Asked which was more important, the acquisition of Greenland or the preservation of NATO, he didn't answer

Since 1975, $79 trillion in wealth has been redistributed from the bottom 90% to the top 1% — a 1% that now owns more wealth than the bottom 93%. We can respect innovation & entrepreneurship, but we cannot respect the extraordinary greed that now exists. We need a wealth tax.

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I’m now convinced we’re living in a long-running dystopian series which is frantically searching for new plot points.

Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:

Da Bears!!!! They earned that one!

Pope Leo: “Creation is crying. But many powerful people do not hear this cry: the wealth of the earth is in the hands of a few, very few, increasingly concentrated – unjustly – in the hands of those who often do not want to hear the groaning of the earth and the poor.” www.vatican.va/content/leo-...

I started writing a book on lions. It turned out to be quite tricky and, frankly, damn dangerous, so I went back to regular paper. #WritingCommunity #BookSky #WriteSky

I so relate to this, and it makes me very sad.

A year ago I went to Alaska, got up in the middle of the night twice, but wasn’t able to see the Northern Lights. Tonight here they are in Indiana. 🤩

Oh my gosh @toddwhitaker.bsky.social , without giving anything away for those who haven’t seen it yet, what a Jeopardy game! (Also, why didn’t you and Beth play Clue with Harrison as a kid?) 😉

“The 3.5% rule is a concept in political science that states that when 3.5% of the population of a country protest nonviolently against a government, that government is likely to fall from power.” If you can get to a No Kings rally this Saturday, please do.

This Is Fascism

It just boggles my mind that when we puzzle over how we got in this mess everyone doesn’t just point at Rupert Murdoch. It used to be to get this level of alternate reality someone would hand you a copy of a copy of a copy of an incoherent manifesto.

Thirteen years since Sandy Hook and, no offense, but if thoughts and prayers were gonna do anything, they'd've done it by now.

Putting the military on the street will lower crime. It does in North Korea, did in Nazi Germany, and in the book 1984. The question isn’t will it lower crime. The question is do we want to be a nation governed like this. Until 6 minutes ago the GOP believed in LOCAL control.

I've clung to grim belief that 1968 would be darkest year I'd see in US. Horrific assassinations. Real (not show) military occupation in DC. Tet and MyLai. 'Police Riot' in Chicago. Nixon/Agnew. Not so certain any more. Back then 2 parties still functioned. A prez could resign for "good of nation"

Good luck explaining to your grandchildren why we crossed known climate tipping points. “Oh, we wanted to let big companies pollute for free,” won’t have much appeal.

Me three months ago:

Update: I offered the amendment. Not to refuse acceptance of the Qatari jet; just to prohibit Trump from taking it with him when he leaves office - after the taxpayers spend $1 billion to retrofit it. Failed 14-15. Every single Republican voted to allow Trump to take the jet.

The IRS's free tax filing tool is now reportedly "gone," according to Trump's IRS chief. This comes after Intuit, the maker of TurboTax, lobbied the government for years to block IRS free file. Intuit donated $1 million to Trump’s inauguration. See how this works?

Living with the permanent, legitimate fear that on any given day you could be slaughtered with an assault weapon isn’t freedom. It’s madness.

The oil industry buys off Congress. No action on climate. The NRA buys off Congress. No action on guns. Insurance companies buy off Congress. No action on health care. The list goes on and on. Money in politics is the root of our dysfunction.

Justice Kagan cuts to the chase: "By means of [its repeated, unexplained grants of emergency relief to the Trump administration], this Court may facilitate the permanent transfer of authority, piece by piece by piece, from one branch of Government to another."

The subway risk chart you've been waiting for (Sawyer County, Wisconsin, is where Sean Duffy is from). Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

So am I reading this court decision correctly? We now have 50 micronations with their own laws interpreting the U.S. Constitution wholly separate from one another? But there's one guy with private law enforcement who is immune from all punishment who can do whatever he wants in those 50 states?

So clever! A perfect look at the sad state of America today.

She is my new hero! 🇺🇸

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The Ukrainians deserve to win. And they will.

Chris Murphy on Joni Ernst: "I think everybody in that audience knows they're going to die, they would just rather die in old age at 85 or 90 instead of dying at 40. And the reality is that when you lose your healthcare, you are much more at risk of early death."

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America cannot long remain free, nor first among nations, if it becomes the kind of place where universities are dismantled because they don't align politically with the current head of the government.

Three things made the US a rich and powerful nation: the rule of law, its science & innovation system, and openness to foreign talent. Remarkable how Trump has taken a sledgehammer to all three. No enemy of this country could do more.

My heart breaks for what my own country is doing to Ukraine. 😞

This is shameless but not surprising with a Republican supermajority in our state that rubber stamps anything the governor wants. 🫤

What are we doing?! We are governing like the mafia.

Nothing says teacher appreciation like gutting the Department of Education and firing half of the people that make the agency run.

Here it is. A timetable of 100 days of corruption. Breathtaking. Heartbreaking. We cannot let this stand.

The reality 👇

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Happy Earth Day! 🤨

A new study models the impact of the implosion of U.S.-funded disease treatment and prevention in the developing world — and suggests that Elon Musk and Marco Rubio will go down as among history’s greatest monsters if funding and effective administration are not restored.

This is Marco Rubio explaining how the USA promised to defend Ukraine forever if they got rid of their nuclear arsenal left after the Soviet Union fell. This is why lil marco was sinking into the couch. He was hoping we wouldn’t find it…so don’t RT right now this very second.

👇🏽🎯 scrap the cap