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gay, vietnam vet, enjoying my place in the country

[Antifascist @GoodN67788]

#trump #TrumpGOPSyndicateforPrison #TrumpCorruption #TrumpPedophileRapist #Voteblue #resist #resister #ResistTrump

[Anonymous @YourAnonCentral]

Too many in the US take a strange pride in inadequacy—low literacy, cultural decay, even refusing to join the ICC or become party to the Rome Statute. These aren’t badges of strength or superiority. They’re symptoms of deeper weakness and moral decay, corrosive to democracy. You can fix it.

[Marco Foster @MarcoFoster_]

Jennifer Welch: “The reason why Talarico really bothers them so much is because James Talarico is actually the Jesus Christ style Christian, let’s welcome everybody, I’m not gonna judge drag queens, I’m not gonna judge anybody, but I am gonna judge all of these people who are robbing working class people to make themselves richer and he’s shining a light on greed. He exposes how fraudulent MAGA politicians’ faith is. They’re frauds as men in their masculinity and all of the Christian signaling is total bullshit as well”

[Renzo™ @fwrenzo1]

A government can track a poor person’s benefits, location, work hours, bank account, and medical records, but somehow cannot track where billions in public contracts disappear. Surveillance is always accurate when it targets the powerless.

[William Murphy @420GHz]

The American Revolution overthrew British rule, not class rule. Its propertied leaders defended slavery, racial hierarchy, dispossession and private property. Capitalism inherited that contradiction: liberty for all in principle, concentrated power and property in practice.

[Popular Liberal 🇺🇸 @PopularLiberal]

WILD! THE TRANSPARENCY AMERICANS DESERVE:
Watch this up-and-coming star work. Rep. Robert Garcia, Ranking Member of House Oversight, is naming the money.

Trump: $2.2 billion in year one back. $1.4 billion from crypto. The $ TRUMP coin alone: $635 million.

World Liberty Financial — Don Jr. and Eric’s company — shows about $800 million on that side of the ledger, including a $65 million stake sale after UAE money came in.

Jared Kushner: the Saudis put $2 billion into Affinity Partners. His firm has already taken $112 million–$157 million in fees. That’s not “business.” That’s a foreign government paying the son-in-law.

Don Jr.’s 1789 Capital invests in Vulcan Elements. Three months later the Pentagon drops a $620 million loan. The sons’ portfolio companies: $3.2 billion in federal business after they bought in.

Don Jr.’s wedding tab: a Russian oligarch, a $/100k-a-night island, and $70k in fireworks.

That’s why they don’t want Democrats anywhere near the books in 2026 or 2028. They don’t want real numbers, real stats, real crime, real corruption, and real scams shoved in the American people’s faces.

They’re not scared of a clip. They’re scared of the receipts.

[The Shallow State @OurShallowState]

Every single day during the presidency of Joe Biden, the Strait of Hormuz was open. Biden never pushed to have his face on coins and likeness on monuments, nor did he threaten to bulldoze a building if his name didn't get put up upon it. Every day during the presidency of Joe Biden, diplomacy was a valid tactic, empathy was a positive human emotion, science was a respected authority, math was calculated correctly, English wasn't butchered, and reasoned thought wasn't suppressed in an effort to divide the electorate with tribal contrarianism. Biden never renamed bodies of water or scientific terminology. And Biden never accidentally confused one of his ex-wives with a woman he raped.

[Brett Meiselas @BMeiselas]

The most revealing image in American politics right now may be that White House state dinner. Political power, billionaire wealth, Fox News personalities and CCP officials all drinking and dining together and yucking it up while millions of Americans absorb the consequences of decisions made by people in that room.

They manufacture division for everyone else. At the top, the club looks remarkably small. They’re all having a ball.

[Dfw_camo @dontplay_z]

The whole point of having a developed economy is so people can work less and have a chance to actually enjoy life but we’ll never see that under Capitalism cause all it knows is profit.

[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

BREAKING: DAMN STRAIGHT! Veteran Senator Tammy Duckworth obliterates Trump’s “foolhardy” plan to build a “Triumphal Arch” for “military” purposes — and points out a GLARING risk.

This is a total knockout punch…

“Wasting time, energy and taxpayer dollars, on yet another Trump vanity project is particularly outrageous given the joint failure of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) to effectively implement corrective actions recommended by the independent National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) following the tragic January 29, 2025, midair collision near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport (DCA); the deadliest aviation incident in the United States since 2001,”Duckworth wrote in a letter to FAA Administrator Bryan Bedford and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.

The tragic incident in question occurred when a U.S. Army Black Hawk collided with an American Airlines flight, killing 67 people. Despite the horrific loss of life, the Trump administration still hasn’t heeded the National Transportation Safety Board’s recommendation to require collision-warning technology that could have alerted both crews before impact. They’ve also ignored several other suggestions.

Critics of Trump’s hideous, wasteful arch are concerned that the 250-foot monstrosity could endanger aircraft. Since there’s no real case to be made for setting more tax money on fire to stroke his own ego, Trump is now absurdly claiming that the arch will be a military installation with drones, snipers, and an ammunition stockpile. By appealing to vague “national security” concerns, he hopes to run roughshod over opposition.

The problem here — beyond the obvious pointlessness of the arch and the absurdity of a President without a single real victory to his name building a Triumphal Arch — is that the FAA determined it would pose no hazards to flights coming in and out of Reagan Airport BEFORE Trump declared that it would be a military installation. Drones launching off the structure could obviously pose a risk to planes and so the FAA ruling is now obsolete.

Duckworth, who lost both her legs and partial use of her arm when her Black Hawk was hit by a rocket-propelled grenade in Iraq, urged the FAA and DoD to “reject this foolhardy plan and instead focus on increasing the safety of the airspace.”

“Last month, construction of another wasteful Trump pet project, his taxpayer-funded golden ballroom, contributed to radio failures that allowed Marine One to come within approximately 0.82 nautical miles laterally and 700 feet vertically of a passenger aircraft departing DCA,” the senator wrote. “Unfortunately, it appears that this unsettling aviation safety incident has failed to deter President Trump from prioritizing his narcissistic quest to construct monuments, ballrooms and rename performing arts centers to honor himself.”

“Of course, President Trump is not solely disregarding the critical needs to improve aviation safety, he is also ignoring the American people who are struggling to afford gas, groceries, housing, airfare and everything in between,” she continued. “All because of a Trump affordability crisis triggered by President Trump’s disastrous foreign war of choice against Iran, and President Trump’s chaotic imposition of tariffs that raised prices across the board for American businesses and middle-class families.”

“How can the Trump administration justify another pet project under the guise of a ‘Military Complex’ that would add to congested airspace in the National Capital Region while the FAA and DoD have not closed out the safety recommendations arising from the deadliest U.S. aviation disaster since 2001?” she added.

The answer, of course, is that Trump can justify anything to himself so long as it helps distract from his historic failures as President and the fact that the entire world now knows he’s an Epstein-style pedophile.

Please ❤️ and share if you oppose the arch!

[💜💙Rachel💙💜 @AlvaRachel64]

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[Marco Foster @MarcoFoster_]

Kyle Kulinski: “The Trump Regime functions like a mob. They’re all corrupt and they all got dirt on each other. The guy at the top of the whole thing was Epstein’s best friend for a decade, was on Epstein’s plane eight times, first time he had sex with Melania was allegedly on the Lolita Express which was Epstein’s plane, shared a girlfriend with Jeffrey Epstein, wrote him fucking love letters, was outed as having a nipple torture fetish, the Katie Johnson allegations”

[Scarlett_OHara @BluFnxResists]

MAGA: “We’re not Nazis.”

Ok. Then explain the difference.

Because “I’m not one” is not proof.

Nazis blamed minorities.
MAGA blames immigrants.
Nazis pushed racial fear.
MAGA pushes “replacement” panic.
Nazis hated democracy when they lost.
MAGA tried to overturn an election.
Nazis worshiped one man.
MAGA worships Trump.
Nazis called the press the enemy.
MAGA calls the press the enemy.
Nazis called opponents traitors.
MAGA calls everyone “communists.”
Nazis used lies as a weapon.
MAGA lives on election lies, migrant lies, crime lies, and fake outrage.
Nazis wanted “purity.”
MAGA wants bans, raids, mass deportations, and Christian control.
Nazis used fear to control people.
MAGA uses fear every damn day.
Nazis had violent extremists on their side.
MAGA has white nationalists, militias, and actual neo-Nazis cheering them on.

So explain it.

What separates you?

Because the left fights Nazis.

MAGA keeps making them feel welcome.