this was so sweet. Stephen Colbert just ended his final episode of The Late Show while singing "Hello, Goodbye" with Paul McCartney. his family and the show's crew then joined them on stage before Paul turned off the lights to the Ed Sullivan Theater
As an American citizen it is intensely offensive to me that we would spend this kind of money on Greenland when we don’t have universal healthcare, mandatory maternity leave, good public schools or any sort of social services.
Bobby Weir was asked by Rolling Stone last year how he wanted to be remembered.
“I’m hoping that people of varying persuasions will find something they can agree on in the music that I’ve offered, and find each other through it.”
Rest in peace.
Jennifer Welch: AOC and Zohran are all doing something that no other Democrats can do. They can get triple Trumpers to cross over and vote for them. And why Democratic leadership, and why the DNC is not hopping on those coat tails and fuc*ing writing the wave tells you everything you need to know that the Democratic establishment is MAGA light. They have the same corporate donors. That's why when you ask them a blunt question, you get a word salad answer. And this is why Zohran is rising. This is why AOC is rising.
We cut $1.1 billion from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting just to spend $1.1 billion to upgrade the plane Qatar gave to Trump as a gift, and all of his personal golf trips and vacations.
This is what a corrupt oligarchy looks like.
If you are paying taxes and getting zero services or healthcare in return, you are being taxed without representation. If your only incentive to pay taxes anymore is simply to avoid going to prison instead of any societal benefits, then you are no longer a citizen but a slave.
When Roe was overturned and women bled out in ERs, we heard “states’ rights. When guns became the #1 killer of kids, still “states’ rights.” But one protest against injustice? Suddenly there’s federal boots on the ground. They don’t panic when people die, only when they speak.
We broke every possible social contract for young people, unprecedented wealth transfer from young to old, devalued the currency, made home prices insane, education debt crazy and now for the lulz we're automating all the entry level white collar work. Just incredible
If Tim Walz was the wrong person to motivate white-working class men, we have to grapple with why Donald Trump was the right one. But we keep avoiding that question.
She’s absolutely correct ‼️Pro-life, but defunding Healthcare and essential services for children‼️ They like to call themselves pro life because it gives them a sense of moral high ground.
You will miss liberalism when it’s gone. You have no idea how privileged we are to have lived at the time we did, when being apolitical was an option.
We’ve spent so long criticizing liberalism that we’ve forgotten that there’s something much worse waiting in the shadows.
BREAKING: Women may no longer be able to vote if their birth certificates don't match married names.
You know in The Handmaid's Tale when Gilead suddenly eliminates women's bank accounts in one fell swoop?
That's what Republicans in Congress are doing to women's voting rights.