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Is there anything GOOD about the Repug Big Beautiful Budget Bill? It - it eliminates health insurance for 11 million people - it cuts back on food & housing support for vulnerable folks - it sells off our federal land, parks, monuments and forests - it reduces or eliminates ……1/3

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I STILL TO THIS DAY CANNOT BELIEVE THAT TIM WALZ TOOK OVER THE ENTIRE 2024 RACE BY CALLING THEM "WEIRDOS" AND IT COMPLETELY DEMORALIZED THEM AND THEN THEY JUST STOPPED DOING IT

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Trump says you peasants are spending too much time at home with your families

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My friend and former Wall Street Journal colleague John Harwood on why Trump’s cuts to medical research feel personal. open.substack.com/pub/zeteo/p/...

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Trump is cutting National Cancer Institute funding by $2.7B in the name of “saving taxpayer dollars.” John Harwood points out that Trump’s tax cuts for billionaires are 18 times that amount. But unlike billionaire tax cuts, federally funded research is a “return on investment for the entire country.

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“Trump Is Objectively Bad for America. Why Won't More Journalists Say So?” - John Harwood for Zeteo ‬⁩

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#Ukraine #UkrainianView

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U.S. Steel is now a wholly owned subsidiary of Nippon Steel, though the U.S. government has a "golden share" that gives it a degree of control over the American steel-maker.

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America now has a socialist president. Taco allowed the sale of US Steel to Nippon Steel, while granting himself a 'golden share' that gives him some control. Deals like these have been struck down in Europe because it violates the free market. Very Republican. finance.yahoo.com/news/golden-...

submitted 23 hours ago • 4 comments

To explains: the Trump-Nippon deal gives him a golden share. It’s what fascists use, historically, to co-opt unions. USW are a great union.

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Trump says he'll withhold federal assistance from states that didn't vote for him. So for those of you in the back, he means only Red States get socialism.

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Trump just made the biggest socialized move ever with Nippon Steel , all while bitching about the perils of socialism. (Accuse your enemies of what you are actually doing.)

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#ResistanceUnited "Flirts" with socialism? Are you kidding me? Telling retailers and automakers where to set prices? The perpetual "golden share" in U.S. steel, with veto power over its business decisions? Trump is acting like Stalin in a cheap suit. qz.com/trump-tariff...

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this is deliberate, it’s not vance being clumsily racist and vance served with him for two years, he’s deliberately invoking josé padilla because he’s a troll piece of shit

submitted 14 hours ago • 96 comments

Vance definitely did this on purpose.

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Governor @GavinNewsom’s social media team is ready for @JDVance

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🧵The 5th Circuit Court of Appeals just delivered a reality check to Louisiana lawmakers, unanimously striking down the law forcing the 10 Commandments into every public school classroom. 🔥 The judges didn’t mince words—this mandate is “plainly unconstitutional,” trampling the.. tinyurl.com/bdhm2tjs

submitted 15 hours ago • 22 comments

Now this is political theater.

submitted 19 hours ago • 153 comments

1 of 21/ Body Language Analysis No.4773: 'Jaws' 50th Anniversary – Acting "You're Gonna Need a Bigger Boat" – vs. A Real Shark Encounter on a Paddle Board – Nonverbal and Emotional Intelligence www.youtube.com/watch?v=2I91...

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Jim Justice said about Medicaid work requirements: "Biblically, we are supposed to work." Justice inherited his coal mining business and is deeply in debt. meanwhile, 62 percent of Medicaid recipients in his state already work. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

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The Senate's version of Trump's big, ugly bill enacts even stricter Medicaid work requirements. Make no mistake: Medicaid work requirements don't put people to work. They kick people off their health coverage — all to fund tax cuts for the rich. www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzMq...

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Walmart might not raise every price by the amount of the tariff, but they aren't going to let their profitability suffer. Their shareholders demand profit maximization and that means passing along tariffs to the fullest extent possible without losing too many sales.

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You might be getting bored of tariff talk but the rubber is going to hit the road in the coming months as price increases hit. Walmart tells investors that it's raising prices later this month. And inflation expectations have shot up a shocking amount in the Michigan consumer survey released today.

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Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C, a member of the Senate Finance Committee, says CBO was “wrong” in its projections about tax cuts in the 1930s and the 1960s. As it turns out, CBO didn’t exist until 1974. x.com/senatortimsc...

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LISTEN as GOP Sen. Johnson admits the GOP tax scam will increase the deficit by $4 trillion with the Big Beautiful Bill, and that Medicaid will be cut: "Now what are you going to cut? Medicaid, absolutely" #TrumpsBillWillKill

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Low-income kids stand to lose big as GOP's 'Big Beautiful Bill' slashes health care, food aid, and financial support to fund tax cuts for the wealthy. House Speaker Johnson and allies play a cruel shell game, hiding cuts behind hollow promises.

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Rep. Jasmine Crockett is what leadership should look like: brilliant, bold, compassionate—and always ready to punch back with power and purpose. In a time of chaos, she’s clarity. Don’t miss her one-on-one with Katie Couric. This is must-watch. @repjasmine.bsky.social

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Spot the logical fallacy: Iowans, you are hereby BANNED from watering your lawn because farmers growing corn for ethanol are sending too much nitrogen fertilizer into your drinking water and voluntary programs put in place decades ago for them aren’t working. insideclimatenews.org/news/1906202...

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The Supreme Court's bias toward corporate interests is persistent, pervasive, and exhaustively documented. But it is still extraordinary to hear a sitting justice bluntly call it out and castigate her colleagues for consistently twisting the rules in favor of big business. slate.com/news-and-pol...

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turns out climate change will cost dramatically more than economists predicted, and the cost of addressing it is actually negative. oops! prospect.org/environment/...

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Swalwell: You were promised lower prices on day one. How many of you are feeling those lower prices? You were promised an end to all wars on day one. How many of you have seen an end to those wars? Donald Trump is 0 for 150. He made those promises on day one—and now we’re on day 150.

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The program helps SNAP users stretch their benefits and make healthier choices — yet it’s unclear whether lawmakers fully understand what they’re eliminating.

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I teach this in my food studies classes. SNAP is a powerhouse social program. (Quiz: Guess who lobbies for SNAP? Corporate grocers like WalMart. They reap profits from SNAP spending in their stores and their workforce depends on those benefits because their wages are so low)

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Most Americans will never get to ask billionaires like Education Secretary Linda McMahon, “what do you need a tax cut for?” So I asked. Republican officials may think that’s rude. But we deserve to know.

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UPDATE — At least 37 members of Congress have now signed on to efforts against the Trump-Vance administration's moves towards war on Iran. +5 since yesterday. A new Economist/YouGov poll shows Americans strongly disapprove of US involvement in the conflict between Israel and Iran: 16-60

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YOUR voice did this www.upi.com/Top_News/US/... Judge blocks Trump's efforts to ban foreign students at Harvard - UPI.com

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Earlier this week, I was told that at least one PI at Harvard recently received a message rescinding a stop work order the PI previously received earlier this year. And now there’s this. 👀

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🚨NEW: Federal Judge Allison Burroughs has blocked the Trump Administration from prohibiting Harvard from hosting international students. REPOST to thank Judge Burroughs for standing up for our democracy!

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Trump: They should give me the Nobel prize for Rwanda and have you looked at the Congo? You could say Serbia. You could say a lot of them. The big one is India and Pakistan. I should have gotten it four or five times. They won't give it because they only give it to liberals.

submitted 18 hours ago • 1001 comments

What's in the Trump/GOP big, beautiful bill? -Tax cuts skewed to the rich -Medicaid & SNAP cuts -Ends IRS Direct File -New powers for Trump over the courts -Blocks state/local regulation against AI, including rent-gouging software like RealPage It's a big, ugly nightmare.

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The 'Big Beautiful Bill' keeps getting uglier:

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holy shit. Cuomo halted an investigation into the Weinstein case after a donation from Weinstein’s former lawyer’s firm to his reelection campaign… guys, this was in 2018 AFTER the Weinstein exposés (multiple) had been published & the #metoo movement was ascendant

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I love this. You’ll probably love it too. These J6 bounty hunter punks cosplaying as ICE agents think they have the upperhand everywhere. Drunk on power, but nope. They’re cowards.

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The thing about the Khalil case is that it's very very good that he's free now but you can't have it take three months between "the government kidnaps you off the street for no basis reason whatsoever" and "a judge makes them let you go." You just can't.

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1. Former President Bill Clinton: “Mr. Netanyahu has long wanted to fight Iran because that way he can stay in office forever and ever….”

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