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"People will not lose their Medicaid if they can overcome an impossible obstacle course of administrative burdens we are imposing precisely because we know people can't overcome them" - would be more accurate, but less catchy. 🧵

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very notable how Fox turns every antisemitic act of violence into a way to push for Ilhan Omar's expulsion from Congress

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The grasshopper gets it — divide and conquer. Today’s robber barons use the same playbook. But together, we have all the power. Watch.

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The Trump administration is turning the Employment Opportunity Commission, an agency created to aid marginalized groups in the Civil Rights era, into a “grievance apparatus” for straight, white, Christian men. This week on Reveal:

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Mentions on this morning's Fox & Friends Medicaid: 1 Biden: 39

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Weather Service offices in Miami, Jacksonville, Puerto Rico and Houston “lack at least a third of all the meteorologists required... “The Nat’l Hurricane Center is short 5 specialists, despite assurances from the Trump administration that it is fully staffed.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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A case for the horror of Trump’s military parade being far worse than we’re describing it. In retrospect, it could be called the ceremonial start of U.S. fascism. 🥺 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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NEW: Important Context spoke with a dozen people working at NIH about Director Jay Bhattacharya. The descriptions were universally unflattering, painting the health economist as ineffectual, dishonest, ideological, arrogant, and uncommitted to science. www.importantcontext.news/p/out-of-his...

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If you’re wondering if US climate researchers are freaking out, yeah they’re freaking out.

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“An unforced error of potentially epic proportions” @adamratnermd.bsky.social on RFK Jr’s decision to cancel funding for Moderna’s mRNA bird flu project www.thebulwark.com/p/rkf-jr-ken...

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Donald’s DOJ scheming to pardon Whitmer kidnappers is an open declaration of war by the #GOP against citizens and justice. Elevating domestic terrorists above the law proves their party has become a fascist insurgency bent on shredding democracy. www.rawstory.com/doj...

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Russell Vought, acting head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, has canceled plans to introduce new rules designed to limit the ability of US data brokers to sell Americans’ most sensitive data, credit history, and Social Security numbers.

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Most of the apple juice Americans drink is imported, with a large share coming from China. Experts say families should expect to start paying higher prices for the beloved beverage. www.wired.com/story/apple-...

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Donald Trump says he's considering Nazi loving Stephen Miller as for National Security Advisor. (Reuters)

submitted 32 days ago • 61 comments

Dictator Donald watched a movie and decided to resurrect Alcatraz; a senile demigod mistaking cinema for statecraft. The GOP now worships a creature whose whims flow not from law but late-night reruns; a party lost to madness and theatrical tyranny. www.rawstory.com/don...

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Dictator Donald, enshrouded in senility and spite, declares a lunatic tariff on foreign films, mistaking art for war. Within hours, his handlers scramble to retract the madness; the regime stumbles, again, trapped in its own babbling void of incoherence. www.rawstory.com/tru...

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www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/05/dona...

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As de facto president, he's already commander-in-chief

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Fox News' Jesse Watters met with "the DOGE boys" for their "nightly meeting," including... Big Balls. The meeting was led by Elon Musk, who the DOJ has insisted in court does not lead DOGE. I did not see Amy Gleason at the meeting. cc: @annabower.bsky.social

submitted 35 days ago • 34 comments

He’s working his way up to Deputy Führer

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Donald Trump and Elon Musk have left Houston, Tampa, New York and other major cities without head meteorologists just ahead of what will be another busy hurricane season This is straight-up life-threatening malpractice (h/t @lisamjarvis.bsky.social ) www.cnn.com/2025/05/02/w...

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This is the story of a pathological liar who was immunized by the Supreme Court, is drunk on power and thinks a journalist should not confront his obvious lies. It’s all there in a two-minute exchange about an obviously fabricated photo. www.americaamerica.news/p/trumps-ris...

submitted 35 days ago • 72 comments

NPR did a 30-minute interview with Steve Bannon in his podcast studio that aired just yesterday. PBS had on Chris Rufo tonight. Cozying up to these fucks won’t save you.

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In Reagan's 1980s, America had just 35 undocumented immigrants behind bars. Today, nearly 48,000 sit in squalid detention, many thrown there by a mask-wearing U.S. secret police that smashes homes, cars and violates human rights It's time to abolish ICE. My column www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-...

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All By Himself John Fetterman insists he is in good health. But staffers past and present say they no longer recognize the man they once knew. No paywall link: archive.is/lNHNh

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"American officials have now been explicitly asked to make lists of their contacts with other Americans, for no practical, legal, or national-security reason" Read @theatlantic.com on a State Dept witch hunt www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

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New in PN: Trump's brain is gone "Trump’s competence has always left a lot to be desired, but recent interviews show a president who’s no longer capable of even the veneer of mental acuity. Meanwhile, his party behaves like courtiers to a mad king."

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trump wants to make america segregated again apnews.com/article/scho...

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btw its pretty gross to look at the raw feed for the daily presidential briefing and watch the press laugh it up with karoline leavitt every day

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Larry David writing a NYT guest essay as a man having dinner with Hitler, just to roast Bill Maher as a smug, self-important clown, is the stuff of comedy legend. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/o...

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Excellent piece by Brian Klass

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And no one in America doubts why he's doing this.

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BREAKING: A federal appeals court has given the greenlight for the Trump administration to terminate probationary employees, lifting the last remaining block. 2-1 decision. s3.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

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Trump's tariffs are about to trigger a brutal reality check. As prices soar and the market crashes, his soft 2024 supporters—those who bought the “good for the economy” myth—are poised to bail. Loyalty evaporates when dinner costs double and retirement shrinks. The reckoning is near. 1/2

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I can hear the screaming, @djrothkopf.bsky.social

submitted 63 days ago • 14 comments

This is what our money is going to look like if Congress doesn’t start tapping the brakes. Also, 5 million dollars in Trump bills will buy a dozen eggs.

submitted 63 days ago • 27 comments

Big ups to the Columbia trustees and administrators who convinced these absolute cretins they had the recipe to destroy American higher education.

submitted 63 days ago • 65 comments

You don’t say ….

submitted 64 days ago • 270 comments

"nothing could have prepared us for the breadth or intensity of the assault on climate action that Trump has unleashed during his first months back in office." I know it's hard to keep Trump's horrors straight, but in the fullness of history, this is likely to be seen as the worst.

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Jeffries: The notion that everyday Americans need to absorb pain brought on by Donald Trump and his group of MAGA billionaires is ridiculous. Every single House and Senate Republican supporting this needs to be thrown out of office.

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Bezos has done some amazing things with this editorial page.

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cant imagine why eugene robinson and co dont want to write alongside this

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In 2024, four women held four-star ranks in the military — the highest levels of the armed forces. Only 10 women have held the highest rank in their military branches in history. Now, there are none. Of the four women, two of them retired and two were ousted. bit.ly/4i1EWUO

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Former Costa Rican President and Nobel Prize winner Oscar Arias said that the US had revoked his visa to enter the country, weeks after he criticized US President Donald Trump on social media saying he was behaving like ‘a Roman emperor’ reut.rs/4iRDMfK

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To calculate the correct tariff numbers, the administration took the number of years Trump has been a criminal, divided it by the number of women he's sexually assaulted, and multiplied it by his number of wives. Hey, it works as well as ivermectin on covid. www.salon.com/2025/04/03/t...

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