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YouTube video by Thom Hartmann Program Why Is Mafia Merrick Garland Protecting Trump? (w/ Sarah Kendzior)

I don't.

Watch this great summary of Garland's back story by @sarahkendzior.bsky.social .

Garland was NEVER going to vigorously pursue Trump. And the Biden people had to have known it.

Draw your own conclusions why he was nominated for AG.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2z1...

‘We voted for Obama, then Trump’ Howard County in Iowa voted for President Donald Trump after supporting Barack Obama in 2008 and 2012.

Don't you get tired of stupidity after this much time has passed?

Here. Obama voters ALSO switched to Trump.

www.bbc.com/news/av/worl...

What was Joe thinking when he appointed Merrick Garland?

He was thinking that Garland would slow-walk the appointment of the special counsel. Which is exactly what happened.

Zohran Mamdani elected mayor of New York on winning night for Democrats Democratic socialist, 34, becomes city’s first Muslim mayor as Democrats triumph in several other key races

Thank you, New York, for giving us a reason to hope again.

This could still end badly but Mamdani could be exactly what is needed to save democracy.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

What I want to say is that he spent his final few years in prison and served as a warning to future war criminals.

But that never happened.

Giving him credit for his daughter's basic level of integrity doesn't work for me.

Good one! Nobody's ever said that before.

Maybe if I learn to love my anxiety it’ll leave me too.

"Say what you want"?? He was an inveterate war criminal who started wars that caused well over a million deaths. He wasn't some anti-social codger who was despised by his neighbors.

Cities thrive not on fear but empathy, on cooperation not division.

That's the NYC we know and love. It has found expression in this movement. And it is rising up at the ballot box today.

Polls close at 9pm: zohranfornyc.com/vote

If only they had made made you president, you could have done shit to make the country better.

Oh, wait.

People are remarkably adept at seeing their behaviors in their own ways. Many of them just see it as a blow against political correctness.

In 20 years, I think you'll see a time when it's impossible to find someone who was a Trump voter.

I'm so tired of people saying Democrats shouldn't move too far left when the GOP has moved so comfortably to fascism.

Have you been paying attention even a little??

The people got sick of politicians pretending to be something they're not and elected a guy who is openly racist, openly sexist, openly fascist.

So m a double win then.

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My daughter’s 9th birthday, how I found my on-ramp, a horrible thing Lindsey Graham said and an inspiring thing Dr. Seuss said.

No.

Joe Biden pushed Joe Biden out with his deer-in-the-headlights stare during the debate.

It was his hubris and the blind, stupid loyalty of everyone around him that kept him from admitting his cognitive decline sooner.

Move on.

Not at all. It's SO important to wake Americans from this torpor.

If I could beg one thing of you, it would be to use concrete examples when discussing cause& solution.

You use broad and/or unfamiliar terms (social forces, electoral reform, economic democracy) & that can diffuse your message.

YouTube video by Vlad Vexler Chat Is Trumpism Too Far Gone to Save U.S. Democracy?

@vladvexler.bsky.social is one of the most important political commentators today. Around the 18 minute mark, he has some practical advice for Democrats who want to save US democracy.

It should be required watching.

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Sorry I made the Jays lose. I shouldn't have watched.

If Obama had actually brought the change he promised, we might be in a better world. But he was too focused on playing nice with people who had no interest in anything he did or said.

Thank you they all should.

Does nobody remember Vietnam?

Centrist Democrats who fail to grasp the anger in the country and assume business-as-usual approaches will keep them in power are in for a rude awakening.

Carney Says He Apologized to Trump Over Tariff Advertisement “I did apologize to the president,” Carney told reporters on Saturday in Gyeongju, South Korea, where he was attending the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit. “It’s not something I would have d...

Fucking hell.

ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/carney-...

Multiple people have been arrested in Michigan in a Halloween weekend attack plot, FBI director says Multiple people who had been allegedly plotting a violent attack over the Halloween weekend were arrested Friday in Michigan, FBI Director Kash Patel said in a social media post.

Hold judgement on this until all the details are released. The FBI has a history of finding people who talk but would probably never act and planting an instigator who goads them into taking steps they otherwise wouldn't.

www.ctvnews.ca/world/articl...

This is how authoritarian states behave. Even if there are no charges, the man has already suffered serious consequences and this will deter others.

The sheriff should lose his job and the judge should be impeached. But in this polarized climate, they are likely to suffer no consequences.

‘Forever Canadian’ petition surpasses goal, collects 456K signatures Thomas Lukaszuk, a former deputy premier of Alberta who has circulated a petition to make it official policy for the province to stay in Canada, says it has just over 456,000 signatures.

Great work, Alberta.

www.ctvnews.ca/edmonton/art...

Compromise is dead. You need to take the message to the people. Obama still doesn't get this, a decade after he failed. Scheffries (Schumer and Jeffries) are hopeless.

Dems have demagogues (Bernie, AOC, Mamdani) but they scare the billionaires.

Choose - the people or the oligarchs.

In past decades, the media would interpret events like the government shutdown so the public could understand them.

Now media is click driven and untrusted; leaving it to parties to win the narrative war with simple, repeatable messaging.

But Democrats are stuck in the 90s.

You're not wrong.

This is a direct consequence of centrist parties failing to stick up for ordinary people and allowing the billionaires to acquire so much wealth and power.