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Traveling from Then to Now, I'm looking for ways to explain how a simple world, appearing complex, is still simple. Trust Yourself. Not the famous, rich, glamorous, lionized or glorified.

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Mike Johnson declines to condemn Republicans’ anti-Muslim remarks The speaker suggested his members meant to decry “Sharia law,” not the Muslim faith.

Christianity doesn't have a formal word for what White Christian Nationalist are advocating, but history has given us The Holy Crusades and the Inquisition to go with Republicans
Mike Johnson declines to condemn Republicans’ anti-Muslim remarks - Live Updates - POLITICO share.google/oZP2WHdNmrOt...

10.03.2026 20:19 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Teens charged in 'ISIS-inspired' attack near Mamdani's Gracie Mansion – DOJ The NYPD is investigating homemade explosives found near the official home of Mayor Zohran Mamdani as an "act of ISIS-inspired terrorism."

So teens from PA, inspired by ISIS, go to a Right Wing rally outside of Gracie Mansion. To attack anti-war protests? Or the Right or a Muslim mayor?
These people are nuts and confused.

Teens charged in 'ISIS-inspired' attack near Mamdani's NYC home: DOJ share.google/jyXC7QppmDid...

09.03.2026 22:37 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Trump is busy lying again.
Says Iran got Tomahawk missile that hit girls school. "Could have been.""That's what I heard."

thehill.com/homenews/adm...

09.03.2026 22:30 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

independence. When there was a movement for independence, songs about Puerto Rico, their flag, was made illegal. They are American, but not. They can't vote for national elections ON the island, but can stateside. They can serve in the U.S. military, but can't vote as long as they live on the island

09.03.2026 21:34 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

if the "Sugar Trusts." It was always "tax breaks," that made it easy for American corporations to move in, set up,and leave when it was cheaper elsewhere. For Puerto Rican businesses? Not so easy. For investments from other countries, Not easy. Puerto Rico had no tax base, no statehood, no

09.03.2026 21:34 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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In 1890s Puerto Rico became a territory of America. This was the industry. Sugarcane. Puerto Rican labor was cheaper than American labor in Louisiana, and the Republican president and Congress, made it easy for American banks to go in and acquire the sugar plantations. Domino Sugar is the legacy

09.03.2026 21:34 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
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Trying to run a farm isn't easy:
the weather, costs and prices all are factors. You need people willing to work (not pretend and go out to lunch). And then you have asshole Republicans that YOU elected. It's like running a marathon wearing a bear trap

09.03.2026 21:20 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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This is a photo of America. The people who built it, and the person with the guys enough to go up and take it, because it mattered.
This is why cities elect Democrats and not Republicans. It isn't "political." Just reality.

09.03.2026 21:14 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

"Their people," did. Any military success, is the people who spent a lifetime learning, studying being critiqued, doing it again and again and again. Not the assholes who called it up, ordered the pizza, took the credit. That is MY issue. I respect people who work, because I know what it took.

09.03.2026 21:11 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

This "war" in Iran, is exactly my problem with the rich owners, billionaires and Republican Party.
The people who build, design, construct, execute, are all technicians, trained, studied, designed, and were criticized, and did it over and over again.
NO Republican or billionaire BUILT anything.

09.03.2026 21:11 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

"Systemic" is not a single person who is a crook, or a liar or corrupt.
"Systemic" is when they ALL are crooks, liars and corrupt.
When every one you meet, see or hear is a. crook, liar and corrupt, that is "Systemic." That is Republican.
A Party, a People, a Belief, a philosophy, a religion.

09.03.2026 21:03 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Bashing Republicans is not political.
It's common sense.

09.03.2026 20:59 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

When someone. builds a house with their own hands, they are conservative.
When they hear a Republican talk, they know it's bullshit.
No one who actually works, should ever vote for a Republican. Unless their house fell on their head.

09.03.2026 20:57 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Easy to say you're Christian.
Easy to say you're American.
Easy to say you believe in "law and order."
Easy to say you believe in the Constitution.
Easy to say.
That is the Republican Party. For 50 years.
Easy to say.

09.03.2026 20:55 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I don't trust anyone to do anything until I see them doing it.

09.03.2026 20:43 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Ahhh Backstabbers!

09.03.2026 20:41 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

IS the plan. First. You already know what they WANT to do.

09.03.2026 20:38 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Democratic "plans" are harder than Republican implementation.
Republicans relied on: executive orders, ignoring the laws, no legislation, and lying to courts.
Democrats actually have to win majorities in the House and Super majorities in the Senate, appointment of SCOTUS seats.
Democracy, voting

09.03.2026 20:38 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

and 8th and 9th.

09.03.2026 20:32 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

He did. Hegseth said "we're still investigating."

09.03.2026 20:32 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

How is Ukraine a greater contributor to world peace than the United States?
Oh yeah, they didn't vote for Trump.

09.03.2026 18:59 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Just a reminder; Stupid people don't belong in government.
Question: Why is every stupid person a Republican?
Just asking!

09.03.2026 18:55 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I do not consider myself "Christian." I can only observe behavior, actions, from the outside. Like God. The behaviors and actions are not persuasive. Quoting the "Bible," and sitting in a big room once a week with Liars, is not encouraging. Practice counts. "Practice? We're talking PRACTICE?"

09.03.2026 18:50 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

had done something. No free passes or buying your way to the top. There was grift and corruption, like elsewhere, but Chicago loved throwing the book at bums.
It's never too late to work.

09.03.2026 18:05 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I worked for both Obama campaigns, but not solely because he was young, gifted and Black. But because he was from Chicago like me. I understood Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man, Studs Terkel, the Stock Yards and how Chicago worked and how politics worked.
You had to get out of bed, work and show you

09.03.2026 18:05 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Note to self: GOP = ICE.
GOP= WAR.
GOP = LIES
GOP = CORRUPTION
Been there, done that.
250 years of United States. 108 years of GOP betrayal = Trump + MAGA.

09.03.2026 17:54 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Appeals court rules against Trump administration's efforts to end protected status for Haitians A federal appeals court this week sided with a lower judge’s ruling against the Trump administration’s efforts to end temporary protected status for roughly 350,000 Haitians living in the U.S.

This is what voting for Republicans looks like.

Court rules against Trump in TPS case involving Haitians | AP News share.google/2y58EolTXjeo...

08.03.2026 15:19 👍 4 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 0
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Judge says Kari Lake’s tenure atop US media agency was improper, voids actions as ‘acting CEO’ U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth concluded that her ascension was an illegal end-run around the Senate’s advice and consent role.

This is what voting for Republicans looks like.

Judge says Kari Lake’s tenure atop US media agency was improper, voids actions as ‘acting CEO’ - POLITICO share.google/2w3XL7xSf2d4...

08.03.2026 15:17 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
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Tech oligarchs reshape humanity while billionaires of old seem quaint From Gates to Musk and Altman, today’s ultra-rich steer AI and tech, raising questions about who decides the future

This is what voting for Republicans looks like.

Tech oligarchs reshape humanity while billionaires of old seem quaint | Technology | The Guardian share.google/XoJxekVZBBJ0...

08.03.2026 15:16 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Eric Trump Says JPMorgan, Wells Fargo And Bank of America Trying To Block Americans From Getting Higher Yields On Savings By Sabotaging Clarity Act Eric Trump, co-founder of the World Liberty Financial platform, stepped up his attack on U.S. banking giants on Wednesday, accusing them of “desperately targeting” the cryptocurrency industry. Banks P...

Did the financial industry think that "regulations" was their biggest problem? Try, "Republican Capitalism." Cronyism.

Eric Trump Says JPMorgan, Wells Fargo And Bank of America Trying To Block Americans From Getting Higher Yields On Savings By Sabotaging Clarity Act share.google/FiY0Y6c3t6N4...

08.03.2026 15:13 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 1