For the past four and a half months, Nicolás Maduro has been in a federal detention center in New York—which has also held the likes of Luigi Mangione, Ghislaine Maxwell, and R. Kelly. www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
Posts by DraftingJaak
"Every so often someone expresses their understandable frustration with the party of governance by threatening to withhold their vote in the general election.(. . .)But this is foolish at best, and it rests on a misunderstanding of what it even means to act as a party in politics."
Apology not accepted.
BREAKING: The Southern Poverty Law Center says it faces investigation by Justice Department over past use of paid informants to infiltrate extremist groups.
The Not a War is over… Not.
Guess who
For the record, for anyone who’s forgotten, it’s sheer madness for a president to contradict himself nearly every day. It’s profoundly wrong that we can’t trust the veracity of a single thing that he says.
The DOJ is now 122 days overdue to release the Epstein files.
wtf
The oldest known image of Keith Richards, published around 1140 AD ...
A group of current and former HUD employees in Fair Housing started this amazing project. Altgov began with a similar mission to educate the public about what’s truly happening to the fabric of our country. Here are additional voices from inside our broken system.
dearamericaletters.org
We must require ALL data centers and other extremely large corporate users of electricity to generate their own electricity at their own expense If we don't do this, we are either idiots and/or masochists.
I don’t think we talk nearly enough about the fact that corporations like Amazon, don’t pay a single cent to maintain the roads they use, the transportation system they use, the courts they use, they pay nothing for the infrastructure that is absolutely critical to their business.
WE Pay for
This war is so damn confusing. It’s why we shouldn’t let drunks and dementia patients run it.
The 25th Amendment already gives Congress the tool to remove Trump.
Raskin’s bill would finally create the independent commission to make it happen.
This is one more real shot to protect the country. Tell Congress to pass it.
How Christians
Justify Evil.
"Fatemeh, if that crude American president calls again, don’t put him through. The ceasefire committee was absolutely correct—he is crazy. And he says the same insane things over and over again. Allah give me patience. I’ve never dealt with someone so boorish and stupid. Oh my, is that him AGAIN?"
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Idk who did this comic but it's hilarious
Absolutely.
"These people are stealing your tax money, robbing you of services you paid for to enrich themselves. I will stop that."
That's a pretty simple and effective message.
Damn. She doesn’t mince words 💥
“JD Vance telling our Pope to be very careful about speaking about theology. It’s a veiled threat. These guys are thugs and murderers.”
What a surprise.
“The U.S. has changed, and we must respond.” No hedging. No “our American friends.” Just a clean acknowledgement that the country on the other side of the border is not the country we thought we knew."
Mark Carney-Canada
"The company founded and formerly run by Trump Energy Secretary Chris Wright recorded $193 million of income last year but paid no 2025 federal corporate income taxes, according to its regulatory filings, and actually got more than $10 million back from the IRS..."
www.eenews.net/articles/oil...
JD Vance in 2020:
“My growing view is that too many American Catholics have failed to show proper deference to the papacy, treating the pope as a political figure to be criticized or praised according to their whims.”
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
"Secretary Kennedy’s unlawful declaration harmed children,” the Judge wrote.
“This case highlights a leader’s unserious regard for the rule of law...
“Unserious leaders are unsafe."
www.advocate.com/politics/nat...
Business Legend Warren Buffet calls out America's Billionaires
If 800 other major corporations paid what Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway did in taxes, Americans wouldn't have to pay a dime.