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This is terrifying!

ICE breaks into this woman’s car in the pick-up line at West Loop Elementary school in Chicago and detains her before she can pick her kids up from school. (They were eventually let go after showing their documents)

This is Trump’s America.

09.10.2025 18:55 β€” πŸ‘ 2201    πŸ” 1186    πŸ’¬ 196    πŸ“Œ 281

Schuylkill and Bala Cynwyd in Philly.

09.10.2025 00:32 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Schuylkill and Bala Cynwyd in Philly.

09.10.2025 00:32 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The elimination of USAID is a moral atrocity and all involved made a choice to enable, and then lie about, ending the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in the world.

08.10.2025 14:09 β€” πŸ‘ 5158    πŸ” 2431    πŸ’¬ 85    πŸ“Œ 111

good lord

02.10.2025 21:31 β€” πŸ‘ 72    πŸ” 11    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 3

Modern slave patrols.

02.10.2025 20:15 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

One of my favorite anecdotes from THE PREHISTORY OF THE FAR SIDE: "That doesn't sound like the Jane Goodall we know."

01.10.2025 18:13 β€” πŸ‘ 6399    πŸ” 2186    πŸ’¬ 28    πŸ“Œ 72

RIP Jane Goodall, by all accounts a wonderful woman who loved this Far Side cartoon

01.10.2025 18:09 β€” πŸ‘ 3170    πŸ” 726    πŸ’¬ 27    πŸ“Œ 17
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I thought you might like 3 almost spherical heep of the breed my grandfather finally tended: 'Romney Marsh'. My uncle took this pihoto in the 50s. The recipe for perfectly round sheep? Feed root crops lavishly, have at least 4 generations' experience (& cheat a littlle-(don't shear fully in May!)

01.10.2025 19:09 β€” πŸ‘ 49    πŸ” 11    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 6

Sounds like a great title for an autobiography .

01.10.2025 14:57 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Perhaps the problem is that hardly anyone has had an actual ’civics teacher’ in 40 years.

01.10.2025 02:47 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Pfizer Inc. Chief Executive Officer Albert Bourla said the company secured a three-year grace period from President Donald Trump’s promised tariffs on pharmaceuticals in a deal that would lower some of the company’s US drug prices.

Pfizer will sell some drugs at a 50% average discount on a direct-to-consumer website called TrumpRx, an initiative intended to allow Americans to pay for prescriptions at discounted rates negotiated by the government.

The deal appears to resolve two major threats facing Pfizer. It would stave off more damaging drug pricing policies while shielding the company from future tariffs imposed by the administration’s Section 232 investigation into whether the cost of medicine represents a national security threat.

Pfizer Inc. Chief Executive Officer Albert Bourla said the company secured a three-year grace period from President Donald Trump’s promised tariffs on pharmaceuticals in a deal that would lower some of the company’s US drug prices. Pfizer will sell some drugs at a 50% average discount on a direct-to-consumer website called TrumpRx, an initiative intended to allow Americans to pay for prescriptions at discounted rates negotiated by the government. The deal appears to resolve two major threats facing Pfizer. It would stave off more damaging drug pricing policies while shielding the company from future tariffs imposed by the administration’s Section 232 investigation into whether the cost of medicine represents a national security threat.

Thanks to fascist voters, pudding-brained non-voters, a broken Congress, and a broken SCOTUS, this rank corruption and authoritarian control of the economy is simply how things work now in the failed state of American.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

30.09.2025 18:42 β€” πŸ‘ 1379    πŸ” 452    πŸ’¬ 85    πŸ“Œ 69
A fundraising text 

NEW MESSAGE
FROM:
Chuck Schumer
Meredith, is there anything I can say to convince you to donate $20 (becomes $80!) to help take back the Senate majority

A fundraising text NEW MESSAGE FROM: Chuck Schumer Meredith, is there anything I can say to convince you to donate $20 (becomes $80!) to help take back the Senate majority

β€œI’m resigning from my position as Democratic leader and retiring from the Senate.”

30.09.2025 23:43 β€” πŸ‘ 6442    πŸ” 966    πŸ’¬ 142    πŸ“Œ 73

Oh, he won’t be the future Speaker. His weak, sorry ass is gonna get primaried and he’ll be pounding sand next November.

30.09.2025 17:12 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Hakeem Jeffries is acting like he *wants* to draw a strong primary challenger in 2026 and, honestly, I wish him all the luck in the world there.

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DAVID CROSS: β€œI am disgusted and deeply disappointed… These are some of my HEROES… how can any of us take any of you seriously ever again?”

Here’s who went to the Riyadh Comedy Festival: www.timeoutriyadh.com/news/riyadh-...

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My ear hairs applaud this.

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I imagine Viktor Orban’s FSB moniker is a Russian translation of β€˜Fat Bastard’.

29.09.2025 14:46 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I imagine Viktor Orban’s FSB moniker is a Russian translation of β€˜Fat Bastard’.

29.09.2025 14:46 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Primary @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social !!!

28.09.2025 21:25 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Video shows church on fire as officials respond to active shooter with multiple victims at The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Grand Blanc, Michigan.

28.09.2025 15:13 β€” πŸ‘ 33    πŸ” 17    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 9
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BREAKING: Active shooter at church in Grand Blanc, Michigan, reports of multiple victims

28.09.2025 15:01 β€” πŸ‘ 22    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 2

Fucking ghouls, thugs, bullies, monsters. The worst of us preying on the least of us.

28.09.2025 15:16 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Fucking ghouls, thugs, bullies, monsters. The worst of us preying on the least of us.

28.09.2025 15:16 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The wounded knee thing is really Trumpism distilled to its essence. It’s not enough to be able crush people who can’t fully defend themselves, it’s not enough to actually crush them, you also have to love and admire those who do the crushing otherwise the Trumpists’ delicate feelings are injured

26.09.2025 12:43 β€” πŸ‘ 9360    πŸ” 2311    πŸ’¬ 165    πŸ“Œ 84

Quinnipiac in recent poll asked: Do you think that the way people talk about politics these days is contributing to violence in the United States, or don't you think so? 82% of voters agreed with this including majority of Dems, Independents, and GOP. I said basically this and got fired.

26.09.2025 08:57 β€” πŸ‘ 6590    πŸ” 1828    πŸ’¬ 314    πŸ“Œ 77
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Nah, these guys are doing it whoever they are.

25.09.2025 15:15 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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I'm different: I woke up at 2:00 a.m. lamenting over the 200 year old trees Trump is cutting down for his pos ballroom. Why isn't anyone stopping him? Isn't there a historical society in DC? A Southern Magnolia planted by President Andrew Jackson in 1829 was among the trees removed from the grounds.

25.09.2025 11:05 β€” πŸ‘ 197    πŸ” 85    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 11

Just a reminder that these "pivotal votes" that the Democrats got in these recent special elections aren't pickups. They are pivotal seats that have been vacant for months because the Democrats who previously held them ran for office notwithstanding age and cancer diagnoses, then died in office.

24.09.2025 05:12 β€” πŸ‘ 2014    πŸ” 420    πŸ’¬ 17    πŸ“Œ 12
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1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it).

But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that

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