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Who you looking at?

It should be “trickle up”. We are the engine that drives the economy.

About 40% of SNAP recipients are children. Around half of ALL children in the country are covered by Medicaid or the Children’s Health Insurance Program.

And the so-called “party of family values” gutted both programs by billions of dollars.

Doesn’t sound very pro-family to me.

Because of the FUBAR Trump situation in general, I can’t eliminate the possibility that a Trump supporter or someone acting on his orders is responsible. Person in custody may not be real. Another distraction from the Epstein files and to keep right/left pitted against each other?

No matter how long I live after we get through this dark chapter, I will never get over the immorality, the amorality, the corruption, the criminality and the cruelty in service to one of the worst humans to ever walk the earth.

🚨Imagine ICE conducting a raid on your PRIVATE PROPERTY.🚨
Illegal, unconstitutional, and an elevation of ICE’s encroachment. This needs to have national attention. 1/2

Is there one American who wants our pres to use our military to topple the govt of Venezuela??? We have our own problems, & our military should not be used that way!

UnPresidented (@unpresidented) The stuff of authoritarianism.

substack.com/@unpresident...

The draft dodging idiot posted a pic of this West Point plaque. It contains these words:

“Our American Code of Military Obedience requires that, should orders and the law ever conflict, our officers must obey the law.”

That is precisely what Senator Mark Kelly told officers to do. #NoSedition

How to Get Rid of "Citizens United" We can do away with it without a new Supreme Court. Nor do we need a constitutional amendment. There’s a far simpler way

How to get rid of Citizens United?

We can do away with it without a new Supreme Court. Nor do we need a constitutional amendment.

There’s a far simpler way. Let me explain: https://robertreich.substack.com/p/how-to-get-rid-of-citizens-united

You cannot have a functioning economy when so few people at the top hold so much of the nation’s wealth. It’s not sustainable.

Yikes.

(via @steverattner.bsky.social)

Fools and their money something something…

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.

Today, after months of requests, I toured the Broadview ICE Processing Facility. I want to share what I saw.

The facility has no food vendor, no medical care, and detainees have to use toilets in the middle of shared cells. These are in no way suitable conditions to be holding anyone — period.

🤬 “Shahed” flew straight into an apartment in Kyiv.

Ex Trump WH Lawyer Ty Cobb: “The Constitution is not adequate to deal with a President as evil as Trump, whose desire is to accumulate & abuse power - total authoritarianism… lawyers, judges, the military don’t have to follow illegal orders even though they have been rampantly.”

Robert Reich The Big Picture: How We Got Into This Mess, And How We Get Out of It | Robert Reich

I’ve been in or around politics for over a half-century now.

I’ve watched as corporations and the super-rich flooded D.C. with campaign cash and ransacked our system.

It won't be easy, but here’s how we break the corporate oligarchy and return power to the people.

I love my resident backyard cardinal couple. Chiding me when the seeb offering is late and raising their babies every summer.

Dear president Zelensky,

please tell trump, Rubio and witkoff to fuck all the way off.

Yep, no Christmas gifts this year instead, I donated to the local food bank.

When us peasants don’t have money to spend anymore the whole machine breaks down.

"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little."

-FDR, 1937

The Putin-Witkoff Plan Worsens the War Five Reasons the US should not help Russia subjugate Ukraine

We have a US administration trying to bully Ukrainians into accepting Russia’s proposal that their sovereignty be undone. Aside from the naked injustice of this, there are five basic practical reasons why it would make the world far more dangerous.
(video)
snyder.substack.com/p/the-putin-...

If Congress is condemning Socialism, does that mean they are going to end corporate welfare?

Jamal Khashoggi's widow, Hanan Elatr Khashoggi: "Try as much as you can to save democracy and freedom of the press and speech in America. Do not be a copy of a Middle East dictatorship. We look to you as a role model of Western civilization—please maintain it."

Spotify is helping ICE recruit more agents to infringe our rights and terrorize our communities. Stop paying for or using the app until Spotify stops running ads for ICE: indivisible.org/cancel-spotify?source=bluesky

Does a bear 💩 in the woods?

Voters standing in the cold on the bridge over I65 (I think? Maybe I40) in Nashville holding up a "Vote Aftyn" sign for people in cats during rush hour (which in Nashville is from 2-7).

So touched to see a gerrymandered district fight like hell for @aftynbehn.bsky.social. TN District 7, message your friends and make sure they have a way to the polls before they leave town for Thanksgiving. Everyone votes this time.