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Rather than offering a real alternative to the status quo (ācombativeness,ā after all, is not an ideological platform), this crop of candidates is repackaging the boring, moderate politics of the Democratic establishment with inauthentic videos and forced rhetoric.
āEventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it.The river was cut by the world's great flood and runs over rocks from the basement of time.On some of the rocks are timeless raindrops.Under the rocks are the words, and some of the words are theirs. I am haunted by waters". RIP RR
NEW from me: CBS News staffers who spoke with The Independent said that new owner David Ellison has "lost the trust" of the newsroom because he "lied" to them about not wanting to politicize the network and company. "He's just a liar," one told me. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
Donald Trump promised a new Golden Age. But eight months into his second term, grocery prices are rising, along with inflation and unemployment. Long-term unemployment has reached a post-pandemic high. Farmers are struggling. Trump is unpopular and failing: www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...
"I count at least 10 times on Twitter, back then, when you did call it an insurrection. And even mocked those who denied it," Mehdi Hasan tweeted at Chris Cuomo after Cuomo insisted during an on-air debate that he had "never" called Jan 6 an insurrection. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
I want to be clear about what I'm saying here. I'm not denying the danger. I'm not denying the threat. I AM saying that we live in a geographically huge country where the vast majority oppose this administration. They don't have the power to work on that scale. Tho they want us to believe they do
āShe shows readers again and again that policies affect peopleās day-to-day real lives because they affect her real life, as they do all of ours. Such an approach is more convincing and more moving than another political screedā¦ā www.newpages.com/blog/books/b...
We are facing a comprehensive campaign from the federal government to undermine our elections, and itās something we all need to be prepared for heading into 2026. Join us for a live virtual event on protecting the integrity of the vote on Thursday, September 18, at 3 p.m. ET. RSVP: bit.ly/46gWk3V
Why are these white liberals, centrists and moderates giving me even more fodder to shit on them? Yāall make it too easy. BTW I donāt trust white progressives either. They really telling on themselves by dusting off their white hoods. Tbh white people in any political space are dubious
@dcck.bsky.social works with corner stores to bring healthy food where itās needed most in DC. They just pulled off their most ambitious corner store project, installing a full-scale produce department at a store in a section of the city with just one supermarket dccentralkitchen.org/2025/09/15/h...
They are not seeing the actual right-on-right white-on-white danger to their lives. And while the attempted assassination of Trump should have been their first sign of trouble, it wasnāt. It took Charlie Kirk getting popped to see that. www.editorialboard.com/does-the-rig...