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Stop robocalls, eliminate ATM fees, and turn down the volume on commercials, and win a newly created "president for life" slot

submitted 1 hour ago • 8 comments

POCAN: Is the federal govt currently spending less this year than it did last year? VOUGHT: No, it's not POCAN: Part of that is because you've sent us a recession package worth $9b that goes after Big Bird and Cookie Monster, but you've added $200b to Defense and Homeland Security.

submitted 4 hours ago • 89 comments

CBO is out with its final cost estimate of the tax-and-spending bill passed by the House. - Revenue ⬇️ by $3.7 trillion over 10 years - Spending ⬇️ by $1.3 trillion - Debt ⬆️ by $2.4 trillion over 10 years - Uninsured pop. ⬆️ by 10.9 million in 2034 Full analysis: www.cbo.gov/publication/...

submitted 9 hours ago • 47 comments

New CBO numbers out on the Big Beautiful Bill and it creates $2.4 trillion in deficits over a decade. www.cbo.gov/publication/...

submitted 8 hours ago • 13 comments

Democrats will come across like a focused grouped robot who is just telling voters “positions” you think they want to hear. Most regular people don’t vote on issues. Running with values and a point of view that is true to yourself, even if voters disagree, is always a better path.

submitted 10 hours ago • 4 comments

MAHA!

submitted 9 hours ago • 13 comments

It’s a self-purge.

submitted 9 hours ago • 21 comments

The gutting of US biomedical research with loss of ~2,500 grants affecting research for cancer, Alzheimer’s, infectious disease, global health and much more www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

submitted 9 hours ago • 8 comments

Welcome to Day 1 of the new steel tariffs. Think of this as the tale of two cities: 🏭 Pittsburgh makes steel (5k jobs) 🚗 Detroit makes stuff from steel (hundreds of thousands of jobs) Tariffs help one. Hurt the other. Guess who loses?

submitted 9 hours ago • 11 comments

centrist: we need to focus on popular policy me: holy shit! you mean we’re finally going to support universal healthcare? centrist: no haha not that policy me: ok so…gun control? centrist: no lol not that policy either me: ok which policy? centrist: oh you know the ones

submitted 10 hours ago • 169 comments

This seems like it was focused-grouped specifically to irritate me. The thing about doing whatever is popular is that it is cowardly as well as unlikely to be popular because people do not like cowards

submitted 11 hours ago • 22 comments

Yeah we had a lot of maps in the glove compartment and we tended to plot out routes before hand and write out the instructions on a piece of paper. The front passenger was the navigator. You might have to stop for directions at gas stations. Men didn't like to do it. There are jokes about this.

submitted 11 hours ago • 56 comments

Put this on billboards

submitted 9 hours ago • 7 comments

"The Others." What is this, Hennepin County Sheriff's Office?? (his shirt says Sheriff so I am assuming that's his dept).

submitted 9 hours ago • 5 comments

Not only is this Fetterman project morally abhorrent, it’s also political suicide. People who don’t understand what’s right, how to lead, nor how to win.

submitted 21 hours ago • 15 comments

Whether it’s deliberate or dishonest, the Seth London-Jentlesssen crowd are working off an incorrect diagnosis. If the problem really is woke, the solution is easy. Just throw out the wokes. Except the problem isn’t woke. And what they want to do will at best do nothing to fix the problem and …

submitted 19 hours ago • 8 comments

This group exists for the specific purpose of trying to get Dems to throw trans people under the bus.

submitted 9 hours ago • 73 comments

This man is 51 years young.

submitted 9 hours ago • 43 comments

A West Virginia prosecutor says if miscarriage patients want to avoid criminal charges, they should “call 911” “Call your doctor. Call law enforcement, or 911, and just say, ‘I miscarried. I want you to know.’” jessica.substack.com/p/west-virgi...

submitted 1 day ago • 145 comments

Never contact an authority about anything, ever. Not in today's America

submitted 9 hours ago • 1 comment

Stuff like this is the real challenge of our time. I find myself less interested in the blatant malicious evil than I am in the gaslighting.

submitted 20 hours ago • 4 comments

heads up If you are using this moderator account it is intentionally adding people like myself and other journalists and academics to it claiming they are mis/disinformation in an attempt to manipulate the platform. It would be great if @bsky.app would take action against those labelers.

submitted 20 hours ago • 14 comments

HAWLEY: Let's see the Trump chart. You don't think it's a little bit anomalous that Trump has so many more nationwide injunctions against him? KATE SHAW: A very plausible explanation you have to consider is that he's engaged in much more lawless activity than other presidents

submitted 1 day ago • 1505 comments

Kate Shaw is a national treasure, and I’m so glad she’s not taking shit from the Hawley and Kennedy. And I say this notwithstanding the fact that Kate and I have pretty different views on nationwide injunctions, the subject of this hearing.

submitted 1 day ago • 16 comments

I am fairly plugged into what is happening at UWM and this was news to me

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

He's talking about the Impoundment Control Act of 1974, which is a law. You can't just ignore laws you don't like

submitted 1 day ago • 9 comments

the superstore episode where everyone learns how health insurance works the hard way would be a fun addition for #healthpolicy courses

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

okay, headline chat: a bunch of you have asked me who writes them and how they work. I’ll talk about it but the tl;dr is that it’s complicated and can vary a lot depending on the specific writer(s) and editor(s) involved.

submitted 1 day ago • 40 comments

Fed releases Wells Fargo from punitive asset cap (Tuesday, via @peteschroeder.bsky.social and Nupur Anand @reuters.com). Senate to hold vote to confirm Fed Governor Michelle Bowman as Fed's top banking regulator (Wednesday). Makes you wonder what Thursday will bring. www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

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I admit I had not considered that symbolic victories like naming a ship for Harvey Milk could form a meaningful obstacle to backsliding, but seeing mainstream news articles generate outrage from the rename, well, I underestimated this move

submitted 1 day ago • 7 comments

As part of my ecumenical and open-minded series “English People Who You Have To Admit Are Great, In Fairness”, here’s Tim Hunkin. First in his classic ‘80s “Secret Life of Machines” TV series, and second from his “Secret Life of Components” series, made in his shed. www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

submitted 1 day ago • 6 comments

Russell Vought: "Impoundment, which is also a possibility. We are dusting off muscle memory that existed for 200 years before President Nixon in the 1970s and Congress acted to try to take away the president's ability to spend less." (Impoundment is literally illegal.)

submitted 1 day ago • 230 comments

Jesus Christ.

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Trump has so paralyzed the federal agencies responsible for protecting civil servants’ rights that federal employees may now be able to win relief directly from courts instead, the 4th Circuit rules. A very good decision for the independent civil service. knightcolumbia.org/documents/9m...

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With the New York Times continuing its attack on trans people, I wrote about its failures and how Azeen Ghorayshi has led the charge to weaponize their coverage against the trans community and launder anti-trans talking points into the mainstream. www.thedissident.news/the-new-york...

submitted 1 day ago • 15 comments

Local observations are sometimes random noise. But sometimes they're early indicators of trends that take time to show up in regional/national data (collecting & reporting data takes time, even if you care about that sort of stuff, which may not be true nationally). Why I always mask seeing pts 🤷‍♂️

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments