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Trump fails to understand that “gifts” like this are not “free of charge” which is wht the Founding Fathers wrote the emoluments clause into the Constitution. Fast legal action is called for here. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/11/u...

submitted 8 hours ago • 223 comments

🚨BREAKING: In a victory for voters, a federal court has halted Republican Judge Jefferson Griffin’s efforts to overturn an election and disenfranchise thousands of voters. A federal judge has ordered the state to certify Democratic Justice Allison Riggs’ victory.

submitted 6 days ago • 194 comments

The Golden Age

submitted 6 days ago • 356 comments

This is real

submitted 9 days ago • 5660 comments

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submitted 12 days ago • 236 comments

🚨BREAKING: Full Fourth Circuit DENIES Trump admin motion to stay order blocking Musk/DOGE access to personal data at Social Security Admin. Data will remain out of Musk/ DOGE’s hands. A BIG win for @democracyforward.org and its clients! Follow Democracy Docket for details. www.democracydocket.com

submitted 11 days ago • 437 comments

"His Burlington courtroom was packed on Wednesday with supporters of Mr. Mahdawi, who remained hushed as the judge issued his order..." www.nytimes.com/2025/04/30/n...

submitted 11 days ago • 129 comments

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/30/u...

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TELSEY begins tracking price increases over the past week. Some highlights: * Abercrombie jeans: up 33% * Amazon Echo: up 38.5% * Target / Barbie doll: up 42.9%

submitted 13 days ago • 432 comments

It’s a beautiful thing to see people put aside their differences, their politics, and unite in their love of country. Well done, Canada. 🇨🇦 Your citizens stood on guard for thee.

submitted 12 days ago • 350 comments

Walz: You have a situation where the Secretary of Health basically said it and was speaking with the language of eugenics, that some people just don't matter. People like Deanna's son or my son or those of you listening tonight. So look, this is a fight we must win.

submitted 12 days ago • 241 comments

www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

submitted 11 days ago • 30 comments

Leaving this here without comment

submitted 11 days ago • 1484 comments

Trump’s public on-camera Cabinet meetings are simply occasions for him to gather each member together so they can go around the table and give a short speech about how amazing and perfect he is, then it adjourns.

submitted 11 days ago • 232 comments

NEW: Farmers are dying by suicide at the third-highest rate by vocation in Utah. But after a federal program offering mental health support ran out of money, the state did not continue it. By @jessicamiller.bsky.social, with @sltrib.com

submitted 11 days ago • 1324 comments

When does the winning start?

submitted 12 days ago • 1239 comments

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says he has “100% hatred” toward Russian leader Vladimir Putin. “How else can you see a person who came here and murdered our people, murdered children?” says Zelenskyy. https://cbsn.ws/3YyaIlp

submitted 28 days ago • 529 comments

Exclusive: Days before masked ICE agents detained Tufts University student Rumeysa Ozturk to deport her, the State Department determined that the Trump administration had not produced any evidence showing that she engaged in antisemitic activities.

submitted 27 days ago • 42 comments

@booker.senate.gov: "For a guy who spends the weekend on his golf course and brags to the media about him winning a tournament while the struggling-- this is the kind of gross arrogance of a Marie Antoinette saying, "let them eat cake" ... Screw him for telling people to accept pain."

submitted 30 days ago • 394 comments

The total cost of manufacturing an iPhone 16 Pro Max is about $485. The iPhone is primarily assembled in China by Taiwanese companies, such as Foxconn where they have skilled tooling engineers. The average salary for an iPhone worker is $10 an hour. The top earners make approximately $27 an hour.

submitted 31 days ago • 7 comments

🚨BREAKING: U.S. House passed GOP voter suppression law. 220-208. Every Republican voted to disenfranchise millions. It now goes onto the Senate where Democrats will be able to block it.

submitted 31 days ago • 394 comments

Maddow: They cannot defend what they're doing, they cannot commit to what they're doing, but they also can't even reverse what they're doing when they try to reverse it because they are so incompetent, they can't even fail properly

submitted 32 days ago • 157 comments

Neguse demolishes Arrington's hypocrisy: "When the stock market dropped 1k points years ago, you rushed to bemoan Biden's actions. You condemned it. Now the market drops 1k points every day for the last week and you claim it's the economy running well. Do you understand why that's a tough argument?"

submitted 32 days ago • 244 comments

🚨 NEWS: The White House confirms the tariff on Chinese imports is now 145%—not 125%. Reminder: tariffs are taxes on imported goods, which means Americans end up paying more.

submitted 31 days ago • 1215 comments

The House just passed its budget resolution, so reconciliation is now officially underway. This is their bill to destroy Medicaid and SNAP while cutting taxes disproportionately for the rich. THIS IS VERY REAL and can be enacted even if all Ds vote no. Thread on what's to come and WHERE TO FIGHT.

submitted 31 days ago • 420 comments

The insiders seem to have had a 20min warning before the public

submitted 32 days ago • 317 comments

Only 35% of Americans think the country is heading in the right direction. Rough numbers for an early presidential term.

submitted 32 days ago • 40 comments

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services will begin screening immigrants’ social media accounts for antisemitic content as grounds to deny visa and green-card applications, the agency announced — a move that immigration law and free-speech experts condemn as an alarming federal overstep.

submitted 32 days ago • 932 comments

Every damned word of this 4-graf brief, except “By WSJ Staff,” should scare the bejeesus out of you this morning. www.wsj.com/livecoverage...

submitted 33 days ago • 218 comments

President Trump on Wednesday signed sweeping presidential memorandums targeting two former government officials who opposed his actions in his first term — his latest effort to use the powers of the presidency to punish people and institutions who have challenged him.

submitted 31 days ago • 43 comments

That’s because there weren’t any.

submitted 32 days ago • 2163 comments

Don’t let go of the evidence of insider trading, Dems. Push and push and push. Get real answers or implicate the whole GOP by their refusal to provide them.

submitted 31 days ago • 217 comments

Gasparino: Let's be clear what happened, who capitulated here and why? You know, I don't want to say this because I am a patriot, I am an American, but it is The White House who capitulated based on everything I hear and all my sources

submitted 32 days ago • 596 comments

Booker: For people with 401(k) accounts and retirement savings, they’ve lost thousands. I’ve been hearing from people who had hoped to retire this year after working 25, 30, or even 35 years, but now they don’t think they have enough money because he’s taken $6 trillion overall out of the markets.

submitted 33 days ago • 448 comments

you, a rube: “i want my kid to grow up to be a doctor or an engineer or a teacher” lutnick, a genius: “to make america great again your child will make iphones that they will not be able to afford”

submitted 35 days ago • 1690 comments

@maddow.msnbc.com Lexington, MA half a block over from the Battle Green. 250 years ago this month!

submitted 36 days ago • 25 comments

What a day. What a country! 💪

submitted 36 days ago • 1551 comments

Tennessee as Trump hosts a $1M / person dinner at his Mar-a-Lago home

submitted 37 days ago • 82 comments

cnbc front page just before 3pm on friday 4.4.25 the president himself is off to a golf event.

submitted 37 days ago • 1009 comments

NEW: No fewer than 10 principle scientists at NIH investigating emerging infectious diseases and neural disorders were among those fired by RFK Jr. today. One is an esteemed scientist awarded for breakthrough research into the causes of Parkinson's disease. By me and @emilymullin.bsky.social:

submitted 40 days ago • 115 comments

Direct evidence of criminal election bribery under Wis. Stat. §12.11: “‘My name’s Ekaterina Deistler,’ she said in a video posted Monday morning. ‘I did exactly what Elon Musk told everyone to do: sign the petition, refer friends and family, vote, and now I have a million dollars.’”

submitted 40 days ago • 653 comments

"When he said, 'I have the highest poll numbers of any Republican for the last 100 years,' that wasn’t just wrong, it was the opposite of reality: At this point in their terms, every other GOP president since the dawn of modern polling has had more support than him." www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

submitted 40 days ago • 563 comments

Thank you to the voters of Wisconsin. Thank you. Thank you, thank you, thank you. American democracy is not dead. Far fucking from it.

submitted 40 days ago • 184 comments

Team fight vs team cave I want to be on team fight

submitted 41 days ago • 78 comments

Elon can’t buy us. We are NOT for sale, and neither is democracy. THANK YOU WISCONSIN!

submitted 40 days ago • 128 comments

Senator Cory Booker joins me live at 9PM Eastern on MSNBC.

submitted 40 days ago • 1783 comments

I may be tired and a little hoarse, but as I said again and again on the Senate floor, this is a moment where we cannot afford to be silent, when we must speak up.

submitted 40 days ago • 10889 comments

Folks, be very careful about donating to anybody raising money in Cory Booker's name. There are a lot of questionable people trying to take advantage, and I don't want anybody to get scammed. If you're trying to donate directly to Cory, double-check the "Paid for by" on the landing page.

submitted 40 days ago • 7 comments