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We don't have to choose policy that erodes our civil rights and harms our economy. There is a better way.
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It's official - the House will be out AGAIN next week, for a sixth consecutive week. That means the House will have worked 20 days over 17 weeks. The last House vote was on Sept. 19.
October 24, 2025 at 6:04 PM
It's official - the House will be out AGAIN next week, for a sixth consecutive week. That means the House will have worked 20 days over 17 weeks. The last House vote was on Sept. 19.
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It seems crazy - but the GOP-led U.S. House has worked only 20 days in the past 16 weeks, as the unfinished business of Congress is piling up during this government shutdown. 9 government funding bills still need a vote in the House, which has been out the past 5 weeks. www.ajc.com/politics/202...
Stuck in a shutdown, the work piles up on Capitol Hill
House Speaker Mike Johnson has scrapped legislative work for five straight weeks in an effort to pressure Senate Democrats to vote to reopen the government.
www.ajc.com
October 23, 2025 at 8:13 PM
It seems crazy - but the GOP-led U.S. House has worked only 20 days in the past 16 weeks, as the unfinished business of Congress is piling up during this government shutdown. 9 government funding bills still need a vote in the House, which has been out the past 5 weeks. www.ajc.com/politics/202...
We don't have to choose policy that erodes our civil rights and harms our economy. There is a better way.
October 4, 2025 at 10:04 PM
We don't have to choose policy that erodes our civil rights and harms our economy. There is a better way.
Forcing a Governor to call up their National Guard (or doing it for them) is heresy against decades of Republican policy and rhetoric.
This morning, the Trump Administration’s Department of War gave me an ultimatum: call up your troops, or we will. It is absolutely outrageous and un-American to demand a Governor send military troops within our own borders and against our will.
October 4, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Forcing a Governor to call up their National Guard (or doing it for them) is heresy against decades of Republican policy and rhetoric.
Brainstorming some names for this Farmer bailout...
TRUMP: Tariff Relief for United Market Producers Act
BAILOUT: Bill Assuring Income for Lost Output from Unjust Tariffs
RAFT: Rescue American Farmers from Tariffs Act
TRAP: Tariff Relief Assistance Program Act
TRUMP: Tariff Relief for United Market Producers Act
BAILOUT: Bill Assuring Income for Lost Output from Unjust Tariffs
RAFT: Rescue American Farmers from Tariffs Act
TRAP: Tariff Relief Assistance Program Act
October 2, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Brainstorming some names for this Farmer bailout...
TRUMP: Tariff Relief for United Market Producers Act
BAILOUT: Bill Assuring Income for Lost Output from Unjust Tariffs
RAFT: Rescue American Farmers from Tariffs Act
TRAP: Tariff Relief Assistance Program Act
TRUMP: Tariff Relief for United Market Producers Act
BAILOUT: Bill Assuring Income for Lost Output from Unjust Tariffs
RAFT: Rescue American Farmers from Tariffs Act
TRAP: Tariff Relief Assistance Program Act
The outrage over EMTALA is another demonstration that Ronald Reagan would be cast out as a RINO by MAGA. None of this stuff was controversial. They are losing their minds over things that were once non-partisan.
October 2, 2025 at 7:50 PM
The outrage over EMTALA is another demonstration that Ronald Reagan would be cast out as a RINO by MAGA. None of this stuff was controversial. They are losing their minds over things that were once non-partisan.
Love how they trot this weasel out, who has never been tough or hardcore in his life, to try and intimidate people. All that little dictator energy.
Stephen Miller: "All that bullshit is done, over, it's finished. The gangbangers you deal with- they think they're ruthless? They have no idea how ruthless we are. They think they're tough? They have no idea how tough we are. They think they're hardcore? We are so much more hardcore than they are"
October 1, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Love how they trot this weasel out, who has never been tough or hardcore in his life, to try and intimidate people. All that little dictator energy.
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The blacklisting of the 1940s and 1950s comprised both public and private efforts. Counterattack began publishing just a few months before the first Hollywood blacklist began in the midst of a House Un-American Activities Committee investigation. Senator Joseph McCarthy announced his dubious list…
History: "But the right did not learn cancel culture from the left; the modern right in America emerged as a censorious movement."
The Right Didn’t Catch Cancel Culture From the Left www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/o...
The Right Didn’t Catch Cancel Culture From the Left www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/o...
Opinion | The Right Didn’t Catch Cancel Culture From the Left
www.nytimes.com
October 1, 2025 at 12:16 AM
The blacklisting of the 1940s and 1950s comprised both public and private efforts. Counterattack began publishing just a few months before the first Hollywood blacklist began in the midst of a House Un-American Activities Committee investigation. Senator Joseph McCarthy announced his dubious list…
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His plan: purge older generals with the excuse they’re “out of shape,” as if generals fight in the trenches. The aim: fire expert leaders loyal to the Constitution & replace them with younger Trump loyalists to have total control of the military. The final safeguard of our democracy will collapse.
September 30, 2025 at 8:43 PM
His plan: purge older generals with the excuse they’re “out of shape,” as if generals fight in the trenches. The aim: fire expert leaders loyal to the Constitution & replace them with younger Trump loyalists to have total control of the military. The final safeguard of our democracy will collapse.
YouTube didn’t have to pay Trump $24.5M. Their Terms of Service clearly allowed suspension. Settling was pure capitulation to a politically connected bully, not a legal necessity. Alphabet could have defended itself, avoided the payout, and shown lawsuits like this don’t automatically yield millions
Google agreed to pay $24.5 million to resolve Donald Trump’s claims that being banished from his YouTube channel after the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the US Capitol was illegal censorship, according to a court filing
Google to Pay $24.5 Million to End Trump Lawsuit Over Jan. 6 Ban
Alphabet Inc.’s Google agreed to pay $24.5 million to resolve Donald Trump’s claims that being blocked from posting on his YouTube channel after the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the US Capitol was illegal censorship, according to a court filing.
bloom.bg
September 30, 2025 at 4:52 AM
YouTube didn’t have to pay Trump $24.5M. Their Terms of Service clearly allowed suspension. Settling was pure capitulation to a politically connected bully, not a legal necessity. Alphabet could have defended itself, avoided the payout, and shown lawsuits like this don’t automatically yield millions
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The biggest divide is not between “right” and “left." It’s between democracy and oligarchy. The billionaires who control our economy and democracy seek to divide us. They want us to turn on each other so we don't look up and see that they have all the wealth and power.
The top 10% now hold 67.4% of all the wealth in the US.
The bottom 50% hold 2.5%.
The bottom 50% hold 2.5%.
September 29, 2025 at 7:40 PM
The biggest divide is not between “right” and “left." It’s between democracy and oligarchy. The billionaires who control our economy and democracy seek to divide us. They want us to turn on each other so we don't look up and see that they have all the wealth and power.
Tech bros love fascism because it flatters their egos: hierarchy as ‘meritocracy,’ authoritarianism as ‘efficiency,’ and nationalism as cover for hoarding wealth. It’s disruption politics for guys who mistake privilege for genius.
September 30, 2025 at 4:21 AM
Tech bros love fascism because it flatters their egos: hierarchy as ‘meritocracy,’ authoritarianism as ‘efficiency,’ and nationalism as cover for hoarding wealth. It’s disruption politics for guys who mistake privilege for genius.
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It really can not be emphasized enough that "exaggerating the danger of the left" is a key, central tactic of aspiring fascists. Look back at every country that slid into authoritarianism & you'll find a campaign like this preceding it. Every time. It's part of the script.
How Trumpworld inflates the perceived danger of the left
It is stipulated at the outset that there have been gruesome acts of political violence in recent months that appear to have been motivated by hostility to right-wing politics or the administration. T...
www.pbump.net
September 29, 2025 at 7:12 PM
It really can not be emphasized enough that "exaggerating the danger of the left" is a key, central tactic of aspiring fascists. Look back at every country that slid into authoritarianism & you'll find a campaign like this preceding it. Every time. It's part of the script.
There's a word for this.
Larry Ellison envisions a surveillance state in which techbros rule. '“Citizens will be on their best behavior, because we’re constantly recording and reporting everything that is going on,” Ellison said in an hour-long Q&A during Oracle’s Financial Analyst Meeting last week.'
Larry Ellison predicts rise of the modern surveillance state where ‘citizens will be on their best behavior’ | Fortune
Oracle's Larry Ellison believes citizens and police alike will be under constant surveillance of each other.
fortune.com
September 28, 2025 at 8:46 PM
There's a word for this.
They say climate change is a hoax and con job, but God is real. There is plenty of evidence for only one of those.
September 26, 2025 at 9:09 PM
They say climate change is a hoax and con job, but God is real. There is plenty of evidence for only one of those.
Whenever the government talks about isolating segments of society, it’s a warning sign that things are heading in the wrong direction.
September 20, 2025 at 12:03 AM
Whenever the government talks about isolating segments of society, it’s a warning sign that things are heading in the wrong direction.
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Ossoff: "There are families in NE Georgia now who will not have local access to child birth services ... I mean, we are the wealthiest country in the world. We should be building new hospitals. We should be building new clinics."
September 19, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Ossoff: "There are families in NE Georgia now who will not have local access to child birth services ... I mean, we are the wealthiest country in the world. We should be building new hospitals. We should be building new clinics."
I thought the compensation package was the Board's idea?
“.. Musk has Tesla shareholders in a Stockholm Syndrome .. Suppose they vote against him, and he leaves .. with his delusions ..
“.. Tesla would have to revert to trading closer to its fundamentals, which means slashing the stock price roughly in half ..”
@electrek.co
electrek.co/2025/09/19/e...
“.. Tesla would have to revert to trading closer to its fundamentals, which means slashing the stock price roughly in half ..”
@electrek.co
electrek.co/2025/09/19/e...
September 19, 2025 at 6:33 PM
I thought the compensation package was the Board's idea?
If I ever stumbled into absurd wealth, my one “rich guy excess” would be paying Kate Pierson and Cindy Wilson to sing She Brakes for Rainbows for me. Nothing weird, doesn’t even have to be live, just their voices on that song. Forget yachts and mansions; that would be the dream.
September 19, 2025 at 4:16 PM
If I ever stumbled into absurd wealth, my one “rich guy excess” would be paying Kate Pierson and Cindy Wilson to sing She Brakes for Rainbows for me. Nothing weird, doesn’t even have to be live, just their voices on that song. Forget yachts and mansions; that would be the dream.
For those of you who suddenly became "late night comic monologue fact-checkers" in the past few days, you're the only people that take them seriously.
September 19, 2025 at 3:43 PM
For those of you who suddenly became "late night comic monologue fact-checkers" in the past few days, you're the only people that take them seriously.
Disney sold out to people who hate them. Iger might as well announce his retirement effective immediately.
September 18, 2025 at 4:42 AM
Disney sold out to people who hate them. Iger might as well announce his retirement effective immediately.
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A grim reminder: these people will never be satisfied. There’s no point at which they will say “we’ve won, let’s enjoy life.” They will always be looking for someone else to punish, to revile, to dehumanize. They’re empty without that.
September 18, 2025 at 3:04 AM
A grim reminder: these people will never be satisfied. There’s no point at which they will say “we’ve won, let’s enjoy life.” They will always be looking for someone else to punish, to revile, to dehumanize. They’re empty without that.
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This mf’er is a hugely unpopular lame duck and people and institutions with actual power are out here acting, for eight months straight, like he’s some goddam immortal emperor. Fuck that noise.
September 18, 2025 at 2:02 AM
This mf’er is a hugely unpopular lame duck and people and institutions with actual power are out here acting, for eight months straight, like he’s some goddam immortal emperor. Fuck that noise.
Cancelled the "Disney bundle." Good luck, collaborators.
September 18, 2025 at 2:32 AM
Cancelled the "Disney bundle." Good luck, collaborators.