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Paradoxically, it has always been massively profitable to exploit the poor. All you have to do is surrender your dignity.

@nellscovell.bsky.social I read and really enjoyed “Just the Funny Parts …” five years ago.

#Gaza is not just facing a humanitarian catastrophe. It is facing the systematic destruction of a people.

Doctors in Gaza know they cannot stop a genocide. But world leaders can, if they choose to act: www.doctorswithoutborders.ca/palestine-do...

SNL should run a normal show, with the slight addition that every sketch has three or four men dressed up like ICE agents and FCC officials standing in the background looking menacing.

Maybe they disappear Colin Jost in the middle of Weekend Update too.

Including Osama bin Laden?

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KRON, the NBC station in the Bay Area, went live on November 15, 1949.

Three options. 1) There is no God or gods (most probable); 2) There is a God, but He’s hands-off: creation only, no administration; 3) God is an asshole (second most probable).

Here’s a model.

Actor Mandy Patinkin’s plea for Jews to consider how what Netanyahu’s Israeli government is doing to Gaza is not just harming Palestinians and killing kids — but also endangering Jews across the globe.

I’ll see your Dover Beach and raise you The Second Coming.

“The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.”

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.

This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.

It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

“… by Tesla titan.”

Social Security, Medicare finances worsen, bringing funding cliffs sooner The latest projections come amid bitter political and legal fights over the Trump administration’s early efforts to crack down on alleged fraud in Social Security programs.

This is 100% fixable without cutting a single dollar from seniors’ benefits. Pass my bill to require ultra-high earners to pay their fair share into the system. Problem solved.
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More vassal than ally.

We're about 3 lines deep into the "first they came for" poem. It's not a very long poem, folks

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I'm going to start publicly calling out campaigns that text me because they bought my number from a list. Not just because I've run out of patience, but because if *I* am this annoyed, then I can't even imagine what it's doing to Democrats' reputation among casual voters.

“Abolish ICE” is the moderate position. Radical is “prosecute every ICE employee under RICO.”

Veterans Day began as Armistice Day, honoring the end of World War I—then it was changed to honor ALL who served.

Now Trump wants to rename it. Reframe it. Twist it into a tribute to conquest.

Veterans don’t need rewritten history. They need respect—and the benefits they earned.

Like a traffic cop with a quota, these guys are just trying to run the numbers up with no real regard for whether the people arrested actually pose a threat to anyone or anything.

Brava, Brava, Brava! Blaire, you are so good at this it’s scary.

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It's genuinely hard to express to sort of normal not politically plugged in non-lawyers *how* lawless the Trump administration is, and I think that's some part of the problem.

You sound like you're hyperventilating, but it's just a flat description of what is going on.

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Trump refuses to bring back those wrongly detained in El Salvador. You could be next. Will the Supreme Court allow permanent disappearances?

The Supreme Court will soon issue a decision in the case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Maryland man whom the Trump admin admits it deported due to “administrative error.”

The ruling will be a make-or-break moment, not just for Abrego Garcia, but for what kind of country we are going to be.

I have been convinced that the UK is right to make their cops dress silly. You are not a soldier. You are a policeman. We made you this nice policeman uniform. If you want to be an operator, join the Green Berets. Helps breed a law enforcement culture distinct from a crude imitation of war.

in so much news coverage there’s still this sense of propriety and decorum in the face of an outright assault on our civil and human rights. i just want to remind journalists that your politeness will not save you—so you might as well say what you really mean.

Every word of this Jamelle.

Now let’s ask why so many leaders in media, business and politics who should be sophisticated enough to see this, keep insisting that Trump is pursuing a “strategy”?

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