Scott
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'Life isn't as serious as the mind makes it out to be.'
- Eckhart Tolle
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This is:
(a) correct;
(b) a demonstration of Van Hollen's political skills, which are stronger than most of us realized;
(c) a sign to other politicians that bold action will bring outsized attention, as it has with Booker and AOC.
(a) correct;
(b) a demonstration of Van Hollen's political skills, which are stronger than most of us realized;
(c) a sign to other politicians that bold action will bring outsized attention, as it has with Booker and AOC.
Van Hollen details why he thinks the government of El Salvador is making a huge mistake in turning itself into a concentration camp for Trump
April 18, 2025 at 8:55 PM
This is:
(a) correct;
(b) a demonstration of Van Hollen's political skills, which are stronger than most of us realized;
(c) a sign to other politicians that bold action will bring outsized attention, as it has with Booker and AOC.
(a) correct;
(b) a demonstration of Van Hollen's political skills, which are stronger than most of us realized;
(c) a sign to other politicians that bold action will bring outsized attention, as it has with Booker and AOC.
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so if these executive orders are illegal (and i agree that they are) then why the fuck is everyone obeying them? your obedience is making them functionally legal. stop acquiescing to decrees, you look like an asshole
March 4, 2025 at 4:17 PM
so if these executive orders are illegal (and i agree that they are) then why the fuck is everyone obeying them? your obedience is making them functionally legal. stop acquiescing to decrees, you look like an asshole
Just another day in America
Shots fired at York, Pennsylvania hospital; gunman dead, officials say.
Shots fired at York, Pennsylvania hospital; gunman dead, officials say
Police are on the scene at a central Pennsylvania hospital after shots were fired Saturday.
cbsn.ws
February 22, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Just another day in America
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Legitimately glad I don’t understand government data enough to fully understand the danger posed by DOGE.
NEW: Two weeks ago gov't IT experts warned us that the worst case scenario would be if DOGE got full admin access to agency systems. We can report at at least one agency DOGE has unfettered "god mode" access. Our latest: www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
DOGE Has ‘God Mode’ Access to Government Data
The president’s special commission now has an unprecedented ability to view and manipulate information at many federal agencies.
www.theatlantic.com
February 19, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Legitimately glad I don’t understand government data enough to fully understand the danger posed by DOGE.
February 17, 2025 at 12:31 AM
@schumer.senate.gov and @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social are spineless cowards www.alternet.org/dem-infighti...
'Disgraceful and humiliating surrender': Dems 'frustrated' progressives are pushing them
House Democratic lawmakers reportedly used a closed-door meeting earlier this week to vent their frustrations with progressive advocacy groups that have been driving constituent calls and pressuring t...
www.alternet.org
February 16, 2025 at 7:51 PM
@schumer.senate.gov and @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social are spineless cowards www.alternet.org/dem-infighti...
Someone tell the mayor that no one is there to listen to her
February 14, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Someone tell the mayor that no one is there to listen to her
My social media feeds are full of Eagles Super Bowl merch and I want to buy EVERYTHING
February 13, 2025 at 1:48 PM
My social media feeds are full of Eagles Super Bowl merch and I want to buy EVERYTHING
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I think it's worth repeating plainly that a federal judge halted Musk's federal funding freeze nearly two weeks ago but funds are still very much being frozen in violation of the court order.
February 11, 2025 at 8:08 PM
I think it's worth repeating plainly that a federal judge halted Musk's federal funding freeze nearly two weeks ago but funds are still very much being frozen in violation of the court order.
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Elon Musk and Peter Thiel regard our country as their personal factory farm in need of maximizing profitability. Expect no humanity and start from there.
February 11, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Elon Musk and Peter Thiel regard our country as their personal factory farm in need of maximizing profitability. Expect no humanity and start from there.
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The world's richest man is illegally looting the government and stealing your data, it's the easiest fucking messaging imaginable.
there is such a pathological fear among dem electeds of backlash that it leads them to basically do nothing
As the unofficial Dem strategy explainer on here I can't really tell you why Jeffries had such a wimpy response to the Eric Adams quid pro quo. At some point this just becomes a timid resistance to doing anything.
February 11, 2025 at 7:31 PM
The world's richest man is illegally looting the government and stealing your data, it's the easiest fucking messaging imaginable.
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As always with Trump, it's the OPPOSITE of the truth. Undocumented immigrants pay into Social Security, but are ineligible for benefits.
Trump on Social Security: "We have people that shouldn't be on, and those people we have to weed out. Most of them, or many of them so far, have been illegal immigrants."
February 7, 2025 at 10:46 PM
As always with Trump, it's the OPPOSITE of the truth. Undocumented immigrants pay into Social Security, but are ineligible for benefits.
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We’ve become used to right wingers throwing tantrums every time black people are on tv in something everyone is watching (the olympics, superbowl, ect) but it’s actually fucking weird and we shouldn’t act like that’s a normal reaction
February 10, 2025 at 3:45 PM
We’ve become used to right wingers throwing tantrums every time black people are on tv in something everyone is watching (the olympics, superbowl, ect) but it’s actually fucking weird and we shouldn’t act like that’s a normal reaction
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If you're looking for a concrete action to take today--and you're a Visa cardholder--take 2 min and send an email to them today. 👇
If you’re a Visa cardholder you can let them know you won’t be any longer if they do business with fElon. I called and they said they’re taking comments at askvisa@visa.com. Maybe if enough of us complain they’ll pull the deal.
Elon Musk's X begins its push into financial services with Visa deal
Visa will enable X users to move funds between traditional bank accounts and their digital wallet and make instant peer-to-peer payments, like Zelle or Venmo.
www.cnbc.com
February 10, 2025 at 2:05 PM
If you're looking for a concrete action to take today--and you're a Visa cardholder--take 2 min and send an email to them today. 👇
Just can't stop thinking about the Eagles' 34-0 lead last night
February 10, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Just can't stop thinking about the Eagles' 34-0 lead last night
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For Trump, DOGE means revenge on the government who said no to him once, like a teenager that kills his parents for grounding him.
February 6, 2025 at 2:59 PM
For Trump, DOGE means revenge on the government who said no to him once, like a teenager that kills his parents for grounding him.
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having border patrol raid school busses to terrorize children is far more harmful to your kids than a trans teenager in palo alto playing water polo
In case you wondered what depths our democracy has sunk to
February 6, 2025 at 2:57 PM
having border patrol raid school busses to terrorize children is far more harmful to your kids than a trans teenager in palo alto playing water polo
No one could possibly be this stupid
For Trump’s opponents, his "normalization" might be viewed as cause for despair. But there is a silver lining. The resistance failed. The mission to de-normalize Trump failed, and there is real virtue in coming to terms with this, finally.
wapo.st/3CsZve5
wapo.st/3CsZve5
Opinion | Trump has become normal. That could be a good thing — really.
Democrats made big mistake treating Trump as an aberration instead of just a politician
wapo.st
February 5, 2025 at 11:20 PM
No one could possibly be this stupid
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Two days and not a single news outlet has covered the documented links between DOGE guys and neo-Nazi groypers.
NEW: Archived tweets for Gavin Kriger, Musk's 20-something DOGE employee wreaking havoc inside USAID, shows that Kriger has retweeted multiple neo-Nazis including Nick Fuentes, leader of the so-called Groyper movement, and another popular explicit Nazi account recently unmasked by @travisbrown.dev
Gavin Kliger, Elon's DOGE hitler youth shutting down USAID, is now indirectly responsible for the deaths of thousands of children. His Instagram appears to be @gkliger. He's scrubbing his online footprint.
Here's an archived copy of Kliger's resume: web.archive.org/web/20240418...
Here's an archived copy of Kliger's resume: web.archive.org/web/20240418...
February 5, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Two days and not a single news outlet has covered the documented links between DOGE guys and neo-Nazi groypers.
Just swell
Top Dem on the House Intel Committee Jim Himes says in a statement that he understands that the White House “insisted” on the CIA transmitting the list in an unclassified email
New via NYT — The CIA sent the White House an unclassified email listing all employees hired by the spy agency over the last two years to comply with an executive order to shrink the federal work force. One former agency officer called the reporting of names a “counterintelligence disaster.”
February 5, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Just swell
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"We need an opposing plan to counter Project 2025."
We have it already: the United States Constitution.
We have it already: the United States Constitution.
February 5, 2025 at 5:10 PM
"We need an opposing plan to counter Project 2025."
We have it already: the United States Constitution.
We have it already: the United States Constitution.
Why is this so hard?
"No Democrat should be voting to advance Trump's nominees while all of this stuff is going on," AOC said. “There has to be a political price to pay and we have a responsibility as a party to block everything that is happening while they're setting a literal mash to the federal government."
'Stop playing nice!' AOC mad at Dem colleagues refusing to 'block everything' in Congress
Hours after Democratic lawmakers warned that billionaire Elon Musk's takeover of federal agencies is "what the beginning of dictatorship looks like," expressed outrage at being barred from entering th...
www.rawstory.com
February 5, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Why is this so hard?
It's already illegal.
WTF are we doing here???
WTF are we doing here???
Leader Schumer and Leader Jeffries have introduced legislation to address Elon Musk's efforts to access delicate government systems through DOGE.
The Stop the Steal Act would 'prevent unlawful meddling in the Treasury Department's payment systems and protect Americans across the country.'
The Stop the Steal Act would 'prevent unlawful meddling in the Treasury Department's payment systems and protect Americans across the country.'
February 5, 2025 at 6:11 PM
It's already illegal.
WTF are we doing here???
WTF are we doing here???