Maddalena Poli

Large brick wall with a tiny white signat the base of the wall that says "Slavery was real"

"Slavery was real"

Tiny sign at the base of a brick wall that, until yesterday, held panels about the people enslaved by George Washington.

Presidents House, Philadelphia.

If you’re defending kidnapping a five year old, you’re losing

I don’t believe in hell but these people really make me wish I did.

Jack Smith: "I do not understand why you would mass pardon people who assaulted police officers. I don't get it. I never will."

"Should we vote to give more money to the people shooting my constituents in the face?" is not a complicated political question. And yet, Democrats don't seem able to answer it.

If this was a functioning democracy, Trump would be in prison right now.

They kidnapped a child

Jack Smith: "My fear is that we have seen the rule of law function in our country for so long that many of us have come to take it for granted. The rule of law is not self-executing. It depends on our collective commitment to apply it."

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The choice is impeachment and removal or calamity for the United States. I don't see how anybody watching Trump's speech in Davos can draw any other conclusion. He's a senile madman.

The old man being cuffed and paraded shirtless in the cold by federal immigration thugs.

They stopped cancer drug trials to fund this.

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There seems to be a fuck ton of ‘deeply concerned’ people who are doing nothing while authoritarianism advances.

How many moms need to get shot in the face before members of congress support a sec Noam impeachment?

How do we pay for Medicare for All? We already do.

We spend more on healthcare than any country on Earth. And that money is stolen by health insurance CEOs.

Medicare for All is a modest proposal to spend the money on healthcare instead.

It's been well over three weeks since the deadline set by law and they still haven't fully released the Epstein files because withholding exculpatory evidence is clearly what you do when you're "innocent."

Abolish ice is about to become a centrist position

Why couldn’t DEM leaders say this in such plain clear words before?

We need less research framing the problem facing our country as "polarization" and more research framing the problem as "anti-democratic radicalization".

Oh hey another rejection! Welcome back to work.

how about journalists stating to say

"this is not true."
"this is a lie."

We are past beyond that need

Also, by their own standards, the cops protecting the Capitol on Jan 6 should have opened fire all over.

Why are so many elected people basically saying "no, stop," and not actually doing the things legally in their power to stop the other elected people from destroying this country? And the ones who are doing something are being blocked by their own side. I'm sure it's nothing to do with who donated.

He Was a Legendary Sheriff Who Inspired a Movie. Did He Also Murder His Wife? — Rolling Stone When Buford Pusser’s wife was killed, his story was turned into the 1973 movie ‘Walking Tall.’ But a new report from investigators suggests it was all a lie

what a story.

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Sunday read.

Minneapolis - Border Patrol stops a protester following them, and tells the car it’s their “first and final warning” to quit.

This guy is in Minneapolis standing before an American citizen in an SUV.

The only reason he's brandishing an assault rifle is because he wants the people he's purportedly there protecting to feel terrorized by his presence.

This is not protection. This is occupation.

He did it on the spur thinking they would grovel to him. But business needs stability. Nobody does business in the midst of chaos.

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Printing press sketch (1628) by Pieter Jansz. Saenredam (1597-1665) (Koninklijke Musea voor Schone Kunsten van België, Inv. 4060 / 3119), (pretty much certain) the draft sketch for the illustration in Petri Scriverii Lavre-Kranz Voor Lavrens Koster Van Haerlem (1628).