Just a thought: How about we stop shaming the poor for buying things that may not be essential, and start shaming the rich for making a profit off things that are essential?

The richest 10% of Americans own roughly 87% of stocks. The richest 1% alone own roughly half of all stocks. It's worth pointing out once again that the stock market is not the economy.

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Oooo. Best one yet!

What an insane time to be alive

Barack Obama: “Virginia, if you haven't done it already, make a plan to vote YES on the redistricting referendum. You can vote early by April 18 or on Election Day, April 21.” Find your polling place at IWillVote.com/VA.

Like, for example, a Secretary of Defense citing a fake Bible verse from Pulp Fiction to promote wars of aggression.

as far as i can tell pope leo has never mentioned trump by name hes just like “killing people is wrong” or “concentration camps arent good” and theyre all taking it personally

For years, L.L. Bean stayed silent on politics. You changed that. You contacted them at first they responded with “we don’t engage in politics.” You pushed back anyway and it worked. This is what people power looks like. We’re proud of every single one of you. Thank you. 🙏

MacFarlane: Are we to pretend we didn’t watch all that on television on January 6th? Did we not all see what happened at the Capitol? These vacating of convictions, these pardons, are communicating to the American people: do not believe your lying eyes

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This GOP war with the Pope might be the new dumbest thing they’ve done, and as usual, it’s completely self-inflicted.

Can't believe these guys have me rooting for the Catholic church

Destroying Democracy since October of 1996.

Hungary just elected a new PM who wasted zero time — he shut down state propaganda, called out the corrupt officials by name, and started the reckoning on day one. It made me want to write down exactly what that should look like here. So I did. open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...

“Please stop saying they ‘deported’ a US-born citizen. You can’t deport someone who never ported. The forced removal of a born citizen from their own country based on appearance or ancestry is not deportation. It is ethnic cleansing. “ -Alisa Valdez-Rodriguez

I wondered what happened to Epstein's Zorro Ranch. Alisa Valdez-Rodriguez has a substack article: alisav.substack.com/p/until-yest...

BOYLE: The CBO says the big beautiful bill eliminates healthcare coverage for more than 15 million Americans. Are they really all, according to you, illegals and defrauding the system. That's really your position? RUSS VOUGHT: Yes BOYLE: That's laughable!

I don't care who you are or what your politics is this was funny. Today's winner of the internet is......

They own this. Whatever disasters continue to unfold belong not to the president and his Cabinet alone, but to the entire Republican Party.

It’s infuriating when a woman comes forward about a man raping her in his hotel room after drinking and the response is “Why would she go to his room?” “Why would she drink with him?” This is Mike Pence logic. Women should be allowed to hang out with men without expecting they will be raped.

Trump will only become more belligerent as the limits of his power become more obvious. For Trump, failure does not lead to lessons learned. For Trump, failure leads to fear of humiliation which leads to more aggression.

Go to any gas station from Rochester to Far Rockaway and you'll hear the same thing: The cost of gas is too damn high. And they know whose fault it is, Mr. President. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Reminder that Trump and the GOP snuck a huge tax break into their Big Ugly Bill allowing private jet owners to write off the cost of their planes faster than before. Meanwhile, the Big Ugly Bill will kick millions of people off food assistance and healthcare programs. "Party of the working class."

Meanwhile, the typical American will pay a federal income tax rate of 14.5% This is what a rigged system looks like. [Via @itep.org]

Maybe it’s me, after all, I’m not one of the least liked First Ladies ever, but I just don’t understand how holding a press conference to say you only partied with child sex traffickers is supposed to improve your popularity.

After the debacle of 2024, it may be time to zero in on a candidate and not wait until the last minute like with Harris. I like Kelly; he stood up to tRump and doesn’t take shit from anyone. He earned my respect. We can’t afford to have 4 more years of MAGA. #ProudBlue #MarkKelly #SheWon

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There's no greater sign of the iron grip that "both sides" framing has on American journalists than the repeated descriptions of the unhinged tantrum Trump is throwing over the pope's anodyne statements on Catholic doctrine as a "feud" or a "fight" or anything else that implies they're both to blame

Talking about Donald Trump having dementia just gives a sympathetic excuse for inexcusable preexisting conditions. Donald has *always* been a mean, self-centered, incoherent fool who says stupid and ignorant things.

JUST IN: Judge Friedman has rejected the Pentagon’s revised press policy, saying it flouted his earlier order and represents a bid by Hegseth and the Trump admin to “dictate” coverage, what he calls “the mark of an autocracy, not a democracy.” ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show...

Here, in this thread, is why I think political conditions are starting to ripen for the impeachment **and removal** of Donald Trump, as I explained on Saturday morning on @msnownews.bsky.social @theweekendmsnow.bsky.social (1/10)

"Pope Leo is weak on crime" Hahahahaha yeah my man he is the Pope. That's not his job. What are we even doing here

In case anyone is unclear that he and his family and friends are war profiteering, he included the stock ticker — seemingly to remove any doubt

“.. The Iran war increasingly looks not only like another shocking humiliation but perhaps the greatest strategic blunder in American military history.” @newrepublic.com newrepublic.com/article/2087...

ROSENBERG: “.. consumer sentiment at its lowest level since the series began in November 1952! .. undercutting the lows of all the prior eleven recessions .. the 1970s oil shock,.. the Asian financial crisis .. the tech wreck and terrorist attacks of 2001, the GFC of 2008-2009 .. the 2020 pandemic.”

The biggest divide is not between “right” and “left." It’s between democracy and oligarchy. The billionaires who control our economy and democracy seek to divide us. They want us to turn on each other so we don't look up and see that they have all the wealth and power.

Joe Kernen comes close to having a coronary on air as Pete Buttigieg dogwalks him all over the Squawk Box studio about Trump's economic mismanagement and inflation

Stephen Colbert on Trump's contention that the U.S. has “met and exceeded all military objectives” in Iran: “It’s true, this war reached all of its objectives. It’s been weeks since anyone mentioned the Epstein files.”

An injured soldier told CBS News their unit “was unprepared to provide any defense for itself. It was not a fortified position.”

Imagine that

Just because a President announces he’s agreed to a two week ceasefire moments before he threatened to commit war crimes, does not mean he is suddenly fit to serve. #25thAmendment

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Retired 4-Star Navy Admiral and former Navy SEAL William McRaven on Donald Trump: "Through your actions, you have embarrassed us in the eyes of our children, humiliated us on the world stage and, worst of all, divided us as a nation."

I thought I was sick of the thought of space travel. Turned out I was really sick of billionnaire vanity projects. What NASA's doing is incredible and has got me excited about space exploration again.

I'm not sure how you can be against removing this man from office right now. What will it take? A nuke being dropped? It's too late then. The purpose of impeachment and the 25th Amendment is to prevent that type of thing from happening, not just to react to it.