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Kleptocracy at its finest

He sold cocaine and his country doesn’t have oil. People who were active addicts are still imprisoned for crack and cannabis possession in the US under three strikes you’re out. The War on Drugs destroyed thousands of lives. The coming Venezuelan war will be even worse.

Anyone credibly accused of a felony should be investigated, tried in a fair trial, and if found guilty, imprisoned with the same sentence and in the same conditions as the poorest person with comparable charges.

One person one vote! Not 200 acres one vote here and 200 square feet one vote there.

Seems like 47 doesn’t know what’s going on with anything. He’s either totally inept or a liar. Ok, maybe both.

Trump says he wasn't threatening Democrats he accused of 'seditious behavior, punishable by death' The president said that while he wasn't threatening the Democratic lawmakers with death, he does believe they are "in serious trouble."

The term of the year is stochastic terrorism

“Hostile public rhetoric by that elevates the statistical risk of ideologically motivated violence by unknown individuals, without direct coordination or explicit orders.” -Wikipedia

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Nursing is no longer considered a 'professional degree.' What changed? — USA TODAY The Trump administration's definition of a

Surely, it’s just a coincidence that the targeted programs and professions are female dominated.

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Looming affordability crisis set to hit Americans with health insurance through work — POLITICO It’s a perilous combination for 165 million people with employer-sponsored health insurance. Premiums are rising, while yearly pay raises shrink.

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47 will always side with billionaires and autocrats over the American people.

Shutdown Deal Kills Rules to Prevent Food Contamination and Foodborne Illnesses The gutting of these rules coincides with a huge increase in hospitalizations and deaths from foodborne illnesses.

Industry lobbying groups successfully pushed for removal of food safety regulations from the spending bill. If RFK Jr. really cares about health and improving food systems, he should push back against corporate threats to our safety. Add your name: https://fwwat.ch/41LUXcg

That it’s only the ‘unclassified’ files seems like an important caveat considering that 47 believed he can classify and declassify anything instantly by thinking about it.

We could just wait until it all boils over.

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Today on As the Hypocrisy Turns

Is the regime a
A. plutocracy
B. kleptocracy
C. theocracy
D. unholy mashup of all of the above
It’s hard to tell.

Yesterday’s Quarterly’s puzzle seems apt

The regime learned last night that inflicting mass suffering upon the American people is effective extortion. Bullies don’t stop when you give in. They just hone their craft to inflict devastation for personal gain with less effort.

Enough Democrats expected to vote to break shutdown impasse: Sources — ABC News Vote would begin debate on bill to fund government through January, sources say.

Shame and disgrace on any Senators who give in to MAGA creeps. Did MAGA operate in good faith after Dems surrendered in the Spring? Or, did MAGA do exactly as they’d planned before the shutdown?
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It’s the kind of move a very stable, very emotionally secure genius would make

Trump administration orders states to pause paying full SNAP benefits — The Washington Post The Agriculture Department also demands that states “immediately undo” any steps they have taken to send full November payments to recipients of the food assistance program, referred to as food stamps...

It’s never been about budgets or governance. It’s always, always about exerting power and shoveling taxpayer money to billionaire welfare cheats. Now the regime wants to literally take money from starving people.
#SNAP #defiance #resist #billionaires
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Once it worked on religion, MAGA started on pop culture, following the villains’ arc in explicitly anti-authoritarian books, music, and film as textbooks for seizing power. (Handmaid’s Tale, 1984, Hunger Games, LoTR for starters )

The regime hopes that starving, sick, desperate people will violently riot. Then it will institute martial law. If millions of people earning under $100k a year needlessly suffer or die, the regime sees it as a bonus.

Federal judge permanently blocks Trump from deploying National Guard to Portland In her ruling, U.S. District Court Judge Karin Immergut found President Trump “did not have a lawful basis to federalize the National Guard.”

A bit of hope and another reason to support your local NPR and PBS stations for reporting like this

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The Trump administration is fighting against churches in court, churches who are suing them in order to restore food stamps to poor people.

So true! It’s always been about power and wealth. They don’t even pretend to serve the people now. They’d rather rule.

A white flyer with a whistle in the corner and text that reads, “form a crowd stay loud.” It details how to use a whistle to warn people that ICE is nearby.

Stand up for our immigrant neighbors

Many of them are the same goons who threw a beer party in what was then the Rose Garden when The House voted to abolish Obamacare in 2018. I wish the American people understood that what matters to us doesn’t matter to them at all.

This insanity must be stopped.

SNAP benefits will restart, but will be half the normal payment and delayed — NPR About 1 in 8 U.S. residents get an average of $187 a month per person in the food assistance known as SNAP. For the first time, the Trump administration stopped the payments due at the beginning of th...

“The government said Monday that state agencies will have to recode their eligibility systems to adjust for the reduced benefits (…) It warned that in some states, these system changes “will take anywhere from a few weeks to up to several months.”

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Half of them are riding the craven sycophancy train all the way to the last stop. You’d think all these guys with Ivy League educations would know that toadies are usually targeted in a regime’s early purges.

Top Trump Officials Are Moving Onto Military Bases — The Atlantic Stephen Miller, Marco Rubio, Kristi Noem, and others have taken over homes that until recently housed senior officers.

Totally normal

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