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The Secretary of Health doesn't want to give advice on health and doesn't feel like it's his place to tell people whether vaccines are good or bad. What does he imagine his job to be?

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submitted 10 hours ago • 572 comments

🔥 DAMN! — @benniegthompson to @kristinoem: “I’m glad you found time among your many photo ops and costume changes to testify.”

submitted 7 hours ago • 1874 comments

Ending diversity at CIA damages national security. We desperately need diverse perspectives, cultural understanding, lived experiences, language fluency, religious insights, etc, that are only brought into the mix by people of diverse (ie, non white) backgrounds. 1/2 www.nytimes.com/2025/05/13/u...

submitted 14 hours ago • 12 comments

Rep. Julie Johnson to Noem: "Are you aware that ICE agent jackets are available on Etsy for $20? Anybody can throw a mask on and run around and terrorize people of color without any regard for the law because your agency does not have proper protocols to make sure your agents are clearly identified"

submitted 9 hours ago • 1267 comments

The man who wanted to ban all Muslims from entering the United States because of terrorism is meeting this week with the former head of Al Qaeda in Syria.

submitted 1 day ago • 537 comments

Trump 1.0 spent years saying Central Americans afraid of crime, racial discrimination, and bad economic conditions are asylum fraudsters — and then in Trump 2.0, immediately offered refugee status to Afrikaners afraid of crime, racial discrimination, and bad economic conditions.

submitted 1 day ago • 7 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 2 days ago • 402 comments

Let’s clear something up: SNAP stands for Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program — the LARGEST federal program to fight hunger in the country! It blows my mind that the party that touts its “Christian values” is the same party that is SET on taking food from the hungry.

submitted 1 day ago • 1215 comments

Trump is having a hard time keeping his eyes open in Saudi Arabia

submitted 1 day ago • 1041 comments

It’s a violation of the constitution readsludge.com/2025/05/12/f...

submitted 1 day ago • 411 comments

By exactly whom John? www.politico.com/news/2025/05...

submitted 2 days ago • 1078 comments

RFK Jr., the foolish kook splashing about in raw sewage, is in charge of protecting our health. These are monumentally stupid times we are living in.

submitted 2 days ago • 1439 comments

🚨HIT THE PHONES TO SAVE MEDICAID - PLEASE AMPLIFY & ACT 🚨 TODAY the House will be marking up deeply unpopular massive Medicaid cuts. MANY GOP on the committee are in tight districts. Calls and pressure ARE effective here. Call today. Type your zip to get a script ⬇️ OcasioCortez.com/savemedicaid

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This sums it up.

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“We already know for sure that the large fire at Marywilska was the result of arson ordered by the Russian security services,” announced Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk on Sunday evening, just before today’s first anniversary of the fire.

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This is wild. (Gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/05/13/o...

submitted 1 day ago • 14 comments

Hands Off! @aoc.bsky.social

submitted 2 days ago • 5 comments

It's almost as if granting a criminal blanket immunity was a bad idea.

submitted 1 day ago • 2296 comments

Just FYI because evidently Fox or OAN or whatever is pushing the lie that America accepted the Statue of Liberty and that’s equivalent to the plane. Congress VOTED to approve receiving the statue. So congress should vote on the jet

submitted 1 day ago • 2247 comments

It’s never been about gangs. It’s always been about race. Let’s be honest.

submitted 1 day ago • 56 comments

Pedro Pascal reshares video which says the U.S. has become a police state A state where there is no higher authority

submitted 2 days ago • 251 comments

WHO DID THIS?!?!

submitted 1 day ago • 520 comments

Why are ICE agents masked to begin with? Our law enforcement officers shouldn’t be anonymous. Ever.

submitted 2 days ago • 1989 comments

Loss of white privilege should not be a criteria for fast-tracked asylum.

submitted 1 day ago • 243 comments

In 2024, Biden signed into law a $105 billion measure designed to end a shortfall in air traffic controllers. In 2025, Trump came in and instead began firing hundreds of them. So you can see how clear it is that Biden is to blame for the shortage now.

submitted 2 days ago • 232 comments

Duffy: "By the way, during covid, when people weren't flying, that was a perfect time to fix these problems." (Who wants to tell him ... )

submitted 2 days ago • 1899 comments

The Trump admin is fast-tracking a uranium mine in Utah by slashing the permitting process to 14 days, bypassing environmental review and cutting the public out entirely. Projects like this are supposed to go through NEPA, the law that requires environmental impact assessments and public comment.

submitted 2 days ago • 128 comments

$400 million "palace in the sky" private jets for him. No toys for you.

submitted 2 days ago • 404 comments

Merrick Garland is proof that accountability can die of natural causes.

submitted 2 days ago • 369 comments

The Constitution disagrees. The Emoluments Clause, part of Article I, Section 9, Clause 8, bans office holders from taking ANY gifts from foreign countries. There is no mention of quid pro quo. That is because the Founding Fathers knew that even the appearance of corruption promotes corruption.

submitted 2 days ago • 954 comments

@drneilstone.bsky.social

submitted 3 days ago • 400 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 2 days ago • 622 comments

Taking a bribe in a very public way doesn't mean you aren't corrupt, it means your corruption is shameless.

submitted 2 days ago • 510 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 2 days ago • 589 comments

Ben Shapiro slams Trump for accepting a $400 million jet from Qatar: "Taking sacks of goodies from people who support Hamas…that’s not America First!... I think inherently it is bad…I think if we switched the names to Hunter Biden and Joe Biden, we’d all be freaking out on the Right."

submitted 2 days ago • 96 comments

Who needs a $400 million “palace in the sky” when you can have two or three dolls and a couple of pencils instead.

submitted 3 days ago • 240 comments

This is the weirdest public acknowledgment by a President of the United States that he is in the midst of committing an impeachable offense I have ever seen, though of course we can only compare it to all the other times Donald Trump publicly admitted to an impeachable offense

submitted 2 days ago • 127 comments

NEWS: U.S. and China agree to a 90-day pause on new tariffs after shipping to U.S. ports plummeted. Tariffs on Chinese imports will be cut from 145% to 30%. Tariffs on U.S. imports will be cut from 125% to 10%. If tariffs should result in massive job growth and make the U.S. rich, why lower them?

submitted 2 days ago • 1222 comments

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It’s especially galling that AG Pam Bondi personally wrote the memo approving the gift of the Qatari airplane. Her last job was as a lobbyist for Qatar! efile.fara.gov/docs/6415-Ex...

submitted 3 days ago • 1081 comments

AOC: "We need to be talking about ICE agents and the cowardly policy of covering their faces

submitted 3 days ago • 958 comments

Cato Institute’s Director of immigration studies 👇🏽

submitted 5 days ago • 418 comments

So instead of trade deals he’s just going to publicly negotiate with himself until he walks back the tariffs? We get a couple of months of supply chain shock and nothing to show for it besides damaged relationships across the world.

submitted 5 days ago • 944 comments

I knew it! The White House is considering SUSPENDING HABEAS CORPUS. And here I thought I was being paranoid.

submitted 5 days ago • 1413 comments

This is the right approach — speak to them as you would an especially stupid child, spell out their crimes and your contempt clearly.

submitted 5 days ago • 421 comments

ICE agents in Worcester, Massachusetts arrested a mother outside of her home with her newborn baby and 16 year old daughter. The 16 year old stood in front of the ICE vehicle holding the baby. She handed the baby to a neighbor & fled. Police caught up to her, in a heartbreaking scene.⬇️

submitted 5 days ago • 555 comments

Hi Elmo, contact our HR team. Let's talk!

submitted 6 days ago • 11 comments

About Justice Dept settlement with estate of Ashli Babbitt Rep Joe Morelle (D-NY): It “insults the dedicated officers who protected them while they hid from a violent, Trump-incited mob. Republicans frequently call themselves the ‘party of law enforcement,’ but actions speak louder than words”

submitted 6 days ago • 38 comments