It's not an exaggeration to say that, if we don't turn this around, millions of people will die unnecessarily.

I literally LOL'd. But Brendel is not wrong.

Stupidity has become a feature.

Unlike Trump & Witkoff, most Americans aren’t seeking “amazing business opportunities” for US billionaires in Russia. We just want them to stop indiscriminately bombing civilians & end their barbarian war of aggression with their horde of convicts, rapists & foreign mercenaries.

This. Stop confusing wealth with expertise. As a practice It's clownishly ignorant and deeply lazy.

A very important thread.

See you there.

Seconded. All of it.

Facts.

When Trump rants about "free speech," what he really means is that he wants to censor anyone who points out his lies. European (and others) who publish factual information about hate groups to counteract their propaganda are being banned from entering the USA. In the US, he is attacking news orgs.

Succinct and accurate.

Step 1: change the channel or turn off the television. There is no step 2.

There will be a day when the extraditions to CECOT will be recognized as crime against humanity, and Bari Weiss will not escape consequences for her role in the cover up.

Elon Musk was initially here illegally. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/u...

The GOP has shifted from talking about how their agenda will make Americans rich to how Americans need to embrace austerity. That's a pretty clear confession that the data they won't release indicates the economy is in trouble.

Nothing to see here.

Yet another person who opposed legal abortion forced to find out why it's necessary.

America has opened its door to the worst people on earth while attacking it's own citizens.

If the US can seize a Venezuelan tanker carrying sanctioned oil, then can other tankers in other places, say the Baltic or the Black Sea, also be seized?

You have to be pretty evil to deliberately deny access to food to 137,000 kids while spending the same amount of money on golfing.

This will be remembered as the most pathetic moment in American history. What a needy fool.

True.

It's not clear to me why anyone who gets orders from this administration doesn't lawyer up first.

One of the most creative anti-dictator artists today is Mr Newberger. His almost daily new songs whether Folk, Blues, Pop, etc. all make me feel and put a smile on my face. www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUr9...

Give the GOP power and your family will become increasingly impoverished or lose all medical care. It's as simple as that (for all but 0.1% of us). Also? Just wait until they find out what they can do with AI.

This is what happens when Republicans win elections.

That $130M for soldiers is starting to look a lot more like a $130M hush payment.

Likely.

No decent person is ok with this.

Trickle down economics (low marginal and capital gains taxes combined with low corp taxes and privatized public services) had failed dramatically for everyone but the extremely rich.

A general strike would hit hardest the backers that fund this administration. It would likely be highly effective with anything more that 2% of the working population.

The reason there's so much money flowing into defeating Mamdani stems from oligarchs starting to panic about what might happen nationally if progressive policies are successful in NY.

It's a pretty big deal that the NYC Bar Association--one of the most prominent and respected bar associations in the country--is accusing the President of ordering the "unlawful summary execution," i.e. murder--of civilians in violation of US and international law. www.nycbar.org/press-releas...

you probably need to be of a certain vintage to understand the absolute hilarity of ken starr being in the epstein files

What's certain is that no one trusts a damn thing Kash Patel's FBI puts out, and if these texts were given to local prosecutors by the FBI, then they're immediately sus. The news here is that no one trusts the FBI. I will say the texts certainly fit the narrative pushed by the white house. 3/

It be nice if we would stop repeating this particular odious bit if history.

Spot on.

In the last week of the 1936 campaign, FDR reminded a massive crowd in Madison Square Garden that "organized money" was "unanimous in their hate for me--and I welcome their hatred!" And then the country rewarded him with a 523-8 landslide in the electoral college. This is, in fact, good politics.

"We should not have to live in a country where the Government can seize anyone who looks Latino, speaks Spanish, and appears to work a low wage job. Rather than stand idly by while our constitutional freedoms are lost, I dissent." —Justice Sonia Sotomayor

Word.

Two poems, as timely and relevant today as when they were penned.

I bet the White House staff is busy setting up a bunch of cardboard cutouts in the Oval Office like in Home Alone

America has fallen.

So if a group of men -- all of them wearing masks, with no uniforms or badges visible, driving unmarked cars -- approach anyone on the streets of DC, they're just supposed to submit?

This is called a confession. bsky.app/profile/acyn...