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It's a revealing moment... J.D. Vance welcomes a two-legged robot helping on the job site. But if that helper is a person named Jose, he calls it a threat. Same tasks, same productivity boost. The inconsistency reveals this isn’t about economics.

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I just don’t see how we can pretend even for a moment that anything involving our federal government is remotely normal when the president is covering up his involvement in a child sex trafficking ring. Like, what are we doing here

Call the United States Capitol switchboard at (202) 224-3121 and they will connect you with your senator's office. If you're represented by one of the squishier centrists, be sure to make a call. Now.

Imagine this. The US president had to be ordered to feed his people. Ordered to help the needy. Ordered to help hungry babies. Ordered. He will not do it willingly. He does not care if we die.

A troubled nation breathes a sigh of relief as the Hoagie Hurler case is finally adjudicated. #NotAllHeroesWearCapes

Texas… it’s not just Grijalva…. #TrumpEpsteinFilesCoverUp

It felt good to wake up in America today.

If the sandwich stayed whole, the defense meets its goal

From Lawrence O'Donnell: The Convicted FElon's approval numbers are as low as they were after the J6 insurrection, only 37% approval. The Majority of Americans disapprove of everything that he is doing. The economy, immigration, tariffs, use of ICE & national guard, healthcare & so on.

Let's get this done, California. Vote YES on Prop 50.

TIME’S RUNNING OUT‼️ They count on us not showing up. Vote #YesOnProp50 — get your ballot in by Nov 4

note how the messaging has shifting from "we're targeting criminals" to "we're deporting everyone"

the tone deafness is beyond parody

We are this close to war with Venezuela because the sitting President of the United States is in the Epstein files.

Rep. Jim Himes: "Fentanyl...comes out of Mexico, from the cartels there. There is cocaine coming out of Colombia, not so much Venezuela. So what we see there is a massive number of military assets deployed for purely performative reasons...It's purely performative."

What exactly is the plan here? The US has no capacity to actually wage a full scale conflict in Venezuela. We have no munitions left to do it. We have no invasion force built up. My best guess is that this will be a hit and run with the expectation that Venezuela will collapse or coup Maduro.

Prescient. This term has, in fact, been magnitudes of order worst than the first. In Trump’s first term we witnessed outrageous talk and sometimes action from Trump. But the guardrails, beaten and battered, mostly held. In this second term there are no guardrails.

It is breathtaking how much of what was painstakingly built up over 250 years has been destroyed in ten months. From the economy to civilian/military relations to our foreign alliances to the DOJ to civil rights and on and on.

You could even say he broke good deals, to show how broken things are, to make a new worse deal to show how he fixed it.

This is an especially worrying statement when facial recognition can be inaccurate, biased, and generally make mistakes. Basing whether someone should be in the US or not, and ignoring physical media like a birth certificate, is ripe for disaster bsky.app/profile/jose...

Welch: "This has nothing to do with the shutdown. The law requires and the funds are available to continue SNAP right now without any interruption. So that is a decision the president is making on his own to allow people to go hungry."

False equivalencies will be the end of us.

SNAP, the country's largest anti-hunger program, dates back to the Great Depression and has never been disrupted this way. Most recipients are seniors, families with kids, and those with disabilities. n.pr/48PNNIt

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Not for nothing but these are not really the actions of a ruling party that seems particularly concerned with things like future elections. We’ll cross that bridge when we get to it I guess, or we won’t. And that’s the spice of life

The government may be shut down, but Trump is still managing to get some work done in Washington—like illegally demolishing an entire wing of the White House to build himself a ballroom. Lifting a finger to lower your health care costs? Not so much.

Left: Veteran and U.S. citizen George Retes, pinned by immigration officers in Camarillo, CA in July, before he disappeared for days Right: George on Capitol Hill today, trying to tell as many members of Congress his story as possible

Reminder that we have a rogue president who disregards his oath of office, is an enemy of the Constitution, orders the murder of foreign nationals, and has partially demolished the White House.

OK, so our "Secretary of War" currently has two big priorities: (1) murdering innocent fishermen in the Caribbean, and (2) endangering the lives of commuters in Southern California. Perhaps, we are seeing one of the downsides to having a drunk TV talk show chatterbox running our military.

shocked to learn that the president lied about this and also this is a horrible defacing of a building that belongs to the people of the United States, not donald trump

I’m sorry but I am obsessed with this gif and will be posting it often in the near future Also I’m not really sorry

This sounds familiar.

It is sick

Also just want to point out: JD Vance is 41. Those 'kids' include those only a few years and even just 1 year younger than him.

"Young" Republicans are not some random college group. "Young" just means adult under 40 And a significant amount of them are working to represent the public as staffers to or are themselves sitting elected officials Get outta here with this bs whataboutism

BREAKING: President Obama comes out in favor of Prop 50 in California. California, help protect democracy and return your ballots today!

Love this.

To be clear: LA County has declared a state of emergency BECAUSE OF the federal government. The Feds, LA County is (correctly) saying, have CAUSED the emergency. This is a striking political moment of internal collapse. Local govts feeling compelled to protect their ppl from … their own govt.

Welp, them Christian Republicans totally ok with violence against faith leaders. Saying it right out loud to make it really clear.

California, this November 4th, the whole country is counting on you. Prop 50 puts our elections back on a level playing field, preserves independent redistricting over the long term, and lets the people decide. So return your ballot today. Vote yes on 50.

Obama: "When you see an administration suggest that ordinary street crime is an insurrection or a terrorist act, that is a genuine effort to weaken how we have understood democracy."

So anyway it was on this day in 2009 that Barack Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize

“Oh my god… I have no words.” Listen to the emotional moment this year’s laureate Maria Corina ( finds out she has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Kristian Berg Harpviken, Director of the Norwegian Nobel Institute, shared the news. NobelPrize #NobelPeacePrize

Mother fucker! The House has been in session only 15 days since July. Its October! GOP are loser slackers! Imagine if you only showed up to your job 15 days in 4 months. They get 175k a year in salary. #GOPShutdown

Here are 10 practical tips, based on Retana’s advice, for talking to kids about ICE raids and helping them cope with fear and uncertainty. Each point is presented in english y español. The full guide: lataco.com/kids-ice-tal... By Erick Galindo