Any one of us could be in the next apartment building that ICE raids in the middle of the night. Any one of us could be on the next boat that Trump bombs on a whim. Any one of us could be detained for hours despite being a U.S. citizen. Authoritarianism hurts all of us.

“The point of modern propaganda isn't only to misinform or push an agenda. It is to exhaust your critical thinking, to annihilate truth.” - Garry Kasparov

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

Read this: www.wgbh.org/news/local/2...

Trump is just the worst! The National Park Service is reshuffling its free-admission schedule so that visitors get in free on Donald Trump’s birthday next year, while Martin Luther King Jr. Day and Juneteenth (previously free days) will now require regular entrance fees.

ICE and the Trump administration have created a culture of fear. The fact that they are targeting US citizens shows that they are profiling based on ethnicity. Yes. They have created a Gestapo. Please don’t compare Trump to Putin. Compare him to Hitler or Stalin.

How to buy yourself a needy malignant narcissist? Just offer him a phony, made up "Peace Prize" & he's all your's!!! No need for a formal ceremony as he'll snatch from the box & put it on all by himself. Both laughably pathetic AND pathetically laughable. 🤡 🫣

So Bondi and Kash make a big deal out of arresting the J6 pipe bomber then the guy confesses that he is a Trump supporter who thought the 2020 election was stolen and his lawyer is arguing that Trump’s broadly-worded J6 blanket pardon applies to him and he should go free. Poetry.

From The Betrayal of Anne Frank, by Rosemary Sullivan. #booksky

Layoffs have hit over 1.1M so far this year — the most since the pandemic. Yet corporate profits continue to hit record highs, with corporations increasingly spending those earnings on stock buybacks to enrich execs and shareholders. This is what a rigged economy looks like.

Fears Mamdani’s election would trigger an exodus of wealthy New Yorkers were BS. Luxury home sales surged in November, with 176 contracts signed for properties priced at $4 million or more — a 25% increase from October, per Bloomberg.

"A Chinese hospital ship quietly docked in hurricane-hit Jamaica this week, projecting soft power into the heart of the Caribbean where a US armada is conducting a controversial anti-narcotics mission targeted at Venezuela."

According to a new study, members of Congressional leadership perform 47% better in stock market trades than their rank-and-file peers, thanks to access to nonpublic information. Today would be a great day to ban ALL elected officials from trading stock, don't you think?

Forty years ago, 90% of media outlets were spread across 50 companies. Now, just 5 companies control 90% of the media market. This consolidation hurts consumers and helps oligarchs. 🧵

They just don't seem to do numbers or facts very well...

The White House surrenders at 138 million views. Sabrina wins.

Reminder: This vast consolidation of wealth and power at the top has not been due to neutral market forces. There’s no such thing as a “free market.” It is designed. It either advances public purposes or it serves the monied interests.

An annual report from the Gates Foundation found deaths in children under 5 could rise by more than 200,000 from last year.

Stoke fear. Exploit desperation. Suspend the rule of law. Fan brutality. Every time the stronger brutalize the weak, it’s fundamentally the same playbook. Our duty is to stand up to brutality. Our moral obligation is to protect the vulnerable and hold the powerful accountable.

Childhood vaccination rates were falling before Trump took office. But RFK Jr.'s latest attacks on vaccines will make new outbreaks of old diseases even more deadly. I'm old enough to remember when polio put my friends into iron lungs. We do not want to go back to that era.

#StarWars Peanuts

The Golden Age.

“The US president will be present at today's draw for the 2026 World Cup and will receive the first-ever FIFA Peace Prize. The creation of the award was announced a month ago, but FIFA has kept the recipient's name secret until now”. 😅🤣😂

The USPS posting a NINE BILLION DOLLAR LOSS!!! sounds terrible. Certainly worse than if you said "USPS costs thirty dollars per person per year" even though that means the same thing and more accurately describes a government service

The Secretary of Defense taking extrajudicial killing requests from podcast hosts

Why are the richest people the biggest heartless dicks to the people in desperate circumstances? You will have to face your creator someday who clearly said “what you do to the least of these you do to me” I used to like Phil. Saudi sellout

Just a thought… but maybe let’s not have massive data centres sucking up water, gutsing on electricity and destroying the social fabric. Could be an option?

The Incompetent Clown Show continues.

Hey, all my MAGA brothers & sisters, please defend this. I dare ya. And btw, clearly Trump this time around is the “soft on crime” president. And it’s not even close.👇

These 2,900 individual billionaires could lose 75% of their wealth and still be richer than 4 billion people. Inequality is eating the whole world alive.

At one point or another, we're all going to need to see a doctor. But our health care system remains unaffordable, inaccessible, and deeply dysfunctional. It is unacceptable. That’s why a strong majority of Americans agree: We need Medicare for All.

My weekly email to my congressman.

If Congress can't trade stocks using inside information, why would anyone go into public service to get rich? That would be silly. If they passed this bill, the only people who'd run for Congress would do it to serve the country. Apparently that's a bad thing, according to Mike Johnson.

Why have so many corporations donated to Trump’s White House ballroom project? Could it be because many of them have lucrative government contracts? Or because they have mergers and other regulatory business before Trump? I’m sure they just thought a ballroom sounded nice…

For 50 years, the median wage of hourly workers stagnated or declined while the stock market and CEO pay skyrocketed. Is it any wonder so many feel abandoned by the system? People lose faith, and a demagogue fills the void. This is why we must fix the system.

I cannot imagine the level of moral bankruptcy to describe the actions of people whose boat has just been hit by a missile from nowhere (this was the FIRST such strike) and who were most likely making a desperate attempt not to drown in the ocean as trying to "stay in the fight."

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