Virginia voters approve redistricting plan that could boost Democrats’ seats in Congress Virginia voters have approved a congressional redistricting plan plan that could help Democrats win up to four additional U.S.

yes!

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This Isn't Trading. It's Theft from Your Retirement. Someone keeps making perfectly-timed bets right before the President speaks. The victims are your pension, your 401(k), and the country I took an oath to defend.

Fifteen minutes before the President announced he was pausing strikes on Iran, somebody moved $500 million in oil futures. Somebody knew. Somebody told them. Or somebody is them.
New piece ↓
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The Problem at the Heart of Every Socialism Debate | Peter Joseph "Socialism" has been used to describe everything from Soviet gulags to universal healthcare. The word was always vague. That's what made it so easy to weaponize, writes Peter Joseph.

This is an excellent explanation. I strongly encourage reading it since it explains a lot that can assist in our understanding of what's happening now.

(Yes, it's long but it's worth it.)

www.filmsforaction.org/articles/the...

The Bezos “Post” Editorial Page Has Become a Mouthpiece for Pro-Billionaire Propaganda Jeff Bezos said The Washington Post would no longer publish opinion pieces critical of free markets. Recent editorials show just how seriously the paper has taken this mandate.

www.thenation.com/article/poli...

Why a Feminist and Just Energy Transition Is the Only Way Out of the Climate Crisis | Common Dreams ​As we look toward Santa Marta, the message is both simple and profound: We cannot solve the climate crisis with the same logic that caused it.

www.commondreams.org/opinion/just...

Wife of active US Army sergeant at risk of deportation to 3rd country The wife of an active-duty U.S. Army sergeant is facing potential deportation to a third country after being detained during a routine immigration interview last week.

abcnews.visitlink.me/OeG9ze

What Is the Fucking Threshold? Moral disengagement, the online rape academy, and the machinery women are refusing to carry.

-Ana DelCastillo

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-MeidasTouch "right on cue. here come the FOIA requests.
A DC watchdog group (Democracy Forward) has just filed a sweeping request for FBI Director Patel’s records—including his calendars & even communications from his security detail containing words like “drinking,” “hungover,” and “inebriated”"

Why American Healthcare Fails the Sickest, and What We Can Do About It Lisa is 48 years old.

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Putin Tells U.S. to Stop Making Fun of Trump Russian President Vladimir Putin said "one can argue but one can't show disrespect" to Donald Trump, regardless of whether you like him.

from 2017... we're still not obeying Putin

www.newsweek.com/putin-americ...

4/ " In other words: this is not a normal midterm. It’s a stress test of whether we still have a functioning democracy at all."

3/ "– Looking for excuses to call out troops under the Insurrection Act to intimidate and suppress
Luttig warns that if we don’t defend the system in 2026, we may not get anything resembling a real election in 2028."

2/ "Think about what that menu looks like in plain English:
– Flooding the country with lies about “fraud” before a single vote is counted
– Trying to get control of voting machines and election administration"

-TRM 1/ "Conservative Judge J. Michael Luttig is warning that Trump is already preparing to rig the 2026 midterms, not by one single scheme but by a whole “buffet of options” to throw the election into chaos."

Trump Is Losing: Florida County Blocks His Immigration Prison, ICE Trackers Win In Court, and Hawaii Beats The Regime Plus, public broadcasting gets back on track

www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/trump-is-l...

Senators Launch Probe Into Hegseth's Gutting of Programs to Mitigate US Killing of Civilians | Common Dreams "The high human toll of this war reflects the administration’s broader disregard for the strategic, legal, and moral imperative to minimize civilian harm."

www.commondreams.org/news/hegseth...

YES!

DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin refers to Democratic members of Congress as "kamikaze Democrats"