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The response when progressive policies that help millions of people are proposed...
"How will you pay for it?"
The response when the richest 1% ask for tax cuts, or banks ask for bailouts, or defense contractors ask for more contracts...
"How much do you need?"
It doesn't have to be this way.
The Comfort Hotel was supposed to be a safe haven for people fleeing Israel's bombardment of Dahieh. Then Israel bombed it too, killing 34-year-old receptionist Fatima Zaher Hmadeh.
www.nytimes.com/video/world/...
"A Christian hotel owner opened her doors to Shia Muslims fleeing Israel’s bombardment of the southern outskirts of Beirut. Then a missile struck the hotel, killing her 34-year-old receptionist."
AOC: The Pentagon has not passed an audit, and they are out here trying to kick people with disabilities off of Medicaid. It is corruption that is stealing from the public coffers — and that is the actual waste, fraud, and abuse.
On March 8, at the direction of #SOUTHCOM commander Gen. Francis L. Donovan, Joint Task Force Southern Spear conducted a lethal kinetic strike on a vessel operated by Designated Terrorist Organizations. Intelligence confirmed the vessel was transiting along known narco-trafficking routes in the Eastern Pacific and was engaged in narco-trafficking operations. Six male narco-terrorists were killed during this action. No U.S. military forces were harmed. @DeptofWar #OpSouthernSpear UNCLASSIFIED
We’re still murdering people in “drug boats” even as we start a new war in Iran. Six people today.
Tantric, maybe?
“. . . and always too soon.”
“He's a walking war crime.“
suggested edit (remember the strikes on ”drug boats” and especially the “double tap” strike war crime that already happened).
Everyone knows Donald Trump has been an election denier since 2020. Some know that about 2016. But few know that it started in 2012.
After Obama won, Trump posted: “Lets fight like hell and stop this great and disgusting injustice!”
Read and share.
www.democracydocket.com/opinion/trum...
So finally Graham admits it - he likes to blow the hell out of people and he likes other people to watch while it happens.
How to Capture the Mad King's Attention
emptywheel.net/how-to-captu...
I love thinking about saying balderdash but very rarely say it, not since 1911.
Tapper just did the “cast” right there. Tool that he is.
Please please read this from the archbishop of Chicago
www.archchicago.org/statement/-/...
Markwayne Mullin was caught lying on the record about the former CDC Director, Dr. Susan Monarez, by his Republican colleagues in the Senate chamber in September. He’s not honest or competent, and anyone who respects him is a fool.
Staggering jump in average diesel prices over the last 168 hours:
Texas ⬆️98c/gal
New Mexico ⬆️91c/gal
North Carolina ⬆️89c/gal
Arizona ⬆️89c/gal
Tennessee ⬆️87c/gal
Mississippi ⬆️87c/gal
Georgia ⬆️85c/gal
West Virginia ⬆️82c/gal
Florida ⬆️80c/gal
Louisiana ⬆️80c/gal
Mike Judge did a very good job with “Silicon Valley.”
Tyre’s (Sour) World Heritage: Israeli strike narrowly misses the historic city's archaeological site
“Destroying such a city does not just mean damaging a place,” she wrote. “It is erasing entire chapters of human history.”
today.lorientlejour.com/article/1497...
Links:
time.com/7382697/trum...
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
Reupping.
Not only did Trump minimize possibility of terrorist attacks on US. But White House nixed a law enforcement bulletin ABOUT those threats.
CBS obtained video of the DHS killing of an unarmed man in Texas that DHS concealed for nearly a year, which clearly contradicts claims that he violently rammed anyone. He is shot with his brake lights on, car not moving or barely moving. Another DHS crime.
“A DOJ source told the Miami Herald that agents found her to be credible—and that they would not have interviewed her four times if they thought she was lying.”
@jkbjournalist.bsky.social bringing it home
www.miamiherald.com/news/politic...
NEW: Sen. Peter Welch (D-VT) & Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) launch review of $220 million taxpayer-funded Dept of Homeland Security ad campaign w/ Kristi Noem
Senators seek records about "circumstances surrounding the awarding of this lucrative, no-bid contract..."
Trump gets mad when asked Russia and Iran working together to kill US troops because he wants to talk about college sports instead
Thanks. It holds special meaning for me.
#ForestFriday #Forests #Trees #Scape #Nature #Eastcoastkin #Photography
A report by Rhode Island’s attorney general detailing decades of sexual abuse by Catholic clergy is giving survivors a sense of vindication while renewing calls for accountability and support.
The U.N. peacekeeping mission in Lebanon says three UNIFIL peacekeepers were injured after heavy firing struck their base in Al Qawzah in southwestern Lebanon. One was transferred to a hospital in Beirut. They have not identified who is responsible for he strikes. Thread 👇
