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First ever online community manager (well.com), co-founded and managed the first news website (sfgate.com), worked at EFF, managed a public radio station, worked with teens online. johncoate.com (photo by Glenn Mar)

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Great strategy - make poor people go hungry while blaming Democrats who refuse to sign on to elimination of those same peoples' health care.

26.10.2025 17:40 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Is there a kind of perverse honesty in our not even pretending to be the good guys anymore?

25.10.2025 15:12 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Looking at the changes to the White House, Trump should be impeached for bad taste alone.

22.10.2025 00:09 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

So now Trump demands the DOJ pay him $230 million because they were mean to him in the Biden years and the person who decides whether to pay him used to be his personal lawyer. No corruption there! And if you'll buy that...

21.10.2025 19:05 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The Three Stoogettes

20.10.2025 18:11 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Proof that she and the rest of the GOP don't have a creative cell in their brains. Communist??

20.10.2025 18:08 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Take a break from all the awful news and check out this 11 minute video of a story I told yesterday at a Porchlight event. It's funny and true!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpUu...

20.10.2025 18:07 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

These GOP stooges live in a bubble of ignorant lunacy.

20.10.2025 15:04 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Has there ever been more of a stooge than Mike Johnson?

20.10.2025 14:26 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Did any of you ever imagine the President of the United states would produce a video of himself as a king flying in a military jet shitting all over the country? I know I never did. But this is where we are.

20.10.2025 14:15 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Days since the news didn't cause me to say "what a fookin asshole" reading about Trump or Vance: 0

20.10.2025 03:30 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I find it rather tiresome to read opinion pieces by pundits telling Democrats what they should and should not be doing when none of them have the guts themselves to put themselves out there to try to actually solve the problems themselves.

19.10.2025 17:52 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I suspect this whole cease fire sham was timed to shame the Nobel Committee.

19.10.2025 16:28 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

The NYT: The daily diary of the old farts.

18.10.2025 22:51 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

What are more Americans going to realize that the worst thing they can do for the economy is vote Republican. They consistently make the economy worse and they are doing it again right now.

18.10.2025 22:47 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

While containing some truth, that NYT piece is so broad-brushed that it comes across as simplistic.

18.10.2025 22:45 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

We, the people, writ large over the years, tolerated the intolerant. But now the intolerant have taken over.

17.10.2025 18:27 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I think guys like Gutfeld are actually proud of what jackasses they are

16.10.2025 23:07 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Bullshit Barbie strikes again.

16.10.2025 17:36 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The pretty blond lying apologist. Propaganda Barbie indeed.

16.10.2025 17:34 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Turns out they only hate activist judges who make decisions they don't like. Otherwise they are all for it.

16.10.2025 15:03 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Preview
Judge dismisses suit by young climate activists against Trump’s pro-fossil fuel policies Judge said plaintiffs had β€˜overwhelming evidence’ of climate crisis but a court injunction would be β€˜unworkable’

The judge admits they are right but reversing climate change is just too hard..

www.theguardian.com/law/2025/oct...

16.10.2025 00:26 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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John Roberts is slowly dismantling America Twenty years of the Roberts Court has wreaked shocking damage. Is the Voting Rights Act next?

This is the mild mannered button down face of evil.
www.salon.com/2025/10/15/j...

15.10.2025 21:39 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The sleaze and corruption of these Trumpzi people are off the charts!

15.10.2025 19:10 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

If that Time cover photo is recent at all then it seems to prove that Trump's ear was never shot.

15.10.2025 18:14 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Is it that racial inequality is so hardwired into the Constitution - as the so-called Originalists see it - that we can never get away from it?

15.10.2025 16:09 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0

He may be a morally bankrupt racist woman hater but he's our morally bankrupt racist woman hater!

14.10.2025 21:31 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I hear the GOP Congress now hangs out at a Capitol Hill bar called Bend the Knee.

13.10.2025 17:50 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Vance's main qualification seems to be his eagerness to lie about everything.

12.10.2025 20:52 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

A possible model for the Trump/MAGA/GOP regime preferred outcome is the British Raj in India.

11.10.2025 22:38 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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