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David Berke's avatar

Joe Neguse and other democratic congress people should have a daily press conference on the capital steps to explain the many ways republican refusal to govern is hurting all of us while trump and his cronies get richer and richer through their corruption and republican refusal to hold them accountable.

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M D's avatar

too much to read in one go

i realise you have first draft but re title it "this day in democracy" and make this daily

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MARYELLEN KERSCH's avatar

Good heavens! Our nation is being gobbled up and you just can't make the effort?????? Shame on you, you slug!

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M D's avatar

I read every Zeteo (founder member ) and Drop Site article ( J Scarhill R Grim )

The news from US is just overwhelming it just depresses me so I need small doses

You gullible fools voted for Trump the Gobbler -in Chief

M Hasan was warning everyone about how dangerous Trump would be (see old articles

As for effort, I'm in the UK. I go on pro Palestine marches here

I hope you go on No Kings demos

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MARYELLEN KERSCH's avatar

First, I am NOT, have NEVER been a Trump voter-supporter! Secondly, it's your choice to read or ignore info published for the curious but if you chose to ignore it, don't blame the author. That's on you. And I know it's a tough time right now but it's not a time to rag on folks who are trying to improve it. Show some measure of humanity by not ragging on the good guys.

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M D's avatar

Sorry, didn't mean you personally voting for Trump. I was speaking generally ie the US voting for Trump

The authors MH et al are excellent. I have been following MH since his days at Al-Jazeera watching his Oxford Union interviews since they began around 2014 .

MH generally ends his recent interviews by asking what gives the interviewee hope and optimism . I listen to the Beatles .

When you come to the UK I will take you out for a drink and we can drown our sorrows together (hopefully celebrate )

There is a chain of pubs called the "Slug and Lettuce " You be my lettuce

(smiley face )

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Ginger's avatar

The orange stain is absolutely terrified... we must all be on guard... killing people really means nothing to him look at Venezuela... if he can get sympathy by killing someone he's going to do it... one can only hope these MAGAs are starting to realize that he is killing them as well... nothing and no one is more important than he is

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Joe Tye's avatar

Not that long ago if a futurist had predicted all of these things would happen within a single week, or even a single month, they would have been considered a hysterical fabulist. A fiction novel using such an administration as the central plot would have been considered beyond the pale of credibility. The most outlandish warnings about Trump being the American Hitler (that one from JD Vance) have paled in comparison to the reality of what we are seeing. And none of this would have been possible without the mutation of the Grand Old Party of Honest Abe Lincoln into the (lower case gop) gutless obsequious puppets of pathological liar Donald Trump.

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Cheryl Anne's avatar

Unfriggin' believable, just unfriggin' believable.

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Susan Cooper's avatar

WaPo (Trump Administration Tells Congress War Law Doesn’t Apply to Cartel Strikes):

"A top Justice Department lawyer has told lawmakers that the Trump administration can continue its lethal strikes against alleged drug traffickers in Latin America — and is not bound by a decades-old law requiring Congress to give approval for ongoing hostilities…

T. Elliot Gaiser, head of the Trump administration’s Office of Legal Counsel... said the administration did not believe the strikes met the definition of hostilities under the law and did not intend to seek an extension of the deadline nor Congress’s approval of ongoing action...

Several lawmakers said Thursday that the Pentagon relayed that it did not need to know the identities of those being targeted in the attacks or whether those killed had been trafficking drugs..."

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Wizarat Rizvi's avatar

Why is it that these major news stories are missing from MSM, and all we are told are sports news and what Israel is saying it is doing good?

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Deborah Kay Kelly's avatar

La Villita ! Me estraño!

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regina keenan's avatar

I really like the coverage a lot bravo but would really like to see more about the war on women's rights, a columnist like Jessica Valenti or from Planned Parenthood, many options! there is a lot on of course around the globe, but women in the US are dying from this authoritarianism

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Jack Large's avatar

The Trump Admin is a lawless body, violating the US Constitution in just about every official venue they enter, and few venues are left out. Self-gain and revenge are their credo. Theirs is an ultimatum: "Comply, or be neutralized permanently. We can do anything we want, and we want to do everything we can, to put an end to any and all resistance."

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