Carin van der Donk

These countries have had universal health care for their citizens, as shown below.

There are more after 1995

Agreed. But if we are trying to open the eyes of some people, this isn’t it. They will reason it away.

Epstein clearly also says “no massage”. I find the paragraph about how Trump scams people out of money, or is in the money laundering business (I have never done a deep dive into that subject), very damning. No surprise though. People have always been ok with this. They even admire the immorality.

Theater.

It shouldn’t be forgotten that a big piece of Mamdani’s campaign was simply “cities are cool and lots of people enjoy living in them” which in and of itself dismantles alot of rightwing talking points

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Dutch elections: first exit poll shows heavy losses for Wilders' right-far-right coalition. From 88 out of 150 seats two years ago to just 52 now. End of an experiment, fortunately.

Saw a video a few days ago where a woman compared AI to a thneed and I can’t quit thinking about it…

MacCALLUM: Andrew Cuomo tomorrow night in that debate, he's gonna say 'I'm gonna bring 5,000 more police officers to the street.' Will you match that?

MAMDANI: I don't look to Andrew Cuomo for leadership

It’s pronounced cyclist.

Man who appealed Pelicot rape conviction handed longer jail term A French court increases by a year the jail term of the only man who challenged his conviction for raping Gisèle Pelicot.

This is how you do it! Appeal and risk a LONGER sentence for refusing to take responsibility and subjecting your victims to more humiliation. www.bbc.com/news/article...

New Yorkers pay the nation’s bills.
The GOP repays us with punishment

We fund roads in Texas, dams in Alabama, and watch our own projects get cut

Block our tunnels. Starve our cities. Ignore our votes.

It’s taxation without representation.

#FairShare #TaxJustice #NoTaxationWithoutRepresentation

Blue cities are and were as safe as is realistic. Sending in the federal forces to solve a problem that never existed, then claim that they solved that nonexistent problem is next level gaslighting.

Teaching them to grift young.

Tonight on a NY1 interview, Andrew Cuomo described Zohran Mamdani as "an existential threat" to New Yorkers and the Democratic Party. I can't say strongly enough that this is despicable, dangerous, irresponsible language. I've never held Cuomo in high esteem; let this election be his banishment.

I was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (🎥: Elias Eliahu)

“We usually talk about the individual perpetrator -- the Weinsteins, Simpsons, or O'Reillys -- but this framing is woefully myopic. It leads to a false narrative that abuse constitutes isolated anomalies in a largely safe world and ignores the entourage that supports the abuser's behavior.”

Folks, you can't report the United States to its manager. There's no superhero coming to save us.

We don't need one giant act of heroism. We need millions of small acts of solidarity. Help one person in your community for nothing in return. Then, do it again. And again.

That's the revolution.

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I think the environment should be put in the category of our national security. Defense of our resources is just as important as defense abroad. Otherwise what is there to defend?

Robert Redford

The Right can’t debate There has been a rise in the popularity of conservative pundits such as Charlie Kirk, Candace Owens, Ben Shapiro, Tomi Lahren and Kaitlin Bennett in the past few years, especially be…

Oldie but Goodie: "These politicians care about shock factors and making the other person sound morally wrong as opposed to fully explaining their own opinion and relying on actual facts."

Can You Tell the Difference Between a Human Voice and AI? Take Our Quiz A security firm made deepfake versions of us reporting bogus news. Take this quiz to hear the results.

Good stuff to know! Gift article.

Saying you don’t trust black airline pilots is “Practicing politics the right way”???

Only 40 days have passed since Democratic lawmaker Melissa Hortman and her husband were tragically killed by an unhinged Trump supporter, yet this story has largely faded from national awareness. We must not allow that to happen.

The New Anarchy America faces a type of extremist violence it does not know how to stop.

The conditions that make a society vulnerable to political violence are complex but well established—and all of them are present today, @adriennelaf.bsky.social wrote in March 2023. Once a cycle of violence has begun, can anything stop it?

It’s not a good faith point. They know it’s not true.

This administration is as faithful to the rule of law as Trump has been to his wives.

They will never understand that restraint is an exercise of power.

Suicides in NY Prisons More Than Doubled Last Year, New Data Shows The Correctional Association of New York on Tuesday unveiled a new dashboard detailing that the suicide rate at state lock ups spiked 108% last year.

Suicides in NY Prisons More Than Doubled Last Year, New Data Shows www.thecity.nyc/2025/08/05/p...

Trump seeks to fire official overseeing jobs data after weak employment report President Donald Trump said Friday that he has directed his team to fire the head of the agency that produces the monthly jobs figures, after a weak report showed hiring slowed and was much weaker in ...

Will anyone trust the numbers coming from this administration after this? Tell the truth, lose your job. The Mad King will tell you what the numbers will be and you'll like it! #econsky