"They want obedient workers. People who are just smart enough to run the machines and do the paperwork and just dumb enough to passively accept all these increasingly shittier jobs with the lower pay the longer hours the reduced benefits the end of overtime and the vanishing pension" ~George Carlin

This is what a rigged economy looks like:

In the 1970s, CEOs made 27 times more than the average worker.

In the 1980s, CEOs made 48 times more than the average worker.

This decade, CEOs are making 354 times more than the average worker.

That has got to change.

Last night was the 250th anniversary of Paul Revere's midnight ride to warn the Minutemen of approaching British troops.

I want to take a moment to share an excerpt from the Declaration of Independence's grievances against King George III.

Remind you of anyone?

YouTube video by Red Wine and Blue The Reality of Project 2025 with Heather Cox Richardson and Rep. Jasmine Crockett

REALLY, REALLY, REALLY worth the watch.

You really have to ask? It's pretty obvious.

It's about time the Democrats started doing something. I was wondering when they would grow some type of spine. Hope it's not too late.

Fox hunting is not a sport—it's a cruel and inhumane practice. Exploiting legal loopholes, hunters continue killing innocent foxes under the guise of "fun." 🦊💔

It's time to put an end to this outdated and barbaric tradition. 🐾 Share if you agree!

Bryan MacCormack, the executive director of a New York-based immigrant rights group, was pulled over by CBP with two undocumented passengers in the vehicle. He knew his rights, refused to acknowledge their "warrant", and despite CBP threatening him, the agents eventually were forced to let him go.

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Happy New Year Cyclone Nation! May your days be filled with Cyclone victories! #BlueCy

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Happy New Year! Yee haw...

#BlueCy

Tis the season! Everyone have a wonderful and safe holiday!

“History Doesn't Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes” – Mark Twain.

Ditto...

On top of the unprecedented felony charges against Hunter, law enforcement officials and prosecutors ignored a plethora of unrelated misconduct by others involved in this situation. The individual who took and threw away the gun was given immunity for that reckless conduct so long as she testified about Hunter’s drug use; the man who fished the gun out of the trash and took it home, where he had another gun he said he was holding for someone “in trouble,” was ignored; the shop owner from whom Hunter purchased the gun and who doctored the federal firearms form about the purchase (and later submitted it to ATF) was given a pass; and *the Delaware state trooper who colluded with the shop owner to leak the doctored form to make it a 2020 campaign issue was also left alone.* And yet three felony counts were brought against Hunter, despite the fact that law enforcement authorities in 2018 called Hunter the “victim” of a crime and declined to pursue any charges then. Notable among the anomalies and misconduct that went unaddressed by prosecutors, when the government produced discovery to Hunter as part of the Delaware trial, the Special Counsel produced two different versions of the federal gun form Hunter signed in October 2018—one that contained one version of identification (Hunter’s U.S. passport) and a second, different version that contained two forms of identification (the passport and a supplemental form of identification allegedly provided: a Delaware “vehicle registration” at line 18.b). As discovery would show, the ATF form that was the basis for two of the charges against Hunter had been altered after the fact by the gun shop owner who sold him the revolver, and the Special Counsel succeeded in keeping this fact from the jury in Hunter’s trial.

The white paper Hunter's attorneys released has a bit more detail on how the local state trooper worked with the gun shop to release the gun form in advance of the 2020 election.

www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

Makes me sad re-reading this amazing letter from ex-Watergate Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox sent to high school seniors in 1994 after they asked him “What should Americans learn from Watergate?” 20 years later in ‘94.

His answer is remarkable—unfortunately things didn’t work out so well in 2024.