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Historian, lawyer, scientist, beekeeper, keynote speaker.

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This administration is committing Watergate level crimes multiple times per week—and those are the ones we know about. It’s crazy to think about what else will come out after.

It’s absolutely essential these criminals are held responsible for their crimes. We must end elite impunity.

11.03.2026 15:57 👍 22380 🔁 5329 💬 790 📌 264

The evidence that Trump is a pedophile and rapist is overwhelming. THINK ABOUT THAT: the president is a pedophile and rapist. Republicans know this but are making every effort to hide the information. They all need to be removed.

11.03.2026 22:50 👍 10 🔁 8 💬 1 📌 0

Come TF on!!! We can't have Healthcare and food assistance for those in need, but this is happening?!?!?

11.03.2026 10:38 👍 23 🔁 13 💬 6 📌 0

I’m seeing a whole lot of “but what about” posts on here today.

We’ve reached the point of fascism (a long time ago, honestly) when things are really bad for a lot of people.

Someone naming how it’s bad for them isn’t taking anything from you. Solidarity with each other is the way out of this.

11.03.2026 18:29 👍 2008 🔁 402 💬 53 📌 20

“…real failure is that the richest & most powerful nation in world — nation that has led the world since WW II & established the postwar international order emphasizing multilateralism, democracy, human rights, & rule of law — is now being led by a rogue president who rejects all these values.”
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11.03.2026 10:51 👍 1737 🔁 547 💬 90 📌 35
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Trump appoints Erika Kirk to Air Force Academy board to continue Charlie's 'legacy' There are 16 seats on the board. Among them are Republican and Democratic lawmakers, as well as retired Air Force Col. Doug Nikolai.

This is an insult to our servicemen and women. She has no expertise, nothing substantive to contribute,... This is also part of the pattern, encouraged by Hegseth, of trying to weaponize religion in the Armed Services -- dangerous and unconstitutional. www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

11.03.2026 14:53 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Every ICE officer who has broken the law should be arrested, tried, and imprisoned for their crimes.

07.03.2026 19:34 👍 14521 🔁 2957 💬 568 📌 150

The White House put out a series of hype videos about the war. Some have been defending it by saying military members themselves share these kinds of videos.

This is true. But they aren’t the White House. The WH is a bunch of children, and have no sobriety about the serious business of war.

08.03.2026 17:01 👍 10342 🔁 2193 💬 385 📌 54
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Senator mocked ‘green energy crap.’ His house runs on it. Montana Republican Tim Sheehy voted to scrap solar tax credits after installing panels and battery storage at his Bozeman home.

Solar is very economical and will help save the planet, but Republicans senators work for the oil & gas industry -- and hope that chumps will believe them. www.politico.com/news/2026/03...

08.03.2026 14:37 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Unnerved by Trump, U.S. allies are making nice with China British Prime Minister Keir Starmer is the latest in a series of Western leaders to meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping.

Abandoning and antagonizing our allies is a bad idea. Americans will be paying the price of Trump's foolishness and tantrums for decades. www.nbcnews.com/world/asia/t...

08.03.2026 11:01 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1
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Measles is 'worse than expected' in Utah, officials say Measles patients in Utah are developing severe complications, health officials say, including potentially life-threatening anemia and liver inflammation.

Anti-science BS propagated by RFK, and enabled by Trump, is making children sick, some will likely die. Congress knows this and does nothing. Senator Cassidy is a doctor but confirmed RFK in the face of evidence that he is dangerous. www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

07.03.2026 00:18 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

The rich -- who have benefitted most from our system of schools, roads, first responders, national security -- need to carry the largest tax obligations. Income taxes are the way to do that.

06.03.2026 12:23 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
John A. Ragosta: What happens when churches and community both decline? A few years back, church membership in the United States fell below 50% for the first time in modern history. Now, the most common form of religious affiliation...

www.post-gazette.com/opinion/gues...

06.03.2026 12:22 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Their corruption and malevolence is only matched by their incompetence.

06.03.2026 12:16 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Schumer is right: This is a good opportunity to demand reform.

05.03.2026 22:21 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Kristi Noem has done a stunning amount of damage and it’s good she’s gone.

But this doesn’t change the fact that we need a complete overhaul of DHS, impartial investigations into the killings of two American citizens, and information on children that were taken from Minnesota.

05.03.2026 19:38 👍 40396 🔁 9128 💬 1493 📌 307

They should all be required to have a blind trust. It is not a penalty at all to turn your financial assets over to a competent financial advisor, BUT it would stop the corruption (that has occurred repeatedly) and the appearance of corruption.

05.03.2026 21:25 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

So far the war in Iran has cost an estimated $5.5 billion.

That's roughly $1 billion per day.

$41,666,667 per hour.

$11,574 per second.

People do not want this.

They want a living wage. They want healthcare. They want to be able to afford a home. They want their basic needs met.

05.03.2026 17:31 👍 18770 🔁 7317 💬 796 📌 414

If Congress isn't supposed to be involved in setting taxes, and has abdicated its responsibility to declare war, we really have to ask why are we even paying them salaries.

05.03.2026 19:00 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Republicans are exploding the wealth/opportunity gap that Thomas Jefferson warned would destroy the nation. They don't care.

05.03.2026 19:00 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Senators push Trump for $200B tax cut without Congress. Experts say it’s illegal The senators claim that the Trump administration does not need congressional approval for the $200 billion tax cut. However some conservative legal experts and Treasury officials beg to differ.

Republican senators pushing more tax cuts that would go overwhelmingly to the super-rich, and they don't want Congress to even look at the issue. No money for health care, education, infrastructure, but letting the rich get richer is their policy. www.yahoo.com/news/article...

05.03.2026 19:00 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Gerrymandering is a cancer on our nation; it reduced voter participation, encourages extremism, undermines voter choice.... Democrats need to respond to the Trump/Republican gerrymandering in kind BUT after winning in 2026 should seek a bipartisan end to the practice.

05.03.2026 16:55 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Gerrymandering is a cancer on our nation; it reduced voter participation, encourages extremism, undermines voter choice.... Democrats need to respond to the Trump/Republican gerrymandering in kind BUT after winning in 2026 should seek a bipartisan end to the practice.

05.03.2026 16:55 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

When trump is finally gone, it will take a long time and much difficulty to repair the damage the fool has done. The hardest part may be restoring our nation's image on the world stage, and convincing our former friends to trust us again.

05.03.2026 02:22 👍 2964 🔁 489 💬 549 📌 77

The Constitution is clear: Congress decides on war. When a president uses military force without authorization and Congress stays silent, they are abandoning their role as a co equal branch of government. War is the most serious power our government has. Shame on the U.S. Senate today.

05.03.2026 02:24 👍 7280 🔁 2052 💬 416 📌 103
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A cartoon from the 1950’s that’s more relevant than ever 💔

04.03.2026 14:40 👍 20031 🔁 8491 💬 353 📌 330
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05.03.2026 15:01 👍 14499 🔁 5764 💬 524 📌 252

Minnesota alone has four Republican members of the House. They are silent. They are complicit. They all need to be removed.

05.03.2026 14:54 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed...This is not a way of life...it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron.”

-Dwight Eisenhower 1953

05.03.2026 04:01 👍 3193 🔁 1142 💬 66 📌 50
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Tell Congress: Demand AG Bondi release ALL of the Epstein files now Contact Congress today!

🚩 House Oversight just voted 24-19 to SUBPOENA AG Pam Bondi over her half-baked Epstein files release.

Key docs still hidden.
Redactions everywhere.
Powerful names protected.

Enough is enough.

Tell Congress: FORCE Bondi to release EVERY unredacted file NOW. No more cover-ups! 🔥

04.03.2026 22:16 👍 7072 🔁 2100 💬 338 📌 102