once you see how hard dems work to defeat their left flank, and how little they do in comparison to fight against their right, it becomes impossible to unsee.
A unanimous jury found that a man sexually abused a woman, then defamed her for saying so. He appealed - and appealed, and appealed. The verdict survived every level.
That man is the sitting president of the United States.
Truck drivers are now taking down Flock cameras in an Ohio town by ramming directly into the poles, and more people are starting to do the same.
The destruction has reportedly triggered a chain reaction, with other drivers following suit and leaving law enforcement scrambling.
Even people without vehicles are joining in, using baseball bats to smash the cameras.
"The vandalism is part of a trend across the country."
Nope! I always say there is no such thing as self-made. It’s a myth.
It took millions of people - from my parents to mentors to friends to competitors to fans and voters - to write my success story. I did not write it alone.
That’s the American Dream - not a lie about going it alone - but the truth that none of us do, and there is always someone with their hand out to lift us up.
sooooo fucking depressing that we live in a society where people sleep on the sidewalk and the rest of us just walk or drive by it because there’s nothing else we can do
Topic for one of my classes this week was disaster response and how it differs around the world..
I got to tell my class of British and Chinese students about the Waffle House Index
The core underlying belief at the heart of all modern right-wing political thought today is that advertisements from the 50s-90s were totally real and that if we are realy, really cruel and try really really really hard we can live in advertisements from the 50s-90s
SCOOP: The FBI informant convicted of lying to the Bureau about a fake bribery scheme involving the Bidens has been quietly released from prison just months into a six-year sentence—raising concern he could be pardoned by Donald Trump any moment.
Alexander Smirnov, who has multiple business ties to Trumpworld, was sentenced days before Trump became president. He had pleaded guilty to fabricating a story that former President Joe Biden and his son, Hunter, had received millions in bribes from Burisma, a Ukrainian energy company, as well as to a $2 million-plus tax evasion offense.
Yet despite Smirnov being judged a flight risk, with ties to Russian intelligence and foreign assets, the U.S.-Israeli citizen has been mysteriously missing from prison for at least the past four months.
Told a classmate today I haven’t gotten my GI Bill funds for this semester bc of the government shutdown. He said, and I quote “that’s crazy, you’re not getting paid bc the President’s a pedophile.”