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Do not identify as a liberal, a feminist, an atheist, or anything that implies have adopted anyone else's ideals or conclusions. Recommend doing the same. Am a hiker, and when need be an activist..
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Here's a song we can all relate to while you give your eyes a break from reading. Hope you enjoy it :-)
One nation, under MAGA's God:
"Despite the Bible's clear call to 'love thy neighbor,'" the pastors lament, "the MAGA movement has used its version of the Christian faith to oppress immigrants, oppose the rights of women and condemn the LGBTQ+ community..and arrests of faith leaders.."
"Despite the Bible's clear call to 'love thy neighbor,'" the pastors lament, "the MAGA movement has used its version of the Christian faith to oppress immigrants, oppose the rights of women and condemn the LGBTQ+ community..and arrests of faith leaders.."
Pastors deliver scathing critique of 'self-serving' Trump’s MAGA Christianity
Within Christianity, President Donald Trump is drawing everything from adulation to intense disdain. The adulation is mostly coming from a specific demographic: far-right white evangelicals. Among fun...
www.alternet.org
December 22, 2025 at 3:32 AM
One nation, under MAGA's God:
"Despite the Bible's clear call to 'love thy neighbor,'" the pastors lament, "the MAGA movement has used its version of the Christian faith to oppress immigrants, oppose the rights of women and condemn the LGBTQ+ community..and arrests of faith leaders.."
"Despite the Bible's clear call to 'love thy neighbor,'" the pastors lament, "the MAGA movement has used its version of the Christian faith to oppress immigrants, oppose the rights of women and condemn the LGBTQ+ community..and arrests of faith leaders.."
On the bright side, it saves the ambassadors some shame, and no one will be talking behind their backs now..
Trump removes nearly 30 career diplomats from ambassadorial positions
The Trump administration is recalling nearly 30 career diplomats from ambassadorial and other senior embassy posts as it moves to reshape the U.S. diplomatic posture abroad with personnel deemed fully...
www.yahoo.com
December 22, 2025 at 2:52 AM
On the bright side, it saves the ambassadors some shame, and no one will be talking behind their backs now..
America--SOLD OUT
December 22, 2025 at 2:41 AM
America--SOLD OUT
Seem to be alone in this, but every time Arianna Grande pops up, can only think one thing--DONUT LICKER. It's a chronic condition, and incurable.
December 21, 2025 at 4:42 AM
Seem to be alone in this, but every time Arianna Grande pops up, can only think one thing--DONUT LICKER. It's a chronic condition, and incurable.
Profiles in courage:
“The settlers are trying to provoke the local people into protecting themselves, but if they do the army and police will storm the community and arrest everyone..
We are a protective presence because we are putting our bodies between the Jewish settlers and the Palestinians.”
“The settlers are trying to provoke the local people into protecting themselves, but if they do the army and police will storm the community and arrest everyone..
We are a protective presence because we are putting our bodies between the Jewish settlers and the Palestinians.”
The volunteers putting their bodies between Israel settlers and a Palestinian village
In the Jordan valley, teenage settlers drive herds of goats into a Palestinian community in a bid to force families out – volunteers are trying to hold the line
www.theguardian.com
December 20, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Profiles in courage:
“The settlers are trying to provoke the local people into protecting themselves, but if they do the army and police will storm the community and arrest everyone..
We are a protective presence because we are putting our bodies between the Jewish settlers and the Palestinians.”
“The settlers are trying to provoke the local people into protecting themselves, but if they do the army and police will storm the community and arrest everyone..
We are a protective presence because we are putting our bodies between the Jewish settlers and the Palestinians.”
Have been a victim of this situation this too, Three Cheers for ProPublica-- (something EVERYONE needs to be aware of):
Fighting for Breath: The FDA’s Lax Generic Drug Rules Put Her Life at Risk
Lung transplant patient Hannah Goetz’s life depended on the generic version of the critical drug tacrolimus. It was supposed to be equivalent to the brand-name medication — but the FDA doesn’t always ...
www.propublica.org
December 19, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Have been a victim of this situation this too, Three Cheers for ProPublica-- (something EVERYONE needs to be aware of):
Suzie Wiles needs to google: Driving Doze Reminder with Vibrate Alert Anti-Sleep Alarm for Driving Doze Reminder Sleep Warning Device
Trump, 79, Falls Asleep After Signing Marijuana Executive Order
President Trump struggled to stay awake while discussing his order reclassifying marijuana.
newrepublic.com
December 18, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Suzie Wiles needs to google: Driving Doze Reminder with Vibrate Alert Anti-Sleep Alarm for Driving Doze Reminder Sleep Warning Device
Every member of congress, and of the Cabinet, should be required to watch this psychologist's assessment of Tr*mp's personality disorders and cognitive decline into dementia:
"Trump Will Not Make It To the End Of This Term" says Psychologist
You're about to hear from Dr. John Gartner, who is a clinical psychologist, formerly with Johns Hopkins University. He's studied a lot of cases and he believes that Donald Trump's "malignant narcissis...
politizoom.com
December 17, 2025 at 3:53 AM
Every member of congress, and of the Cabinet, should be required to watch this psychologist's assessment of Tr*mp's personality disorders and cognitive decline into dementia:
Jim Crow is alive and well:
"..the experiences and legacies of Black and brown people who speak uncomfortable truths about American society, such as Mother Fletcher, are being distorted and/or silenced in service to patriotism, American exceptionalism, white racial innocence and white victimhood."
"..the experiences and legacies of Black and brown people who speak uncomfortable truths about American society, such as Mother Fletcher, are being distorted and/or silenced in service to patriotism, American exceptionalism, white racial innocence and white victimhood."
December 15, 2025 at 3:05 AM
Jim Crow is alive and well:
"..the experiences and legacies of Black and brown people who speak uncomfortable truths about American society, such as Mother Fletcher, are being distorted and/or silenced in service to patriotism, American exceptionalism, white racial innocence and white victimhood."
"..the experiences and legacies of Black and brown people who speak uncomfortable truths about American society, such as Mother Fletcher, are being distorted and/or silenced in service to patriotism, American exceptionalism, white racial innocence and white victimhood."
Think Project 2025 is bad? Project 2026 is worse:
"Their [Heritage’s leaders] message is unmistakable: They are coming for reproductive freedom. They are coming for voting rights. They are coming for LGBTQ+ equality. They are coming for the federal protections that women rely on every day."
"Their [Heritage’s leaders] message is unmistakable: They are coming for reproductive freedom. They are coming for voting rights. They are coming for LGBTQ+ equality. They are coming for the federal protections that women rely on every day."
Project 2026 Declares Open War on Women’s Rights
When the Heritage Foundation released its new policy blueprint for 2026 this week—an extension of the now-infamous Project 2025—it did so with the calm confidence of an institution convinced no one wi...
msmagazine.com
December 14, 2025 at 4:29 AM
Think Project 2025 is bad? Project 2026 is worse:
"Their [Heritage’s leaders] message is unmistakable: They are coming for reproductive freedom. They are coming for voting rights. They are coming for LGBTQ+ equality. They are coming for the federal protections that women rely on every day."
"Their [Heritage’s leaders] message is unmistakable: They are coming for reproductive freedom. They are coming for voting rights. They are coming for LGBTQ+ equality. They are coming for the federal protections that women rely on every day."
GUILTY:
"President Donald Trump's administration wants the International Criminal Court to amend its founding document to ensure it does not investigate the Republican president and his top officials, a Trump administration official said, threatening new U.S. sanctions on the court if it did not."
"President Donald Trump's administration wants the International Criminal Court to amend its founding document to ensure it does not investigate the Republican president and his top officials, a Trump administration official said, threatening new U.S. sanctions on the court if it did not."
Exclusive: US threatens new ICC sanctions unless court pledges not to prosecute Trump
President Donald Trump's administration wants the International Criminal Court to amend its founding document to ensure it does not investigate the Republican president and his top officials, a Trump ...
www.reuters.com
December 10, 2025 at 1:10 PM
GUILTY:
"President Donald Trump's administration wants the International Criminal Court to amend its founding document to ensure it does not investigate the Republican president and his top officials, a Trump administration official said, threatening new U.S. sanctions on the court if it did not."
"President Donald Trump's administration wants the International Criminal Court to amend its founding document to ensure it does not investigate the Republican president and his top officials, a Trump administration official said, threatening new U.S. sanctions on the court if it did not."
The GOP is shaking in their jack boots. The mayoral race in Miami went from a 67 pt win in 2021 to a 20 pt loss today. Trump has revoked TPS for100,000 Venezuelans in greater Dade Co. And guess what? PBS is still here, and Frontline, along with ProPublica, is covering that tonite. Suck on it MAGA..
Democrats Send A Decisive Message By Flipping Miami Mayor's Office
The win adds to the party's momentum ahead of the midterms next year.
www.huffpost.com
December 10, 2025 at 3:09 AM
The GOP is shaking in their jack boots. The mayoral race in Miami went from a 67 pt win in 2021 to a 20 pt loss today. Trump has revoked TPS for100,000 Venezuelans in greater Dade Co. And guess what? PBS is still here, and Frontline, along with ProPublica, is covering that tonite. Suck on it MAGA..
Rat on anyone not MAGA, get paid:
"..this implementation order..provides for a funding system to reward people that provide these tips that I was describing before. It’s basically a bounty system for anti-Trump thought and reporting on it."
"..this implementation order..provides for a funding system to reward people that provide these tips that I was describing before. It’s basically a bounty system for anti-Trump thought and reporting on it."
Journalist Reveals FBI Is Offering a “Bounty” for Reporting “Anti-Trump Thought”
A leaked DOJ memo directs the FBI to review records from the past five years, says Ken Klippenstein.
truthout.org
December 9, 2025 at 2:05 AM
Rat on anyone not MAGA, get paid:
"..this implementation order..provides for a funding system to reward people that provide these tips that I was describing before. It’s basically a bounty system for anti-Trump thought and reporting on it."
"..this implementation order..provides for a funding system to reward people that provide these tips that I was describing before. It’s basically a bounty system for anti-Trump thought and reporting on it."
The ongoing agenda to institutionalize inhumanity enacted:
"..the sweeping purge of dozens of immigration judges across the country is part of a broader effort by the Trump administration to hollow out the already overburdened courts..and reshape them as a tool for the mass deportation agenda."
"..the sweeping purge of dozens of immigration judges across the country is part of a broader effort by the Trump administration to hollow out the already overburdened courts..and reshape them as a tool for the mass deportation agenda."
Trump keeps firing immigration judges
Eight New York City judges have been terminated as the White House continues its purge of the courts.
www.motherjones.com
December 2, 2025 at 8:26 PM
The ongoing agenda to institutionalize inhumanity enacted:
"..the sweeping purge of dozens of immigration judges across the country is part of a broader effort by the Trump administration to hollow out the already overburdened courts..and reshape them as a tool for the mass deportation agenda."
"..the sweeping purge of dozens of immigration judges across the country is part of a broader effort by the Trump administration to hollow out the already overburdened courts..and reshape them as a tool for the mass deportation agenda."
Scarier than the Terminator? Yep:
"Drones are the killing machine of the twenty-first century, combining the remorseless brutality of medieval weaponry and the sadism of video games..responsible for 70 to 80 percent of all combat casualties on both sides in the nearly four-year-old war in Ukraine."
"Drones are the killing machine of the twenty-first century, combining the remorseless brutality of medieval weaponry and the sadism of video games..responsible for 70 to 80 percent of all combat casualties on both sides in the nearly four-year-old war in Ukraine."
The Horrifying, AI-Enhanced Future of War Is Here
Tech bros and Silicon Valley billionaires are building new drones—and new ways to profit from conflict.
newrepublic.com
November 30, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Scarier than the Terminator? Yep:
"Drones are the killing machine of the twenty-first century, combining the remorseless brutality of medieval weaponry and the sadism of video games..responsible for 70 to 80 percent of all combat casualties on both sides in the nearly four-year-old war in Ukraine."
"Drones are the killing machine of the twenty-first century, combining the remorseless brutality of medieval weaponry and the sadism of video games..responsible for 70 to 80 percent of all combat casualties on both sides in the nearly four-year-old war in Ukraine."
Which is worse, the cruelty or the corruption?(toss-up?)
"For the Kremlin, the Miami talks were the culmination of a strategy..to bypass the traditional U.S. national security apparatus and convince the administration to view Russia not as a military threat but as a land of bountiful opportunity.."
"For the Kremlin, the Miami talks were the culmination of a strategy..to bypass the traditional U.S. national security apparatus and convince the administration to view Russia not as a military threat but as a land of bountiful opportunity.."
GOP lawmaker levels Trump admin report: 'Churchill and Reagan are turning in their graves'
A Republican lawmaker bucked the administration on Saturday, citing the conservative Wall Street Journal's new report on Donald Trump allies who are cashing in on ending the Russia-Ukraine war.The Jou...
www.rawstory.com
November 30, 2025 at 7:11 AM
Which is worse, the cruelty or the corruption?(toss-up?)
"For the Kremlin, the Miami talks were the culmination of a strategy..to bypass the traditional U.S. national security apparatus and convince the administration to view Russia not as a military threat but as a land of bountiful opportunity.."
"For the Kremlin, the Miami talks were the culmination of a strategy..to bypass the traditional U.S. national security apparatus and convince the administration to view Russia not as a military threat but as a land of bountiful opportunity.."
Evil:
"[as] Robert's court rewrites the Constitution in the image of Trumpian autocracy, it’s become clear that [his] promise to be a neutral umpire was a lie. We are watching a rigged game, and Roberts set it up..spent Trump’s second term not applying the law so much as clearing it out of his way"
"[as] Robert's court rewrites the Constitution in the image of Trumpian autocracy, it’s become clear that [his] promise to be a neutral umpire was a lie. We are watching a rigged game, and Roberts set it up..spent Trump’s second term not applying the law so much as clearing it out of his way"
Inside the 'corrupt bargain' between Trump and Chief Justice John Roberts
Mother Jones writers Pema Levy and Ari Berman say that President Donald Trump "owes his corrupt and abusive reign to one man" — Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts."Twenty years ago, John Roberts...
www.alternet.org
November 28, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Evil:
"[as] Robert's court rewrites the Constitution in the image of Trumpian autocracy, it’s become clear that [his] promise to be a neutral umpire was a lie. We are watching a rigged game, and Roberts set it up..spent Trump’s second term not applying the law so much as clearing it out of his way"
"[as] Robert's court rewrites the Constitution in the image of Trumpian autocracy, it’s become clear that [his] promise to be a neutral umpire was a lie. We are watching a rigged game, and Roberts set it up..spent Trump’s second term not applying the law so much as clearing it out of his way"
Cruelty Oopsie:
"Drastic cuts in food stamps and health care programs were central planks in Project 2025..and were written into legislation in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act that passed last summer. But the consequences of these cruel intentions weren't supposed to be this obvious this early."
"Drastic cuts in food stamps and health care programs were central planks in Project 2025..and were written into legislation in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act that passed last summer. But the consequences of these cruel intentions weren't supposed to be this obvious this early."
Economist Paul Krugman: MAGA is showing its 'cruel intentions ahead of schedule'
When Donald Trump was running against Democrats in the United States' 2024 presidential race — first presumptive nominee Joe Biden, then the actual nominee Kamala Harris — he focused on the economy re...
www.alternet.org
November 28, 2025 at 3:14 AM
Cruelty Oopsie:
"Drastic cuts in food stamps and health care programs were central planks in Project 2025..and were written into legislation in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act that passed last summer. But the consequences of these cruel intentions weren't supposed to be this obvious this early."
"Drastic cuts in food stamps and health care programs were central planks in Project 2025..and were written into legislation in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act that passed last summer. But the consequences of these cruel intentions weren't supposed to be this obvious this early."
Evil:
"Roberts and his colleagues have done immense damage to the underpinnings of the democracy Americans painstakingly built. They have reallocated political power from ordinary citizens to billionaires, worsened congressional paralysis, and transformed many elections into meaningless exercises."
"Roberts and his colleagues have done immense damage to the underpinnings of the democracy Americans painstakingly built. They have reallocated political power from ordinary citizens to billionaires, worsened congressional paralysis, and transformed many elections into meaningless exercises."
November 27, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Evil:
"Roberts and his colleagues have done immense damage to the underpinnings of the democracy Americans painstakingly built. They have reallocated political power from ordinary citizens to billionaires, worsened congressional paralysis, and transformed many elections into meaningless exercises."
"Roberts and his colleagues have done immense damage to the underpinnings of the democracy Americans painstakingly built. They have reallocated political power from ordinary citizens to billionaires, worsened congressional paralysis, and transformed many elections into meaningless exercises."