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www.bloomberg.com/news/article... —- Goon behavior by Federal law enforcement to a US Senator. Very ashamed to see an FBI agent involved. Federal agencies acting outside the law. We are headed to authoritarian government. The Republicans in Congress have surrendered their power.

submitted 4 hours ago • 12 comments

They're insisting that Donald Trump's election as president means he gets to do whatever he wants and not letting him do so is "violating the will of the people" and "overturning an election." But the governors and senators of a blue state? Totally different. They're illegitimate from the start.

submitted 6 hours ago • 36 comments

This is disgusting. If this is how they treat Alex Padilla, a United States Senator, how do you think they’ll treat you?

submitted 6 hours ago • 308 comments

This is beyond shameful. Never before has military leadership allowed our troops to be debased as political partisans in uniform.

submitted 6 hours ago • 36 comments

Cruelty is the point, and chaos is the blueprint.

submitted 1 day ago • 234 comments

This is it. This is the ball game. DoD does not have a role in enforcing the law.

submitted 1 day ago • 46 comments

Trump actually managed to push CNN into saying the truth plainly, which is no small feat

submitted 1 day ago • 38 comments

Karen Bass: "On Saturday night, the president tweeted that 'because of the great work of the National Guard, the protests & the violence was curtailed.' The National Guard wasn't even here. They didn't even arrive until the next day. That's why it's very hard to not see this as a stunt or test case"

submitted 1 day ago • 125 comments

Active duty troops as political window dressing. The corrosiveness to civ-mil relations is hard to overstate. (No, not the first time. But I’d argue the most dangerous time.)

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The only real issue is whether Trump can expell 10+ million illegal migrants. He ran for office on this premise. He has considerable support for this objective. The execution of this policy will crash the economy. Agriculture. Construction. Service. We will look really bad.

submitted 3 days ago • 13 comments

Undocumented immigrants pay almost $100 billion in taxes each year. The top 1% evade $163 billion in taxes each year. Stop pretending that immigrants are the ones taking advantage of taxpayers.

submitted 5 days ago • 355 comments

Earlier today ICE agents hit someone with a car and tear gassed a neighborhood, sparking several fires and disrupting businesses. Immigrants, by contrast, did not.

submitted 4 days ago • 102 comments

Disgraceful

submitted 9 days ago • 35 comments

President Trump and his allies have sought to assuage some Republican lawmakers’ concerns over its price tag and cuts to Medicaid with inaccurate claims. Here’s a fact-check. https://trib.al/YUlyRDm

submitted 10 days ago • 20 comments

Feel perfectly free to criticize @realDonaldTrump ..

submitted 11 days ago • 20 comments

How do true patriots feel about church and state?

submitted 12 days ago • 7 comments

its estimated it would take about $177 billion to lift all Americans above the poverty line. And, if the 1% paid what they already owe in taxes, not new taxes, but just what they owe, it would raise nearly a trillion dollars in a year.

submitted 13 days ago • 12 comments

So. Steel production is relatively small slice of the American economy. Steel itself? *Very widely used throughout the American economy. See the problem? (I mean, see the problem beyond the entire global economy being held hostage to the whims of one guy who doesn’t understand the economy?)

submitted 12 days ago • 78 comments

I’ll say this as many times as I have to. No tax cut in the history of tax cuts has ever paid for itself. Not a one.

submitted 13 days ago • 207 comments

Elon has failed to deliver on one promise after another, but he finally found something he’s good at — causing needless pain and suffering to the less fortunate

submitted 13 days ago • 25 comments

Apparently states’ rights stop the moment women board a plane with autonomy in their carry-on.

submitted 13 days ago • 307 comments

The 2018 steel tariffs just called to remind you that steel is produced by a tiny sliver of the economy, but used as an input by a much broader swathe of manufacturers. econofact.org/steel-tariff...

submitted 13 days ago • 42 comments

Is there a more awful human being than the one now in the Oval Office?

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

The TACO trade on Wall Street around tariffs: Trump Always Chickens Out 😄

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

Christian Nationalists pretend that the United States was founded as a Christian nation, but the Constitution never mentions Jesus or Christianity. Not even once. Instead, it bans government promotion of any religion. Don't be fooled by their lying propaganda.

submitted 17 days ago • 867 comments

"I've stopped worrying about the president's sanity. He's not sane. And the realization of his illness doesn't fill me with anger, but with profound sadness. What I now worry about is the sanity of anyone who can still support this deeply troubled man to lead our country." -Brian Cranston

submitted 18 days ago • 47 comments

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Your regular reminder that the entire global economy is subject to the whipsaw whims of a person who doesn’t understand how the global economy works

submitted 20 days ago • 414 comments

submitted 20 days ago • 53 comments

Disinformation straight from the White House.

submitted 20 days ago • 942 comments

🤷🏼‍♂️

submitted 21 days ago • 1062 comments

“Video released of the incident showed … McIver’s elbows appear to make contact with an officer amid the jostling of the crowd.” Video released of January 6 showed defendants smashing, bashing, crushing and bear-spraying officers. Who got charged; who got pardoned?

submitted 21 days ago • 21 comments

Sec. Noem oversees hundreds of thousands of employees across 10 agencies—many with the power to arrest citizens. She should understand what 'habeas corpus' means. The fact that she doesn’t is deeply concerning and raises serious questions: Does she know her job? Has she even read the Constitution?

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submitted 22 days ago • 36 comments

Takano: This bill will hurt veterans. 1.5 million veterans get their healthcare through Medicaid. They are slashing programs to try to pay for these tax cuts—except they’re not actually paying for them. It’s going to create additional deficits, which means all of the cuts are only a partial payment.

submitted 22 days ago • 140 comments

Right, there was a lot going on there and all of it horrid. Trump was spewing racism. Trump was spreading misinformation. Trump was doing Elon's bidding. Trump was shitting all over America's standing. Also, he was still very old. So that's important.

submitted 22 days ago • 27 comments