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2026-03-27 00:36:08 GMT

Abraham Lincoln, first Republican US president:
“Both read the same Bible and pray to the same God and each invokes His aid against the other. … The prayers of both could not be answered—that of neither has been answered fully. The Almighty has His own purposes.”
#USpol

2026-03-27 00:35:51 GMT

Prayeth Hegseth, US Secretary of Defense:
“Let every round find its mark against the enemies of righteousness and our great nation. Give them wisdom in every decision, endurance for the trial ahead, unbreakable unity, and overwhelming violence of action against those who deserve no mercy.”
#USpol
1/2

2026-03-22 17:14:45 GMT

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@nprofile…f9wr The Congressperson behind this sure does.

2026-03-22 17:00:41 GMT

“That evaluation found that car traffic and travel times actually decreased along 15th Street after the bike lane was installed.”
Cut injuries by over 50%, reduced traffic: so it has to go!
https://51st.news/trump-administration-removing-dc-bike-lane/
#USpol #bikes #insanity

2026-03-08 23:08:53 GMT

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“The instructions state explicitly that explaining ‘unequal outcomes between men and women’ in terms of ‘institutional sexism’ would violate state law.”
https://truthout.org/articles/florida-has-deemed-all-existing-intro-to-sociology-textbooks-illegal/ https://truthout.org/articles/florida-has-deemed-all-existing-intro-to-sociology-textbooks-illegal/?utm_source=Truthout&utm_campaign=bf35dbf74c-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2026_03_06_07_27_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_bbb541a1db-bde349abf8-651072241 (2/2)

2026-03-08 23:08:52 GMT

“You’re teaching Introduction to Sociology at a community college in Florida, and today, you’re trying to explain the well-documented pay gap between men and women in the United States. You check the guidance you just received from your dean, who received instructions via email from the executive vice chancellor of the Florida College System.” (1/2)

2026-03-07 07:38:17 GMT

“Have you ever toured an apartment building and thought, “It’s perfect, but I wish it had a jumbo jet?”
Yes.
https://www.seattletimes.com/business/real-estate/in-nod-to-boeing-a-jumbo-fuselage-hangs-between-two-seattle-towers/

2026-02-28 03:10:35 GMT

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“For thirty years, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint have shaped how people work. Employees have stopped complaining because they can’t imagine that business works without the Office theater. Lists need to refuse to indent. Files must come in a format. Apps need to crash. Documents need to corrupt data. Formats need to be bloated.”
https://ia.net/topics/trapped-in-ms-office

2026-02-28 03:07:47 GMT

“[The television show] ‘Severance’ illustrates something so familiar that it’s hard both to recognize and hard to ignore: Fluorescent light. Endless hallways. Ritualized procedures. People performing point-and-click tasks on screens whose purpose they cannot fully explain. And everyone behaves as if the system were natural. It’s both weirdly old and claustrophobically on brand.
https://ia.net/topics/trapped-in-ms-office (1/2)

2026-02-28 03:07:47 GMT

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“Severance beautifully illustrates how it feels using Microsoft Office all day long, in 2026.”
https://ia.net/topics/trapped-in-ms-office (2/2)

2026-02-27 09:52:48 GMT

“Since Richard Nixon was forced to resign, powerful people in both political parties have worked assiduously to ensure that their leaders would escape the consequences of their actions.”
#USpol
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/02/elite-accountability-powerful-impunity/686134/?gift=RXPOOMoryRnayHP9s6YMzyDBTKlb-LMNRE8ukmiRgdQ

2026-02-23 20:00:25 GMT

“It’s not that Patel’s lawlessness is happening in light of these crimes. These crimes are happening in light of his lawlessness. Who cares about the law, or criminal consequences, when the country’s leading lawman has contempt for it?”
https://www.editorialboard.com/now-we-know-why-savannah-guthries-mom-is-still-missing/ https://www.editorialboard.com/now-we-know-why-savannah-guthries-mom-is-still-missing/?ref=the-editorial-board-newsletter
#USpol #Corruption #CrimeAllYouWant

2026-02-18 04:56:25 GMT

It’s fascinating that we’re setting out to celebrate the 250th anniversary of our people freeing themselves from the arbitrary dictates of a mad king by creating an incredibly lifelike re-enactment.
#USpol #1776 #doom

2026-02-18 03:39:40 GMT

The United States is now specifically building a concentration camp system identical to the beginnings of the one in Germany, and for the same reasons. Given how that episode ended, with all our “Never Again!”s…are we going to let this happen?
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2026/02/trump-deportation-warehouse-concentration-camp-history-germany.html?utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=traffic&utm_source=article&utm_content=copy_link
#USpol #concentrationCamps #gulag

2026-02-18 00:08:02 GMT

“On day one…Trump issued an executive order that charged, ‘Over the last 4 years, the previous administration trampled free speech rights by censoring Americans’ speech on online platforms, often by exerting substantial coercive pressure on third parties, such as social media companies, to moderate, deplatform, or otherwise suppress speech that the Federal Government did not approve.’ This is a good description of what Trump’s administration is doing now.”
https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/2026/02/censorship-free-speech-trump-tv-senators-citizens/686034/
#USpol

2026-02-15 08:12:36 GMT

When people do things a certain way, don’t go thinking they did it by accident. We do what we intend to do.
Same goes for governments. Police. Lawmakers. Corporate executives. Billionaires.

2026-02-14 10:36:23 GMT

“There will be Voter I.D. for the Midterm Elections, whether approved by Congress or not!”
The current president has announced that the dictatorship has begun in earnest. These are his actual words, not a paraphrase.
This is not joking. This is seizing power. Who will stop him?
#USpol #tyrant

2026-02-13 05:45:22 GMT

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This woman has written more about the US one-cent cousin than anyone ever will again.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/01/magazine/worthless-pennies-united-states-economy.html?unlocked_article_code=1.L1A.WEgi.2lkKuscXGCSD&smid=url-share

2026-02-13 05:30:15 GMT

“[I]n the year 2024, one out of every two coins minted in the United States was a one-cent piece, even though virtually no one-cent pieces were ever spent in the nationwide conduction of commerce, and, on top of that, each cost more than three cents apiece to manufacture.”
What will happen to the 300 billion cent coins that exist?
Nothing.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/11/pennies-circulation-mint/684935/?gift=RXPOOMoryRnayHP9s6YMz32ybRhaQo8G5kXamvZMYnQ

2026-02-12 05:42:21 GMT

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“The problem for democracy is that it will not survive three more years of such a system. We cannot hold free and fair elections if judges blindly accept the word of Pam Bondi and Kash Patel’s minions.”
#USpol
https://newsletters.democracydocket.com/two-cases-and-the-grease-that-breaks-democracy?ecid=ACsprvub_eCq1tFswAOI_wJtZG9AtDVyifLyUBG-5tJfvcJtoRdXTk6J6zv1FS4zHZcfcaXhAvna&utm_campaign=12114861-Premium%20Membership%20Promo&utm_medium=email&_hsmi=403184531&utm_content=403184531&utm_source=hs_email (2/2)

2026-02-12 05:42:20 GMT

“Our criminal justice system is built on federal prosecutors having every advantage in court. It gives government officials the benefit of the doubt — even when the law does not require it. The presumption of good faith judges afford DOJ lawyers and FBI agents is the grease that makes the system run smoothly and efficiently.”
#USpol (1/2)

2026-02-08 19:05:12 GMT

“At first glance, it’s almost cute: a screw head shaped exactly like the BMW logo. … It’s a masterpiece of anti-functional design. [T]he patent explicitly states this as a function of its design in section [0006]: ‘…to prevent being loosened or tightened…by unauthorized individuals.’”
https://www.ifixit.com/News/115528/bmws-newest-innovation-is-a-logo-shaped-middle-finger-to-right-to-repair

2026-02-03 19:52:15 GMT

“Masks need to come off,” Sen. Chuck Schumer said Friday. “No secret police.”
#USpol #fascism #SecretPolice

2026-02-03 19:28:17 GMT

Ain’t that America?
Guns drawn, chemicals pointed at photographer, for following ICE agents. For *following*, not assaulting or obstructing.
Land of the free!
#USpol #fascism #SecretPolice
https://files.mastodon.online/media_attachments/files/116/008/347/019/134/467/original/fe60020d0989dd69.jpeg

2026-02-03 19:13:42 GMT

“There are no real safeguards anymore, until people recognize that we’re all potential targets.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2026/02/03/homeland-security-administrative-subpoena/
#USpol #fascism

2026-02-02 04:38:19 GMT

“We’ve done this before; we just don’t like remembering it.”
Ashley, on the Palmer Raids. And BTW, Ashley’s vids totally rock.
https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8mWaWXR/
#USpol #fascism

2026-01-29 21:52:36 GMT

“Americans are shocked to discover authoritarianism did not stop at the color line.
“You are a friend or an enemy, even if you're white.”
More shocks are coming. Guaranteed.
https://www.editorialboard.com/americans-are-shocked-to-discover-authoritarianism-did-not-stop-at-the-color-line/
#USpol

2026-01-29 04:49:48 GMT

https://feelingagile.wordpress.com/2026/01/28/the-meaning-of-police-masking/
#USpolitics

2026-01-29 04:35:41 GMT

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Anonimity create imperiosity and removes accountability. And the people’s government must be accountable, or abolished.
https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/the-real-meaning-of-those-ice-masks-as-blurted-out-in-a-wa-hearing/
#USpol #USpolitics (3/3)

2026-01-29 04:35:40 GMT

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The people, as Lincoln reminded us, are the source of the government’s power. They’re the ones who, by serving in office or voting, create the government. And they are who the government serves. And the people deserve to know who is acting in their name, with their power, and on their behalf.
If ICE operatives are afraid of the people, maybe they need to think hard about why they’re afraid of the people. (2/3)

2026-01-29 04:35:39 GMT

A Seattle newspaper columnist wrote today about why ICE masks.
Officials who mask have the same motivation as criminals: they’re doing something wrong and they don’t want to be identified. If you don’t want people to know who you are because you’re afraid of being found out…maybe you shouldn’t be doing what you’re doing. (1/3)

2026-01-27 05:07:56 GMT

“The cameras have shifted the burden of judgment from institutions to individuals. We all see the fragments. We all have access to evidence. So we all decide what it means. In a tribal system, we decide based on our team. … In a tribal system where people already believe their side over their own eyes, you don't need to prove the video is fake. You only need to plant the question. Doubt is the weapon.”
https://om.co/2026/01/26/does-evidence-even-matter/
#USpolitics #USpol

2026-01-21 09:44:47 GMT

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@nprofile…gfcd I’m happy I didn’t go with my first draft; too much. Less poetical, more political:
Fash on fash bash with ash

2026-01-21 08:28:44 GMT

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@nprofile…gfcd Fash on fash with ash

2026-01-13 14:55:43 GMT

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@nprofile…ukxe Incredibly, he did.

2026-01-13 06:22:04 GMT

House Speaker Mike Johnson: "If Powell is innocent, then he can prove that."
Oh, Mike. Does”innocent until proven guilty” remind you of anything?
#USPol #USPolitics

2026-01-13 06:10:51 GMT

Ashley makes a strong case that ICE aren’t Gestapo but rather slave patrols.
https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8fjTAty/
#uspolitics #USpol

2026-01-11 08:41:25 GMT

“The man was convicted of 34 felonies in a cold New York City courtroom in May 2024, a mere 19 months ago. Trump expected and asked for riots outside the courtroom. He got nothing but pathetic support from a handful of kooks. A year earlier, he lost a humiliating sexual assault civil lawsuit to E. Jean Carroll. Trump, just a year and a half ago, was a buffoon getting his mug shot taken. Today he’s arguing that his power is unchecked by anything other than his own sense of morality.” (1/2)

2026-01-11 02:16:11 GMT

Lewis Latimer. He did more important work than you know, and got no credit.
https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8fNNuKT/

2026-01-11 01:55:54 GMT

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“In the Afghanistan war, launched in support of the United States after it was attacked on Sept. 11, Denmark suffered more fatalities per capita than any other NATO ally apart from the U.S. It was one of only a few NATO members, and the only Nordic country, to join the United States in the initial invasion of Iraq.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/09/opinion/denmark-europe-aggression.html?unlocked_article_code=1.DlA.fjlu.J3Pg_HPwcNjH&smid=nytcore-ios-share
#USpol #Greenland #Denmark #Imperialism (2/2)

2026-01-11 01:55:53 GMT

“Mr. Vance is correct in saying that Denmark is not ‘a good ally.’ It’s a great one. Relative to the size of its economy, Denmark is the most generous donor to Ukraine’s military defense.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/09/opinion/denmark-europe-aggression.html?unlocked_article_code=1.DlA.fjlu.J3Pg_HPwcNjH&smid=nytcore-ios-share
#USpol #Greenland #Denmark #Imperialism (1/2)

2026-01-10 09:05:13 GMT

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@nprofile…zqp8 Can agree.

2026-01-09 05:35:04 GMT

https://www.nytimes.com/video/us/100000010631041/minneapolis-ice-shooting-video.html?smid=url-share&smid=nytcore-ios-share

2026-01-08 23:51:44 GMT

The resistance will take many forms.

2026-01-08 23:49:51 GMT

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@nprofile…gyk5 @nprofile…m2xn Sounds like they’ve got big plans for 2026. Explosive plans. Deadly plans. Repressive plans. Illegal plans.

2026-01-08 09:38:31 GMT

Joking. Talking. Doing.
That’s what they do. That’s how they make yesterday’s jest tomorrow’s horror.
#USpol

2026-01-08 07:00:13 GMT

ICE has contracted with a company that makes “bounty-hunter” AI agents.
You know who else was really good at using technology to commit atrocities?
https://www.404media.co/ice-contracts-company-making-bounty-hunter-ai-agents/
#USpol #Disgust

2026-01-08 06:51:46 GMT

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Because we, millions of us, must witness to these actions, this murder. It will not be the last. And because, like the White House’s January 6th webpages, the lies will be recorded and repeated, we all need to remember and testify, so that we can either testify to what really happened, or suffer for the rest of our lives knowing we denied the truth.
#Upol #Murder #Corruption #Disgust (2/2)

2026-01-08 06:51:46 GMT

Please.
I’m asking you to do an extremely hard thing. Search for and watch all four videos of the goverment-approved murder in the streets of Minneapolis.
And please watch them even if you think I’m a commie liberal woke mentally defective piece of trash.
#Upol #Murder #Corruption #Disgust (1/2)

2026-01-08 06:43:39 GMT

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“Yesterday, Trump announced that, as president of the United States, he would control the money from the sale of Venezuelan oil.”
It’s hard to describe the disgust I feel at even typing/pasting those words into this post. The United States as we knew it is dead. They’re not even trying to hide this. They’re confessing to the crimes before they commit them, because they know they are above the law and will never be punished.
https://open.substack.com/pub/heathercoxrichardson/p/january-7-2026?r=14j7ia&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
#USpol #Corruption #Disgust (3/3)

2026-01-08 06:43:39 GMT

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“Lisa Desjardins and Nick Schifrin of PBS NewsHour reported this afternoon that Trump administration officials have told lawmakers that they plan to put the money raised from their seizure of Venezuelan oil into bank accounts outside the U.S. Treasury. Desjardins clarified that ‘[s]ources said they understood these as similar [to] or decidedly “off-shore” accounts.’
https://open.substack.com/pub/heathercoxrichardson/p/january-7-2026?r=14j7ia&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
#USpol #Corruption #Disgust (2/3)

2026-01-08 06:43:38 GMT

Ever wonder how Vlad Putin, a lifelong government servant, owns many dachas and compounds?
Seems he gave a brand-new government servant a few lessons in applied corruption, and the student has grown to surpass the master.
https://open.substack.com/pub/heathercoxrichardson/p/january-7-2026?r=14j7ia&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
#USpol #Corruption #Disgust (1/3)

2026-01-04 09:34:58 GMT

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“…New York already runs on plenty of these ideas: public schools, public hospitals, rent regulation, the subway. No one panics when the fire department shows up. We’ve just decided, over time, that some things work better when profit isn’t the point.”
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2026/01/zohran-mamdani-new-york-mayor-first-big-speech.html
#USpol (2/2)

2026-01-04 09:34:57 GMT

“This is where I should stop and define what democratic socialism is, as it’s been at the center of much of the misinformation about Mamdani. Democratic socialism, as practiced by Zohran Mamdani, is not about abolishing markets or nationalizing everything in sight. It’s about using democratic government to make sure basic needs—housing, transit, health care, education—aren’t treated like luxury goods. ...”
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2026/01/zohran-mamdani-new-york-mayor-first-big-speech.html
#USpol… (1/2)

2026-01-03 23:06:47 GMT

“From today’s press conference, after the US raid in Venezuela. At center, Marco Rubio, pretending that this was just a normal law-enforcement action. At left, the omnipresent Stephen Miller. At right, the person who has assumed one-man authority to disrupt the world economy with tariffs, launch lethal assaults on other nations, and declare a ‘boots on the ground’ military occupation. Today, he struggled to maintain attention when anyone was speaking except himself.“ ~James Fallows today
#USpol

2026-01-03 23:02:55 GMT

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“‘Trump’s claim that Venezuela has stolen oil and land from the U.S. is baseless,’ said Francisco Rodríguez, a Venezuelan economist at the University of Denver.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/12/20/venezuela-oil-nationalization-expropriation/
#USpol (2/2)

2026-01-03 23:02:54 GMT

“‘They’re not going to do that again,’ Trump told reporters. ‘We had a lot of oil there. As you know they threw our companies out, and we want it back.’ 
“But U.S. companies never owned oil or land in Venezuela, home to the world’s largest proven reserves of crude, and officials didn’t kick them out of the country. 
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/12/20/venezuela-oil-nationalization-expropriation/
#USpol… (1/2)

2025-12-28 09:13:21 GMT

And: The U.S. is most assuredly NOT a Christian nation. It’s a nation that was founded to protect religious freedom. Jefferson, Madison, other founders, despite their faults, all believed that.
If we WERE a Christian nation, bombing and killing on the holy Christian holiday Christmas in the name of the Christian God is sacrilege and sin.
If only those in power had consciences, or love in their hearts…or hearts.
#USpol #FakeChristians

2025-12-28 09:09:17 GMT

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“U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) shared an AI video of Santa Claus putting on a bulletproof vest, then handcuffing an immigrant, processing the person, and then loading them onto an ‘ICE’ plane for deportation.”
https://open.substack.com/pub/heathercoxrichardson/p/december-27-2025?r=14j7ia&utm_medium=ios&shareImageVariant=overlay
#USpol #FakeChristians (2/2)

2025-12-28 09:09:16 GMT

“Far-right looney Laura Loomer posted: ‘I can’t think of a better way to celebrate Christmas than by avenging the death of Christians through the justified mass killing of Islamic terrorists. You’ve got to love it! Death to all Islamic terrorists! Thank you.’”
I must point out that I have called Loomer a looney, not Ms. Cox Richardson. Heather was kinder.
https://open.substack.com/pub/heathercoxrichardson/p/december-27-2025?r=14j7ia&utm_medium=ios&shareImageVariant=overlay
#USpol #FakeChristians… (1/2)

2025-12-24 07:19:02 GMT

Just want to ensure redundancy in posting this: this is Archive.com’s as-distributed (not a video off a TV or computer screen) of the withheld 60 Minutes piece on the CECOT travesty.
What is astonishing is that there is really nothing new in this report except for some extra video. So what Bari Weiss was afraid to do is re-publicize an atrocity that many had likely forgotten the details of. She pretty much said that in her comment.
https://archive.org/details/60minutes-cecotsegment
#USpol #CECOT

2025-12-21 06:02:30 GMT

“Trump, the lifelong branding obsessive, now has his name stacked over the Kennedy name, which was the biggest brand in American politics for the American century. This was an act of brand domination.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/us/politics/kennedy-center-trump-sign.html?unlocked_article_code=1.-U8.BXqH.RNI8PkFlvZhk&smid=url-share
#USpol

2025-12-13 04:05:49 GMT

“US childhood vaccines have prevented more than a million deaths since 1994. Raw milk causes 840 times more illness than its pasteurized alternative—and just last month Illinois saw 11 instances of raw milk–linked food poisoning. Fluoride, meanwhile, decreases cavities by 25 percent.”
So yeah, let’s help more people get sick and die! Yay! MAHA!
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/rfk-trump-maha-vaccines-public-health/
#USpol #Idiocracy

2025-12-08 08:22:24 GMT

When state actors use weapons to kill citizens of a country with which we’re not currently at war, that’s not a war crime.
That’s murder. Call it what it is.
#USpol

2025-11-30 21:12:08 GMT

“If pay for typical workers had kept pace with productivity over the past 45 years, their paychecks today would be roughly 40% larger.”
https://www.epi.org/productivity-pay-gap/

2025-11-30 06:14:03 GMT

“Today former judge advocate generals (JAGs), military lawyers, in the Former JAGs Working Group issued a statement declaring that it unanimously ‘considers both the giving and the execution of these orders, if true, to constitute war crimes, murder, or both,’ and called for ‘anyone who issues or follows such orders [to] be prosecuted for war crimes, murder, or both.”
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/november-29-2025/comments
#USpol #WarCrimes

2025-11-25 22:43:17 GMT

Rules for thee, not for me, sayeth Patel the big shot.
“When [Christopher] Wray used the bureau’s jet for personal reasons during his own tenure, Patel was one of his most vocal critics. In a 2023 interview, Patel chided Wray by name, saying he did not need ‘a government-funded G5 to go to vacations.’
“‘Maybe we ground that plane,’ Patel added. ‘Fifteen thousand dollars every time it takes off. Just a thought.’”
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/us/politics/kash-patel-girlfriend-fbi-protection.html?unlocked_article_code=1.308.4jJ0.z3jhpHTpjvp0
#USpol

2025-11-21 20:51:25 GMT

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“‘The whole thing about “vaccines have been tested and there’s been this determination made,” is just a lie,’ Mr. Kennedy said in the interview, his first with a major print publication.”
You know what *has* been scientifically proven? That vaccines prevent serious and deadly diseases from killing people. That is not a lie.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/us/politics/rfk-jr-cdc-vaccines-autism-website.html?unlocked_article_code=1.208.mDVo.oIGp764EmUGn&smid=nytcore-ios-share
#USpol #Idiocy (2/2)

2025-11-21 20:51:25 GMT

“The phrase ‘Vaccines do not cause autism’ is not supported by science,” says the US Secretary of Health and Other Stuff.
You know what else is not supported by science? The statement that “vaccines do not cause leprosy and poverty,” for one. So many others. We need to urge Science to prove all the things that vaccines do not cause.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/us/politics/rfk-jr-cdc-vaccines-autism-website.html?unlocked_article_code=1.208.mDVo.oIGp764EmUGn&smid=nytcore-ios-share
#USpol #Idiocy… (1/2)

2025-11-21 07:11:56 GMT

Meet the Veteran Who Chases ICE on a Scooter – Mother Jones https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/11/baltimore-scooter-ice-patrol-buzz-grambo-us-navy-veteran/

2025-11-20 18:04:23 GMT

How we deliberately created the homelessness pandemic in the 20th century.
The Banished Bottom of the Housing Market - by Ryan Puzycki https://www.ryanpuzycki.com/p/the-banished-bottom-of-the-housing

2025-11-16 23:27:33 GMT

Caity Weaver, a fine writer, expounds on pennies, lately for The Atlantic and previously (both times entertainingly) for The New York Times.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/11/pennies-circulation-mint/684935/?gift=RXPOOMoryRnayHP9s6YMzwIvnkP-fw_1-QbzK5qwbA0
#US #USpol #penny #pennies

2025-11-15 09:16:35 GMT

Snap! https://beige.party/@GrimmReality/115544281475812293

2025-11-13 18:30:11 GMT

Josh Johnson nailed it.
https://substack.com/@marlonweems/note/c-173922195?r=14j7ia&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=notes-share-action

2025-11-11 19:14:28 GMT

“The Soviet system of propaganda and censorship existed not so much for the purpose of spreading a particular message as for the purpose of making learning impossible, replacing facts with mush, and handing the faceless state a monopoly on defining an ever-shifting reality.”
~Masha Gessen in The New Yorker
Sounds strangely familiar these days.
#USpol

2025-11-11 18:16:25 GMT

“It is now more than ever, after all, that America needs the message of its World War II cemeteries. On a Veterans Day when optimism about the American experiment can be hard to summon, they transport us back to a moment when America was an essential force for good.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/11/opinion/veterans-day-world-war-ii.html?unlocked_article_code=1.0U8.H4Xf.5rIa2xBcCaWr&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
#US #Europe #Netherlands #WWII #VeteransDay

2025-11-10 22:31:58 GMT

“It’s easy, once you get the hang of it.”
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DOEPbdCjdj6/?igsh=aWRqZGk0NTVzbGRx
#Men #Women #Interrupting

2025-11-10 04:55:28 GMT

https://open.substack.com/pub/robertreich/p/earth-to-democrats-do-not-compromise?r=14j7ia&utm_medium=ios

2025-11-09 22:17:48 GMT

“‘Americans proudly say that we live in the longest-lived democracy in the world,’ Judge Wolf said in the interview. ‘But that should teach us that all the others failed.’”
#USpol
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/09/us/politics/mark-wolf-federal-judge-resigns.html?unlocked_article_code=1.z08.2iPG.H0FHpcaQakHu&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

2025-11-08 06:24:53 GMT

“Trump demanded again that Republicans end the filibuster. He tried to assuage Republican concerns that if they nuke the filibuster, Democrats in power in the future would use a simple majority to pass whatever legislation they wish. …”
https://open.substack.com/pub/heathercoxrichardson/p/november-7-2025?r=14j7ia
#USpol… (1/2)

2025-11-08 06:24:53 GMT

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“Trump said there was no need to worry about future Democratic control because by getting rid of the filibuster, Republicans could pass legislation that would guarantee they would ‘never lose the midterms and we will never lose a general election’ again.”
When people tell you who they are, listen.
https://open.substack.com/pub/heathercoxrichardson/p/november-7-2025?r=14j7ia
#USpol (2/2)

2025-11-06 04:05:10 GMT

Expect people working at Walmart an d McDonalds to be at least partially distracted these days, as both companies have unconscionable numbers of full-time employees on food stamps…which aren’t arriving anymore. Meanwhile, as Robert Reich points out, the CEOs of those companies make nearly 1000x what their lowest-paid employees do…
#USpol #EndTimes

2025-11-03 04:38:43 GMT

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“They implored the party to moderate after Hillary Clinton lost to Trump in 2016, and again after Biden won four years later. And we find ourselves once again having lost to Trump and once again the centrist consultant advice is unchanged. The party must moderate!”
https://www.burnsnotice.com/fire-the-consultants/
#USpol… (2/3)

2025-11-03 04:38:43 GMT

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“That's 6 presidential elections and Democrats lost 4 of them. If moderating the Democratic party was the key to winning elections, why are we still losing elections after decades of moderation?”
https://www.burnsnotice.com/fire-the-consultants/
#USpol (3/3)

2025-11-03 04:38:43 GMT

“There are only three certainties in life: death, taxes, and Democratic party consultants saying the party needs to moderate. This was their advice when Al Gore and John Kerry lost to George W. Bush. This was their advice to Barack Obama even after he swept into office after sweeping into office with a huge margin of victory after running a groundbreaking progressive campaign.”
https://www.burnsnotice.com/fire-the-consultants/
#USpol… (1/3)

2025-11-02 05:48:37 GMT

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@nprofile…duyy Everyone’s making movies these days, and realizing just how hard it is. The fourth wall has been permanently broken for most of us.

2025-11-02 02:54:13 GMT

https://substack.com/@xplicitpolitix/note/c-172361835?r=14j7ia&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=notes-share-action

2025-10-29 09:09:50 GMT

“Rallying the troops” three times in a month: TFG is readying the military to enforce his police state. Congress and SCOTUS won’t stop him.
We’ve seen our last ”free” national election.
https://open.substack.com/pub/robertreich/p/trump-just-announced-his-police-state?r=14j7ia
#USpol

2025-10-21 03:52:26 GMT

Great lede:
“A decade ago, for the most part, phones were phones. Computers were computers. Cameras were cameras. Portable music players were portable music players. The idea that the future of the computer would be a phone, or vice versa, wasn’t merely absurd. It just wasn’t how people thought about consumer technology. At all.”
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/06/what-apple-thought-the-iphone-might-look-like-in-1995/530085/?gift=RXPOOMoryRnayHP9s6YMzwEwJzXqmXKlUlNgQGRNJE0
#historydon #history #tech

2025-10-20 07:23:23 GMT

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“Such rallies ‘bring together multigenerational groups and the playfulness can help create enthusiasm for big tent politics against the monoculture of fascism. The frogs (and unicorns and dinosaurs) will be defining ideographs of this period of struggle.’”
https://open.substack.com/pub/heathercoxrichardson/p/october-19-2025?r=14j7ia
#USpol (2/2)

2025-10-20 07:23:23 GMT

“Scholar of social movements Lisa Corrigan notes…that yesterday ‘every single rally (including in the small towns) was bigger than the surrounding police force available. That kind of image event is VERY IMPORTANT if you’re…demonstrating social coherence AGAINST a fascist government and its makeshift gestapo.”’ (1/2)

2025-10-20 07:19:30 GMT

“78% of Americans, including 59% of Republicans, support the Democrats’ demand for an extension of the tax credit that lowers the cost of healthcare premiums on the Affordable Care Act markets.”
And that’s why the administration and Congress want to take it away. Right? Wait…
https://open.substack.com/pub/heathercoxrichardson/p/october-19-2025?r=14j7ia

2025-10-19 01:39:37 GMT

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@nprofile…lymn What device? I’m trying to duplicate it, and can’t on an iPhone 13 mini or an iPad Pro (M4).

2025-10-19 01:31:00 GMT

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“I started thinking about the difference between believing that I have a right not to be harmed and thinking that I have a responsibility not to harm others. I was struck by how passive and entitled, even whiny, the idea of ‘my rights’ suddenly felt. And how active and generative it felt to think about my responsibilities.”
https://radiolab.org/podcast/content-warning https://radiolab.org/podcast/content-warning
#USpol (2/2)

2025-10-19 01:30:59 GMT

“Dr. Goodall [said], “I don’t like to talk about animal rights. I prefer to talk about human responsibilities. The negative space of the idea of rights suddenly jumped out at me, like the classic picture of a vase that suddenly flips into two faces. I started to think about the way we talk about human rights, and what it might feel like if, instead of a Bill of Rights, our Constitution had a Bill of Responsibilities.
https://radiolab.org/podcast/content-warning https://radiolab.org/podcast/content-warning?utm_source=sfmc
#USpol… (1/2)

2025-10-18 18:42:07 GMT

“Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.”
~Elie Wiesel

2025-10-17 22:46:39 GMT

This doesn’t end. Stop dreaming. Start fighting back.
#USpol https://mastodon.social/@SteveThompson/115380159525111876

2025-10-15 19:37:34 GMT

“If you think Trumpism will simply end in three years, you are naive. Left unopposed, global populism of the sort Trumpism represents could dominate for a generation. This could be the rest of our lives, and our children’s, too.
“So why are we doing so little? Are we just going to stand in passive witness to the degradation of our democracy?”
Long, and worth it. #NoKings this Saturday!
https://apple.news/A5L9rThW1Rse5XwOYM-wOfA
#USpol #Autocracy

2025-10-15 04:52:43 GMT

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“But it has produced little evidence for that claim, and federal data shows that more than 70% of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detainees as of last month had no criminal convictions.”
https://open.substack.com/pub/heathercoxrichardson/p/october-14-2025?r=14j7ia
#USpol (2/2)

2025-10-15 04:52:43 GMT

“the Department of Homeland Security announced on October 3 that more than 1,000 undocumented immigrants had been arrested in and around Chicago since September, when their operation began. It said those arrested included ‘the worst of the worst pedophiles, child abusers, kidnappers, gang members, and armed robbers.’”
https://open.substack.com/pub/heathercoxrichardson/p/october-14-2025?r=14j7ia
#USpol… (1/2)