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Budzinski: Families making over $700,000 a year will see a boost of $12,000 almost entirely from tax cuts. Shockingly, households making $23,000 a year or less are set to lose about $1600 a year, mostly due to deep cuts to Medicaid and food assistance

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very easy to see what is happening. trump will run for a third term, he’ll try to bring the dispute to federal courts, where his election denying judges will rewrite the 22nd amendment to mean it only refers to “consecutive” terms.

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It’s not just McConnell. Republicans in Congress actually believe this. Let’s show them wrong. #WeWontGetOverLosingMedicaid

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MERKLEY: How do you feel about being responsible for hundreds of thousands of kids dying because of your sudden interruption in these key programs? VOUGHT: I reject the assertion MERKLEY: I find your response both ignorant & callous. Few Americans have had a more devastating & disastrous impact

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Take 3 minutes to watch Rep Dr. Kim Schrier give a masterclass on how to use your committee time. 👇

submitted 23 hours ago • 38 comments

weiss’ singular talent is her ability to flatter the sensibilities of rich men of influence. that’s it. she makes them feel like they aren’t as vapidly reactionary as they actually are.

submitted 12 hours ago • 92 comments

I have never been so ashamed to say I'm American in my life. ICE in our streets pulling Derek Chauvin moves on every person they see who isn't white. It's racial profiling to commit crimes against humanity.

submitted 1 day ago • 32 comments

If you're a member of the Democratic gerontocracy, the chances of you catching a primary challenger just went up 1000%.

submitted 1 day ago • 414 comments

Ah, North Carolina, where parents can be charged with felony letting your black kid walk around outside

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I know it is easy to get distracted with all the horrors going down every day, but don't forget that yesterday, the bribe-takin' US Supreme Court put its seal of approval on gratuitous human trafficking. These are evil times.

submitted 1 day ago • 462 comments

Mic drop.

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CNN: Three sources tell CNN that according to an early U.S. Intelligence assessment, the U.S. Military strikes on three of Iran's nuclear facilities last weekend did not destroy the core components of the country's nuclear program and likely only set it back a few months

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LENOIR CITY, TN — pregnant fiancée of an American lost her baby in ICE detention after they denied her prenatal care after pleading for help for days. (@ltgovmcnally & @lowellrussell21’s district) Unimaginable cruelty. @MarshaBlackburn @SenatorHagerty nashvillebanner.com/2025/05/27/i...

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Schrier to RFK Jr: You gave Cassidy the answer he needed to hear in order to get his confirmation vote, then as soon as you were secretary you turned around & fired all 17 members. You lied. I also want to be clear that I will lay all responsibility for every vaccine-preventable death at your feet.

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Amy Coney Barrett: No due process for Brown people! No constraints on the President’s ability to tear families apart! Legal commentators: Is Amy Coney Barrett our moderate queen?

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I’m sorry, I cannot believe military and foreign policy is being conducted through all caps posts on social media by a sociopath whose brain is pudding, we live in the dumbest dystopia

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This image is now absolutely everywhere over European media lmao

submitted 1 day ago • 553 comments

Netanyahu is the Jewish Putin..

submitted 2 days ago • 145 comments

Remember when the far right feared being implanted with chips and having their movements and purchases tracked by the government? Good times.

submitted 1 day ago • 8 comments

is anyone else just really depressed about all this shit? ugh

submitted 1 day ago • 64 comments

On balance, I was more comfortable with Fox employees lying about wars than running them.

submitted 2 days ago • 135 comments

Russia carried out a terrorist attack against a civilian train in Dnipro filled with hundreds of elders, women and children. The train was targeted with a ballistic missile. #StandWithUkraine

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The costs of restricting abortion? More than $130 billion per year. www.motherjones.com/politics/202... via @MotherJones

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#RFKJr is destroying American biomedical research and public health. Every word out of his mouth including “and” and “the” is a lie. #truthmatters

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Not to rain on everyone’s ceasefire-not-ceasefire parade, but that wrecking ball of a big dumb bill is still working its way through the Senate and still launching an assault on women, wages, benefits, and the entire working class

submitted 2 days ago • 196 comments

So we're all in hell?

submitted 1 day ago • 15 comments

Knew there was a reason today’s vibes are so rancid

submitted 2 days ago • 20 comments

He's just a really dumb asshole. This fucking ding dong is the goddamn president.

submitted 1 day ago • 33 comments

www.stevevladeck.com/p/161-the-co...

submitted 1 day ago • 315 comments

Hot take: people should be able to call the police to verify if they think they’re being kidnapped by men in masks who won’t identify themselves in unmarked cars without it being a “resisting” crime

submitted 1 day ago • 402 comments

I just watched the Surviving Ohio State doc on HBO. Devastating and damning. I say this not as a Michigan fan, but as a human being. And as bad as you think Jim Jordan is, he’s worse.

submitted 2 days ago • 32 comments

People keep saying “Trump doesn’t understand” when it’s really “Trump doesn’t care.” He cares about money, power, and immunity from prosecution. That’s it. He’s not confused; he doesn’t care about the day to day of POTUS duties. Plutocrats and mobsters are VERY interested in doing that job for him.

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Dear people of #georgia America is still with you. The Georgian Dream is a nightmare and the govt is going down.

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Can't wait for Jake Tapper's deep reporting on how a decrepit old president completely hallucinated a ceasefire.

submitted 1 day ago • 41 comments

That he thinks he can control another country's military from his phone's social media app is deranged.

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what federal agents did to a father of three Marines while he was cutting grass in Orange County on Sunday has happened in some form daily — and deliberately — all over Los Angeles for 18 days.

submitted 2 days ago • 783 comments

Touché.

submitted 2 days ago • 847 comments

They’re assaulting the mothers and fathers of US soldiers. Roving gangs of masked men grab human beings off the street. They send them without due process to prisons in countries they’re not even from where they are then sold into slavery. Make it stop!!!

submitted 2 days ago • 674 comments

Today marks the third anniversary of the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade. What's happened since? A record number of women have been prosecuted. Pregnancy loss is now considered extremely suspicious, even when it has nothing to do with abortion.

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Me ASF currently: #NintendoSwitch2

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Anyone still want to argue that John Roberts isn’t the worst Chief Justice in SCOTUS history?

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It’s wild that in the video DHS posted in an effort to make the beating of an innocent landscaper (with 3 marine sons) seem justified there’s a masked ice goon pointing a gun at a random car passing by and they don’t seem to think it matters at all

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You can’t make this shit up. newrepublic.com/post/197119/...

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I didn’t have the Supreme Court destroying the authority of federal district courts on my bingo card. But in retrospect that’s perhaps where all this shadow docket decision-making was going all along. Really scary stuff.

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HUGE: Senate Parliamentarian says that Mike Lee's public land sell-off violates the Byrd rule, requires 60 votes in the Senate. A bunch of other terrible anti-environment provisions do too. This isn't over, but this is a huge win. www.budget.senate.gov/ranking-memb...

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