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It’s actually incredible that as a society we never managed to find the political will to force elected officials to tell the truth on TV.

Book cover for The Way We Never Were by Stephanie Coontz

Pathetic. bsky.app/profile/step...

The official website of the Nobel Prize - NobelPrize.org The Nobel Prize rewards science, humanism and peace efforts. This is one of the central concepts in the will of Alfred Nobel, and it also permeates the outreach activities that have been developed for...

Six of the nine Nobel Prize winners this year work in the U.S.
Three of the six were born outside the U.S., which is the pattern most years. No country has benefited more from welcoming immigrants from around the world.
www.nobelprize.org

Nick Clegg argues lack of fairness because it’s impossible for him to win the game if he has to follow the rules.

Never before in American history has one state's military force been deployed in another state over its objection.

I say never because the Civil War involved states whose governments legally ceased to exist, their offices vacated by constructive resignation, with no legitimate governors to object.

I cannot believe what we are subjected to, day after day.

if they call for maga to boycott the NFL there will be a crisis of conscience the likes of which this country has never seen

“Libraries 📚 literally aren't just a place to obtain books for free.
They're one of the few public spaces left in our society where you're allowed to exist without the expectation of spending money.”

~Amanda Killiar

The US is going to bailout Argentina with your tariff money.

Let that sink in

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I can’t believe I’m watching interviews of city mayors talking about how they are coordinating with other mayors to discuss how to protect their residents FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES

I know we are “used to it” but it is absolutely insane

I have lived and worked in and around Chicago for 27 years and I have been assaulted less often than Sen Paul has been in his own back yard.

YouTube video by Picard Looking Star Trek but it’s Cheers – TNG x Cheers Intro

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Justice Dept. Official Pushes Prosecutors to Investigate George Soros’s Foundation

This is, without any exaggeration, exactly how Putin and Orbán proceeded — using antisemitism to discredit the idea of civil society and political opposition, and as an excuse to undo the rule of law.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/25/u...

What a weird-ass Rapture. Only the Constitution disappeared.

Rooting for the rapture over here...

Hundreds of Alligator Alcatraz detainees drop off the grid after leaving site As of the end of August, the whereabouts of two-thirds of more than 1,800 men detained at Alligator Alcatraz during the month of July could not be determined by the Miami Herald.

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

Comedians are far quieter today than I would have hoped.

Don't be chickenshit.

You want to be alive, but they want you dead. We’re a new, well, funded democratic group that thinks you can meet them halfway.

DOJ Deletes Study Showing Domestic Terrorists Are Most Often Right Wing Following Charlie Kirk’s assassination and the Trump administration’s promise to go after the “radical left” a study showing most domestic terrosim is far-right was disappeared.

The Department of Justice has removed a study showing that white supremacist and far-right violence “continues to outpace all other types of terrorism and domestic violent extremism” in the United States.

🔗 www.404media.co/doj-deletes-...

Airlines Sell 5 Billion Plane Ticket Records to the Government For Warrantless Searching New documents obtained by 404 Media show how a data broker owned by American Airlines, United, Delta, and many other airlines is selling masses of passenger data to the U.S. government.

New from 404 Media: airlines are selling *5 billion* ticketing records to the government for warrantless searching, per new docs we obtained. ARC is a data broker owned by United, American, Delta, etc. Then sells peoples' travel info to ICE, Secret Service, FBI etc www.404media.co/airlines-sel...

$31 billion to prop up an industry that is destroying our planet.

Our government continues to put the interest and profits of the fossil fuel industry over the safety of Americans.

We need to end polluter handouts NOW.

I would like to take this opportunity to remember Melissa Hortman, a serving Democratic politician assasinated by a right-winger.

We live in a country where the official policy is that race can’t be considered for giving people access to education but is the primary consideration for caging and disappearing people.

The official policy.

Pritzker: "When did we become a country where it's ok for the US president to insist on national television that a state should call him to beg for anything? Especially something we don't want. Have we truly lost all sense of sanity in this nation that we treat this as normal?"

So many adults have to fail a child before he ends up 10 years old telling CNN about the mass shooting he lived through this morning