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America is a mafia state running a protection racket in the interest of the boss, not the people www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1... bsky.app/profile/john...
December 12, 2025 at 11:54 AM
America is a mafia state running a protection racket in the interest of the boss, not the people www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1... bsky.app/profile/john...
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December 11, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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Just a little FYI from @jaywillis.net
Antonin Scalia Was a Diversity Hire
The late justice spent his career ridiculing the notion that elite institutions had any interest in diversity. He might not have made the Supreme Court without it.
ballsandstrikes.substack.com
November 21, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Just a little FYI from @jaywillis.net
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UPDATE: Trump’s FBI Director Kash Patel just fired a guy he blames for outing him for taking a jet to see his girlfriend sing the national anthem at a wrestling match.
‘Veep’ had nothing on this crew. 🎪
news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...
‘Veep’ had nothing on this crew. 🎪
news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...
November 2, 2025 at 12:58 AM
UPDATE: Trump’s FBI Director Kash Patel just fired a guy he blames for outing him for taking a jet to see his girlfriend sing the national anthem at a wrestling match.
‘Veep’ had nothing on this crew. 🎪
news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...
‘Veep’ had nothing on this crew. 🎪
news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...
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Our military is being paid by an anonymous donor.
Our WH East Wing was demolished for a ballroom - paid for by donors.
These aren’t acts of benevolence or patriotism.
This is the oligarchy assuming control, insidiously becoming part of how we function.
Every American should reject it.
Our WH East Wing was demolished for a ballroom - paid for by donors.
These aren’t acts of benevolence or patriotism.
This is the oligarchy assuming control, insidiously becoming part of how we function.
Every American should reject it.
October 25, 2025 at 2:21 AM
Our military is being paid by an anonymous donor.
Our WH East Wing was demolished for a ballroom - paid for by donors.
These aren’t acts of benevolence or patriotism.
This is the oligarchy assuming control, insidiously becoming part of how we function.
Every American should reject it.
Our WH East Wing was demolished for a ballroom - paid for by donors.
These aren’t acts of benevolence or patriotism.
This is the oligarchy assuming control, insidiously becoming part of how we function.
Every American should reject it.
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Records obtained by ProPublica indicate that food banks across the country were expecting more than 27 million pounds of chicken, 2 million gallons of milk, 10 million pounds of dried fruit and 60 million eggs that never arrived.
Trump Canceled 94 Million Pounds of Food Aid. Here’s What Never Arrived.
ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the millions of pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the administration’s cut...
projects.propublica.org
October 23, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Records obtained by ProPublica indicate that food banks across the country were expecting more than 27 million pounds of chicken, 2 million gallons of milk, 10 million pounds of dried fruit and 60 million eggs that never arrived.
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Swearing in isn’t some ceremony. You aren’t a member of Congress until it happens. He knows that.
No phones, no staff, nothing.
I had to escort her into the Capitol on Wed bc Capitol police must treat her as a public visitor until she’s sworn in. And solo visitors aren’t allowed during shutdown!
No phones, no staff, nothing.
I had to escort her into the Capitol on Wed bc Capitol police must treat her as a public visitor until she’s sworn in. And solo visitors aren’t allowed during shutdown!
Johnson: "Grijalva should be working for her constituents right now. I don't know what she's doing. I keep seeing their political stunt videos. She should be in her office. She should be working or in the district for her constituents" (Grijalva is not in fact a Rep. b/c Johnson refuses to seat her)
October 17, 2025 at 4:16 AM
Swearing in isn’t some ceremony. You aren’t a member of Congress until it happens. He knows that.
No phones, no staff, nothing.
I had to escort her into the Capitol on Wed bc Capitol police must treat her as a public visitor until she’s sworn in. And solo visitors aren’t allowed during shutdown!
No phones, no staff, nothing.
I had to escort her into the Capitol on Wed bc Capitol police must treat her as a public visitor until she’s sworn in. And solo visitors aren’t allowed during shutdown!
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Murders per 100k residents:
* Houston 19.0
* Dallas 16.6
* San Antonio 15.9
* Ft. Worth 10.8
* NYC 4.6
* Houston 19.0
* Dallas 16.6
* San Antonio 15.9
* Ft. Worth 10.8
* NYC 4.6
October 12, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Murders per 100k residents:
* Houston 19.0
* Dallas 16.6
* San Antonio 15.9
* Ft. Worth 10.8
* NYC 4.6
* Houston 19.0
* Dallas 16.6
* San Antonio 15.9
* Ft. Worth 10.8
* NYC 4.6
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Young pregnant women don’t trust Republicans to do shit for them because you already took their reproductive rights away.
Mike Johnson: "If you're a young, pregnant American citizen women who shows up in an ER and you get treated and they pay the hospital less for treating you than some illegal rabble rouser who came in from some South American country to do us harm, that is wrong."
October 8, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Young pregnant women don’t trust Republicans to do shit for them because you already took their reproductive rights away.
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See how this works?
👀 NEWS: IRS documents show conservative propaganda machine PragerU spent $650,000 on a gala at Mar-A-Lago - and soon after Trump targeted PBS for elimination, setting up PragerU to fill the educational void in schools across the country America.
www.levernews.com/prageru-is-m...
www.levernews.com/prageru-is-m...
PragerU Is Moving Into Sesame Street
Amid PBS funding cuts, right-wing agitprop Prager University aims for the head of the class.
www.levernews.com
August 22, 2025 at 4:25 PM
See how this works?
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Everything Trump is doing is aimed at making it harder for Democrats to vote and easier for Republicans to cheat. But we are going to fight like hell in court and we will win.
August 22, 2025 at 2:19 AM
Everything Trump is doing is aimed at making it harder for Democrats to vote and easier for Republicans to cheat. But we are going to fight like hell in court and we will win.
all scrolling is doom scrolling these days
August 7, 2025 at 11:32 PM
all scrolling is doom scrolling these days
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You could fund 90 percent of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting budget for two years with the public money Trump is going to spend retrofitting the plane Qatar gave him -- which he plans to keep when he leaves office.
Show me your budget, and I'll show you your values
August 1, 2025 at 6:09 PM
You could fund 90 percent of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting budget for two years with the public money Trump is going to spend retrofitting the plane Qatar gave him -- which he plans to keep when he leaves office.
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Creative protests & resistance to fascism are happening everywhere. Keep standing up, even in the reddest states. It matters that others see your courage.
Protestors reciting Pledge of Allegiance over and over until they shut down a House subcommittee about to consider bill requiring immigration checks by Tennessee banks on international wire transfers. Video: John Partipilo.
March 19, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Creative protests & resistance to fascism are happening everywhere. Keep standing up, even in the reddest states. It matters that others see your courage.
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when his father mario cuomo ran for mayor against ed koch, andrew cuomo coined and promoted the slogan, "vote for cuomo, not the homo." now this disgraced serial predator is getting set to throw whoever it takes under the bus to regain power.
1. Andrew Cuomo, a frontrunner for NY Mayor, has tapped an ex-employee of "the Coalition to Protect Kids," an anti-trans org, to serve as his treasurer.
His campaign would not commit to EITM that it would protect gender affirming care.
The latest from S. Baum.
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His campaign would not commit to EITM that it would protect gender affirming care.
The latest from S. Baum.
Subscribe to support our journalism.
Official for Cuomo’s New York Mayoral Campaign Worked for Ferociously Anti-Trans Group
“The company you keep says a lot about you.”
www.erininthemorning.com
March 18, 2025 at 12:28 AM
when his father mario cuomo ran for mayor against ed koch, andrew cuomo coined and promoted the slogan, "vote for cuomo, not the homo." now this disgraced serial predator is getting set to throw whoever it takes under the bus to regain power.
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Taps the sign: YOU’RE NOT ALLOWED TO GIVE THE GOVT STARLINK FOR FREE BECAUSE IT VIOLATES THE ANTIDEFICIENCY ACT WHICH WAS PASSED IN 1884 BECAUSE THIS WAS HOW CONTRACTORS SCAMMED THE GOVT INTO PAYING THEM LATER AND MUSK LITERALLY IS DOING THAT SCAM AT THE FAA
March 18, 2025 at 2:41 AM
Taps the sign: YOU’RE NOT ALLOWED TO GIVE THE GOVT STARLINK FOR FREE BECAUSE IT VIOLATES THE ANTIDEFICIENCY ACT WHICH WAS PASSED IN 1884 BECAUSE THIS WAS HOW CONTRACTORS SCAMMED THE GOVT INTO PAYING THEM LATER AND MUSK LITERALLY IS DOING THAT SCAM AT THE FAA
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The 100 lowest-paying major US corporations spent $522B on stock buybacks from 2019 to 2023.
Buybacks artificially boost share prices and inflate CEO pay.
The typical worker at these companies earned just $34k.
Meanwhile, the average CEO was paid $14.7M.
See the problem?
Buybacks artificially boost share prices and inflate CEO pay.
The typical worker at these companies earned just $34k.
Meanwhile, the average CEO was paid $14.7M.
See the problem?
March 9, 2025 at 11:01 PM
The 100 lowest-paying major US corporations spent $522B on stock buybacks from 2019 to 2023.
Buybacks artificially boost share prices and inflate CEO pay.
The typical worker at these companies earned just $34k.
Meanwhile, the average CEO was paid $14.7M.
See the problem?
Buybacks artificially boost share prices and inflate CEO pay.
The typical worker at these companies earned just $34k.
Meanwhile, the average CEO was paid $14.7M.
See the problem?