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What does it take to see this?

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FINALLY!!!

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The racism perpetuates the double standard.

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For nine straight weeks, CBS’s “60 Minutes” has held the Trump administration’s feet to the fire, refusing to back down despite a barrage of legal threats and presidential tantrums. The most recent episode tackled Trump’s controversial policies on Ukraine—where correspondent Scott Pelley interviewed President Zelenskyy at a bombed site—and Greenland, highlighting local resistance to Trump’s annexation ambitions. These are just the latest in a series of hard-hitting segments: previous weeks have exposed the administration’s dismantling of USAID, the firing of government watchdogs, and the chilling effects of Trump’s executive orders on diversity and equity.

Trump’s response has been as predictable as it is alarming.

He’s called “60 Minutes” a “dishonest Political Operative,” demanded the FCC strip CBS of its license, and is pursuing a $20 billion lawsuit over their coverage—especially an interview with Kamala Harris he claims was unfairly edited.

He’s even pressed his own FCC appointee to punish CBS and other critical outlets, a move right out of the authoritarian playbook: using government power to silence dissent and intimidate journalists.

In an era when too many media organizations shy away from confronting power, “60 Minutes” is showing what real journalism looks like. As Lesley Stahl put it, the show is “fighting for our life” and standing up for the First Amendment. When the stakes are this high—when a sitting president is openly threatening the free press—media courage isn’t just admirable, it’s essential for democracy to survive...

Help this information get to more voters. 🇺🇸 A well-informed electorate is a prerequisite to Democracy.—Thomas Jefferson

— The Other 98%

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i too would have given up and died if i were forced to meet with jd vance on easter. i get him.

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Edward Hopper (1882-1967).

The Dory, 1929

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Ah, yes ... nothing like hiking prices because of that horrid bird flu and then having to declare your record profits. #shameless

The price of eggs went up again last month, reaching a new record-high of $6.23 per dozen. Trump has never had a real plan to fix this. And now his economic policies, including tariffs, are about to make things even worse.

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Happy 100th, Great Gatsby ..

“They were careless people, Tom and Daisy …they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever else it was that kept them together and let other people clean up the mess they had made…” F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (April 10, 1925).

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And if he can disappear a legal immigrant and say Oops, we made a mistake but we’re not going to do anything about it, he can — and will — disappear people he considers his enemies.. and just say Oops.

If Trump can disappear green card holders for protesting war, he can disappear you. If he can disappear visa holders for criticizing him, he can disappear you. If he can disappear asylum seekers for tattoos, he can disappear you. We must speak out now — before there is no one left to speak out.

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Make no mistake: Trump’s attack on the American mind — on education, science, libraries, and museums — is an attack on the capacity of Americans for self-government. It's an attack on our freedom.

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On Wednesday, Citibank revealed in a court filing that it was told to freeze Habitat for Humanity’s bank accounts, at the FBI’s request. The reason? The FBI alleges that the group is involved in “possible criminal violations,” including “conspiracy to defraud the United States.” Habitat for Humanity, you may recall, is the group that builds low-income houses in America’s communities. Jimmy Carter worked with them for decades. What did they do to earn the FBI’s ire? They received a climate grant from the Biden administration’s EPA. Other nonprofits also being targeted by the FBI for receiving climate grants include the Appalachian Community Capital Corporation, the Coalition for Green Capital, and the DC Green Bank. Yet these groups’ applications for government grants for environmental work were fully reviewed and accepted by the Biden administration’s EPA. This is not fraud. It’s targeted harassment. And it will be viewed that way by most Americans.

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Nothing those two do will surprise me. I doubt I would recognize their interpretation of our constitution.

The USA being the USSR

Just fyi, this is not normal in democracies.

This is typical of authoritarian regimes, intimidation

This is how it was done in the communist regime

The communist autocrats were, at first, uneducated working class who had come to power

They also didn’t know their jobs and were not qualified, so they too blamed others in order to avoid responsibility for their failures

So, if you thought the USA is not like the “commies” - you are wrong

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Well, at least in return for the $8.60/18 eggs I spent today, I'm getting the core destruction of American government services (no National Park vacation for us this year!), and the alienation of our global friends and allies in favor of murderous, authoritarian regimes. I'd hate to think it was all for nothing.

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what do you mean elon musk did a nazi salute on live tv at the united states presidential inauguration twice and is now erasing the evidence off the internet by replacing the footage with the crowd cheering instead?

would be a shame if people reblogged this, wouldn’t it?

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Too bad that it came and is now going away ...

Bob Dylan "A Change Is Gonna Come" Apollo Theater, New York City, NY, March 28, 2004.

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★ countdown to christmas (take two) ★ day 14 of 24: while you were sleeping (1995)

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