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Remember Collins and Murkowski could have stopped this. People who lose healthcare coverage will die because of them

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"Florida is expected to pay $450 million a year to run the facility, with the possibility of being reimbursed by the federal government." -new from @lauracmorel.bsky.social www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

submitted 17 hours ago • 116 comments

If you had a 15 year old who said this to you and seemed to believe it, you’d be up all night panicking about what it’s going to cost you in tutors to get them into the 2nd-to-last ranked public university in your state.

submitted 17 hours ago • 208 comments

This is Trump's America.

submitted 19 hours ago • 66 comments

Trump is having a meltdown that Canada is moving on without him, his excuses are lame.

submitted 19 hours ago • 391 comments

Starting this fall, Oklahoma high school students will be expected to study so-called “discrepancies” from the 2020 presidential election — essentially conspiracy theories about a stolen election that have been thoroughly discredited by courts and President Donald Trump’s own Department of Justice.

submitted 17 hours ago • 313 comments

Trump is up to something, he's been barricading the White House and US treasury overnight.

submitted 20 hours ago • 599 comments

You can't make this shit up.

submitted 19 hours ago • 179 comments

Sorry, what?

submitted 1 day ago • 105 comments

Hungary banned anything that “promotes homosexuality,” which means Pride. However, today over 500,000 people in Budapest told the government to fuck off. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

submitted 16 hours ago • 514 comments

Trump oozes with jealousy over the Salvadorean dictators extensive system of concentration camps, which is why he's leased them all for his own use.

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

This sentence, typed in her dissent, should scare the living fuck out of everyone in this country. "This Supreme Court is an existential threat to the rule of law." – Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson

submitted 18 hours ago • 444 comments

The US military did NOT use bunker-buster bombs on one of Iran’s largest nuclear sites last weekend because the site is so deep that the bombs likely would not have been effective, the US’ top general told senators during a briefing on Thursday.

submitted 19 hours ago • 99 comments

Phang: Immediately after being appointed… Habba said, quote: “We could turn New Jersey red, and I think New Jersey is absolutely close to getting there. So hopefully, while I’m there, I can help that cause.” Doesn’t sound like somebody who is trying to be, I don’t know, a fair arbiter of the law—

submitted 1 day ago • 238 comments

Secretary of State Marco Rubio has called the agency “bloated,” yet as violence spiked in the Middle East, staff say they’ve been asked to work extra hours. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

submitted 20 hours ago • 0 comments

A radical Christian just murdered the speaker of a state house but the real worry is the theocratic muslim who said the bus should be cheaper

submitted 1 day ago • 240 comments

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The United States tried presidents who were smart, decent, and capable of empathy, but decided it wasn’t for them. It just didn’t reflect them.

submitted 21 hours ago • 977 comments

Damn‼️ Federal agents blew a door off for this? Federal agents blasted their way into an LA home where Jenny Ramirez lives with her boyfriend and two kids. She heard the blast while checking on her 6-year-old, with her 1-year-old in her arms. Ramirez says everyone in the home is a U.S. citizen. 🧵

submitted 1 day ago • 3064 comments

MUST WATCH: Oceanside CA: Militarized DHS (HSI) smashed windows, assault rifles drawn, tossed flashbangs and sent drones into the apartment which had 2 kids inside. They then told neighbors they were going to use tear gas, and they’d probably be exposed. Please share widely. WTF

submitted 1 day ago • 912 comments

this court says that allowing EPA to regulate carbon emissions is a "major question" that demands congressional debate. but allowing the president to, with a flick of the wrist, end a straightforward constitutional right is something that must be allowed to stand?

submitted 1 day ago • 287 comments

The left better start figuring out how to weaponize today's decision rather than just (rightfully) criticizing it. - Go back into Judge Kaczmaryk's court to dissolve all of his nationwide orders. - Pass gun bans and insist any order applies only to plaintiffs.

submitted 1 day ago • 457 comments

Rep. Andy Ogles -- who lied about his college major, who lied about graduate work at Dartmouth, who lied about his financial disclosures, who lied that he had been a cop, who lied he was an international sex crimes expert, and who knows what else -- is now spreading lies about other politicians too.

submitted 2 days ago • 47 comments

Holy Crap. Just straight up looting at this point. Or like was already looting. But just bringing in a semi to haul out the loot faster.

submitted 1 day ago • 411 comments

ALASKA LAWMAKERS (1 Republican, 1 Independent): “This is not about partisanship… Our focus is squarely on the survival of the people we represent. The benefits of Medicaid & SNAP permeate the entire fabric of the Alaska economy.” #TrumpsTrillionsTransfer www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/o...

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Now ICE is breaking into Churches to snatch Christians seeking asylum #RepublicansHateReligion #RepublicansHateChurches l.smartnews.com/p-m6HLmOO/20...

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NEW VIDEO: One of the most egregious abuses of power and attacks on the federal judiciary is taking place in Maryland and it is not getting the urgent attention it deserves. In a normal time this would be a national scandal. Paige and I discuss. www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqrO...

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UPDATE: 2 more impersonators in Houston alone. (One was shot by a man’s wife) How long are we going to let this madness go on? We should be requiring agents to ID themselves, not legislating to protect masked vigilantes. @MarshaBlackburn

submitted 2 days ago • 429 comments

WSJ editorial board warns Paramount: you are thinking of paying a bribe to Trump. That's a foolish thing to do. And individual Paramount directors and officers may face criminal charges for doing it.

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A 49 year old Canadian has died while in ICE custody.

submitted 2 days ago • 630 comments

There is absolutely nothing about being open-minded or having common sense that can give you any information about bombing strikes in a foreign country.

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Elon Musk gave our sensitive information to Russia. The story was in April but new information is coming out from a whistleblower who is now being harassed. I’ll post the link to the video about it below in the replies. www.reuters.com/technology/c...

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The American Academy of Pediatricians bluntly telling us the current CDC can't be trusted, and of course they are absolutely correct publications.aap.org/aapnews/news...

submitted 2 days ago • 147 comments

The number of manifestly psychologically unwell people in the highest levels of this administration should be unsettling to the world.

submitted 2 days ago • 2805 comments

If even a fraction of what this letter says is true, Emil Bove should be prosecuted for criminal contempt and disbarred. In no way should he be confirmed to the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. www.judiciary.senate.gov/imo/media/do...

submitted 2 days ago • 379 comments

Under grilling by Jon Ossoff, Russ Vought repeatedly refuses to admit that it was a mistake to fire the federal employees who oversaw the safety of the nuclear stockpile (a mistake the administration acknowledged when they had to scramble to hire them back)

submitted 3 days ago • 477 comments

My apologies, I'm a little late on this one. Every one of these Democratic Representatives needs to be primaried, or a progressive independent to beat them in a general. We NEED a united front against every single action that Republicans and Trump are trying to do! www.newsweek.com/donald-trump...

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

Who else wonders what Epstein dirt Netanyhu has on Donald Trump? 🙋‍♀️

submitted 3 days ago • 53 comments

The Life of Chuck brings things home for us so we get to mention Bangor. Stephen King meets Mike Flanagan for a pretty wild ride. #movies youtu.be/dlJcCKkkbAM?...

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“I personally was pretty surprised, actually, at how efficient the government was,” Sahil Lavingia told NPR's Juana Summers.

submitted 3 days ago • 235 comments

NEW: The CDC's vaccine safety office is hiring the former head of an anti-vaccine group founded by RFK Jr., officials say.

submitted 3 days ago • 183 comments

NOT A SINGLE DEMOCRATIC SENATOR should confirm Emil Bove for the 3d Circuit Court of Appeals.

submitted 2 days ago • 1394 comments

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

submitted 3 days ago • 929 comments

Do they really think they can scare us with the word “socialist” when they are literally sending out men in masks with no warrants and no badges to disappear people off American streets? I know what I’m scared of, and it’s not a socialist.

submitted 2 days ago • 769 comments

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

submitted 3 days ago • 987 comments

And contrary to widespread belief, if you say under oath that you don’t remember something that you do, in fact, remember, that’s still perjury.

submitted 3 days ago • 150 comments

Scanlon: They're flat out lying when they say they're just kicking undocumented immigrants off Medicaid because those folks were never eligible for Medicaid in the first place. The truth is Republicans know that kicking millions of Americans off of health insurance is unpopular.

submitted 3 days ago • 150 comments

Self-deportation isn’t a thing. ICE forced this Hawaiʻi resident to leave the country. He’s lived in the US for nearly 50 years, served in the military, received a Purple Heart for being shot in combat, but is being forced to leave for a drug offense.

submitted 3 days ago • 204 comments

Emil Bove just lied under oath, saying he did not advise DoJ lawyers to defy court orders.

submitted 3 days ago • 751 comments

FEMA funds are now going to fund concentration camps in the everglades instead of helping people after a natural disaster. Seems all the rightwing conspiracy theories about FEMA building camps was projection all along.

submitted 3 days ago • 351 comments