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The FAA is close to canceling a $2.4 billion contract with Verizon to overhaul the communications system that serves as the backbone of the nation’s air traffic control and is awarding the work to Musk’s Starlink. Follow the money and see where it goes.

Now why would President Musk-Melon want to weaken our dams? This fascist regime is making America a huge target for bio-warfare. www.spokesman.com/stories/2025...

REPOST if you stand with AOC!

UPDATE: Florida Democrats are demanding to know why Trump loyalist Cory Mills hasn’t been arrested. Rep. Mills has been accused of assaulting a woman in Washington, D.C. A Metropolitan Police Department spokesperson said an arrest warrant was submitted to the U.S. Attorney’s Office in…

This is gold.

March in DC, LA, Everywhere Across The USA January 18. Celebrate WE, THE PEOPLE, with Martin Luther King Jr's People's March. Dr. King is ALL I will be Celebrating on HIS Day Monday 👉 #MLKDay #CivilRights #VotingRights Show Up To Invoke Our Power in Large Numbers

And here, ladies and gentlemen, is why California needs more than two Senators to represent its total population of FORTY MILLION. Starting w/ a Senator for LA County itself. And while we’re at it, petition PR and DC for statehood.

Today the impressionist exhibit at the national Gallery of art, tomorrow the People‘s March!

In case you’re wondering what it looks like when the corrupt felon/GOP billionaire oligarchs’ engage in class warfare against America’s working class! These felon/GOP billionaire oligarchs are lining their pockets at workers’ expense with tariffs, plans to cut Social Security & rip away healthcare!

Duckworth: "I think he personally is a compromised individual whom our adversaries are watching and digging the dirt on, and this makes him someone who's vulnerable to our adversaries."

I fear there is deep truth here.

Wow — @timwalz backing @davidhogg.bsky.social for DNC chair, showing how you support generational change. www.mediaite.com/politics/tim...

These 44 Republicans voted against forest management wildfire prevention in December.

Mike Luckovich gets it right as he always does

These extraordinary photos of the LA fires have been shared widely on social media, often without crediting the photographer. These are all the work of Ethan Swope, an LA-based photojournalist working for AP. You can follow his remarkable reporting here👇 www.instagram.com/ethanswopeph...

This is worth another watch

Have you heard the good news? President Biden & the Dem's IRA has been the biggest reshoring legislation in the history of the United States. The US went from 14th in the world in 2017 to 3rd in the world in 2024 in solar manufacturing & that created great jobs! cleantechnica.com/2025/01/03/u...

Time for the wealthy to do their part as citizens!

Imagine how far we came only to be pushed back by MAGA men🤬

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Oleksandra Paskal lost her leg due to a Russian attack on Odesa in the summer of 2022. She got a prosthetic leg and returned to gymnastics. Recently, Oleksandra participated in a tournament. That little girl is incredibly strong and brave. 📹: anna_rizatdinova/Instagram

If you steal $1000, you can be sent to prison. When health insurance companies steal over $68,500,000,000, they get tax breaks, subsidies and government contracts, while letting their customers die or go into debt. But keep blaming immigrants and poor people for rising crime.

Here’s a New Year’s Resolution: Stand with the readers, not the book banners. Choose knowledge, stories, and freedom of thought.

Our seventh most-read story of this year: When companies like Aetna or UnitedHealthcare want to rein in costs, they turn to EviCore, whose business model depends on turning down payments for care recommended by doctors for their patients. Read more (published October) ⬇️

When people say 'run government like a business,' they mean cut services, raise prices, and pay the CEO 400 times more than the workers.

I don't care what TIME says. MY Person of the Year is Kamala Harris. TIME got it wrong. So did America.

I can’t stand election post mortems. She was a brilliant candidate. She engaged a lost generation of voters and she almost won. I’m still with her.

“There are whole books on psychology that don't get anywhere near this paragraph from Dostoevsky,” says Dylan o’Sullivan

Six decades later, Star Trek may still be the only franchise based on the ideas that diversity is strength, justice is the measure of civilization, bounty is to be shared, peace is worth the price, and all these things can be achieved. We need more shows that look ahead and find goodness.

“The Great Replacement Theory” has always been a part of Fascist ideology and a key propaganda tool. It has come back in a vigorous form in the United States! The page is from Jason Stanley’s “Erasing History”

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Remember tomorrow that the origins of Thanksgiving- as a truly national holiday- came from the work of Sarah Hale and Abraham Lincoln. A nation gave thanks to God as it mourned the Union dead and prayed for the defeat of the Confederacy by either changing rebel minds or bringing them to submission.

Well, when put it that way…

@protectdemocracy.org What can we do to amplify this???

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Let’s talk about the irony of #immigration and privilege in #America. This powerful image highlights an undeniable truth: 2 out of 3 of #Trump’s wives were #immigrants. Yet, his policies have consistently targeted immigrant communities, painting them as a threat to 'American values.'

Let's be clear: 'Your Body, My Choice' is not a joke or a meme—it's a dangerous excuse for violating consent. Rape is never okay. We need to stop normalizing harmful narratives. #ConsentMatters #NoMeansNo But since y'all think it's a joke...

I am a safe person. So is my account.