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Federal appeals court tells Donald Trump, 'Pay up, SPORT! open.substack.com/pub/glennkir...

PASTOR LORAN LIVINGSTON (@CentralChurchNC): “There has never been a Christian nation, and never will be. You don’t live in one now. A Christian nation wouldn’t have killed and displaced 20 million Native Americans, or thought owning slaves was pleasing to God.”

The emoluments clause, called the foreign emoluments clause, is a provision of the U.S. Constitution (Article I, Section 9, Paragraph 8) that generally prohibits federal employees from receiving gifts, payment, or other object or service of value from a foreign state or its rulers, officers,

The would be a pretty funny bit of satire, except it's not satire.

Ukraine Drones Diplomacy! Putin Ready for Peace Talks With Ukraine. Another Dictator on the run! #SlavaUkrani #Ukraine #PutinPeaceTalks #USDemocracy

Hmmm

Four years ago today, the right-wing Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. Women' s rights over their own bodies disappeared overnight. Remember: abortion bans were never about “protecting life.” They are always about instituting control.

Protecting workers from extreme heat will save lives. Kudos to Mayor Mamdani for demonstrating what good government actually looks like.

"Bread and circuses" except the bread has never been more expensive and the circus is lining the pockets of the oligarchy.

If this is true,: WTF?

Yes, in the last version, there was a huge payment of billions. To avoid direct U.S. compensation or "reparations," negotiators structured a proposed $300 billion international investment and reconstruction fund for Iran. $1.7 billion from Obama was a deal, especially since the war costs $$$$$!

There is no moral equivalence between bullies and the bullied, between tyranny and democracy, or between brutality and decency. No individual can be free in a society devoid of justice. There can be no liberty where brutality reigns.

When it comes to dealing with russian aggression, the world should liten to Baltic diplomats instead of Western leaders: 👇 "After every russian escalation into a NATO country we hear leaders repeating the mantra "We stand with..." But we could do much more than standing around."

Instead of trying to eliminate birthright citizenship guaranteed in the Constitution, we should pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting felons from serving as president

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@mayor.nyc.gov: “I have thought often of the "Margeret Thatcher quote: ‘the problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.’ If anything, my friends, it seems that you eventually need a socialist to clean up the mess."

Poverty is a policy choice. Concentrated wealth is a policy choice. Inequality is a policy choice. None of it is natural or inevitable. Remember: We have the power to build a system that serves the many, not the powerful few.

Colbert may be gone but the jokes will be forever

Here’s a thought — Maybe these people don’t deserve to be handsomely rewarded? (From NPR)

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Still remember the crushing moment as a young researcher when I realised that proving something through evidence had damn near no impact on social policy unless it was politically useful to believe it.

Funny how the all the people ransacking the Capitol on January 6 were liberals, plants, and ANTIFA—until there was money to be made from it.

Mom cat leaving her human to babysit so she can sleep 😴

Release the Epstein Files. Now. Anyone who is against their release is complicit.

💰 Tell Congress to make the ultra-rich pay their fair share. Billionaires should not get richer by exploiting loopholes while working families pay taxes out of every paycheck. Add your name now: civicshout.com/p/tell-congr... #TaxTheRich #FairShare

“Mr Ben-Gvir also drew the ire of Prime Minister Netanyahu, who said the minister's dealing with the activists was "not in line with Israel's values and norms". Indeed, Israel’s values and norms would include raping and murdering them.

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rip Giannis to Minnesota

Why this GOP Congress sucks...

🔥 SPRINGSTEEN: "I’m here to support Stephen Colbert, the first guy who lost his show because a president can't take a joke - and the Ellisons feel they need to kiss his ass… small-minded people with no idea what freedoms of this beautiful country are supposed to be about." 🇺🇸

Can't thank Stephen Colbert enough for the decades of laughs he's given us. He's been positively therapeutic in these troubled times & I can't wait to see what he does next! 👀 (plus, he let me sit behind his desk) 🙏

MeidasTouch: What do you make of this $1.776 billion fund— Gavin Newsom: It’s a criminal enterprise. It’s not just corruption, it’s not just graft, it’s a full-on criminal enterprise and it needs to be shut down.

This New Yorker cartoon is accurate but a gut punch.

I call them traitors.

REUTERS: “Enrique Tarrio, Proud Boys leader sentenced ‌to 22 years for seditious conspiracy over the January 6, 2021 riot, said he planned to get between $2 & $5 million.” We are so far off the cliff. 🇺🇸 www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

Our federal trial for protesting ICE is on Tuesday. Win or lose, we’re facing up to $250k in legal fees. That’s why this Saturday, we’re having a 12-hr stream-a-thon! Join us 5/23 from 10am-10pm CT to help raise the remaining legal costs and WIN this case: twitch.tv/katabughazaleh

MAJOR bullshit alert.

Damn shame usa doesn't live in a real democracy anymore.

There is not a single insurrectionists MFer who beat a cop that should get a penny of our money. Not one. And the people making this decision will all be appointed by Blanche and will meet in secret. This is an impeachable offense by Blanche.