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Mental Health By the Numbers Millions of people in the U.S. are affected by mental illness each year. It’s important to measure how common mental illness is, so we can understand its physical, social and financial impact — and so...

In 2021, 5.5% of US adults, or 14.1 million people, experienced a serious mental illness, according to NAMI. This represents 1 in 20 adults.

In 2024, 5.86% of US adults experienced a severe mental illness.

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Sounds eerily familiar…

Nazi Euthanasia Program targeted for-murder Germans with mental and physical disabilities—claiming 250,000 lives

Many Germans did not want to be reminded of individuals who did not measure up to their concept of a "master race" and were considered "unfit" or "handicapped."

The greatest political scandal today is not what Trump is doing. It is the fact that congressional Republicans have given up their role in the constitutional system as a check on the executive branch. If we are in a constitutional crisis, it is as much on Mike Johnson and John Thune as anyone else.

It only takes four words to sum up the rise of authoritarian fascism, the fall of American democracy, and how a criminal conman got elected: Ignorance, apathy, misogyny and racism. 😳

DOGE Is About Ideology and Mindless Budget-Cutting, Not Efficiency For all the whiz-bang cutting-edge-technology rhetoric, Musk’s DOGE reflects an ancient right-wing knuckle-dragger belief that even good government is wasteful and its beneficiaries are parasites.

For all the whiz-bang cutting-edge-technology rhetoric, Musk’s DOGE reflects an ancient right-wing knuckle-dragger belief that even good government is wasteful and its beneficiaries are parasites.

House GOP Reveals Plan to Devastate Medicaid and Food Stamp Programs House Republicans have a released a budget plan that would take a wrecking ball to the welfare programs used by millions of Americans.

House Republicans have released their budget plan, and in order to pay for massive tax cuts for the wealthy, they are planning to slash funding for Medicaid and food stamps.

Because we need more guns in the wild, right? JFC..

A Valentine for Vladimir Plus: How did the federal government take $80 million out of a private bank account?

Yesterday was a victory for Moscow and for Putin. And it was a defeat for the United States and Ukraine, and for the international order and the cause of freedom.

Today's Morning Shots from @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social, @martynwendell.bsky.social, and Ben Parker:

Elon Musk’s A.I.-Fuelled War on Human Agency Musk seeks not only to dismantle the federal government but to install his own technological vision of the future at its heart—techno-fascism by chatbot.

A thing I have been saying for the past couple years is that AI is labor devaluation scheme. There are very few areas in which capitalists are so perturbed by costs as in labor. The goal is to reduce labor cost to nothing. There are only a few ways to achieve this.
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LIVE: What the Oligarchs Really Want YouTube video by Senator Bernie Sanders

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On every single major issue that divides us, Christian Nationalists, MAGA and GOP are against the actual teachings of Jesus.

This is a book about how deeply they reject the words of that Nazarene they wave around as a prop.

Can’t wait to hear Musk and JD Vance offer passionate pleas to forgive THIS guy

YouTube video by The Back Forty From One Farmer to Another

PLEASE share this!

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Trumps going to cost us Trillions..

Trump’s SuperBowl Shitshow $15M

Trumps 3 trips to Mar Lago for Golf $3M

DOGE $7M 1 week

Cutting programs is smoke and mirrors to run amok and spend on tax cuts for the rich and frivolous bullshit

#SheShed
#DeportElon
#AbuseOfPower

Happy Birthday, Sheryl Crow! 🎶
What's a favorite Sheryl Crow tune of yours? 🎶
Born in Kennett, Missouri, on February 11, 1962, Crow was a music teacher before joining the Michael Jackson Bad World Tour in 1987 as a backing vocalist. She has released 12 studio albums, her debut album, 👇

Trump says Ric Grenell will be Kennedy Center’s interim executive director President Donald Trump said Monday he is naming Ric Grenell, a longtime confidant already serving in multiple administration positions, to lead the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts on a temporar...

This guy is an absolute tool. Trump seems to think his attempts to re-write history and erase culture will be a winning play. This is authoritarian behavior and there will be a massive backlash. #KennedyCenter
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The ABA supports the rule of law. Read full message: www.americanbar.org/news/abanews...

“The American Bar Association supports the rule of law. That means holding governments, including our own, accountable under law.”

💥 Jamie Raskin says he’s contemplating a class action suit against Musk and Trump, on behalf of all Americans!
Yes, please and thank you Senator Raskin!

YouTube video by Allman Brothers on MV The Allman Brothers Band - Whipping Post - 9/23/1970 - Fillmore East (Official)

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Elon Musk keeps boosting white nationalists on X One user Musk amplified frequently attacks Black people and has said he is "impressed" by the Holocaust.

The richest man in the world—who has now installed unqualified loyalists throughout the US government—is getting much of his information from far-right sources who present a world in which “Western Civilization” is in an existential struggle against Black and brown invaders.

George Conway: J.D. Vance is telling us something we should've already known Conservative attorney George Conway joins Morning Joe to discuss the vice president's social media posts saying federal judges aren't allowed to control a president and why he says the White House won...

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Trump Has a 'List' of National Archives Staff to Fire as Revenge for Docs Scandal President Donald Trump, still bitter about the FBI's raid of Mar-a-Lago, has asked for a "list" of National Archives staffers to fire.

NEW: In recent months, Donald Trump asked advisers for a “list” of staff at the National Archives who he should purge, according to two sources familiar with the matter.

Trump DOJ Deleted January 6 Database in Latest Attempt to Make History Vanish This push to whitewash recent history carries a disconcerting echo of countless autocratic regimes.

#ResistanceRoots
#Voices4Victory

The January 6 database has been quietly deleted in an attempt to erase history. But too many of us saw it unfold in real time. Too many of us know what happened. It is our duty to keep this history alive.

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The post from "Republicans against Trump" highlights a statement attributed to Donald Trump regarding Elon Musk's involvement with Dogecoin (DOGE). According to the post, Trump claims that despite Elon Musk's companies receiving over $15 billion from the U.S. government, Musk does not personally "gain" anything from his involvement with DOGE. Trump expresses curiosity about how Musk can dedicate so much time to it, suggesting Musk's deep interest in the cryptocurrency.

He’s “so into it” because he has so much to gain, you witless fool.

YouTube video by VoteVets 🚨Sen. Elissa Slotkin: There Is No King in This Country—Congress Must Stand Up!

🚨Sen. Elissa Slotkin: “There is no king in this country.”

Trump’s billionaire pals are accessing sensitive info without checks or disclosures. It’s illegal—and a threat to our democracy.

“History will watch what we do.” Congress must stand up and defend the country we love.

The NSA's "Big Delete" Today, the National Security Agency (NSA) is planning a "Big Delete" of websites and internal network content that contain any of 27 banned words, including "privilege," "bias," and "inclusion." The "...

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Today, the NSA is planning a "Big Delete" of websites and internal network content that contain any of 27 banned words, including "privilege," "bias," and "inclusion," a NSA source tells Popular Information.

The massive purge is creating chaos, taking down "mission-related" work

The authoritarians & oligarchs benefit from us blaming eachother for the massive wealthy inequality in this country. Blame the corrupt billionaires, mega corporations, and big money in politics. Not your neighbor.