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Just a reminder for any member of Congress who seems to have forgotten...

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submitted 2 days ago • 454 comments

He’s lying. About so much here. But he also thinks the American people are stupid. And he’s utterly incapable of putting the country’s interests before his own. He always has been.

submitted 3 days ago • 188 comments

Rand Paul on Fox Biz: "I do think the jet probably sends the wrong signal, and I don't like the look or appearance of it, so I would hope he would reject it. The Constitution specifically says you can't take gifts from foreign leaders."

submitted 3 days ago • 1902 comments

Could you imagine the response if a democratic president said they didn’t know if they had to uphold the Constitution? How fast would the articles of impeachment be drawn ? 20 minutes at the most

submitted 5 days ago • 1786 comments

The rule of law is all or nothing and must apply equally to everyone. If there's no rule of law for some people in America, then there's no rule of law for any of us.

submitted 6 days ago • 593 comments

Powell: "If the large increases in tariffs that have been announced are sustained, they are likely to generate a rise in inflation, a slowdown in economic growth, and an increase in unemployment."

submitted 9 days ago • 680 comments

Rand Paul: "I'm not voting to add $5 trillion to the deficit, or to the debt ceiling. Conservatives have never voted for that, and now conservatives are lining up and falling all over themselves to vote for the largest debt ceiling increase in all of history."

submitted 8 days ago • 188 comments

When the President of the United States says he doesn’t know if he should uphold the Constitution, it should be a searing red line for every American. If you let him ignore ANY aspect of the Constitution you embolden him to ignore more of it, including the parts that secure YOUR freedoms & rights.

submitted 10 days ago • 739 comments

Trump on China: "They made a trillion dollars with Biden selling us stuff. Much of it we don't need. Somebody said, 'oh, the shelves are gonna be open.' Well, maybe the children will have two dolls instead of 30 dolls, and maybe the two dolls will cost a couple of bucks more."

submitted 16 days ago • 2330 comments

There is no aborted fetus debris in the MMR vaccine, or in any vaccine at all. It is worth noting that the Catholic Church, one of the most staunch anti-abortion organizations in the world, has a formal policy that encourages all vaccinations.

submitted 15 days ago • 311 comments

I wish American business leaders were as wise as China’s foreign ministry.

submitted 17 days ago • 240 comments

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submitted 17 days ago • 354 comments

And now, a note on Bill Owens who, until this past week, was the executive producer of 60 Minutes. We’ll be back next week with another edition of 60 Minutes.

submitted 19 days ago • 1380 comments

“He is granting audiences to people who buy his meme coin. When the sitting president of the United States is selling access for what are effectively payments directly to him. There is no question that that rises to the level of an impeachable offense.” Sen. Jon Ossoff

submitted 20 days ago • 744 comments

NBC News: The info Pete Hegseth shared with his wife and brother on that second Signal chat came from the secure messages of a top general: Army Gen. Michael Erik Kurilla, who leads U.S. Central Command. Kurilla used a secure U.S. government system to send the info. www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...

submitted 24 days ago • 131 comments

The lesson of history is that tyrants cannot be appeased. Appeasement only feeds their insatiable hunger for power. Tyrants prey on people who feel unsafe and vulnerable. But without mass submission, a tyrant is powerless.

submitted 24 days ago • 350 comments

NBC has confirmed what we have been saying for weeks. Hegseth clearly copied classified strike schedules from a secure device to his personal phones. This alone would get a line service member thrown in prison. But when it’s SecDef we are supposed to ignore it.

submitted 24 days ago • 653 comments

This screenshot is the smoking gun. The Defense Secretary—on Signal—live texting classified strike times to people without the proper clearance. Hegseth’s defense? Blame a “disgruntled employee” and bash the media. And the White House is still standing by him. 1/2

submitted 25 days ago • 520 comments

Please repeat over and over: “Bending to the whims of a bully will not end his cruelty. It will only embolden him. The response to authoritarianism isn’t acquiescence. Bullies respond to one thing, and one thing only: a punch in the face.” —Gov. JB Pritzker

submitted 30 days ago • 609 comments

Powell: The level of tariff increases announced so far is significantly larger than anticipated, and the same is likely to be true of the economic effects which will include higher inflation and slower growth.

submitted 30 days ago • 155 comments

This from @anneapplebaum.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

submitted 31 days ago • 501 comments

History will remember how the U.S. chose to wreck its economy, isolate itself from allies, and lose global standing—all because a few cowardly Republican senators refused to convict Trump after January 6.

submitted 31 days ago • 86 comments

Just so you know, this is the person RFK Jr signed on to run a clinical trial to link vaccines to autism. He has been charged with practicing medicine without a license, among other things: www.yahoo.com/news/head-rf...

submitted 33 days ago • 55 comments

Since ARKANSAS Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders is who came to help push Gov. Lee’s voucher scam — let’s see how things are going with their program… 🤔 arktimes.com/arkansas-blo...

submitted 35 days ago • 249 comments

Rand Paul: "The whole [tariffs] debate is so fundamentally backwards & upside down. It's based on a fallacy & the fallacy is this: that somehow in a trade, someone must lose. That somehow when you trade with someone, someone is taking advantage of you... I have a trade deficit with my grocery store"

submitted 38 days ago • 1834 comments

SpaceX just landed a $5.92B contract with the Pentagon for Space Force rocket launches — the largest contract among the three firms who secured deals to send satellites into orbit. While DOGE cuts essential services for you, Musk is getting a taxpayer-funded windfall. Hello?

submitted 39 days ago • 365 comments

Billions in federal contracts have been awarded to Elon Musk’s and Jeff Bezos’ companies, solidifying the ties between two of the world’s richest men and their allegiance to Trump.

submitted 39 days ago • 102 comments

Donald playing golf every weekend isn't just an opportunity to ignore the problems of the American people, it is also an opportunity to rip off the American taxpayers. Here is a bill the Secret Service got for staying at Mar-a-Lago for a few days in his first term. 42 rooms at $396.15/night.

submitted 40 days ago • 254 comments

Man it is really hard to be living in the USA right now and getting news about how South Korea deposed their president for staging a coup and then their Supreme Court just said yup, definitely the right thing to do there.

submitted 43 days ago • 214 comments

Rather than attended the dignified transfer of the remains of four U.S. soldiers killed on his watch, Trump will be dining with his Saudi golf buddies.

submitted 43 days ago • 577 comments

Firing the teams that help the public access government records? So much for "radical transparency"! Thanks, Bobby! www.npr.org/sections/sho...

submitted 43 days ago • 6 comments

Trump just announced the largest tax hike in U.S. history.

submitted 44 days ago • 53 comments

'People are going to die': Physicians say CDC 'effectively dissolved' after mass firings www.alternet.org/cdc-mass-fir...

submitted 44 days ago • 76 comments

Trump is currently blasting the trade deal with Canada and Mexico. You know, the one he negotiated in his first term.

submitted 44 days ago • 90 comments

The Wall Street Journal’s editorial board ripped into Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. over “disturbing” new reports that he pushed out a top vaccine expert and instead tapped an anti-vax lawyer to lead a national study on vaccines and autism.

submitted 46 days ago • 373 comments

France’s institutions defended its democracy, upholding the law. South Korea’s institutions defended its democracy, upholding the law. Brazil’s institutions defended its democracy, upholding the law. Only America’s decided a criminal must be allowed to break its laws and destroy its democracy.

submitted 46 days ago • 382 comments

IT GETS WORSE Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth brought his wife, a former Fox News producer, to two meetings with foreign military counterparts where sensitive information was discussed, according to multiple people who were present or had knowledge of the discussions. New via @wsj.com:

submitted 49 days ago • 2529 comments

Someone tell DOGE! Brutal photo by huff post i love it

submitted 48 days ago • 1279 comments

Remedy supported by Kennedy leaves measles patients more ill. Physicians at Covenant Children’s Hospital in Lubbock, Texas, say they’ve now treated a handful of children who were given so much vitamin A that they had signs of liver damage. RFK Jr needs to resign bc he is not a DOCTOR!

submitted 50 days ago • 75 comments

Right-wing YouTuber Tim Pool has made it to the White House pool — someone from his “Timcast” channel will be part of today’s pool duty covering the president. Last year, DOJ revealed Pool was receiving millions of dollars from the Russian gov. Pool says he didn’t know where it was coming from.

submitted 49 days ago • 821 comments

“Those two countries”🤡 The dumbest President in history.

submitted 50 days ago • 1064 comments

BREAKING: It turns out that just a matter of days ago the Trump administration immediately put on leave and revoked the security clearance of someone at DHS who did a much less serious version of what Waltz and Hegseth did—confirming a contemptible double standard aimed at protecting Trump's pets.

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Did Steve Witkoff just admit that he uses a personal phone for national security conversations with Cabinet-level officials?

submitted 51 days ago • 474 comments

"That’s why the CIA guards don’t allow cell phones, or even Fitbits, into their buildings. Which brings us back to Bill Murray’s question: Why was the director of the CIA using a cell phone at CIA headquarters?" www.spytalk.co/p/signalgate...

submitted 50 days ago • 448 comments

The fact that the Department of Justice has not, and will never, launch an investigation into this massive national security breach tells you all you need to know about this lawless and profoundly corrupt Administration.

submitted 50 days ago • 1188 comments

4 American soldiers died in Lithuania today. Trump didn’t even know about it, and couldn’t even speak about it. If this happened under Biden, and Biden couldn’t give an answer, Republicans & MAGA would scream “25th Amendment, he’s senile, he’s no longer all there!” www.mediaite.com/tv/trump-say...

submitted 51 days ago • 86 comments

From Fox’s Chief National Security reporter. Who can’t seem to get any airtime lately. For some reason.

submitted 51 days ago • 396 comments