Jack Whalen

As a Christian I have waited SO long for something like this… like, since Martin Luther King Jr was murdered

In Senate Race, Talarico Challenges ‘Heretical’ Right-Wing Christianity

As he moves into the general election, Mr. Talarico is pushing Christians to reclaim what he sees as core principles of their faith in American political life, including compassion for immigrants, helping the poor and loving one’s neighbor.
In doing so, he poses a new kind of threat to Republicans.

Documents Reveal a Web of Financial Ties Between Trump Officials and the Industries They Help Regulate ProPublica is releasing a trove of disclosure records that detail the finances of more than 1,500 Trump appointees, including former lobbyists, industry executives and at least a dozen officials who d...

This story cannot keep flying under the radar.

A ProPublica investigation uncovered hundreds of millions of dollars in financial ties between Trump officials and the industries they are supposed to regulate.

That is not just a conflict of interest. It is corruption, plain and simple.

The U.S. Built a Blueprint to Avoid Civilian War Casualties. Trump Officials Scrapped It. The Pentagon dismantled its civilian protection mission as Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth made “lethality” a top priority and the Trump administration reorganized national security around two principl...

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Mehdi Hasan bought the rights, thank God.

WATCH NOW: 'Gaza: Doctors Under Attack' – The Full Film They Didn't Want You To See Exclusive: The powerful film the BBC refused to air is out now, released globally by Zeteo. It documents Israel's destruction of Gaza's hospitals and the killing of Palestinian doctors.

The BBC documentary on Gaza medical workers they then refused to air. You will be absolutely gutted.

trade in your gas guzzler for an ev

Omg not shocking 🤪🙄🤣

Hard Feelings The Iranian diaspora is fracturing in real time, across dinner tables, on WhatsApp, and in the silence of blocked numbers.

War recognises no human bonds except death and destruction

Americans most likely to view fellow citizens as morally bad — but Canadians are the opposite, new survey finds Ninety-two per cent of Canadians saw their fellow citizens as morally good, compared to just 47 per cent of Americans.

A fundamental difference between Canadians & Americans. 92% of us see fellow citizens as morally good compared to 47% of Americans according to a Pew poll. It's unknown whether American's skepticism re. their countrymen is new or long held. www.thestar.com/news/canada/...

As a boomer man (age 76) my views on gender roles were decisively shaped by the women’s movement in the 1960s, when I came of age (and yeah, by my wife of 55 years who has been a dedicated feminist since the day we first met as teenagers).
And let’s stop these vicious anti-trans hate campaigns, ok?

‘No stupid rules of engagement’….
A body of evidence assembled by The New York Times indicates the school building was severely damaged by a precision strike that occurred at the same time as attacks on an adjacent naval base operated by the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps

Florida college Republicans group chat reveals racist texts: ‘Avoid the coloreds like the plague’ — Guardian US In leaked chats, students at Florida International University referenced Nazis and made antisemitic and racist remarks

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I continue to be gobsmacked at 1) how common this formulation is 2) how antisemitic and generally bigoted it is 3) and how for all the talk of anti-semitism this is never cited as an example even though it’s quite literally the original incarnation.

Bruce Springsteen’s protest songs still hit where it hurts Springsteen has repeatedly turned moments of violence and injustice into songs that demand moral reckoning.

“Streets of Minneapolis” is not Springsteen’s first protest song. Across his almost 60-year career, he has addressed war, racism, state-sponsored violence, economic anxiety, and the loss of civil liberties (to name but a few). Here are some of his best moments...

‘Nazi heaven’: Inside Miami campus Republicans’ racist group chat The chat is the subject of a Florida International University police investigation.

The secretary of Miami-Dade County’s GOP started a group chat primarily for conservative students last fall — & within three weeks it was filled with racist slurs, someone wrote dozens of ways of violently killing Black people & the chat was renamed after what one member described as “Nazi heaven.”

But today the bit ended?

This looks fabulous!

This is the exact type of hypocrisy people are sick of in politics.

We need to be honest about who we are and who’s supporting us.

Opinion | The Trump 1 Percent Fan Club Has a Lot of New Members

Trump and the Republican Party have effectively become subsidiaries of the nation’s billionaire class, producing an American presidency setting new standards in oligarchy and kleptocracy.

love when democrats talk about kitchen table issues as if trans people and immigrants don’t have kitchen tables 🙃

Very likely!

I so desire a bigger kitchen, and an electric outlet in the island - and anyway, how stupid is that, no outlet there? when most of the kitchen work I do or would want to do is on the island and its cutting board, the two counters already jammed with toaster, microwave, bread box, electric kettle…

DoJ cases against protesters keep collapsing as officers’ lies are exposed in court String of embarrassing defeats for prosecutors as experts condemn DoJ effort to cast people as ‘violent perpetrators’

"In Chicago, of 92 people arrested for assaulting or impeding officers last fall, 74 cases have resulted in no charges; in 13 cases, charges were filed and dismissed; and five charged cases were still pending *** As of the end of January, there have been no convictions."

Kitchen would be FIRST place I want to see - or if building, design

DoJ cases against protesters keep collapsing as officers’ lies are exposed in court String of embarrassing defeats for prosecutors as experts condemn DoJ effort to cast people as ‘violent perpetrators’

Lying is the only thing they know,is in the very nature of their gestapo organisation & of course the leadership, from Trump & Noem on down

Did she just get up one day and ask herself, who's the worst person for whom i could abandon all of whatever small amount of dignity I have to humiliatingly lie for on a daily basis in front of millions of people on national television?

History is replete with people craven enough, ambitious enough, and cowardly enough to attach their lives and honour — their very souls — to such psychopaths. Karoline Leavitt will have to answer for her sins someday, and forgiveness is absolutely not going to come.