Russian fighter jet damages US Reaper drone with flare over Syria: Officials
It’s the latest in a string of “unprofessional” incidents, the military said.
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Charles Barkley is (expletive) right, and courageous, in defending transgender community
Charles Barkley is a star and recently used that power to defend the trans community in a profane tirade. It’s one of Barkley’s finest moments.
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Thank you Jill. While we have many of the same viewers, for anyone that has not checked out Jill’s website I really recommend you check her postings out.
The stories of how the people of lower incomes struggle to survive should be presented more to the public, so people can understand just how drastic the movement of money to the upper levels of wealth has become. It is a drastic robbing of the poor to give even more excess to the wealthy. It is the true obscenity of the US financial system and unrestrained capitalism. The salt in the wound is that it doesn’t have to be this way, all we have to do is look what other countries manage to provide for their public with less GDP than the US. That is why the republican politicians insist on touting US exceptionalism, the constant cheering that the US is #1, and the non-stop forever trying to make anything slightly helpful the government could do for the people derided as socialism. It is all designed to keep the public, the people of the country looking inward with pride and looking outward with scorn, even as we wither and die under robber barons who cherish the gilded age of history. Hugs
Gilded Age, period of gross materialism and blatant political corruption in U.S. history during the 1870s
Mary is a single mother of three young children ranging in age from 6 to 14. She works a full-time, minimum wage job, they live in a tiny two-bedroom apartment, and barely make ends meet. Mary does not own a car but takes the bus to and from work. If one of the children is sick and needs to go to the doctor, she relies on neighbors to help her out. When Mary shops for groceries, she buys only generic brands or things that are on sale – they eat a lot of beans and rice. Mary does receive some food stamp and rental assistance, but even that combined with her paycheck which amounts to just under $1,000 per month, Mary struggles to put food on the table, pay the rent and utility bills on time, and buy the essentials like medicine (one of Mary’s children is asthmatic, and Mary…
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Thanks Ten Bears. It really is how the right operates and what their focus is. Congress people like Marge Greene and her ilk view the important work they need to do is be a troll. They crave the clicks and the cheers of the maga base. But they do not want to do the work of actually governing. Hugs
Do I detect a note of insincerity?
Not biting his knuckle … laughing in his fist
Never Trumpers get ‘brutal wake-up call’ as Republican candidates flounder
With the first caucuses six months away, the former president’s campaign is still going strong despite his various legal problems
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‘Do not release the dog with his hands up!’ Black man mauled by police canine after Ohio pursuit
Jadarrius Rose is seen on video during the July 4 traffic stop with his hands up surrendering to police before an officer deploys his canine.
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the Republican infrastructure plan !!
Biden got a Target Letter, too!
Again another grand post. I love the way the post starts, “Because the Republicans will never raise taxes and because the real goal is to privatize the Social Safety Net, …” So much of the harm and hurt in this country is directly caused by the greed of the wealthy craving more money than they could ever use in a lifetime while ignoring the suffering of those who struggle just to have something to eat or have shelter. As always the comments were enlightening, but fixing the funding issue is not the problem the wealthy want to address. In order to gouge as much money from the lower incomes as possible, the wealthy need a desperate work force willing to take any job at the lowest wage under the worst conditions. That maximizes the profit for corporations. That is why they conspired together to kill unions and are terrified of the current conditions giving workers the ability to demand better wages and working conditions. That is why the fed are using the false narrative they have to cause unemployment to stop inflation, rather than addressing price gouging and out of control record corporate profits. Pain for the lower incomes, luxury and joy for the upper incomes. Hugs
Because the Republicans will never raise taxes and because the real goal is to privatize the Social Safety Net, the WaPo is earnestly reporting on the latest treachery from Cracker Orbán and others in the 2024 Goat Rodeo: how to cut Social Security and Medicare so none of their voters notice:
Three of Donald Trump’s rivals for the 2024 GOP presidential nomination are pushing for cuts to Social Security benefits that would only affect younger Americans, as the party’s leaders grapple with the explosive politics of the retirement program.
In comments on Sunday as well as in interviews earlier this year, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said Social Security will need to be revamped — but not for people who are near or in retirement.
“Revamped” —isn’t that cute? And as Possum Hollar is one foot in the grave and the other foot on the banana peel, Republicans don’t…
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Nearly two years after Texas’ six-week abortion ban, more infants are dying
Texas’ abortion restrictions — some of the strictest in the country — may be fueling a sudden spike in infant mortality as women are forced to carry nonviable pregnancies to term.
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