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We've begun offering and debating amendments on Trump's Big Ugly bill here in the Senate. But let's be clear: this bill polls like garbage because it is garbage. It belongs nowhere but the trash bin. Senators must vote NO.

submitted 6 hours ago • 20 comments

Growing up, my dad lost his job after getting MS. Mom was raising 7 kids & needed skills training before she could find work—both unemployed for months. Food stamps kept us fed, but my family wouldn't even qualify today under the Big Ugly bill. It's just wrong. Senators must vote NO.

submitted 4 hours ago • 26 comments

There’s no reforming these people. Our only recourse is to defeat them.

submitted 17 hours ago • 29 comments

The bottom line on the Trump Big Ugly Bill is this If the Republicans pass it, tens of thousands of Americans will die It's shameful It's despicable It's morally repugnant And-the worst part is They're doing it so they can give tax breaks to billionaires We Won't Get Over Losing Medicaid

submitted 15 hours ago • 5 comments

The tragic thing is that tens of millions of Americans could be spared immeasurable pain, suffering, and despair if only there were a literal handful of Republicans with a working soul.

submitted 2 hours ago • 62 comments

Get on alert folks. We are getting pretty far down that “first they came for…” list. www.npr.org/2025/06/30/n...

submitted 2 hours ago • 59 comments

“Alligator Alcatraz” will begin operations on Wednesday. This is your reminder that a prison without due process is a concentration camp.

submitted 1 day ago • 434 comments

"Why do you allow these men who are in power to rob you step by step, openly and in secret, of one domain of your rights after another, until one day nothing, nothing at all will be left but a.....

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Two paths diverged in a wood and America took the psychopath.

submitted 2 days ago • 331 comments

“With fear for our democracy, I dissent” ~Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor "This Supreme Court is an existential threat to the rule of law." ~Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson Short of giving prime time interviews I have no idea how much more warning we need. WTF are we doing???

submitted 2 days ago • 13 comments

Lisa Murkowski, in what will forever be described as a portrait in cowardice. Murkowski, who a few days ago was considering flipping to the Democratic Party, just flipped to YES on Trump's barbaric "Big Beautiful Bill."

submitted 1 day ago • 59 comments

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submitted 1 day ago • 109 comments

As long as I live, I’ll never forget seeing wheelchair users zip tied for protesting…

submitted 1 day ago • 400 comments

There are only three political positions in America today 1) I like the fascism 2) I'll acquiesce to the fascism (reasons for this one vary: cowardice, access, denial, misguidedly thinking that acquiescence is savvy, etc) 3) I oppose the fascism The rest is details

submitted 2 days ago • 461 comments

We are all in this together—the fight of our lives—and we will work together for safe passage through this onslaught against the Constitution and the rule of law.

submitted 1 day ago • 290 comments

Stand up and cheer for Leigh! And never stop shaming Republicans.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

After the House Republicans voted to take healthcare from millions of Americans And food from starving children So they can give tax breaks to billionaires Senate Republicans are on the verge of doing the same Don’t EVER tell me the two parties are the same We won’t get over losing Medicaid

submitted 1 day ago • 9 comments

This country is too gullible to be putting fake Mamdani tweets out there.

submitted 1 day ago • 15 comments

I kind of wonder how many of the victims of the Big Beautiful Bill even know they’re human sacrifice for billionaires yet. And when it hits them, how will Fox News convince them Joe Biden did it?

submitted 1 day ago • 33 comments

Even if the procedural vote moves forward - and I suspect it will - tonight’s drama should serve as a reminder that this awful GOP bill is hanging on by a thread. And it will only get harder for them in the next rounds of Senate and House voting. So keep up the pressure, because it’s not over yet.

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

This sentence, typed in her dissent, should scare the living fuck out of everyone in this country. "This Supreme Court is an existential threat to the rule of law." – Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson

submitted 2 days ago • 499 comments

I just voted NO on the motion to proceed on the Big Ugly bill. Let’s be clear: Voting YES on this procedural motion IS voting to let Republicans pass the largest health care cuts in history. This isn’t over. There will be debate & amendments. SENATORS MUST VOTE DOWN THIS BILL!

submitted 1 day ago • 82 comments

Republicans chose to release the text of their Big Ugly bill late last night. They’re trying to pass the largest cuts to health care in history late on a Saturday. So Democrats are forcing the entirety of the bill to be read on the Senate floor. We won’t let them hide.

submitted 1 day ago • 63 comments

They do this cause they know the bill is terrible for their states & districts. So they post a tweet opposing it, then fold right after. That way, come election time, they can claim they “fought it.” 99% of the time, that fight was complete BS.

submitted 2 days ago • 260 comments

Perhaps the most remarkable thing from the last few weeks is that is the official position of the White House and President that this bill does NOT cut Medicaid. And we all pretend somehow this is normal and that Trump remains fit to serve.

submitted 1 day ago • 21 comments

We are dismantling American higher education & scientific research & health care & all the other things to fund concentration camps

submitted 1 day ago • 111 comments

If you're FED UP with Trump and MAGA Republicans thugs trying to destroy Medicaid Proposing to cut the program by $930 BILLION In the Senate's version of the Big Ugly Bill Call the Capitol switchboard-let them know Vote for this We'll VOTE YOU OUT 202-224-3121 #WeWontGetOverLosingMedicaid

submitted 1 day ago • 18 comments

Spot on. This is the clearest explanation I’ve seen. It ‘s relatable, and humanizes the issue in a way everyone can understand.

submitted 2 days ago • 1274 comments

Say it with me. RFK Jr. is killing children.

submitted 2 days ago • 526 comments

Our annual fundraiser for PAWS pet and wildlife rescue. I realize some people are pretty stretched this year, particularly my academic followers, but if anybody feels like contributing to a good cause….

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

The Associated Press wrote a good story saying RFK Jr. is undermining vaccines despite his assurances that he wouldn’t. But instead of saying that in the headline, the AP went soft and generic. In this political crisis, clear reporting is a must. Vagueness is cowardice.

submitted 2 days ago • 14 comments

The Trump Administration won't hold ICE officers to account for their rampant illegality; state prosecutors should do so, as I discuss here.

submitted 4 days ago • 38 comments

"Given that Trump administration officials are giving license to mass criminality among federal law enforcement officers, there may be only one remaining avenue for bringing such criminal cops to justice: State prosecutions." Good @davidrlurie.bsky.social thoughts over at @atrupar.com's place:

submitted 3 days ago • 20 comments

“No right is safe in the new legal regime the Court creates.” –Justice Sonia Sotomayor. One of the most chilling sentences I have ever read.

submitted 3 days ago • 183 comments

Other, more serious countries have actual constitutional courts. We have a 9-member unelected Superlegislature that pretends it’s doing “law”

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

The left better start figuring out how to weaponize today's decision rather than just (rightfully) criticizing it. - Go back into Judge Kaczmaryk's court to dissolve all of his nationwide orders. - Pass gun bans and insist any order applies only to plaintiffs.

submitted 3 days ago • 455 comments

In a sane country, which this obviously is not, a loose cannon like Trump in the Oval Office would move the Supreme Court to limit executive power any way they could. That they keep going the other way as he spirals further out of control is barely believable.

submitted 3 days ago • 28 comments

People holding elected office should be removed or forced to resign for calling human beings vermin, & if Democrats ever did this, they would be.

submitted 3 days ago • 10 comments

President wants to crush US, Congress has yielded its power, Supreme Court has neutered the courts, Corporate Media is collaborating, but there is one estate left that can save US: The People.

submitted 3 days ago • 71 comments

Who cares about the fuel for nuclear bombs when you are trying to end a nuclear bomb program?

submitted 3 days ago • 38 comments

The news media have normalized a president brazenly lying every day. Decent people are appalled, and that should include journalists, but instead the media have accepted lying as part of the game.

submitted 3 days ago • 99 comments

always have to remember the right will get hysterical over every issue of the day it does not matter about validity or truth it is all about feeding their constant outrage machine

submitted 3 days ago • 77 comments

Anyone keeping tabs on how many violent criminals Trump has put on the street? And how many are already back in jail?

submitted 3 days ago • 13 comments

Would it be so hard to repeat “radical MAGA agenda” until it sticks? Way too often Democrats just use MAGA by itself as a negative but I think that just reinforces the brand.

submitted 3 days ago • 27 comments

It needs a few typos, grammatical errors, insults, random quote marks, and misspellings.

submitted 3 days ago • 470 comments

Do they really think they can scare us with the word “socialist” when they are literally sending out men in masks with no warrants and no badges to disappear people off American streets? I know what I’m scared of, and it’s not a socialist.

submitted 4 days ago • 767 comments

We will fight for the rights our Congress set into law, and we will fight for the lifesaving care that Planned Parenthood health centers provide in our communities. Read our full statement on today's shameful #SCOTUS decision 👇.

submitted 4 days ago • 10 comments

First they came for abortion.  Now it’s birth control, cancer screenings, prenatal care. The Supreme Court just ruled states can block Medicaid patients from getting care at Planned Parenthood. (1/2)

submitted 4 days ago • 232 comments

Today's Planned Parenthood decision was a devasting blow to women, and it wasn't even about abortion. It was a devasting blow to civil rights, and it wasn't even about Civil Rights. It's one of the worst decisions from this SCOTUS, worse than you probably think. www.thenation.com/article/soci...

submitted 4 days ago • 296 comments