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[Oroborean @OROBOREAN]

@KNBR Thank God that Sir Larry saw fit to bless us with less overpriced poor quality beer!

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@knbrmurph Can we stop pretending to live in a democracy when Lord Baer doesn't even know the show is Murph & Marcus? Can we eat cake, too?

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@sfchronicle @susanslusser Ask them about Romans 13:6 and how they feel about paying taxes.

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@NBCSGiants @knbrmurph Don't let them get away with this. Do better.

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

Your Party told us Israel wasn’t committing genocide while we watched Palestinian parents collect their children’s body parts in trash bags.

[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

BREAKING: Congressman Ro Khanna sends an Epstein shiver down Trump's spine by announcing a masterful move to ensure that the full files are released — and Pam Bondi will be held "personally" responsible.

MAGA has finally been backed into a corner...

“We’re now going to be intervening with the Southern District of New York to ask those judges to appoint a special master and ensure that all the documents are released,” Khanna told NPR.

Along with Republican Congressman Thomas Massie, Khanna intends to make a major announcement next week outlining their full plan to force the Trump administration to cough up the remaining Epstein files.

“My interest here is to see justice for survivors, it’s not to be punitive, and what I want to see over these next few weeks is for the documents to actually start coming out that the American people and the survivors want to see, which is the documents that name the rich and powerful men who were on Epstein’s rape island," said Khanna.

Despite Congress mandating by law that the files be released with only very specific redactions by December 19th, only a small portion of them were released. Among those released, many contained illegal redactions. Absurdly, the Justice Department announced on December 24th that it had miraculously discovered "a million more documents" in the possession of the Southern District of New York.

It's apparent to everyone outside of the MAGA cult what's really going on here. Donald Trump's name is all over these files and is attached to heinous accusations of abuse. What we've already seen is damning, so one shudders to imagine what they're still holding back.

Khanna is particularly interested in a specific file released by the Justice Department which indicates that the DOJ had "anticipated" filing charges against 10 potential Epstein co-conspirators. The charges were never filed and the names have been redacted. At this point, the American people have a right to know who those people are. By all appearances, Epstein's child abuse ring was connected to the highest levels of government as well as the intelligence agencies.

“We’re also working together on hearing contempt for Pam Bondi, that means that after a 30-day grace period, she could be fined every day that these documents are not released,” said Khanna.

“She would be fined personally," he added. "There is tremendous political discontent for her within her own base. And then finally, impeachment is an option as well, but our interest is not to take down Pam Bondi, our interest is to take down the rich and powerful men who abused over 12,000 survivors and to finally see justice.”

Please ❤️ and share if you support the full release of Epstein!

[Power to the People ☭🕊 @ProudSocialist]

This deal to end the shutdown is the same deal that was on the table over 30 days ago. If the Democrats weren’t going to actually fight to get a better deal then why did they drag this out for 30 days and make people needlessly suffer? The election. Yes, they used poor people as political pawns to help them win an election then after winning they didn’t fight at all. If this doesn’t wake you up to how corrupt the Democratic party is then nothing will. A new party and a new system is required.

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

Cheney Should Have Died Alone In A Cage

Dick Cheney, arguably the single government official most responsible for the expansion of US warmongering and militarism in the 21st century, has died.

The worst worst war sluts of the US empire have issued statements expressing their condolences, including Democrats like Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Bill Clinton, and Nancy Pelosi. Because if there’s one thing that can bring Democrats and Republicans together, it’s war crimes and the slaughter millions of middle easterners.

Dick Cheney died far too old and far too free. The fact that such monsters get to pass away in their eighties surrounded by loved ones instead of alone in a cage is an indictment of our entire civilization.

In a truly sane society, Richard Bruce Cheney would have lived out his life in relative obscurity, working as a gardener or something. In a fairly sane society, people would have realized what a monster Cheney was before he could do any major harm in Washington, and he would have been driven out of any town he tried to enter. In a slightly sane society, he would have been punished for the rape of Iraq and lived out the rest of his life in a cell in The Hague.

But we do not live in a truly sane society, or in a fairly sane society, or even in a slightly sane society. We live in the sort of society that lets a man unleash a chain of events which kills millions and displaces tens of millions causing more human suffering than the mind can possibly comprehend, and then live out the rest of his life in comfort and privilege, with zero consequences of any kind.

Dick Cheney is dead now, but his legacy lives on. The damage he did is still unfolding. The hegemonic, hypermilitaristic ideology he promoted has become the baseline norm. New swamp monsters have stepped in to fill his shoes and advance the same murderous and tyrannical agendas he advanced, confident that they too will suffer no consequences and live long and comfortable lives in reward for their loyal service to the US empire.

Dick Cheney left a stain upon our species that we will spend the rest of our lives trying to scrub out. All decent people want our world to move in the exact opposite direction he spent his entire blood-spattered career working to steer us toward. All decent people want to undo everything that Dick Cheney was.

That said, the world actually does feel better without Dick Cheney in it. Feels a bit brighter. A bit lighter. Kinder. Gentler.

I don’t find comfort in the idea that Cheney is burning in hell now, because I do not believe in hell. I don’t find comfort in the idea that the empire will become less murderous and abusive in Cheney’s absence, because it won’t.

I find comfort in the fact that, after all these years, I am finally walking around on a planet that I do not have to share with Dick Cheney.

It’s a nice experience. Give it a try. Take a few steps and notice how you are at long last walking around on an earth that doesn’t have Dick Cheney on it. Look up at the sky and reflect on the fact that you and Dick Cheney are not living underneath that sky together anymore. Breathe deeply and think, “Today is the first day of life without Dick Cheney.”

It’s pretty sweet. I find that something in me relaxes a bit. Something subtle in my animal body is very relieved that he is gone now.

That’s good enough for me. I’ll take it.

Reading by Tim Foley:

[Stanley Cohen @StanleyCohenLaw]

At what point does the world liberate the concentration camp of Gaza.

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

If these guys don't buy into the story that they are on opposite sides of a ferocious battle of existential importance between two wildly different ideologies, then why should you?

[Oroborean @OROBOREAN]

@RevShark Please share a post where you've ever criticized a tax giveaway.

[John Fugelsang @JohnFugelsang]

Donald Trump is a moral leader for people offended by Colin Kaepernick’s knee, but not Derek Chauvin’s.

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

When you find yourself debating which openly genocidal presidential candidate will do a better job managing inflation, you know you have been duped into having the wrong conversations about the system you are living under.

[Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib @RepRashida]

Netanyahu is a war criminal committing genocide against the Palestinian people. It is utterly disgraceful that leaders from both parties have invited him to address Congress. He should be arrested and sent to the International Criminal Court.

[Oroborean @OROBOREAN]

@RevShark Maybe he's sad?

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@lynssss3125 what did you think capitalism was about?

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@elonmusk It's not the ends but the means that determine where you fall on the political spectrum.

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Steve Nicosia

[BaseballHistoryNut @nut_history]

Name of the most obscure #MLB player you can think of on top of your head. Please quote

[Oroborean @OROBOREAN]

@MishGEA No. Border policy is a political question unlike insurrection.