AOC: I want to remind you where the real crime is. It's in the oligarchs taking $170 billion of our money from health care and food assistance and public programs and taking that and funneling it into a secret police program.

We need to recognize this isn’t a Trump issue only, this is every Republican in Congress allowing this. It’s not a Donald Trump problem, it’s the Republican Party!

I remember all the work that went into just getting the ACA over the finish line - exactly 60 votes in Senate, so they had to make lots of compromises. In 16 years since the Republicans have just complained without offering anything meaningful. Anything they come up with has not been viable.

I say this as someone who worked on an arbitration against Venezuela for one of those oil companies: states are allowed to expropriate property. They have to pay compensation. If they expropriate unlawfully or fail to pay, that does not entitle the owner’s home state to invade.

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Trump and Republicans in Congress seem to love socialism for the rich -- corporate welfare, subsidies, and tax breaks galore. Yet they demand harsh capitalism for the rest of America.

I like how it's always "We have an overwhelming mandate from the American people to realize President Trump's vision" when they want to ruin peoples' lives. But when it comes to doing the basics of their jobs "We have the smallest majority ever in the history of the universe. Our life is so hard."

It is very difficult to think of anything Trump has done this year that does not denigrate the USA’s staunchest allies and delight their once shared enemies, most obviously Vladimir Putin. And apart perhaps from Mark Carney, Western politicians are not rising to the unprecedented challenge he poses.

Sounds about right.

The purpose of the United States Constitution is to limit the power of the Federal Government, not the American People. #Truth

Georgia, if you want to keep him as your Senator, please check you voter registration. GOP tricks and cheating have already begun. No messaging can beat voter suppression. Please spread the word.

Growing concern? If this wasn’t your concern from day one, then you have way more faith in this DoJ than I do!

He's happy to spread the coronavirus as well as conspiracies.

Teach a man who hates socialism and votes for authoritarianism to farm and he can receive socialist handouts for life from the government that bankrupted him in the first place.

Trump signed mortgages in the 1990s claiming 2 separate Florida properties would each serve as his principal residence In late 1993/early 1994, he obtained loans for neighboring Palm Beach homes, pledging each would be his primary dwelling, then rented both out www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Forty years ago, 90% of media outlets were spread across 50 companies. Now, just 5 companies control 90% of the media market. This consolidation hurts consumers and helps oligarchs. 🧵

Some say it is illegal to arrest a sitting president. It is not. The president is subject to the law like everyone. That none have been arrested in the U.S. is only a policy internal to the DOJ based on the need for continuity of government operations--a policy that never imagined a criminal POTUS.

Tom Cotton would not even be in Congress, were it not for the huge defense contractors supporting him from the beginning and keeping him flush with cash.

From the @wsj.com chief foreign correspondent

“The point of modern propaganda isn't only to misinform or push an agenda. It is to exhaust your critical thinking, to annihilate truth.” - Garry Kasparov

It’s worth remembering that the phrase: ‘Release the Epstein Files’ actually means: ‘Stop hiding evidence to protect child rapists in powerful positions.’

USA war on drugs?

Record-breaking 75-year-old mother #bird prepares to nest. Wisdom has been laying #eggs since the Eisenhower Administration. #Albatross #WorldsOldestBreedingBird #Bird Link for more info, #photos & video: www.popsci.com/environment/...

CARTOON OF THE DAY

Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries: “Strong floor, no ceiling” Colombian President Gustavo Petro: “A clan of pedophiles wants to destroy our democracy.”

RFK Jr: "Two weeks ago we ended, under your leadership, a twenty year war on women". Three out of five men in this shot have been accused of sexual misconduct, harassment or abusive behaviour towards women. A fourth signed into law a near-total abortion ban in his state as governor.

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Has anyone told the BBC?

No, it's not just you.

WTF is the matter with the BBC???? The use of the word "escalation" is completely inappropriate about a sovereign country defending itself against the Russian invader and aggressor.

Suppression of Speech

Absolutely stunning. Simon Stobart makes the most incredible detailed and action photography of birds.

Russian Texans

Ouch on manufacturing employment. I thought the point of the tariffs was to move manufacturing back to the U.S. #EconSky

Here is the 1 no vote on releasing the files...

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AMEN!!!!

A technique of power as a mechanism for profit, securing low-cost access to resources and cheap labour. It was never really about growth, efficiency or enlarging the pie for everyone. The environment was an afterthought: when profits were at stake, bosses saw carbon overload as a price worth paying.

"All of these rights spell security" said FDR and that's what the GOP, project 2025 and Trump don't want for the majority because the INSECURITY OF THE MASSES gives them CONTROL.