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Old retired lady, fighting to rid the world of blind faith in a second rate tv show grifting politician and elevate the handful that do care for us!
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FFS. Pardon all the criminals? I mean, why have laws and those who defend them?

Wall Street is beginning to understand the president’s roller-coaster foreign trade decisions with the help of a trendy acronym: TACO. “Trump Always Chickens Out.” https://trib.al/7t0ikjc

Voters overwhelmingly think ALL Americans should have access to vaccines — not just those who are immunocompromised.

Too many folks would rather burn it all down than elect a Black woman to lead this country. And until we have a reckoning with the fact that we are still a deeply racist and sexist nation, we will not get it right. Too many are in deep denial.

MIKE JOHNSON: We are not cutting Medicaid in this package. TAPPER: 1.4m people in Louisiana are on Medicaid. Is it your contention that if any of them lose benefits, it's bc they shouldn't have been receiving them? J: Yeah. Every district in America has people who are on the program who shouldn't.

Never doubt yourselves, reinforce your values

My take on the consequences of the media's "original sin." member.democracydocket.com/the-medias-o...

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GOP snuck in a provision that gets rid of the manufacturer’s tax on gun silencers.The bill also eliminates silencers from the National Firearms Act which means gun owners are no longer required to be vetted nor do they have to register them. #ProudBlue#Voices4Victory newrepublic.com/post/195611/...

from "this week in stupid," my wrap-up of the dumbest fucking shit that happened. Margie Greene loses a battle of wits with an AI, Donny cons crypto dipshits out of millions, and more. please read the whole thing here: bit.ly/4mrrEVf thanks! (and as always, there's a longer excerpt in the alt text)

Pooh Bear and Piglet, true friends that always lean on each other. 🥹 Ugh, these two always get me in my feels. 💕

One of the guests once avoided visiting the U.S. for fear of arrest because of an SEC lawsuit and a reported Justice Department investigation.

Many retailers have issued warnings that they won’t, as Trump has suggested, “eat” the additional costs caused by those import taxes. That means anything from groceries and clothing to toys and cars could cost Americans more. cnn.it/3ShEE1R

Learning the lesson of what happened to Target.

Right now, Republicans in Congress are trying to push through a bill that would put millions of Americans at risk of losing their health care. They want to cut federal funding for Medicaid, take away tax credits that help more people afford coverage, and raise costs for working class families.

I’m sorry, I don’t mean to be an intellectual elitist but I’m confused… Do stupid people think you can just start manufacturing stuff? Like, ok tomorrow we manufacture! Meet at this open field. 8am sharp. Is it like that?

Well isn’t he a tough guy. I hope the fairy of sensitive teeth visits him soon. How abjectly ignorant a statement.

7% percent of the white population, owns 80% of the land.

Me: “That members of this administration, including the President, routinely say, “I DON”T KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT THE DECISIONS THAT MY AGENCY/GOVERNMENT ARE MAKING” and apparently think that is a reasonable excuse or think we will not know that it isn’t, should horrify every single American citizen.”

True that!

Trump Claimed a Social Media Video Showed ‘Burial Sites’ of White Farmers. It Didn’t. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/21/u...

Get ready mom and dad, grandma and grandpa. “CBO late Tuesday said the legislation will increase the debt by $2.3 trillion over 10 years. That will trigger as much as $500 billion in Medicare cuts starting as soon as 2026.” I guess allowing yourself to age is fraud and abuse too.

The lady who laughingly wore Who Cares? while she toured her husband’s child concentration camps during the first dictatorship.

I’m sure that’s a coincidence. Right?

McGovern: "This is not a governing philosophy. It is a scam. I wasn't sent here to vote for trash. I can't understand why you'd choose a career of public service to do this -- to rip away the healthcare & food assistance of working & middle class Americans. Is that really what you came here to do?"

🔥 @RepMcGovern: “THIS IS NOT POLICY. THIS IS THEFT… done under the cover of night.” #TrumpsTrillionsTransfer

“The press doesn't give a shit.”

“I don’t even recognize you, Secretary Rubio.” This is so well done. Respectfully calling out a colleague who so pathetically sold his soul. Take a moment, listen, and share.👇

Wow. This needs to stop.

More like “Lyin’s Not Cheap”

When you are vastly underqualified and drowning in mismanagement and chaos-- all you can do is point fingers at a man, over 80 years old, who (despite age and other challenges) had 1000 x more impact than you ever could.

DUTY TO SERVICE. WHEN YOU ARE ELECTED BY THOUSANDS YOU MUST ANSWER TO THEM. SHE SHOULD BE IMPEACHED. THIS IS WHY WE NEED CONTRACTS FOR CONGRESS.

Forget the Sinaloa, Los Zetas, Gulf and CJNG crime syndicates, Russian and Italian Mafias. Welcome to the felon president's #GOPCartel.

It's not really deportation if people are sent to countries where they never lived. It's a human trafficking ring. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

excellent speech by Liz Warren on this wretched crypto bill www.youtube.com/watch?v=Szo7...

It is now 10:00 AM. Do you know where your Rules Committee is? The Republicans are still trying to figure out how to get the Big Screw You America bill to the floor. 🤦‍♂️

“You shouldn't be within a thousand miles of the directorship of the IRS.”

When Liz Oyer was appointed US pardon attorney in 2022 by then-President Joe Biden, she’d landed her dream job. But earlier this year, this dream job ended abruptly. After she refused to restore actor Mel Gibson's gun rights, Oyer says that Trump's DOJ fired her.

Furious Democrats call for investigation into Musk’s bid to help build Trump’s ‘$500 billion’ Golden Dome project

“Either cowed by — or under the drunken influence of — MAGA authoritarianism and threats, the GOP is no longer a functioning political party. It is a cult of personality and power redolent of the Europe of the 1930s.” www.democracydocket.com/opinion/no-n...

The White House is officially a 24 hour SNL skit. And yes, she’s talking about Bruce Springsteen

This has not been that long ago, there are first hand witnesses among us. When the political right pines for the “good ole days” where people knew their place, this what they are talking about.

Very sad news about Gerry Connolly. Known Gerry since I was a 20 something reporter covering Fairfax County for the WashPost and he was elected for the first time to the County Board of Supervisors. He did always care about good government. A true public servant. Fewer and fewer of them nowadays.

I wonder when we will realize that Trump doesn’t care about anything except getting richer? He doesn’t care about his base, he doesn’t care about GOP representatives, he doesn’t care about the American people as a whole. He cares about billionaires getting more billions.

As decision season begins at the Supreme Court, @ElieNYC makes an unlikely plea to a man with whom he disagrees about almost everything: Clarence Thomas. His ask: that Thomas vote against the Trump administration’s efforts to re-segregate US society.

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. If you think Journalists are the cause of everything that has happened since 2015, rather than a right wing conspiracy, feel free to ignore. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/19/u...