1/ For those who may not know it, Americans pay Social Security tax on only the first $169,000 of their annual earnings. No SS tax is paid on earned income beyond the first $169,000! And that is why the RepubliClowns are always fake-crying about Social Security ending in the next few years! 😠🤨

I remember when they were saying they were powerless to return a man they illegally sent to an El Salvador gulag because it would violate that country's national sovereignty.

This is the second Republican administration in a row that is being run by the oil industry. It's not a democracy - it's a corporation with a military.

“You are not entitled to a response from us, or anyone, ever,” Department of Education spokesperson Madison Biedermann wrote after our reporter repeatedly asked agency officials for comment to ensure fairness and accuracy.

It's an old and obvious pattern. An unpopular president - failing on the economy and losing his grip on power at home - decides to launch a war for regime change abroad. The American people don’t want to “run” a foreign country while our leaders fail to improve life in this one.

It's always the conservatives who are fooled by fascism's promises, who think they'll be spared the violence, who think they can retain control. It's always only the liberals who raise the alarm and sound the warning, only the liberals who learn from history and know how this is all going to end.

"The Putin Doctrine. In this new multipolar world order the great powers no longer pretend to follow a single rules-based international system but instead openly carve out regional spheres of influence, each claiming the right to dominate its own neighborhood." hartmannreport.com/p/saturday-r...

"The military attack is a harbinger of chaos. What will be the US response if Russian forces kidnap President Zelenskyy, whom the Russians call a “terrorist? When China invades Taiwan? What will be the NATO response when US forces parachute into Greenland?" open.substack.com/pub/stevesch...

"The pattern is consistent. Conservatives panic about socialism or progressives or whatever. They ally with fascists as the "lesser evil." Fascists take power. Fascists immediately purge the conservatives who helped them. Then it's 30-50 years of dictatorship." www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...

Defence of children international sounds very dangerous

Kavanaugh Stops - short version: Other people's rights depend on how racist YOU are.

In 2026, let’s stop asking how a VP who has biracial kids and is married to a child of Indian immigrants could consider immigrants of color to be destroying the US. As a conspiracy theory, great replacement theory isn’t supposed to make sense. It’s supposed to drum up support for authoritarianism.

DOGE was not an audit - it was a cyber attack.

There is no 'alternate reality' where the climate is not changing and adversely affecting humans and the environment: it's called either lying or delusion. Combined with a mere $1M per Big Oil CEO, it's mostly the former, and the cheapest political takeover ever. theconversation.com/from-invasiv...

The parents of these kids are worried about Muslims being radicalized in America.

That Trump raped girls on Epstein Island is not news - we are way beyond that. What is news is the country's reaction to that fact, and what, if anything it will do about it. The Republican Party appears prepared to normalize rape (if you can normalize child rape, you've normalized all rape)

Forest and trees re Epstein documents, as of now. Trees: Controversies about particular documents. Forest: Virtually none of the key documents, ones that we know exist, the ones the victims and knowledgeable observers have been demanding to see, have been released. And so the coverup continues.

CBS NEWS: “We can’t report on the current murdering spree until we get the serial killer’s side of the story.”

Trump Class

They are calling it "Epstaining" ...

Bari Weiss announces that '60 Minutes' will be reduced to 4 Minutes

This is pretext. Trump’s been obsessed w/wind turbines for decades, which began after Scotland put some in near his golf course. He sued the govt & lost, which is why he claims they cause cancer, mental illness in whales, bird extinctions, etc. Welcome to the 19th century. bsky.app/profile/atru...

Redacting 90% of a document doesn't count as releasing it.

Greenland: nearly three decades of uninterrupted ice loss The last year the ice sheet gained mass overall was 1995–96. In 2024–25 alone, Greenland lost ~105 billion tons of ice. www.carbonbrief.org/guest-post-h...

FLASHBACK… Seems relevant today…

The most redacted hoax ever; like DiMaggio's 56-game hitting streak, a record that will never be broken.

I mean, if you were writing a b-rated political thriller about a corrupt presidential administration covering up for their criminal activities, this would be the plot, wouldn't it?

Bondi could not have made it more obvious had she used a yellow highlighter: Trump and his pedophile partners are ALL OVER these files, and the redacted evidence is incriminating beyond a reasonable doubt. They might as well have announced his guilt with fireworks, spotlights and a marching band.

Jeffrey Epstein victim Marina Lacerda speaks on the Trump cover up of the Epstein network and files: "We can see some of these redactions were made obviously to protect, again, the wealthy and the rich and the powerful men." #OpDeathEaters

What if the Epstein files are actually the distraction Vought and Miller engineered so that they can continue to surreptitiously destroy America's institutions, infrastructure and democracy?

I initially didn't want to go down the conspiracy route, but it seems pretty clear now: Epstein did not kill himself.

Trump has no achievements on his own, so he has to steal someone else's memorial.

Science magazine's Breakthrough of the Year for 2025 is .... not AI. It's renewable energy! www.science.org/content/arti...

Does this also mean that we're going to adopt Denmark’s universal healthcare coverage and universal free prenatal and maternal care? www.statnews.com/2025/12/19/d... via @statnews.com

More sad, sob stories from the "But I vote Republican" chronicles ... (But please, no empathy - that would we Woke) insideclimatenews.org/news/1412202...

Nobody works this hard for this long to cover up something this bad unless they are guilty.