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Congressional Republicans killed Donald Trump's bill because it wasn't cruel enough — and now it's apparently just right. Hundreds of thousands of Illinoisans could lose access to their health care. What's big and beautiful about that?

submitted 12 days ago • 40 comments

We've seen videos like this before, but usually when you see a tearful wife pleading with the kidnappers who have taken her husband, she's not talking to the U.S. president

submitted 48 days ago • 191 comments

Forcing people to pay $130 for a passport in order to vote is just a Jim Crow poll tax by another name. It is blatantly unconstitutional.

submitted 53 days ago • 1517 comments

Trump says he’ll use revenue from tariffs to “offset” more big tax cuts. Those tax cuts will disproportionately benefit wealthy Americans and big corporations. But revenue raised from tariffs will be coming disproportionately from average working people. See how this works?

submitted 60 days ago • 214 comments

Trump circumvented Congress on tariffs by declaring a Fentanyl emergency. A handful of Republicans in Congress can stop the tariffs by joining with Democrats. Call your electeds and tell them.

submitted 60 days ago • 161 comments

This is like the Minnesota Vikings using footage of the Chicago Bears to sell tickets.

submitted 61 days ago • 2 comments

“As you watch your retirement savings plummet -- remember that Republicans in Congress could stop all of Trump's insane tariff taxes with a single vote. And they're choosing not to.”— Tristan Snell #BlueSky #MedSky

submitted 60 days ago • 20 comments

Groups across the country have received letters notifying them that their grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities have been canceled, raising alarms about serious harm to museums, historical sites, and a wide range of community projects.

submitted 60 days ago • 442 comments

If one mentally defective con man is capable of destroying the global economy, I'm going to suggest the system needs to be fixed.

submitted 61 days ago • 1 comment

The only person who benefits from the dismantling of the US government is Vladimir Putin.

submitted 62 days ago • 167 comments

Unidentified men grabbing someone off the street and putting her in a car because she wrote an op-Ed. This as flatly authoritarian as anything we’ve seen in this country in a very long time.

submitted 69 days ago • 1904 comments