I continue to wonder when Americans will decide enough is enough. As Frederick Douglass reminds us: “The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.”

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Surprising nobody, Russia is unable to launch its nuclear capable Oreshnik missile as it explodes mid launch like a Space X rocket.

"Speaker Johnson, it looks as though the president is currently stabbing you with a knife. Do you have any comment?" "Well, look, this is the first I'm hearing about it. As you know, I've been really busy not doing my job, so I just don't know enough about this alleged stabbing to make a comment."

Free and fair elections are good for business. Having a stable rule of law is important to the economy. Not having people afraid to go to work because they might be beaten up or disappeared is essential to a productive workforce. Democracy is essential for a strong economy.

He wants to kill Obamacare, but has no other plan. He is not satisfied with his deportation operation because his ICE agents are not abusive enough. He plans to continue murdering people in the Caribbean Sea because the law and these humans are of no concern to him. All this thanks to John Roberts.

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Tomorrow is a big day. The resistance has been nothing short of historic volunteers across Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Virginia, New York, and California have shown up in record numbers. From the bottom of our hearts, thank you. You’re making history and remember, tomorrow there will be more of us.

The president of the United States thinks asylum-seekers come from mental asylums. He says it in almost every interview where the topic of migration comes up. How is this not 25th Amendment territory? How is he not an embarrassment to this entire country?

Russia isn't just losing the war, it's also losing the cyber war too. Putin has now lost an entire bot farm worth $1 million dollars, it has been hacked and taken over by the Cyber Legion army. It's the first of many more to come. A long winter is coming. #opRussia ⛈️

HAPPENING NOW: Portland Police Commander Franz Schoening testifies that federal officers on Oct. 18 barraged protesters with crowd control munitions — not because of any violence but because another federal officer accidentally shot tear gas onto the roof of the ICE facility.

This is how our government has been corrupted: 1) Donors give huge sums to elect politicians to office 2) Elected officials rewrite rules in the donors' favor 3) Donors make huge profit 4) Repeat We must get big money out of politics. It is the root of our dysfunction.

Remember: The richest 1% evade over $160 billion in taxes every year. That amount would fund SNAP for a year with money to spare. Ask yourself who the real freeloaders are.

Amazon just announced 14,000 layoffs. Its CEO made over $40M last year. UPS announced 48,000 layoffs. Its CEO made over $24M last year. Intel announced 20,000 layoffs. Its new CEO's pay package is valued at nearly $69M. This is what I mean when I say the system is rigged.

A long-deranged and deeply depraved man with a pronouncedly and acceleratingly deteriorating mind announces that he intends to play with the large arsenal of nuclear weapons he controls. But it's okay, because he's not seeking a third term.

Still waiting for Gym Jordan to honor his lawful subpoena from 5 years ago.

None of this is correct. Good thing we have a steady hand on "nuclear"

It is all ONE BIG SCAM!!!

Because one of those groups controls the media and holds political power through huge monetary “donations” and the other does not.

Exactly! The one who controls the media controls the masses. It’s right out of the Communist handbook

If we do the math, the lost revenue is about 180 billion to these corps... I always like putting numbers to the page

You've left out the profits companies like Walmart, etc make off SNAP. The same companies who pay their workers such a low wage, the workers need SNAP.

Cost to fund SNAP and keep 42 million people from starving: $100 billion Cost of lost revenue due to tax cuts for the richest Americans in the top 1%: $100 billion One is decried as "welfare." One is not. Why?

Built by wealthy people to protect their wealth, power, and control.

Because this system was built to protect wealth, not people

www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/28/j... If and when this is over this man has to go to prison for his violations of the Constitution. He and Stephen Miller can bunk in the same cell.

I have been charged in a federal indictment sought by the Department of Justice. This political prosecution is an attack on all of our First Amendment rights. I’m not backing down, and we’re going to win.

Illinois’ benefits website warns that the Trump administration is to blame if SNAP benefits go away

Tweeting this when you haven’t come to work a single day since the shutdown started is really brave.

⚠️ Electric bills are climbing. New analysis from @nrdc.org finds that over 200 gas and electric utilities across 50 states are raising or proposing higher rates. 💸 ⚡️https://www.americanprogress.org/article/residents-of-49-states-and-washington-d-c-face-increasing-electric-and-natural-gas-bills/

ROLLING STONE: “The current Congress has dropped the pretense of public service altogether… Congress enjoys ultraluxe health care as it fights to gut yours.” @RepTimBurchett @MarshaBlackburn why don’t you care about anyone but yourselves? www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Yes, I care greatly about the outcome of the midterms, but if you’re not feeling urgency to speak out and push back every day between then and now, you’re missing the gravity of this moment.

The oligarchy wants full control of what we watch and read.

BREAKING: A Department of Homeland Security officer shot at an unarmed black man during a traffic stop in DC, and the DC police officer said he was told by superiors not to mention the shooting in his incident report. 1/ www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

The Walton family (who own Walmart) are worth over $400 billion, yet many of their employees are on SNAP. Bezos is worth over $400 billion, many Amazon employees require SNAP. The people who need help are not the problem. It’s corporate greed. It’s an unwillingness to pay a living wage.

California is preparing to send its own state observers to watch over federal monitors from President Donald Trump’s Department of Justice. The move underscores a growing standoff between state election officials and a federal government many voting rights advocates say is weaponizing oversight.

"This fucking sucks" and "all is lost" are two different sentences. Don't say the second when you mean the first.

There's a particular kind of doomer on here who's like "and then SCOTUS will install him as president for a third term, and the military will back him up" as if that's the end of history. Friend, there's still an "and then" after that.

This very in-depth article is from September, but I don't recall any news about it from other media. It's sickening how many people were involved with him.

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Corporate media is in a bad place.

If I were running the DNC, there would be Democratic Party sponsored food relief banks across the country right now that specifically welcomed anyone regardless of party affiliation. Along with the food, there could be voter registration and links to runforsomething.net

Donald Trump is telling his DOJ to prosecute people involved in defeating him in 2020. He will claim the 2025 California referendum was fraudulent. He is going to try to impose voter ID and ban mail-in and early voting for 2026. I will do everything I can in the courtroom and in public to stop him.

His plan to go after the midterms is clear

In addition to his corrupt initiation of mid-decade gerrymandering in multiple states, Trump continues to gear up to use DOJ, the US military, and local Republican authorities to rig the midterms.

If it wasn’t clear before that X is a surveillance platform, Musk said in his post announcing the change: “Grok will literally read every post and watch every video (100M+ per day) to match users with content they’re most likely to find interesting.”

I can’t believe how furious this makes me

Why is Vought’s role as Trump’s budget director so key to the president’s plans? “Every goddam thing in the executive branch goes through OMB,” a former official explained. The agency is the choke point for $7 trillion in federal spending.