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Mark Warner: "It will move us as a nation aback to the same percentage of uninsured we had before Obamacare. It's not like these people are not gonna get sick. They're gonna show up at the emergency room. Rural hospitals are gonna shut down ... it's cruel"

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The 35 richest Republican members of Congress have a net worth of $2.5 billion. They stand to gain from the GOP budget's tax cuts that disproportionately help the rich. Meanwhile, they're cutting Medicaid and food assistance for millions of their constituents.

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I want to remind all of you anti-alcohol Christians that in The Bible Jesus is the leading cause of drinking at parties.

submitted 5 days ago • 58 comments

A house divided against itself cannot stand. But it can stagger forward, drunkenly, punching itself, for a couple of centuries.

submitted 5 days ago • 20 comments

Trump's 'Big Brutal Bill' will give ICE a larger operating budget than the entire U.S. Marine Corps. So this is basically a workaround for Trump to violate the Posse Comitatus Act, which bans the military from civilian law enforcement.

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The Republic is effectively no longer alive. This is going to be the darkest and ugliest period of our lives and it will have been because of the fact that our fellow Americans voted for it to happen.

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Since bombing Iran didn’t distract us from... -polls -sad parades -No Kings Protests -Nat’l Guard deployed to 4 blocks in LA -richest man on Earth calling him a pedo I can’t WAIT to see how he tries to distract us from bombing Iran. Now on Substack: johnfugelsang.substack.com/p/world-war-...

submitted 4 days ago • 35 comments

Time to pick a side, America. Is this the future you want for us?

submitted 4 days ago • 324 comments

Zohran Mamdani won because people are sick of: 1. Calculate-and-play-it-safe Democrats; 2. Christian Nationalism; 3. Republican xenophobia and their ICE Gestapo; 4. MAGA’s islamophobia; and 5. Politicians who talk about culture wars instead of the issues that affect ordinary people.

submitted 4 days ago • 153 comments

MUST SEE: Congresswoman Schrier nails conspiracy theorist and unfortunate HHS Secretary, RFK Jr., on the value of vaccines—and it’s glorious. Schrier also happens to be the first pediatrician in Congress.

submitted 5 days ago • 630 comments

This is madness. Political entry screenings…

submitted 4 days ago • 345 comments

Since May: Federal district courts have ruled against Trump admin 94% of the time. Supreme Court has sided with the Trump admin 94% of the time. A judiciary at war with itself.

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"What Democrats Must Learn From Zohran Mamdani's Historic Win" Like Zohran Mamdani, @katmabu.bsky.social is a Gen-Z Democrat running against the status quo and believes the Democratic establishment must evolve and embrace Mamdani's win to stay relevant. thelefthook.substack.com/p/what-democ...

submitted 4 days ago • 28 comments

I would love to see them give the Nobel Peace Prize to President Zelenskyy, if for no other reason to see trump turn purple with envy. I'm sure I would pass out laughing.

submitted 4 days ago • 139 comments

There’s a mass shooting and Trump says to get over it. The GOP strips away Medicaid and McConnell says we’ll get over it. You know what? We won’t get over it. It took 43 years to get an apology for what they did to the Japanese American community. But we got one. We will persist. Count on it.

submitted 5 days ago • 209 comments

Everyone needs to start reporting ICE agents are Iranian sleeper cells.

submitted 5 days ago • 423 comments

Here's a photo of the current head of the CP3 office in Homeland Security at his previous job that prepared him for his current role. Sleep well America.

submitted 6 days ago • 271 comments

RUIZ: Did you read the report & fact-check its sources prior to publication? RFK JR: I did not fact check RUIZ: It included citations to sources that don't exist. How does that happen? RFK JR: All of the foundational assertions are accurate RUIZ: They did not exist. How can they be accurate?

submitted 5 days ago • 834 comments

You can’t make this shit up. newrepublic.com/post/197119/...

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A 58-year-old man in Virginia may spend the rest of his life behind bars for following and shooting two Latino men because he was "pissed" about "illegal immigration," and immigrants receiving welfare. So much hate. Where does it come from? lawandcrime.com/crime/man-ob...

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New from 404 Media: 'FuckLAPD.com' is a website that lets anyone use facial recognition to instantly identify cops. Point camera, take photo, upload to site. It provides their name and salary information. Creator also rebooting their tool for identifying ICE employees www.404media.co/fucklapd-com...

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The last few days have truly been a low point for the American news media. And it’s all because journalists in this country—and their corporate masters—lack the courage to say what they all know and say endlessly in private: That Trump is stupid, and nuts.

submitted 5 days ago • 206 comments

💯

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Who, I ask you, besides everyone on Earth, could have foreseen this?

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Personally I would just stay out of Austin until these death machines are taken off the road as they should be The tech is not there yet, so it’s just a matter of time until someone in Austin dies simply to give Elon Musk a little more research on how to tweak a product he surely knows is dangerous

submitted 6 days ago • 47 comments

Anyone else sick of legacy media trying to be first instead of trying to be accurate?

submitted 6 days ago • 176 comments

Florida is building a new migrant detention center nicknamed “Alligator Alcatraz,” converting an airfield deep in the Everglades into one of the Trump administration’s most ominous additions to its immigration crackdown. FDT!

submitted 6 days ago • 252 comments

We're all gonna die.

submitted 6 days ago • 144 comments

An important repost for today

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AOC: Being taken is wrong, it is illegal, it is a violation of his First Amendment rights, it is an affront to every American, and we will not allow—and will continue to resist—the politicization and the continued political persecution that ICE is engaged in.

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HIRONO: If ordered by the president to shoot peaceful protesters in the legs, would you carry it out? HEGSETH: Of course I reject the premise of your question HIRONO: Considering that the president in his first term actually ordered such a thing, it's not a premise you can reject

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Hegseth should be removed for this comment alone. The deployment of US troops against our own citizens should be an unquestionable boundary we never cross.

submitted 11 days ago • 46 comments

NOTE TO MY FELLOW AMERICANS: Regime change starts at home.

submitted 11 days ago • 322 comments

"These tax cuts will pay for themselves" is one of the GOP's most popular—and biggest—lies.

submitted 11 days ago • 171 comments

Reagan-era judge finally calls out the wildly obvious racism in the DOGE cuts to the NIH

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Hahaha

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Acosta: He can try to roll tanks down Pennsylvania Avenue and all of that—Hegseth can show up in a camouflage tie he got at the Gap—but at the end of the day, the real American strength, the real American might that was on display over the weekend, was in those No Kings protests across the country.

submitted 12 days ago • 119 comments

You know your country is over when elected officials are getting murdered in their homes.

submitted 12 days ago • 368 comments

For Real 👇👇

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The 25th Amendment exists.

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“OK, Boomer” just got flipped on its head. At protests across the country this past weekend, older Americans turned out in force, leading chants, waving signs and showing that resistance has no age limit. And their passion isn’t just inspiring. It might be what helps save democracy.