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01.11.2025 02:40 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Good column by Bill Torpy in the AJC today.
If there's some question about whether or not the administration's view of America looks like 1933 Germany, this answers it. The imagery in these pictures is something out of a white supremacist advertising campaign.
www.ajc.com/opinion/2025...
It's a city wide party. One neighbor was doing karaoke; another was giving caramel apple martinis to grownups.
01.11.2025 02:35 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0We're getting mobbed in Pine Lake. Must have been 150 trick or treaters at my house so far. Costume game is solid.
01.11.2025 00:25 — 👍 49 🔁 1 💬 5 📌 0Medicare for All would save $450B a year.
Every dollar spent on food stamps generates $1.50-$1.80 in economic activity.
Each dollar going to low-wage workers adds $1.20 to the economy overall.
It’s not about what this country can or can’t afford.
It’s about priorities.
A list of food distribution resources from @hankjohnson.house.gov
hankjohnson.house.gov/sites/evo-su...
Lots of reports that ICE is terrorizing the city of Evanston, just a bit north of Chicago, right now. Noem wasn't kidding about escalating these raids during Halloween. I worry it's going to be really bad tonight in Chicago—these kids and families should be able to just fucking enjoy the holiday.
31.10.2025 19:07 — 👍 142 🔁 41 💬 8 📌 3Rep. Adam Smith: "This country has not agreed to have the death penalty for drug smuggling. If we want to have that policy conversation, we can have that policy conversation, but the president has unilaterally decided that lethal force is going to be applied. It's an enormous expansion of power."
31.10.2025 13:00 — 👍 13186 🔁 4259 💬 770 📌 256Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
"A nuclear war cannot be won and must never be fought"
- Ronald Reagan
mansplain this, MAGA 🧙♀️
29.10.2025 21:01 — 👍 31 🔁 8 💬 2 📌 0This is relevant again today. The directive just went out. Keep in mind, it’s illegal for the president to use the military as police without invoking the insurrection act.
29.10.2025 19:44 — 👍 5383 🔁 2239 💬 155 📌 37I have been charged in a federal indictment sought by the Department of Justice.
This political prosecution is an attack on all of our First Amendment rights. I’m not backing down, and we’re going to win.
Cost to fund SNAP and keep 42 million people from starving:
$100 billion
Cost of lost revenue due to tax cuts for the richest Americans in the top 1%:
$100 billion
One is decried as "welfare." One is not.
Why?
So the president took a dementia test, and then they administered an MRI. Where’s the media on this?
28.10.2025 19:38 — 👍 28817 🔁 7851 💬 1960 📌 465
The line between news and propaganda is resolving into ever sharper focus.
Every one of these Lord Haw-Haw motherfuckers can eat a bag of my pre-packaged hickory-smoked corn-fed shit, U.S. Postal Service regulations notwithstanding. If they signed these rules, shit is already on their diet.
The city council president's race is a referendum on Cop City. Proxies for the Atlanta Police Foundation are coming after Rohit Malhotra.
28.10.2025 13:07 — 👍 52 🔁 17 💬 2 📌 4
Eric is a Missouri congressman.
He is quite literally dependent on the federal government for his paycheck, his housing, and his free healthcare. He’s a tax recipient.
Saw a video a few days ago where a woman compared AI to a thneed and I can’t quit thinking about it…
28.10.2025 00:27 — 👍 350 🔁 44 💬 23 📌 3The Power Fantasy of Superman is you still have a staff job on a newspaper.
27.10.2025 13:24 — 👍 3419 🔁 529 💬 46 📌 26
ROLLING STONE: “The current Congress has dropped the pretense of public service altogether… Congress enjoys ultraluxe health care as it fights to gut yours.”
@RepTimBurchett @MarshaBlackburn why don’t you care about anyone but yourselves? www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
1) we’ve had the productive capacity to produce food for every living person on this planet
2) we have the logistics to deliver these to every person on this planet
3) we have ideologies and philosophies to know that’s good
That we don’t is a choice. And a moral failure.
Tim Walz: "People are gonna be lined up out here to get food, and we're talking about a damn ballroom. Don't lose the plot."
27.10.2025 15:34 — 👍 27254 🔁 8216 💬 501 📌 345Thinking that the massive fight LA, Chicago,DC, & Portland have put up against ICE is a major reason why there hasn't been a surge in another major city in awhile. Tying up resources. Testing &, perfecting resistance techniques. Big debt of gratitude
26.10.2025 23:13 — 👍 97 🔁 16 💬 0 📌 1Contest every race. Have a candidate in every race on every ballot in every county in every state.
Run even if you know you can’t win. Run because you know you can’t win.
No seat uncontested. Bring the fight to every ballot.
