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I joined Pantsuit Politics to share my vision for a New American Dream: One where we have the time to enjoy the benefits of our hard work — not work every hour just to survive.

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The lack of self-awareness here is borderline art

submitted 7 hours ago • 66 comments

He seems to be totally out of it, with his administration run by advisors.

submitted 6 hours ago • 5 comments

Trump wants us to lose faith in the justice system by undermining it with pardons, even while denying others due process. But wrong is still wrong, and we must continue to fight him.

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There are thousands of residents who are supposed to start in less than a month in hospitals across the US who cannot enter the country. There is going to be a major staffing crisis across the country but especially in rural and urban hospitals than rely on international medical graduates. #MedSky

submitted 7 hours ago • 19 comments

Lawrence Jones mentioned Donald J. Trump's speech on Memorial Day. He left out his social media post that talked about scum, rapists, murders and an evil ideology. I offer up my dramatic interpretation of his inspirational words that didn't honor our fallen troops.

submitted 9 hours ago • 2 comments

Wow! The trade deals Trump says are coming? They’re deals that will personally line his pockets. Watch…

submitted 10 hours ago • 90 comments

Folks, Please don’t lose sight of the fact that the President is supposed to serve the American people. Not his pockets and his ego. We’re so deep in the mire that we’re losing even the memory of normal. Peanut farm, people. Peanut farm.

submitted 14 hours ago • 40 comments

Trumpism - purposely destroying America’s competitive advantage.👇

submitted 9 hours ago • 14 comments

just going on the teevee and admitting it's all first amendment violations

submitted 11 hours ago • 286 comments

"I think nothing is religion which puts one individual absolutely above others, and surely nothing is religion which puts one sex above another." -- Julia Ward Howe, born #OTD 1819

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If a former Israeli PM can say this, I think it’s legit to criticize what’s going on without being labeled anti-Israel.

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@charlotteclymer.bsky.social This needs to become an annual post, similar to @hcrichardson.bsky.social Memorial Day tribute to Beau Bryant. Certainly 2LT Emily Perez is more than deserving of the recognition.

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

Every year on Memorial Day, I share this video of French caretakers who take sand from Omaha Beach in Normandy, and scrub them into the letters to give them the gold coloring. They do this for all 9,386 US soldiers who died. France also gave us this land as American soil.

submitted 2 days ago • 1143 comments

Trump is refusing to release the guest list of his pay-to-pay crypto dinner, as his press secretary Karoline Leavitt argues that the dinner is in his “personal time." Personal time that brought in $147,586,796.41. https://trib.al/6v14y1y

submitted 2 days ago • 111 comments

You know, things definitely look bad right now but this has fully convinced me there’s no way these fucking dweeb losers are going to win long-term.

submitted 2 days ago • 202 comments

More of this please.

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FYI to media outlets, you're misleading your readers if you repeat this at face value. There's no lawful way for him to redirect these grants elsewhere. It's a lie to distract from how the GOP budget guts educational funding, including Pell Grants at trade schools.

submitted 2 days ago • 448 comments

Every Memorial Day is painful. I have friends who should be alive right now, not buried in their early 20s with their whole lives in front of them. But this year, it's especially hard to reconcile their extraordinary sacrifice to our country with the unchecked incompetence and corruption of Trump.

submitted 2 days ago • 40 comments

I do understand that Biden’s inner circle covered up his decline. Got it. What I don’t understand is the same journalists and pundits pounding that story are ignoring this psychopath like it’s normal. I accepted Biden was old all along. I can’t accept this lunatic leading us.

submitted 2 days ago • 571 comments

On Memorial Day, we honor the brave Americans who gave their lives in service to our nation. Today and every day, we must carry on the work to build a country worthy of their sacrifice.

submitted 2 days ago • 54 comments

The executive branch is responsible for issuing student visas to attend Harvard (or any other school), and vetting those students for possible national security concerns is part of that process

submitted 2 days ago • 127 comments

Then I guess it shouldn’t exist? Like: this is the same reason there isn’t a bank heist industry.

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

Maybe choosing someone who is one of your NY real estate investor pals with no diplomatic or military experience to be the special envoy to deal with Putin, who refuses to bring any help with him from the State Dept & uses Kremlin translators, wasn’t the best plan to end the war.

submitted 3 days ago • 401 comments

Ah I see sending a real estate developer friend to proxy negotiate the end of an autocratic invasion is not going so well

submitted 3 days ago • 88 comments

folks, he's on top of it

submitted 3 days ago • 219 comments

Never easy to watch a marriage fail

submitted 3 days ago • 283 comments

McIver's "detention-center visit reveals a hidden truth: Trump has very real reason to fear Democrats poking around private detention centers."

submitted 3 days ago • 22 comments

Seriously, Trump's aide said the Congressional Budget Office underestimated growth following Trump's first tax cut; it actually OVERESTIMATED growth. NYT readers should know that.

submitted 4 days ago • 3 comments

TAPPER: I have a hard time thinking that if a D president held a dinner for investors in his cryptocurrency, you wouldn't be outraged MIKE JOHNSON: Look, I don't know anything about the dinner. I was a little busy this past week, so I'm not going to comment on something I haven't even heard about

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Kady Grass, a lesbian teenager in Illinois, was severely beaten after trying to use the bathroom in a McDonald's. www.cbsnews.com/amp/chicago/...

submitted 4 days ago • 230 comments

Me sniffing an iris: The front is citrus, jasmine and cut grass rounded out by subtle yeast, over ripe banana and cocoa. Soft burnt butter lingers longest. Me drinking wine: huh…grapey.

submitted 4 days ago • 64 comments

Every young Australian begins their life with the dream of importing the expression "off like a bucket of prawns in the sun" to an American audience. And I mostly managed it, and managed to do so in context, while describing Trump's trade policy.

submitted 4 days ago • 35 comments

Utah legislators commissioned a study to go with their 2023 ban on gender-affirming pediatric care. Now they're trying to ignore the results.

submitted 4 days ago • 33 comments

Tetiana came to the prisoners' exchange to find out at least something about her husband Ihor. She got to hug Igor instead! 📹: Suspilne

submitted 4 days ago • 6 comments

What do you think the mothers and fathers of the young men and women whose lives he’s been entrusted with were thinking?

submitted 4 days ago • 205 comments

The medical evidence review, published by the Department of Be Careful What You Wish For.... www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

submitted 4 days ago • 12 comments

Yes rambling incoherently again, but apparently it’s an ode to William Leavitt, the racist postwar developer of suburbs who boasted about his use of racially restrictive deed covenants & continued to try to enforce them after SCOTUS ruled them unenforceable in 1948. Everyone’s got to have heroes.

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Outrage after an Israeli attack kills nine of a Gaza doctor’s children while she was at work, aged seven months to 12 years, with two still under the rubble aje.io/i7m1nb

submitted 4 days ago • 11 comments

“The government of the United States is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion.” — Treaty of Tripoli, signed by the United States in 1797.

submitted 4 days ago • 2081 comments

Shame on West Point for inviting a draft dodger, who views the US military as merely props to be used for his own glory, to give its commencement speech. With no respect, the tacky wheezing fool wore a campaign ball cap and rambled on about yachts and trophy wives to the bored graduates.

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If Trump shuts down Harvard what does that do to the dorm drug dealer to HHS secretary pipeline?

submitted 4 days ago • 4 comments