Robert DeNiro: "I hate to say it, but loving our country is starting to sound like an abused spouse saying they love their abuser… And let me just say it, I can't love the country that's led by Donald Trump.” 🔥🔥🔥🔥
New York City Mayor Mamdani just gave one of the most amazing speeches you will ever hear:
"We are told that America is exceptional because we are richer, stronger, and more powerful than everyone else.
"The truth, my friends, is that America is exceptional because here, nothing is fixed into place. The frontier may be closed. We may have walked on the moon. But the work of fulfilling the values first enshrined in the Declaration of Independence — that work endures, and it belongs to us all.
"It belongs, too, to our newest Americans: those standing here with me today, all of whom were recently naturalized. Nearly a decade ago, I, too, felt what you feel: the joy of no longer being just a New Yorker, but an American, too.
"You each hold a special power: the power to determine what America means.
"The powerful have always known their answer. America, in their view, is an arena of supremacy where only a select few are allowed freedom; where not all are created equal. America, if you ask them, becomes less the more people it welcomes. America, they will tell you, belongs only to those with the right accent or the right shade of skin. The rest of us, they insist, should be grateful for merely being allowed to visit.
"How small they are. How weak. How unoriginal.
"At every moment in our past, those who led through exclusion and isolation have tried to win power and enrich themselves by turning us against one another. Division is the oldest trick in politics — and the cheapest.
"But time and again, including 250 years ago, those forces of division have been vanquished by the forces of progress."
Ding ding ding. Front office personnel definitely shouldn't go about it this way. Fans have become dumber bc they tuck themselves in at 853PM/wake up/hit their favorite stat site and act as if they actually locked into what happened is that game. Again, analytics are great, but if that's all you are doing, you are being obtuse(anytime a Shawshank reference can be used, I will use it)
It's time for a national billionaires tax and a new social contract.
10% of Americans own two-thirds of the wealth. Wages have stagnated. The cost of living has skyrocketed.
The system is fundamentally broken.
The federal tax code, a corporate code, and an inheritance code were written for a different set of Americans.
It’s time for an economic reset.
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Why is the U.S. giving Iran $25 billion for “humanitarian purposes” when the Navajo Nation Reservation is declaring a state of emergency due to having no access to fresh drinking water?
The only people in the press who have been brave enough to ask that fucking pervert Trump the tough questions have been women.
Trump fear’s strong, opinionated women.
Because he’s a misogynistic coward.
One day we will look back on the murder of “60 Minutes” as one of the travesties of Trump’s reign.
In the meantime, thank you Scott Pelley for telling the truth. Thank you, former “60 Minutes” producers, correspondents, and staff, for telling the truth.
And now, we should boycott CBS. https://t.co/dusMiZXyVn
Mackinac Island in Michigan is like stepping into another century where horse-drawn carriages replace traffic, lake air drifts through the streets, and summer still moves at the pace it was meant to.
Bruce Springsteen appeared on Stephen Colbert’s show tonight and COOKED Trump and his goons
“I’m here in support tonight for Stephen, because you are the first guy in America who lost his show because we got a president who can't take a joke…. and because Larry and David Ellison feel they need to kiss his ass to get what they want. Stephen, these are small minded people. They got no idea what the freedoms of this beautiful country are supposed to be about”
Cost of extending ACA subsidies: $30B/year
Cost of Trump's Iran War: $29B and counting
It's not a question of what we can afford. It's a question of priorities.
@Super70sSports Herd mentality would say Springsteen, but agree it's Seger in a landslide:
"I remember standing on the corner at midnight
Trying to get my courage up
There was this long lovely dancer in a little club downtown
I loved to watch her do her stuff."
Simply an epic opening four lines