Dave Sampson
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CHICAGOAN. Serial re-poster. Liberal. Whitney M. Young HS Dolphin. Ohio University Bobcat. Bears. Blackhawks. Bulls. White Sox. Road cyclist. Fishbone Soldier. 🚫No DM's.
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Radley Balko@radleybalko.bsky.social · 16h agoA bunch of cops cheering at a political rally — in uniform — as the president and AG endorse a candidate and attack their political opponents is not normal. And it is not okay.
New data from the AFL-CIO finds the average CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 2025 was a gobsmacking 312-to-1. And that's without factoring in Elon Musk's record-breaking $158B pay package. CEO pay wasn't always wildly out of control. Here's how we can rein it back in.
Saw the guy sitting next to me on my flight perusing my tweets at a couple different points, which was cool. If you were the person in the Cubs fitted cap, enjoy Portland, and sorry I didn’t chat you up. A turbulent flight with my kids had me like 😳😵💫 but I appreciate you following
Since Lakers games have long been a "LOOK AT MEEEEE!!!" celebrity circle jerk, we should share images of every celebrity who attends a game and boycott THEIR shit. Shame the egos, kill the star appeal, and THAT will hurt the L.A. Lak(ushn)ers.
Top Big Pharma drugmakers have raked in $300B in revenue so far this year and increased their stock buybacks and dividend payments. What's driving those windfalls? Lifesaving cancer drugs that Trump excluded from Medicare drug price negotiation. "Make America Healthy Again."
GREED WATCH: Big Drug Companies Make Record-Breaking Sales While Seniors With Cancer Get Sold Out Thanks to Donald Trump — Protect Our Care
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Democrats need to run ads with this clip in every congressional district with a sizable military community.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 21h agoQ: The family members of US service members are concerned about the conditions on the USS Lincoln TRUMP: No they're not Q: Has the deployment gone on too long? TRUMP: No no no. Not nearly long enough.
The richest 10% of Americans are now driving over 50% of consumer spending. Which means the luxury sector is booming (like djt ordering $50M worth of new Cadillacs for the Secret Service) . . . but small businesses aren't doing so well. Wealth disparity makes our country weak.
New: We pieced together dozens of violent incidents from the ICE agents seen in viral videos from Virginia this week. They've roamed across multiple states, but are most often working in Chicago. We also verified the identity of Martin Lagunas, the fed who pointed his gun at a woman on Monday:
Chicago ICE team seen threatening drivers has roamed from Illinois to Minnesota to Virginia
A federal agent from Chicago identified by community members as 40-year-old Martin Lagunas was recorded pointing his gun in the face of a Virginia woman on Monday. His team of ICE agents has been docu...
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NEW AD: 14 years ago today, Ken Paxton stole someone's $1,000 pen. Today, Ken Paxton’s pen victim is endorsing James Talarico.
There’s new reports that more ships are suffering the same horrific conditions as the USS Abraham Lincoln from unsanitary conditions to no fresh foods and instead of addressing it, drunkard rapist Pete Hegseth and MAGA regime are covering it up. That’s the extent of their love for troops.
I’ll can’t understand how people anywhere would be ok with this let alone him being president. His favorite people are the uneducated & he found 77M Americans that are pathetic, gullible idiots. Never in my wildest dreams would I have expected people to be stupid enough to do this a 2nd time!
If all income in excess of $400,000 were subject to the Social Security payroll tax, Social Security’s solvency would be guaranteed forever. We could also expand Social Security benefits. There’s no reason even to consider reducing Social Security benefits or raising the age of eligibility.
This is crazy. Alex is from Brazil, why would they deport him to Guyana? He’s a longtime West Hollywood resident who has been following his immigration requirements. He wasn’t hiding. He wasn’t on the run. He showed up for his required ICE check-in. And that’s where they detained him.
Our political press buys into Trump as the personification of what George Lakoff calls “strict-father” morality. I’m not saying that’s their morality. I’m saying they respect it, even more than their own, sometimes. www.thefarce.org/why-the-pres...
🗽LOLGOP🗽@thefarce.org · 13h agoIf a president who wasn’t a Republican lost a war within days and left Americans with an $80 billion spike in energy costs, the press would demolish him, non-stop, like Jake Tapper would get his own streaming service just to shake his head derisively. The Ellisons would acquire it.
“We need to face facts that the US military is in terrible shape and it will continue to get worse under the present leadership. This is in some ways the greatest scandal in US history. The US has spent about $9 TRILLION on defense since 2016, and has created this deeply flawed, deteriorating force”
Midweek Update #23: Can He Keep It Going Through The Election?
The State Of The US Military Is Pretty Distressing
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Walmart and McDonald’s are among the top employers of workers who rely on food stamps. McDonald's CEO raked in $20.5M in 2025 — over 1,000x the company's median employee pay. Walmart's CEO pocketed $27.4M — 958x the company's median employee pay. See the problem?
Iran hates us because we did a coup against them in 1953 to steal their oil for BP. And the United States invented this whole fake history to hide the truth, turning Iran into a state that hates the West because we’re Christians or some shit. Or they hate modernity. We stole their resources! WTAF.
🚨EXCLUSIVE: Military families and service members are now describing horrific conditions across MULTIPLE ships: human waste flooding bathrooms, virtually no food, water or soap, months without port calls, exhausted crews, and no end in sight. This crisis is far bigger than just the Lincoln.
Not Just the Lincoln: Families Describe Human Waste, No Food, No End in Sight Across Multiple Ships
Since MeidasTouch began reporting on conditions aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln, messages have poured in to MeidasTouch from military families and service
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"She stood behind the seal of the White House wearing her little cross around her neck and became the glossy public mouth of an administration marinating in brutality, corruption, retribution, greed, deceit, autocracy, and spiritual putrefaction..." jojofromjerz.substack.com/p/goodbye-yo...
Goodbye, You Poisonous Fucking Fraud
Karoline Leavitt Is Leaving, but There Isn’t Enough Febreze on Earth for This Rebrand.
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Americans are relearning the lesson we learned during the Gilded Age of the late 1890s, when robber barons ran the government and the economy for their own benefit: Oligarchy is incompatible with the common good. I'm hopeful we'll respond with a new progressive movement.
I didn’t know this happened. Did you know this happened. This is some BS for sure.
I personally also blame every single person in American public life who played down the obvious danger continuously said the guardrails would hold + the institutions would push back + protect ordinary citizens!
Tapper: What is your husband saying about conditions on the ship? Wife of Service Member Aboard USS Lincoln: My husband is appalled at the conditions on this ship. This is not his first deployment. And he is saying that it is the worst deployment that he's ever been on. His shipmates say the same.
So we have partisan political police in the middle of a work day attending a political rally in uniform. Looks like Nuremberg in 1936.
