This is how our government has been corrupted:
1) Donors give huge sums to elect politicians
2) Elected officials rewrite rules in donors' favor
3) Donors make huge profit
4) Repeat
We must get big money out of politics. It’s the root of all evil in Washington.
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Yeah this one does seem to stay relevant 🫠
This guy gets it.
THIS IS GREAT
Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.
I really do believe that, by the way. Our cities are the most American places in the United States—they represent what and who we are in a way in an incredibly rich and profound way. And until we as a country accept that, embrace that, celebrate that, we're fucked.
Watch this.
Dems could get enough votes to impeach RFK Jr over this, no question. Conviction in the Senate is harder, 67 is a high hurdle. But a strong Dem push for it, including a relentless media strategy, could cause Trump to panic and force a u-turn.
BREAKING: Bernie Sanders is introducing an amendment to cut ICE’s $75 billion funding increase, and to use those funds to restore the federal cuts to health care.
Do not buy the de-escalation narrative.
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AP reporter describes federal officers pushing journalists back to car as they documented operation
The president should be impeached and convicted, as should everyone responsible for these outrages. ICE should be disbanded. So should the Department of Homeland Security. And the people who have killed should be investigated and brought before judges and juries.
One thing that irks me: people keep calling the folks on the streets in Minneapolis protestors. They are not generally there to protest, they are there to observe and document. This is the product of organizing and mutual aid. It is telling that these acts of citizenship are seen as protest!
If you're living somewhere outside the USA, one thing you can do is pressure your leaders to boycott World Cup and Olympic events here.
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Saint Paul Public Schools, one of the biggest school districts in the state, is closed for the next two days because teachers need time to build hybrid learning because unaccountable masked, armed federal government goons have made it too difficult for nonwhite children to leave their homes.
Mamdani saying this is not surprising, but the audience of The View applauding after just the first sentence sure is something.
school being canceled because the president sent armed thugs to harass and imprison the populace for voting against him should be the biggest domestic scandal in american history
As an aside, we’ve been witnessing what ICE can do w/ (very roughly) a 50% increase in funding & a strong desire to do it.
I don’t think anyone is prepared for what the country will look like when their capacity has been tripled. Bad times are ahead, & it’s incumbent on all of us to do what we can.
The thing you have to remember, if you've never spent weeks in the Beverly Hilton ballroom, is that it's TINY. The fact that there are these stretches where it takes three minutes for people to get to the stage is bad production and bad planning. #GoldenGlobes
Sign held up with handwritten text: "If they are going to shoot us and then call us fucking bitches, then we need to be bigger fucking bitches"
A favorite sign from today's NYC protest march
There is no attitude for which legacy journalists are more often rewarded by their bosses than "Everybody needs to calm down." It is a preening announcement that you are the adult in the room, immune from emotion or overreaction or "hysteria." And it is the worst imaginable priority for this era. >
“I have a recurring dream in which God soaks me with water as he conveys, ‘are we having fun today?’”
David Milch, today during a visit ;)
Deadwood S03E05 - A Two-Headed Beast
Clip number 0103
#Deadwood
Clueless US media understand Trump's shut down of Atlantic coast wind farms as just some vague national security thing about radar or as Trump's weird ideas about alternative energy. But in Denmark, this is immediately understood for what it is: a shakedown against two large Danish companies,
“there is a point on the graph where things get Worse, and there you will find Ronald Reagan” stays undefeated
*getting beat up in the street for listening to the Ezra Klein Show*
“No, please!! I’m listening for John Ganz!”
The message that the economic crisis is not the fault of immigrants, not the fault of neighborhoods, not the fault of whatever “Other” Donald Trump comes up with today, but the fault of the very rich taking all the resources of society—that seems to work.
I'm hard-pressed to think of a non-Jewish Democratic politician who has spoken to Jews with more respect and empathy than Mamdani. The fact that many Jewish establishment orgs are going after him while staying relatively mum on resurgent Nazism is a disaster, both for American Jews and in general.
