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This is the reminder that SNAP makes money because ensuring people have enough to eat is a basic economic multiplier

submitted 7 hours ago • 22 comments

the number one goal for everyone left-of-center for the next 6 weeks should be making sure Andrew Cuomo doesn’t become mayor of the largest city in the country. even if you don’t live in NYC, you probably have friends or family who do. please tell them how awful Cuomo.

submitted 7 hours ago • 29 comments

Do we wonder why white descendants of apartheid would be seen as assimilating very easily into the United States over other groups, or nah.

submitted 8 hours ago • 169 comments

🚨BREAKING: On behalf of the Montana Federation of Public Employees, my law firm has filed a new pro-voting lawsuit challenging two new Montana laws that reduce opportunities for Election Day registration and add more burdensome ID requirements. www.democracydocket.com/cases/montan...

submitted 6 hours ago • 71 comments

The little 🍄 is literally auctioning off WH access to line his own pockets.

submitted 15 hours ago • 89 comments

The law professors who are arguing against birthright citizenship in the US are reinventing a common law decision from 1677 about allegiance and aliens that was pivotal for creating a common law of slavery in England’s empire. — a logic recreated in Dred Scot. — rejected by 14th amendment.

submitted 20 hours ago • 7 comments

So House Republicans are fighting about the Medicaid cuts in the tax bill for the rich - not because it kicks nearly 9 million people off Medicaid - but because it doesn't kick enough people off Medicaid. Vote accordingly.

submitted 10 hours ago • 77 comments

It seems clear to me that ICE wears masks so that they can't be identified and held accountable for their gross human rights abuses in the futures trials should this country ever have a real Justice Department again that is capable of upholding the rule of law and basic Constitutional rights.

submitted 8 hours ago • 7 comments

“These kids were in their cells with no beds on a concrete floor with a state-issued green mattress — flame retardant — a blanket and a sheet and nothing else. No light. No nothing,” a former staffer said.

submitted 16 hours ago • 8 comments

—You don't have to be Catholic (I'm not) to be buoyed by last week's news at the Vatican. —You don't have to be Episcopalian (how I was raised) to be buoyed by Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde in National Cathedral on Jan 21. And by US Episcopal leadership this week: religionnews.com/2025/05/12/e...

submitted 15 hours ago • 76 comments

Phrases found in this NYT piece: — “ethical alarms about the potential for corruption” — “an increasingly no-holds-barred atmosphere in Washington under Trump 2.0” — “striking disdain for onetime norms of propriety and for traditional legal and political guardrails” www.nytimes.com/2025/05/12/u...

submitted 8 hours ago • 73 comments

#PublicHealthMalpractice

submitted 13 hours ago • 10 comments

Jeffries: China punked the administration and the administration backed down. That’s no surprise because we’ve seen that happen over and over and over again.

submitted 8 hours ago • 192 comments

My daughter’s speech therapist went out of business because Medicaid reimbursement rates were too low. We do not have Medicaid. I’m going to keep posting this until people understand that when Medicaid gets cut everyone loses services.

submitted 16 hours ago • 111 comments

The church said it's terminating a decades-long partnership with the federal government to help refugees arriving in the U.S., citing moral opposition to resettling white Afrikaners from South Africa.

submitted 13 hours ago • 1113 comments

Aaaand there it is.

submitted 12 hours ago • 1611 comments

Investors are delusional. Legacy acceptances at Ivy League Business schools really created a massive incompetence class.

submitted 13 hours ago • 1 comment

I was reading the comments on a local news article about Medicaid cuts and a Missouri woman called having access to healthcare a “lifestyle” that isn’t meant for folks who can’t afford it. I have never read anything more sad, or American, in my life…

submitted 14 hours ago • 412 comments

If South Africa is a sovereign nation, how are we able to send our own planes we paid for to transport white Afrikaners to the U.S., but simultaneously unable to send a plane to return Abrego Garcia et al?

submitted 16 hours ago • 948 comments

So many layers of corruption.

submitted 14 hours ago • 1498 comments

If you're wondering how White Afrikaaners are considered "persecuted" in South Africa, it's probably because they only own 70% of the land where as white Americans in the United States own 98% of the land. How are they supposed to survive on only 70% of the land? Do you people have no shame? /s

submitted 13 hours ago • 24 comments

The Afrikaner stunt is the kind of thing that has backfired so far -- it creates legal arguments for other refugees about animus. But holy hell he's not hiding the white sheets.

submitted 13 hours ago • 505 comments

Guess which one is actually paying taxes....🤔

submitted 22 hours ago • 26 comments

Unlike the rest of us, billionaires like Elon Musk don’t pay into Social Security with every paycheck all year round. We can continue to deliver on Social Security’s promise by making the richest among us pay their fair share!

submitted 16 hours ago • 2 comments

To be clear - even the city of Nashville has no proof anyone ICE has arrested was a violent criminal or a gang member. (And due process is a thing) All anyone has is ICE’s word, backed up by @GovBillLee & Blackburn. Maybe the media could point that out instead of parroting their talking points?

submitted 18 hours ago • 110 comments

They’re geniuses, I tell you.

submitted 18 hours ago • 27 comments

Elon Musk’s regulatory troubles? Vanishing fast. Since Trump returned to the White House, federal agencies that once scrutinized Musk’s empire are being gutted or redirected. At the USDA, Trump fired the official investigating Neuralink.

submitted 19 hours ago • 69 comments

The U.S. will give about 50 white South Africans help with housing, groceries, and other needs.

submitted 16 hours ago • 29 comments

I don’t know who needs to hear this, but 30% is still a high tariff…and it’s still going to drive prices up. But sure, businesses can “plan” for 90 days until the next erratic change. Awesome.

submitted 20 hours ago • 383 comments

IF YOU HAVEN’T READ IT DO YOURSELF A FAVOR!

submitted 20 hours ago • 550 comments

Half of new moms have health insurance thanks to Medicaid. Let’s keep fighting to protect it.

submitted 1 day ago • 52 comments

There is no moral center to this administration. He has given everyone around him, and everyone afraid of him, permission to step off any kind of ethical path. All bets are off. Anything is possible. There are no boundaries left on the inside. It's about time the press started covering it that way

submitted 17 hours ago • 38 comments

A scathing exposé into the workings of the pharma industry and how corporate reputation and an underperforming FDA protected J&J from public accountability. This is corporate greed at its worst and I cannot believe that they have been allowed to continue like this.

submitted 1 day ago • 8 comments

NEW: As the Trump admin is flying Afrikaners here today to be resettled as "refugees," @Sec_Noem is terminating Temporary Protected Status for Afghanistan — meaning they may start deporting women and allies who protected our troops to the Taliban to be persecuted or killed!

submitted 16 hours ago • 250 comments

73% of mothers with kids under 18 are in the workforce. More than flowers or brunch, working moms need: -Paid family leave -Equal pay -Universal childcare (But get your mom flowers, too)

submitted 1 day ago • 261 comments

The fact that the attorney general's last job before this one was lobbying for the Qataris is a little on the nose.

submitted 16 hours ago • 587 comments

Sorry to be harsh, guys, but it seems like it might have been a bad idea to put the last living member of the California Raisins in charge of our healthcare system.

submitted 1 day ago • 164 comments

Missouri is a model for what Republicans want to do to the entire country. They can’t legally defund an agency, but they can break it from the inside out. “Half of SNAP applications were rejected after applicants were unable to complete an interview for the program.” abc17news.com/news/top-sto...