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Biggest concerns for public right now: healthcare costs, inflation, budget deficit. Good thing Trump/Congress plan to: -slash Medicaid, let enhanced Obamacare premium subsidies lapse; -increase tariffs; -expand deficits by trillions of dollars through tax cuts www.pewresearch.org/politics/202...

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As of noon on Thursday, Trump was president for 31 full days. He spent all or part of 16 of those days at four Trump Organization properties. from @pbump.com: www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

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So much family values

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This man is zooted into the next dimension

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I have long believed that not enough has been written about how GOP members have felt physically intimidated by Trump supporters. It doesn’t excuse their cowardice, but it still deserves more attention.

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Trump sat silently while President Musk held court in the Oval Office, looking annoyed as Musk’s kid picked his nose. Meanwhile, Musk’s allies push judicial impeachments, Trump is furious at low deportation numbers, and Trump's Gaza plan hits roadblocks👇

submitted 10 days ago • 586 comments

Trump aides bar @APnews.bsky.social reporter from the Oval Office because the wire service still refers to the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of Mexico. Limiting access "based on the content of AP’s speech ... plainly violates the First Amendment," says Julie Pace. www.ap.org/the-definiti...

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Reporter: Why do you want to be chairman of Kennedy Center board? Trump: Some of the shows were terrible. They were a disgrace. Reporter: Have you seen any shows there? Trump: No, I didn’t go.

submitted 12 days ago • 799 comments

This is beyond just misinformation. It is fever dream of lies codified in legislation. Buckle up world, this is where we are headed... Yep... Dark Age 2.0. Proposed bill would ban administration of mRNA vaccines in Montana nbcmontana.com/newsletter-d...

submitted 13 days ago • 103 comments

Musk is rumored to spend $40M on Super Bowl ads with his wildly distorted claims attacking USAID. Don’t believe them. The last round are debunked below. wapo.st/3ErHBZM And I'll unpack the reality in this 🧵, too. 1/13

submitted 12 days ago • 126 comments

Other cartoon of the day

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Back in the day, @motherjones.com exposed how deadly the Ford Pinto was. A new report indicates that the cybertruck is even worse: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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SCOOP: We've learned at least three individuals closely associated with Palantir or its cofounder Peter Thiel were involved in an online recruiting effort for DOGE late last year. Step inside the recruitment effort that helped build Elon's DOGE army:

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Jan 6 rioter pardoned by Trump has been arrested on child sex charges. Andrew Taake used bear spray and a metal whip to assault officers at the Capitol, and he was caught after bragging about the incident to a woman he met on an online dating app. www.texastribune.org/2025/02/06/a...

submitted 15 days ago • 64 comments

Two decades ago, Bush’s team chose to topple the far-off regime of Saddam Hussein and remake Iraq's government with 20-something neophytes. Only a short political lifetime later, the government that Trump has chosen to go after is our own, writes @sbg1.bsky.social link.newyorker.com/click/385133...

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Daily Dot: “Aaron Gleason, anti-🏳️‍🌈 writer who accused queer people of ‘grooming’, arrested & charged for molesting a child under 12… has written for Daily Wire, The Federalist…” (DW deleted his page, wayback machine still has it) www.dailydot.com/debug/aaron-...

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Reminder— here was Russ Vought, Trump’s budget guy just confirmed 53-47 by the senate, caught on a hidden camera saying Trump’s Project 2025 disavowal was a lie, they’re keeping their real plans secret, they want to only let in Christian immigrants, etc.. Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DFwhPcE...

submitted 15 days ago • 125 comments

👇🏽

submitted 16 days ago • 177 comments

I do think "state capture" is an apt term to describe what's happening in the U.S. right now. But it's also important to underscore that it was many years in the making and that other forms of capture--regulatory capture, media capture, and what I call "discursive capture"--all helped pave the way.

submitted 16 days ago • 5 comments

Rep Cohen on Elon-Gate

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I did warn you that it was about to become the Sunniest Morning in the History of American Mornings, after four years of pretending the US economy was in recession & everything was terrible under Joe Biden bsky.app/profile/mcop...

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Congratulations on a job well done to all the kids on college campuses who bravely stood up to Genocide Joe www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

submitted 17 days ago • 789 comments

Empowered by President Trump, Elon Musk is waging an unchecked war against the federal bureaucracy — one that has already had far-reaching consequences. Read more: nyti.ms/4hIUcpP

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The guy overseeing USAID was identified two years ago as a Jan. 6 participant who entered the Capitol through a broken window. www.nbcnews.com/politics/whi...

submitted 18 days ago • 282 comments

Trump just announced a guy for chief Pentagon spokesman whose wife testified that he abused and choked her. He lost custody of his kids. www.nbcnews.com/politics/ele...

submitted 18 days ago • 105 comments

When they tell you who they are, believe them

submitted 18 days ago • 169 comments

1. BREAKING Several of Elon Musk’s associates installed at the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) — including two recent high school graduates — have received unprecedented access to federal human resources databases containing sensitive personal information for millions of federal employees.

submitted 19 days ago • 316 comments

A 22-year-old Temple University student was arrested for allegedly posing as an ICE agent (with two friends) at both a local business (Insomnia Cookies) and Temple residence halls. The three were traveling in a Jaguar SUV, per the Inky: www.inquirer.com/news/ice-imp...

submitted 18 days ago • 140 comments

So to recap — troops surges to the borders both happened BEFORE the trade war threat, and there have barely been any fentanyl seizures in Canada yet he was using that as an excuse. And yet some of y’all will really think he did something heroic here.

submitted 18 days ago • 73 comments

Get them out of government. Most not old enough to be elected to anything. One suspects they are part of Musk’s gaming posse.

submitted 18 days ago • 1033 comments

Any news outlet reporting Mexico conceded anything to Trump to get him to delay tariffs has not done its homework. Trump boasts he got Mexico to commit to stationing 10K troops at our border. Apparently he didn't realize Mexico already has 15K troops deployed there prami.ibero.mx/informes-y-i...

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TRUMP TRADE WAR UPDATE: Colombia: Lasted 4 hours - Trump accepts what was already offered. 🇨🇴 Mexico: Lasted one weekend - Trump accepts worse than before. 🇲🇽 Canada: Lasted one weekend - Trump accepts what was already agreed. 🇨🇦 Two-step process established: 1. Try to look tough 2. Just fold 🤡

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CARTOON OF THE DAY

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Federal Worker: “Those of us within the ranks of the federal workforce looked on in horror at all of this. Those outside the federal government might not understand the gravity of this situation.”

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Prioritizing DEI means recognizing that not everyone has the same access to privilege and opportunity—and taking steps to support the most disadvantaged in proportion to their specific needs. DEI is absolutely why wheelchair ramps exist. The irony. 🤦🏽‍♂️

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