Almost everything we argue about is a substitute for the thing we should be arguing about: the immense wealth & power of an oligarchic class, which captures governments, ruins lives and wrecks the living planet.
This class redirects our rage at scapegoats. To resist its lies is to resist its power.
Not Your Average Liberal @NotAvgLiberal Just read it. Spot On - An Aussie reply to Trump’s rant about ‘NATO not being there for us’: “Mate. You run a country with 600,000 homeless people sleeping on the street tonight. A country where 40% of adults can't cover a $400 emergency without borrowing money. A country where insulin costs more than a car payment and people are rationing it to survive. A country where medical debt is the number 1 cause of bankruptcy. A country where women are dying in hospital car parks because doctors are too scared of abortion laws to treat a miscarriage. You lock up more of your own citizens than any nation on earth. More than China. More than Russia. More than North Korea. The land of the free has 2 million people in cages, and a quarter of them haven't even been convicted of anything. They're just too poor to make bail. Your life expectancy is going backwards. You're the only developed nation where that's happening. Your infant mortality rate is worse than Cuba's. Your kids do active shooter drills between maths and English while you sell the gunmaker's stock to your mates. Your minimum wage hasn't moved in 15 years. You've got teachers working 2 jobs and veterans sleeping under bridges and you just spent a trillion dollars flattening a country that didn't attack you.
Wow. Check out this Aussie telling it like it is.
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Given Trump’s Easter threats to carry out new war crimes in Iran, we should think one or two steps ahead about a coup attempt connected to the war. And then deter it. (1/17)
If you're in Ohio, or know people there, today is the deadline to register to vote. Please CHECK to make sure you're still registered and weren't purged from the rolls.
My favorite sign, so far. #NoKings
An incomplete list of Trump pardons and how much money we lost for each. Totals almost $1.4 billion, just from this list alone.
Look how much money we lost because because Trump pardons corrupt people and cancels their debts. Apparently he pardoned 77 people guilty of Medicare fraud this week alone.
I wonder how much they paid him?
Those Somalians, though, right?🤷♀️
Lindsey Graham has a secret.
It doesn’t mention internal combustion engines either..these people.
The exact same election rules are now in place when Republicans won the presidency, house and senate in 2024.
But now suddenly Republicans are unable to win another election without the SAVE Act because everyone has been cheating.
Makes sense.
To be clear, ICE agents are still being paid. TSA agents are not. A gut punch for these folks who have to work under this reality.
📌 Senate Dems tried 7 times to pass standalone funding bills specifically for TSA pay and operations during the partial DHS shutdown. Republicans blocked each attempt.
Strange situation where we await a statement from Iran to check whether there's any truth to what US president is saying.
the human body was not designed to know what the worst person in the world is doing every fifteen minutes
Oh.
So they want Obama’s nuclear deal minus Obama’s signature.
Got it.
I'm confused how an American president can reduce sanctions on two countries currently killing American citizens and others and remain in office.
Perhaps 'treason' means something different in the US?
I'm not a political consultant but i feel like dems could probably get a lot of leverage out of pushing for green technologies that would wean the us off being dependent on oil in this particular moment
So when he bragged about grabbing women by the pussy, you were cool with that?
When he made fun of a handicapped reporter, you were cool with that?
When he had a mob attack the capital to steal the election, you were cool with that?
But now gas is expensive so you regret your vote?
Yeah?
NEW: Democratic AGs are asking a judge in California for a nationwide temporary restraining order blocking the acquisition of TEGNA (9NEWS) by Nexstar (Fox31)
Motion says the Trump administration may have rushed approval of the deal yesterday to prevent a court from blocking it
"I don't think people are sufficiently prepared notwithstanding what happened in 2021, for the possibility that [Donald Trump] will try to fuck with this election. And he will. He's already basically telling us that's what he's going to do, just the same way he told us he would do that in 2020."
1. "Two dolls."
2. "Chicken, tortilla, and one other item."
3. "One less trip to Starbucks."
🤣 This wins the internet ⛽️🤭
Lieu: "I want the White House to send Kevin Hassett to every single TV channel and to every single swing House district where he can tell the voters of America that hurting consumers is 'the last of our concerns.'"
NEW: A federal judge in Colorado has ruled the Trump administration's threat to SNAP (food stamps) benefits in Colorado is illegal and rooted in retribution for keeping Tina Peters in prison.
NEW: Trump administration is being sued by consortium of 100+ universities to stop the breakup of the NCAR lab in Colorado.
Alleges that the feds "are waging a campaign of retribution against the State of Colorado" over mail-in ballots and the imprisonment of Tina Peters.
"Trump will continue to claim prices are falling when they aren’t, bc he doesn’t care whether prices are falling and thinks voters too stupid to notice his lies. He will also occasionally continue to boast that prices are up while doing everything he can to enact policies that harm working people."
‘Mr. Nobody Against Putin’ Director: “This is about how you lose your country — through small acts of complicity: when a government murders people on the streets, when oligarchs take over the media… we all face a moral choice. But even a nobody is more powerful than you think."
So dark. Kushner raises billions for his fund while the family of a soldier killed in Truml’s war gets help on Go Fund Me: www.gofundme.com/f/major-alex...
If we made the green energy transition this war would be unthinkable and these authoritarians wouldn’t be in power — not in the US, not in Iran, not in Saudi Arabia, not in Russia. Hydrocarbons are killing our freedom and just plain killing us.
