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So in sum, Republicans spent hours on the Senate floor waffling and cutting side deals, convinced all but two GOPers (Rand Paul + Thom Tillis) to vote to advance their tax bill and now Democrats are making the Senate clerk read aloud the entire 940-page bill to drag this out.

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I miss having a human president.

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MUST WATCH: Oceanside CA: Militarized DHS (HSI) smashed windows, assault rifles drawn, tossed flashbangs and sent drones into the apartment which had 2 kids inside. They then told neighbors they were going to use tear gas, and they’d probably be exposed. Please share widely. WTF

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The answer is either yes or no. And we all know which of those “I dont recall” is.

submitted 3 days ago • 336 comments

This discussion is beyond belief - so smug, so arrogant - a shamefully thin attempt to “sum up” the life of a man whose complex journey neither clearly possesses the personal depth to evaluate. It’s so weird in tone & expression. You don’t have to love Biden to be embarrassed by this drivel.

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“I promise you, it would have been a war crime.” that’s what Alejandro Barranco told me what would have happened if he treated a detainee when he was deployed to Afghanistan with the Marines like federal agents treated his father.

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LENOIR CITY, TN — pregnant fiancée of an American lost her baby in ICE detention after they denied her prenatal care after pleading for help for days. (@ltgovmcnally & @lowellrussell21’s district) Unimaginable cruelty. @MarshaBlackburn @SenatorHagerty nashvillebanner.com/2025/05/27/i...

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This is extremely dangerous. ICE detained people, including a family with 3 children, in an office building basement in California without enough food or water. Rampant human rights abuses daily. Guardian article: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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RFK Jr: "My vision that is every American is wearing a wearable within four years."

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Rep. Pallone: You have made a number of major decisions about vaccines. You say you want transparency, but there's been no public process for any of this RFK Jr.: We have a public process on vaccines, it's called the ACIP committee Rep. Pallone: You fired the committee

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Rep. DeGette: Hundreds of NIH scientists sent you a letter with concerns that you might retaliate against them. Will you commit that neither you or anyone at HHS will take retaliatory action? It should be an easy answer because it's illegal RFK Jr.: I don't know anything about that letter

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Trump’s decision “will open up vast swaths of largely untouched land to logging and roadbuilding, including about 30% of the land in the National Forest System — encompassing 92% of Tongass, one of the last remaining intact temperate rainforests in the world…” www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

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“The unspoiled land in question includes millions of acres of the Frank Church-River of No Return Wilderness in Idaho…” www.nytimes.com/2025/06/23/c...

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Much as I would not dare to predict the consequences of this war, I do think we can summarize it thusly so far: A smart and evil man manipulated a stupid and evil man into a war against a fanatical and evil regime.

submitted 7 days ago • 1869 comments

I doubt anyone will see me post, but this needs to be known... if you have a visible following please repost 💙🔥💙 Admitting he wants "his people... aka US " to behave like north Korea for Kim Jong Un.🤬

submitted 13 days ago • 1158 comments

Some thoughts about the military parade in my hometown of Washington DC today -- specifically, the route. Military parades in DC are quite rare. But when they happen, they have always begun, symbolically and geographically, at the Capitol and moved outward. 1/

submitted 14 days ago • 92 comments

We have entered the "The police is saying that if the police is at your door you are not safe call the police immediately" stage of making America great again

submitted 14 days ago • 232 comments

This is extremely disturbing. @padilla.senate.gov was violently removed from a public briefing for asking questions on behalf of the people he represents. Every day that goes by, Donald Trump is making our nation look more and more like a fascist state.

submitted 16 days ago • 224 comments

“There’s no recording allowed out here.” I just grabbed this uncredited off Facebook. Does anyone know who recorded it? I want to make sure they get proper credit.

submitted 16 days ago • 917 comments

Sen. Alex Padilla, who was just forcibly removed from a DHS press conference, is the ranking member of Judiciary’s subcommittee on immigration, citizenship, and border safety, which has “oversight of federal agencies with citizenship, asylum, refugee, and immigration enforcement responsibilities.”

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This is not hard. Every Republican member of Congress should join Democrats in condemning this administration’s vicious arrest of Sen Padilla. “A Republic if you can keep it” is now.

submitted 16 days ago • 343 comments

Seeing RFK Jr.’s selections to replace the qualified scientists that he fired from ACIP, I very much doubt that the U.S. will have ready access to COVID19 and flu vaccines for 2025. And it could be even worse than that. Bill Cassidy is to blame for voting to confirm RFK Jr. He’s a disgrace.

submitted 17 days ago • 82 comments

Rewording my earlier post. RFK Jr will be testifying before Congress. I am interested in what experts and others think would be the best way to leverage this time and opportunity for the public good. If you were behind the dais for this hearing, what would you do? What do you want to see asked?

submitted 17 days ago • 3634 comments

A lot of folks wonder why Josh Hawley is fighting for Medicaid. Here’s why: Missouri Republicans would not pass Medicaid expansion so we put it in the ballot. It won. Now, Missouri has a constitutional mandate to fund Medicaid. The federal cuts will likely cause the MO GOP to raise MO taxes.

submitted 37 days ago • 58 comments

$5 million in public money to the family of Jan. 6 rioter Ashli Babbitt: www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec... Here's what was happening at the Capitol that day:

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Yes, we noticed. You're still here.

submitted 42 days ago • 1584 comments

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submitted 42 days ago • 951 comments

We know. They gave you immunity.

submitted 43 days ago • 713 comments

Focus on 2026, NOT 2028. sherrilyn.substack.com/p/part-2-how...

submitted 43 days ago • 57 comments

Beginning of bloom time for my 50+ year old peonies.

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Even if you accept Stephen Miller’s (textually, historically, and morally indefensible) claim that undocumented immigrants are not entitled to due process, you’d still need due process to ensure that the individuals at issue are, in fact, undocumented. His argument fails even on its own terms.

submitted 54 days ago • 833 comments

This is a shockingly mistaken understanding of due process by Stephen Miller. It is likely this misunderstanding that is informing the President’s misunderstanding.

submitted 54 days ago • 1976 comments

Oh my... y'all should absolutely watch this.

submitted 66 days ago • 32 comments

Just spoke with my CDC sources. They were in tears. Budgets cut. RFJK has ordered them not to publicize bird flu symptoms in exposed workers. Not to test them. Not to speak. They know people are getting sick. And they’re being forced to stay silent. This is not just a cover-up. It's cruelty.

submitted 70 days ago • 407 comments

Please watch and share. It can be easy to get a little lost in the details, but the ENTIRE THING they're doing is absolutely built on a foundation of lies and flagrantly illegal.

submitted 73 days ago • 243 comments

Today @vanhollen.senate.gov was denied entry to the same prison.

submitted 73 days ago • 115 comments

Skipped the paperwork. Ignored the court order. Broke the law. Ignored the constitution. This ain’t immigration policy. This is straight-up defiance of the rule of law.

submitted 73 days ago • 1016 comments

This is so fucked up. ICE agents in Massachusetts smashed the window of a car to grab a Guatemalan guy who was with his wife. They were waiting for their lawyer to arrive because he has a pending asylum case. Story via @wcvb5.bsky.social: www.wcvb.com/article/ice-...

submitted 74 days ago • 34 comments