"Let’s not forget that this was a WAR OF CHOICE. ONE THAT WAS COMPLETELY UNNECESSARY. ... the costs at home are rising ... [and inflation] reduces everything to a single, stubborn fact: THINGS ARE GETTING MORE EXPENSIVE. ... For most Americans, that’s the only reality that matters."

The Sisyphean Cost of Living

There are two parallel realities unfolding right now.

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Some MAGA are finally seeing the light, and what their votes have done to America 30 years from now A LOT of people will lie to their grandkids about who they were what they said and did today

Trump hasn't kept promises about the economy & “no wars“. EVERY VOTER must VOTE AGAINST TRUMP-SUPPORTING lawmakers in the MIDTERMS. 2024 non-voters MUST VOTE. Even MAGAs need to bite the bullet & vote in favor of your family's future -- not against the libs Trump has trained you to hate.

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This is scary as heII. Americans have one & only VERY LAST chance to save ourselves from the destruction and horrors the Epstein-Bestie Trump regime is inflicting on our country: VOTE IN THE MIDTERMS...

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This gave me chills. Watch.

This should be a entertaining event for independent podcasters to report on. I'll check their YouTube channels as soon as I finish watching last night's SNL.

Right Wing Watch @rightwingwatch.bsky.social · 3mo ago

MAGA pastor Robert Jeffress tells those gathered for the Trump administration's National Jubilee of Prayer, Praise & Thanksgiving event that the Founding Fathers "would be called Christian nationalists today."

Let me take you to a better time and place this Saturday night. Back when we had HOPE. 💙🇺🇸 #ProudBlue #Obama

Cartoon by Nick Anderson. (Follow him on Substack: https://nickanderson.substack.com/)

I love and respect this scientist. Carl Sagan answers a question about creation vs evolution.

AS PUTIN ANNOUNCES VISIT TO CHINA ON 18-19 MAY: This is the latest published Chinese political cartoon, which tells you how they really see DJT

The stories & photos from today’s voting rights marches in Alabama deserve to be seen by people who weren’t able to stand there in person. If this piece moves you, please share it widely & help make sure these voices aren’t lost in the noise of a crowded news cycle. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

Selma Rejects Jim Crow 2.0

Half of the population in Dallas County, Alabama, where Selma is located, was African American in 1965.

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Having double-tap Kegseth at the joystick is sure to exacerbate the devastation and further increase the death count. substack.com/@deanobeidal...

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Dr. John Gartner: “I'm predicting that Donald Trump will kill more people than Hitler" Before you dismiss this as over the top, keep in mind this is the first time I spoke to Dr. Gartner since Trump b...

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Please fill out this 2-minute form to email your lawmakers.

Scott Dworkin@dworkin.bsky.social · 3mo ago

🚨 STOP THE THEFT TODAY! 🚨 We have a narrow window to stop Congress from giving your tax dollars to Trump’s private ballroom boondoggle. Do not let this slide. Auto-send your letter in 60 seconds: actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...

Rep. @brotherjones.bsky.social in Montgomery: “We’re here united to take on this new confederacy, 60 years after the Selma March… because we know their intent is to dismantle everything gained during the civil rights movement.”

Alisa Valdes-Rudrigues' article's mention of Lutnick & Cantor Fitzgerald awakened a vague memory of seeing a post-9/11 interview that led me to think (back then) what a generous person he was. I wonder if he was already buddies with Ep$tein then. I've attached the cringeworthy video:

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(Sorry I can't put this is a comment.) Your mention of Lutnick & Cantor Fitzgerald awakened a vague memory of seeing a post-9/11 interview that led me to think (back then) what a generous person he wa...

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Saying it louder for those in the back: "The United States was not founded, in any sense, on Christian principles. It's simply not true." More people would know this if they were taught history without restrictions. History doesn’t fit your narrative. #Pinks @timothysnyder.bsky.social

Those who hold that this country was founded on christian principles are also those who believe Jesus look the complete opposite of what the Bible says he does.

Princess Vimentin PhD | Cancer Biologist@princess-vimentin.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Saying it louder for those in the back: "The United States was not founded, in any sense, on Christian principles. It's simply not true." More people would know this if they were taught history without restrictions. History doesn’t fit your narrative. #Pinks @timothysnyder.bsky.social

We’re living through a unique moment, when were Republicans are deliberately damaging the right to vote in plain sight for everyone to see. The question we need to be asking is why? This piece is an attempt to answer that question. Let me know what you think. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

The Redistricting Race To The Bottom

A Southerner's Point of View

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Protesters staged noise demo through the rich Seattle neighborhood of #Laurelhurst that lobbied against noisy helicopters flying sick and injured kids over their mansions to Children's Hospital. 🤪 It got a bit noisy.

Amen To That

Racism makes it about race.

Perfect campaign ad for the upcoming Midterms. 👌

This picture is truly worth 1K words. But I have one modification: add to the LOVE sign “aka WOKE.” After all, that's the dog whistle Epstein-Bestie Trump has been using for 12+ years to incite their ha@te.

David Hayward (@davidrhayward) | Theda DeBacker

This picture is truly worth 1K words. But I have one modification: add to the LOVE sign “aka WOKE.” After all, that's the dog whistle Epstein-Bestie Trump has been using for 12+ years to incite their ...

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U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito leaned on an erroneous claim that Black voter turnout now tops white voter turnout, in his Callais v. Louisiana ruling that gutted the Voting Rights Act, reports The Guardian. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

SCOTUS used faulty racial voter turnout data to shred Voting Rights Act in recent ruling

The ruling that upended the Voting Rights Act was based in part on a false data analysis about Black and white voter turnout.

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It's time for Putin to take up PERMANENT residence in his underground bunker. [I wonder if he has a direct line to Netanyahu in his bunker.]

Bill Kristol@billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 3mo ago

"Don’t underrate the importance of Orban losing. [With the $90b from the EU now freed up], the Ukrainians are not worried about running out of money, which was Putin’s plan and Trump’s plan in many ways. They can now are take the initiative in the war." youtu.be/lQgfi2duuPE?...

Hungary’s parliament sings “Ode to Joy” — the anthem of Europe — after Péter Magyar is sworn in as prime minister. Hungary is once again a proud member of the European Union.

Please take 3 minutes now to email your lawmakers. SCOTUS' decision tearing down voting rights is a massive attack on our democracy. This will enable gerrymandering to disenfranchise thousands of non-white voters across the U.S., rigging the midterms in favor of Republicans.

Tell Congress: I demand a plan to give power back to the people! | Theda DeBacker

Please take 3 minutes now to email your lawmakers. Demand they rein in Supreme Court corruption! SCOTUS' decision tearing down voting rights is a massive attack on our democracy. This will enable ger...

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