It's really important to pay attention to the fact that Lula beat the fascist candidate not by compromising and trying to meet fascist voters in the middle, but by sticking to his guns, promising prosecutions for election interference, and mobilising his own voters to turn out in greater numbers.
βHeβs got the White House looking like Saddam opened up a Cheesecake Factory"
Obama just spoke to an ELECTRIC audience in Ohio, skewering Trump & Hegseth and making the case that while we may be stuck with the same POTUS until 2029, we are not stuck with a spineless do-nothing Congress
Highlights:
OBAMA: That just feels a little bit differentβ¦ where people are so sick and tired of being sick and tired. After 2 years of chaos. and cruelty. and corruption. and incompetenceβyou get a chance to say enough's enough.
NEWS: Robert De Niro delivers a blistering rebuke of Trump and the Supreme Court in a new video condemning threats to voting rights.
βIβve got a message for them: no f**king way.β
He urges Americans to vote early and protect their right to vote. Watch.
EXCLUSIVE: Pete Hegseth wanted Gen. Dwight Eisenhowerβs globe for his office. His staff broke it.
The Pentagon denied us access to take photos, but we obtained some anyway.
A story in global affairs:
wapo.st/3WF2YQo
When Grammy-winning musician Rhiannon Giddens begins playing βOld Corn Liquor,β a traditional Black American folk tune, acclaimed Chinese pipa virtuoso Wu Man recognizes similarities to Chinese pentatonic music and spontaneously joins in.
The joy on their faces says it all.
Concluding the meeting with the American delegation in the US two days ago, after receiving a tirade of threats from Trump officials, Ukraine's Budanov turned when leaving and said,
"We are now going to burn every last Russian refinery and every last port to hell. All of it, down to the final one."
The people who screamed that children would be emotionally scarred by hearing a drag queen read βJack and the Beanstalkβ are OK with those same children watching Pete Hegsethβs livestream of a man getting his brains blown out by a bunch of guns.
Maricarmen, the 87-year-old pensioner in Spain whose eviction from her lifelong home sparked nationwide protests, died on Wednesday. βShe literally put her body on the line for seven years, which is how long she fought this eviction for,β says Spanish journalist Maria Carrion.
This reflects the larger problem of Trumpβs Costume Party Cabinet, unqualified oddballs and suck-ups who get to wear the costume of high office but canβt do the jobs, instead dress up and chant βWE ARE DOING GREAT!β
Heckuva job, one might say.
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I had a Maintenence Master Chief tell me:
"Don't have standards. Have /a/ standard."
The plural means you're willing to adjust depending on the situation. The singular means you have a moral compass heading that does not waver or deviate.
If you're willing to protect one, then protect all.
I recommend people read this to get a sense of the president's grave cognitive impairment. Trump is either unwilling or unable (or maybe both) to answer the questions he's actually asked, so he just rants and raves while the interviewers do their best to provide structure to his random brain firings
βWaymo babe this is a farmers market,β Hearth Denver, a bakery and coffee shop that participates in the market, wrote in a video posted Sunday morning to social media.
Understanding basic psychology is not in this administration's wheelhouse.
Tell people they can't vote, they come out in droves.
Ban media outlets, and more people watch.
Henry Miller's book Tropic of Cancer was published in 1934 and banned in US until 1961, when the Supreme Court ruled against the ban. In the 1950s, it was the most sought-after book, and I remember how excited my mom was when she got a copy.
Trump banned CNN from White House almost immediately after CNN reported we almost went to war with China because of an erroneous intelligence report generated by AI.
Not saying that's why Trump banned, but it is PRECISELY why its important for CNN and the other banned outlets to be in the room.
We almost went to war with China based on an AI hallucination.
THIS is how AI is going to kill us all⦠not by being a sinister super-intelligence, but by being so shitty at increasingly critical tasks it should never have been assigned that we accidentally kill ourselves out of paranoia.