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Fuck the Missouri GOP.

submitted 12 hours ago • 219 comments

Today Republicans on the Ways and Means Committee advanced a bill to cut taxes for the rich while raising taxes for many working Americans. Democrats fought for 17+ hours to protect Americans’ health care, lower costs, and support working people, while Republicans fought to protect the wealthy.

submitted 12 hours ago • 10 comments

Andry Romero, a young gay man, was given an asylum appointment by the U.S. Government. When he showed up to the appointment we kidnapped him and sent him to a foreign prison. I asked Secretary Noem to check if he’s alive. Her response was shameful.

submitted 16 hours ago • 583 comments

Senator Alsobrooks: You’ve been unable to address specific questions about your agency. Can you name which office the Safe to Sleep program operates out of? RFK Jr.: Guesses wrong 5 times Alsobrooks: It is the Eunice Kennedy Shriver NICHD.

submitted 16 hours ago • 386 comments

RFK Jr refuses to say if he would vaccinate his children today for measles, then adds, "I don't think people should medical advice from me."

submitted 21 hours ago • 224 comments

NEW: A Musk employee is earning between $100,001 and $1 million annually as a political adviser to his billionaire boss while simultaneously helping to dismantle the federal agency that regulates two of Musk’s biggest companies, according to court records and a financial disclosure report.

submitted 22 hours ago • 32 comments

Also in our newest Digest: • Democrats score a big pickup in Omaha by unseating longtime GOP mayor • The hardline Republican who beat Steve King readies bid for governor of Iowa • Prominent Maine Democrat eyes House bid—whether or not Jared Golden runs again

submitted 22 hours ago • 2 comments

There is not a single congressional district in the U.S. where more than 15% of voters support cuts to Medicaid.

submitted 1 day ago • 110 comments

Sean Morrow @snmrrw.bsky.social More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

"For me, the answer now lies in refusal, the withdrawal of participation from systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging." Today I am resigning from the National Science Board and the Library of Congress Scholars Council. I wrote about my decision in TIME. time.com/7285045/resi...

submitted 2 days ago • 490 comments

Sen. John Barrasso leaves the door open to voting to support the suspension of Habeas Corpus

submitted 3 days ago • 1008 comments

🧵 Martin Diaz came to the U.S. as a toddler, fleeing cartel violence with his family. They had proof of the danger—a letter from a Michoacán official. He married a U.S. citizen & was advancing his visa. Then ICE showed up at his home in Spokane: no warrant, no ID #OnYourSide VC pslspokane

submitted 4 days ago • 237 comments

Let's remember today why they're trying to force women into motherhood. As I wrote in Holding It Together: "Resistance to motherhood... poses a problem for [them] because trapping girls and women in motherhood is the quickest way to conscript them into doing the work of the social safety net." 1/

submitted 4 days ago • 7 comments

1/ President Trump just announced he’s dropping Ed Martin as his pick for the U.S. Attorney for DC after a GOP senator opposed Martin’s confirmation. The decision comes immediately after a top Senate Democrat strongly condemned the pick — and cited ProPublica…🧵

submitted 6 days ago • 11 comments

🔥 Senator @ossoff.bsky.social: “Who out there is sitting at home demanding we shut down cancer & Alzheimer’s research? We’re going to pay for this for a century. Irreversible damage has been done. It’s an outrage.” On Trump, DOGE, & the GOP’s budget cuts (to make way for tax cuts for the rich)

submitted 7 days ago • 90 comments

Interesting piece which reveals a lot of the tech bro ignorance of government: DOGEr comes in, expects to find lots of inefficiency, is at least willing to acknowledge he was wrong unlike the hard core ideologues.

submitted 6 days ago • 111 comments

the fundamental disconnect between the manosphere and reality is that they are incapable of understanding that this is - according to every woman I’ve ever met - the sexiest thing a man has ever done

submitted 7 days ago • 433 comments

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - Republican challenger concedes a 2024 North Carolina Supreme Court election to the Democratic incumbent.

submitted 7 days ago • 203 comments

A Navy fighter jet failed to land on an aircraft carrier and plummeted into the Red Sea on Tuesday, marking the fourth major mishap involving the vessel and the third loss of a fighter jet deployed with it since the warship left home last year.

submitted 8 days ago • 682 comments

President Trump, "We don't do much business with Canada" PM Mark Carney, "Canada is the largest client of the United States" Trump fact-checked in real time 👏

submitted 8 days ago • 125 comments

Absolutely incredible investigation by the team @bellingcat.com, TjekDet, Politiken, and CBC that uncovered the identity of the owner of the most prominent deepfake sexual abuse site. This feels like the beginning of justice for victims. I am grateful 🙏 www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/05...

submitted 8 days ago • 7 comments

I'm not yet quite at "Abolish ICE", but I'm getting to be awfully anti-anti-Abolish ICE. kansasreflector.com/2025/05/04/a...

submitted 8 days ago • 76 comments

UNDERWOOD: Do you believe that the US government has the authority to deport American citizens NOEM: No, and we are not deporting US citizens UNDERWOOD: Several American citizens have been deported

submitted 8 days ago • 1928 comments

Shouldn’t this be a bigger story?!? Senator Mark Warner calls for probe into report that WH is pressuring countries to use Musk’s Starlink company in exchange for tariff relief. Watch: open.substack.com/pub/jimacost...

submitted 9 days ago • 193 comments

The idea that American messaging to boys is “you’re bad” when they still get to be the heroes in most movies and shows, the vast majority industry leaders, the president, and the most followed and most popular people online kind of complicates the narrative

submitted 9 days ago • 62 comments

This is what the start of an economic collapse looks like. #BlameTrump

submitted 9 days ago • 230 comments

Facebook tracked when adolescent girls deleted selfies so it can serve a beauty ad to them at that moment. 😳

submitted 10 days ago • 37 comments

No paywallThe story starts with teachers pleading for empathy for 3 immigrant students. It ends with a border patrol agent pleading for empathy for 3 other students at the school — his own. Might be a theme here. www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

submitted 11 days ago • 17 comments

RESULT: Voters in Mansfield, Texas, have ousted three conservative members of their local school board tonight. This is a school board that has been at the frontlines of book-banning in Texas, as you can see here: fortworthreport.org/2025/03/19/m...

submitted 11 days ago • 52 comments

I've been traveling so forgive me for not posting this yesterday, but: That Signal clone app for archiving messages that Mike Waltz has been using, TeleMessage? It's unlicensed. Signal was unaware of its existence until they saw it in that Reuters photo. There's no known security vetting.

submitted 11 days ago • 90 comments

if the american academy of pediatrics is saying the hhs report was based off an incredibly limited amount of data and distorted the medical consensus, the journalism about the report should mirror that, too. link to full statement: www.aap.org/en/news-room...

submitted 13 days ago • 4 comments

The VA has abruptly ended the only low-interest, affordable loan modification option for thousands of vets who are behind on their mortgages. If you're a vet at risk of foreclosure, we want to hear your story.

submitted 12 days ago • 915 comments

DOGE's Gavin Kliger helped oversee mass firings at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau while holding stock in companies that experts say likely stand to benefit from dismantling that agency — a potential violation of federal ethics laws: propub.li/4cVtSYq

submitted 12 days ago • 54 comments

1/ People sometimes need a jarring reminder of how far down the path Trump administration is going toward authoritarian assertions of power A sign: John Yoo, architect of torture memos and maximal presidential powers, sharply rebukes President Trump and DOJ actions on 4 grounds @npr.org interview

submitted 12 days ago • 93 comments

Marco Rubio is going after people who are living here legally and peacefully, who are not a danger to America or our foreign policy interests. He has strayed so far from who we are as Americans. He’s an embarrassment to the country.

submitted 13 days ago • 562 comments

Rep Eric Swalwell walked out in shock—and who could blame him? Every single GOP member on the House Judiciary Committee just voted to let Trump “deport” American citizens. This is illegal, authoritarian, and unforgivable 🤬 Time to call, write, & protest before the full House votes.

submitted 14 days ago • 379 comments

I was officially laid off today, along with almost my entire organization. Everything I've worked for over 10 years, my entire career supporting humanitarian and development assistance, is gone.

submitted 14 days ago • 11 comments

In a few years (max) when people start asking why we thought AI was a good idea I am creating a record that we did NOT think it was a good idea and the main reason people were ever convinced was billions of dollars of propaganda

submitted 15 days ago • 100 comments

I went to the Senate floor to tell a story about Trump’s first 100 days - a story of daily, norm shattering corruption. I laid out 40 different corrupt acts - each one alone could have taken down previous presidents. 1/ A 🧵 of my speech. People need to know this story.

submitted 14 days ago • 195 comments

For the "I don't have worry, I'm a citizen" crowd. Yes, you have to worry. Marissa, a citizen whose house got raided by ICE agents, had all her electronic devices and cash stolen while she and her daughters were forced at gun point to lay down half naked in the front yard. myfox8.com/news/were-ci...

submitted 15 days ago • 137 comments

Republican Senator Thom Tillis just said he’s not comfortable voting for Trump’s nominee for US Attorney Ed Martin after it was revealed he went on a white nationalist podcast.

submitted 14 days ago • 263 comments

Dom Lucre asks Leavitt if the administration might investigate Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton. Leavitt says she finds the question "refreshing"

submitted 14 days ago • 427 comments

This is the future Lutnick has planned for you & your kids. For his kids? Well, Lutnick appointed his sons Brandon & Kyle, ages 27 & 28, CEOs of the investment firm he led, overseeing 14,000 employees. I’m sure he did an extensive search & they were the most qualified. fortune.com/2025/02/20/h...

submitted 14 days ago • 317 comments

Pritzker: If you're not out there protesting in front of a Republican congressman's office, or out in the street making your voice heard, or calling your friends in another state to have them do it.. then you're not doing what's necessary to put pressure on them to vote the right way.

submitted 15 days ago • 63 comments