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When 15 million Americans lose their health care and plunge into personal crisis, none of them are going to give a shit about a made-for-clicks twitter fight between two billionaires arguing about who gets the bigger share of the corruption spoils.

submitted 8 days ago • 1137 comments

Important to note that breaking infantry defenses is far more difficult because drones provide both strike capability and make the battlefield far more transparent…which is also why the density of infantry on the front lines has plummeted.

submitted 10 days ago • 2 comments

As long as most are MAGAts

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

HAWLEY: Let's see the Trump chart. You don't think it's a little bit anomalous that Trump has so many more nationwide injunctions against him? KATE SHAW: A very plausible explanation you have to consider is that he's engaged in much more lawless activity than other presidents

submitted 10 days ago • 1574 comments

Speaker Johnson says there's “a moral component” to Trump's "big, beautiful" bill. Really? Is it “moral” to cut nutrition assistance for hungry kids? Is it “moral” to eliminate health care for 13.7 million Americans so the 1% gets a $664 billion tax break? I don’t think so.

submitted 10 days ago • 111 comments

New in PN: The real cover-up is of Trump's disordered mental state "Despite the endless handwringing about Biden Old, a sitting president acting like a cross between a 4Chan thread and Q truly is a major concern — one the mainstream media actively minimizes."

submitted 11 days ago • 251 comments

I replaced listening to sanewashers like NPR with listening to shows like @petedominick.bsky.social's "Stand Up With Pete" because Pete and his guests like @jeffjarvis.bsky.social say simple, true things that MSM outlets censor. Pete helps dispel the gaslighting. Sponsor him on Patreon if you can.

submitted 15 days ago • 3 comments

Trump turns heel on the Federalist Society

submitted 15 days ago • 747 comments

DO IT.

submitted 17 days ago • 1 comment

As Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill moves to the Senate, we must make it clear: There is nothing “beautiful” about giving huge tax breaks to billionaires while cutting health care, nutrition and education for working families. It is grossly immoral and, together, we must defeat it.

submitted 18 days ago • 119 comments

The current budget bill is an atrocity and out-of-touch leaders like Chuck Schumer laid the groundwork by voting for the CR. Appeasement and complicity do not work. When you bend the knee, they’ll break your leg.

submitted 23 days ago • 467 comments

“Six years ago, I found myself face to face with a white farmer preparing for the government to take his land. This did not happen in South Africa. It was in South Texas, and it was because of Trump…” www.nytimes.com/2025/05/21/u...

submitted 23 days ago • 230 comments

Dean to McMahon on shuttering of the Dept of Ed: "I was a state legislator. That's called 'shift and shaft.' I've spoken with the gov of PA. They can't pick up the tab anymore for the education of our students...why are you in this job at all if you don't have dedication to the future of our kids?"

submitted 24 days ago • 83 comments

“why are you in this job at all?”

submitted 24 days ago • 10 comments

None of the 278 men sent to CECOT have been returned. Meanwhile their lawyer has been arrested and "disappeared" in El Salvador.

submitted 25 days ago • 466 comments

The US desperately needs more doctors, engineers & highly educated workers. But we’re telling students that if they want a higher education, they have to go into debt. Other countries understand how important it is to invest in their young people. We should be doing the same.

submitted 25 days ago • 104 comments

Abortion; Affirmative Action; Major Question Doctrine; Free Exercise; Establishment Clause; 2nd Amendment; Immunity (Executive and States). All these areas have changed substantially since 2006, and the GOP’s platform is consistent with each one. Not a Court. Just a Review Council for the GOP.

submitted 26 days ago • 1 comment

Pish posh! That’s just a normal trip to the grocery store in Texas!

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

On April 29, the GDPNow model nowcast of real #GDP growth in Q1 2025 is -2.7%. The final alternative model forecast, which adjusts for imports and exports of gold, is -1.5%: bit.ly/32EYojR. Download our EconomyNow app or go to our website for the latest GDPNow nowcast: bit.ly/2TPeYLT.

submitted 46 days ago • 1 comment

The House Budget Committee just VOTED DOWN the reconciliation plan as written! Republicans in disarray. This reconciliation bill is on hold for now (because some Rs want it to have even deeper cuts to crucial services).

submitted 29 days ago • 5 comments

Trump speaking with the troops in Qatar: “As you know we won three elections. And some people want us to do a fourth. I don't know. I'll have to think about that. You saw the new hat?… It says Trump 2028.”

submitted 30 days ago • 200 comments

"This entire debate has been one attempt after another by Republicans to present Medicaid cuts as something other than Medicaid cuts." On the pod, @citizencohn.bsky.social is so illuminating on how bad the GOP bill's Medicaid cuts truly are: newrepublic.com/article/1952...

submitted 30 days ago • 25 comments

Auchincloss: "I'm for return on investment. And when DOGE fires the guy at the FDA who makes sure that eyedrops don't blind you, that's not an ROI. That's foolish decision-making that creates uncertainty for business and makes Americans less safe."

submitted 31 days ago • 44 comments

BREAKING: The scene at the Rayburn Building is pure rebellion. Protesters are swarming in during live hearings on Medicaid cuts. Security’s losing control. Because when the government wages war on the poor, the poor fight back.

submitted 31 days ago • 1293 comments

Even if there were scads of able-bodied young men on Medicaid - their medical costs are basically nothing.

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

And yet the federal government does not have one single dollar more capacity to spend than it did before. These cuts do absolutely nothing positive. Not even fiscally.

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

Bernie Sanders' office has put out a report this morning on Trump's NIH cuts: "Trump officials effectively cut $2.7 billion in [NIH] funding in the first three months of 2025 – including a 31 percent cut to cancer research through March, compared to the same timeframe last year."

submitted 32 days ago • 20 comments

I saw this and thought, “weird, that looks like a chop suey sandwich”. Dug deep and found that - disturbingly - I was right.

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

are you guys happy now

submitted 32 days ago • 531 comments

The most crucial thing to remember about the Medicaid and SNAP cuts: these can be enacted even with all Dems voting no. The battle therefore is convincing REPUBLICANS to vote no. Attending your GOP member’s town hall, calling them, calling your GOP governor and asking them to make the ask, etc.

submitted 33 days ago • 8 comments

Just posted my interview with @jlcauvin.bsky.social where he announces a possible bid for congress youtu.be/rWybx16ZG3E?...

submitted 33 days ago • 1 comment

If presidents can be mega-corrupt with impunity--starting with dark money campaign finance & continuing throughout their presidencies--it'll become increasingly hard to elect honest candidates because the dishonest ones will have such a huge financial advantage. US capitalism destroyed US democracy.

submitted 33 days ago • 10 comments

Time for those 2nd Amendment measures yet??

submitted 35 days ago • 0 comments

Trump: "We already made a great deal. We're not doing business with China right now. We lost $1 trillion with China last year, so if you're not gonna do business with them, you're not gonna lose $1 trillion."

submitted 35 days ago • 345 comments