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30 September 1928 | Elie Wiesel was born in Romania. A Jewish writer, Auschwitz & Buchenwald survivor, Peace Nobel Prize laureate.

"Indifference is the epitome of evil." / „We must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented."

Joining Alex Witt on MSNBC at 1:30 today to discuss Tuesday’s “flag meeting.”

@caltrain.com just celebrated one year of fully electrified train service in the Bay Area — with surging ridership and faster, more frequent services.

California is driving our clean tech dominance forward and laying the groundwork to hook up to our @cahsra.bsky.social high-speed rail.

In front of drowning nations, Trump dismisses climate change as ‘con job’ As small island states are facing rising seas and vulnerable nations grapple with deadly floods, heat waves and hurricanes, US President Donald Trump on Tuesday told the United Nations General Assembl...

“In front of drowning nations, Trump dismisses climate change as ‘con job’" | New article by @apnews.com in the United News of Bangladesh:

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Finest political leadership comms in history?

It’s amazing how well these hold up.

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Senators

@chrismurphyct.bsky.social — foreign policy, national security, ethics

@warren.senate.gov — financial corruption & crypto regulation

@durbin.senate.gov — Judiciary Committee chair

This is not just another ethics lapse—it’s a $2 billion foreign payoff tied to national security policy.

The Trump–UAE–Witkoff entanglement demands immediate investigation, not shrugs.

Congress must act.

The DOJ must act.

Silence is complicity.

Will this level of corruption continue to go unchecked?

Have we already accepted kleptocracy as normal?

Does Anybody Care This Is the Worst Bribery Scandal Since Teapot Dome? The UAE put $2 billion into World Liberty Financial, then got export restrictions lifted on AI chips. Nothing to see here, move along.

As Trump completes his second state visit to the UK, a reminder of one of the many alleged corruption scandals facing his administration:

As anti-corruption standards slip (or are brazenly ignored) around the world, the UK must show global leadership.

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Israel Says It Will Defund Film Awards After Palestinian Win

A reminder that most Israelis, and particularly Israeli civil society, are not in line with Netanyahu's regime, just as most Americans are not in line with the Trump Regime's actions.

That quote—often attributed to Mark Twain but more likely a modern paraphrase or misattribution—still echoes his style: biting irony, social critique, & a deep skepticism of power structures.

"When the rich rob the poor, the rich call it 'business'. When the poor fight back, the rich call it 'violence'."

Mark Twain

When the powerful rewrite the rules, they call it reform.

When the powerless rewrite their story, they call it rebellion.

Vance doesn't have a mirror.

Absurd. Trump freckin’ pardoned hundreds of violent rioters. And MAGA celebrated that.

One reason few people can wrap their head around the realization that the United States is in a full-fledged Authoritarian takeover – is that Americans, gripped by fear & materialism, cannot imagine surrendering a lifetime’s accumulation of comfort & possessions in an effort to regain their freedom.

Honest reflection isn’t in MAGA’s playbook. Change demands faithful introspection.

Trump offers only chaos & destruction. He is more than a failed leader—he’s the consequence of careless voting, the emblem of ignored wisdom.

Dissent is not violence.

Trump, Vance, & Miller, conflate critique with destruction, & that confusion is intentional, & dangerous.

It leads to flawed reasoning—& even worse conclusions.

This is Vance's rehearsal for taking over the dictatorship.

Trump/Vance/Stephen Miller are busy spreading blatant lies and glossing over violence committed by the far-right.

They're establishing a justification to unleash the government against anyone who opposes MAGA.

All of this must be understood against the backdrop of Trump’s declining popularity.

Vance has poor judgment.

He proves it often—and that moment was no exception.

Vance: "There's no unity with people who fund these articles, who pay the salaries of these terrorist sympathizers...Soros' OSF and the Ford Foundation...benefit from generous tax treatment...How do they reward us? By setting fire to the house built by the American family."

Very fascist-y.

Our community guidelines have always put safety first, with a prohibition against glorifying violence or harm. This goes back to the very earliest days of the site.

The murders of Charlie Kirk and Minnesota state representative Melissa Hortman are part of a dangerous rise in political violence.

We cannot accept this as the norm.

We must do whatever we can to reduce the anger and hate that are consuming and destroying so much of the country.

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It is also a lie that you are amplifying.

I don’t advocate violence of any kind, political or otherwise, on any side.

I also won’t be gaslit into believing a foul hate-monger was simply a regular guy with different views.

Here is a sampling of what he was all about:

Here’s the thing.

It’ll be a cold day in hell before I lower my American flag for someone who sent bus loads of insurrectionists to the Capitol.

They do know the Reichstag Fire was, um, bad…right?