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The Republicans tax bill is here. It does NOT ban taxing tips. It does NOT ban taxing overtime. It does NOT ban taxing Social Security. Trump LIED to you — y’all got PLAYED.

submitted 1 day ago • 115 comments

Linda McMahon wrote Harvard a letter to which they responded by noting areas that are in need of corrections and then posted it on social media. Great job Harvard!👏👏👏

submitted 8 days ago • 1944 comments

According to Trump, the problem in America ain’t too many boys with guns. It’s too many girls with dolls.

submitted 11 days ago • 22 comments

Another disturbing fuck up that this heartless administration has done to date. These men need to be arrested and locked up for their crimes against this innocent family! I mean what the actual fuck??

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

The FBI is arresting judges. We just blew through Constitutional Crisis and into fascism.

submitted 20 days ago • 498 comments

What a piece of shit.

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

🚨🚨🚨BREAKING NEWS: Was just passed this from a fellow service academy grad. A Coast Guard Academy graduate posted this. They are reporting that ICE entered base housing and took a USCG spouse. I can’t confirm this but I’m calling for answers from the Coast Guard and Congress. This is unacceptable.

submitted 20 days ago • 1075 comments

🤣

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

The Trump-Supreme Court battle is not really the crisis. The crisis is here now. Trump is enacting an insidious coordinated attack on our institutions of democratic accountability, designed to crater democracy before next fall. 1/ A long 🧵to explain the plan & how we stop it.

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submitted 45 days ago • 325 comments

Bone chilling. A court ordered Kilmar Abrego Garcia to stay in the United States. The Supreme Court ruled 9-0 that he was illegally removed. Trump is pretending he won the ruling 9-0. 1/ You may not think this case means anything to you. But let me tell you why it does.

submitted 30 days ago • 487 comments

An arsonist targeted the home of Governor Shapiro during Passover. This is antisemitic terrorism. Trump is busy labeling student protesters antisemitic while ignoring real hate crimes. Their outrage is performative. Refusing to speak out against true antisemitism shows where their true feelings lie.

submitted 31 days ago • 8 comments

“We will not win every battle, but we cannot fight what we cannot see and we cannot see what we do not name. This is a coup. A digital coup.” Carole Cadwalladr www.ted.com/talks/carole...

submitted 35 days ago • 2 comments

pro tip: if your government claims to have no money for children's heathcare but will eagerly waste millions on a gaudy military parade to stroke the fragile ego of a broken-inside president, you just might live in a shithole country

submitted 36 days ago • 422 comments

We found the government “waste, fraud, and abuse”.

submitted 36 days ago • 807 comments

As the economic news keeps coming out over the coming weeks keep one thing in mind: this is the fault of one man and didn’t need to happen.

submitted 38 days ago • 2758 comments

THIS. #HandsOff

submitted 39 days ago • 214 comments

Defence Ministry Update: Border surveillance has not detected any abnormal activity. We stand rock-hop-ready to rock, set to defend ourselves against all threats both foreign and domestic (elephant seals mainly)

submitted 40 days ago • 356 comments

This is a real exchange I just had:

submitted 40 days ago • 638 comments

Stock market’s crashing, retirement savings are disappearing… and he’s out golfing.

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The IRS unit that audits ultrawealthy earners has lost 38% of its employees this year. This will starve the government of revenue by making it easier for the rich to evade taxes — which the top 1% already do to the tune of $163B a year. See what DOGE is really about?

submitted 41 days ago • 466 comments

Rather than attended the dignified transfer of the remains of four U.S. soldiers killed on his watch, Trump will be dining with his Saudi golf buddies.

submitted 41 days ago • 578 comments

What if you’re so outrageously incompetent you get it done in a matter of minutes?

submitted 42 days ago • 923 comments

Maybe next time let’s not elect someone who runs because they’re trying to not go to jail?

submitted 42 days ago • 614 comments

Don’t look at me, I voted for the black lady who didn’t want to burn down our economy.

submitted 42 days ago • 783 comments

This was….five months ago

submitted 42 days ago • 1663 comments

Hero. Pass it on.

submitted 44 days ago • 14 comments

“𝐖𝐡𝐲 𝐝𝐨𝐧’𝐭 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐰𝐞𝐚𝐫 𝐚 𝐬𝐮𝐢𝐭? 𝐘𝐨𝐮’𝐫𝐞 𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐡𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐥𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐥 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐲’𝐬 𝐨𝐟𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐞, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐫𝐞𝐟𝐮𝐬𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐰𝐞𝐚𝐫 𝐚 𝐬𝐮𝐢𝐭. 𝐃𝐨 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐨𝐰𝐧 𝐚 𝐬𝐮𝐢𝐭?”

submitted 44 days ago • 3 comments

Longest speaking filibuster ever was 24 hours, 18 minutes by Strom Thurmond in opposition to the Civil Rights Act of 1957. In a few hours, that record will be shattered by Sen. Cory Booker, a Black man, laying out the case for saving democracy from an aspiring despot.

submitted 43 days ago • 121 comments

When you look at the list of institutions they want to defund: libraries, museums, the Smithsonian, public schools, PBS, NPR, archives, you can clearly see that the real threat to an authoritarian regime is an informed and educated public

submitted 47 days ago • 671 comments

Yep

submitted 48 days ago • 765 comments

Wahhhh my companies are losing money because I appointed myself to a government position after I bought the election. Wahhhhh. Everyone hates me because I’m taking away people’s livelihoods without doing any due diligence whatsoever. Wahhhh.

submitted 47 days ago • 64 comments

I’m an average person living in century 21, and this insanity is making me crazy.

submitted 47 days ago • 1 comment