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America once had a beloved King. He's now on display in a museum.
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Trump's budget bill puts Project 2025 into law. It's a tyrants dream come true.
If Trump's budget bill passes, his executive orders effectively become the law of the land. And, just like that, we will have undone the American…
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Mar-a-Lago must become a museum and research center on American Fascism in 2029.
Germany & other countries have shown the importance of repurposing specific sites to help with reconciliation, promotion of a more honest national…
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Much of the criticism of President Biden fully misrepresents his actions and misunderstands the stakes in the Israel-Hamas war.
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High crimes and misdemeanors redux
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An outbreak of happiness threatens to end Trumpism in America.
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John Roberts gets it wrong. Again.
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Hello sanewashing, goodbye journalism.
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A video I'm in went viral on TikTok. Let me tell you what happened.
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American pope and American president: two very different types of leaders
We now have a pope who teaches compassion and love of others and a president who valorizes cruelty and loves only himself.
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A video I'm in went viral on TikTok. Let me tell you what happened.
What I did, many would do. There's plenty of decency and compassion in America, even when we don't see it on video or at the White House.
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Lauren Boebert is toast
Boebert doesn’t seem bothered that her actions are making things harder for families, seniors, workers, and farmers, ranches, and small businesses…
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30 years ago today, Tim McVeigh blew up a federal building in Oklahoma City
We did not learn the lesson then, and we are paying for it now
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Eight steps for post-Trump America
It is not too early to start planning for the rebuilding that will follow this destructive tyranny
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SCOTUS upholds the rule of law but makes it harder to get justice
A rushed decision invents a new obstacle just in time to save the Administration from having to answer tough questions about illegal deportations
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Trump sends America into a downward spiral
In less than 75 days, Mr. Trump has made us poorer, weaker, less healthy, less prepared for the future, less competitive, more isolated, and less free.
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Wisconsin shows us that hard work beats reckless bullsh*t every time.
Musk’s reckless, showy and ignorant approach to Wisconsin mirrored his effort to cut our government. It failed to achieve its mission.
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Here's what Trump & his team broke this week
Trump, Hegseth, Bondi, Gabbard, Rubio and Noem are making us all less safe
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It's the democracy, stupid
It's the democracy, stupid
A view from a Midwestern get-things-done kind of Democrat on politics, policies, organizing & saving democracy.
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