"One of the things that we have to do in a post-Trump era is return to a place where we think dictators are bad." @sarahlongwell25.bsky.social revisits the moment Trump sided with Putin over US intel, and how he’s now dropped the pretense of pretending dictators are bad.
Five corporations control 90% of the US media market. Airlines merged from 12 major carriers in 1980 to 4 today. Four giants control 80% of meat processing. A handful of companies control the pharmaceutical industry. The evidence of corporate concentration is everywhere.
I got back to my office after the vote last night and recorded this. There's no way to sugarcoat what happened. And my fear is that Trump gets stronger, not weaker, because of this acquiescence. I'm angry - like you. But I choose to keep fighting.
Former Senator Al Franken resigned for smelling a woman’s hair. I’m guessing he was standing a lot farther away than this.
Jimmy Kimmel wasn't suspended because of what he said. He was suspended because the FCC threatened his employer. That's state-sanctioned censorship and it is a GIANT RED FLAG 🚩🚩🚩 that authoritarianism isn’t *coming* it’s ALREADY HERE. Today it's Jimmy. Tomorrow it's the rest of us.
Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.
ICYMI: One-third of Rhode Islanders are now facing the steepest annual health insurance premium hikes in more than a decade. via @rhodeislandcurrent.com
Double-digit annual commercial health insurance rate hikes are coming in 2026
Even after cutting $59 million from what health insurers requested, 170,000 Rhode Islanders will shoulder the steepest annual premium hikes in more than a decade, the Rhode Island Office of the…
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This is just the most basic scaffolding of what creates orderly and transparent equities and capital markets. Making America Like the 1920s again
Kai Ryssdal@kairyssdal.bsky.social · 12mo agoBad idea
I remember the last time there was massive crime in DC.
Just to be clear, whenever Trump says “We” are going to be great again, or I’m going to make “us” rich, the “we” and the “us” mean the microscopic minority of people in the morbidly wealthy club and the bamboozled throngs who will ultimately pay the price.
I’m guessing that Russia has access to all of our nuclear capabilities and designs, thanks to doge and 47.
CEO pay is up 1,085% since 1978, while typical worker pay is up just 24%. Why do we always hear "we can't afford to pay our workers more" but never "we can't afford to pay our CEO more"?
I wish Everyone was saying that Trump should be in prison every single day.
Remember what we’re dealing with. This is Neil’s Columbia yearbook.
"The US was on the verge of major anti-corruption reform. Then Trump took office." from Casey Michel www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Will Donald Trump make money laundering great again?
The US was on the verge of major anti-corruption reform. Then Trump took office.
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🚨🚨🚨 Trump just fired USAID inspector general Paul Martin—one day after he exposed how Trump’s foreign aid freeze & mass firings have made it easier for U.S. taxpayer dollars to fund terrorist groups like Hamas & ISIS.
Of course foreign bribes should be legal! Why didn’t I think of that. meidasnews.com/news/trump-h...
Trump Halts Enforcement of Foreign Bribery Law
Another victory for corrupt and unfettered capitalism under Donald Trump
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So Joe Kent, a known Proud Boy, has been picked to be Director of counterterrorism. Let me get this straight—the terrorists are in charge of counterterrorism.
Pam Bondi said that the January 6 prosecutions were a “grave national injustice.” She’s a liar and a traitor.
Claims about USAID funding are spreading online. Many are not based on facts, and most are being spread from from trump’s administration and Elon Musk. apnews.com/article/usai...
Claims about USAID funding are spreading online. Many are not based on facts
False and misleading social media posts are circulating online as the Trump administration moves to dismantle the U.S. Agency for International Development.
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