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he's one of the biggest, most-frequent liars in the world. among other things, he said the same thing last summer, before becoming the largest-ever campaign donor in American history. Yet this post by Baker and the headline treats his statement as true. don't print lies in the newspaper!

submitted 4 hours ago • 39 comments

You should be allowed to say "fuck" to an ump and have your ejection reversed if video review can prove you were right about what you were mad about

submitted 5 hours ago • 5 comments

Mississippi’s request for federal disaster assistance is pending more than two months after 18 tornadoes ripped through the state. The delays offer a glimpse into what could be in store for communities nationwide as the summer storm season arrives—while FEMA is mired in turmoil.

submitted 5 hours ago • 15 comments

House GOP is holding a hearing on their tax bill at 1:00 AM because they don't want us to know about their scheme to strip 13.7 million people of health coverage & they think no one will stay awake for it. I’ll be there, testifying & offering amendments to protect our families.

submitted 11 hours ago • 1149 comments

They are all the dumbest people from their high schools.

submitted 5 hours ago • 1 comment

There probably is a “Joe Rogan of the left” but the problem is the Democrats aren’t a leftist party and would move heaven and earth to stop them if they decided to assume the mantle

submitted 6 hours ago • 10 comments

DURBIN: How can we give hope to people across the country who are suffering from so many diseases when our government is cutting back on that research? RFK Jr: I do not know about any cuts to ALS research D: I just read them to you! R: I didn't know about them until you told me about them

submitted 9 hours ago • 2014 comments

It appears that the Republican administration has started deporting people from Myanmar and Vietnam to South Sudan, in blatant violation of court orders.

submitted 6 hours ago • 102 comments

This is a ploy to get more rich, not preserve democracy. If they cared about anything but money they'd back politicians with the courage to take a stand for their constituents, and fund hard-hitting journalism. They'd clean up, not in the money sense, but you know, in the stopping fascism sense.

submitted 5 hours ago • 19 comments

Is it too much to ask for an IRS Commissioner who understands the law?

submitted 8 hours ago • 949 comments

Another day, another sign that the Trump FCC's baseless attacks on the news media are undermining journalists. We must reject all efforts to intimidate the free press.

submitted 11 hours ago • 6 comments

Good God, vaccine hesitancy has gone from 12% to 26% among Republican parents in the last four years. www.kff.org/health-infor...

submitted 14 hours ago • 115 comments

Paying to replace the signs is surely waste, fraud and abuse.

submitted 11 hours ago • 34 comments

Congrats to all Republicans and 16 Democrats for passing the Bribing The President Is Legal Now Act. A cool side effect of this bill is it makes it considerably easier for your kid to buy fentanyl-laced narcotics from a new class of predators on Minecraft, also likely created by this bill.

submitted 1 day ago • 170 comments

It would be very easy, newsworthy and get a lot of clicks for the national political media to make a "drumbeat" scandal out of the numerous trump pardon recipients who have committed more crimes since being pardoned. They don't do it because they like Trump

submitted 1 day ago • 31 comments

the DOJ is literally arresting Democratic members of Congress and Senate Democrats are voting to pass Republican legislation

submitted 1 day ago • 128 comments

incredible thread of all the criminal scum Trump has released onto our streets who continue to commit crimes

submitted 23 hours ago • 18 comments

@joshtpm.bsky.social reports today that defenders of science research have proposed that senators visit the NIH (and invite the media) to hear about the research on cures being shut down there. Yet Democratic Senate staff have declined, saying it doesn't fit with their comms strategy. [head desk]

submitted 1 day ago • 125 comments

One easy way to know if you should support cuts to Medicaid is to ask yourself if you want your nearest hospital to be open or closed next time you need it. Then repeat the question substituting “Emergency Department,” “Trauma Center,” “Stroke Center,” “Cardiac Cath Lab,” etc.

submitted 23 hours ago • 42 comments

being an industry lobbyist must be so cool. rolling up to a senator’s office with a wheelbarrow full of cash for their “election campaign” and presenting a colorful single slide powerpoint with a 45 degree line graph indicating that a vote for the Scamming Our Grandmas Act = more wheelbarrows

submitted 23 hours ago • 11 comments

I wonder how many lies it will take before the press stops giving official statements by Trump and his cronies the presumption of truth. Days of stories spreading their lies around before the real story emerges. This happens over and over and over again:

submitted 1 day ago • 92 comments

Eric Lipton: oh so a guy can't ask for a plane now. fucking puritans

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Excellent point. Democrats dithered replacing an old president with a younger candidate, but the press is holding the entire party accountable. Republicans staged a violent coup against our government, one in which multiple office holders were openly complicit, and the press just shrugged it off.

submitted 1 day ago • 56 comments

None of the 278 men sent to CECOT have been returned. Meanwhile their lawyer has been arrested and "disappeared" in El Salvador.

submitted 1 day ago • 456 comments

If you ever wonder how indiscriminate cuts affect your life, here's today's example. I consulted on a case of disseminated gonococcal infection. These isolates used to get automatically sent to cdc for testing and nationwide tracking. The lab was shut last month. www.healio.com/news/infecti...

submitted 1 day ago • 19 comments

He added, unironically, "We want to be like the Romans, not like Jesus." /s

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

I no longer think that headlines/framing/etc in mainstream news make a first-tier difference in prez elections. (At one time they did. See: James Comey letter Oct 2016.) But headlines/ framing / etc are tells about the mentality of a news organization. This is a pretty depressing tell.

submitted 1 day ago • 42 comments

NPR published a story 5 days ago about three high ranking Trump officials with clear ties to Hitler-admiring antisemites and it barely made a ripple. These are the kind of stories that used to end political careers. Now the subjects of the stories just hold up a middle finger and keep plowing ahead.

submitted 1 day ago • 111 comments

The cement king of Sioux City who drives a brand new F-350 and has two vacation houses in Florida isn't an elite but a grad student with $200,000 in debt and a nose ring is, that's how this works.

submitted 2 days ago • 58 comments

“Sorry, we don’t have enough money for universal healthcare, we’re too busy paying people whose family members tried to overthrow the federal government”

submitted 1 day ago • 286 comments

Because Elon never cared about saving the planet to begin with.

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

The Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice announced an investigation of the employment practices of the City of Chicago because the mayor listed "the number of Black officials in [your] administration."

submitted 1 day ago • 17 comments

Where Did All Those Brave Free Speech Warriors Go? Since the start of the Trump administration, many of our biggest concerns about how MAGA would attack free speech have not only proven true, but have turned out to be understated. Nearly all parts of the administration are seeking to silence…

submitted 1 day ago • 7 comments

Just a perfect sign of Schumer's incompetence. As the OP notes, there's no need to do this. The law is already on Democrats' side. And when this bill inevitably fails in a GOP-led Congress, it will then seem to many like the Qatari gift is perfectly legal. Congress didn't outlaw it, right?

submitted 1 day ago • 241 comments

The DOJ should have to publish their theory under which the government is at risk of this much liability. I would love to know, on DOJ letterhead, just why capitol police's force was excessive.

submitted 1 day ago • 16 comments

The bill would add 3 trillion dollars to the deficit over the next 9 years, the largest increase in history

submitted 1 day ago • 9 comments

Biden Faces Mounting Pressure To Let Younger Democrat Battle Cancer

submitted 1 day ago • 126 comments

The way they resolve this unpopularity is control of the information enviornment. Conservative propaganda outlets will just not report on it, mainstream outlets will drown out their reporting of it with manufactured stories like "was Biden old" or trans-panic on A1 while Medicaid cuts run on A14

submitted 1 day ago • 31 comments