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I felt compelled to challenge myself to overcome the rage, and yes, even hate, I have been feeling. I wrote about it and wrote a rallying cry for myself. It made me feel better. If even one person reads it and feels better, I see that as a win: open.substack.com/pub/alex1996...

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These stupid fking people! 🤬 Immigrants pay BILLIONS in taxes yearly and don’t receive benefits. Republicans keep talking about the solvency of social security, so here’s a thought - how about we DON’T deport the people who are contributing billions of dollars into the system.

submitted 20 hours ago • 21 comments

We stand by our reporting.

submitted 21 hours ago • 256 comments

In June 2024, President Donald Trump told supporters at a campaign rally, "As president, I will not cut one penny from Social Security or Medicare."

submitted 17 hours ago • 17 comments

Any questions? www.rawstory.com/book-censors...

submitted 1 day ago • 936 comments

Never thought I would be reposting a video of megyn Kelly, but here we are

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submitted 1 day ago • 426 comments

STRAIGHT UP AUTHORITARIANISM!!! DOGE is secretly monitoring staff — scanning messages, watching for disloyalty— and using AI to do it. No one should have to work under these conditions.

submitted 1 day ago • 229 comments

Rep. Mike Lawler (R-NY) says it's "not realistic" to rule out cuts to Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid.

submitted 1 day ago • 876 comments

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submitted 1 day ago • 827 comments

I would say more broadly that as policy you really shouldn’t allow government officials to accuse people of terrorism anonymously.

submitted 1 day ago • 395 comments

If I were Judge Xinis, I would order the government to produce, in her courtroom, officials who were in a position to answer her questions and to do so under oath. Letting DOJ continue to prevaricate and deflect responsibility in written submissions seems ... insufficient at this point.

submitted 1 day ago • 642 comments

“The US post World War II was the global stabilizer, now we are the global destabilizer, that is a very hard thing to say.” -JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon

submitted 1 day ago • 178 comments

Before folks overreact to headlines about the judge’s ruling in the Khalil case, please note that (1) it was an immigration judge (IJ), not a federal district court; and (2) the IJ had no power to consider Khalil’s constitutional objections. This particular decision was a fait accompli.

submitted 1 day ago • 197 comments

3 days ago RFK Jr. told the CDC to stop recommending water fluoridation, claiming it was a neurotoxin (this is a lie). Turns out he also just eliminated the CDC’s entire Lead Program, and now lead poisoned children in Milwaukee are just on their own. Lead IS a neurotoxin and harms brain development

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@booker.senate.gov: "For a guy who spends the weekend on his golf course and brags to the media about him winning a tournament while the struggling-- this is the kind of gross arrogance of a Marie Antoinette saying, "let them eat cake" ... Screw him for telling people to accept pain."

submitted 1 day ago • 393 comments

I agree. In a functioning democracy, we would already be in the midst of an impeachment trial.

submitted 1 day ago • 1052 comments

This is exactly why we need to be organized in our defense of the freedom to read. The book banners are organized & we'll funded. But they are also unpopular. Our numbers can beat their money

submitted 1 day ago • 88 comments

Trump was outplayed by Canada on US Treasury bonds forcing Trump to “pause his tariffs” or risk a Depression. Canada holds over $350 billion in US debt. Selling off this debt would cause interest rates to increase and the dollars to plummet. #ProudBlue#Voices4V https:/deanblundell.substack.com/p/c

submitted 1 day ago • 19 comments

Raskin: If they can just sweep someone off the street, put them on an airplane, and send them to a torturer’s prison in an authoritarian state like El Salvador without due process… then they could do it to anybody.

submitted 1 day ago • 734 comments

Guess who was in the crosshairs when Musk took aim at the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration? The “office of vehicle automation safety," the Financial Times reported. The conflict of interest is blatant. Get Musk out of government. #DivestFromTesla

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By appeasing Trump, law firms are allowing him to rewrite history by creating false impressions of election misconduct and illegal hiring practices. My thoughts in @MSNBCDaily www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

submitted 1 day ago • 60 comments

Not a single word to help the 33m small businesses in this country. Not from anyone in the administration. So many buy from China, and don't have alternatives. So many didn't have the cash to front run the tariffs and buy inventory

submitted 2 days ago • 3623 comments

Trade doesn't matter, deficits don't matter, family values don't matter, law-and-order doesn't matter, the Fourth Amendment doesn't matter, free speech doesn't matter, excessive federal power doesn't matter. The GOP is the anti-matter party now.

submitted 2 days ago • 97 comments

The current regime does not read.

submitted 2 days ago • 58 comments

“ThE wOrLd WiLL rEsPeCt uS AgAiN”

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New pod: Fox News has become like "North Korean television," says historian Nicole Hemmer. Fox hosts are mostly engaging in shameless sycophancy for Trump. But a few Fox figures are telling the truth about this fiasco. We dig deep into all this here: newrepublic.com/article/1938...

submitted 2 days ago • 15 comments

Donald Trump was recorded in the Oval Office happily bragging about how much money his billionaire buddies made off of his shady tariff scheme. (Insider trading amuses and delights this group.) “He made $2.5 million today, and he made $900 million! That’s not bad,” Trump said, pointing to…

submitted 2 days ago • 256 comments

This shit's scary. We must keep shining a harsh light on what these supervillains are doing with our personal data. The Nazis weaponized birth records, employment files, and medical info to track and persecute millions. We ignore history's lessons at our own peril. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/09/u...

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72% think Trump's tariffs will HURT the economy, 22% think they will HELP, per Quinnipiac. His approval has also fallen to 41%, a new low, and he is underwater on each and every issue!

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President Donald Trump ordered Attorney General Pam Bondi and other top officials Thursday to investigate two of his former first-term officials who publicly refuted his baseless claims that the 2020 election was fraudulent and criticized his chaotic administration from within.

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Tesla has suspended taking new orders for Model S and Model X vehicles on its Chinese website, Reuters checks showed, as the world's two largest economies exchange blows in a trade war reut.rs/3RftABI

submitted 2 days ago • 107 comments

Israel is trying to interfere in the Canadian election, less than 48 hours after Trump met with Netanyahu. The Israelis are gunning for Carney and coercing the liberal party to pledge fealty. It’s time to stop appeasing war criminals. It’s the same act they hit the US Democratic Party with. #cdnpoli

submitted 2 days ago • 267 comments

NEW: While much of the country is focused on the spiraling measles outbreak, experts warn that whooping cough and other preventable diseases could get much worse with falling vaccination rates and Trump’s slashing of public health infrastructure. @deldeib.bsky.social & @sheinvestigates.bsky.social

submitted 2 days ago • 14 comments

If you're a billionaire, then you'll barely notice a few thousand dollars a year in higher prices at the store from these Trump tariffs - plus you can count on him to get you another big tax break for the wealthy. But for everyone else, this is a big deal, and a bad one.

submitted 2 days ago • 188 comments

The 10% tariff alone is a $2500 per household annual tax hike!

submitted 3 days ago • 882 comments

The executive targets his opponents w/bogus investigations. His government disappears people w/out due process and vanishes them beyond reach. He usurps legislative power, controls public funds at will, & consolidates power. Loyalty is expected — or else. Authoritarianism isn’t coming. It’s here.

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments