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Who is working on developing the platform for the future when Dems have power again? I’m tired of living in the dismay zone and want to work toward building the America we want to see. Do I have to get a degree in public policy or what?

January 6, 2025 “They say that when you win the presidency you lose the midterm,” President Donald J.

January 6, 2026

(Yes, I misdated it, although it's fixed now.)

The same people who lost their minds over renovations to Cracker Barrel are totally fine with the White House getting bulldozed

WH has struck another vessel, killing three in Intl. waters, claiming it was transporting illegal drugs to the U.S.

If the U.S. can blow up boats in Intl. waters claiming they “might” be drug traffickers, then other nations (China, Russia..) could claim the same to attack vessels they don’t like.

Reminder: At the start of his legal career, RFK Jr. failed the bar, was forced out as a D.A., and got arrested for heroin. Without the Kennedy name, that story ends there.

Antiphrasis, perhaps

A government takeover of private business is the very definition of socialism. After all these years of maga and trump preaching the evils of socialism it’s weird how they really seem to love it.

The battle of our day is no longer about Democrats versus Republicans or left versus right.

The choice right now is democracy or dictatorship. And we're sliding faster than I ever thought possible into the latter.

Everyone must choose which side they’re on.

New Analysis Finds Trump Family Has Raked in $3.4 Billion Off the Presidency President Donald Trump and his family have made a staggering $3.4 billion off the presidency, according to an analysis b

Between his crypto ventures, real estate deals, and licensing agreements, Trump and his family have profited off the presidency to the tune of $3.4 billion.

The grifter-in-chief knows no bounds.

We must not become numb to this.

The FDA Let Substandard Factories Ship These Medications to the U.S. ProPublica identified more than 150 products that were exempted from import bans since 2013. Our list provides the names of the drugs or ingredients and their manufacturers, many of which are no…

The FDA never released a comprehensive list of the drugs it allowed into the U.S. even though they were made by banned factories.

This week, we published that list.

YouTube video by WIRED History Professor Answers Dictator Questions | Tech Support | WIRED

Since our media won’t, here is a great video to watch and share on what we would see in a dictatorship/authoritarian/fascist govt (spoiler, it’s what we are seeing): youtu.be/vK6fALsenmw?...

Israel, you dropped your humanity somewhere. Time to look in the mirror and ask, “what have we become?” And I wish the same for the US also. Daily.

They LITERALLY want dead women to have to carry fetuses to term but live babies to die of preventable illnesses. That’s a GOAL of theirs, not a side effect.

The people will remember

[Raskin] clapped back: “This is why we had a revolution against you guys.”

Didn’t expect the American Revolution card to get pulled in 2025 but hell yeah, brother

Seriously tho, Metamucil is already costly for what it is. $30 for indigestible powder!?

All he cares about or can conceive of is himself. He wasn’t molested so none of that part matters. Zero empathy=sociopath.

If Frontline has been avoiding doing a Trump expose they have no reason not to now. #pbs

"A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people."

—The Declaration of Independence

the republican party is a modern day Slave Power and the only way forward for this country is to sweep it into the ash heap of history

It’s time to choose candidates who will live to see the future they are creating with their policies!

Trump doesn’t care about climate change because he will likely be dead before it impacts him personally.

Well I definitely hear it pronounced weirdly quite often. (team ‘all’ here)

So big milk’s new campaign slogan will naturally be “got bacteria?”

I value their knowledge, so they should be in advisory/emeritus roles, but the future should be dictated by some of us who will be alive to see it.

This is being overlooked. It’s a must read.

Texans do NOT want public tax dollars going to private school tuition. I have certainty that voters will prove it come November. FAFO, Abbott and every congressman that votes for it.

Please repeat over and over:

“Bending to the whims of a bully will not end his cruelty. It will only embolden him. The response to authoritarianism isn’t acquiescence. Bullies respond to one thing, and one thing only: a punch in the face.”

—Gov. JB Pritzker

My favourite library quote is from newsman Walter Cronkite:

‘Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation’

What happened to “don’t be evil”?

This was a fun read, and I guess the man follows his own advice given that this post is still around 25 years later!