The Crisis of American Leadership Reaches an Empty Desert
Photographs from the humanitarian disaster in Sudan and Chad
Refugees fleeing the civil war in Sudanβs Darfur region are finding little help, in part due to the Trump administrationβs devastating cuts to foreign aid. Lynsey Addarioβs photographs capture the first humanitarian crisis of the post-American world:
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wait...a wat
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Oligarchy (noun):
A government of and by a few at the top, who exercise power for their own benefit. Their power and wealth increase as they make laws that favor themselves, manipulate financial markets, and create monopolies that put more wealth into their pockets.
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This is what a rigged economy looks like:
In the 1970s, CEOs made 27 times more than the average worker.
In the 1980s, CEOs made 48 times more than the average worker.
This decade, CEOs are making 354 times more than the average worker.
That has got to change.
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Eight year old: Who is the pope?
Me: Begins to explainβ¦
Eight year old, interrupting: βIt turns out I donβt care about that.β
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My aunt was a dancer on her show for years. Nice to see this!
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What happens when the wealthy pay their fair share in taxes like everyone else?
We can invest in a stronger, fairer America β where every kid has a quality education and families arenβt bankrupted by one medical diagnosis.
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So What About Everyone Else at CECOT?
Many have been asking about all the other people unlawfully disappeared to El Salvador, and who is fighting for them.
NEW: Abrego Garcia is getting a lot of attention, but many people are asking about the rest of the men being unlawfully held in CECOT. Here's what's going on with them. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/so-what-ab...
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Me too.
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Pete Buttigieg breaks down DEI for everyday folksβ¦
βThe opposite of diversity is uniformity. The opposite of equity is inequity. The opposite of inclusion is exclusion.β @petebuttigieg.bsky.social
Our problem: too many value uniformity over inclusion and theyβre the ones running the government.
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My maternal grandmother died in the 1918 flu pandemic.
RFK Jr can go fuck himself.
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Pete Hegseth lost a court battle over Trumpβs ban on transgender troopsβso he mocked Judge Ana Reyes, who ruled it βunabashedly demeaning.β Instead of filing an appeal, he threw a tantrum on social media. Thatβs not leadership. Thatβs a meltdown. And no, blaming the booze doesnβt help.
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every person involved in this needs to be in prison
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AOC: In every single stop that Bernie and I have had in the past couple of days⦠every single stop has completely blown out all attendance projections.
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Something special is happening, people. Ignore it or downplay it at your own perilβ¦
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Bernie Sanders, AOC, and Greg Casar on stage in Tucson in front a crowd of 23,000 people.
Tucson, Arizona today.
Original projected attendance was 3,000 people.
23,000 showed up.
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βI take him at his word,β Trumpβs envoy says of Putin.
Was there ever a more dangerously naive statement?
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Elon Musk, apartheid, and America's new boycott movement
If you think mass protests canβt combat evil, remember what we did in the 1980s.
Musk and Trump wanted to start with what they saw as the weakest, wokest government agency, to slaughter it and hang it on a pike as a warning not to disobey the king.
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A trifecta.
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The President of the United States has the emotional maturity of a teenage bully.
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