Funders of Trump's $300M ballroom and East Wing destruction include:

-Amazon
-Apple
-Coinbase
-Lockheed Martin
-Google
-Meta
-Microsoft
-Palantir
-Tobacco companies
-The Adelson family

Don't forget — they're not just buying a ballroom. They're buying Trump's favor.

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Popok: Letitia James appeared in court today in Virginia, and she's already filed multiple motions against the DOJ, Trump, and Lindsey Halligan.

The first motion is a motion to dismiss because Lindsey Halligan has been improperly, illegally appointed to be the U.S. attorney.

When Massachusetts passed a "millionaires tax" in 2023, conservatives claimed the rich would flee.

But two years later, they haven't — and MA has collected $5.7B for infrastructure and public education.

A reminder that positive change can still happen at the state level.

More Than A Stupid Joke "Positive polarization" has pit Americans against one another. Moral fusion offers a way to reclaim character for the common good.

More Than A Stupid Joke
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Jeffries: "It's perplexing to us that Rs refuse to spend a dime to protect the healthcare of the American people, but somehow the Trump admin found $40b to bail out a right-wing wannabe dictator in Argentina in ways that are also going to continue to hurt our soybean farmers in Iowa & the Midwest"

Racism is taught from generation to generation ignorant begets ignorance..I as a child knew better even being raised by a racist father..at 5 years old..I knew better..being an activist before I knew that word..I've been sicked how freely human beings hate and harm others because of color or belief

Incels abound in that party, completely unfuckable.

Charlie Kirk and TPUSA with their hate were invited in to every campus in America.

WTF?

Yeah, look like a bunch of incels...ahhhh lawd this country has problems.

Hendrix is gone ... gone ... gone. Fired by the Kansas Republican Party, which also shut down the Kansas Young Republicans.

Incidentally, the KCP chair is a black woman. So, when she says the KCP won't tolerate this shit, I believe her.

#Antifa
#ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles
#WillNotShutUp

These are the faces of men who think racism, rape, and gas chambers are punchlines.

The fact that these are actual GOP officials, not trolls in a reply section, says everything about the rot inside their movement.

And now for something completely different…

Bertha Wegmann 1847 - 1926
Danish painter

Young Woman, Marie Triepcke, Sitting in a Boat, 1884
Oil on canvas - 127 x 107 cm
Loeb Danish Art Collection, Denmark

Classic Rock is rock music from the 60s/70s, not the 80s/90s.
Thank you for coming to my TED talk.

NEWS: A NY appeals court has voided Trump’s $500M fraud judgment, ruling it an “excessive fine.” The court still found Trump, his sons & company liable for years of fraud. The case now heads to state’s top court.

Protect NOAA and FEMA from Trump's Dangerous Budget Cuts Tell Congress to reject any proposal that weakens the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). Weather forecasting, emergency prepared...

Protect NOAA and FEMA from Trump's Dangerous Budget Cuts secure.ucs.org/a/2025-prote...

Republicans: Freedom‑Hating Baby Killers? Conservative leaders often invoke “freedom,” “patriotism,” and “family values.” They claim to oppose government overreach and defend constitutional rights and innocent life.

Republicans: Freedom‑Hating Baby Killers?
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What the Bishops’ Mistakes with the Catholic Clergy Sex Abuse Crisis Teach Us About the Trump Administration’s Cover-up of the Epstein Files University of Pennsylvania professor Marci A. Hamilton addresses the Trump administration’s attempts to cover up the Jeffrey Epstein sex trafficking files and draws parallels to the Catholic Church’s....

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Trump Just Turned NATO Into His Personal Weapons Laundromat How Canada's former ally is fleecing the free world to enrich Raytheon, scare allies, and kiss Putin’s ring.

Trump Just Turned NATO Into His Personal Weapons Laundromat
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God Formally Notifies Mike Johnson That he is Going to Hell It was a move that many said was long overdue.

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Cartoon: Alligator Alcatraz A cartoon by Clay Jones. Related |� Trump and cronies are giddy to trample human rights at ‘Alligator Alcatraz’

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Anthony David Vernon advocates for social democracy as a tool of rebellion against fascism. Adjunct Professor Anthony David Vernon discusses fascism and the use of social democracy as a tool of rebellion against fascism.

Anthony David Vernon advocates for social democracy as a tool of rebellion against fascism.
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Harvard grads cheer commencement speakers who call for the school to stand strong Harvard graduates are celebrating commencement at a pivotal time for the Ivy League school. The cap and gown-clad students cheered speakers Wednesday who stressed the importance of maintaining a diver...

apnews.com/article/harv... grads cheer commencement speakers who call for the school to stand strong

Trump Appointee Pressed Analyst to Redo Intelligence on Venezuelan Gang

Trump Appointee Pressed Analyst to Redo Intelligence on Venezuelan Gang www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/u...

White South Africans Granted Refugee Status by Trump: What We Know

White South Africans Granted Refugee Status by Trump: What We Know www.nytimes.com/article/afri...

Supreme Court allows Trump ban on transgender members of the military to take effect, for now The Supreme Court on Tuesday allowed President Donald Trump’s administration to enforce a ban on transgender people in the military.

Supreme Court allows Trump ban on transgender members of the military to take effect, for now #usnews

FiveStack: Trump Impeachment; Japan's Trump Card; Mr. Carney Goes To Washington; Trump's Pope Meme A recording from Dean Blundell and Zev Shalev's live video

FiveStack: Trump Impeachment; Japan's Trump Card; Mr. Carney Goes To Washington; Trump's Pope Meme
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Criticism of the late pope is par for the course (RNS) — Will it affect the choice of his successor?

“We have listened to many complaints against Francis’ papacy in these days, but the speech by Cardinal Stella was by far the worst,” one anonymous cardinal told Vatican correspondent Gerald O’Connor.
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Court battle escalates over yet another wrongly deported man sent to El Salvador prison | Arkansas Advocate A federal judge in Maryland Tuesday will for 48 hours pause her own order to require the federal government to facilitate the return of an asylum seeker mistakenly deported to a notorious prison in El...

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