Happy, Happy Birthday to George Takei — a true patriot, a good person, and a nice guy.

Happy, Happy Birthday to George Takei — a true patriot and a great guy. Wishing you good health and many more happy years.

Trump Sues Himself Billions of taxpayer dollars could end up in the pocket of the president

Nothing is too filthy, too low, or too greedy for our Orange-Tinted Leader. Unbelievable.

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Effective 2025 federal tax rates paid by these corporations:

Alphabet: 8.01%
AT&T: 4.6%
Meta: 3.57%
General Motors: 3.09%
Amazon: 1.37%
Exxon Mobil: 1.31%
Disney: -1.57%
CVS Health: -3.88%

Income tax rate paid by the typical American: 14.5%

This is what a rigged system looks like.

Trump touts our “limitless supply of weapons and ammunition.” Ukraine offers its expertise in countering Iran’s Shahed drones, the same Iranian drones Russia uses to bombard Ukraine. Share our “limitless” firepower with ally Ukraine against our Russian foe. A win for the US, Ukraine and our allies!

Trumps cry baby reasons

Acting ICE director says he's resigning amid record-breaking shutdown The departure adds to a string of recent personnel changes at the Department of Homeland Security, a year into President Trump's administration.

Good riddance to him.
Of course, this goodbye should only be until a day — hopefully not that far away — when he is prosecuted for his crimes against humanity.
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Vance Says the Pope Should Be More Careful When Talking About Theology

An interesting choice of words, Mr. Vance.
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Did Trump post, delete AI image depicting himself in likeness of Jesus? Trump confirmed he posted the image on Truth Social, but said he thought it showed him as a doctor rather than Jesus Christ.

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Trump's God Complex is Getting Even Worse He believes he's the savior, not because he wants to save anyone but because he wants to dominate everyone

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‘Blasphemy’: outrage after Trump posts AI image of himself as Christ-like figure The US president’s conservative, Christian supporters decried the Truth Social post, calling it ‘disgusting’

What can one say?

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Vance Scolds Iran: “Trump Made You Rich off the Strait of Hormuz and You Haven’t Said Thank You Once” Negotiations broke down after Vance lectured the Iranians.

Andy Borowitz has outdone himself. This is very good.

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I love this photo of astronaut Christina Koch looking back at Earth from Artemis II.

She's the first woman to see the full sphere of our beautiful planet.

Welcome home to the crew, and thank you for reminding us of all we can discover together.

Every single one of the astronauts who went to the moon and back on Artemis II was educated at a public school.

Thinking of the teachers who poured into Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and Jeremy Hansen tonight. You helped send a kid to the moon!

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A good point, indeed.

Pretty darned impressive.

Thank God.
To think that she was in one of his prison camps for five days! It’s just appalling!!
That poor woman — and her poor husband, who is supposed to go off and serve our country. What a disgrace this whole situation has been.

Trump pulls back on Iran threats after warning a 'civilization will die tonight' if deal isn't reached President Donald Trump said late Tuesday he’s pulling back on his threats to attack Iranian bridges, power plants and other civilian targets, subject to Iran agreeing to a two-week ceasefire and reope...

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Unfortunately, Mr. Rupar is absolutely right.

Denounce Trump’s Threats of War Crimes Against People of Iran

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The man who watches Trump all day, every day Aaron Rupar spends up to 80 hours a week following the US president, from meandering speeches to impromptu press conferences. He says it’s ‘pretty bleak’

“It’s difficult to cover him in a way that conveys how unhinged he is. Journalists are trained to be like, ‘OK, what did he say that was newsworthy?’ So you convey that to your audience. But in reality, when you actually watch, you see he's full of hatred, lying constantly, and very incoherent.”

Want to join me for this May Day Strong event?

Final Thought: He's Seriously Out of His Mind And the Iranians Know it

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NASA Teams Readying Artemis II Moon Rocket for Launch - NASA Launch teams at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida continue completing a sequence of highly choreographed steps readying NASA's Moon rocket for launch.

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NO AUTHORITY Radical thought: Trump is a steward for future generations, not an owner.

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Judge blocks Trump’s executive order that ended federal funding for NPR and PBS Judge Randolph Moss ruled that the president’s move to cease all federal funding for the news outlets amounted to “viewpoint discrimination and retaliation.”

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