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Musk claims Social Security is a "gigantic magnet to attract illegal immigrants." In fact, immigrants here illegally do not collect Social Security. But they pay $25.7 billion a year into it, a recent study found, so these undocumented workers are actually subsidizing Americans.

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Rick Scott defended Trump predicting a downturn by claiming the country shed full-time jobs under Biden. Under Biden the country added about 10.7 million full-time jobs. In Trump’s first term it added about 0.7 million. From my (free) newsletter. s2.washingtonpost.com/camp-rw/?tra...

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Fact-check: True

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Today, we honor the bravery and sacrifice of those who, 60 years ago, marched across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, risking everything for the right to vote and the promise of true freedom. Their courage paved the way, and it’s on us to keep pushing forward.

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Trump and musk plan to fire 83,000 from the department of veterans affairs. Remember all those times the GOP said we couldn’t care for refugees because we needed to take care of our veterans first? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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When Trump, Vance, Gabbard, and the rest of them say that Ukraine doesn’t want peace, they mean Ukraine doesn’t want to surrender to the Russians.

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You can’t make this stuff up. Trump supporters spent the past few years obsessing over an apparent sex trafficking cabal in charge of our country. And yet one of the first things Trump seems to have done, apparently, is push to get the Tates, charged with sex trafficking, released from Romania.

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The Republicans are taking health insurance away from their own voters to pay for a tax cut for themselves. They will do everything they can to distract everyone from this one undeniable and damning truth.

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Evil has never been presented as evil. It always puts on the false cloak of goodness and morality, and does evil things

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Did you know? Republicans want to cut $880 BILLION from Medicaid to pay for a massive $4.5 TRILLION tax cut for their billionaire donors! Let that sink in for a minute…

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Did you know that 72 MILLION Americans rely on Medicaid for healthcare? The Trump Administration and MAGA Republicans in Congress want to take it away to give tax breaks to billionaires. Don't let them take away our healthcare. Let them know you didn’t vote for this shit.

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trump transportation secretary (and former real world contestant) sean duffy: "[Buttigieg] failed for four years to address the air traffic controller shortage and upgrade our outdated, World War II-era air traffic control system" vs reality:

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URGENT: The folks at Americans for Financial Reform are looking for stories from people who’ve been helped by CFPB. Please read this call to action and share far and wide! 🚨 Let’s save CFPB 🚨 Pass it on.

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“What does it mean that so many self-declared Christians today pronounce that ‘America is a Christian nation’ & look with reverence & nostalgia on its allegedly Christian past of slavery, segregation, white supremacy, & genocide..?“ What indeed.😶 My Afternoon Read:

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Jeff Bezos’ Washington Post would not run this ad. This is the power of oligarchy.

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I’m the dairy farmer running to replace Elise Stefanik in New York’s 21st Congressional District. Can you repost this, give me a follow, and help spread the word?

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Fact check: nearly 70 percent of US money for Ukraine actually went to US defense industry to replenish the stocks of OLD stuff that went to Ukraine to use. Much of which we would have paid to destroy as their lifespan expired.

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Folks: I am NOT affiliated with the group that is using my name to support an economic boycott. Please spread this post, if you would.

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📌EVERYTHING these anti-American, ghastly Republicans are doing right now is tied to, and in defense of this 👇🏼

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Just saw a farmer say, "you don't have to admit you were wrong, you have to admit you were lied to, " and idk that seems like a good framing to call people in

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Here’s what we did today

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It should be a national fucking scandal that a U.S. senator discounted the deaths of Black women to make his state’s maternal mortality rates look better. But we’re so inundated with bullshit that it’ll be a 15-minute story at best. This country has deep issues, and I don’t know how to fix it.

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We need to call out the blatant lie being pushed by the Trump administration—that Elon’s staffers have only “read-only” access. It has been confirmed across departments that they have “administrative” access to computer systems.

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Dear Democratic Leaders: here’s a free idea, send members of congress into the buildings where Elons people are and see what they’re doing. Dare them to stop you. Do something

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I honestly believe our most powerful position in a toxic time that feeds on cynicism, apathy,& despair is to genuinely care and act for a better world. Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It’s not intellectually superior. It’s the virus they’re trying to infect us with. NO

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Happy Black History Month, and yeah, we're still doing that.

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WELCOME TO BLACK HISTORY MONTH

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A preposterous lie, what a surprise

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How can anyone in their right mind ignore this letter from Caroline Kennedy about her cousin, RFK Jr.?

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The👇🏽💰 chart the super-rich don’t want you to see — taxing the very top (like we used to) could erase our debt in a heartbeat, if anyone was really serious about it. They aren’t. They just want to use it as an excuse to cut programs and cut their taxes more.

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I hear there are stories coming, but putting the brakes on our country’s world-leading medical research system feels like a five alarm fire and I don’t see a newspaper that even has it on the front page yet

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"what liberal media?"

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Just a little reminder of what happened on January 6, 2021

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“You could provide teachers a pay raise. … You could prevent rural hospitals from being closed. Because he has access to these dollars, [he] is throwing out these types of consulting contracts to his friends to the detriment of the taxpayer.”

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GOOD NEWS (that will go underreported): Thanks to Biden & CFPB (which Trump & Musk want to abolish) medical debt will no longer keep people from getting home loans, etc. Tennessee is #1 in medical bankruptcies. Let’s abolish medical debt. #MedicareForAll www.wsmv.com/2025/01/07/m...

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