republicans: LET THE VOTERS DECIDE wait not like that

We have heard nothing from Pam Bondi or her legal team. She didn't show up for her scheduled deposition, and half of the Epstein files are still unreleased.

We are left with no choice. Contempt charges are coming.

SPLC Union Logo: Yesterday, the Department of Justice leveled outrageous allegations at the Southern Poverty Law Center. In so doing, they maligned the integrity of the SPLC workers who have labored tirelessly for decades to expose the dangerous cruelty of extremists and hate groups in the United States.

SPLC Union Logo: This work is punishing. It takes a toll on our health and on our safety. But we persist because we believe in our mission to advance justice for all, and we believe that investigating, naming, and alerting the American people to the activities of those who seek to harm our neighbors is a moral imperative and an essential public service.

Today our colleagues are facing abuse and harassment from the far-right figures emboldened by this attack. But we will not be deterred, we will not be intimidated, and we will continue to name racism, sexism, antisemitism, Islamophobia, homophobia, and all hate for the blight that it is.

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Love this guy.

Lot of people on the right crying about the Virginia redistricting vote.

We told you this would happen while you were celebrating the illegal off-cycle seat grab in Texas.

Stop playing stupid games if you don’t want to win stupid prizes.

Browsing this company's website and the only way I can describe what I'm seeing is imagine a school shooter was a management consultant

Zohran Mamdani Is Winning. And Politicians Everywhere Should Take Notes In 100 days, New York’s mayor proved that bold, principled politics doesn’t just drive mass mobilization — it delivers results

Mayor Mamdani's new tax impacts 13,000 homes owned by the top 1.%, and will generate an additional $500M minimum in tax revenue for working New Yorkers.

Watching blue collar MAGAs panic over "higher taxes" is amusing. This Will HELP them. Here are the details:
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Yes. I stupidly thought for years the civil rights movement worked.

It didn’t. But we need to make damn sure it does. I believe that DEI and empathy are our best way out of this dystopia.

'Most important speech...that should never have been given’: Fmr Judge pans SCOTUS justice's remarks At a recent event, the conservative Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas delivered a grievance-soaked address that argued that progressivism is incompatible with the Declaration of Independence. Former federal judge J. Michael Luttig, a lifelong conservative himself, took issue with the address. “I believe that this speech could prove to be the single most important speech of political and constitutional philosophy that should never have been given,” he tells Ali Velshi. “I certainly wish Justice Thomas had not written and given this speech.”

"The single most important speech...that should never have been given." Fmr. federal judge J. Michael Luttig, a lifelong conservative, slams Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas for a recent address he gave. "I certainly wish Justice Thomas had not written and given this speech." #velshi

We let the worst people on Earth become the most powerful people on Earth, at a time when the most powerful people on Earth had ready access to the tools to destroy Earth.

Those words will be on humanity's gravestone—should any of a dozen rolling disasters cause global collapse.

Did not know this. Was only generally aware of busing riots. I was in the Army in Germany then and was only reading about this occasionally.

This period was a lot less tolerant and open-minded than I remember.

Amazon, which saved $4B in taxes under Trump's Big Ugly Bill, has cut 30,000 jobs since last October.

Verizon, which saved $2B, plans to cut 15,000 jobs this year.

Meta, which saved $3B, plans to lay off 20% or more of its workforce.

Trickle-down economics is a cruel joke.

Netanyahu and his thugs are completely untroubled by the cognitive dissonance of Jews behaving exactly like Nazis. Even to embrace their own concept of Lebensraum in a “Greater Israel.” Israel should live within their 1948 borders and stop attacking their neighbors to seize their land. Fuck Israel.

Women are so done. And I am here for it.

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In case you missed any of my columns in Civil Discourse last week, here they are, all collected in one place.
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One of my most favorite shows as a kid. Man From UNCLE and Get Smart were polar opposites but they went together like peanut butter and jelly.

In my hyper conservative churches growing up, I was always warned about liberalism but never far right authoritarianism. I was always warned about socialism but never predatory capitalism. I was always warned about feminism but never misogyny. I was always warned about homosexuality but never about abuse in the church. I was always warned about Islamic extremists, but never Christian nationalism. Imagine what American Christianity would look like today if it had focused on its own sins.

And for lying when speaking from the floor. I mean, isn’t that straight up lying to Congress?

Weiner's Circle sign that reads: Southside Pope roped the dope

Chicago's Weiners Circle coming in hot
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They lie like we breathe

Dear Media:

Blindly quoting the President without fact-checking or context is just misinformation with a press pass.

We don’t need stenographers; we need journalists. Do your job.

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“All we have to fear, is fear itself”

“Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall”

“What the hell is a corner store?”

Great Presidential quotes of our time

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