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“Now is the time for us to come together like never before.” -Senator Bernie Sanders
The GOP would prefer to watch their own constituents die just so they can line their own pockets and the pockets of their billionaire “health” benefactors. Beyond ghoulish & grotesque.
Scalise: "Does everybody in America want to be on Medicaid? That's what Democrats are doing."
December 18, 2025 at 2:05 PM
The GOP would prefer to watch their own constituents die just so they can line their own pockets and the pockets of their billionaire “health” benefactors. Beyond ghoulish & grotesque.
Obscene. Grotesque. Corrupt.
December 17, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Obscene. Grotesque. Corrupt.
Open corruption isn’t just being normalized, it’s being celebrated by him, his family and the wealthy elites.
In Donald Trump’s second term, developments came thick and fast, many of them involving crypto, foreign money, or both. @johncassidysays.bsky.social takes stock of the President’s self-enrichment in 2025.
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newyorkermag.visitlink.me/XabOK1
The Year in Trump Cashing In
In 2025, the President’s family has been making bank in myriad ways, many of them involving crypto and foreign money.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me
December 15, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Open corruption isn’t just being normalized, it’s being celebrated by him, his family and the wealthy elites.
As a powerful billionaire in this dystopia, you can extrajudicially murder 89+ on boats in the Caribbean, provide millions in weapons + cover for a genocide, take millions in aid away from suffering people around the world, & still be considered a great man of peace deserving of internationl awards.
December 6, 2025 at 10:35 AM
As a powerful billionaire in this dystopia, you can extrajudicially murder 89+ on boats in the Caribbean, provide millions in weapons + cover for a genocide, take millions in aid away from suffering people around the world, & still be considered a great man of peace deserving of internationl awards.
Incredible that this piece was clearly written from the perspective of the investor class & Wall St.
Working Americans are being trained to honor billionaire interests over the common good, thanks to our mass media.
Working Americans are being trained to honor billionaire interests over the common good, thanks to our mass media.
One year after UnitedHealthcare's CEO was shot and killed, the crisis in U.S. health care is intensifying — even for the companies and investors who make money from it. n.pr/4rDglLU
U.S. health care is broken. Here are 3 ways it's getting worse
One year after UnitedHealthcare's CEO was shot and killed, the crisis in U.S. health care is intensifying — even for the companies and investors who make money from it.
n.pr
December 5, 2025 at 9:38 AM
Incredible that this piece was clearly written from the perspective of the investor class & Wall St.
Working Americans are being trained to honor billionaire interests over the common good, thanks to our mass media.
Working Americans are being trained to honor billionaire interests over the common good, thanks to our mass media.
We turn a blind eye to these evil, ghoulish atrocities at our own peril. Humanity will pay dearly.
November 11, 2025 at 11:23 PM
We turn a blind eye to these evil, ghoulish atrocities at our own peril. Humanity will pay dearly.
Exactly why America is a broken as it is. Billionaire control of our country is destroying us all.
Bill Ackman, billionaire hedge fund investor and Trump supporter, has donated $1 million to a super PAC opposing Zohran Mamdani’s NYC mayoral campaign.
Pro-Trump billionaire Bill Ackman gives $1M to anti-Mamdani effort
It’s the largest contribution to Defend NYC, a super PAC aimed at thwarting the Democratic nominee’s mayoral campaign.
www.politico.com
October 16, 2025 at 7:55 AM
Exactly why America is a broken as it is. Billionaire control of our country is destroying us all.
Voter & representation discrimination, suppression, & white supremacy to be enshrined into law by the highest court in the land. How far we’ve fallen.
The conservatives are ready to wind the clock back to 1982, if not earlier.
Republican justices appear poised to destroy what’s left of the Voting Rights Act
The results will be "catastrophic."
www.motherjones.com
October 15, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Voter & representation discrimination, suppression, & white supremacy to be enshrined into law by the highest court in the land. How far we’ve fallen.
Big winks, nods to the billionaires and crumbs for the rest of us won’t cut it anymore.
We can see the game is rigged.
We can see the game is rigged.
The future of the Democratic Party must be rooted in investing in the American people — not Wall St., corporations, and consultants.
Otherwise, Trumpism will continue to use cynicism, racism, and distrust to divide America.
Otherwise, Trumpism will continue to use cynicism, racism, and distrust to divide America.
October 13, 2025 at 6:36 AM
Big winks, nods to the billionaires and crumbs for the rest of us won’t cut it anymore.
We can see the game is rigged.
We can see the game is rigged.
Weaponized anti-justice. Normalized corruption.
The chilling of truth.
No Kings 10/18. Or no freedom and no country.
The chilling of truth.
No Kings 10/18. Or no freedom and no country.
A grand jury in Virginia indicted New York Attorney General Letitia James on Thursday. James was charged with one count of bank fraud and one count of making false statements to a financial institution.
October 10, 2025 at 9:08 AM
Weaponized anti-justice. Normalized corruption.
The chilling of truth.
No Kings 10/18. Or no freedom and no country.
The chilling of truth.
No Kings 10/18. Or no freedom and no country.
Theater and thuggery at the expense of our humanity.
The U.S. government is portraying its deadly strikes on small boats in the Caribbean as a drug mission. But they may be about a lot more, Nancy A. Youssef, Gisela Salim-Peyer, and Jonathan Lemire report:
The Boat Strikes Are Just the Beginning
What the Trump administration is portraying as a drug mission may be about a lot more.
bit.ly
October 9, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Theater and thuggery at the expense of our humanity.
The fact that this isn’t a massive hair on fire story across every single media outlet says everything we need to know about where we are as a country. Though the billionaire owned & consolidated media won’t tell us that either.
Federal agents grabbed and shoved journalists in a hallway outside a New York City immigration court, sending one to the hospital, according to videos and witnesses obtained by AP.
Federal agents grab and shove journalists outside NYC immigration court, sending one to hospital
A visual journalist hit his head on the floor after ICE agents pushed one journalist off a public elevator and shoved another journalist to the floor, according to video and witnesses.
nbcnews.to
October 2, 2025 at 6:33 AM
The fact that this isn’t a massive hair on fire story across every single media outlet says everything we need to know about where we are as a country. Though the billionaire owned & consolidated media won’t tell us that either.
The people of Palestine should decide their own fate without the threat of bombs and starvation held at their backs.
October 1, 2025 at 10:18 AM
The people of Palestine should decide their own fate without the threat of bombs and starvation held at their backs.
“I know day-to-day life can take a toll, but we must not allow ourselves to fall into despair. If we do not allow ourselves to be divided up by Trump and his oligarch allies, we can change the path we are on.”
The American political system is badly broken | Bernie Sanders
The American political system is badly broken | Bernie Sanders
What we are witnessing right now is the rise of two Americas. One for the billionaire class. And one for everybody else
www.theguardian.com
September 25, 2025 at 11:03 PM
“I know day-to-day life can take a toll, but we must not allow ourselves to fall into despair. If we do not allow ourselves to be divided up by Trump and his oligarch allies, we can change the path we are on.”
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The Leahy law passed in the ’90s was designed to prevent US military aid from being used by foreign units accused of human rights violations.
The author of the law tells Reveal it has never been applied to Israel because of a lack of political will.
The author of the law tells Reveal it has never been applied to Israel because of a lack of political will.
US doctors in Gaza find evidence that kids are being targeted by the Israeli military
American doctors volunteering in Gaza report a disturbing pattern of children shot by Israeli forces. Now they’re pushing for accountability.
revealnews.org
September 24, 2025 at 10:21 PM
The Leahy law passed in the ’90s was designed to prevent US military aid from being used by foreign units accused of human rights violations.
The author of the law tells Reveal it has never been applied to Israel because of a lack of political will.
The author of the law tells Reveal it has never been applied to Israel because of a lack of political will.
“The world is ruled by traumatized, emotionally stunted men who compensate for their inner woundedness by obtaining as much power and control as possible, which they then inevitably use to inflict trauma upon all of society.”
More Attacks On The Gaza Aid Flotilla, And Other Notes
The Israelis will literally launch drone strikes on activist boats for trying to bring formula to starving babies and then turn around and say the world hates them because of their religion.
www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/more-attac...
The Israelis will literally launch drone strikes on activist boats for trying to bring formula to starving babies and then turn around and say the world hates them because of their religion.
www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/more-attac...
More Attacks On The Gaza Aid Flotilla, And Other Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix
Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley):
www.caitlinjohnst.one
September 24, 2025 at 8:38 AM
“The world is ruled by traumatized, emotionally stunted men who compensate for their inner woundedness by obtaining as much power and control as possible, which they then inevitably use to inflict trauma upon all of society.”
He clearly doesn’t give a damn that he’s continuing to erode the credibility and esteem of the party that he leads. There just aren’t words anymore.
"All I can tell you is I'm going to continue talking to him" -- Schumer is still refusing to endorse Mamdani
September 21, 2025 at 1:52 PM
He clearly doesn’t give a damn that he’s continuing to erode the credibility and esteem of the party that he leads. There just aren’t words anymore.
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What’s more astonishing: 1) that the president clearly believes, and repeatedly suggests, that asylum seekers are people from mental asylums, or 2) that no journalist has ever challenged him on this and no mainstream media outlets have done any deep dives on this story?
September 20, 2025 at 7:11 PM
What’s more astonishing: 1) that the president clearly believes, and repeatedly suggests, that asylum seekers are people from mental asylums, or 2) that no journalist has ever challenged him on this and no mainstream media outlets have done any deep dives on this story?
With “friends” like these…
Everything wrong with the Democratic Party in a nutshell.
95 House Democrats (including Jeffries!) just voted to honor the life & legacy of Charlie Kirk.
Only 58 voted no.
38 voted present.
clerk.house.gov/evs/2025/rol...
95 House Democrats (including Jeffries!) just voted to honor the life & legacy of Charlie Kirk.
Only 58 voted no.
38 voted present.
clerk.house.gov/evs/2025/rol...
clerk.house.gov
September 20, 2025 at 5:27 PM
With “friends” like these…
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Fuck Cardinal Dolan!
September 19, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Fuck Cardinal Dolan!
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My friend and colleague Wesley Morris and I had a very sobering conversation about America since the 1619 Project published and how it feels to be falling back under the veil that W.E.B. Du Bois so mournfully wrote about. I hope you’ll listen to this episode of Cannonball @nytimes.com
September 20, 2025 at 1:27 PM
My friend and colleague Wesley Morris and I had a very sobering conversation about America since the 1619 Project published and how it feels to be falling back under the veil that W.E.B. Du Bois so mournfully wrote about. I hope you’ll listen to this episode of Cannonball @nytimes.com
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After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn’t like.
Let’s be clear about what happened to Jimmy Kimmel
Trump’s most brazen attack on free speech yet.
www.yahoo.com
September 18, 2025 at 2:10 PM
After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn’t like.
We are sleepwalking into Hungary
Trump wants the ability to control what is said and who can say it. And he’s been getting it.
Do Not Underestimate How Dangerous The Jimmy Kimmel Suspension Is
Trump wants the ability to control what is said and who can say it. And he’s been getting it.
www.huffpost.com
September 18, 2025 at 10:33 PM
We are sleepwalking into Hungary
“One side is too timid to weaponize its martyrs, while the other denies that the extremists who create them are even a problem. And America’s largest institutions… play along with this farce in the name of national unity.”
www.salon.com/2025/09/17/t...
www.salon.com/2025/09/17/t...
Trump's takeover of American society is nearly complete
The public mourning of Charlie Kirk is more about Donald Trump than the deceased.
www.salon.com
September 17, 2025 at 3:49 PM
“One side is too timid to weaponize its martyrs, while the other denies that the extremists who create them are even a problem. And America’s largest institutions… play along with this farce in the name of national unity.”
www.salon.com/2025/09/17/t...
www.salon.com/2025/09/17/t...