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Big Tech managed to bungle its way into a fight with Rs and Ds in the Senate in an amazingly small way. They have refused to add C-SPAN to their streaming services like YouTube TV, Hulu, etc. “Policymakers will not take kindly to unchecked selfishness.” www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

submitted 17 days ago • 12 comments

Big shout out to the 30M who couldn’t bother to show up in Nov… This country had the best economy and was the envy of the world instead of reeling head first towards a recession… So F**k you! European Central Bank trims interest rates after inflation dips below target www.cnbc.com/2025/06/05/e...

submitted 24 days ago • 42 comments

This CBO score shows how grim the impacts of the Republican budget bill will be: $2.4 trillion will be added to the debt, 16 million Americans will lose access to healthcare, and costs for hardworking families will only continue to skyrocket.

submitted 25 days ago • 2 comments

My big takeaway from tonight’s DC Bar president candidates Q&A is that Pam Bondi’s brother is exactly who you think he is, and it’s very important that DC lawyers cast our votes for @whatajlp.bsky.social by the 6/4 deadline. Search your email for “Vote Today in the D.C. Bar Election” and do it now.

submitted 55 days ago • 28 comments

Corporate media horribly frames Trump's attacks on Harvard as a "Fight" between the two. It's not. It's called FASCISM. And What Trump is doing is what other fascist and autocrats have done to universities to silence dissent:

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As House Republicans pass a budget bill that takes from the poor to finance tax cuts predominantly for the rich, Trump is hosting a dinner for investors in his crypto business who spent a total of $394 million to gain access to him. It's clear who they really serve.

submitted 37 days ago • 90 comments

Yesterday my hometown was hit with massive tornadoes. We weren't expecting them in places that have never been hit before and have no idea who will help us. FEMA is all but dead and our state is run by Republicans that hate the city. This is the canary in the coal mine. My latest.

submitted 43 days ago • 120 comments

The Republican budget bill includes a 10-year federal moratorium preventing states from enacting any laws regulating artificial intelligence. States would not be able to stop AI from denying health insurance or firing employees or protect kids from addictive algorithms.

submitted 43 days ago • 42 comments

This should be bigger news: ICYMI - Project 2025’s puppet master Russell Vought just replaced Elon as head of DOGE. People still in denial & believe Trump knew nothing about Project 2025, need to explain why he just handed the keys to the whole damn thing to its architect. He is the plan. Wake up.

submitted 44 days ago • 262 comments

"They could have talked to career public employees or nonpartisan government experts. But they didn’t, because they did not want to know."

submitted 43 days ago • 5 comments

The 80-year recipe stoking America’s Prosperity: 1) Free-market capital investments in brilliant ideas… 2) enabled by Engineering Innovations… 3) based on Science Research in Universities… 4) funded by Grants from the US Government. It’s time more people understood this.

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There are ample grounds for it, right? He’s a convicted felon, and incited an insurrection. Much worse than many of the people he’s trying to deport.

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I will never forget that the week Qatar decided to bribe the president of the United States with a plane, CNN decided to focus on the age and health of an ex-president. Shame.

submitted 45 days ago • 1478 comments

RFK Jr. said multiple times during his house and senate hearings today that no scientists have been fired from federal agencies. Our reporting has shown that hundreds, if not thousands, of scientists have been let go from NIH/CDC/FDA

submitted 45 days ago • 608 comments

Beyond offensive that American officials are trying to boost the AfD and undermine the German constitutional order. It’s a concerted effort now to boost fascism globally.

submitted 57 days ago • 24 comments

"What I'm seeing is a president who is more interested in the valuation of his memecoin than he is about people's 401ks. What I'm seeing is a president who, along with Howard Lutnick – he is self-dealing on crypto ... instead of worrying about the strength of the US dollar." Rep. Jake Auchincloss

submitted 57 days ago • 14 comments

Five former National Weather Service directors have taken the unusual step of signing onto an open letter warning that cuts to the organization by the Trump administration may soon endanger lives.

submitted 57 days ago • 89 comments

Here comes the arrests of journalists now.

submitted 64 days ago • 1489 comments

Virtually all of Trump’s picks were chosen for two reasons: loyalty to him personally, and the capacity and willingness to perform on Fox “News” regularly.

submitted 64 days ago • 0 comments

In the wake of what Judge Dugan did (100% legal), now is a good time for everyone to know what she knows: An immigration or administrative warrant is not a judicial warrant. You are not obliged to obey it. Indeed, you can let the person out the back door. docs.google.com/presentation...

submitted 65 days ago • 328 comments

Meanwhile, Texas will now take money from public schools to support the rich sending their kids to private schools.

submitted 64 days ago • 3 comments

"Trump Pardons Republican Who Spent Police Officer Memorial Fund on Plastic Surgery" This comes after Trump pardoned Jan 6 terrorists who brutally beat up police officers. Trump hates the police yet the police love him. www.newsweek.com/trump-pardon...

submitted 65 days ago • 31 comments

Direct File gave people an easy-to-use, free way to file their taxes. Now, Donald Trump wants to end that program. It's a massive giveaway to the giant tax prep companies that rip Americans off.

submitted 70 days ago • 66 comments

As Judge Wilkinson wrote: “If today the Executive claims the right to deport without due process and in disregard of court orders, what assurance will there be tomorrow that it will not deport American citizens and then disclaim responsibility to bring them home?”

submitted 70 days ago • 3 comments

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submitted 70 days ago • 28 comments

"Party of the working class."

submitted 70 days ago • 121 comments

Well said!

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The interesting thing is that according to our own Justice Department, MS-13 began restricting tattoos (c. 2015) on its members precisely bc law enforcement was using them to ID them. Members have to get permission, which means fewer people would have them over last decade

submitted 70 days ago • 244 comments