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"We had come to the stage where for our people what was needed was a real democracy; and of all forms of tyranny the least attractive and the most vulgar is the tyranny of mere wealth, the tyranny of a plutocracy"
Teddy Roosevelt
Teddy Roosevelt
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Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O'Hara to US citizen detained by ICE: "I apologize that this happened to you in my city with people wearing vests that say 'police.' That's embarrassing."
December 11, 2025 at 3:39 AM
Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O'Hara to US citizen detained by ICE: "I apologize that this happened to you in my city with people wearing vests that say 'police.' That's embarrassing."
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Bruce Springsteen 2/4:
"In America, the richest men are taking satisfaction in abandoning the world’s poorest children to sickness and death. This is happening now.
"In my country, they are taking sadistic pleasure in the pain they inflict on loyal American workers (more)
"In America, the richest men are taking satisfaction in abandoning the world’s poorest children to sickness and death. This is happening now.
"In my country, they are taking sadistic pleasure in the pain they inflict on loyal American workers (more)
May 19, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Bruce Springsteen 2/4:
"In America, the richest men are taking satisfaction in abandoning the world’s poorest children to sickness and death. This is happening now.
"In my country, they are taking sadistic pleasure in the pain they inflict on loyal American workers (more)
"In America, the richest men are taking satisfaction in abandoning the world’s poorest children to sickness and death. This is happening now.
"In my country, they are taking sadistic pleasure in the pain they inflict on loyal American workers (more)
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Honestly? The $400M plane from Qatar is quaint compared to his crypto scam, memecoin con, insider trading, and tariff shakedowns.
May 11, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Honestly? The $400M plane from Qatar is quaint compared to his crypto scam, memecoin con, insider trading, and tariff shakedowns.
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No.
Trump is an inveterate liar. His statements should never be put in headlines.
News outlets must find out what actually occurred, put that in the headline, and then put Trump statements, with fact checks, at the end of the article.
apple.news/AGkI8kRVEQC6...
Trump is an inveterate liar. His statements should never be put in headlines.
News outlets must find out what actually occurred, put that in the headline, and then put Trump statements, with fact checks, at the end of the article.
apple.news/AGkI8kRVEQC6...
'A total reset': Trump touts 'great progress' in trade talks with China on tariffs — USA TODAY
President Trump said
apple.news
May 11, 2025 at 5:18 AM
No.
Trump is an inveterate liar. His statements should never be put in headlines.
News outlets must find out what actually occurred, put that in the headline, and then put Trump statements, with fact checks, at the end of the article.
apple.news/AGkI8kRVEQC6...
Trump is an inveterate liar. His statements should never be put in headlines.
News outlets must find out what actually occurred, put that in the headline, and then put Trump statements, with fact checks, at the end of the article.
apple.news/AGkI8kRVEQC6...
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Every state needs to do this ASAP
April 23, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Every state needs to do this ASAP
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Forcing people to pay $130 for a passport in order to vote is just a Jim Crow poll tax by another name.
It is blatantly unconstitutional.
It is blatantly unconstitutional.
April 10, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Forcing people to pay $130 for a passport in order to vote is just a Jim Crow poll tax by another name.
It is blatantly unconstitutional.
It is blatantly unconstitutional.
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There are 813 billionaires in the US
or 1 for every 409,000 people.
And that's how many I want to see in our executive, legislative and judicial branches of government, which rounds out to zero.
or 1 for every 409,000 people.
And that's how many I want to see in our executive, legislative and judicial branches of government, which rounds out to zero.
March 8, 2025 at 11:35 PM
There are 813 billionaires in the US
or 1 for every 409,000 people.
And that's how many I want to see in our executive, legislative and judicial branches of government, which rounds out to zero.
or 1 for every 409,000 people.
And that's how many I want to see in our executive, legislative and judicial branches of government, which rounds out to zero.
Post-Ipsos:"This past summer, 50 percent of Republicans rated the economy as poor. Today, it’s just 11 percent."
Oh wow, what changed?
Oh wow, what changed?
February 20, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Post-Ipsos:"This past summer, 50 percent of Republicans rated the economy as poor. Today, it’s just 11 percent."
Oh wow, what changed?
Oh wow, what changed?
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the richest man in the world has decided that your kids don't deserve special education programs
February 16, 2025 at 6:14 PM
the richest man in the world has decided that your kids don't deserve special education programs
When you destroy trust in institutions all across a society, the only thing that works is a dictatorship. This is the playbook.
February 16, 2025 at 11:32 PM
When you destroy trust in institutions all across a society, the only thing that works is a dictatorship. This is the playbook.
Yet again, freedom of speech is under attack by the GOP
This is where we are now: An elementary school at Fort Campbell has removed all books from its library that so much as *allude* to slavery or the civil rights movement.
The wholesale erasure of history in real time.
The wholesale erasure of history in real time.
Books mentioning slavery, civil rights removed from shelves at Fort Campbell schools - ClarksvilleNow.com
At an elementary school at Fort Campbell, home of the 101st Airborne Division, librarians are hard at work scrubbing the shelves for books that contain references to slavery, the civil rights movement...
clarksvillenow.com
February 16, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Yet again, freedom of speech is under attack by the GOP
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Portuguese editorial cartoonist Zez Vaz reaches back to Tiananmen Square to call on American defiance.
February 15, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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We're going to have to get off the planet and to another one because of all the damage being done to the planet by SpaceX trying to leave the planet.
February 15, 2025 at 1:01 AM
We're going to have to get off the planet and to another one because of all the damage being done to the planet by SpaceX trying to leave the planet.
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The CFPB is one of the American people’s best defenses against waste, fraud, and abuse.
Demolishing it will, of course, lead to more waste, fraud, and abuse.
Demolishing it will, of course, lead to more waste, fraud, and abuse.
February 11, 2025 at 7:03 PM
The CFPB is one of the American people’s best defenses against waste, fraud, and abuse.
Demolishing it will, of course, lead to more waste, fraud, and abuse.
Demolishing it will, of course, lead to more waste, fraud, and abuse.
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I'm hearing now that *every* technologist CFPB hired to investigate Big Tech was fired this evening. That's somewhere between 70-100 people.
wired.com/story/dozens-of-cfpb-workers-terminated-in-after-hours-firing-blitz/
wired.com/story/dozens-of-cfpb-workers-terminated-in-after-hours-firing-blitz/
Dozens of CFPB Workers Fired in After-Hours Blitz
Some affected employees of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau were notified with an email that addressed them as [EmployeeFirstName][EmployeeLastName], [Job Title], [Division].
wired.com
February 14, 2025 at 12:51 AM
I'm hearing now that *every* technologist CFPB hired to investigate Big Tech was fired this evening. That's somewhere between 70-100 people.
wired.com/story/dozens-of-cfpb-workers-terminated-in-after-hours-firing-blitz/
wired.com/story/dozens-of-cfpb-workers-terminated-in-after-hours-firing-blitz/
The richest man in the world eliminating aid for the most needy is as truly evil as it gets.
February 12, 2025 at 9:21 PM
The richest man in the world eliminating aid for the most needy is as truly evil as it gets.
You know the CFPB that the Republicans just shut down?
The Bureau was handling 100s of consumer complaints about . . . Teslas
The Bureau was handling 100s of consumer complaints about . . . Teslas
February 12, 2025 at 8:58 PM
You know the CFPB that the Republicans just shut down?
The Bureau was handling 100s of consumer complaints about . . . Teslas
The Bureau was handling 100s of consumer complaints about . . . Teslas
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When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty.
February 10, 2025 at 10:05 PM
When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty.
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Received a letter from POTUS today purporting to remove me as Commissioner and Chair of the FEC. There's a legal way to replace FEC commissioners-this isn't it. I've been so fortunate to serve the American people and stir up some good trouble along the way. That's not changing anytime soon.
February 6, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Received a letter from POTUS today purporting to remove me as Commissioner and Chair of the FEC. There's a legal way to replace FEC commissioners-this isn't it. I've been so fortunate to serve the American people and stir up some good trouble along the way. That's not changing anytime soon.
It makes little difference whether the field be economics, education, foreign affairs, propaganda, movies, music or women's dress. In each and every field he believes himself to be an unquestioned authority.
A Psychological Analysis of Adolf Hitler
A Psychological Analysis of Adolf Hitler
February 8, 2025 at 12:55 AM
It makes little difference whether the field be economics, education, foreign affairs, propaganda, movies, music or women's dress. In each and every field he believes himself to be an unquestioned authority.
A Psychological Analysis of Adolf Hitler
A Psychological Analysis of Adolf Hitler
The first mass privatization of state property occurred in Nazi Germany between 1933 and 1937: "It is a fact that the government of the National Socialist Party sold off public ownership in several state-owned firms in the middle of the 1930s. The firms belonged to a wide range of sectors:
February 7, 2025 at 8:08 PM
The first mass privatization of state property occurred in Nazi Germany between 1933 and 1937: "It is a fact that the government of the National Socialist Party sold off public ownership in several state-owned firms in the middle of the 1930s. The firms belonged to a wide range of sectors:
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Something that I think we can all agree on is that the current generation of Democratic leadership is simply not optimized for the Attention Age. Not really their fault! And honestly, they may be better people for it, but it's a pretty pressing political problem.
January 30, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Something that I think we can all agree on is that the current generation of Democratic leadership is simply not optimized for the Attention Age. Not really their fault! And honestly, they may be better people for it, but it's a pretty pressing political problem.