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Some edits are improvements...case in point 👇

submitted 16 days ago • 27 comments

Children get only two dolls and five pencils. Trump gets a free luxury jet.

submitted 21 days ago • 324 comments

If the Biden administration had done this, it would be deemed proof of the Democrats' hostility to religion. But Trump is doing it, so his Christian allies turn against Christian ministries and gut their ability to serve the poorest of the poor. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

submitted 86 days ago • 39 comments

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submitted 96 days ago • 1741 comments

Trump compared to mobster Tony Soprano by former envoy to Panama

submitted 98 days ago • 69 comments

The KGB cultivated Donald Trump as an asset for 40 years, and he proved a highly valuable asset in repeating anti-Western Russian propaganda in the United States, a former KGB operative told The Guardian. www.businessinsider.com/russia-culti...

submitted 99 days ago • 3 comments

The waste is coming from the White House. 👇

submitted 102 days ago • 819 comments

Just had a fun flashback to early 2009, when Obama hired some advisers (normal) without any formal decision-making authority (also normal) and Republicans pretended to be furious about a proliferation of “tsars.” Good times.

submitted 107 days ago • 6 comments

This is like a bank robber getting to fire the cops and disable the alarms just before he strolls into the bank lobby.

submitted 109 days ago • 747 comments

Representation without taxation for a handful of billionaires, taxation without representation for the rest of us.

submitted 114 days ago • 155 comments

So, Mexico has agreed to do what it is already doing? www.reuters.com/article/worl...

submitted 118 days ago • 324 comments

When I was a Hill staffer in 2009, a Dem trifecta was trying to pass universal healthcare. In response, Senate GOP released a memo detailing all of the tactics they in the minority could use to delay the effort as much as possible. I'm recirculating that 2009 GOP memo here. Take inspiration from it.

submitted 119 days ago • 1290 comments

A two-fer post today! Happy Saturday!

submitted 120 days ago • 90 comments

If the FAA director got fired over a business beef AND there was an air traffic controller hiring freeze despite huge shortages AND a chaotic blitz to hollow out federal bureaucracy, and then within a week the first American airliner crashes in 16 years, you would be insane not to talk about it all.

submitted 122 days ago • 541 comments

➡️ January 20: FAA director fired ➡️ January 21: Air Traffic Controller hiring frozen ➡️ January 22: Aviation Safety Advisory Committee disbanded ➡️ January 28: Buyout/retirement demand sent to existing employees ➡️ January 29: First American mid-air collision in 16 years Making America Great Again!

submitted 122 days ago • 1393 comments

DEI exists to help right the historic wrong of unqualified white dudes always getting the gig.

submitted 125 days ago • 184 comments

CARTOON OF THE DAY

submitted 125 days ago • 589 comments

The entire NYT op-ed page would have invoked the Saturday Night Massacre and called for his immediate impeachment

submitted 127 days ago • 28 comments

#EmbarrassmentInChief 🤮

submitted 142 days ago • 2545 comments

The attack on our Capitol was an act of domestic terrorism—an unforgivable assault on America. Trump and his MAGA extremists betrayed us all, spitting on the sacred oath our Troops swore to defend and dishonoring the Constitution and the sacrifices of countless Americans.

submitted 146 days ago • 74 comments

The dance group Shen Yun Performing Arts has accumulated enormous wealth, in large part by getting followers of the Falun Gong religious movement to work for free and pay its bills, while exploiting young, low-paid performers, a New York Times investigation found. nyti.ms/40erBD9

submitted 154 days ago • 43 comments

“A Shot in the Arm” is a must-watch exposé on vaccine denial and RFK Jr.’s deadly role in the Samoan measles outbreak. Now streaming FREE on PBS.org and the PBS App. This documentary includes damning evidence and footage of RFK Jr. Call your senators—urge them to watch and take action!

submitted 157 days ago • 58 comments

Facts.

submitted 162 days ago • 70 comments

Brief thread on how we got here: Since the GOP won control of the House 2 years ago they have not passed a single appropriations package into law. Government has operated at funding levels set by Dems 2 years ago via continuing resolutions every few months. This is not normal.

submitted 164 days ago • 248 comments

On Dec. 18, 2019, U.S. House impeached Donald Trump on two charges. The impeachment accused him of abusing the power of the presidency to investigate Joe Biden and then obstructing Congress’ investigation. The trials concluded with a Senate acquittal. Read more: shorturl.at/dMmZ2

submitted 165 days ago • 15 comments

www.nytimes.com/2024/12/15/u... Why hasn’t he released her already?

submitted 167 days ago • 0 comments

To the very end, I will never understand how January 6th, 2021, wasn’t a dealbreaker.

submitted 170 days ago • 764 comments

submitted 176 days ago • 385 comments

Chip Roy dismisses the Pete Hegseth rape allegation: "We've all had some indiscretions in our past and things like that."

submitted 177 days ago • 2944 comments

Donald Trump is morally, ethically, mentally and physically unfit to be President and he is filling his cabinet with people who are equally unqualified for their positions. But there are different tiers of badness to deal with here. Most are simply bad for the administration and will simply reflect

submitted 180 days ago • 1 comment

We refer to immigrants who may not have complied with all of our immigration rules as "illegal immigrants." Why wouldn't we refer to Donald Trump as "illegal President Trump" since he not only did not follow our rules, he broke laws and was convicted on 34 felony counts?

submitted 192 days ago • 0 comments

President Biden should most certainly pardon his son Hunter Biden as one of his last acts before leaving office.

submitted 193 days ago • 0 comments

A suspected pedophile for AG, a Fox News host to run the Pentagon, a Putin stooge to oversee intelligence services… Trump is doing this out of spite and for personal gain at the expense of our country.

submitted 200 days ago • 0 comments