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I’ll look into it

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The number of legally-eligible Americans who would lose healthcare coverage due to the House GOP budget bill is somewhere between ~15.9 million (CBO estimate) and ~46.0 million (total current combined enrollment in ACA exchange plans + Medicaid via ACA expansion). acasignups.net/25/05/23/sta...

submitted 23 hours ago • 11 comments

Justifying terrorism against elderly Jews half a world away. Got it.

submitted 17 hours ago • 6 comments

It’s so weird and fucked up to be writing about your life and your family in a moment of terrible peril for American democracy. I feel like I should be writing about American democracy all the time, but I do feel that writing about my terrible year provides a lot of lessons and helpful insights …..

submitted 6 hours ago • 183 comments

For Handmaid’s Tale fans.

submitted 17 hours ago • 381 comments

Correct spelling is for elites

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Just started skimming through the Trump admin's FY26 budget request, specifically for HHS, and the first thing I see is they didn't even spell this thing right.

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Thank you.

submitted 15 hours ago • 2 comments

Amazing reporting here on how things have backfired on the capitulating law firms and their enabler. www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...

submitted 4 hours ago • 388 comments

You mean this fiasco? www.nationalmemo.com/whitewater-r...

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Breaking news: Contradicting HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the CDC continues to recommend the coronavirus vaccines for healthy children, according to new documentation posted to the agency's website.

submitted 3 days ago • 630 comments

Popcorn please

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The Daily News Union mourns the passing of Tom Robbins, brilliant journalist, beloved colleague, friend and mentor to many, and ally to this union. He will be missed.

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Tom Robbins was a very nosey reporter! If it weren't for his meddling, no one would have ever known about that time I hired undocumented demolition workers from Poland to clear the site for Trump Tower!

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Perfect obituary of @tommyrobb.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/05/28/b...

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Very curious about this

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There is no one post or piece that can capture the force that was @tommyrobb.bsky.social, but my colleagues and I at @thecity.nyc did our best. Thank you, Tom, for your relentless focus on leaving the world better than you found it, knowing It’s not only possible to change things, but imperative.

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Jessica Tarlov: “He does these interviews and says I don't know, or I'm not sure. He was asked ‘do you need to uphold the constitution? I don't know, ask a lawyer’ … He may be in front of you, but that doesn’t mean that he’s not spewing utter BS.”

submitted 4 days ago • 337 comments

JD Vance cheered on Trump today for gutting oversight of cryptocurrencies, while Trump’s family cashes in with meme coins, NFTs, and stable coin. They even killed warnings about crypto in 401(k) retirement accounts! I’m your Shadow Press Secretary and here are the facts:

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Linda McMahon is an authoritarian moron

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With its token reforms, Bobby's MAHA crusade is a fig leaf for Trump's wholesale dismantling of environmental and public health protections, medical science and the health care system. Together they will make America sicker than ever.

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“The searing pain of the unfilled boots, / the solemn speeches, / the lowered ramp and the flag-draped coffin.” Read “I Remember,” a poem by William H. McRaven:

submitted 5 days ago • 3 comments

reputable medical journals keep saying that RFK and his pro-disease friends are full of shit and so naturally they must be shunned www.politico.com/news/2025/05...

submitted 5 days ago • 513 comments

True, his antisemitism is casual, unlike his dedicated racism. But he drags along a lot of fanatical Nazis in his wake.

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Newsflash: Trump administration appoints KIngsley Wilson, neo-Nazi simp who posts antisemitic propaganda, as Pentagon press secretary. Newsflash, same day: Trump administration cancels $100M in federal funding for Harvard over "antisemitism" on campus. Overwhelming stench.

submitted 5 days ago • 2 comments

Why is America's president so...trashy? He also seems lacking in...self-awareness

submitted 9 days ago • 3 comments

This should be the end of Noem’s career in public life. It almost certainly won’t be, however, which is itself damning.

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submitted 15 days ago • 62 comments

The only thing crueler than taking health care and food away from millions of moms and families is revealing that plan on Mother’s Day. That’s exactly what the Republican tax bill does — it slashes basic needs programs moms rely on to fund tax breaks for billionaires.

submitted 16 days ago • 7 comments

Sure, let’s dissect the mental and physical acuity of the former president who sought to make lives in America better while minimizing the reality of a deranged arsonist dismantling the country we’ve known and loved. What a failure to meet this moment.

submitted 15 days ago • 1116 comments

"The Constitution prohibits public officials from accepting a present from a foreign state" -- Mike Pence has discovered the Emoluments Clause!

submitted 15 days ago • 671 comments

“Poor man wanna be rich. Rich man wanna be king. The king ain’t satisfied ‘til he rules everything.”—Springsteen, Badlands

submitted 17 days ago • 2461 comments

He’s lying as usual

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SPRINGSTEEN, on tour in the UK: “.. "In my home, the America I love, the America I’ve written about, that has been a beacon of hope and liberty for 250 years is currently in the hands of a corrupt, incompetent, and treasonous administration." @variety.com variety.com/2025/music/n...

submitted 18 days ago • 1057 comments

For those of us in America......that actually READ some of the books they want destroyed......

submitted 18 days ago • 429 comments

What an absolute coward. In 2025, we have a Secretary of HHS that actively dismisses our incredible scientific achievements and sows fear about vaccines. I'm heading to the HELP Committee hearing right now to confront him.

submitted 19 days ago • 51 comments

It’s National Police Week and hundreds of law enforcement officers across the country are riding their motorcycles down Connecticut Avenue toward the White House. That’s the home of a guy who pardoned hundreds of cop beaters.

submitted 18 days ago • 58 comments

Wow suddenly even a few Republicans have noticed Trump's manic corruption. They're upset! They wish he'd stop making them look like idiots. He calls them stupid and keeps stealing with both hands.

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Did the Chinese find a way to bribe Trump during tariff negotiations?

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Am I the last to know? The Qatar jet offered to Trump turns out to be an item unsuccessfully for sale since 2020. The "gift" is not only a Trump grift, but also an attempted scam on the US taxpayer, who will assume costs the owners no longer wish to pay. onemileatatime.com/qatari-royal...

submitted 19 days ago • 174 comments

We think RFK Jr can't sink lower. Then he does. Today, he justifies ending poor Americans' Medicaid with "work requirements." But the vast majority already work, so this "saves" money by cutting off benefits. Opportunism, lies, betrayal, cruelty: That's Bobby!

submitted 19 days ago • 1 comment

On what planet is a jet provided by a foreign government ever something that the U.S. Government would rely upon for the security of the President of the United States?

submitted 22 days ago • 475 comments

Our trade deal so far is no tariffs on Rolls Royces and Bentleys and our refugee policy is white South Africans only.

submitted 22 days ago • 755 comments

Rep. Menendez: "They had over 20 armed ICE HSI officers, they were heavily armed, their faces were covered, and they wearing no identification. So this is who they chose to have come engage with the mayor of Newark and 3 elected members of the House of Representatives."

submitted 22 days ago • 826 comments

the insistence from tankies that only white people like the first amendment is wild

submitted 22 days ago • 6 comments

Disgusting, naked, open blatant corruption. Whether it is crypto, Trump Media stock, real estate developments, licensing deals or jets, foreign governments continue to buy our presidency by bribing our criminal president.

submitted 22 days ago • 308 comments

Honestly? The $400M plane from Qatar is quaint compared to his crypto scam, memecoin con, insider trading, and tariff shakedowns.

submitted 22 days ago • 912 comments

"What do you do for work, daddy?" "Well, kids, I tear decent families apart because my bosses said to." This was shameful police behavior. What we need is an ethos that's more Pope Leo, less Stephen Miller. Zero Stephen Miller. Read this harrowing eyewitness account.

submitted 23 days ago • 19 comments