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Rep. Don Bacon: “I was really perturbed by the interview [with Trump] asked three times about President Putin, and he kept attacking Zelensky...Putin is a bad guy. He's the man who has killed all of his opponents. Zelensky is the victim here. I just wish we had moral clarity.”

submitted 28 days ago • 5 comments

"Federal prosecutors across the country may soon be able to indict members of Congress without approval from lawyers in the Justice Department’s Public Integrity Section..." www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

submitted 28 days ago • 2 comments

A relative of mine tested positive for tuberculosis. She was told if she told anyone she would lose her job. She’s a nurse practitioner. #science

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

The honeymoon appears to be over for President Donald Trump and his Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

submitted 30 days ago • 27 comments

Stop beating up on a man who devoted his life to public service! x.com/cnnbrk/statu...

submitted 29 days ago • 29 comments

In our entire history only one President got our credit downgraded in both his terms AND got us added to the Human Rights Watch List.

submitted 29 days ago • 283 comments

This is a must-read: The Trump administration's use of anti-semitism to attack immigrants and higher education mirrors plans by a group of Christian nationalists in the Heritage Foundation (which produced Project 2025). 🧵 www.nytimes.com/2025/05/18/u...

submitted 30 days ago • 126 comments

Mariska Hargitay, Jayne Mansfield's daughter, reveals her biological father is singer Nelson Sardelli, not Mickey Hargitay, the man who raised her.

submitted 29 days ago • 5 comments

If this holds MAGA/far-right loses/underperforms in: - European, French, UK elections in 2024 - In Australia, Canada, Romania this year - 2018, 2020, 2022, 2023 and in many states down ballot in 2024 US The clear outlier to this persistent rejection of far right is Trump 2024.

submitted 29 days ago • 28 comments

Rich Logis not only fell head over heels for MAGA, he knows exactly what happened to him, and why. And now he’s out—and helping others leave too. Here my interview with Rich Logis of Leaving MAGA: open.substack.com/pub/virginia...

submitted 30 days ago • 11 comments

Severe cuts to the National Weather Service led to the Jackson NWS going without a full-time overnight forecasters. Warnings for the 3 AM tornado that claimed at least 18 lives were delayed as a result. DOGE is killing Americans. It needs to be stopped. Science needs protection. MAGA needs a cage

submitted 30 days ago • 70 comments

Forbes: The Qataris have been trying to get rid of that ostentatious luxury jet for five years, but no one would buy it. It costs too much to fly, costs more to maintain, and needs too big a landing strip. They had another one they unloaded on Turkey. Delicious. www.forbes.com/sites/jeremy...

submitted 33 days ago • 77 comments

On top of the FAA crisis at Newark Airport, now a passenger has one of the most contagious diseases on earth. Yikes. pix11.com/news/local-n...

submitted 32 days ago • 16 comments

This slippery slope is steep as hell. Justice Sotomayor called it: if the government can strip birthright citizenship from kids born here, what stops them from stripping gun rights too? Remember this later; Trump and Republicans opened the door. Watch til the end…

submitted 32 days ago • 92 comments

Hidden deep in the Republican tax bill is a $1.4B gift to the NRA: a repeal of the 90-year-old tax on gun silencers. Just 12 lines in a 400-page bill. A huge win for gun lobbyists and a dangerous loss for public safety. They buried it for a reason.

submitted 32 days ago • 24 comments

Why is Donald Trump in the Gulf again? Because that's where the money is. For himself and his family. He and his kids are making lucrative private deals and getting lavish gifts from gulf Emirs - and taxpayers are left holding the bag.

submitted 32 days ago • 101 comments

this is a letter to the editor from a high school track runner who came in second to a trans girl in a race. her state house rep in maine started talking about it. so she wrote this: www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/r...

submitted 32 days ago • 364 comments

Tonight, Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band opened their Land of Hope & Dreams Tour. Bruce launched this run of shows with three statements about the situation in the United States, with comments preceding his songs Land of Hope and Dreams, House of a Thousand Guitars and My City of Ruins.

submitted 33 days ago • 460 comments

American staffers who work at the International Criminal Court, at the Hague, have been told they'll be arrested if they come in the United States, the AP reports: apnews.com/article/icc-...

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DADE CITY, Fla. (AP) — Gov. Ron DeSantis signs a bill making Florida the second state to ban fluoride from its water system.

submitted 32 days ago • 148 comments

Baldwin to RFK Jr: "You cannot tell us that you want to make America healthy again when you are willfully destroying programs that keep children safe and healthy from lead poisoning ... the entire staff has been fired"

submitted 33 days ago • 408 comments

NEW: US House Democrats launch probe into Justice Dept for “blessing” the Qatar jet deal with Trump Admin Atty General Bondi is named in letter

submitted 32 days ago • 47 comments

JFC - the people sending the pizzas are not just telling judges they know where they live. They are using the name of a a family member of a Judge who was murdered.

submitted 34 days ago • 50 comments

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. visibly lost his temper during a Senate hearing as Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) confronted him with promises he made to respect public health and not interfere in vaccine approval during his confirmation hearing, only to change his tune the second he got into office.

submitted 33 days ago • 57 comments

Manchin’s utter duplicity on this was so transparent & disgraceful. He & Sinema should never get the stain of this off of their legacies.They knew the Republicans were not dealing in good faith, but held the Dems hostage nevertheless. www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...

submitted 33 days ago • 31 comments

Here's an entertaining cite at the bottom of the first page

submitted 33 days ago • 45 comments

RFKjr has ordered the FDA to review its regulations on mifepristone‼️ “Kennedy also stated that the FDA’s “policy changes will ultimately go through the White House, through President Trump.”” tinyurl.com/3c2yvsbk

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Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. stumbled over basic details surrounding a child health initiative housed within his own department – and named after his aunt.

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Senator Alsobrooks: You’ve been unable to address specific questions about your agency. Can you name which office the Safe to Sleep program operates out of? RFK Jr.: Guesses wrong 5 times Alsobrooks: It is the Eunice Kennedy Shriver NICHD.

submitted 33 days ago • 421 comments

Senate Republicans promised to keep the filibuster after winning back the chamber in November. Now they’re rapidly moving to kill it—shattering a precedent they defended vociferously for four years under Biden. And once they’ve crossed the Rubicon, there’s no going back. slate.com/news-and-pol...

submitted 33 days ago • 150 comments

Fired for assessing threats to the USA means they were fired for trying keep you safe. Does this make you feel safe?

submitted 33 days ago • 41 comments

Donald Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” was just released. It would terminate health insurance for 14 MILLION Americans. This is not a drill. We need to fight back.

submitted 34 days ago • 97 comments

'Hit the guy with his clipboard': GOP congressman allegedly fought constituent at event https://twp.ai/4incnI

submitted 34 days ago • 2 comments

Man who had a student kidnapped and trafficked because she wrote something he didn't like yuks it up with man who had a journalist dismembered with a hacksaw because he wrote things the man didn't like.

submitted 34 days ago • 309 comments

New in PN: Stephen Miller threatens to suspend habeas unless Trump can defy judges "The administration is demanding that it be unconstitutionally allowed to defy the courts, and if it isn’t allowed to do so, it has no choice but to unconstitutionally suspend habeas."

submitted 35 days ago • 183 comments

This was a dark day for Corporate America. Top CEOs traveled to Saudi Arabia to ingratiate themselves with: 1. Trump, who is taking a blowtorch to the Constitution, and 2. MBS, who ordered the execution of a U.S.-based journalist

submitted 34 days ago • 59 comments

WTH -they’re trying to use Dugan to instill fear for prejudice in other judicial rulings Federal grand jury indicts Wisconsin judge in immigration case, allowing charges to continue #MomSky

submitted 34 days ago • 67 comments

Deportation for honking his horn at an undercover ICE officer

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🚨NEWS: Republicans put a line in their budget bill that ends the wildly popular program letting Americans file their taxes for free. The bill then launches an initiative to enrich private tax prep corporations that just delivered campaign cash to the GOP.

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🚨NEWS: Republicans put a line in their budget bill that ends the wildly popular program letting Americans file their taxes for free. The bill then launches an initiative to enrich private tax prep corporations that just delivered campaign cash to the GOP.

submitted 34 days ago • 8 comments

As House Republicans on Tuesday haggled over parts of a bill that proposes deep cuts and new restrictions on Medicaid, patients and doctors who rely on the program say they’re bracing for the worst.

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Earlier today, I was leaked a copy of the Executive Secretariat Style Guide for the US State Department. The new guide included a new section requiring that all trans State employees must be misgendered in all official communications. www.patreon.com/posts/new-st...

submitted 34 days ago • 90 comments