This is how our government has been corrupted:

1) Donors give huge sums to elect politicians to office
2) Elected officials rewrite rules in the donors' favor
3) Donors make huge profit
4) Repeat

We must get big money out of politics.

It is the root of our dysfunction.

Leaked document. Yikes, things are about to get much worse. It looks like we’re on the verge of becoming a military state across the country. Step out of line, and the man come and take you away.

Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Kansas, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, Washington and Wisconsin are suing the admin re: SNAP

The Senate voted 50–46 tonight to block Trump’s tariffs on Canada, and yesterday it voted to block his tariffs on Brazil. Now we need the house to vote. Where’s the House? Is Johnson still guarding the Epstein files?

Hurricane Melissa left dozens dead and widespread destruction across Cuba, Jamaica and Haiti on Wednesday
Wealthiest 0.1% of US who burn carbon at 4,000 times the rate of world’s poorest 10% are fueling the climate crisis causing death and destruction
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

“We’ll Smash the Fucking Window Out and Drag Him Out” We’ve documented nearly 50 incidents of immigration officers shattering car windows to make arrests — a tactic experts say was rarely used before Trump took office. ICE claims its officers use a “mini...

Earlier this year, we documented nearly 50 incidents of immigration officers shattering car windows to make arrests — a tactic experts say was rarely used before Trump took office.

ICE claims its officers use a “minimum amount of force.”

You can judge for yourself.

Ext they can do the same with Democrats or any other group they want to target.

The damage to U.S. farmers and ranchers is already done.

Being cruel to others always brings ppl down. Many consume themselves over their guilt. Be good and raise yourself and others up. It is far more rewarding.

It feels like taxpayers are footing the bill for a dying tyrant’s wish list. A ballroom. A triumphal arch. A war in Venezuela. He’s got people lobbying for him to get a Nobel Prize for the COVID vaccines.

No bequest for the American people in his dying days, though. We’re not important to him.

2 Illinois National Guard members speak out: "I won't turn against my neighbors" Staff Sgt. Demi Palecek and Capt. Dylan Blaha say they'll defy federal orders regarding Trump's immigration enforcement operation in Chicago.

National Guard members are speaking out against the Trump administration’s attempt to deploy troops to Chicago. Thank you! 💚

Republicans learned that this tactic worked when they did that with Obama’s Supreme Court nomination in 2016.

I like how Zohran Mamdani scandals are like "He called his old cousin his aunt one time" and Andrew Cuomo scandals are like "He sexually assaulted 13 women."

This Little-Known Appeal Could Force Your Insurer to Pay for Lifesaving Care. Here’s How to File It. When a health insurer refuses to pay for your treatment, you may have the right to have the denial reviewed — and potentially overturned — by an independent provider. Here are six steps experts sugges...

Few patients appeal a health insurance denial, but a little-known process that requires insurers and plans to seek an independent opinion can force insurers to pay for what can be lifesaving treatment.

Here’s what experts say you need to know.

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It seems like jobs men have to do get reduced or streamlined, while jobs more often performed my women remain inefficient— or even seem to get made more and more inefficient.

Is there a connection between women’s being expected to do more household and administrative tasks, including making appointments and dealing with customer service, and corporations’ making dealing with their customer service into such a time-consuming and frustrating task?

Prison populations still get counted in the census for that county or district, even though the people in prison can’t vote and are more likely to be POC, and the people in the surrounding community are often white. It’s the same thing in another form.

Add another law stating that K Street and all lobbying firms need to shut down.

That’s what they got out of that video?

I thought MAGAs hated “liberal” hippie types who wanted to protect animals and their habitats instead of “drill baby drill.”

“Republicans are clearly making the calculation that Democrats, who have refused to give up their demand for the extension of the premium tax credit to stop dramatic hikes in the cost of healthcare premiums, will cave when America falls into a hunger crisis. What are we doing here, folks?”

NEVER FORGET: In July 2025, the GOP passed the BBB with $75B in additional, multi-year funding to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

BUT the GOP Congress will NOT negotiate to EXTEND ACA Subsidies for 20M+ Americans for $32B. #GOPPriorities

I read this last night. It’s a fascinating story of who commits the crimes — and who gets punished.

Social approbation MATTERS to people. That means that if you publicly deride people, they will HATE it.

Look at how elites have lost their shit because regular people on social media clowned them and did not bow down to their 'supreme amazingness'.

Congress basically doesn’t exist at this point

It’s by design. Congress is helping Trump become a monarch.

How Trump is Building a Violent, Shadowy Federal Police Force Trump's DHS appointees have dismantled civil rights guardrails, protected agents' anonymity and encouraged them to wear masks, threatened groups that stood in their way, and overwhelmed legal challenges to their arrests and tactics.

“ICE, their secret police, is their tool,” said Michelle Brané, a human rights attorney who directed DHS’ ombudsman office under Biden. “Once they have that power, which they have now, there’s nothing stopping them from using it against citizens.”

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Study finds mRNA coronavirus vaccines prolonged life of cancer patients A study found that covid-19 vaccines appeared to awaken the immune system in lung and skin cancer patients, helping them live longer than those not vaccinated.

This makes RFK Jr. look even worse. mRNA vaccines have been one of the biggest scientific advances in recent memory, saving millions of people, and now we learn they can prolong the lives of cancer patients. And Kennedy is trying to kill them. The dude is a dangerous freakshow. Why is he even here?

This might become an iconic photo

Philippines Typhoon Survivors File Landmark Lawsuit Against Oil Giant Shell The lawsuit centers on Philippine laws stating that citizens have the right to a healthy environment.

Survivors of a deadly 2021 Philippines typhoon are suing Shell in the UK, arguing Shell’s carbon pollution fueled climate change and worsened the storm’s destruction. The suit cites Filipinos’ right to a healthy environment under national law.

Just so I'm understanding correctly Trump has, again, taken power of the purse from Congress to somehow fund the military with money from....who?

Why would Trump ever want Congress to come back?

With Congress essentially ruling itself out he's getting his authoritarianism on autopilot.