I have a proposal: I don't think congress should be able to name bills. It creates deception. All bills should just go in by their numbers and be referred to that way. E.g. H.R.8281 vs. "The SAVE Act". The former requires explanation and nuance, the latter is propaganda.

Argentina has universal healthcare for its citizens. They now also have $40 billion more dollars to invest in it courtesy of US taxpayers. This is after Trump Inc. cut nearly all U.S. soft power by cancelling USAID and cutting U.S. healthcare. And people still support this administration?

Thinking this is wrong and untenable isn’t radical. Thinking it isn’t, is.

It's telling that the Pre-Trump GOP hero was this jackass who started the post New Deal slide to our present situation of inequity and chaos.

Motivational: www.youtube.com/watch?v=6H9V...

Don’t know if anyone will read this—I’m not on here enough to have high engagement —but does anyone know if there’s an archive of all the BS shit the Trump admin and related has done since 2016?

Irony is prevalent on this timeline.

If you don’t want to be called N*azis, don’t compare yourselves to N*azis. I don’t make the rules.

Pedophile Party

A bunch of corporatists are running our government into the ground, forcing the failure of public services so they can turn around and argue that these same corporatists can do a better job in the private sector. That’s the strategy. Don’t let them gaslight you.

Real quick my take on the chorus non-scandal first of all it’s very disheartening to see the left eating the left yet again. Here’s my take on it. First of all I knew about chorus months ago because bryan Taylor Cohen and politics girl both announced it. It was no secret. [1 of 3]

WOW. @marcelias.bsky.social goes off on the failures of legacy media: "We have an absolute collapse and failure by the institutions that have promised us that democracy would not die in darkness, that in fact, they stand for the proposition that democracy will die in plain sight of daylight."

TACO!! Trump drops ceasefire demand for Ukraine war, tells allies Putin wants land - The Washington Post

I've mixed feelings about the Sweeney ad. On the one hand I think the commercial was done in poor taste for all the reasons people have said it is, but on the other hand IMHO it's JUST a commercial in poor taste with (probably unintentional) racist overtones. Not sure it's worth the Oxygen.

This is great.

Someone other than Trump’s government has the unredacted Epstein files or something of equivalent evidentiary weight. Why do I think this? Because if that was not the case they would have deleted the files by now.

This. There was no "sleeping" about it. 😠

You don't so drastically change the White House as to build a ballroom, glam everything in tacky gold and paver over the rose garden if you plan to leave in 4 years.

What is with this fucking party? Seriously! The number of Pedophiles and people who protect them who also "happen to be" (is it a coincidence???) in the GOP is off the charts!!!

Current Democratic leadership will find a way to fuck it up I fear.

Right?

OK folks, please just stop with the "elections don't matter" mindset. That's 100% part of the GOP strategy to rig elections. If the GOP thought they could legitimately rig their way into the majority through VOTE manipulation they wouldn't spend all their time manipulating VOTERS.

They are [KILLING] the dogs . . . they are [KILLING] the cats . . . they are [KILLING] the pets of the people that live there. Electing clowns that have no business in government to office has long downstream consequences. So yeah, politics matter.

More of this please. Free speech does not mean free to defame or libel.

We live in a world of abundance. There is no better time to be alive as a human being than right now in history. Stop allowing the rich to tell you that we're in a world of scarcity where you have to fight for resources like we're a god damn Mad Max movie.

In the ever peeling back of the rotten onion that is the USA, I'm glad we're now admitting to ourselves that prisons were never about rehabilitation but rather punishment. terror and rich people making money off of the suffering of other human beings.

He would rather lose his base (or at least a portion of it) and release info on his health, than have the Epstein stuff come out. That tells us how bad it is.

Watched this happen on Corey Booker's YouTube channel. It was disgusting. All props to Booker for verbally admonishing them the whole time. When this is all over-- I put 70/30 odds in favor of our democracy right now--the entirety of our federal government needs a dramatic realignment.

This Epstein stuff is just out of this world. It is CA-RAY-Z to see how all these MAGA pundits flipped on a dime over this. Now to be fair, not all did but some of these fuckers that made an entire career over , and the majroity of the MAGA base so far has not either but some of these fuckers...

Dems need to push for 60 senate seats. No fuck that, shoot for 67!!

I didn’t realize that the doomer narratives “the midterms won’t happen” or “they’re gonna rig the election” are still being shared. Just stop. That mindset is demoralizing and completely unproductive. Midterms are run by states snd counties, not the fed. Do not comply in advance.

If you don’t have empathy for the people and families lost in the Texas floods, then you’re no better than MAGA. Check yourself.

Natural disasters are not a time to say “they got what they voted for” No we ARE BETTER THAN THAT!

Dark take but it's logically sound.

Ever read "Shit Americans Say" on Reddit. As an American it's embarrassing. Just like everything else: The internet has been widely available for about 30 years. WHY HAVE WE LEARNED NOTHING!!?!

A very important story that is not getting enough attention right now. It will also be the subject of my newsletter tomorrow. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

‘The Onion' Mocks Congress' ‘Cowardice' in ‘New York Times' Full Page Editorial Not all heroes wear capes. www.msn.com/en-us/politi...

I keep seeing reports about the MAGA budget bill and how the provisions it will be “permanent” which I was having a hard time understanding. Surely if we rout out the GOP we could fix it down the line.

youtube.com/shorts/J_FTW... I have nothing but rage.

The law must always be grounded in fundamental principles such as equal rights and due process, or it becomes a tool of oppression.

And I'm just gonna go out on a limb here and assume this is going to be done without any due process.

How is there always enough money to terrorize people but never enough to feed and house them?