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The Gilded Age | Full Documentary | AMERICAN EXPERIENCE | PBS
Via: Thomas • News & Politics • 37 Comments • 10 Likes • 3 months ago
“It's a confirmation that the political establishment is not in the hands of the people. It's in the hands of corporate interests, and also...”
The Gilded Age, quite possibly worse than the current slop we are dealing with in Washington, was a time of extreme disparities in wealth. At one end of the scale were Carnegie, Rockefeller, the Vanderbilts, and J. P. Morgan, while at the other were millions of Americans dealing with the...
‘Always Enough Money for War…’: James Talarico Sends Trump Blunt Message, Vows to Repeal DOGE Cuts
Via: Thomas • News & Politics • 40 Comments • 12 Likes • 3 months ago
“If you work full time you should not be poor”
"And let me just, real quick, for those that do not know the history of this: The first voucher scam was introduced in Texas in 1957. And for the history buffs in the room, you know that was just a couple years after Brown v. Board of Education. That first voucher bill was a deliberate attempt...
July 14, 2026 - by Heather Cox Richardson
Via: Thomas • SiNNERs and ButtHeads • 7 Comments • 5 Likes • 4 months ago
“In August 1870 a U.S.”
We go through these cycles where we (the people of the United States) let powerful and monied interests run free and physically destroy what is common to all of us.
Happy 250 th
By: Thomas • Op/Ed • 69 Comments • 14 Likes • 4 months ago
“Why are people not calling it the 250 ummm ....th? or birthday of the Nation or any thing besides "250"??????”
Happy 4th, all! Hope you all have a wonderful weekend and I hope that you all return as fine of Americans as when you departed last from this stage. Peace. Love. Be kind to each other.
Ethnic Cleansing in Ohio (updated) - by Timothy Snyder
Via: Thomas • News & Politics • 20 Comments • 6 Likes • 4 months ago
“Vance's Nazi-propelled propaganda had won. And a propaganda victory of this sort, involving degrading claims about crime, barbarism, and disease,...”
Self-lying by the powerful is often element of an ethnic cleansing campaign. The Supreme Court majority rightly insisted that a decision about equal protection depends upon "context." Context means two two things: the lexical context, the words that were actually said by relevant actors around...
Former President Barack Obama's full remarks at Obama Presidential Center dedication
Via: Thomas • News & Politics • 104 Comments • 11 Likes • 5 months ago
“I learned that leadership has less to do with titles, or rank, or chasing attention, than with helping others find their voice, reaching their...”
The speech centers on Chicago as the place where a young Obama “found” his purpose, the Center as a living civic institution rather than a “mausoleum,” and democracy as a fragile inheritance requiring participation, restraint, character, and faith in citizenship. President Obama used the opening...
The Fracturing of Democracy - A Chronicle of Continuing Trauma. Part 3 - A Prescient Reminder
By: Thomas • News & Politics • 16 Comments • 9 Likes • 5 months ago
“Cities Full of Hatred Fear and Lies, Withered Hearts and cruel tormented eyes. Scheming Demons dressed in kingly Guise, Beating down the multitude...”
I once said that everything I needed to know was in a Rush tune, and it still seems that way. One must ask: Do you like Fascism? Fascism is alive and well right on these very pages. Do you like authoritarian rule? How about plutocracy? How about a combination of the three? We are dropping...
Vote for none of the above
By: Thomas • Opinion • 33 Comments • 7 Likes • 6 months ago
“How 'bout giving the government back to the Folks in the Center?”
"Get Out!" This should be the resounding theme coming from the general populace. Do you like the ideas coming from the Republicans? From the Democrats? I, for one, don't like the ideas that I hear from either side because they are mostly designed to entrench one or the other in power. Prove...
3,951-ish Days of Artificial Division
By: Thomas • Opinion • 6 Comments • 3 Likes • 7 months ago
“How does that song go? How many times...? (Bob Dylan-Blowin' In The Wind)”
As I sit here and read the bickering and backbiting going on between and within the various factions on the internet, locally, regionally, nationally and internationally, the temptation to become jaded, cynical and dismissive of other people, not just their opinions but the people themselves, can...
