"Musk, a father of 12, is an avowed pronatalist, or someone who believes declining population rates are a major concern and has committed to work to remedy this by having as many children as possible. He sees part of his life’s work as repopulating the planet with as many children — and exceptional children at that — as possible."

https://19thnews.org/2025/02/elon-musk-son-oval-office/

@freemo
Sad and regrettable.

AMEN
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/9/25/2272822/-BEST-MAGA-TAKEDOWN-EVER?pm_campaign=front_page&pm_source=trending&pm_medium=web

"When politicians and public figures lie to us, they are tacitly calling us stupid and weak. Stupid enough to believe their lies; weak enough to accept them."

https://www.newsfromthestates.com/article/lying-liars-and-lies-they-tell-0

it's taken SEVEN years to finally find headlines that make sense. Rude, maybe, but sanewashing is just feeding us the same lies.

#VoteBlue2024

@GottaLaff

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/mark-esper-trump-shoot-black-lives-matter-protesters-1346079/?origin=serp_auto

"Can't you just shoot them?"

@vincedmonroy
😝 Trump makes an inference that he'll go after "fraud"

@GottaLaff
#weird thoughts and prayers
#weird shoving military at Arlington
#weird putting kids in cages

they don't care

Each soul afflicted by these actions deserves my respect. Each and every parent and child. We are speaking up.

#GOP Steps all over my liberties and disrespects our children.

@dangillmor
The quality at Duck Duck Go suffers as well. I find myself giving up after so many tries and go a different direction.

“All the times I’ve engaged with the president, he’s been engaged,” said Brown, whose role means he’ll advise Trump should he return to the White House and who, as a uniformed officer, generally avoids political commentary."

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/07/19/biden-aspen-security-forum-00169903

https://jacobin.com/2024/06/supreme-court-corruption-thomas-kavanaugh

"It’s undisputed that the law criminalizes quid pro quo bribery — giving cash to a politician, for instance, in exchange for an agreed-upon favor.

But the question that Supreme Court justices were deliberating on is whether this statute also covers gratuities, rewards that are given after the fact to a politician as a thank-you for a corrupt action."

"The Biden administration has done more for rural America than any president since Lyndon Johnson rolled out Medicare, Medicaid, and food stamps. Biden’s American Rescue Plan provided specific tax breaks and credits targeted at rural poverty, subsidized mortgage payments, and provided rent assistance to tens of thousands of rural residents:

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/4/8/2234090/-White-Rural-Rage-The-Secret-Political-Force-Shaping-America-s-Future?pm_campaign=front_page&pm_source=trending&pm_medium=web

#GOPValues #Civics

@freemo
He sure is dramatic. Angry.

MLK biographer Jonathan Eig: Americans are "missing the point of the King holiday"

We now "treat it like a day to celebrate King and we ignore the fact that all these other things are going on"

https://www.salon.com/2024/01/15/mlk-biographer-johnathan-eig-americans-are-missing-the-point-of-the-king-holiday/

“The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.”

Dr. King