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Never thought as a former writing professor, I would be giving economics lessons to the Commerce Secretary, but here we are. Trump's chaotic tariffs are rooted in an arbitrary fear of a trade deficit, but a trade deficit means Americans are buying goods — a sign of financial security.

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this is amazing

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Masked ICE thugs terrorized Chicago yesterday. They lied to immigrants waiting for their court hearing by summoning them for “surprise check-ins” and then assaulted protesters and elected officials. THIS IS WHAT FASCISM LOOKS LIKE.

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Weatherman warns we "may be flying blind" into hurricane season because of Trump cuts

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The Trump administration is now arresting and detaining innocent legal residents who have lived in the United States for over half a century. Some have lived here longer than Stephen Miller has been alive.

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42,500 deaths annually. That's the number projected by a Yale study on the loss of Medicaid coverage due to Trump's disgusting abomination bill.

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1/2 Today in Minneapolis, ICE/FBI raided a taco restaurant, yes, you read that correctly, a taco restaurant, dressed in full battle gear—long guns, body armor, the whole damn militarized show. Do they think they’re in a war zone? This is about instilling terror, rooted in racism. It won’t work.

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“Without the threat of contempt, legal experts say the Trump administration could ignore court orders with impunity.” Project 2025 was once a secret. Now it’s being written into our country. www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

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Trump Nazi’s terrorizing Americans

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‪Thank you @ivancoyote.bsky.social

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BREAKING: The new head of FEMA told staff he did not know that the United States had a hurricane season. Yes, I am serious. www.reuters.com/world/us/fem...

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No one is safe from the American Nazis. No one. (If you don’t like this assessment, scroll on by) www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-a...

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Musk Blows Up Online as ‘Ketamine’ Dinner Clip Resurfaces #StopElonMusk www.yahoo.com/news/musk-bl...

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People so often overlook the importance of good penmanship.

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🧵 ICE AIR FLIGHTS—1 JUN 2025 🐰🐇 Sunday morning shuffle underway:

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if it takes years, has to be consequences for all these people, and even more for those who gave the orders.

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Joni Ernst is a POS: "Illegals" don't get Medicaid benefits. Medicaid is not money mailed to people. Medicaid PAYS health bills. My mom's memory care was paid for by Medicaid. And it's HARD as HELL to qualify. Undocumented people sometimes pay IN thru taxes. They do NOT get friggin' benefits. Bitch.

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The king…. Over 900 pages and they snuck this fucking bullshit in there? The current GOP US Representatives are the most gutless bastards to ever serve in Congress. Maybe some during Andrew Johnson’s term were pretty terrible but holy shit!! Talk about abdicating your Constitutional duties…

submitted 8 days ago • 3 comments

This shit totally belongs to the Jerry Springer show 😭... high as a kite, white trash fathering collectively 19 children with 7 women.

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You first, Joni!

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People, please listen to the doctors and scientists at the CDC rather than the brain worm guy, who was addicted to heroin and prefers to swim in raw sewage! This is literally a no brainer! #ProudBlue

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At a town hall meeting, Iowan constituents voiced concerns that people will die without SNAP & Medicaid. Senator Joni Ernst replied: “Well, we all are going to die" They aren't working for us and they're being very open about it. #MomSky www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/u...

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And by deflecting to his rant about NYT's Pulitzer, Musk also avoids answering any question about his drug use

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How am I just hearing about this Congresswoman? Lateefah Simon is on FIRE! She reminds me of a mix between Jasmine Crockett and Katie Porter with her energy.

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Internal documents revealed that Trump and Musk have been LYING about Social Security fraud. So I sounded the alarm about DOGE slowing down Americans' benefits based on those lies—and they backtracked. We're not letting DOGE get away with messing with Americans benefits.

submitted 6 days ago • 98 comments

The new GOP slogan (thank you, Joni Ernst.)

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Americans are rightfully worried that they are going to die if Medicaid and Medicare are slashed by Rs. Joanie Ernst response to that at a TH was “we’re all going to die”. The callousness of her response is the same as other Rs. They don’t care if we die so long as they get their tax cuts. #MomSky

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Trump’s administration is putting zip ties on children. These babies dressed to go with their mom to court, bc she was doing the LAWFUL thing & our government ZIP TIED them 😩 I don’t want my tax dollars paying for babies to be zip tied, do you? It was never about protecting us from criminals.

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In one case, the supposed author of a study on anxiety in adolescents, epidemiologist Katherine Keyes, was surprised to find she was cited in the report for a paper she didn’t even write. https://trib.al/CMJb1j0

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This trash is one of my Senators. She won’t show up to a public meeting in any major city and hasn’t for years. Zach Wahls is running against her!

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Trump and the GOP's “big ugly bill” will increase the average family’s student loan payment by $400 a month. Hands Off Public Schools

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Hmmm….. he makes the stupid decision to dismantle the pandemic planning and response team in 2018 then Covid 19 popped up. This latest move doesn’t bode well for our health. Link in he comments.

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At least seven of the cited sources in the ‘MAHA report’ do not even actually exist. For example, the document listed epidemiologist Katherine Keyes as first author of a study on anxiety in adolescents… “The paper cited is not a real paper that I or my colleagues were involved with,” Keyes said.

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Doctors, who rely on a contraception team's guidance at the CDC, will no longer have access to the team's updated critical research. My latest discusses the shocking and deadly impact of leaving doctors and women without any new, credible data. shero.substack.com/p/cdc-cuts-o...

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The war on science and expertise is now in full swing.

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Claremont fellow Scott Yenor via Claremont’s The American Mind seeks to reassure conservative women w/ jobs (eg, Megyn Kelley) that “tradwives” can have “side-hustles.” 🙄 Yenor belongs to a secretive Christian men’s society started by Charles Haywood who explicitly advocates sex discrimination. 1/

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Prison for miscarriages. A woman miscarried in a fast food restaurant. She was arrested, her bail set at $100,000, which she didn’t have so they let her rot in jail for five months, while they determined that she did indeed have a miscarriage and didn’t do anything to cause it.

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Yes!

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#FoodIsAHumanRight

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“I’m a citizen!”

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#GVerse #BreakingNews: In a shocking development, it has been revealed that the White House is deleting ALL of the #OrangeBuffoon's Transcripts, especially those that have damning proof of his rapid cognitive decline. This needs to be a bigger story. This is ILLEGAL! #ImpeachTrump Repost...

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The president didn't seem to have read the order he was about to sign after he asked a business leader what it included.

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Corruption on a massive scale, all in plain sight. The GOP is too craven and greedy for its own tax breaks to call it out.

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