www.nytimes.com/2025/12/29/o... I support immigration of highly educated people from around the world. I also understand some of the frustration of Americans. American K-12 education is so unequal, higher education so expensive and so many get left behind that it is hard to see us import talent.

The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6.6 trillion, after getting $1.2 trillion richer over the past year alone. Meanwhile, the rest of the country is getting squeezed by tariffs and high prices for groceries, utilities, and health care. The system is broken.

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Spreading hate is doing it the right way?

Weird article. Ohio State fans are not talking about the UM loss. So we slipped up at home before going on a tear to win the NC. “The Game” just doesn’t matter as much. It used to ruin your season, now it is a road bump. Call us soft, but we got the ring and we didn’t cheat to get it.

Median-gate is really heating up. It is clear that leading Democrats, aided by no one other than George Soros, were taking bribes to “keep Americas medians ugly”. George has huge holdings in drab grey concrete that is known to crack and stain. It is all coming to light! #mediangate

Pragmatic progressives — armed with bread-and-butter proposals to improve the lives of ordinary Americans and an upbeat message of hope — are the future of the Democratic Party. This is a good thing. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/bread-and-butter-and-hope

This stinks to high heaven.

"The issue of government has always been whether individual men and women will have to serve some system of government and economics, or whether a system of government and economics exists to serve individual men and women."  —FDR, 1932

This has always been the GOP's strategy: 1) Cut taxes for the wealthy & corporations by claiming they'll pay for themselves. 2) Explode deficits 3) Use the debt as an excuse to demand cuts to vital programs that help millions. 4) Repeat.

Hard to watch Alcaraz lose. He has been so brilliant over the fortnight. Sinner made him pay for his low first serve percentage. Alcaraz was impatient and inconsistent. On to the hard courts. #alcaraz #wimbledon

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Lander: "It's just gross, racist bigotry. Meanwhile he's running an optimistic, upbeat campaign for a NY where everybody belongs, and I feel proud as the highest-ranking Jewish elected official in NYC to be supporting somebody who would be the first Muslim mayor—what could be more NYC than that?"

Senator Padilla was forcibly removed from DHS Secretary Kristi Noem’s press conference in Los Angeles while attempting to ask a question. Padilla was thrown down and handcuffed. A senator in his own state! (He has since been released.) The Trump regime is out of control.

Padilla: If this is how DHS responds to a senator with a question you can only imagine what they're doing to farm workers, to cooks, to day laborers out in the Los Angeles community and throughout California.

A billionaire who profits off the presidency is feuding with another billionaire who bought access to the government to line his own pockets. Neither should have ever been able to amass so much power. What we're witnessing is a failed experiment in billionaire governance.

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Socialism is what they called public power. Socialism is what they called social security.    Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations.   Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people. —Harry Truman, 1952

So let me get this straight: the "party of the working class" is kicking millions of people off health care to fund tax cuts that disproportionately benefit the rich?

A cartoon by Tom Toro. #NewYorkerCartoons See more cartoons and other funny stuff from New Yorker Humor: nyer.cm/9mf6isU

AOC talking about politicians trading. "Do you really think people don't see this shit?"

Read Mike Davis!

Sometimes I'm reminded that the kids are alright.

Warnock: I hear people attack poor people and act like it’s a crime to be poor, rather than to recognize it’s criminal for so many people to be poor. They do all of this in the name of Jesus… Jesus is the biggest victim of identity theft in the United States

“This happens today: if the investments in the banks fall slightly… a tragedy… what can be done? But if people die of hunger, if they have nothing eat, if they have poor health, it does not matter! This is our crisis today!” -Pope Francis

AOC: We must acknowledge the terrifying moment we are in right now. What we are hearing and seeing with our own eyes is, in fact, happening. We are watching our neighbors, students, and friends being fired, targeted, and disappeared. It is real.

The United States is the richest country in the history of the world. But who benefits from those riches? Consider: the richest 10% of Americans hold nearly 70% of the nation’s wealth – while the bottom 50% hold just 3%. See the problem?

“A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.” -Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Truth is under attack…we need to make sure that we fight it with the truth

so as i understand it the president has driven an improvised fertilizer bomb directly into the foundation of global trade?

We will not be distracted. We will not be discouraged. We’ve got our eyes on the prize. And we will build the prosperous, free nation for all that we deserve. The time to organize is now. OcasioCortez.com

This is totalitarian stuff. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/26/u...

Fuck!

When oligarchs talk of “personal liberties and free markets” they mean their own liberties to become even richer and more powerful. When oligarchs speak of “freedom,” what they actually seek is freedom from accountability. Know the truth.

Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage

Democrats must look to FDR confront this current fascism. They lost their way; it is time to get back to what they were.

Can we stop saying that DJT is a masterful politician? It has always been easy to sell dissatisfaction and hate. People are naturally inclined to blame other people and that makes fertile ground for a demagogue peddling the retribution. This is an old game played by the worst people.

Look up the story of Mahmoud Khalil. They are testing us to see if we can accept disappearances.

Is it just me or is Ezra Klein the king of bad takes?

Poll Finds Most Americans Would Swap Democracy For $100 Best Buy Gift Card theonion.com/poll-fi...