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An astonishingly hypocritical opinion. Giving Trump the right to install agency heads who will have the incentive and power to destroy the agencies is not “insulation”. - Supreme Court insulates Fed board while backing Trump firing of agency leaders - CNBC

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Actual news story or SNL spoof? You decide. Trump appoints Fox News host Jeanine Pirro as top prosecutor in D.C. - ABC News

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If a democratic president would have targeted law firms like Trump did, the GOP would have sacked the Capitol. Again

submitted 22 days ago • 165 comments

So we keep hearing “guns are not the problem, the problem is mental health” so that will be addressed by cutting help for mental health problems. Good policy decision “Education Department to cut $1 billion in school mental health funding over DEI” - The Hill

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Funny how the paperwork only matters when it’s a woman or minority voter.

submitted 30 days ago • 734 comments

In a way, it is kinda poetic that the country's inability to accept a black woman directly led to its downfall as a global power

submitted 46 days ago • 88 comments

Seriously

submitted 46 days ago • 90 comments

Episode 287 in the ongoing series “I don’t know the face eating leopard would eat MY face.”

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This is certainly consistent with a strong campaign against waste, fraud, and abuse. “Justice Dept. says it will pull back on litigating cryptocurrency fraud”

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Senator Jim Banks (R) isn’t sorry he told a fired federal worker “he probably deserved it”. He went on to say the worker was “complaining about losing a left-wing woke job in the federal government that should have never been a job to begin with”. The job was helping people with disabilities.

submitted 51 days ago • 1439 comments

A reminder of what Trump inherited from Biden.

submitted 51 days ago • 63 comments

It is very difficult to hold onto the belief that big business is data driven when big business continues to vote as though the economy is better under Republican presidents than under Democratic ones

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“If Harris wins this election, the result will be a Kamala economic crash. .. A 1929-style depression. When I win the election, we will immediately begin a brand new Trump economic boom.” - Trump, 8/14/24

submitted 52 days ago • 119 comments

Then I’m sure they won’t be asking for government subsidies to compensate for the impacts tariffs have on them.

submitted 51 days ago • 2520 comments

The very definition of “too much wealth” - losing $15.9B in one day and still having 10-20 times that amount.

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TRUMP DITCHES FALLEN SOLDIERS' DIGNIFIED TRANSFER FOR GOLF DINNER Trump won't attend the dignified transfer of 4 U.S. soldiers at Dover AFB who died in Lithuania. He'll be at his Saudi-backed LIV Golf dinner in Florida instead. The soldiers were honored by Lithuania's president.

submitted 51 days ago • 1217 comments

Good for ADL. Normalizing masked men in unmarked cars grabbing people off the street and disappearing them is never a good thing for the Jews. And especially bad for Jews if being justified as being done on our behalf.

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Trump’s team posted a fake image of Trump with Brad Schimel replacing Mike Pence from a 2016 photo from Day 3 of the RNC.

submitted 53 days ago • 121 comments

In a world of Chuck Schumer and John Fetterman, be a Cory Booker.

submitted 54 days ago • 71 comments

“Jewish females, with the double woke whammy of being both women and a religious minority, have been written out of the Academy’s history.” www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

submitted 54 days ago • 204 comments

This is not an exaggeration: illegally gutting this program will cause Americans to freeze to death in their homes.

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I believe the line is: “Lock them up! Lock them up! www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec... Waltz and staff used Gmail for government communications, officials say By John Hudson www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

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Kill a white millionaire, get the death penalty. Kill two black protesters, get invited to CPAC to be celebrated.

submitted 54 days ago • 1254 comments

This is the gold standard for predicting GDP growth. After record growth under four years of Biden, Trump has the country headed the wrong way in just a couple months.

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In the deportation case ACLU asserts what I had believed to be the case: USG has never invoked state secrets to prevent a judge from knowing what he needs to know to enforce his own orders. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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We all know that if Obama had invited a Black rapper covered in bling to stand next to him as he signed an executive order in the Oval Office, rightwing media would have lost their minds. That’s what white supremacy is all about. One spoken rule for me, another spoken one for you.

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This is (a) wildly wrong on the facts and (b) dangerously wrong on the conclusion, in that this zealot is running for a spot on the Wisconsin state Supreme Court.

submitted 55 days ago • 160 comments

In one low-income Phoenix ZIP code, ProPublica estimates that only one voucher was used per 100 kids. That’s compared to a wealthy ZIP code where an estimated 28 vouchers were used per 100 kids. (Published Oct. 2024)

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I’m Jewish. My wife is an ex-Soviet Jewish refugee who was born in Ukraine and moved here as a child. Those who ally with Charlottesville neo-nazis, proud boys, Christian nationalists and all the other white supremacists don’t get to hide behind my people to justify dismantling our society.

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This is why it’s important to record, broadcast and share these abductions whenever possible. As in BLM, the disconnect between what “most Americans” think is happening and what is actually being done in their name is severe. But when it finally breaks through, the effects will be significant.

submitted 55 days ago • 27 comments

Trump admin lawyers offer opaque claims about efforts to preserve Signalgate messages found on phones of Hegseth, Gabbard, Ratcliffe and Rubio. The euphemisms are particularly 🤌🏻 “residual administrative content.”

submitted 55 days ago • 32 comments

This—what Trump is doing now in trying to destroy American universities, research, and free speech while blaming it on pretend offense to the Jews is certainly the most profoundly antisemitic act I’ve seen from US government in my lifetime.

submitted 54 days ago • 31 comments

Sorry, liberals, the United States is not an oligarchic democracy, it’s an oligarchic republic.

submitted 54 days ago • 258 comments

The inspector general. Come ON.

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the constitution isn’t is a word game and the fact that you can abuse the language to produce an outcome does not mean the constitution allows that outcome. the 22nd amendment was ratified to restrict a president to two terms in office, period. that is what it does.

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Koh: If you're going to come after the Biden administration on jobs, Biden created 15 million jobs more than many presidents in modern history with the IRA, with the infrastructure bill, including the bridge in Kentucky, which Mitch McConnell signed off on and was at the groundbreaking.

submitted 54 days ago • 108 comments

Father of the Year he is not

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NEW: In a court filing this evening, the Trump administration said that it had mistakenly deported a Maryland father to a notorious Salvadoran prison due to an "administrative error." www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

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Doge : hey if we let repressive regimes know exactly who's been taking money from the US government for decades in their countries that's fine right

submitted 56 days ago • 9 comments

The 1% evade $163B in taxes per year. Tesla paid $0 in federal income taxes from 2018 - 2022 & 2024. Billionaires can write off the cost of their private jets and yachts. While undocumented immigrants paid $96B in taxes in 2022. The more you look into it, the crazier it gets.

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As of Friday, there have been 46 cases in which federal judges have blocked Trump policies. The rulings in those cases have come from 39 different judges appointed by 5 different presidents (of both parties) to 11 different district courts across 7 different circuits. Maybe it's not the judges?

submitted 56 days ago • 185 comments

So we could lose $200B in tourism, $100B in immigrants paying taxes, $100B in weapons manufacturing, $500B in lost tax revenue from firing IRS employees… is it sinking in yet?

submitted 57 days ago • 1465 comments

Two kids braver than two of the biggest and richest law firms in the U.S.

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