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The deeper story isn't the $500. It’s what happens to democracy when politicians steeped in pay-to-play politics start treating ordinary citizens like one more constituency to be won over with money…

also: Ken Paxton does a sad, and Piss-Drunk Pete does a transphobia.

. . .as Abraham Lincoln urged the nation in 1863 to disenthrall itself from its bondage to the ruinous political dogmas of its time

Is the one we don’t run

YouTube video by Heather Cox Richardson

YouTube video by Heather Cox Richardson

Jack Smith brought the truth. Senate Republicans brought fairy tales, show tunes, fake gotchas, bird-brained buffoonery and professionally printed humiliation.

YouTube video by Heather Cox Richardson

By Governor JB Pritzker

Donald Trump and the executives of major AI companies decided that it would be best if they policed themselves. What could go wrong?

The attacks on Jack Smith expose something far bigger than one ugly Senate hearing: a collision between personal political loyalty and America’s constitutional system…

Jack Smith kicked off his testimony on the Hill today like this: “I stand by my decisions as special counsel, including my decision to bring charges against President Trump.” He told senators that his...

No amnesia. Not for them, and not for us.

You met her spite with solidarity and my fear with a kind of love I still don’t have words for. I hope that sanctimonious shitheel understands how badly she screwed up.

From Harding’s trickle-down promises to Hoover’s prosperity pitch to Reagan’s tax cut hustle to Trump’s factory announcements, Republicans have a long history of pushing scams before Election Day…

Renée Good died once on a Minneapolis street.

Scoundrels 😡

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On August 12th, 2025, Alnur Mussayev, the former head of Kazakhstan’s National Security Committee, alleged that Russian President Vladimir Putin possesses a comprehensive kompromat file on Donald J.

Create the crisis, make working Americans suffer, reward the billionaires, blame Democrats for the wreckage, then campaign as the only people who can fix it.