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Yes, Trump’s Tariffs are hurting 🇺🇸 manufacturing — according to Manufacturers themselves

submitted 13 hours ago • 18 comments

Two of the three states with the largest population of people in the U.S. illegally are the red states of Texas and Florida. Trump, notably, does not name their cities when calling on ICE to execute more aggressive immigration raids. He does, however, name LA, Chicago and New York.

submitted 13 hours ago • 113 comments

Swab it for Miller’s DNA.

submitted 14 hours ago • 18 comments

He finally saw the reaction to his birthday parade.

submitted 14 hours ago • 52 comments

“I think Mississippi has so much to teach our nation about what it means to fight for one another when your government is indifferent to your plight,” former U.S. House Rep. Joe Kennedy III told residents in Indianola, Mississippi.

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Everything you need to know about Newsom vs Trump, including Judge Bryer’s ruling againt Donald (which can be downloaded). H/T George Conway: www.courtlistener.com/docket/70496...

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

BREAKING: Judge Breyer grants temporary restraining order blocking Trump from deploying National Guard to Los Angeles and returns control of the Guard to Gov Gavin Newsom

submitted 3 days ago • 15 comments

I am Democrat Shawn Harris. I am a husband, father, retired General and farmer. I have announced my candidacy to defeat Marjorie Taylor Greene and I know we will together. Her hate and conspiracies do not belong in Congress. Let’s end the chaos together. Share and join me in this fight:

submitted 3 days ago • 85 comments

🚨EXCLUSIVE: Rep. Jason Crow exposes DETAILS of Trump’s parade which includes ripping 6,000 soldiers from their families, shipping tanks across the country, lining DC with metal plates - all for a $50 MILLION Vanity Parade on his birthday. A dictator’s ego trip—funded by YOU.

submitted 4 days ago • 36 comments

JUST IN: David Hogg will not seek reelection after the DNC voted to redo vice chair elections. cnn.it/4e44eRU

submitted 4 days ago • 47 comments

Breaking: ABC News says senior national correspondent Terry Moran "has been suspended pending further evaluation." This since-deleted tweet is the reason for the suspension:

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But keep telling us how they care about the debt and efficiency. This colossal waste will stand as a historic monument to his malignant narcissism.

submitted 8 days ago • 457 comments

Oh God damn🙄

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DEAN: What's the tariff on bananas? LUTNICK: Generally 10% DEAN: Walmart has already increased the cost of bananas by 8% LUTNICK: If you build in America, there is no tariff DEAN: We cannot build bananas in America

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ICE is only going after small businesses w/undocumented employees. They will fine them into bankruptcy. ICE is not going after Trump businesses, Perdue Farms, big meat packing plants who all hire more undocumented. Just small, often immigrant owned businesses. Highly selective class warfare.

submitted 15 days ago • 4 comments

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submitted 24 days ago • 56 comments

The most corrupt administration in American history by far, we are only 4 months in, and he hasn’t come close to the depths of depravity he is mining. But tune into CNN for updates on a dinner party in 2023 where Biden used the wrong fork.

submitted 24 days ago • 197 comments

Question: Why would 🇺🇸 companies have to “eat them” if the other countries already pay them? Answer: They don’t. Tariffs are a tax on us. time.com/7285637/walm...

submitted 29 days ago • 608 comments

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

submitted 31 days ago • 2454 comments

I can’t believe Joe Biden is tweeting threats at Bruce Springsteen and saying Taylor Swift isn’t hot. Oh wait.

submitted 31 days ago • 49 comments

www.thedailybeast.com/kid-rocks-re...

submitted 31 days ago • 1393 comments

I guess what this confirms for us is that there’s only a very limited pool of loyal Trumpers who are familiar with these things called “books”

submitted 34 days ago • 86 comments

WATCH: “That’s what this is all about.” On IG LIVE @aoc.bsky.social just called out @CoreCivic and other private prison companies for profiting off these ICE detentions after donating big bucks to Trump (and other Republicans). An all-too-familiar story for us here in Tennessee.

submitted 36 days ago • 48 comments

Make it make sense

submitted 37 days ago • 666 comments

1. Rumeysa Ozturk, a 30-year-old Turkish doctoral student at Tufts, speaks after a federal judge ordered her release following her arrest by federal agents on the street. She calls the United States “the greatest democracy in the world” and says she has “faith in the American justice system.”

submitted 36 days ago • 70 comments

This from MSN: "In less than three months on the job, Patel, 44, has flown three times to Nashville, where his 26-year-old girlfriend lives; twice to Las Vegas, where he owns a home; and once to New York, where he attended a pro hockey game."

submitted 36 days ago • 65 comments

The point is to terrorize people, no matter the ultimate outcome. That's what ICE is for.

submitted 36 days ago • 6 comments

"Videos shared with The Eagle show people videotaping the arrests and asking ICE officers questions about warrants and due process. Others taunted the officers, most of whom were masked and heavily armed..." www.berkshireeagle.com/breaking/ice...

submitted 36 days ago • 484 comments

Matthew GERTZ has a good thread reminding us that Pirro is actually a bigoted nightmare so it’s actually not as funny as you might think that she’ll be the U.S. Attorney

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MAGA's entire immigration policy, where as many as one in four Americans can be declared an illegal immigrant and disappeared with no recourse, depends on one specific fact: white people recognize they are at no risk of suffering this fate.

submitted 39 days ago • 11 comments

So that all can read, I am gifting today’s NYT piece on the lawless presidency of the 45th President of the United States. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/28/o...

submitted 48 days ago • 113 comments

We’ve heard “courage is contagious.” Unfortunately, the elites have proven that cowardice is also contagious. So what feeds courage and shames cowardice? Fearlessness. No one can always be fearless, but the goal at my new project is to find it and spread it. I hope you'll subscribe.

submitted 39 days ago • 1 comment

Wow, wow, wow Declassified National Intelligence Council, Sense of the Community Memorandum: "The Maduro regime probably does not have a policy of cooperating with TDA and is not directing TDA movement to and operations in the United States." Now consider: DOJ lawyers saying opposite to courts!

submitted 41 days ago • 132 comments

When a disastrous tornado struck Mississippi in March 2023, President Biden approved FEMA aid for the state within two days. But a month after Gov. Tate Reeves requested help for mid-March 2025 tornado victims, President Trump still hasn't approved the request. @illanireland11.bsky.social reports:

submitted 43 days ago • 24 comments

This is one of the best ads I have ever seen and I can’t believe I missed it

submitted 43 days ago • 180 comments