spent on food stamps generates $1.50-$1.80 in economic activity.
Each dollar going to low-wage workers adds $1.20 to the economy overall.
It’s not about what this country can or can’t afford.
It’s about priorities.
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This is a good start, but people should also be free to drive on whatever side of the highway feels appropriate to them.
October 31, 2025 at 7:14 PM
This is a good start, but people should also be free to drive on whatever side of the highway feels appropriate to them.
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Sean Duffy: "I'm about to pull $160 million from California, and as we pull more money we also have the option of pulling California's ability to issue commercial driver's licenses."
October 26, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Sean Duffy: "I'm about to pull $160 million from California, and as we pull more money we also have the option of pulling California's ability to issue commercial driver's licenses."
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$170B for ICE and Border Patrol
$40B for Argentina
$1B to refurbish Trump's Qatar jet
$230M for Trump's DOJ "compensation"
$200M for Kristi Noem's jets
$98M for Trump's golf outings
But no money to lower your healthcare costs.
$40B for Argentina
$1B to refurbish Trump's Qatar jet
$230M for Trump's DOJ "compensation"
$200M for Kristi Noem's jets
$98M for Trump's golf outings
But no money to lower your healthcare costs.
October 26, 2025 at 7:00 PM
$170B for ICE and Border Patrol
$40B for Argentina
$1B to refurbish Trump's Qatar jet
$230M for Trump's DOJ "compensation"
$200M for Kristi Noem's jets
$98M for Trump's golf outings
But no money to lower your healthcare costs.
$40B for Argentina
$1B to refurbish Trump's Qatar jet
$230M for Trump's DOJ "compensation"
$200M for Kristi Noem's jets
$98M for Trump's golf outings
But no money to lower your healthcare costs.
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Since January OMB Director Russ Vought has hidden over $410 billion in appropriated funds in order to push his own agenda. trib.al/8b60Vlr
Russ Vought’s Scheme Has Been Unmasked
Hundreds of billions in appropriated spending has been withheld, with dire consequences. Government funding shouldn’t be derailed like this.
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September 16, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Since January OMB Director Russ Vought has hidden over $410 billion in appropriated funds in order to push his own agenda. trib.al/8b60Vlr
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We haven’t forgotten about the Epstein files. This isn’t going away, Donald. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5TdD8bmSU-g
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September 16, 2025 at 10:00 PM
We haven’t forgotten about the Epstein files. This isn’t going away, Donald. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5TdD8bmSU-g
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DOGE isn't fighting fraud — it's potentially exposing Americans to more of it.
Nothing about this fake government agency is "efficient."
Nothing about this fake government agency is "efficient."
A whistleblower has revealed that DOGE officials copied the entire Social Security database — containing sensitive information like Social Security numbers and birthdates of over 300 million Americans — to an unsecured cloud server without proper oversight.
September 16, 2025 at 10:19 PM
DOGE isn't fighting fraud — it's potentially exposing Americans to more of it.
Nothing about this fake government agency is "efficient."
Nothing about this fake government agency is "efficient."
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This is so embarrassing.
Newly Sworn-In Trump Official Ripped After Admitting He Had To Google What His New Job Was
Not exactly something he should be bragging about.
www.comicsands.com
May 23, 2025 at 6:27 PM
This is so embarrassing.
Instead of obsessing about the awful state of our country every single minute, I took a breather and baked bread this morning.
February 22, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Instead of obsessing about the awful state of our country every single minute, I took a breather and baked bread this morning.
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In 1923 Adolf Hitler incited an insurrection against the German government.
He was tried, given a slap on the wrist, and became a convicted felon. Despite being treated charitably by the judge, Hitler claimed the trial was political persecution and successfully portrayed himself as a victim of /1
He was tried, given a slap on the wrist, and became a convicted felon. Despite being treated charitably by the judge, Hitler claimed the trial was political persecution and successfully portrayed himself as a victim of /1
January 24, 2025 at 5:29 PM
In 1923 Adolf Hitler incited an insurrection against the German government.
He was tried, given a slap on the wrist, and became a convicted felon. Despite being treated charitably by the judge, Hitler claimed the trial was political persecution and successfully portrayed himself as a victim of /1
He was tried, given a slap on the wrist, and became a convicted felon. Despite being treated charitably by the judge, Hitler claimed the trial was political persecution and successfully portrayed himself as a victim of /1
February 12, 2025 at 8:25 PM
February 12, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Literally nothing is as MAGA as watching a bunch of self-righteous frauds who pretend to give a damn about Christianity, viciously attacking a minister preaching about caring for the vulnerable while their r*pist-felon messiah condescendingly scoffs at her.
johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/maga-chris...
johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/maga-chris...
MAGA Christianity is Anti-Jesus. Just ask Jesus.
Rev.
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February 9, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Evangelicals, Your Refusal to Love Your Transgender Neighbors is a Sin
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Evangelicals, Your Refusal to Love Your Transgender Neighbors is a Sin
Dear Evangelicals,
open.substack.com
February 9, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Evangelicals, Your Refusal to Love Your Transgender Neighbors is a Sin
open.substack.com/pub/johnpavl...
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A reminder: Caroline Kennedy said that RFK Jr. would put mice and baby chicks into a blender, presumably while they were still alive, so that he could feed his hawks. He dumped a dead bear in Central Park. He chain-sawed off the head of a dead whale, which was a crime.
February 4, 2025 at 5:10 PM
A reminder: Caroline Kennedy said that RFK Jr. would put mice and baby chicks into a blender, presumably while they were still alive, so that he could feed his hawks. He dumped a dead bear in Central Park. He chain-sawed off the head of a dead whale, which was a crime.
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A group of FBI agents asked a federal judge to block the Trump administration’s efforts to collect information on thousands of case agents who worked on investigations tied to the President Donald Trump or the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol.
FBI agents try to block administration’s effort to examine Trump, Jan. 6 cases
Using information about cases involving Jan. 6 or President Donald Trump to fire FBI employees would be unlawful and retaliatory, attorneys for nine agents said.
wapo.st
February 4, 2025 at 5:47 PM
A group of FBI agents asked a federal judge to block the Trump administration’s efforts to collect information on thousands of case agents who worked on investigations tied to the President Donald Trump or the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol.
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“Given everything our world faces today, having faith in love is no small thing.” —Rev. Dr. Sofía Betancourt. May Love at the Center: Unitarian Universalist Theologies serve as an invitation to deepen your own understanding and practices of love. Available at inSpirit: The UU Book and Gift Shop.
February 4, 2025 at 2:17 PM
“Given everything our world faces today, having faith in love is no small thing.” —Rev. Dr. Sofía Betancourt. May Love at the Center: Unitarian Universalist Theologies serve as an invitation to deepen your own understanding and practices of love. Available at inSpirit: The UU Book and Gift Shop.
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The EPA plans to demote career employees and replace them with political appointees, which would give Trump administration loyalists more influence over aspects of the agency that were traditionally led by nonpartisan experts.
E.P.A. Demotes Career Employees Overseeing Science, Enforcement and More
A spokeswoman for the agency said the change was “common practice.” Others said it injects partisanship into jobs that have always been neutral.
www.nytimes.com
February 4, 2025 at 1:01 PM
The EPA plans to demote career employees and replace them with political appointees, which would give Trump administration loyalists more influence over aspects of the agency that were traditionally led by nonpartisan experts.
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The world’s richest man appears to be dismantling the government with an eye toward consolidating power and punishing his political enemies, Charlie Warzel writes. Will it work?
The ‘Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly’ of the United States Government
Elon Musk’s bureaucratic coup is underway.
www.theatlantic.com
February 4, 2025 at 12:23 AM
The world’s richest man appears to be dismantling the government with an eye toward consolidating power and punishing his political enemies, Charlie Warzel writes. Will it work?
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Weird how not a single one of the newspapers and magazines that have been breathlessly churning out "cancel culture" thinkpieces for the past four years have managed to use the word "censorship" at all to describe the most rapid and comprehensive campaign of mass-censorship in recent US history.
February 4, 2025 at 4:35 AM
Weird how not a single one of the newspapers and magazines that have been breathlessly churning out "cancel culture" thinkpieces for the past four years have managed to use the word "censorship" at all to describe the most rapid and comprehensive campaign of mass-censorship in recent US history.
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President Donald Trump is preparing an executive order aimed at eventually closing the Education Department and, in the short term, dismantling it from within, according to three people briefed on its contents.
Trump preps order to dismantle Education Dept. as DOGE probes data
Closing the agency would require congressional approval, so the new administration hopes to diminish it in the meantime.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 4, 2025 at 12:49 PM
President Donald Trump is preparing an executive order aimed at eventually closing the Education Department and, in the short term, dismantling it from within, according to three people briefed on its contents.