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Socialism is what they called public power.

Socialism is what they called social security. 
 
Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations.
 
Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people.

—Harry Truman, 1952

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🚨BREAKING: Trump administration files new lawsuit seeking access to Orange County’s list maintenance records concerning potential non-citizens on the voter rolls. www.democracydocket.com/cases/califo...

Could Microgrids Be Puerto Rico's Answer to Endless Blackouts? Meanwhile, feds redirect $365 million away from solar toward grid fixes

An awesome story about how solar microgrids kept the power on during Puerto Rico's latest blackouts.

This is bottom-up, power-to-the-people shit. Get excited!

Not Just Fox News, Most Of Corporate Media…

I don't care what Fox News says. Biden dug us out of the hole Trump left us in. He brought the economy back from Covid. He wasn't great on every single issue, but at least he didn't make every day of our lives a dumpster fire. Thanks, Joe.

Drawings of a grocery store and public transit. Text reads “wear masks for public tasks”. There are 6 respirator masks below the art.

These 15 MAGA Republicans will sell out their own constituents to fund tax breaks to the rich.

They are willing to let their constituents DIE and cut Medicaid to do this.

Light up those phones! #HandsOffOurMedicaid

Americans put in the Oval Office a man who does not give a damn about the Constitution or the rule of law, but only about consolidating power & wealth for himself & his cronies. Every day we can see the fateful consequences of this disaster--and We the People must decide how long we'll tolerate it.

Tapper Rips CBS Owner for 60 Minutes Shakeup Amid Trump Pressure: ‘Hope the Money’s Worth It, Shari’ "Now, Shari Redstone is the majority owner of paramount, and she stands to make a fortune if this multibillion dollar deal, this merger goes through."

“Hope the money’s worth it” newsflash: the money is never enough. www.mediaite.com/tv/tapper-ri...

Reagan is the problem.

RIP Virginia Giuffre.

Employee cuts at Social Security are leaving remaining workers struggling to keep up Social Security employees are feeling "overwhelmed" and wait times for phone services are up as workforce cuts from the Trump administration are being felt throughout the agency.

Jessica LaPointe who has worked at a Social Security field office for past 16 years says disruptions prompted by Trump administration's efforts to make deep cuts in the federal government workforce have left many remaining SS employees "burned out … and overwhelmed."

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JD Vance and his forty 4x4s visit the Vatican during trip to Rome The US vice-president, a self-styled ‘baby Catholic’ who was baptised in 2019, and his family met senior officials from the Catholic Church

Vance's Easter visit to Rome clogged its streets with a 40-vehicle entourage. He also demanded the Coliseum be closed so he and his family could tour it alone. Tourists who properly booked slots in advance got screwed.

He's apparently the first to make that demand. Then he didn't bother to show up.

Jimmy Carter had to get rid of his peanut farm because it might look like he made an unseemly profit from being president. But Donald Trump is being allowed to shake down foreign countries to personally pay him protection money with his cryptocurrency to stave off his insane, illegal tariffs.

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Seems right.

And, wildest thing about it, Tesla's first big factory...financed by the LPO. Textbook pulling up the ladder behind you. Elon got that loan...now no one else can have one.

Short-sighted, petty, infuriating.

The highly educated people who are republicans are honestly some of the most evil people alive.

They know what they’re doing and it’s all about power no matter who dies.

Inspector General Probes Whether Trump, DOGE Sought Private Taxpayer Information or Sensitive IRS Material The request, spelled out in an email obtained by ProPublica, comes amid concerns that DOGE has overstepped its bounds in seeking highly restricted private information about taxpayers, public employees...

NEW: A Treasury Department inspector general is probing efforts by President Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s DOGE to obtain private taxpayer data and other sensitive information, internal communications reviewed by ProPublica show.

Y’all, I think I found that welfare state the right wingers keep crying about

Social Security is YOUR money. You paid into it every paycheck. It's not a handout—it's an earned benefit.

Over 66M Americans depend on Social Security & ½ of all seniors rely on it for most of their income.

Republicans want to cut it!
Call Congress: 202-224-3121
Say #HandsOffMySocialSecurity

A quote in black text against a salmon-pink background reads: 'Social media companies, like tobacco and oil companies, realised before the public what harm their products do'. The quote is attributed to Simon Kuper, FT columnist

The case for banning social media for children seems inarguable, writes Simon Kuper. 'It has worsened teens' mental health, empowered criminals and shattered people's concentration to the point of making the world stupider.' www.ft.com/content/4c7d...

That tracks.

“He’s just a worthless liar”; 💯

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The Untold Story of How Ed Martin Ghostwrote Online Attacks Against a Judge — and Still Became a Top Trump Prosecutor Martin’s career is dotted with ethical and professional questions, records show. Some of the most serious ones about the interim U.S. attorney for D.C. have remained buried in court filings, overlooke...

Interim US Atty Ed Martin’s career is dotted with ethical and professional questions, records show. Some of the most serious ones have remained buried in court filings, overlooked by the press or never reported — until now. @jeremykohler.bsky.social @andykroll.bsky.social