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Awesome - $350B to kick people out who contribute $76B just in taxes to the economy. Makes perfect sense.

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Just look at these paragraphs from the AP story. Hegseth called Brown unqualified solely because he's Black. Then they fired him... and replaced him with a white guy so indisputably unqualified that he requires a Presidential waiver. This is what "merit" means to them. apnews.com/article/trum...

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🚨🚨🚨 PSA- Gov. Braun has banned the distribution of the Imagination Station books in Indiana. For those who do not know, Imagination Station is a program started by Dolly Parton which provides a free book each month to children from 0-5. 1/2

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REVEALED: we identified the operator of an overtly racist X account, "GlomarResponder," as ICE Assistant Chief Counsel James Rodden, based on an overwhelming number of biographical details matched through publicly available documents, other social media activity, and courtroom observation.

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I've read most of the analyses of the DOGE 2025 "receipts" site. This, from NPR, is the best I've read so far. Some of what they claim to have cut haven't been cut, other "cuts" will incur costs down the road. NPR says DOGE has made $2B of cuts, not $55B. www.npr.org/2025/02/19/n...

submitted 2 days ago • 273 comments

UnitedHealthcare has refused to help cover the rehab and transport cost of an Idaho man who was paralyzed in an accident in Switzerland. These insurance giants are outright abandoning people when they need them the most.

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PETE: “What we have to do now is make clear we do want government to work differently and better than it has, but burning it to the ground won’t do that for anyone.”

submitted 2 days ago • 309 comments

Kamala was right. And it only took him less than 30 days to roll over for Putin.

submitted 3 days ago • 2181 comments

The fired staffers were tasked with making sure medications given to animals work well and are safe.

submitted 3 days ago • 54 comments

An 11-year-old girl in Texas took her own life after she was bullied over immigration status. Students threatened to call ICE to deport her family. This is what violent nationalism does. It seeps into the minds of children and turns playgrounds into nightmares. RIP Jocelynn Rojo Carranza

submitted 3 days ago • 28 comments

He’s not making up: news.bloomberglaw.com/banking-law/... Is this really what y’all voted for? 🫤 💰

submitted 4 days ago • 1262 comments

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Now that musk is saying he’s doing the DOGE stuff “because the globalists have plotted a Great Replacement in which they use government handouts to buy votes from illegal immigrants and urban blacks” maybe we don’t have to act like this is about deficits or cost cutting anymore

submitted 5 days ago • 764 comments

Welcome to Florida.

submitted 4 days ago • 1015 comments

Big crowd at the SF Tesla dealership protesting our unelected overlord. A tiny sign hangs from an upstairs window

submitted 5 days ago • 218 comments

813 US billionaires held a record $6.72 trillion in wealth at the end of 2024. The bottom 50% of Americans held roughly $3.9 trillion in wealth. When 813 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.

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At an elementary school at Fort Campbell in Kentucky, home of the 101st Airborne, librarians are scrubbing the shelves. They are removing books that even contain references to slavery or the civil rights movement. This is where "anti DEI" sentiment has brought us. They are whitewashing history.

submitted 6 days ago • 308 comments

The Washpost, which is bleeding millions of dollars and shrinking its staff, accepted -- and then rejected -- a $115,000 ad that criticized Elon Musk. Anyway, here's the ad that the Post's business side didn't want its readers to see ⤵️ thehill.com/media/514849...

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The Trump official currently dismantling USAID was caught in a secret meeting with a group of pro-Russian separatists in the Balkans. Those he met with are under American sanctions for trying to restart the Bosnian war in the name of Christian nationalism. 1/

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Awful: Internal USAID memo instructs employees to refrain from talking to the media about cuts in assistance to the most vulnerable or they may get fired, WaPo reports. Trumpworld knows this is a big political problem for them. Keep the focus on it. New piece: newrepublic.com/article/1915...

submitted 7 days ago • 303 comments

As the Trump administration is firing thousands of NIH workers — including 10% of the CDC team, the measles outbreak in Gaines County, Texas has suddenly doubled to at least 48 cases. The outbreak has grown from 24 to 48 cases within the last three days. All cases are in unvaccinated people or…

submitted 8 days ago • 323 comments

“The thing that I can’t get over is that the actual richest man in the world directed my fucking firing. I make $50k a year and work to keep drinking water safe. The richest man in the world decided that was an expense too great for the American taxpayer.”

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They won’t ever learn will they

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"Canada has the longest total coastline in the world, therefore we are well within our rights to rename our major oceans. Henceforth, the Pacific Ocean will be known as Poutine Ocean, the Atlantic Ocean as Hockey Ocean, and the Arctic Ocean as the Gulf of Brian Adams." - PM Trudeau

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"the Department of Veterans Affairs announced the dismissal of more than 1,000 employees who had served for less than two years. That included researchers working on cancer treatment, opioid addiction, prosthetics and burn pit exposure, U.S. Sen. Patty Murray, a Democrat, said Thursday."

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Trump keeps whining about the U.S.-Canada trade deal and sparked global chaos over it—but what’s rarely mentioned? He’s the one who negotiated it and spent his first term bragging about it.

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House Republicans released a draft budget that aims to cut $2 trillion in spending. The programs impacted could include Medicaid, SNAP, and education programs. Why the cuts? To finance another round of tax cuts for the wealthy and corporations. It's reverse Robin Hood.

submitted 7 days ago • 223 comments

Just despicable and disgraceful. The US government is now indistinguishable from the mafia.

submitted 8 days ago • 1778 comments

An amazing resignation letter to Bove from an AUSA who worked on the Adams case. Money quote: “I expect you will eventually find someone who is enough of a fool, or enough of a coward, to file your motion. But it was never going to be me.”

submitted 8 days ago • 844 comments

One of our supporters shared this with us—people are getting creative tonight!

submitted 8 days ago • 790 comments

The battle of our day is no longer about Democrats versus Republicans or left versus right. The choice right now is democracy or dictatorship. And we're sliding faster than I ever thought possible into the latter. Everyone must choose which side they’re on. Now.

submitted 9 days ago • 333 comments

Trump’s latest directive reportedly sets women’s sports back 25 years, likely diverting tens of millions of dollars from college women’s programs to men’s.

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Interesting: the State Department’s procurement forecast detailing a $400 million order for "armored Tesla" has now been edited to "armored electric vehicles." The document shows the edit was made tonight at 9:12 p.m. -- after it was highlighted in reports

submitted 9 days ago • 1457 comments

This was always Trump’s plan. Art of the Steal.

submitted 9 days ago • 628 comments

Farm around and find out.

submitted 10 days ago • 440 comments

A 71-year-old woman and others have died after oxygen supply was cut off and hospitals shuttered after Donald Trump announced a freeze on aid funding.

submitted 10 days ago • 246 comments

People who didn’t understand Kendrick Lamar‘s halftime show also don’t understand how tariffs work.

submitted 10 days ago • 309 comments

Farmers: “He was supposed to hurt other people, not us.”

submitted 10 days ago • 4033 comments

How much Elon Musk makes from the government a day: $8 million. How much a senior on Social Security gets a day: $65 Guess which budget Musk and Trump want to cut?

submitted 10 days ago • 896 comments