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John McTigue
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Retired slot machine mechanic\Systems Engineer, MG enthusiast, gazebo aficionado
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The Great American Heist: How Reagan, Trump, and Their Billionaire Backers Stole the Middle Class
It’s election day in much of America, although the biggest races are in California, Virginia, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maine, and New York City. As a bellwether for next year’s midterms that could de...
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November 5, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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On the eve of his second election — on October 31, 1936 — FDR delivered his coup de grace, explaining the stakes in his fight with the moneyed interests.

Today’s economic royalists are backing Trump, and the fight is much the same.
October 31, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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More No Kings rally in Reno..
October 19, 2025 at 3:04 AM
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No Kings rally in Reno NV
October 19, 2025 at 3:01 AM
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Nation’s Indigenous People Confirm They Don’t Need Special Holiday, Just Large Swaths Of Land Returned Immediately https://theonion.com/nation-s-indigenous-people-confirm-they-don-t-need-spec-1839033177/
Nation’s Indigenous People Confirm They Don’t Need Special Holiday, Just Large Swaths Of Land Returned Immediately
October 13, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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“The lady doth protest too much, methinks”- Queen Gertrude, Hamlet
October 10, 2025 at 12:58 AM
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October 5, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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Never forget!!
September 27, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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The Nazis did not tolerate ridicule
Article clipped from The Montreal Star * Herr Goebbels Angered By Anti-Nazi Wit Comedians Banned For Humorous Remarks on Leaders: * BERLIN, Feb. 4 - (U.P.) When Propaganda Minister Paul Joseph Goebbels yesterday blasted Germany's cafe society, he called it "society rabble and intellectual snobs," for laughing at comedians who make Nazi leaders the butts of their jokes. Goebbels turned his anger upon the "society rabble" after announcing that live German actors had been banned from the stage for publicly rediculing Nazi party and state functionaries. He بماسمفمسمنمطاللمطا party and state functionaries. He denied that there was any lack of humor in Nazi Germany, but said that it must be kept "good- natured, decent and clean." "There is plenty of humor in Germany, more than enough," he said in three and one-half column editorial in the Nazi party's newspape Voelkischer Beobachter. "But we do not per- mit ourselves to be ridiculed.” The five actors were W Or- ner Finck, actor-author: Pete Sachse, vaudeville comedian, and Helmut Buth, Wilhelm Meissner and Manfred Dlugi, the latter three members of a vaudeville combination known as. "The Three Rulands." The five were said to have been warned re- peatedly to stop making jokes about the Nazis.
September 18, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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A free and democratic society cannot silence comedians because the President doesn’t like what they say.

This is an attack on free speech and cannot be allowed to stand.

All elected officials need to speak up and push back on this undemocratic act.
September 17, 2025 at 11:22 PM
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cato institute analysis of murders by political ideology since 1975, excluding 9/11
September 16, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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September 16, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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I’m deeply saddened by the fact we did this to ourselves. The unforced error of the century, maybe millennia. I can’t forgive the voters, nor the enablers.
September 5, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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September 2, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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From @ennui365
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September 1, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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August 31, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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Unstable Relative, Toddler Compete For Attention At Family Get-Together https://theonion.com/unstable-relative-toddler-compete-for-attention-at-fam-1819570990/
Unstable Relative, Toddler Compete For Attention At Family Get-Together
August 30, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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August 15, 2025 at 10:46 PM
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August 12, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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Why is not Trump’s letter a federal crime- lying to Congress -given its false claims re DC crime?And why shd he be immune from suit for this when anyone else wd be prosecuted.
Read Trump’s Letter to Congress About D.C. Police Department www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Read Trump’s Letter to Congress About D.C. Police Department
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August 12, 2025 at 3:27 AM
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Who owns Politico Again? 😏
August 2, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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Lil Marco get ready
August 2, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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Looks like someone is a Democracy Docket reader.👀
August 1, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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Down at the cussin’ pond.
August 1, 2025 at 4:51 AM
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Check this out, over 30 leading economists have joined calls for a wealth tax!
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taxjusticeuk.bsky.social Tax Justice UK @taxjusticeuk.bsky.social · Jul 28
🚨BREAKING!🚨

30+ of the world's leading economists have written a letter backing calls for a wealth tax on the super-rich.

Among those backing the call are the internationally renowned Thomas Piketty, José Antonio Ocampo, Jayati Ghosh, and Ha-Joon Chang.

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www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Starmer and Reeves should prepare UK for wealth tax, say top economists
PM could raise ‘tens of billions’ while positioning Britain as progressive, say Thomas Piketty and others
www.theguardian.com
July 31, 2025 at 9:32 PM