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🚨NEW: Senate Parliamentarian Advises Several Provisions in Republicans’ “One Big, Beautiful Bill” Are Not Permissible, Subject to Byrd Rule Full list here: www.budget.senate.gov/ranking-memb...

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It’s the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse

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So Republicans knew he was preparing to violate the constitution - they had advance knowledge. They knew, they remained silent. Feckless cowards or bloodthirsty warmongers. Maybe both. My god the damage they have done in five months is mind bending.

submitted 11 hours ago • 0 comments

Here is yet another reminder that the Constitution is not optional… Congress must authorize military force before any president—including Trump—launches a strike.

submitted 12 hours ago • 597 comments

We are not prepared for how bad this bill is. 👇

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There are 100k students in med school each year. Room and board is about 100k per year. For 10b a year, med school could be free. We would see a wholesale change in the profession, career paths and the cost of care. It would change the economics for every financial decision doctors

submitted 12 hours ago • 268 comments

Trump has no constitutional authority to take us to war with Iran without authorization from Congress, and Congress has not authorized it.

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This article doesn’t appear to be available online yet, but let me just tell you it is galling. Elders are starving because DOGE cut $1b in food bank grants. And now, cuts to the Agriculture Department in the looming budget bill along with SNAP cuts are destroying what funding was left.

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Certified first-born, eldest daughter bringing you an update on Covid from the White House-run website and it is BLEAK 🥴 This website looks like it was made by an actual tinfoil hat wearing raw milk-drinking conspiracy loon not the federal government bc WHAT DO YOU MEAN BY THIS??!

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If only we had warned folks before the election that the real plan wasn’t border security…it was mass deportation in the interior, federalizing the National Guard, ripping people out of homes, families, jobs, and schools. Oh wait…we did. This segment with the author of 2025 aired one year ago.

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President Trump’s tax-and-spending bill aims to require many Americans to work to collect Medicaid. Similar efforts in Georgia and Arkansas have largely fallen flat.

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If you think it can’t happen here, remember that it already did. In 1942 soldiers came with rifles to our home and ordered us out. They put us in internment camps. Most of us were citizens.

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Nailed it

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I'm being flooded with messages from friends that work at the VA after SecVa held what's been described as an "angry" all hands call where he railed about the media, dismissed 'suicide prevention' efforts as a waste of money, and mocked his own employees! Looking for the recording!

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And that doesn't consider the states with (republican governance) with very young age of consent laws.

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While we wait for the Supreme Court to rule in a critical redistricting case from Louisiana, this is what the GOP is up to in Texas and Ohio. Remember the GOP's plan is to make it harder for you to vote and easier for them to cheat.

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You can overcome reality with volume and repetition.

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In case anyone thought this ruling would actually help people whose grants have been unlawfully terminated, I received this notice about my “non-scientific” research that “harms the health of Americans” the day after the ruling.

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👇👇

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Kristi Noem is headed to Michigan to fearmonger about border security with...Canada. The Trump administration's mass deportation boondoggle is nothing but security theater that actually make us LESS safe. All to the tune of an additional $1 TRILLION in your taxpayer dollars.

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Important story about OMB's plans with regard to appropriated funds. This is a big deal, both practically and constitutionally. [Gift article] www.nytimes.com/2025/06/17/u...

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ProPublica obtained records showing how a DOGE software engineer with no health care or government experience created an AI model to identify contracts to kill at the VA. @bxroberts.org‬ takes us through what we learned when we asked experts to review the model’s underlying instructions and code ⤵️

submitted 3 days ago • 13 comments

Brutal.

submitted 3 days ago • 396 comments

So unemployment up. Jobless claims up. Inflation up. GDP down. Dollar plummeting. More wars abroad. Soldiers on the streets at home. By every objective metric, this administration is a disaster.

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“The people that make those decisions for us, don’t have to look a patient in the face…and see the damage that they’re causing. I do.” Rachel Chapin, a registered nurse, urges all of us to call our members of congress and say no to cuts to Medicaid. 202-559-1165

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simply cannot tolerate a situation where democratically elected members of Congress are obstructed from conducting their constitutional oversight duties by Fascist Toucan Sam over here

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A new AFL-CIO report shows that 179 million people with health insurance through work will pay up to $485 per person more in health care costs each year as a result of Medicaid and Affordable Care Act cuts in the budget reconciliation bill. aflcio.org/about/advoca...

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House Republicans passed the biggest health care cut in U.S. history. Senate Republicans’ response? Hold my beer. Now they’re pushing even deeper Medicaid cuts—knowing it’ll shut down rural hospitals, strip care from their own voters, and leave millions hanging.

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Colorado's protected public lands BELONG TO ALL THE PEOPLE of the U.S. and are available for their recreation and enjoyment. The Big Bad Bill being rammed through by the GOP would SELL OFF our protected lands to the highest bidders (billionaires) for the purpose of funding their tax cuts. 1/2

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When I tell people it's obvious Trump is trying to create a fascist dictatorship, they grow quiet and uncomfortable. They don't argue with me because they know it's true. Even so, they hate hearing it. Because it makes them feel helpless. But we're not helpless. Get active now, while you can.

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Tonight, I'll go home and sleep in my bed. I have a lawyer, I'll get due process. But Edgardo, whose arm was ripped from mine by ICE agents, has none of those things. That's why I'll keep coming back to court, week after week, to make sure that people's rights are protected.

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Add that to the trillion DOGE cost us

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Over the next 25 years, if proposed cuts in NIH funding are made real, “In a population of more than 340 million, this reflects 82 million fewer years of life.” In the US alone. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

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🚨 There’s a lot of horrific news out of Washington right now—but you might have missed this: Senate Republicans just introduced a plan to sell off 120 million acres of our public lands. Let me break down what’s in the bill and why it’s a full-scale land grab. 🧵

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I'm sorry but the largest protest of my lifetime is not the 7th or 8th biggest news story in the country behind "what does Gen Z want from Instagram?" This shit is humiliating. Rearrange your layout to meet this moment. Omitting the thing happening in every American city is malpractice.

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This whole administration is so thoroughly pathetic.🤣

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Have you ever wondered why eggs are so expensive? The answer is massive corporations' price gouging. Listen to my full breakdown:

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I'm watching Trump at a press event at the G7 with our PM Mark Carney. He's trying to get Russia back into the G7. Blames Trudeau, but conservative Stephen Harper was PM at the time. He claims that there would be no war. But Russia was ousted because Putin invaded Crimea. Trump is an idiot.

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BREAKING: New rules at the VA have explicitly removed protections based on political party affiliation, marital status, and national origin. https://trib.al/npDbAmo

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PUTIN WAS KICKED OUT OF G8 in 2014 WHEN HE ANNEXED CRIMEA. TRUDEAU WAS ELECTED IN 2015. THANK YOU FOR THE ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER.

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Utah voters: Are these really your values? Mike Lee is the best you can do?

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President Trump said he would fight for working class families. Instead, he’s ripping healthcare away from 16 million Americans, making the largest cut to SNAP in American history, and exploding our national deficit—all to give more tax breaks to billionaires like him.

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