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The most f*cked up aspect of this is the "DoorDash grandma" t-shirt she's wearing, and the implications of this: I checked and this is a pre-organized PR stunt between DoorDash and the White House (they boast about it on their website: about.doordash.com/en-us/news/das…). The lady - Sharon Simmons, "a grandmother of ten" who has "completed more than 14,000 deliveries" - isn't even from DC, they brought her over from Arkansas as a prop for this. Think about just how uniquely rotten things need to be in order for this to happen. She is literally a grandmother relying on gig work because she can't afford healthcare for her husband's stage-3 cancer. She doesn't even get paid a living wage and needs to rely on tips. And as an "independent contractor," she gets no benefits, no healthcare, no retirement. Which means she is an almost perfect illustration of the failure of the American social contract on almost every level: healthcare, labor rights, retirement, wages, etc. Any decent human being looking at her story - let alone policymakers - should feel only one thing: shame. Yet DoorDash and the White House looked at this woman and saw a photo op. They flew her from Arkansas, branded her "DoorDash grandma" and used her as a mascot for a tax tweak - no tax on tips - that wouldn't even begin to cover her husband's chemo sessions. Watching the actual video of her "delivery" to Trump (pbs.org/newshour/polit…) is almost unreal. Trump opens up by saying, smiling at the camera, "who says it looks staged? It doesn't." They immediately proceed to do a joint press conference to a bunch of journalists who were conveniently standing right there. None of the questions that follow during the next 15 minutes are related to Simmons' situation who just stands there. Journalists, the President, and cameras all obsessing over culture wars and the actual war in Iran, while the walking embodiment of the country's deepest structural failures - healthcare, labor, retirement - stands silently in a corporate t-shirt, unmentioned and too uncomfortable to confront.

The President of the United States said I insulted Jesus. You want to know what insults Jesus? Kicking the sick off their healthcare. Bombing schoolchildren in Iran. Deporting moms and babies. Covering up the Epstein files.

A "boom" heard in Ohio and Pennsylvania on Tuesday morning appears to have been from a meteor, the National Weather Service in Cleveland said. abcnews.com/US/boom-heard-…

I think the US government should spend money providing healthcare and education instead of spending $11.3 billion in a single week bombing a little girls’ school

¡El béisbol y nuestra cultura se sienten en cualquier idioma! 🤩 Celimar Rivera Cosme nos enseña palabras claves para el #WorldBaseballClassic en lengua de señas.

No one changes because you beg them to. Or because you give them an ultimatum. And if they do, it won't last long. The only reason people actually change is because they're so sick of dealing with the fallout of their own behavior, they have no choice.

Stark County, Ohio Yesterday, Canton City Council announced an increase in utility bills for all customers starting next month, citing 'necessary infrastructure upgrades and increased operational costs.' They failed to mention the 5,600-square-foot, 1.5 MW redundant data center in Canton that is driving up energy costs. They also failed to mention the major data center project is breaking ground in nearby Perry Township. Metallus (formerly TimkenSteel) Faircrest plant. This increase is just the first of many for Ohioans. With officials like Jon Husted, Vivek Ramaswamy, and Rob McColley who will support Ohio legislation that further protects data centers from absorbing the energy costs and infrastructure upgrades, abandoning regulations, and granting 15-30 year tax abatement on property taxes - the cost will go to consumers.

REPOST from Dr. Cambria J Nwosu: A racial slur was yelled during the BAFTAs while Michael B. Jordan and Delroy Lindo were presenting. The explanation given was Tourette syndrome. Two truths can exist at once.

I don’t know who needs to hear Jesse Jackson leading the kids on Sesame Street in this beautiful call-and-response reminding them that every child is somebody, but here it is

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Alison Luchs, who has worked at the National Gallery of Art for 47 years, agreed to learn Gen Z slang and make videos because she wanted to raise interest in the museum’s art. She never expected to slay. wapo.st/4qIqlTl

Republicans want you to simultaneously believe the guy on the left is a hero and the guy on the right is a terrorist.

The unc who went viral a few weeks ago protesting in Minnesota is back: "5 shots they put into that man's body. And how do you look me in the eye and tell me you can justify this? I'm a veteran. I swore an oath back in 1969 to protect this country against all enemies foreign and domestic. This is unbelievable."

This #MLKDay, remember my father by: Amplifying and advocating for the end of state-sanctioned and facilitated violence against Black and Brown immigrants and against people, period. Speaking up for people who are suffering genocide in Sudan. Palestine, Congo, and other nations. Calling and writing your Congresspersons in support of democracy as opposed to dictatorship. Supporting policies to eradicate poverty (higher minimum wage, affordable housing, etc) Learning the truth about and challenging anti-Black racism, which is still prevalent in healthcare, media, lending practices, the criminal “justice” system, etc. #MLK #MartinLutherKingJr #MLKDay2026

I mean, I think the most hateful rhetoric I’ve seen lately is an ICE officer calling a woman he just murdered on camera a “fucking bitch”

A mother was murdered by a masked, armed government agent who called her a “fucking bitch” after he shot her in the face three times, and half the country doesn’t care because they believe liberal women have it coming.

@PodSaveAmerica Why aren’t there democratic groups constantly running tv&digital ads using Trump & the republicans’ words against them?

We're taking questions for our 2025 Holiday Mailbag (out later this month)! What questions do you have on the news, politics or just whatever is on your mind?

Go Bucks - beat that team up north! 🏈

President Trump did a whole lot of lying on "60 Minutes." Here's a fact check of 18 of his false claims to Norah O’Donnell, the vast majority of them previously debunked: - It's not true grocery prices "are down"; Trump told this lie even after O’Donnell told him they're up - It's not true there is now "no inflation" (it’s at 3%) or that it's "less than 2%" (it's at 3%) - It's not true it was "my idea, which nobody, frankly, had thought of," to have AI facilities generate their own power on-site (they were already starting to do that while he was out of office, with Biden administration encouragement) - It's not true “$17 trillion” is being invested in the US “right now" (this fictional figure is nearly double the White House's own wildly inflated "announcements" figure) - It's not true each alleged drug boat "kills 25,000 Americans" (this figure plainly makes no sense given US overdose death totals) - It's not true some recent former presidents invoked the Insurrection Act "28 times" (Ulysses S. Grant has the record because he invoked it on six occasions) - It's not true Trump has ended "eight wars" (among other issues, his list includes two situations that weren't wars at all, one war still going full tilt in the DRC, and the Gaza conflict where killing also continues) - It's not true the Kamala Harris interview Trump sued "60 Minutes" over aired "two days" before the election (it was more than four full weeks before Election Day) - It's not true Biden gave Ukraine "$350 billion" (inspector general says the US had disbursed $94 billion through June 2025 and appropriated $93 billion more, including funds spent in the US) - It's not true foreign countries pay his tariffs (US importers make the payments and often pass on costs to consumers) - It's not true Trump inherited the worst inflation of all time (it was 3% the month he took office, same as now, and even the 9.1% Biden-era peak in 2022 was not close to the all-time record) - It's not true the 2020 election was "rigged and stolen" (his usual lie)  - It's not true the Presidential Records Act says he was allowed to have classified documents at his home post-presidency (it says all presidential records are to be in government custody the moment a president leaves office) - It's not true Trump never instructed the Justice Department to go after Comey and James (he explicitly pressured the head of the department to do so in a social media post we all saw) - It's not true Democrats are trying to give $1.5 trillion to illegal immigrants in the shutdown battle (even the White House's own disputed figure is a small fraction of that) or that Biden let in 25 million migrants (it's well under half that even if you count millions who were rapidly expelled) - It's not true foreign leaders have emptied their prisons to somehow insert criminals into the US as migrants (Trump's own team has never been able to corroborate this story experts say is baseless) - It's not true Nancy Pelosi flipped out after finding out his controversial 2019 call with Zelensky “was taped” (there remains no known US tape; what Trump released was a rough transcript, which bolstered rather than undermined Pelosi’s move toward impeachment) Link for more details: cnn.com/2025/11/03/pol…