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I’ll say this as many times as I have to. No tax cut in the history of tax cuts has ever paid for itself. Not a one.

submitted 4 days ago • 207 comments

Her statement says Elon Musk's cuts to USAID through DOGE "have already resulted in about 300,000 deaths, most of them of children." And that number will keep growing. We knew this would happen. Musk, Trump and all who enabled this must never be allowed to forget it.

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“The government of the United States is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion.” — Treaty of Tripoli, signed by the United States in 1797.

submitted 10 days ago • 2083 comments

Remote Wyoming vacation lodge emerges as haven for US ‘dissident’ right www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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House budget bill would lead bottom income quintile to lose ~4% of their income on average ($800), but top percentile would see their incomes rise 4% (nearly $70,000). If tariffs remain in place, the overall impact on families would be even more regressive. budgetlab.yale.edu/research/dis...

submitted 15 days ago • 26 comments

House GOP is holding a hearing on their tax bill at 1:00 AM because they don't want us to know about their scheme to strip 13.7 million people of health coverage & they think no one will stay awake for it. I’ll be there, testifying & offering amendments to protect our families.

submitted 14 days ago • 1237 comments

What a fun thread!

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Buried in the House's 1,000-page tax-and-budget bill: a provision banning federal judges from enforcing contempt of court rulings over a wide range of court orders open.substack.com/pub/walterol...

submitted 16 days ago • 27 comments

Thou shalt not claim to be a Christian whilst planning a reality show where you torture immigrants.

submitted 17 days ago • 436 comments

Okay, this is the laugh I needed today.

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

My instructions for the day: 👇🏼

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

This 👇🏼

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

Helpful info here 👇🏼

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

There’s no day like #Caturday.

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

I like telling authoritarians where to shove it in multiple languages

submitted 32 days ago • 1404 comments

If only we had an entity—call it “Congress”—that could exercise oversight over out-of-control, so-called “law enforcement” agencies that are acting in illegal and authoritarian ways. kfor.com/news/local/w...

submitted 35 days ago • 53 comments

What Is To Be Done – The DOJ In Exile Edition talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/what-...

submitted 44 days ago • 32 comments

One of my favorites 👇🏼

submitted 44 days ago • 0 comments

“Home-growns” — that’s us, y’all.

submitted 50 days ago • 0 comments

Four R senators and four R House members could announce they're caucusing with the Dems for now, and will vote for Schumer for Majority Leader and Jeffries for Speaker, because the threat to the rule of law is dire. Meanwhile, they'll work with Democrats to construct guardrails against dictatorship.

submitted 50 days ago • 890 comments

This is a really great post by my counterpart explaining how social security works, specifically the retirement, disability, and survivor’s benefits!!!! Check it out!!!!

submitted 51 days ago • 1 comment

Here is an up to date list of Big Law collaborators along with how much in free legal services they have pledged to Trump's causes. Paul Weiss 40M Cadwalader 100M Milbank 100M Skadden Arps 100M Willkie Farr 100M A&O Shearman 125M Kirkland & Ellis 125M Latham & Watkins 125M Simpson Thacher 125M

submitted 53 days ago • 1558 comments

Keep talking about the Signal security lapse at the Pentagon. The media may have forgotten about it, but the voters have not.

submitted 53 days ago • 855 comments

This is a good idea. 👇🏼

submitted 55 days ago • 0 comments

🎯

submitted 59 days ago • 0 comments

Please share!!! This is getting ridiculous—they just can’t accept a loss. Please help spread the word to North Carolina. The North Carolina Court of Appeals ruled in a 2-1 decision that over 60,000 votes cast in last year’s closely contested state Supreme Court race must be verified and recounted.

submitted 60 days ago • 462 comments

Republicans' billionaire tax cuts would cost more than 4 major pieces of recent federal legislation combined—AND it would be bigger than programs like Medicare Part D & ACA subsidies that millions of people rely on. The GOP is essentially creating a social safety net for BILLIONAIRES.

submitted 59 days ago • 31 comments

The Egyptian pro-democracy activist Wael Ghonim said, "The power of the people is greater than the people in power." This is a checklist of things you can do, probably should do, resources, ideas, ways to move forward. “I just don’t know what to do!!” shouldn’t be something you say now. Here:

submitted 61 days ago • 54 comments

Here’s to the math nerds (a compliment) for figuring out this pattern!

submitted 62 days ago • 0 comments

April 1, 2025

submitted 62 days ago • 104 comments

BREAKING: In a massive defeat for Donald Trump and Elon Musk — who poured millions into the race — Democratic-backed Susan Crawford has won the race for the vacant seat on the Wisconsin Supreme Court, defeating MAGA Republican Brad Schimel.

submitted 63 days ago • 126 comments

The “conservative movement” that eventually swallowed the old “Party of Lincoln” was turbocharged in 1954-5 by the reaction against Brown v Board, a case that rested upon the application of the 14th Amendment.

submitted 177 days ago • 22 comments

Here is my best guidance for action, rendered beautifully by the great John Lithgow. I first published these lessons more than eight years ago, in late 2016. They open the twenty chapters of "On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century." snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...

submitted 65 days ago • 273 comments

May all of your #Caturday dreams come true.

submitted 66 days ago • 0 comments

Diversity initiatives were meant to overcome the old patterns of nepotism, so I guess it makes sense that the enemies of diversity are big fans of nepotism.

submitted 66 days ago • 200 comments

Okay, this is brilliant, especially in such a short turnaround time. 👇🏼 youtu.be/rPfwtXulKS4?...

submitted 67 days ago • 0 comments

Everything you need to know about Trump's tax cuts.

submitted 68 days ago • 55 comments

In 1862, a Union soldier found cigars wrapped in a piece of paper in a field of clover. The paper was a copy of Confederate Gen. Lee's invasion orders. The Southern sloppiness helped the Union stop Lee at Antietam. It's unknown who lost the orders in the field, or if he was related to Pete Hegseth.

submitted 68 days ago • 668 comments

But wait, there’s more …

submitted 69 days ago • 0 comments

There is functionally no individual voter fraud. None. Zero. Zip.

submitted 70 days ago • 89 comments

It's critical for everyone to remember what an Executive Order is. It is the President communicating orders to members of the executive branch. Policies to pursue, actions to take, etc. They are not laws. They are not close to being laws. They are formalized memos to employees. That's all.

submitted 70 days ago • 1066 comments

As I explain here, security isn't even the biggest part of the Signal Scandal. This is to keep actions secret from the US government. It's how to do crimes, bribes and more. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/signa...

submitted 70 days ago • 135 comments

SignalGate Is Bad; But OPSEC Isn’t Even the Worst Part Of It talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/signa...

submitted 70 days ago • 56 comments

I would like to nominate Maxwell Smart for national security advisor.

submitted 71 days ago • 3119 comments

So look at that. DOGE has cost the US Treasury fucking half a trillion dollars. HALF A TRILLION DOLLARS. This is your cost savings.

submitted 73 days ago • 190 comments

One of my all-time favorites!

submitted 78 days ago • 0 comments

International travelers concerned about President Donald Trump’s trade policies and bellicose rhetoric have been canceling trips to the United States, depriving the U.S. tourism industry of billions of dollars at a time when the economy has started to appear wobbly.

submitted 79 days ago • 579 comments

It’s important to recognize the path this regime is taking us on.

submitted 80 days ago • 0 comments