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Americans are relearning the lesson we learned during the Gilded Age of the late 1890s, when robber barons ran the government and the economy for their own benefit: Oligarchy is incompatible with the common good.

I'm hopeful we'll respond with a new progressive movement.

Florida Republicans made life unaffordable. Now they’re scared voters like you will vote them out.

Call your representatives and tell them: No new maps. Go to bit.ly/flstaterep.

#HoldTheLine

Video shows Department of Justice official urging Jan. 6 rioters to 'kill' cops The Department of Justice hired a former Jan. 6 defendant who was caught on tape urging rioters to "kill" police. The department calls him a "valued member" of the administration.

NEW: Police bodycam footage introduced at the trial of Jared Wise showed him berating police officers on Jan. 6, 2021, and yelling "kill 'em" as rioters attacked law enforcement. He’s now working as a senior adviser for the Department of Justice.

Fact check:

mRNA vaccines for respiratory viruses are meant to prevent severe illness (bad Pneumonia).

This means beefing up our immunity in the *lower* respiratory tract, eg the lungs.

Kennedy talks about the *upper* respiratory tract and vaccine efficacy in nonsensical gibberish.

This took me a few tries as it is not an easy thing for to soeak about. However, it feels necessary as this administration begins to erase us from history, and once again, play the victim of some giant “hoax”.
I mispronounce Maxwell’s name, but this take was as good as I could get

This is really taking "they're only in government to benefit themselves" to the next level.

Fox News hosts are furious that Big Balls and Holly got beat up and people just filmed it instead of intervening.

“Who stands there and watches as someone gets attacked?”

These same people are perfectly fine with ICE kidnappings.

Give them no peace!

ICE is hiring! US immigration and Customs Enforcement is looking for highly motivated, morally indifferent individuals to join our team. Open positions include: Senior Goon Racism Enforcement Office Unmarked Van Driver (Part-Time) Experience with children a plus usajobs.gov

From this month's edition of The Onion.

Unfortunately, this is where we are headed... shameful...🥺

Disgusting.

www.upi.com Japan and world mark 80th anniversaries of atomic bombings - UPI.com

Japan and world mark 80th anniversaries of atomic bombings https://twp.ai/4iouVT

Massachusetts police training materials accidentally tell truth, more at 11

The Plot To Militarize America A memo from one of the Hegseth brothers raises alarms over a permanent troop presence on U.S. soil

Did you know Pete Hegseth's little brother is a high-ranking official within the Department of Homeland Security? And now he's trying to get his big bro to implement a plan to use the Pentagon to militarize U.S. law enforcement under the guise of immigration enforcement. And we thought L.A. was bad.

The audio will be released just as soon as two things are removed:

1. All references to Donald Trump; and

2. Todd Blanche telling Ghislaine Maxwell that if she agrees to publicly exonerate Donald Trump, he will give her a pardon when he leaves office and in the meantime move her to a nicer jail.

Just sayin’

He fled Boko Haram and helped build an award-winning restaurant. Now he’s facing deportation. Paul Dama left Nigeria after being kidnapped in 2018. His detention feels like "a second kidnapping," says his sister.

Paul Dama left Nigeria after being kidnapped in 2018. His detention by ICE now feels like “a second kidnapping,” says his sister.

“I felt like someone just sucked my blood, my air. Like, how do you live?"

11 more NYC libraries will soon open on Sundays A $2 million City Council deal will expand seven-day service to more than 30 branches citywide.

Eleven more libraries will reopen on Sundays, thanks to the leadership of the City Council. They never should've been closed in the first place.

As Mayor, I'll end this absurd budget dance that keeps our beloved libraries in limbo year after year.

The President of the United States went on CNBC today and said: He won the 2020 election (he didn’t). He has a 71% approval rating (he doesn’t). The jobs numbers were rigged (they weren’t).

I could say something funny here, but I won’t. It’s just so damn dangerous to have him in the White House.

YouTube video by Brittany Page Elizabeth Warren DUSTS CNBC ANCHOR for Dumbest Question Ever!!!

Senator Elizabeth Warren did her best to educate David Faber, whose number one hobby seems to be a tie between attacking Zohran Mamdani and misrepresenting the realities of the consequences of taxing the wealthy! Share this with all of your billionaire-defending friends! youtu.be/2N4rkp0m1Is?...

Cartoon by @christopherweyant1.bsky.social.

No, Good People Don't Still Support Him Everyone believes they're essentially a good human being.

At this point, the only reason left to support a man like this is that he reflects your hateful heart: he shares your contempt of people of color, your hostility toward outsiders, your toxic misogyny, your ignorant bigotry, and your feelings of supremacy.
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Bill Burr

The White House landscape now matches our national political one.

It has been the honor of my life to serve as Commissioner of BLS alongside the many dedicated civil servants tasked with measuring a vast and dynamic economy. It is vital and important work and I thank them for their service to this nation.

He’s the biggest crybaby in all of human history.👇

We are losing the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which has helped educate, inform, and entertain millions of Americans.

Instead, we’re getting a vulgar new gold ballroom, which none of us will ever see.

After I was denied entry to an ICE facility in my district, many of you said social media posts weren’t enough. You’re right.

Here’s what’s next.

"Call it democracy, or call it democratic socialism, but there must be a better distribution of wealth within this country for all God's children." —MLK Jr.