Marine Le Pen, the French far-right leader, has been convicted of embezzlement and sentenced to 4 years in prison.
She has been barred from running for public office for 5 years.
Bravo, France for doing what the U.S. could not!
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Moment of clarity today in the Senate where Republicans sided with big banks & against customers. Higher fees, lower transparency.
Now it goes to the House - so call your Member of Congress to ask how they’ll vote!
It's critical for everyone to remember what an Executive Order is. It is the President communicating orders to members of the executive branch. Policies to pursue, actions to take, etc. They are not laws. They are not close to being laws. They are formalized memos to employees. That's all.
Political leaders—Democrats or Republicans—who remain silent are complicit in enabling Trump. Fear is no excuse. Remember the cowards who stood by as democracy was attacked by a wannabe dictator. Their silence is their betrayal.
If they’re going to keep threatening to reinstate these tariffs I hope they grow a pair and actually do it. Instead of this dangling it around like a threat against everyone, man up and start the tariffs. The quicker their cult will then turn on them.
Trump’s appeasement of Putin in the Oval Office today echoes that of Neville Chamberlain in 1938 — and will be remembered as a naive and catastrophic act of surrender to a war criminal. If history is any indication, the result will almost surely bring disaster to Europe’s shores once again.
With GOP encouraging members NOT TO DO TOWN HALLS... Send in the blue candidates now, today's, and engage with the the district constituents...
François Heisbourg, one of the world’s leading strategists and a cool head:
I am not making this up: Republicans have introduced legislation… to increase your bank fees.
PAY ATTENTION:
While they bombard us with constant news cycles of f*ckery, they are continually trying to strip away our rights and humanity.
Bill H.R. 722 would lead to a Federal Abortion Ban with no exceptions!
#ProudBlue
#DemCast
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Originally published in 2017. Please read. Very relevant.
“One may safely say that it would be no sin if statesmen learned enough of history to realize that no system, which implies control of society by privilege seekers, has ever ended in any other way than collapse.” Ambassador William Dodd.
“The Caesar’s succeeded only for a short moment as measured by the test of history “
“Be careful. When a democracy is sick, fascism comes to its bedside, but it is not to inquire about its health.”
— Albert Camus
This warning should chill all American who care about our nation.
What’s going on with him that his press conferences are now being held with him sitting at the resolute desk? He’s not standing, he’s not at a podium. I get it, the tariffs are bad and our costs are going up, but we all knew that, ( well those of us who voted against him). How debilitated is he?
Today, the @HouseGOP is pushing forward a budget that defunds nursing homes and guts children's health care.
All to cut taxes for their billionaire donors.
That's the Republican agenda: More for them, less for you.
If you’re wondering if you’re in a constitutional crisis and that the republic could collapse at any moment, you are.
Erasing women off the planet!
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A really good birthday present today would have been knowing the nightmare government was gone. Happy Birthday to me, and here’s wishing for all of our health and safety.
Proof Trump CAVED:
To all the MAGA who is saying Trump “got what he wanted” because Mexico is sending 10,000 troops to the border:
Biden achieved the same deployment in 2021 without any threats. 👇
Why is Trump fixated on a tax cut for wealthy oligarchs who bankrolled his 2024 campaign if he can't run in 2028? Simple, he is 100% running for President again. That is why Trump and Musk are laser focused on tax cuts for rich GOP oligarchs. My article deanobeidallah.substack.com/p/trumps-tar...
His actions appear to violate the University student Code of Conduct in regard to unauthorized access and disorderly conduct.
@meidastouch.com needs a correspondent in DC so you can have first hand video of what’s going on.
The fact that they’re broadcasting an entire Trump press conference while Democratic elected officials are trying to get into the USAID building which was shut down by Musk shows exactly what is terribly wrong with today’s political mainstream media.
“We don’t have a 4th branch of government called Elon Musk.”
Thank you @raskin.house.gov
A tweet by Michael McFaul (@McFaul) that reads: "In 2012, when I was the US ambassador to Russia, Putin shut down USAID inside Russia. Why? Because their work supported free markets, democracy, human rights — ie causes that threatened Putin's dictatorship. Shutting down USAID is exactly what autocrats all over the world want."
Putin is full out celebrating our idiocy.
