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YouTube video by Brut America French Senator criticizes Trump

Add French Senator Malhuret to that list -

A line chart titled “Evolution of Atlanta Fed GDPNow real GDP estimate for 2025: Q1 (Quarterly percent change, SAAR).” The horizontal axis is labeled “Date of forecast,” spanning late December through early March. The vertical axis, ranging from −3% to 4%, shows projected real GDP growth rates. A green line (the Atlanta Fed GDPNow estimate) starts around 2% in late December, rises to near 3.5% by late January, and then drops to roughly −3% by early March. A shaded blue band (the Blue Chip consensus) hovers around 2% to 2.5% throughout most of the period, with a lighter outline indicating the top 10 and bottom 10 average forecasts slightly above and below that band. The chart’s sources are Blue Chip Economic Indicators and Blue Chip Financial Forecasts.

The Atlanta Fed just updated their GDP tracker and it showed an even worse drop in GDP for the 1st quarter of -2.8%, down from +3% at the start of the Trump administration. The closest precedent to this was the economic crisis at the start of COVID.

Don’t fall for Elon Musk’s smoke screen.

What he doesn’t want you to know is that there’s a fix to extend Social Security’s solvency: end the tax cap.

Billionaires like him reach the cap on New Year’s Day. Let them contribute all year long like the rest of us. Problem solved.

No one wants a paper trail because spending funds Congress has not appropriated is colloquially known as “stealing from the US Treasury.”

Again, it is impossible to overstate the magnitude of the Article I constitutional crisis we are currently in the midst of, while Congress does nothing & major media outlets don’t seem at all interested in explaining this on front pages in large font headlines. We’re not a serious country.

What we’re witnessing in America is what happens when disordered discourse captures a political party, then the state itself. The Republican Party was the first to fall - abandoning truth for conspiracy, ideology for grievance, and policy for performative outrage.

Since Trump has claimed Elon doesn’t run DOGE, we wanted to make sure you know who is running our government. This list has been updated with 15 names.

“Here’s what’s gonna happen next: Trump is gonna attempt to wrest control of most of our federal revenue and pour it into a ‘sovereign wealth fund’ which he will view as a personal bank account.”

Any countries building Starlink into their telecom systems should be thinking twice right now.

If any one man could be singled out for the mess America's in, it might be more Curtis Yarvin than anyone.
The man who wants to destroy democracy.

Please read and share

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The United States is experiencing a coup—not a Hollywood-style, tanks-in-the-streets coup, but illegal seizure and control of government computers and offices and data. Elon Musk is a drug-addled, whi... TikTok video by Louis Venters

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If you are taking a break from politics during the holiday, good for you. There is nothing to feel guilty about.

If you re-center what you love, you will remember why you fight.

I think it's deeply human to embrace every feeling and experience we can.

Bill Moyers Essay: Plutocracy and Democracy Don't Mix An excerpt from "Bill Moyers Journal" (premiered April 30, 2010) BILL MOYERS: You've no doubt figured out my bias by now. I've hardly kept it…

Bill Moyers' prescient take on the "Plutonomy" of our time....

I believe part of the solution is intentional antimaterialism and recycling/repurposing/reusing/repairing as much as humanly possible.

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39 years ago, a KGB defector chillingly predicted modern America A former KGB agent named Yuri Alexandrovich Bezmenov claimed in 1984 that Russia has a long-term goal of ideologically subverting the U.S.

I need EVERYONE to share this and send it to the MAGA person in your life. Ask them- what will make them turn against Trump, Elon and the MAGA movement? Is it treason? It should be! I saw Mishi4change’s video on TikTok, and this blew me away. I hadn’t seen this before! 🤦🏻‍♂️
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A government run by billionaires will never be for the people.

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5, dingbat

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We can hope

Ukraine facing off against Russia, image shows the absurd size comparison between the invader and victims.

“Let me remind you: Surrender means Russian occupation. Russian occupation means torture, sexual violence, enforced disappearance, denial of your identity, forcible adoption of your own children, filtration camps, and mass graves. Occupation is just another form of the war.”

– Oleksandra Matviichuk

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Thank you.

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