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President-elect Donald Trump has expressed a keen interest in privatizing the U.S. Postal Service, a move that could shake up consumer shipping and business supply chains and push hundreds of thousands of federal workers out of the government.

The notion of civility vs barbarism is a fantasy, an apparition imagined by a species desperate to view themselves as separate from the natural order. The reality is when you hurt people, you often end up hurt yourself. Reminding the "untouchable" ruling class of this was an inevitability.

Yesterday, House Republicans wrote to Trump urging him to terminate the IRS's new free tax filing program. They've also been trying to strip the IRS of its funding. The GOP wants to make it harder for you to do your taxes while making it easier for the rich to dodge theirs.

Tulsi/Syria to one side for a moment, a genuine question: Palestinians also have been horrifically tortured, in Israeli prisons, all of it documented by the UN & rights groups and victims' testimony. No hot anger for that? Aren't US lawmakers directly complicit in that torture, as they fund it?

Choose your fighter, winner walks free: The White Privilege Strangler vs The Adonis Assassin

I’m excited for @gregcasar.bsky.social’s leadership at the Progressive Caucus. He’s going to be great.

Life begins in my balls 🖕 "Conception" is the combination of two, already living, single celled organisms. Sperm cells, one half of this equation, form from an already living "Primordial Germ Cell."

One month ago, Missouri voters enshrined abortion rights. GOP lawmakers are already working to roll them back. Read the full story by @jeremykohler.bsky.social: https://propub.li/4f05C6Y

An animal testing laboratory at Elon Musk's Neuralink brain technology company was found to have 'objectionable conditions or practices' by the Food and Drug Administration, which cited the company and urged it to address the problems reut.rs/4ilBuFW

This got me curious. I looked up someone I know to be unfathomably wealthy, has hosted political events for Marjorie Taylor Greene, and recently made a shady push to replat his land to sell it to a large developer for hundreds of millions (would have hurt many people). Trump gave him a free mil 🤷🏼

#ICYMI: Our PPP tracker has details on all 11.5 million approved PPP loans, including how much of each loan has been reported as forgiven. Search by organization name, type, lender or even ZIP code.

In a second Trump term, Texas could get another chance to whittle down Medicaid — with fewer constraints. “We expect the Republicans to move very quickly to cut Medicaid dramatically and indeed end its guarantee of coverage,” said one advocate. By @lomikriel.bsky.social & @jessicapriest.bsky.social

Trump’s chief of staff was a corporate lobbyist. His pick for transportation secretary lobbied for airlines. The richest person in the world and another billionaire will run a new department of “efficiency.” They’re telling us exactly who they will work for.

the frenzy over the hunter biden pardon is a good reminder that the press knows how to make something a scandal and has decided that nothing trump does is truly deserving of that treatment

Apparently, per the WSJ, Trump wants to replace, as his SecDef nominee, a guy accused of rape (Hegseth) with a guy he himself, Trump himself!, suggested once 'groomed' high school girls (DeSantis):

🚨🚨🚨 Last night, Sen. Mike Lee wrote a blueprint for destroying Social Security. Lee’s thread was quickly amplified by Elon Musk, who Donald Trump has put in charge of slashing our earned benefits. This is a declaration of war against seniors, people with disabilities, and the American public.

this past 24hr news cycle has been more critical of biden for violating institutional norms to pardon his own son for low level criminal offenses than violating international and us laws to aid israel in its genocide of palestinians. i feel like im losing my mind.

A reminder of who Charles Kushner is (this is part of what he did that landed him in prison)

The guy monitoring the ceasefire is a former Israeli soldier. Totally neutral (!)

With more than a month left, the United Nations reports 2024 is already the deadliest year on record for aid workers — largely due to Israel’s war on Gaza. "Since 7 October, more than 330 humanitarian workers have lost their lives. Most of them were UNRWA staff," says Lisa Doughten.

“70% of the illegal weapons seized from criminals in Mexico come from your country," President Claudia Sheinbaum told Trump this week.

The vicious cycle of monopolization: 1) Corporations argue that their growth is just part of the free market. 2) Use their monopoly power to gouge consumers. 3) Take a portion of their profits to make political donations. 4) Lobby against antitrust enforcement. 5) Repeat.

So a reminder: It’s not ‘liberals’ saying Hegseth abuses women. It’s his mom. It’s not ‘liberals’ comparing Trump to Hitler. It’s his vice-president. It’s not ‘liberals’ calling Musk a liar and a racist. It’s his own child. For the record.

"You are an abuser of women": The searing email that Pete Hegseth's own mother sent him in 2018 accusing him of sleeping around, cheating on his wife and debasing and belittling women. www.nytimes.com/2024/11/29/u...