Yep

We totally lucked out that Covid mutated into a less powerful strain and not a more powerful one.

Since I haven’t seen anyone mention this: When the U.S. commits war crimes it puts our troops in danger also, as it gives a green light to other countries that they can do the same to us

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This should be a red flag to everyone about the state of our republic

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This is plain obstruction and demands consequences.

I love this… music that is at once sweet, calming, bittersweet, melancholy!

Agree

Trump is like if you took Buchanan’s moral and practical ineptitude, Nixon’s self-centered paranoia, Grant’s and Harding’s tolerance of corruption, Wilson’s bigotry, and Burr’s treachery, and put them all in a blender. The sum of all flaws.

In a world where fewer and fewer people concern themselves with the plight of others, the loss of Rob Reiner, who cared deeply about humanitarian causes, feels that much more devastating. RIP: 1947-1925. [Selfie: July 2022, NYC]

Rob Reiner’s murder has left me in shock. I never met him personally, but Rob contacted me years ago on Twitter/X because he wanted to tell me he liked the way I used my voice and sparked conversation. And how important it was never to fall silent.

#GVerse Rob Reiner spent decades defending democracy and fighting for equality - even when it wasn’t easy or popular. At a moment when silence is safer, his willingness to speak out is a reminder that protecting democracy requires courage. #Repost to honor Reiner's legacy of justice ♥️

Rob Reiner was a good guy. He made a lot of movies about good guys, in worlds where not everyone was good and you didn’t have to be good. He made movies about people trying. He was angry, as many hopeful people are. He knew the world could be better and he wanted it to be. His death is devastating.

Increase in productivity since 1979: 87% Increase in hourly pay since 1979: 32% Just so happens that ~25% of workers were unionized in 1979. Today? 10%. As unions declined, the super-rich have taken a larger share of wealth generated by labor. We must build back union power.

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We spend twice as much per capita on health care as almost any nation on Earth. We pay the highest prescription drug prices in the world. 85 million Americans are uninsured or underinsured. Republicans — pathetically — have nothing serious to say about the health care crisis.

trump is a 5 year old who only sees the sweet candy in front of him but never thinks about the consequences of eating too much of it. Lowering rates before inflation is truly cooled does not avoid pain. It delays it and magnifies it. Leaving us paying more for everything while rich people get more.

i think a (perhaps underappreciated) aspect of this whole situation is the extent to which every elite profession is filled with people who excel at drawing attention and want to be famous more than they want to do the actual job

Good point. One we often neglect to consider

Ossoff: "This is one of the most consequential votes this Senate will take all year. By saying yea or nay to the clerk of the Senate later today, senators will decide whether people live or die. Senators will decide whether Georgians & folks across the country are financially ruined or have a shot."

Worth noting, before Trump claims credit for "reducing the trade deficit", is that the reason the deficit exploded in early 2025 was the buying binge on imports before tariffs took effect. The decline we're seeing now is the hangover from that.

This poor young man. ICE agents are rogue terrorists.

I couldn’t leave Chicago without getting a cut from my old barber, Zariff!

You may not realize how important it is to keep standing up and speaking out now, but it matters! Don't let the fascist bastards wear you down. Your voice matters! ✊️✊️✊️

The entire White House press corps is built around the premise that what the President and his spokespeople say is real-world news, not complete fantasy. The premise has become fatally flawed.

Yesterday, in just one day, I am told that the Ukrainians killed or critically wounded 900 Russians. In one day. All for the imperial dreams of a tyrant

RIP Trappist monk/mystic, one of my favs, Thomas Merton, died today 1968. "Our job is to love others without stopping to inquire whether or not they are worthy. That is not our business." “Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone - we find it with another.”

Ossoff: "This is so much deeper than the politics. What does it say about the moral condition of this Congress that the thing that has them all tied up in knots is a very simple question: Should people's health insurance premiums go up double or triple? This is a policy choice."

#HandsOff healthcare #Pinks

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Hep B isn't the souvenir u want from ur child accidentally picking up the wrong sippy cup or ur teen grabbing someone else's razor. It's 50-100 X more spreadable than HIV, The vaccine is safe, effective and way easier the lifelong liver damage. Protect ur child & their liver. Share hugs not germs.

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Great financial crisis? You mean when the housing market collapsed, banks went under, our GDP sank, the working class lost trillions in net worth and unemployment soared? Seems like a repeat of the last time we tried to bully the world with isolationist tariffs. Not good.

Exactly.

Tom Nichols: “This ongoing game show of ‘strike a boat every day’ […] is making us into worse people — every one of us, whether we’re in uniform or just ordinary citizens. It is spiritually and morally corrosive on every level.” @radiofreetom.bsky.social

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I figure these assholes’ insurance premiums just went up is what really changed their minds. It finally affected them. They didn’t suddenly grow a conscience, or they wouldn’t have voted for a felon rapist that hung out with pedophiles. #Pinks #ProudBlue #Republicunts #FuckMAGAts

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It is shameful-and expected-that the Supreme Court has chosen to side with those who seek to undermine our democracy and disenfranchise voters of color.

THIS

It’s one of his big moneymakers.

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It's clear why Moscow wants to destroy relations between Europe and the United States but I had always assumed they'd succeed via Europe if they succeed at all. That was wrong, it's America that's tearing it all down

Jacob Frey: "If we are now at the point where the federal govt is deploying agents on legal American citizens with a goal of uprooting people who have formed lives here, have families here, started businesses here, definitively made Minneapolis a better place, everybody should be speaking out."

that isn't just racial profiling -- this sounds a lot like ethnic cleansing.

Russia failed to conquer Ukraine. So Trump is handing Putin what he couldn’t win on the battlefield. Territory. Limits on Ukraine’s military. And $300B in assets. Shameful. Dangerous. Unacceptable. open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...

Voting is a RESPONSIBILITY as well as a RIGHT.