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Why is it hard to do this?

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Major corporations that have spent years touting their efforts to combat hunger in America, but now publicly support a $300 billion SNAP cut: AT&T T-Mobile United Airlines Uber Comcast Charter Communications Verizon Delta Air Lines Dell FedEx Southwest Airlines

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Woke up from my post-all-nighter nap. One thought: GOP moderates got bullied into voting for the bill. A bunch had written a letter asking leaders to slow phaseout of green energy credits that benefit their districts. Instead, leadership nuked the credits even more and they gave thumbs up anyway.

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GOP ‘Moderates’ Lied Their Way Through Cutting Medicaid — @cheetah.bsky.social for @thebulwark.com www.thebulwark.com/p/gop-modera...

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The original sin was failing to send Donald Trump to prison for the rest of his life for mounting a violent coup to overthrow the election of 2020.

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We apparently can’t afford healthcare but can afford silencers. Early this morning, House Republicans passed their budget bill and snuck in provisions to completely deregulate and cut taxes on silencers—costing American taxpayers $1.5 billion.

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OPT is the program that allows foreign students graduating with STEM degrees stay and work for up to three years. Because of the oversubscribed H-1B lottery, OPT is one of the main ways that foreign students manage to transition to jobs in the US. Ending it would destroy a major STEM pipeline.

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Jeffries: There are three big issues with the bill 1. It represents the largest cut to healthcare in American history. 2. It represents the largest cut to nutritional assistance in American history. 3. All of this is being done to enact the largest tax break for billionaires in American history.

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"This tax bill's enormity is being underplayed ... [It] will cost more than the 2017 tax cuts, the pandemic CARES Act, Biden's stimulus, and the Inflation Reduction Act combined," Jessica Riedl, a budget specialist at the conservative Manhattan Institute, told Yahoo Finance.

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I think the real "monsters" are the people who would - without any due process - dump Asian refugees in the middle of a civil-war-torn African nation just for the sport of it. But that's just me

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The pope isn’t on here, so I’ll post the screenshot:

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Ain’t just the CBO. Penn/Wharton model says $3.6T as well.

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WARREN: Can POTUS legally tell the IRS to change someone's nonprofit status? BILLY LONG: I'm not able to answer WARREN: You can't read these words and tell me what those words say?! LONG: I can read the statute and I did WARREN: Then tell me what they mean!

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Poor man wanna be rich Rich man wanna be king And a king ain't satisfied 'Til he rules everything — Bruce Springsteen Badlands

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As @hurwitz.bsky.social has reported, this is not only ridiculously expensive—it could be a MASSIVE payday for Elon Musk.

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Amazing how quickly the rhetoric of “personal choice” drops away once they’re in a position to impose their crackpottery on everyone.

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Josh Hawley is calling on FEMA to aid recovery efforts following devastating storms that ravaged the state last week “only months after voting against a bill that provided more disaster relief funds for the agency.” www.newsweek.com/republican-s...

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DURBIN: How can we give hope to people across the country who are suffering from so many diseases when our government is cutting back on that research? RFK Jr: I do not know about any cuts to ALS research D: I just read them to you! R: I didn't know about them until you told me about them

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A big step forward in the fight against Alzheimer’s: The FDA approved the first blood test to help diagnose the disease. Breakthroughs like this will make earlier, easier diagnosis possible—bringing us closer to better treatments and, someday, a cure.

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Senate Republicans are fast-tracking the GENIUS Act, which would greenlight a financial system enabling the ultra-rich to exploit unstable crypto schemes. The rest of us will be left holding the bag. Every Senate Democrat must vote against Trump's corrupt crypto scam.

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This is HUGE. For those wondering why due process is essential for EVERYONE. This is why!

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Pro Tip: If you are a news organization, best not to write headlines that mirror the designated state media channel. Blasting out Trump talking points with no fact or context is not journalism, it's propaganda. 1/

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Forced-reset triggers make semiautomatic rifles fire more rapidly! President Biden made us safer by signing more gun safety executive actions than any other President & signing Bipartisan Safer Communities Act into law. Trump is arming more people w/ weapons of war for gun industry profits.

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“The Columbia footage that we subpoenaed conclusively proves that Mahmoud never attempted to run from the ICE agents, that the government lied once again, & that there was no valid reason for the arrest of a US permanent resident and human rights defender” - Ramzi Kassem to @premthakker.bsky.social

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Sure, let’s dissect the mental and physical acuity of the former president who sought to make lives in America better while minimizing the reality of a deranged arsonist dismantling the country we’ve known and loved. What a failure to meet this moment.

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Speaker Mike Johnson on the US credit downgrade: "Moody's is not incorrect, but that emphasizes the very need for the legislation we're talking about -- historic spending cuts." (Part of Moody's concern is in fact the reconciliation bill, which is projected to add trillions to US debt)

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The Trump administration has struck a deal to allow sales of a trigger mechanism that allows a semiautomatic firearm to fire more rapidly, one of several actions recently taken by Attorney General Pam Bondi to quickly dismantle Biden-era gun regulations.

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After Donald Trump spent the last year promising to fight for regular people, every single Republican voted against my amendment to close the carried interest loophole. They care more about appeasing billionaires and hedge fund managers than helping regular people.

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135 Palestinians killed in Gaza so far today. Massacre after massacre, day after day. The world does nothing.

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GOLDMAN: “.. with US federal spending up 50% from late 2019 (think about that for a second), the back end of the bond market skates on thinner ice .. “.. US fiscal spending is +7% y/y, .. we have a mountain of Treasuries coming off the assembly line .. we have lost all of our primary AAA ratings.”

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"Tucked deep in the thousand-plus pages of the multitrillion-dollar budget bill making its way through the Republican-controlled U.S. House is a paragraph curtailing a court’s greatest tool for forcing the government to obey its rulings: the power to enforce contempt findings."

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wapo.st/3YTivKW - Gift article

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BREAKING: The GOP-led House Budget Committee just voted to reject Trump's big budget bill — an embarrassing setback for Republicans. Five conservative hardliners joined all Democrats in voting against the bill.

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We're speechless.

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Focus on 2026, NOT 2028. sherrilyn.substack.com/p/part-2-how...

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This is not funny or Trump being Trump. It’s menacing and an abuse of power.

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“I’ll gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today.” 😏

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This should be a national scandal. Sean Duffy should resign. And imagine if a Democrat was President....ahhh why bother.

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Even though Solicitor General Sauer has been raked over the coals, it’s hard to see who the fifth vote is to deny the government’s applications here. I didn’t hear any real skepticism from the Chief Justice or Justice Kavanaugh, and we already know where Thomas, Alito, and Gorsuch stand. Sigh.

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🚨 WALMART RAISING PRICES DUE TO TARIFFS “We will do our best to keep our prices as low as possible but given the magnitude of the tariffs, even at the reduced levels announced this week, we aren’t able to absorb all the pressure given the reality of narrow retail margins,” Walmart CEO says.

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Buy it !

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A British father-of-four who was arrested at an airport in Riyadh while vacationing with his family is set to spend a decade behind bars in a Saudi Arabian prison over a ‘deleted’ social media post from years ago. No wonder Trump loves Saudi Arabia, he wants to be like them. tinyurl.com/2x25ka9h

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