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I’m glad this made the Times.

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House Republicans are considering a new judicial requirement that would allow Trump to skirt court orders for a short time. Legal experts warn it would cause chaos in the courts. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

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"To hear the president tell it, the process of making laws and policy the proper way is overly burdensome..." www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

submitted 2 days ago • 140 comments

A radical transformation of our way of life is underway. Don’t let anyone gaslight you into thinking this administration is normal.

submitted 3 days ago • 514 comments

Public schools are not for religious indoctrination. Texas, we'll see you in court.

submitted 2 days ago • 337 comments

Young, an 84-year-old jurist appointed by Reagan, seemed taken aback by the manner of the students' arrests. He said he's "not accustomed to" law enforcement without IDs, approaching people masked and without a warrant. Full story on his ruling against Trump www.allrisenews.com/p/aaup-rubio...

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According to AP, the typical pay package for S&P 500 CEOs rose to $17M last year — an increase of 9.7%. At half of the companies surveyed, it would take the median worker 192 years to make what the CEO did in one year. This is what I mean when I say the system is rigged.

submitted 2 days ago • 307 comments

"Support for the law firms that didn’t make deals has been growing... "At least 11 big companies are moving work away from firms that settled with the administration or are giving more business to firms that have been targeted but refused to strike deals..." www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...

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More than a century after the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921, one of the most horrific episodes of racial violence in U.S. history, the city’s mayor announced a $105 million reparations package on Sunday. It is the first large-scale plan committing funds to address the impact of the atrocity.

submitted 2 days ago • 377 comments

Here's something everybody should be paying attention to: Congressional Republicans are trying to weaken the Affordable Care Act and put millions of people at risk of losing their health care. Call your Senators and tell them we can't let that happen.

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The new top voting lawyer at the Department of Justice was until recently an attorney and activist for a leading anti-voting legal group that has worked for years to spread fear about illegal voting and press election officials to tighten voting rules. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

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Amazing reporting here on how things have backfired on the capitulating law firms and their enabler. www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...

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Maryland passed its ban on military-style assault weapons after the Sandy Hook massacre. It's the type of common-sense gun safety law that we need to save lives and prevent mass shootings. SCOTUS should continue to allow lifesaving laws like Maryland's to remain in place.

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Sure, let’s dissect the mental and physical acuity of the former president who sought to make lives in America better while minimizing the reality of a deranged arsonist dismantling the country we’ve known and loved. What a failure to meet this moment.

submitted 17 days ago • 1117 comments

A few thoughts on dear friend Kitty Dukakis, who passed away recently. RIP 😻😿

submitted 17 days ago • 25 comments

Michelle and I are thinking of the entire Biden family. Nobody has done more to find breakthrough treatments for cancer in all its forms than Joe, and I am certain he will fight this challenge with his trademark resolve and grace. We pray for a fast and full recovery.

submitted 16 days ago • 914 comments

His attempt to co-op other’s accomplishments is __________. (Insert your own adjective; I’ve run out.)

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submitted 16 days ago • 1062 comments

My husband was diagnosed at stage 4, six months after his last blood test. Metastases on every disk in his spine, some ribs, his hips, even on his skull. We had no idea. I wouldn’t wish this kind of death on anyone, even if their last name is Trump.

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There is no bottom

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A gravitational model of the Moon a decade in the making has revealed why its two faces look so different. 🧪 🌓 One side flexes more than the other, likely due to radioactive heating. www.sciencefocus.com/news/somethi...

submitted 19 days ago • 2 comments

Trump and MAGA Republicans don't care how many hospitals will close or how many lives will be impacted as a result of their cuts to Medicaid. All they care about are tax cuts for the top 1%. Everyday Americans lose. Their billionaire buddies win. #SaveOurMedicaid

submitted 19 days ago • 1 comment

Trump is the head of a criminal syndicate, and he should be treated accordingly—now and, even more importantly, when he and his accomplices are finally out of power.

submitted 18 days ago • 33 comments

By "deal," do they mean "payout?"

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This should be a bigger story

submitted 18 days ago • 1 comment

They received presidential pardons for this ‘message’ and it wasn’t seashells on a beach.

submitted 19 days ago • 494 comments

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Local authorities have mixed feelings. They condemned "any form of interference with private or public property". But, they added, "the image of the US First Lady was not something anyone was proud of". www.bbc.com/news/article...

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•••MEASLES ALERT••• A traveler with measles was at Newark Liberty International Airport in New Jersey for several hours while infectious this week. Anyone who was in Newark Airport's Terminal B on Monday between 12:30 and 4:00 p.m. may have been exposed to measles — considered by health…

submitted 18 days ago • 161 comments

War criminal Putin has abducted thousands of Ukrainian children and concealed them within Russia's adoption system. Trump illegally terminated funding to track these kidnappings. With over 50 colleagues, I'm calling for Congress to right Trump's wrong and help reunite children with their families.

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After being hired to promote Georgia’s Medicaid work requirement program, Deloitte Consulting priced reports about its own marketing performance at $300,000 a month. A final report, which was due in February, could cost the state nearly half a million. ➡️ Read the full story: propub.li/3YOiJ66

submitted 18 days ago • 242 comments

Important info

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WATCH: Ranking Member @congressmanboyle.bsky.social lays out how Democratic, Independent, and even Republican voters oppose the GOP's radical agenda. Their shameful bill failed in committee today—and we'll keep fighting to stop House Republicans from kicking millions off their health care.

submitted 19 days ago • 8 comments

What happens when there are no more tornadoes warnings? joycevance.substack.com/p/when-the-c...

submitted 18 days ago • 427 comments

DHS official Tricia McLaughlin keeps insisting that members of Congress and the Newark mayor assaulted and "bodyslammed" ICE officers even as Blackwell plays her video demonstrating that they in fact did not

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Good news from Montana--a state court has struck down a gender affirming care ban, calling the ban what it is: an ideological attack on transgender people. Many state constitutions offer more protection against gender discrimination than the federal one. www.aclumontana.org/sites/defaul...

submitted 18 days ago • 1 comment

There is not a single congressional district in the U.S. where more than 15% of voters support cuts to Medicaid.

submitted 22 days ago • 115 comments

Gutting Medicaid isn't just unpopular, it's inhumane. Cuts to the program would lead to 10.3M people losing Medicaid coverage and up to 8.6M people going uninsured. #SaveOurMedicaid

submitted 19 days ago • 12 comments

The Trump Admin’s attempt to shield itself from a 9-0 SCOTUS order to “facilitate” the return of and due process for Abrego Garcia by invoking the states secrets privilege is laughable. They are trying to make a mockery of the rule of law. Glad the courts are not falling for it.

submitted 18 days ago • 47 comments

Moody’s has stripped the US of its top-notch triple-A credit rating as it warned about rising levels of government debt and a widening budget deficit in the world’s biggest economy. The agency on Friday afternoon cut its credit rating on the US by one notch to Aa1 from Aaa, with outlook negative.

submitted 18 days ago • 4 comments

The same day Moody’s downgraded the U.S. credit rating, citing rising debt & exploding deficits, Republicans tried to ram through permanent tax cuts for billionaires, which would add $trillions more to the deficit. 📌 All 3 major agencies now rank us below top tier. The GOP’s answer: make it worse.

submitted 18 days ago • 63 comments

It's like the 1930s 2.0

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“33,000 applicants on the first day” - but here’s the deal. In year 1 families with incomes as high as $170k are eligible, on a first come first served basis. They are then grandfathered in. Expect a mad dash by wealthy private school families snapping these up www.nashvillepost.com/business/sch...

submitted 19 days ago • 13 comments

You hang a Dear Leader banner on a federal building and #LordLaser is gonna have something to say about it.

submitted 18 days ago • 201 comments

The 80-year recipe stoking America’s Prosperity: 1) Free-market capital investments in brilliant ideas… 2) enabled by Engineering Innovations… 3) based on Science Research in Universities… 4) funded by Grants from the US Government. It’s time more people understood this.

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Those on the high court often exercise caution in their choice of words. That is why it was striking when she used an audience of lawyers to deliver a stern message to the legal profession: stand up for democracy, take on the hard fights and do whatever you can to win.

submitted 18 days ago • 214 comments

Someone on YouTube thought they could repost this video. YouTube caught it immediately and I hit with a copyright strike. If they included part of it or discussed it then I'd let it slide as that's fair use. They just took the whole thing and reposted it. youtu.be/r_O0MVpfg28?...

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