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They want to keep it quiet, so you know what to do.

submitted 20 hours ago • 297 comments

The local report on JD Vance's conversation with Ukrainians from Cincinnati. He wanted to lecture them about Ukraine. www.wcpo.com/news/governm...

submitted 11 hours ago • 53 comments

“What’s transpired over the last three or four days just takes it to a whole new level of cruelty and inhumanity and, frankly, a whole new level of stupidity in doing this is the most non-strategic way.” Tens of thousands of people will die as a result of this action. www.salon.com/2025/02/28/a...

submitted 15 hours ago • 881 comments

If you haven't yet watched Justin Trudeau address Americans, Trump, and Canadians about the stupidity of launching a trade war against your closest ally and neighbor—and how baseless any of Trump's claims are—you really should watch it: youtu.be/wz_42pckM7w

submitted 4 days ago • 62 comments

NEW: A federal judge ruled that President Donald Trump violated federal law and exceeded his authority by firing the chair of a board that protects the rights of federal employees without reason. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

submitted 4 days ago • 315 comments

NEW: An anonymous source has told me that because of the suspension of government purchase cards, a VA hospital is unable to buy supplies like bleach and batteries.

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Trudeau: We’re probably going to keep booing the American anthem. But let me tell Americans, we're not booing you. We're booing a policy that is designed to hurt us. But we're Canadian. We're going to fight. And we're going to win.

submitted 5 days ago • 921 comments

Lift the cap.

submitted 7 days ago • 667 comments

If only Congress had the ability to do something about this…

submitted 7 days ago • 800 comments

Full page ad in today’s New York Times:

submitted 7 days ago • 825 comments

If you’re a Dem elected and you’re not mentioning the massive cuts to cancer cure and social security funding in every public appearance you’re just not doing your job.

submitted 9 days ago • 230 comments

When you raise the volume of your voice but not the logic in your argument …

submitted 8 days ago • 5 comments

I’ve been suggesting on TV and podcasts—without actual evidence(!)—that it may turn out that DOJ will wind up not having enough lawyers to defend all the lawsuits challenging this administration’s illegal conduct. Turns out it seems already to be true. 👉

submitted 8 days ago • 1131 comments

Brutal.

submitted 8 days ago • 1068 comments

Pass it on. #StandWithUkraine

submitted 9 days ago • 1190 comments

America has switched sides. therecord.media/hegseth-orde...

submitted 9 days ago • 65 comments

Ready Fire Aim is a lousy way to govern.

submitted 10 days ago • 2792 comments

submitted 9 days ago • 150 comments

Donald Trump is a piece of shit.

submitted 9 days ago • 1239 comments

So Republicans are considering new "that new debt doesn't matter" innovation to the budget process. www.cnbc.com/2025/02/28/r...

submitted 9 days ago • 40 comments

This was even too shameless of a lie for this account. MAGA influencers are trying to scam their own voters.

submitted 10 days ago • 251 comments

Two Republican-held districts have the most Coloradans on Medicaid. This same story is playing out across the country. TRANSLATION: Trump voters chose hate—and forgot they rely on Medicaid. Oops.

submitted 11 days ago • 348 comments

“You’re terminated because…?” Fired federal employees are telling their stories—no deep state, just career public servants tossed aside. DOGE’s mass firings aren’t about efficiency—they’re gutting expertise, wrecking lives, and calling it “reform.”

submitted 11 days ago • 685 comments

Read this excellent 🧵:

submitted 11 days ago • 31 comments

I miss DEI

submitted 12 days ago • 2277 comments

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This is evil. Pure evil.

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The proposed Medicaid cuts are over 10 years, so about $90B per year, approximately 16% of the Medicaid budget (Medicaid/CHIPS was about $580B last year). The ACA Medicaid expansion is about 20% of the annual Medicaid budget. You can see where this is headed. www.kff.org/medicaid/iss....

submitted 11 days ago • 80 comments

🔥 CROCKETT: “Facts matter.”

submitted 11 days ago • 759 comments

The U.S. has officially recorded its first measles death since 2015. Texas health officials have confirmed that an unvaccinated child has passed away from measles amid a massive outbreak that has impacted nine counties in West Texas. 👉 meidasnews.com/news/the-uni...

submitted 11 days ago • 1753 comments

Wyoming H5N1 bird flu case uploads to GISAID —PB2 E627K mutation detected Partial sequence from a Wyoming patient confirms H5N1 D1.1 genotype with PB2 E627K It’s a key adaptation for mammalian replication.

submitted 11 days ago • 166 comments

BREAKING Project 2025 leader and current OMB head Russ Vought directs all agencies to create plans for large-scale layoffs ("Reductions in Force") by March 13.

submitted 11 days ago • 1098 comments

This vote was to start the process of the cuts. It WILL come back for a final vote. There are some chances to slow or potentially stop it. Need constant pressure on GOP Focus on GOP swing seats & key committees. Energy & Commerce is where the Medicaid fight will go down. Ways&Means for tax fight.

submitted 11 days ago • 1237 comments

Democratic Rep. Robert Garcia has published a letter sent to him by Trump’s Department of Justice threatening to potentially prosecute him for criticizing Elon Musk.

submitted 16 days ago • 1537 comments

This is like opposing a joint resolution declaring that the Sun sets in the West America doesn’t just look like an idiot here, we look like goddamn Flat Earthers

submitted 16 days ago • 1064 comments

🚨NEW: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is planning to fire Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff C.Q. Brown, a 4-Star General and 41-year veteran of the Air Force who flew over 130 hours in combat as a fighter pilot. REPOST if you stand with General C.Q. Brown against Hegseth!

submitted 16 days ago • 2006 comments

Good morning and Happy Thursday to everyone who agrees with General Milley that Americans do not owe our allegiance to a King, Queen, or a wannabe dictator. We owe our allegiance to the Constitution. Fuck the nonsense trump says about being a king.

submitted 17 days ago • 572 comments

If I had a band or a label, I would do a punk cover of "No More Kings" from Schoolhouse Rock. And then I would gather a bunch of people to write a whole album of next-generation Schoolhouse Rock songs, with songs about Social Security and Medicaid and NOAA. I am not kidding in the least.

submitted 17 days ago • 424 comments

Ruhle: The left-leaning podcast MeidasTouch has just done the unthinkable—dethroned Joe Rogan to become the country’s most popular podcast…

submitted 17 days ago • 1032 comments

Lol this sign "Do not bring food into the library Food residue will attract mice Mice will acquire knowledge in the library Get into university Then replace you" 😂

submitted 19 days ago • 47 comments

Imagine you have over $400 billion and you spend your time working to deny hungry children around the world meals to avoid starvation.

submitted 19 days ago • 493 comments

If you wanted to cut waste, fraud, and abuse, you would empower the inspectors general. If you wanted more waste, fraud, and abuse, you would fire them.

submitted 20 days ago • 2288 comments

True words.

submitted 20 days ago • 549 comments

He also said he was a never Trumper in 2016. Now he is his biggest defender. He sold his soul.

submitted 20 days ago • 399 comments

Books mentioning slavery, civil rights removed from shelves at Fort Campbell schools clarksvillenow.com/local/books-...

submitted 20 days ago • 520 comments

Just as relevant today… “The media's the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that's power. Because they control the minds of the masses.” - Malcom X (1963)

submitted 20 days ago • 237 comments

Old friend just laid off by USDA, 1 mos short of his probationary period as senior researcher. Brilliant person who left a tenured faculty position several yrs ago to join USDA. Bright early-career researchers also being laid off. USDA is terminating a generation of highly-qualified scientists.

submitted 20 days ago • 824 comments