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At a Hands Off rally on Capitol Hill, former Social Security Commissioner Martin O'Malley slams the Trump regime for their gargantuan lies about Social Security:

"We have to put the brakes on Elon Musk and Donald Trump trying to wreck its reputation and wreck its customer service so they can…

Blaming anyone's immoral and bad behavior on something others did that we disagree with is not only illogical, it's irresponsible and a little dangerous.

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Sesame Street had him pegged back in 1988.

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BREAKING: A Colorado federal court blocked the Trump administration from deporting more people under the Alien Enemies Act.

Yet another federal court confirms that President Trump does not have the authority to use this wartime law in this manner.

Across America, the confirmed measles case count is 935, more than triple the amount seen in the entirety of 2024.

The measles crisis in this country is clearly growing, with North Dakota one of the newest states hit. North Dakota is, in fact, now battling an official outbreak — defined as three…

There are an estimated 22,000 CIA employees.

Simultaneously, the population of Greenland is 57,000 people.

That's roughly one spy for every three Greenlanders

I suggest they start doing their undercover work in November

WSJ: “.. The classified message asked agencies, whose tools include surveillance satellites, communications intercepts and spies on the ground, to identify people in Greenland and Denmark who support U.S. objectives for the island.”

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1,355 days

This is called a bribe.

We all know it’s a bribe. The freight company spending $20 million admits it’s a bribe.

Everyone understands this, and yet no one is holding him accountable — especially his own party which claims to care about law and order.

Dispatches from War zone, USA.

If you think it's somewhere else....

It can happen anywhere here in this country.

There was a time when the reserve currency of the world. Was the Pound Sterling, and there were colonial dollars all around as a local exchange instrument.

Wasn't that long ago

The entire enterprise of tariffs is wholly artificial and an attempt to manipulate the market

This is how far the gop has fallen.

For what it's worth, I was mostly being sarcastic

This is these people flailing and throwing whatever dog whistles they can into every assertion they make....

Eventually, (and I am not saying it's going to happen quickly) there will be a return to a fact-based society, and our discourse will return to some level of sanity

RFK Jr. Slammed After Falsely Claiming Measles Vaccine Contains 'Aborted Fetus Debris' Dangerous and deranged.

RFK Jr. is dangerous.

By the way.

Pre-Trump Republicans would have said that the American film industry is being out-competed, and if they want to make more money, they just need to make products that people want to consume.

So much for small government.

see also.... the internet

Page One must have been crowded.

So NYT puts it on Page 13. 🤡

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What about the families who can't afford two?

This is why a president corrupts a Justice Department.

This is like the judge's orders when those planes are in the air headed for el salvador.

Changing the tariff while that ship is at sea headed to a destination.....Is unfair

He should pay the ten percent

He would like nothing more than to take over the property and build a high-rise luxury apartment building called trump tower alcatraz

A gift to the NRA.

How many of these are we going to read before people have come to the correct conclusion that he is out of his mind?

It's on a tiny island?

Where on earth are you going to enlarge it?

Skyscraper alcatraz?

Dumbest timeline ever

Is Trump sending an alternate slate of Cardinals to the conclave?

Voting is the remedy

That's how we stop this

Voting

I keep saying the price of TSLA is irrationally high and am wondering what is buoying it.

Here is another crack in the edifice...

Why is this stock trading in the 200s rather than the 20s?

Eight of the worst popes in church history | CNN These popes are in the history books for all the wrong reasons.

You're a historian

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This what MAGA voted for.