Marci

They’re not hiding the brutality anymore.
They want you to see it.
They want you to get used to it.👇
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$170 BILLION in lost US earnings a YEAR.

But sure, keep on telling yourself "cOViD's OvER".

Medicare 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.

I don't know why the "Piggy" thing is bothering me so much. It's one more unforgivable thing in a list of 20,000 unforgivable things, but I've been mad about it for like 12 straight hours.

Did anyone else have audio issues after the top 5 segment?

Much respect to UFC fighter, Brandon Royval, who gave this answer as to why he would not fight at the UFC event on the WH lawn:

In normal times, it would be a major scandal for the President to direct his AG to criminally investigate his political opponents to deflect from his own involvement in a major scandal — and for the AG to immediately announce she is doing it. The Epstein scandal and cover up just got even bigger.

Whatever Trump is desperately covering up about Epstein, it’s clearly so bad that he thinks it could destroy him

He was literally on NXT last month as Matt Cardona. Zack Ryder makes zero sense except TKO can sell that merch and make a buck.

Just blatant corruption. They know these numbers are putrid and are making every excuse to cover them up just like they are doing with Epstein. bsky.app/profile/atru...

The America First guy has brought in 566 foreign workers during his 5 years in office to work at his companies instead of hiring Americans. And counting.

An agreement to agree to do a later vote is NOT an enforceable contract so what in the actual hell are Americans getting out of this deal??

I laughed when I read this because all I could think of was the song from Bloodsport.

Standard time is the worst thing ever devised. Going home at 5pm in darkness is absolutely soul crushing. All so a bunch of morning people can have a little more daylight at 6am.

Raju: Last week, you were very critical of Biden, you said he didn’t even know who was pardoning. On 60 minutes, Trump admitted not knowing he pardoned a crypto billionaire guilty of money laundering. Is that also concerning?

Johnson: I don’t know anything about it.

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Political change might seem impossible, but what you can do is find two cishet boys and convince them to transition. Now (as trans women) they each have a vested interest in resisting fascism. It's their problem now. How does one resist fascism? Well. Each of them just has to find two cishhet boys-

Feeling increasingly gross and anxious and sick. Hope everyone is doing okay.

To give ourselves the best chance to win, we recommend the following changes to our approach. Democrats need to: Focus our policy agenda and our messaging on an economic program centered on lowering costs, growing the economy, creating jobs, and expanding the social safety net. Advocate for popular economic policies (e.g., expanding prescription drug price negotiation, making the wealthy pay their fair share in taxes, raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour) rather than unpopular economic policies (e.g., student loan forgiveness, electric vehicle subsidies, Medicare for All). Convince voters that we share their priorities by focusing more on issues voters do not think our party prioritizes highly enough (the economy, the cost of living, health care, border security, public safety), and focusing less on issues voters think we place too much emphasis on (climate change, democracy, abortion, identity and cultural issues). Moderate our positions where our agenda is unpopular, including on issues like immigration, public safety, energy production, and some identity and cultural issues. Embrace a substantive and rhetorical critique of the outsized political and economic influence of lobbyists, corporations, and the ultra-wealthy, while keeping two considerations in mind: First, voters' frustrations with the status quo are not the same as a desire for socialism. And second, criticizing the status quo is a complement to advocating for popular policies on the issues that matter most to the American people, not a substitute.

i'm fine with a deeper focus on economic issues over social issues but man does plank 2 give the game away

Chris Murphy: "There's a lot of history that has taken place in the East Wing & it was just destroyed without any conversation in the public, without any consent of Congress. It's absolutely illegal. That visual is powerful b/c you're watching destruction of the rule of law as those walls come down"

I'm tired. We're all tired. This isn't hard to understand. You can't inflate prices of basic necessities like food and housing to ridiculous highs while keeping wages at poverty levels, then act surprised when luxury goods/services and large purchases become unattainable or payments unaffordable.

No fucking media literacy at all from the Trump crowd. Go figure. First lines of the song are about death of free speech and the king coming to take all your rights. But let’s just use the chorus cuz it sounds edgy.

AOC: And they are able to radicalize a generation of young boys in particular, away from healthy masculinity and into an insecure masculinity that requires the domination of others who are poorer, browner, darker, or a different gender than them.

Mike Johnson has now had the House adjourned for 72 of the last 84 days.

Epstein Shutdown.

…is pissing off ice in a legal manner, getting them to detain/attack in a non legal manner, then sue them, a valid career path?

It’s Okay to Cry in the background, someone on his team understood the assignment.

Pritzker: "It's unconscionable. This has never happened before. They're calling out troops onto the streets of a state that doesn't want them and they're not even telling us where they're gonna go, what they're gonna do. This hasn't happened I don't think since the Civil War."

CNBC: "Very disappointing. It's a weak number. This is private sector jobs for September. The total comes in -32,000. And that was a surprise because economists were looking for an increase of 51,000. Also, the revision was not good. August now showing -3,000 compared to the initial read of 54,000"