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Reminder that seven Democratic senators voted to confirm Kristi Noem and six Dem senators declined to vote either way. She was confirmed, 59-34. The good faith experiment is clearly over, and we need the Democratic senators who didn't stand against her nomination to be loud as hell right now.

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This 💯

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Right now, Dems are hiding in their offices, scrolling their phones fearfully, wondering "how are voters going to feel about the National Guard being deployed?" The right, meanwhile, is vigorously attempting to shape how voters feel about it, filling every medium with coordinated propaganda.

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For some reason, I was just thinking about how Trump’s former chief of staff tried to warn us right before the election that Trump was a fascist who wanted to rule us like a dictator … and the New York Times put that story on page A12

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We love to see it.

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Yes, There Was A Media Scandal In 2024. No, It Wasn’t About Joe Biden. https://www.yahoo.com/news/yes-media-scandal-2024-no-120018772.html

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I'm genuinely sorry that Fetterman had a stroke and suffers from depression. But arguing that he has a free pass not to do his job in the name of destigmatizing brain injury and mental health struggles is offensive. If he can't do it, he should resign. If he doesn't want to, he should resign faster.

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There's a simple way for Fetterman to have more time to spend with his family — resign from the Senate. (Article is free.) www.nytimes.com/2025/05/24/u...

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The Trump administration will do anything to rid this country of the slightest hint of anti-Semitism, unless anti-Semites have a million dollars available to bribe the president, of course.

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If a retailer's website offered me the chance to pay 10 percent more for a product in exchange for a guarantee that the retailer would never email me again except to provide shipping and tracking information about my orders, I'd accept the offer.

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It's a rich irony that a President who is obsessed by the trade balance is blocking one of our best exports: American higher ed. International students pay fees, create high-paying jobs, learn ideas, and spread them globally. But they can't come without reliable visas.

submitted 23 days ago • 36 comments

They've told us who they are over and over. We have no choice but to believe them.

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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.

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Cory Booker doing an entirely performative filibuster and then voting to advance the President’s felon father-in-law is hilarious. Selling your personal virtue for nothing.

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Sen. John Fetterman, who is facing scrutiny after former staffers have raised concerns about his mental health, has missed nearly every committee hearing and regularly skips votes.

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Sen. John Fetterman is a risk to himself and to everyone who crosses his path. A damning new report reveals Sen. Fetterman, Democrat of Pennsylvania, is engaging in dangerous, potentially deadly behaviors — threatening his life and the lives of those around him. Fetterman’s former…

submitted 42 days ago • 161 comments

We genuinely need to change our relationship with our elected leaders, whom we helped put in office with our vote. Electing a leader is only the first step in a functioning democracy. Once someone takes office...our job shifts from cheering squad to...watchdog. Why? 1/6

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Rubio publicly criticizing an ally for cracking down on right-wing extremism. And Germany hitting back. We are in a new world

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Cal-Maine, the biggest egg producer, has been accused of using bird flu as cover to jack up prices and triple its profits from a year ago. It also received $22M in federal aid. While you're getting gouged at the grocery store, your tax dollars are subsidizing corporate greed.

submitted 43 days ago • 886 comments

Call it something fancy like "malfeasance" or something simple like "incompetence" but either way there should be articles of impeachment to remove the HHS secretary for being a shameless liar who is working relentlessly to make people sick.

submitted 44 days ago • 311 comments

I’m sure it’s just a coincidence.

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Undocumented immigrants paid an effective federal income tax rate of 5.27% in 2022. That means they paid a higher effective tax rate than 5 of the richest Americans…and a higher effective tax rate than 55 mega corporations. So let me ask you: who are the real freeloaders?

submitted 59 days ago • 526 comments

Tech execs declaring all-out war on creators who don’t want their life’s work pillaged for profit

submitted 63 days ago • 305 comments

Consumer sentiment is now lower than it was during the Great Recession and the second lowest reading since 1952. The guy who inherited hundreds of millions from his father and squandered it now inherited an economy that was the envy of the world and squandered it.

submitted 63 days ago • 111 comments

Right, because Grandma is on X. This is corruption, plain and simple.

submitted 63 days ago • 606 comments

Another vote that would have failed if Democrats had been at full strength. Two Democrats died earlier this year, both members in their 70s who ran last year despite cancer diagnoses. A third, Don Norcross, is in the ICU in New Jersey.

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This is a big deal. Spread the word. But it’s tiny compared to the totality of what’s happening at NIH. Cure Research for all cancers, Alzheimer’s, everything is being gutted. Intentionally. It’s all getting burned to the ground but the news isn’t getting out. The new cures won’t be there for you.

submitted 68 days ago • 154 comments

Given Trump’s flagrant lawlessness, in a sane country we would’ve been talking about impeachment and removal weeks ago.

submitted 68 days ago • 184 comments

The Onion’s Exclusive Interview With Chuck Schumer theonion.com/the-oni...

submitted 70 days ago • 36 comments

I cant stop laughing!!! 🤣🤣

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Yes, the stock market may be tanking and our national security apparatus has never been more vulnerable and we're on the verge of both economic collapse and war, but it was all worth it to keep pronouns out of email signatures.

submitted 72 days ago • 275 comments

www.cjr.org/laurels-and-...

submitted 71 days ago • 131 comments

I have many American friends that like this map better.

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Great point listening to a talk by @timothysnyder.bsky.social: U.S. is making itself and its allies less powerful, which increases Russia’s relative power and influence, and brings about the multipolar world that it wants

submitted 71 days ago • 83 comments

Burn it all to the ground and buy up the land and water and minerals at rock bottom prices. This a fire sale for the oligarchy. How do I know? They’ve already done it to rural America…

submitted 72 days ago • 598 comments

The tariffs are catastrophic. But so too are the abuses of power, so is the corruption, so are the police state tactics, so is the destruction of our health care infrastructure, so are the ways our national security is being endangered, so are the attacks on our core freedoms.

submitted 72 days ago • 489 comments

I posted the video over 2 years ago. People thought he was bluffing I guess.

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