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The federal government is executing American citizens in the middle of the street for exercising their constitutional right to freedom of speech.

This is tyranny. No free people can accept this kind of government. We need to bring an end to the Trump regime.

24.01.2026 17:47 β€” πŸ‘ 9947    πŸ” 2624    πŸ’¬ 292    πŸ“Œ 86

Who in their right mind believes statements from the Department of Homeland Security?

Who believes anything Kristi Noem or Stephen Miller or Trump might say about what has just happened in Minneapolis?

They no longer have any credibility. That should be clear by now.

They lie like they breathe.

24.01.2026 18:52 β€” πŸ‘ 7640    πŸ” 2199    πŸ’¬ 286    πŸ“Œ 101

So DO SOMETHING about it!!!!!

25.01.2026 01:50 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Whatever is in the Epstein Files is so explosive that the leaders of the Department of Justice are openly breaking the law every day to keep us from seeing it. (Just a reminder amongst all the other stuff flying around.)

22.01.2026 15:03 β€” πŸ‘ 24541    πŸ” 8333    πŸ’¬ 655    πŸ“Œ 294
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U.S. billionaires got an astounding $1.5 TRILLION richer in the first year of Trump's second term.

Remember β€” this is happening as they get even more tax cuts in exchange for the social safety net being cut for everyone else.

"New Golden Age" for who?

14.01.2026 22:15 β€” πŸ‘ 2326    πŸ” 1158    πŸ’¬ 112    πŸ“Œ 73
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In just a month, 10,000 people in MA dropped their health insurance. That's 2x more than last year.

10,000 mommas, grandpas, aunts, neighbors, and friends who looked at their bill and said "I can't do this."

Because Republicans won’t lift a finger to lower health care costs.

12.12.2025 21:27 β€” πŸ‘ 786    πŸ” 266    πŸ’¬ 58    πŸ“Œ 19
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Q: β€œMost hospitals + people who will lose insurance are in rural areas. If Trump & Republicans are so intent on sticking it to their own voters, why not let them?”

@aoc.bsky.social : β€œThat’s the difference between us & Trump. I don’t care if you voted for me, I want you to have health care.”

16.10.2025 02:42 β€” πŸ‘ 9398    πŸ” 2162    πŸ’¬ 122    πŸ“Œ 118

CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1

CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1

CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1

Trickle-down economics was always a sham.

Nothing has ever trickled down.

25.09.2025 16:45 β€” πŸ‘ 21034    πŸ” 7856    πŸ’¬ 676    πŸ“Œ 343
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Blue States That Sued Kept Most CDC Grants, While Red States Feel Brunt of Trump Clawbacks - KFF Health News The Trump administration's cuts of public health funds to state and local health departments had vastly uneven effects depending on the political leanings of where someone lives, a new KFF Health News...

If your government subscribes to the conservative belief that you deserve nothing, then nothing is what you will get. kffhealthnews.org/news/article...

26.08.2025 12:31 β€” πŸ‘ 431    πŸ” 148    πŸ’¬ 9    πŸ“Œ 9

I need you to understand that if you heard a song you liked in the 80s, you couldn’t Shazam it. You couldn’t Google the lyrics. You had to sing it to the guy at Tower Records.

16.08.2025 23:07 β€” πŸ‘ 23620    πŸ” 2396    πŸ’¬ 1348    πŸ“Œ 308
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79 people shot in Gaza over the weekend: There is no excuse for starving people and then opening fire on civilians desperately lining up for food. None.

Congress must not give Netanyahu another penny of unconditional military aid.

22.07.2025 16:26 β€” πŸ‘ 2146    πŸ” 581    πŸ’¬ 81    πŸ“Œ 32
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RNC Sues New Jersey for Access to Voter Roll and Election Machine Records Read more here.

One of the most under reported stories in the legacy media is how many states the RNC and DOJ are suing right now to access their voter rolls. It is a frontal assault on democracy that Democracy Docket covers every day, while legacy media both-sides Trump. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

18.07.2025 00:58 β€” πŸ‘ 4413    πŸ” 1993    πŸ’¬ 100    πŸ“Œ 85
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HAPPENING NOW: Catholic leaders lead a march to an ICE office in Detroit to hand deliver a letter calling for humane treatment of immigrants (Video: Niraj Warikoo)

14.07.2025 16:42 β€” πŸ‘ 353    πŸ” 90    πŸ’¬ 12    πŸ“Œ 11

The yearly pay at the federal minimum wage:

$15,080

The average yearly cost of a 1 bedroom apartment in the United States:

$17,340

We need living wages and lower housing costs. This is not sustainable.

14.07.2025 02:19 β€” πŸ‘ 4630    πŸ” 1302    πŸ’¬ 116    πŸ“Œ 48

You don't deny people due process, kidnap them, and throw them into hot, crowded, bug-infested cages to control immigration. You do it to torture and terrorize.

13.07.2025 13:36 β€” πŸ‘ 112    πŸ” 18    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

The latest ICE statistics show that as of June 29, there were 57,861 people detained by ICE, 41,495, or 72% of whom had no criminal convictions. So much for the β€œworst of the worst.”

13.07.2025 13:21 β€” πŸ‘ 2313    πŸ” 936    πŸ’¬ 85    πŸ“Œ 42

This has always been the GOP's strategy:

1) Cut taxes for the wealthy & corporations by claiming they'll pay for themselves.

2) Explode deficits

3) Use the debt as an excuse to demand cuts to vital programs that help millions.

4) Repeat.

13.07.2025 01:00 β€” πŸ‘ 13984    πŸ” 4196    πŸ’¬ 481    πŸ“Œ 206

This has always been the GOP's strategy:

1) Cut taxes for the wealthy & corporations by claiming they'll pay for themselves.

2) Explode deficits

3) Use the debt as an excuse to demand cuts to vital programs that help millions.

4) Repeat.

30.06.2025 23:16 β€” πŸ‘ 16636    πŸ” 5426    πŸ’¬ 632    πŸ“Œ 265

We now have a concentration camp in Florida.

Stop pretending any of this is normal.

If you claim to be a good person and you're not outwardly opposing this regime, you're not a good person.

Be human.

01.07.2025 01:48 β€” πŸ‘ 35986    πŸ” 11082    πŸ’¬ 947    πŸ“Œ 404
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USAID cuts could lead to 14 million deaths over the next five years, researchers say An analysis published Monday in the medical journal The Lancet projects that cuts to the agency will lead to more deaths from diseases like AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis.

I really don’t understand how anyone in this administration, or anyone who supports them, sleep at night.

30.06.2025 23:30 β€” πŸ‘ 1306    πŸ” 514    πŸ’¬ 69    πŸ“Œ 62

This whole story is insane

01.07.2025 03:19 β€” πŸ‘ 2506    πŸ” 905    πŸ’¬ 155    πŸ“Œ 49

It shouldn't get lost that just today, Senate Republicans have voted to close nursing homes, close rural hospitals, and cut food stamp benefits for children and veterans.

01.07.2025 01:14 β€” πŸ‘ 12600    πŸ” 4218    πŸ’¬ 293    πŸ“Œ 129
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A government ban on Hungary’s Pride parade backfired Saturday as over 100,000 people marched through Budapest, far more than usual

PM Viktor Orban warned people to stay away, threatening β€œclear legal consequences.” But the warnings only turned a modest event into a mass rally against his government

28.06.2025 22:46 β€” πŸ‘ 25579    πŸ” 6338    πŸ’¬ 655    πŸ“Œ 622

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."Β 

-Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953

22.06.2025 22:00 β€” πŸ‘ 25820    πŸ” 7930    πŸ’¬ 392    πŸ“Œ 253
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#Nokings
San Diego

14.06.2025 22:22 β€” πŸ‘ 34224    πŸ” 6108    πŸ’¬ 546    πŸ“Œ 264

This is what rule by the confidently ignorant looks like; sabotage stuff you don't understand and then discover it was actually doing vital work well at trivial cost

14.06.2025 12:44 β€” πŸ‘ 1275    πŸ” 376    πŸ’¬ 16    πŸ“Œ 11

In the last week, Marines were deployed in an American city, the president has called for a governor to be arrested & the speaker of the House has called for that gov to be tarred & feathered, a senator has been pinned and handcuffed, and two state legislators have been shot in their homes.

14.06.2025 15:31 β€” πŸ‘ 1984    πŸ” 737    πŸ’¬ 87    πŸ“Œ 68
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