And the 47th oblast

I don't think the Dems can stop the firings. But why aren't they proposing legislation that assures those that took the buyout get paid , and that all that are fired, get at least a year severance and health benefits? And any one with a health condition is covered the entire time they are sick?

Opinion | Are Trump and Rubio already having their first fight? Trump once reviled Venezuela’s Maduro regime, and Marco Rubio still does.

Many of Trump’s Venezuelan American supporters are feeling betrayed. As one Venezuelan American in Doral, Florida, told NPR, Republican always used to “speak very hard against the Maduro regime. Now because Papi Trump is negotiating with Maduro, they close their mouth?” wapo.st/4hXDV0j

I doubt that very much. Hegseth was just reading a script he was given by Trump and his handlers. That's what he did on Fox. That's his job in this admin. Don't blame the dummy, blame the ventriloquist (who is also a dummy).

Senate Armed Services Chair Roger Wicker tells Politico he was "puzzled and disturbed" by Pete Hegseth's comments on Ukraine.
 
"He made a rookie mistake in Brussels and he's walked back some of what he said, but not that line."

Nobody told me there'd be days like these
Strange days indeed
Most peculiar Mama

-Nobody Told Me
by John Lennon

They have their own TV channels, personalities, media. They deride fact checking and (well) moderated debate. They buy social media platforms to manipulate algorithms and amplify content that suits their preferred ends and worldview.

What they are threatened by are places of alignment + organizing

What do authoritarians and bullies have in common?

Both don't like to be laughed at.

Remember that

This

This rings truer today than when George Carlin said it back then.

This Supreme Court’s ‘Originalism’ Doesn’t Have Much to Do with History The Court has always invoked historical understandings and precedents in its decisions, but its recent calls to history flow from a different source: a longstanding commitment in conservative politica...

An older article, but needs to be readdressed. All Americans who want to preserve a Republic need to come together…soon. This isn’t a Right versus Left issue anymore.

“This originalist court claims to be doing history, but it just isn’t.”

The majority of the media is complicit as fuck in Trump’s victory.
Don't let them forget it.

Oh, you know this is gonna happen.

It will be epic

Popcorn anyone?

Can The Onion buy the U.S. presidency next? I'm sure Trump would sell it for the right price.

Oh, this is going to go really well.

(Sarcasm Alert)

I've thoroughly enjoyed this book by Paul McCartney, "1964, Eyes of the Storm,"

It is a book of photos Paul took during the year 1964. That's the year that Beatlemania started.

Okay, I'm new here. I will post things that interest me.

Perhaps, the things I post will interest you.

It may be music or sports. Maybe it will be about books, travel, or art.

I'll even dabble in politics and issues of the day.

And personal things, as well.

It will always be different.

Uninformed Citizen Scrambling To Research Last 2,500 Years Of Democracy Before Voting
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This is just unbelievably badass. @davejorgenson.bsky.social the Washington Post TikTok Guy, everyone 👏

No bothsidesing, no gaslighting, no sanewashing, no normalization. @nytimes.com

‘The Onion’ Officially Endorses Joe Biden For President
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