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Chris Murphy on Joni Ernst: "I think everybody in that audience knows they're going to die, they would just rather die in old age at 85 or 90 instead of dying at 40. And the reality is that when you lose your healthcare, you are much more at risk of early death."

submitted 2 days ago • 780 comments

I was hesitant to write this obituary. Struggle as I might, I don’t have a grand life lesson of his life; nor I any clear meaning to make of his death. I’m just heartbroken that he’s gone. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/in-m...

submitted 7 days ago • 2092 comments

OPINION: Lawrence: Trump, most cowardly president in American history, backed down again @lawrenceodonnell.msnbc.com examines yet another tariff policy reversal by Donald Trump, which has created a new phrase: “Trump Always Chickens Out” or “TACO.” WATCH:

submitted 6 days ago • 32 comments

The Cruelty and incompetence is off the charts! 🤬

submitted 7 days ago • 20 comments

reputable medical journals keep saying that RFK and his pro-disease friends are full of shit and so naturally they must be shunned www.politico.com/news/2025/05...

submitted 7 days ago • 513 comments

Pence: "To have POTUS in Saudi Arabia questioning America's global war on terror & describing is as nation building & interventionist I thought was a disservice to generations of Americans who wore the uniform..particularly giving that speech in Saudi Arabia where 15 of the 19 hijackers hailed from"

submitted 16 days ago • 1551 comments

AOC, talking Medicaid cuts — after Rep. Weber chides her for addressing the camera: “.. There are 13.7 million Americans on the other side of that screen. .. They deserve. To see. What is happening. Here.” @aoc.bsky.social

submitted 20 days ago • 410 comments

RFK Jr. said multiple times during his house and senate hearings today that no scientists have been fired from federal agencies. Our reporting has shown that hundreds, if not thousands, of scientists have been let go from NIH/CDC/FDA

submitted 20 days ago • 612 comments

U.S President Donald Trump said that he "doesn't know" if he will uphold the constitutional process of due process when it comes to the immigrants whom his administration has been deporting by the thousands.

submitted 30 days ago • 15 comments

WOW. 60 Minutes directly criticized its parent company after the resignation of executive producer Bill Owens: “Our parent company, Paramount, is trying to complete a merger. The Trump administration must approve it. Paramount began to supervise our content in new ways.”

submitted 37 days ago • 84 comments

Trump has deported a four-year-old US citizen with a rare form of metastatic cancer without medication or consultation with their doctor.

submitted 38 days ago • 650 comments

Trump administration’s nominee to serve as US attorney for Washington, DC, failed to report hundreds of media appearances he’s made in the past few years, including many on far-right outlets and Russian-state media, when he first filed his mandated disclosure forms to Congress, a CNN review found

submitted 47 days ago • 32 comments

You think the bond markets didn’t like the tariffs, they really won’t like this ….. Also real authoritarian stuff

submitted 47 days ago • 334 comments

Trump admin is again openly defying a court order. He is making a mockery of our Constitution. How much will Congress tolerate? www.nytimes.com/2025/04/16/u...

submitted 47 days ago • 80 comments

New in PN: White guy DEI "Pretending that Hegseth got nominated on merit is ridiculous, but it’s a fiction conservatives have all agreed to adopt. To admit he’s not qualified would mean acknowledging that straight white maleness does not automatically confer expertise."

submitted 47 days ago • 182 comments

Get ready for a Trump rage post about Powell. Or worse. bsky.app/profile/acyn...

submitted 48 days ago • 175 comments

Just call it surrender. Stop playing word games. The United States of America is surrendering to Russia.

submitted 56 days ago • 193 comments

If you think handing a low-income migrant a notice that says - in English - “You have the right to file a habeas petition in a Texas court prior to your scheduled removal” is being given the same due process Trump received in his criminal cases, I have a gulag to sell you.

submitted 56 days ago • 100 comments

I asked the one high ranking policeman I saw on 5th Ave why there were so few police. He said “We did not expect anything like this. Don’t tell anyone but I’ve only got 44 officers out here — and it’s a great crowd, great event, no incidents.”

submitted 59 days ago • 607 comments

I don't expect any of our major media outlets to acknowledge this outright, but this is the thing: These aren't 'steep' tariffs, these are _insane_ tariffs. These are 'nobody in the White House understands decimal points' numbers. It speaks to total economic illiteracy _throughout the White House_.

submitted 62 days ago • 84 comments

Pay attention to what is happening at Social Security. DOGE has created serious tech problems, gutted the staff, overwhelmed call centers, and created much confusion in its wake. Pay attention Americans—you earned these benefits. Nobody has the right to them—but you.

submitted 62 days ago • 63 comments

Former SSA Commissioner @martinomalley.bsky.social is right: DOGE wants to intentionally destroy Social Security so they can rob our earned benefits!

submitted 62 days ago • 88 comments

🚨 BREAKING: I'm suing #RFKJr @ #HHS & #JayBhattacharya @ #NIH Canceling medical research grants threatens innovations benefiting ALL Americans, no matter your politics! 🇺🇸 Thanks to my lawyers @aclu.org @aclum.bsky.social @protectdemocracy.org & @cspi.bsky.social Long 🧵 on why I'm suing 👇 1/

submitted 62 days ago • 195 comments

The lying and the staggering incompetence around this is astounding. And dangerous.

submitted 69 days ago • 673 comments

Leavitt explains that Pete Hegseth's texts detailing war plans are not classified because Pete Hegseth says they're not classified 🙃

submitted 69 days ago • 1431 comments

FOX NEWS: Why aren't launch times on a mission strike classified? LEAVITT: Again, I would defer you to the secretary of defense's statement

submitted 69 days ago • 306 comments

On a meta-level, one of the many horrifying things about this story is that the Atlantic had no reasonable option other than to release the Signal messages at this point. They should have been able to go to the Inspector General! Or the FBI! Or Congress!

submitted 69 days ago • 30 comments

Unidentified men grabbing someone off the street and putting her in a car because she wrote an op-Ed. This as flatly authoritarian as anything we’ve seen in this country in a very long time.

submitted 69 days ago • 1904 comments

This is a major major major scandal and must be treated as such Call your senators Call your congresspeople

submitted 71 days ago • 210 comments

Elon Musk's PACs have spent over $13M backing Trump loyalist Brad Schimel in Wisconsin's Supreme Court race. If Schimel wins, the court could uphold a total abortion ban, attacks on unions, and gerrymandered maps — and change state law to benefit Tesla. Follow the money.

submitted 71 days ago • 75 comments

Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT): "Teenagers making plans for a Saturday night mix up group text chains – the National Security Advisor and Secretary of Defense discussing mission details where American lives might be at risk cannot"

submitted 71 days ago • 57 comments

Sen. Jack Reed: "If true, this story represents one of the most egregious failures of operational security and common sense I have ever seen." "The carelessness shown by President Trump's cabinet is stunning and dangerous. I will be seeking answers from the Administration immediately."

submitted 71 days ago • 118 comments

"It's going to be litigated." Where, you schmuck? You already sent the guy to a prison in El Salvador.

submitted 72 days ago • 49 comments

I want to talk directly about something deeply troubling—and increasingly dangerous—that I’ve been watching unfold: the concerted attacks on lawyers, law firms, and judges.

submitted 72 days ago • 81 comments

Encourage them pay taxes, assure them their info is confidential, then give it to ICE so they can be kicked out of the US. Enormous, evil betrayal. And just the latest unbearable act by this administration hellbent on destroying my country. www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/20...

submitted 72 days ago • 25 comments