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Read this please.
Multiple things are true here. This is a fascist, authoritarian administration. It has not yet fully consolidated power. Some of its efforts to do so have been frustrated. Trump is a doddering, confused egomaniac who started an unpopular war that's costing everyday people a lot of money.
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My man looks ready to stand trial and be convicted and serve hard time.at The Hague.
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Riley Gaines is the ultimate "Everyone Gets a Trophy" athlete. She went off the rails because race officials decided that the athlete she tied for 5th place got the 5th place trophy, and she got the 6th place trophy. I swam competitively as a child and if you finished below 3rd, you got nothing.
Anyway, the thing to remember about Riley Gaines is that competing against a trans swimmer was the best thing that ever happened to her. If she'd just finished fifth on her own, she'd have been immediately forgotten forever. But *tying* for fifth because of a trans competitor? CHA-CHING, baby!
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21st century America is a multiracial democracy whose commerce, culture and cuisine reflect the influence of immigrants from every country on earth. The only people seemingly unable to assimilate into this society are white Republicans.
Tom Emmer: "Minnesotans are so afraid that you're gonna call us a racist, you're gonna call us an Islamophobe. You know what? I'm done being even the least bit careful. Somalis don't assimilate. And if they don't assimilate, then they should go the hell back to where they came from."
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Jokes aside, as you’re reading this, think about how many bogus cases have been brought forward under this administration. Then ask yourself how many of them might have had this exact same behavior in the grand jury process. This is bigger than our case, and the administration knows that.
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"Meetings are held, emails are sent, phone calls are made, and something like 520,000 children die of malnutrition, diarrhea, tuberculosis, malaria, and HIV." prospect.org/2026/05/22/w...
Helluva election platform.
"As prices soar for gas and groceries and everything in between, we in the Republican Party have listened to ordinary Americans. We will be providing them what they need and what they demand -- a tacky gilded ballroom where the president can do his little jerk-off dance to the Village People 'YMCA'"
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i'm not a religious person. And I don't care if anyone else is or is not.
If anyone's interested, I am a (culturally and ethnically) Jewish person who sometimes prays a bit. I also am trying to practice zen Buddhism. I meditated today but I also just bought some pernil, which is against both religions. I try my best out here.
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Not to get technical but the bombers were trying to bomb right wingers who were protesting Mamdani., they were not trying to bomb Mamdani's house. Yes, its an ourobouros of violent idiocy.
the Muslim mayor whose house was just almost bombed because he is Muslim! ridiculous. manhattan institute is a bunch of assholes.
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Everything he is doing is something Putin whispered in his ear. Who knows, they may be talking daily now.
"When authority cannot be grounded in legitimacy or shared ideals, it often resorts to threatening, brutalising and performing power endlessly instead." Sasha Mudd @prospectmagazine.co.uk www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/united...
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I was told electing a progressive prosecutor would inevitably lead to a rise in crime. share.inquirer.com/gjgwFN
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Jack Smith in newly released testimony: "Our investigation developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt that President Trump engaged in a criminal scheme to overturn the results of the 2020 election and to prevent the lawful transfer of power." @glennthrush.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/12/31/u...
There was NO NEED for those guard members to be in DC. This person died in a Trump propaganda operation.
I keep hearing about how Dems are the party of "identity politics" and yet it's Republicans who always reach to identity for everything. God forbid we talk about guns. There have been 452 mass shootings this year; this shooting doesn't even make the list because fewer than 4 people were shot.
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Please do *not* circulate this story that the NC GOP does not want circulated. Please, they have threatened you nicely, please.
NEW: Paul Newby, a born-again Christian, has turned his perch atop North Carolina’s Supreme Court into an instrument of political power. Over two decades, he’s driven changes that have reverberated well beyond the borders of his state. By @dougbockclark.bsky.social