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New CBO analysis: The Republican party-line reconciliation bill would decrease household resources by 4% for the bottom 10 percent, while increasing them by 2% for the top 10 percent. As of 2033.

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Democrats helped the GENIUS Act evade filibuster risk, paving the way for crypto legislation that stands to enrich Trump.

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Noem’s new dog would be well advised to get his ass to an SPCA shelter before she comes home from work this evening

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Andrew Schulz asks Bernie Sanders: "Isn't it in the best interests of these oligarchs that they make sure that life is fruitful enough for the people that are going to consume their products?" Sanders: "I don't know that they think about it that way at all."

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Joe Cares About The Average American! The current president Doesn’t!

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New in PN: Donald Trump and the power of the big (fake) number "Trump repeatedly touted the enormous deals he supposedly obtained from Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and the UAE — all portrayed as new investments pouring into the US economy — but a close examination shows them to be largely a mirage."

submitted 21 hours ago • 106 comments

The payouts to Babbitt’s family, the pardons of J6 insurrectionists and war criminals, and the growing push on the right to exonerate Chauvin all show that the GOP will forgive any crime if they see it as defending the set of hierarchies they believe constitutes the real America.

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"Tapper and Thompson want to be the center of the conversation because it will help them sell books. But with daily assaults on our constitution by the current inhabitant of the White House, the rest of us have, or should have, more important things to focus on."

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Speak Truth...Jan 6 should have been the end.... ..

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Breaking news: President Donald Trump’s administration will pay nearly $5 million to the family of Ashli Babbitt to settle a lawsuit brought by the estate of the Trump supporter who was fatally shot by police when she tried to storm the House Speaker’s lobby during the Jan. 6, 2021 attack.

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NEW: Attorney General Ken Paxton’s crusade against alleged voter fraud has led to the criminal prosecution of six Democratic officials, all Latino, in Frio County, Texas. Civil rights groups say the charges are politically motivated and aim to suppress Latino civic participation.

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BREAKING: Biden diagnosed with aggressive form of prostate cancer

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BARTIROMO: You said Jeffrey Epstein committed suicide. People don't believe it. PATEL: Listen, they have a right to their opinion, but you know a suicide when you see one, and that's what that was. BONGINO: He killed himself. I've seen the whole file. He killed himself.

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Rand Paul: "Tariffs are taxes & when you put tax on a business it's always passed through as a cost, so there will be higher prices. There's an economic fallacy that trade deficits mean anything. They're artificial accounting. The only trade that means anything is the individual who buys something"

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Oh, ABC. You blew it when you caved the first time and cut a $16m check. Don’t give Shitler another inch or another dime, and tell him to go fuck himself. #GoHarvard #GoMaine

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Moody’s Ratings has downgraded the nation’s credit rating one notch from Aaa to Aa1, leaving the U.S. government without a top grade among any of the major rating agencies. Moody's cited rising debt and interest payment ratios that are “significantly higher than similarly rated sovereigns.”

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Trump, who cut the National Weather Service, has been silent about the 23 people who were recently killed in storms and tornadoes in Kentucky. Instead, he’s been posting multiple Middle East trip propaganda videos featuring himself.

submitted 3 days ago • 123 comments

Having been at AAPOR, I can tell you that this is the single least popular Trump policy out of more than 250 polled. YouGov has it at -74 net. There are STDs that are better liked.

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yes. this.

submitted 3 days ago • 754 comments

BLACKWELL: Can we just start the conversation by agreeing that Afrikaners are not facing genocide? DHS OFFICIAL TRICIA McLAUGHLIN: Absolutely not BLACKWELL: Where is the evidence? McLAUGHLIN: You are defending race-based discrimination

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Get prepared folks because Trump and his gang are going to be throwing balls here, there, and everywhere. Especially this dirtbag. 👇

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so to be clear about what happened here, the Trump White House released audio meant to make Joe Biden look bad to Axios hours after the US's credit rating was downgraded. Trump wanted a distraction and the usual suspects in the press are happy to oblige.

submitted 4 days ago • 735 comments

Shot. Chaser.

submitted 4 days ago • 106 comments

Trump already tried this on "liberation day" and it was such a disaster that he walked it back in short order

submitted 4 days ago • 116 comments

Trump is, once again, lying here. The SCOTUS majority wrote: “The Government may remove the named plaintiffs or putative class members under other lawful authorities.” The due process, however, isn't optional. www.allrisenews.com/p/scotus-aea...

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Boeing agreed last year to plead guilty to defrauding regulators after the crashes of two 737 Max jets, in 2018 and 2019, that killed 346 people. But a federal judge rejected that proposed plea deal.

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So... the 8646 people are mad that someone said 8647?

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500K Mexican-Americans served in the U.S. armed forces in WWII, as did millions of 1st and 2nd-gen immigrants, and 109K noncitizens. Mexican immigrant Macario Garcia won the Medal of Honor in Normandy. When he returned to the US, he was was arrested for trying to eat at a segregated restaurant.

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SCOTUS twice noted the government’s radical positions in the Abrego Garcia case as it ruled against the government in this Alien Enemies Act case

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He should absolutely stay there.

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On his way home from the Middle East

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A pair of U.K. scholars discovered the mislabeled document in Harvard Law School's digital archives. The university bought it for just $27.50 in 1946. It turned out to be an authentic copy dating to 1300.

submitted 5 days ago • 258 comments

Uh…I can tag several of them in this post that I know personally, right now. The evil is indistinguishable from the incompetence. It’s ghoulish.

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And the President apparently gets to just ignore the Supreme Court, even when it rules 9-0.

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The all-female Korean Haenyeo divers show genetic adaptations to cold water diving involving their blood pressure and cold tolerance. "It's like a superpower," says one of the researchers.

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Today May 15th is Peace Officers Memorial Day. Statements like this are inflammatory, disrespectful and flat out lies. Not only did you betray law enforcement, but you sided with people who attacked us. You don't support law enforcement, you are are a criminal.

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Anyone not finding this brooding banner of Trump hanging outside of the department of agriculture, reminiscent of North Korea and Saddam Hussein obviously never got past eighth grade.

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Trump bargains on trade just like he bargains on everything else: 1) Act first; 2) Realize costs later; 3) Back down; 4) Sell his climbdown as a "win" danieldrezner.substack.com/p/the-madman...

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If second-term Trump does actually get a nuclear accord with Iran, which actually prevents war with Iran, many - including on the left - will want to credit & praise him. And yet we are only on the brink of war because first-term Trump tore up Obama’s nuclear deal with in 2017!

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i am fascinated by the editorial choice to give the last word to a disbarred charlatan pushing a discredited constitutional theory www.nytimes.com/2025/05/14/u...

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Thank you @robertgarcia.bsky.social for pushing for Sec. Noem to answer whether or not Andry is alive. Today marks 60 days that Andry & others have been imprisoned w/o due process in the CECOT prison in El Salvador. #BringThemBack freeandry.org

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Rep. Julie Johnson to Noem: "Are you aware that ICE agent jackets are available on Etsy for $20? Anybody can throw a mask on and run around and terrorize people of color without any regard for the law because your agency does not have proper protocols to make sure your agents are clearly identified"

submitted 6 days ago • 1589 comments

Forcibly removed off of an OUTGOING flight is a good sign that there's more going on here than usual.

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A masterful, definitive brief from @judgeluttig.bsky.social on every illegal & unconstitutional action undertaken by Trump in the first 100 days. And a sober truth about Trump’s intention to defy even SCOTUS. Print this one out. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

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NEWS: Facing litigation, the Trump admin reverses itself on its purge of climate-related websites. The restoration process is "already underway" — and expected to be "substantially complete" in "approximately two weeks." A win for @knightcolumbia.org Doc knightcolumbia.org/documents/2o...

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The Supreme Court probably should have thought a bit deeper about this immunity thing www.nytimes.com/2025/05/12/u...

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Horsford: They are cutting healthcare for 13.7 million Americans. The largest cut to healthcare in U.S. history to give tax cuts to billionaires and to big corporations. This is your priority.

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POTUS: The thing people overlook about accepting bribes is the benefit of getting stuff (Wash Post graphic)

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