Yes, measles existed before RFK, Jr. And the the brain damaged idiot did everything possible to make the epidemic worse.

What the actual ... ? There's no reason ANY state should subsidize ANY data center. In fact, anyone pushing subsidies for the wealthiest corporations on earth should be voted out of office at the earliest opportunity for betraying their actual constituents.

Unless they speak the unvarnished truth about this maladministration in the clearest terms to their faces, no one attending the WHC 'conflict of interest' dinner should ever be trusted or even considered a journalist. They're PR flacks for oligarchs.

Actually, the problem is that any of the corrupt, unqualified hacks were hired in the first place, that no good, qualified candidates are willing to work for Don the Con, and that the equally corrupt Republicans in congress won't do anything about it.

Don't forget to tell them that the Democrats haven't had a filibuster-proof majority in the Senate since Jimmy Carter was president, and that the reason for that is that Americans keep voting for Republicans.

You can pretend that no white people helped make that happen, but that's not true. And Democrats aren't "meaningless," they are just not in power in D.C., and that's on voters. But go ahead and try to make enemies of allies as Trump has done, I'm sure that'll work out just as well.

Fair point - I keep forgetting that my perspective on time is longer than most. But there have been many Democratic successes since then, mostly around rights and the environment, but for the past forty years, every step forward has been met with Republican efforts to take two steps back.

That's true of course, and we're clearly not done. But as I noted, key civil rights laws and safety net programs were passed in the 1960s.

I wasn't defending Lyndon Johnson nor diminishing the sacrifices of Black Americans. But bashing Democrats today and falsely saying they've done nothing for a century will only help Republicans in their efforts to bring back jim crow.

This was by far the WORST first year of any presidency in history, and that record won't ever be broken without the total collapse of the U.S. as a functional republic.

You don't have to look back 100 years to find Democratic ideals and wins. Americans really do need to learn their history, because the civil rights movement, Medicare and Medicaid and other programs all happened in the '60s and Democrats have been behind every health & environmental win since then.

It's not just "suspicious," the corruption and insider trading couldn't be more obvious if Trump Truthed out "of course we're making a bundle on these trades, you'd have to be an idiot not to!" Today's reminder that ALL talking heads on all corporate media outlets are selling Republican propaganda.

I would support this, but it would be even better for Australia to invite Trump for a visit, then arrest him and extradite him to the Hague.

OK, I've read the article and stand corrected, but under the current circumstances, prohibiting the use of any of these funds for radio still smells like a thumb on the midterms, because rural folks all over still get news from radio, and if they aren't hearing NPR, they're still hearing Sinclair.

Funny how those Russian influencers look pretty much the same as Mar-a-Lago maga influencers.

Soecific purposes? Like pro-tech, pro-capitalist, pro-fossil fuel, anti-renewables, climate change denial and pro-tax cuts for oligarchs? If it's NOT "to build the endowment or to expand news coverage" then it's for a corrupt purpose. Give the money back.

It is what it is, and when the president fires all the competent people, puts pro-Putin people in charge of national security, and shrugs off an attack by an adversary, it is treason.

Maybe the Trump regime banning fans from over 50 nations, announcing that ICE will be at every game, increased visa fees, turning people with valid visas away upon arrival, failing to distribute funds for events, and launching a war that has hugely increased the cost of travel wasn't the best plan.

The arrogance of Republicans equals or exceeds their ignorance.

Until Americans recognize that all U.S. media are controlled by a few billionaires and corporations that are all in on selling Republican propaganda, and accept that it's every individual's responsibility to get informed, things will never get better. The information is there, find it & read it.

At this point, all U.S. 3-letter networks must be considered accessories after the fact to all of Trump's and his cronies' crimes.

Because Republicans hate the earth and all living things that aren't making them wealthier.

The New York Times knew that and other disqualifying traits and actions by Trump long before 2016, and could have single-handedly ended his candidacy then. They're still sane-washing his gibberish, so to hell with that rag and anyone still defending the NYT, selling propaganda for the oligarchy.

Supporting Israel doesn't mean attacking Iran. It's mostly older Democrats in office, not the base, who are more loyal to the STATE of Israel than to the U.S. that support Netanyahu's war, and only Trump, maga, & Fetterman fail to see what an absolute disaster and utter failure the Iran war is.

Farmers need to stop voting for Republicans, then maybe we can help them. Otherwise, the billionaires will end up with all their land after they all go bankrupt thanks to Trump and other Republicans. And if they stop growing corn for ethanol to burn, they'd need a lot less fertilizer.

It's beyond a cover up, as it's not possible for any reporter to NOT know that Trump is far more impaired now than Joe Biden ever was, so the corporate media are now full-fledged co-conspirators in the ongoing fascist coup being engineered by Republicans.

No one in the Putin-fluffing, Russia-supporting Trump regime gets to complain about others supporting Russia's war. This couldn't be a more transparent attempt to justify yet another war, an invasion of Cuba that rightwing Cuban expats have long wanted, if it was projected on glass.

Men? Whatever their age, those guys who still need their vehicles to go "chugga-chugga" or "vroom vroom" are still boys playing with toys, just as those who are strutting about in public with rifles in camo gear and body armor who are not in the military are boys cosplaying army.

The deficits the next few years will be FAR higher than projected (always a given with Republicans) as more wealthy people and corporations cheat on their taxes, and that was before Trump's tariffs and idiotic war crushed the economy. We'll need a wealth tax for sure.

Blanche is of course lying, and should be immediately charged with contempt of congress and obstruction of justice.