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Awwww, so freakin cute.

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Taking away food assistance to fund tax breaks for the wealthy isn't "beautiful." It's backwards, wrong, and bad for American kids and families.

submitted 9 hours ago • 22 comments

She is an American citizen, the daughter of a U.S. Navy service member from Illinois, who was stationed in the Philippines during the Vietnam War. This is fascism, plain and simple.

submitted 12 hours ago • 591 comments

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I’m always down to get a good workout in. #ImJustSaying

submitted 2 days ago • 65 comments

We can keep discussing these societal issues year after year, but nothing is likely to change. Instead, it’s up to you to take proactive steps to protect yourself and your family and live with the reassurance that you can protect your life if the threat arises—plain and simple.

submitted 2 days ago • 798 comments

Today, I was denied access to seeing my constituent, Mr. Kilmar Abrego Garcia. If there is nothing to hide, cut the crap. Let his lawyer and I check on him.

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CBS reporter Scott Pelley: This is a warning that I fear many will look back on in five or six years and think “he was so right”. If you haven’t already shared this, please do.

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Great article

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“I will not run. I will stand and die here.” open.substack.com/pub/therickw...

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"We struggled to transfer their bodies to hospital as a quadcopter drone was firing bullets everywhere." "We managed to bury them in the Jabaliya town cemetery." "After that, we decided to leave, fearing for the lives of our remaining children." #Gaza #Palestine #Israel #Genocide

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

‘They say, We leave you our deaths. Give them their meaning.’ —Archibald MacLeish Remembering the fallen this Memorial Day, we can consider our own duty to strive so that our lives and our country are worthy of the price they paid.

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The FDA flunkies say that their organization will now take an “evidence-based approach” to COVID boosters—before talking in contradictory generalities about the will of the Volk.

submitted 3 days ago • 7 comments

Lawmakers have defended the bill as simply purging Medicaid of illegal immigrants and ensuring that those who can work are not relying on Medicaid in order to avoid doing so. It’s a wildly inaccurate portrayal of what these reforms will actually do.

submitted 3 days ago • 81 comments

Jong-Fast: This would be the largest cut to food assistance in US history—and it will result in hungry kids. It’s also important to mention that this bill grows the deficit. I don’t know how it manages to do the two things you absolutely don’t want—starve children and grow the deficit—but it does.

submitted 4 days ago • 504 comments

Whether it's cuts to Medicaid, or SNAP, or Head Start, Donald Trump and Republicans are pushing a single agenda: Enriching the rich — at the expense of everyday Americans.

submitted 3 days ago • 25 comments

Yes, White people. It can happen to you too. 😏 ktla.com/news/man-31-...

submitted 4 days ago • 159 comments

Federal workers are being indiscriminately fired – and they know firsthand what’s at stake, not just for their own lives, but for Americans who rely on vital federal services. We held a press conference with SW Ohioans so they could speak out and share their stories. 🧵🎥👇🏼

submitted 5 days ago • 33 comments

37,369 flags cover Boston Common each Memorial Day weekend—one for every Massachusetts service member lost from the Revolutionary War to today. ❤️

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How are Republicans responding to America’s maternal and infant mortality crises? By piling on. Their Big, Ugly Budget will make it even harder for women to access critical health care.

submitted 5 days ago • 13 comments

NEWS: Sen. Ossoff and Sen. Mark Kelly reintroduced their Ban Congressional Stock Trading Act. Repost if you agree it's time to BAN stock trading by members of Congress.

submitted 6 days ago • 156 comments

“This isn’t just dubious legislation. It’s antidemocratic decadence. These are the governing priorities of a ruling class that faces no democratic accountability.” https://trib.al/mNVr3qS

submitted 5 days ago • 11 comments

More than a dozen high-ranking executive branch officials and congressional aides have made well-timed trades since Trump took office, raising concerns about the appearance of impropriety.

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America cannot long remain free, nor first among nations, if it becomes the kind of place where universities are dismantled because they don't align politically with the current head of the government.

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The Trump administration’s own intelligence agencies found that Venezuela does not control the Tren de Aragua gang—directly contradicting Trump’s justification for invoking the wartime Alien Enemies Act of 1798. But instead of admitting their mistake, they decided to lie.

submitted 7 days ago • 12 comments

The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has found the GOP’s "big, beautiful" bill would automatically trigger over $500B in automatic cuts to Medicare—exposing Trump's lie. The CBO estimates that there would be about $45B in cuts in 2026, and $490B in cuts between 2027 and 2034.

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“We need to do some rewriting … so this document is not used against the DNI or POTUS,” said Joe Kent, Tulsi Gabbard’s chief of staff, according to leaked emails viewed by The New York Times. https://trib.al/SayVnd0

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The Congressional Budget Office estimated that the measure would increase the federal deficit by $2.3 trillion over 10 years, triggering automatic cuts to Medicare absent congressional action. https://trib.al/xgs8MTc

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The Zelens’kyi ambush was antisemitic, and this one was racist. Good presentation here by NYT. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/21/u...

submitted 7 days ago • 106 comments

I hope they enjoy this moment cuz I’m betting money that pissed off voters are definitely gonna make them pay very, very soon.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

100%

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While right-wing media yell about “able-bodied men,” in truth Medicaid work requirements would hit caregivers the most — who are disproportionately women.

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The Freedom From Religion Foundation is celebrating a significant victory for Oklahoma families and the separation of state and church after the U.S. Supreme Court deadlocked 4–4 on a case involving the nation’s first religious public charter school. ffrf.us/3SjA5E6

submitted 6 days ago • 20 comments

MAGA thinks this won't hurt Americans. Wrong. Many poor American students are able to enroll for free because many international students are able to pay full rates. This attack is petty, dictatorial, vindictive, and makes America stupider. apnews.com/live/donald-...

submitted 6 days ago • 266 comments

Damn I hope this will run the DeSantis family right on out of the state. I wish we could just ship them right on over to Russia.

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When does an alien get a "reasonable fear" hearing & how does that work if they are being deported to a 3rd party country? Did the gov't violate a court order by denying them due process? Read up, here: joycevance.substack.com/p/welcome-to...

submitted 7 days ago • 47 comments

This is what Democrats do, rather than pandering to trump & his sycophants who are stripping benefits from hard working Americans, seniors and disabled. As always the dems will have their work cut out for them when they return in ‘26 and ‘28. I can almost smell the gop crapping themselves now.

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In an effort to restore independence to the nation’s highest court, I am proud to reintroduce the Supreme Court Tenure Establishment and Retirement Modernization (TERM) Act, which would establish term limits for Supreme Court justices and a regularized appointments process.

submitted 7 days ago • 4 comments

Many of the same senators who have been trying to undermine paid sick leave and undercut the minimum wage voted to compromise access to medical marijuana this week. The message is clear: they don’t care what voters want.

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The credit of the United States is downgraded. Market drops nearly 2% (Dow Jones falls over 800 points.) Congress must stop the reconciliation bill. It would add trillions to the debt and is hurting our credit and our economy. www.reuters.com/business/fin...

submitted 7 days ago • 7 comments

Regular Americans are about to get screwed by Trump’s big bill

submitted 6 days ago • 34 comments

I’m sorry, but we’ve been talking about this for weeks now and every day since Tapper’s book came out, it’s all the media wants to talk about. How about talking about the current president? How absolutely stupid to believe that white Afrikaners are be being slaughtered. It’s all bullshit!

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Angie Craig: "I have no idea why we think it's a good idea to repeal a tax on silencers when we are going to feed fewer children in our country as a result of this. It's a moral damn failure is what it is."

submitted 7 days ago • 423 comments

Hiding in the cover of the night, the House GOP passed their Big, Ugly Bill. They took a chainsaw to the basic needs of their hardworking constituents to help the rich get richer. Their betrayal will not be forgotten.

submitted 6 days ago • 19 comments

Something needs to be clarified: BOYCOTTS DO NOT HAVE END DATES. The boycott against Target is working because it does not have an end date, these large corporations can take a 6 day hit. There must be a demand and a consequence. We cannot not allow people to co-opt terms.

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