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I teach and research media and rhetoric and affect. Avid gardener. Chicken owner. Professor. Part time gamer

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It's 1992, there's a Republican president with a war in the middle east and a recession.

It's 2008, there's a Republican president with a war in the middle east and a recession.

It's 2026, there's a Republican president with a war in the middle east...

06.03.2026 14:35 πŸ‘ 986 πŸ” 259 πŸ’¬ 19 πŸ“Œ 7
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Say it plain: This is a terrible jobs report.

The U.S. economy lost 92,000 jobs in February, nearly double the expected loss of 50,000. It’s the third payroll decline in the past five months.

πŸ“ŒNote: This is one of the worst monthly payroll drops since Covid.

06.03.2026 14:17 πŸ‘ 2691 πŸ” 1139 πŸ’¬ 172 πŸ“Œ 85

Well, gas is expensive, and food is expensive, and we’re doing a war nobody wants, but at least there are no jobs

06.03.2026 19:47 πŸ‘ 21653 πŸ” 5558 πŸ’¬ 214 πŸ“Œ 185

The other issues that the donor does not care about

05.03.2026 20:07 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Senate Republicans just voted to block our War Powers Resolution & allow Trump's regime-change war of choice in Iran. Once again, they're contracting out their constitutional duties to Donald Trump, despite the will of their constituents.

Shameful.

www.axios.com/2026/03/04/i...

04.03.2026 23:34 πŸ‘ 1499 πŸ” 536 πŸ’¬ 177 πŸ“Œ 48

So far the war in Iran has cost an estimated $5.5 billion.

That's roughly $1 billion per day.

$41,666,667 per hour.

$11,574 per second.

People do not want this.

They want a living wage. They want healthcare. They want to be able to afford a home. They want their basic needs met.

05.03.2026 17:31 πŸ‘ 18571 πŸ” 7224 πŸ’¬ 792 πŸ“Œ 407
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05.03.2026 15:01 πŸ‘ 14421 πŸ” 5730 πŸ’¬ 523 πŸ“Œ 248
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Nah. The real debate in America is between people who know Trump is evil and say so, and the people (like Laura!) who know Trump is corrupt and evil and lie about it for personal profit.

04.03.2026 02:31 πŸ‘ 5789 πŸ” 1356 πŸ’¬ 383 πŸ“Œ 67

A couple things…

The β€œconflictβ€œ in Iran *IS* a war.
It is a war of choice.
It is warfare without conscious.
It was unprovoked.

And I’m sick and tired of people suggesting & implying the only tragedies herein are that US Service Members have died. The people of Iran are innocents in this conflict!

05.03.2026 00:25 πŸ‘ 13725 πŸ” 2876 πŸ’¬ 573 πŸ“Œ 141

cannot stress enough how absurd it is that our government officials are mocking Iranian leadership for being delusional theocrats when they themselves genuinely believe this war is a mission from God to prepare the holy land for the Book of Revelations

03.03.2026 19:09 πŸ‘ 1840 πŸ” 456 πŸ’¬ 70 πŸ“Œ 24

The regime we like is using weapons we paid for to attack the regime we don't like, who is defending themselves using weapons we paid the last time we overthrew their leaders, but another country we're shaky with said they'll use weapons we paid for to attack us, but luckily allies have weapons we p

03.03.2026 15:03 πŸ‘ 1750 πŸ” 333 πŸ’¬ 8 πŸ“Œ 0

Bunch of Senators on both sides sounding the alarm about possible boots on the ground in Iran after their classified briefing today.

I was told Kamala was going to send my children to fight in Iran. What happened?

03.03.2026 23:16 πŸ‘ 7878 πŸ” 1911 πŸ’¬ 367 πŸ“Œ 73
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Look, lying is his brand. He can run around lying all he wants - who gives a shit about Jennings. My issue is with CNN - who knows all that and rewards him for it. They incentivize it. The more specularly he lies the more they pay him, as evidenced by his contract extension.

04.03.2026 00:45 πŸ‘ 4284 πŸ” 1015 πŸ’¬ 370 πŸ“Œ 54
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What's shameful is: Speaker Johnson is not loyal to the constitution of the United States. He should be investigated for falsely swearing his oath of office

04.03.2026 00:32 πŸ‘ 15820 πŸ” 4033 πŸ’¬ 1365 πŸ“Œ 289
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Mike Johnson's strategy to allow the Trump admin to do whatever it wants with zero oversight or congressional authority or input is just to keep the House out of session repeatedly for extended periods of time.

03.03.2026 16:36 πŸ‘ 3654 πŸ” 1398 πŸ’¬ 264 πŸ“Œ 68
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Excellent advice right here.

03.03.2026 19:10 πŸ‘ 7070 πŸ” 1665 πŸ’¬ 171 πŸ“Œ 76

I'm sorry, if you're going to make a big show about how you've got a Department of WAR helmed by a Secretary of WAR and staffed by WARfighters, it's totally inane to then claim that your massive bombing of a foreign country constitutes something other than a war.

03.03.2026 15:37 πŸ‘ 12266 πŸ” 2656 πŸ’¬ 270 πŸ“Œ 112
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BLUMENTHAL: Is the agent who shot Ms Martinez sill on the job?

NOEM: Our officers conduct operations every day-

B: Is he still on the job carrying a gun?

N: I dunno

B: Would you agree he shouldn't be?

N: I'll get back to you

B: I think Americans would find it absolutely terrifying if he is

03.03.2026 16:31 πŸ‘ 12456 πŸ” 3853 πŸ’¬ 535 πŸ“Œ 193

Just a reminder that Trump didn't just bumble us into an unnecessary war -- he deliberately created the conditions that he's now screaming about

03.03.2026 01:35 πŸ‘ 2419 πŸ” 780 πŸ’¬ 29 πŸ“Œ 10
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This is what happens when oligarchs control the *news*

03.03.2026 18:15 πŸ‘ 8447 πŸ” 3185 πŸ’¬ 317 πŸ“Œ 117
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This is madness and history will judge us for it.

02.03.2026 22:59 πŸ‘ 8431 πŸ” 2187 πŸ’¬ 28 πŸ“Œ 332
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You cannot talk like this about any other minority in America.

And if it was any other president’s adviser who said something like this about any other minority, it’d be the instant end of their presidency.

02.03.2026 07:54 πŸ‘ 23870 πŸ” 5951 πŸ’¬ 1730 πŸ“Œ 632

How come β€œHow are you going to pay for it?” is never asked about endless war?

02.03.2026 15:45 πŸ‘ 17254 πŸ” 4163 πŸ’¬ 648 πŸ“Œ 177
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Seems to be the pattern…

28.02.2026 23:19 πŸ‘ 16648 πŸ” 5058 πŸ’¬ 444 πŸ“Œ 189

U.S. military spending is set to hit a record $1.5 trillion.

Roughly half of defense spending goes to private contractors that routinely price-gouge the government.

Meanwhile, the Pentagon has failed EIGHT straight audits.

The military industrial complex is cheering today.

28.02.2026 19:01 πŸ‘ 12554 πŸ” 4776 πŸ’¬ 502 πŸ“Œ 228

In a democracy, the war on Iran would not be possible.

01.03.2026 23:24 πŸ‘ 5006 πŸ” 1416 πŸ’¬ 200 πŸ“Œ 62

A big part of the authoritarian playbook is war. War takes over the news. War blots out criticism. War divides a nation’s people, subjecting those against it to being called unpatriotic. War grants leaders all sorts of emergency powers. War consumes everything else.

We mustn’t let this war do so.

01.03.2026 23:01 πŸ‘ 23206 πŸ” 7874 πŸ’¬ 698 πŸ“Œ 321
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01.03.2026 14:07 πŸ‘ 6637 πŸ” 1469 πŸ’¬ 373 πŸ“Œ 64
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These guys were selling t-shirts until they needed a war to cover up the intentional damage they did to the economy and the president's involvement in a pedophilia scandal.

01.03.2026 17:01 πŸ‘ 10859 πŸ” 3555 πŸ’¬ 247 πŸ“Œ 104

ChatGPT is shedding users fast. Since yesterday alone, estimates suggest more than a million accounts have been deleted and the boycott continues to gain momentum. Incredible work, everyone!

01.03.2026 18:34 πŸ‘ 7381 πŸ” 1716 πŸ’¬ 231 πŸ“Œ 106