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Mark Paul
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Mark Paul is the co-author, with Joe Mathews, of California Crackup: How Reform Broke the Golden State and How We Can Fix It. He was formerly deputy treasurer of the state of California and deputy editorial page editor and columnist at the Sacramento Bee.
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Bari already earning that payday, and needless to say not by doing good journalism
I see that CBS chose not to air this part. It probably explains much of what they did decide to air.
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If both you and your partner make $95,000/year or more, you are in the top 10% of earners.

A really underappreciated issue in American politics is that there are many rich people who do not wish to acknowledge that they are, in fact, rich.
Top 10% by income now getting half of all consumption
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BREAKING: Democrats just tried to pass a standalone bill to fund WIC & SNAP to make sure families don't go hungry during the Republican shutdown.

Republicans BLOCKED it. So Trump won't use emergency funds to keep SNAP running, and Republicans won't let any bills pass. Shameful.
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Republicans in Congress are taking an indefinite vacation & relinquishing their power to a wannabe king.

Without a Congress, we’re living in a dictatorship—not a democracy.
Trump: "I said, 'put it all into one bill and if we get it done, we're done for four years.' We don't need anything more from Congress."
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Can someone please ask him how the GOP changed the 60 vote threshold twice in the last two months to approve 150+ trump appointees in one go? Cuz they are in charge and can change the rules to open the government. And they know it. They WANT the shutdown.
Mike Johnson: "Democrats are required to open the government. They keep saying, 'Republicans are in charge of government.' We aren't!"
Claude, give me a list of Democrats who haven’t had a thought in this century.
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this is why Dems are in the lead in NJ and VA
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NEW: The Trump administration is racing to deport Kilmar Abrego Garcia as soon as Friday, conceding it does not intend to follow through on his criminal case despite earlier assurances.

w/ @joshgerstein.bsky.social

www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
So true. It reflects how ignorant most journalists are about the history of their own country. From the committees of correspondence in the Revolution to the far right institutions that built MAGA, US politics have been shaped first by people and action in ways that end up reflected in voting.
For sure some of the legacy media outlets are downplaying the protests because they’re aligned with Trump, but I think an even bigger factor is how many elite journalists have a patrician disdain for the idea that politics can happen in the streets and not just the CNN green room.
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this rocks. when indiana edu killed the student newspaper, Purdue stepped up, printed the forbidden issue, drove it to Bloomington and stocked the boxes.
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Take note of all these people turning out for protests in small towns in red states.

Remember them the next time you’re inclined to write an area off because “they voted for this.”
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A crime so bad you need not prove it in a court of law! Your punishment? Death or a very stern warning before going home.

It boggles the legal mind. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/u...
U.S. to Repatriate Survivors of Its Strike on Suspected Drug Vessel
www.nytimes.com
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Declaration of Independence Grievance #8 ✅ "He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers."
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Declaration of Independence Grievance #7 ✅ "He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands."
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This makes sense coming from the guy whose son monitors his porn consumption
U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson calls Sunday's naked bike ride in protest of the Portland ICE facility and and Trump troop deployment "the most threatening thing I’ve seen yet"

www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...
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He has…sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people…

He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.

He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.

—Declaration of Independence, 1776
ICE agents to US citizen: Turn around or you're getting the dog.
Trump and his thugs hate Christians as much as they hate the Constitution.
ICE GOONS, laughing and pepper spraying Pastor after shooting him in the face with pepper balls, proceeded to gas the crowd who were trying to protect him.
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"The Labor Department warned in an obscure document filed with the Federal Register last week that 'the near total cessation of the inflow of illegal aliens' is threatening 'the stability of domestic food production and prices for U.S. consumers.'”
Trump administration says immigration enforcement threatens higher food prices
U.S. farmers face labor shortages and potential food price hikes due to Trump’s immigration policy, the administration acknowledged in a Federal Registry document.
wapo.st
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Schiff implored members of the committee to “demand answers to those questions” and to refuse “personal slander as an answer to those questions.” Bondi in turn said Schiff should apologize for “slandering” Trump.
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Schiff Lists Every Question Pam Bondi Ignored as She Melts Down
Senator Adam Schiff went toe to toe with Trump’s attorney general in a Senate hearing.
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The case against Comey is beyond weak. The case against James is worse. It is based on a lie, and they know they're lying because exculpatory evidence that contradicts the indictment had already been presented to a grand jury in another jurisdiction. Everyone involved with this needs to be disbarred
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The English Revolution was in no small part sparked by King Charles I routing around parliament to find everything he wanted through non/legislative means, despite that being why Parliament exists. Over a century later, American colonists aware of this explicitly gave their Congress power to stop it
Unconstitutionally taking money that the law says must be spent on one purpose & using it for something else—when it's to establish personalist control over the FUCKING MILITARY—is about as dangerous a constitutional crisis/failure as you can imagine

Via: www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...
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WATCH- @chrislhayes.bsky.social on the "incredibly dishonest and downright dangerous new talking point being pushed by MAGA:"

“Republicans on Capitol Hill are claiming that peaceful protesters are part of a terrorist network hell bent on destroying America.”
Sad to see the state of my birth under of rule of barbarism.
The closure of the Iowa State Historical Society archive in Iowa City is a travesty. And part of a now-decades-long campaign of resentment and retaliation by state government against Iowa City and the University of Iowa 🗃️
Marian Wilson Kimber: It’s painful to realize the people in charge of Iowa’s history apparently have no idea how history works. If they did, they'd know there is no way to predict what parts of the collection will be of interest 5, 20, or 100 years from now. www.bleedingheartland.com/2025/10/10/t...