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🦋 Big Ugly Bill: Destructive $100 million in just 25 seconds Allows Project 2025 architect, Russell Vought, to proceed with sweeping changes to the federal workforce - including those stalled by federal judges - without approval from Congress Newly added by Senate Governmental Affairs Committee 🦋

submitted 9 hours ago • 6 comments

The concern here extends beyond the ruling itself. SCOTUS picks the cases it wants to hear. It's had numerous opportunities to address the constitutionality of nationwide injunctions. So why this case? What does it foreshadow? open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

submitted 2 hours ago • 69 comments

🦋 Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT): "President Trump's so-called Big Beautiful Bill is the most dangerous piece of legislation in the modern history of our country" 🦋 #Vermont #Bernie

submitted 4 hours ago • 0 comments

www.thewrap.com/ice-raids-in...

submitted 2 hours ago • 24 comments

ICE is doing exactly what we thought they would. The BBB gives them more money to do more terrible stuff

submitted 5 hours ago • 174 comments

Karma. She's quick. Here's looking at you, Murkowski.

submitted 7 hours ago • 370 comments

Senate interrupted by someone screaming: You people are awful

submitted 5 hours ago • 742 comments

So what seems clear from the intel, is that we probably should have reloaded the B2s, and gone for a second round. Instead the impulsive toddler was desperate to have a strong ending to the movie and declare a cease fire. This is a show to him, entertainment, and he’s the “star”

submitted 4 hours ago • 729 comments

Actually what Americans just saw today was a prominent Republican US Senator announce he is quitting because he knows this budget is going to hurt millions of people and he was repeatedly threatened by the president and his cult for telling the truth about it.

submitted 4 hours ago • 205 comments

Murray: This bill polls like garbage because it is garbage. That's why it should go nowhere except a trash bin

submitted 6 hours ago • 306 comments

Lisa Murkowski and John Thune deserve this. Trying to exempt Alaska from odious parts of this bill to buy her vote is overruled by parliamentarian. www.politico.com/news/2025/06...

submitted 10 hours ago • 1159 comments

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"

submitted 13 hours ago • 459 comments

Angus: We have American officials claiming that Canada is some kind of terrorist haven. They’re saying we’re sending massive gangs of El Salvadorans over the border. I’m sorry—have you ever visited Canada? Could you show us where these El Salvadoran gangs supposedly are?

submitted 10 hours ago • 457 comments

Mamdani: "I've already had to start get used to the fact that the president will talk about how I look, how I sound, where I'm from, ultimately bc he wants to distract from what I'm fighting for. I'm fighting for the the very working people he ran a campaign to empower that he has since betrayed."

submitted 13 hours ago • 617 comments

you know, if i were in the position of interviewing jeffries here, i would ask the congressman to specify exactly when and where mamdani used that language.

submitted 14 hours ago • 607 comments

Lisa Murkowski cuts a last minute deal solely to benefit Alaska, exempting it from some of the more odious parts of the bill to secure her vote and sell out the rest of the US. Yeah this stuff sucks and hurts a lot of people, but I got Alaskans exempted so the hell with you.

submitted 15 hours ago • 1282 comments

Never bet against the Republicans' willingness to sell out after spending weeks feigning concern. It's all an act. They're all self-serving cowards who will put party over country every single time.

submitted 1 day ago • 425 comments

Take your masks off ICE, show us how proud you are adamkinzinger.substack.com/p/why-are-fe...

submitted 15 hours ago • 1520 comments

These numbers for ice are insane

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submitted 18 hours ago • 173 comments

Coming back from time off, seeing this in full and astounded by the level of gaslighting here. Shame on Karoline Leavitt. @natashabertrand.bsky.social doesn’t need my support but is a great reporter. Karoline is lying a lot here. Discussing this on my show Monday.

submitted 17 hours ago • 262 comments

poll after poll shows that Trump's big bill is very unpopular

submitted 15 hours ago • 489 comments

Good speech (gift article) wapo.st/4lt43BU

submitted 15 hours ago • 4 comments

The budget bill contains tens of billions to fund an army of 10,000 more ICE agents. This is a red alert moment for our democracy.

submitted 18 hours ago • 1074 comments

It's incredible that neither the president nor VP was here. The politicization of all facets of American life is coming from the White House. No other American president would have failed to pay their respects. www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

submitted 16 hours ago • 1943 comments

“While his win was an upset, the appeal of Mamdami’s fresh optimism should not be surprising after years and years of cynical, self-serving politicians who fail to grasp the anti-corporate fury among many Democratic voters.” www.americaamerica.news/p/is-zohran-...

submitted 1 day ago • 44 comments

law professors have been unable to understand why people are actually concerned about this case. it’s not about nationwide injunctions per se, it’s about a court that waited until the issue hurt the GOP, and then intervened on behalf of one of the most egregious constitutional violations we’ve seen

submitted 1 day ago • 254 comments

“Pope Leo XIV holding back the tears, as he hears the Our Father chanted beautifully in Ukrainian, by the faithful of the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church on pilgrimage in St. Peter’s Basilica for this Jubilee Holy Year” (Source: Catholic Sat)

submitted 1 day ago • 23 comments

A sitting U.S. Congressman is demanding the deportation of a U.S. citizen because he doesn’t like a democratic election result.

submitted 1 day ago • 396 comments

Interesting how no Democrat wants to deal with the fact that law enforcement by-and-large voted for Trump, knowing what he would do.

submitted 1 day ago • 29 comments

Omg, it me

submitted 1 day ago • 68 comments

“Maybe this mayoral race will be an opportunity to redefine what ‘socialist’ means, transforming it from a Republican slur to a commitment to expanding the common good and pursuing policies that actually serve the needs of working people.” open.substack.com/pub/america/...

submitted 1 day ago • 46 comments

*goose meme** What caused the pile-up, John. WHAT CAUSED THE PILE-UP

submitted 1 day ago • 904 comments

Remember: Ds must make this a career-ender for every R who votes for this monstrously cruel bill

submitted 1 day ago • 67 comments

1/ If Justice Barrett thinks we need to go back to what the Founding Fathers intended, I’ve got news for her. Their biggest concern was avoiding tyranny. So they created 3 branches of gov’t & divvied up the power the people (that’s us) were allowing the gov’t to use to create order for all of us.

submitted 1 day ago • 803 comments

New in PN: The MAGA mind virus "77 million Americans surrendered moments of shared humanity when they put Trump back in the White House. The tragedies that once united Americans now only further divide us. No one, including his supporters, should have expected anything else."

submitted 1 day ago • 168 comments

A Melania Trump event is being investigated after promising to donate proceeds to a charity that doesn't appear to exist, report says. They’re ALL corrupt.

submitted 1 day ago • 208 comments

It’s happening here. It’s happening:

submitted 1 day ago • 55 comments

Trump DECREED that he wants to sign the evil budget bill by July 4th. Republicans are in a crazed frenzy to try to pass the bill through both houses and get it to him. Senate will be convening at 2pm today, hoping that they can hold debate & amendment sessions in the middle of a Saturday night. 1/

submitted 1 day ago • 6 comments

Bernie to Dems:

submitted 2 days ago • 414 comments

“With fear for our democracy, I dissent.” “In sadness, I dissent.” “With deep disillusionment, I dissent.” What’s next?

submitted 2 days ago • 938 comments

This broke me from the first paragraph "For Melissa Hortman’s last day at work, they draped her coffin with pink flowers and filled the cold marble under the Minnesota Capitol dome with the green and growing things that she loved." Thank you, @stribrooks.bsky.social

submitted 2 days ago • 24 comments

I strongly agree with Elie's five-alarm-fire take. And I respectfully but firmly disagree with those who think today's disastrous decision will be fairly easy for lawyers to work around.

submitted 2 days ago • 21 comments

Spot on. This is the clearest explanation I’ve seen. It ‘s relatable, and humanizes the issue in a way everyone can understand.

submitted 2 days ago • 1266 comments

The Justice Department on Friday fired at least three prosecutors involved in U.S. Capitol riot criminal cases, the latest moves by the Trump administration targeting attorneys connected to the massive prosecution of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack. apnews.com/article/jan-...

submitted 2 days ago • 88 comments

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson? Harvard undergrad, Harvard Law, magna cum laude, cum laude, and editor of the Harvard Law Review. That’s what elite talent looks like. Charlie Kirk? Dropped out of community college. Game. Set. Match.

submitted 2 days ago • 59 comments

Nearly two-thirds of voters (64 percent) say they prefer giving most undocumented immigrants in the United States a pathway to legal status according to the most recent Quinnipiac poll. poll.qu.edu/poll-release...

submitted 2 days ago • 7 comments

"They are happy to use us as pawns for their own political purposes." Jewish mayoral candidate & Mamdani ally @bradlander.bsky.social & slams Trump & rightwingers both for their use of antisemitism to smear their opponents & their Islamophobia. My full interview: zeteo.com/p/they-use-u...

submitted 2 days ago • 38 comments

Calling out Kristi Noem and FBI director Kash Patel's bogus claims of the threat posed by Canada to the border. Canadians refuse to travel to a nation that kidnaps people and is no longer under the rule of law. youtu.be/rhWNGN4sspk?...

submitted 2 days ago • 13 comments