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If this country was truly “pro-life,” we would have Medicare for All, a Green New Deal, gun reform, universal child care, and a living wage.
The right-wing agenda isn’t about “life.”
It’s about control.
SIGN: Tell Bishop Barron to listen to Pope Francis: Bishop Barron recently compared Trump's congressional address to high mass. We call on him to repent of his idolatry, and listen to the wisdom of Pope Francis. act.faithfulamerica.org/sign/bishop-...
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OF THE EMPIRE We will be known as a culture that feared death and adored power, that tried to vanquish insecurity for the few and cared little for the penury of the many. We will be known as a culture that taught and rewarded the amassing of things, that spoke little if at all about the quality of life for people (other people), for dogs, for rivers. All the world, in our eyes, they will say, was a commodity. And they will say that this structure was held together politically, which it was, and they will say also that our politics was no more than an apparatus to accommodate the feelings of the heart, and that the heart, in those days, was small, and hard, and full of meanness.
From a poetry collection by Mary Oliver, where after a hundred poems showcasing gentle observations on nature and animals, she hits you with this
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It’s borderline criminal.
08.03.2025 15:43 — 👍 48894 🔁 15333 💬 2890 📌 871If Donald Trump can override our elected officials’ control of the purse strings, we are effectively entering a period of taxation without representation.
04.03.2025 16:59 — 👍 6289 🔁 1117 💬 82 📌 84Measles outbreaks are back. Grocery and gas prices are up. Bird flu is spreading. All our allies hate us. Air travel is getting unsafe. The stock market is tanking. The government is about to shut down.
And he’s only been President for six weeks. This is just the beginning.
Donald Trump is Putin’s puppet. He demonstrated that in televised living color in our Oval Office today by disgracefully attacking a democratic leader suffering a murderous invasion by the Russian thug. What a stain on America. Slava Ukraini.
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I am embarrassed for my country and incensed at the fool who sits in the Oval Office.
28.02.2025 20:49 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0A hero and a coward are meeting in the Oval Office today.
And when the meeting is over, the hero will return home to Ukraine.
A tweet from Tom Malinowski with a verified badge reads: "Whoops, I accidentally cancelled Ebola prevention! Doh, I fired the the bird flu experts! Oops-a-daisy, I stopped the Lutheran Charities foster care and adoption services! My bad, I sacked the nuclear weapons workers! Now can I have access to your tax returns?"
Living through corrupt kakistocracy
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Cartoon by Nick Anderson
27.02.2025 03:31 — 👍 9831 🔁 2899 💬 179 📌 91Only an idiot would think we should eliminate:
- Emergency response in natural disasters
- Education and healthcare for disabled children
- Clean air and water programs
- Gang crime investigations
- Monitoring of nursing home abuse
- Nuclear reactor regulation
- Cancer research
ICONIC: Yosemite National Park workers just hung an upside-down American flag—THOUSANDS of feet up on El Capitan. That’s not decoration. That’s a distress signal. They’re telling us the country is in danger. Are you paying attention?
www.sfchronicle.com/outdoors/art...
“There’s the America I know and love—and then there’s Trump’s America. I will keep looking for signs of opposition, from wherever in the world there are pro-democracy humans who see and reject what’s happening here.”
www.americaamerica.news/p/rooting-ag...
Trump posts a fake Time magazine cover with a crown on his head and a headline calling himself a king, while falsely attacking President Zelensky—who is courageously fighting for his country’s survival—as a dictator. This is sick and disgusting rejection of basic human values.
19.02.2025 23:51 — 👍 1875 🔁 358 💬 73 📌 14Trump handed massive tax cuts to the rich in 2017. Now he's planning even more cuts.
How are Trump and MAGA Republicans planning to pay for them?
By making it harder for millions of Americans to access Medicaid, food stamps, and other federal programs.
Trickle up economics.
As Trump continues to desecrate the memory of Americans who sacrificed their lives to defend democracy against fascists and dictators…we must hold dear to our knowledge that America’s value is tied to its commitment to freedom and against tyranny.
www.americaamerica.news/p/snapshot-m...
‘This is a coup’: Trump and Musk’s purge is cutting more than costs, say experts
18.02.2025 03:41 — 👍 1340 🔁 451 💬 78 📌 39Oh, now he has the power to decide who should go to jail? No one elected Elon Musk.
17.02.2025 18:12 — 👍 340 🔁 139 💬 41 📌 6The CFPB has:
-Returned $20B to victims of financial fraud
-Cracked down on junk fees
-Fought against politically-motivated debanking
-Protected veterans from predatory lenders
-Protected consumers' data from corporate abuse
Oligarchs want to reverse all of this.
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau uncovered $21 billion of cheating and returned it directly to Americans.
That little agency is proof that we can make the government work for people.
Trump and Musk want to take that away, but we won't stop fighting to protect it.
The irony of the richest man in the world almost single-handedly destroying an agency designed to help the world’s poor, so that the U.S. federal budget has more room for another giant tax cut for the richest man in the world and his pals, should not be lost on anyone. [Cartoon by Mike Luckovich]
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This is like a bank robber getting to fire the cops and disable the alarms just before he strolls into the bank lobby.
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Connect all the dots during the first few weeks of Trump II and what do you see? An oligarchy unleashed and in the open. Their extraordinary wealth is buying the power to make them even wealthier. Some thoughts...
robertreich.substack.com/p/trumps-big...
As Trump’s marauding continues, America's last defense is the federal courts. But the big story here (which hasn’t received the attention it deserves) is that the Trump regime is ignoring the courts.
Where will this end? https://robertreich.substack.com/p/what-to-do-about-a-lawless-president
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Trump is revoking Pres. Biden’s security clearance, plans to fire the Kennedy Center leadership and make himself the chair, and demands WaPo columnist Eugene Robinson be fired for criticizing weak Republicans who don’t stand up to Trump. This miserable mam is a blot against America.
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