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In addition to kicking millions of Americans off their health insurance, cutting taxes for the wealthy, and adding trillions to the deficit, other parts of Trump’s Budget are also harmful and unpopular. We need to make sure more people learn about them.

submitted 20 hours ago • 86 comments

“The soft power suicide of the U.S. will be incomprehensible to future historians who will be dumbfounded in their attempts to explain why the global leader voluntarily wrecked one of its greatest national assets...” www.nytimes.com/2025/06/24/b...

submitted 1 day ago • 738 comments

Congrats to Zohran Mamdani. Important lessons. Focus on shifting economic power. Relentlessly. Have big ideas on how to do it. Be joyful and authentic. Even if your ideas aren't considered "mainstream" by elites. The elites have little idea what's actually mainstream.

submitted 1 day ago • 86 comments

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submitted 3 days ago • 746 comments

Donald Trump and other senior administration officials have made a fortune off of crypto schemes. Today, I'm introducing the COIN Act to put a stop to this corruption in plain sight. youtu.be/4zOtklEunwE

submitted 3 days ago • 701 comments

Justice Sotomayor said it best: the conservative majority is “rewarding lawlessness.” Migrants are being deported—without notice or due process—to countries they’ve never even set foot in. This is what happens when the Court starts playing politics.

submitted 3 days ago • 372 comments

AOC: “It is absolutely and clearly grounds for impeachment.”

submitted 5 days ago • 345 comments

HIRONO: If ordered by the president to shoot peaceful protesters in the legs, would you carry it out? HEGSETH: Of course I reject the premise of your question HIRONO: Considering that the president in his first term actually ordered such a thing, it's not a premise you can reject

submitted 8 days ago • 221 comments

20-year-old U.S. citizen Adrian Andrew Martinez was swarmed by ICE in Pico Rivera while defending someone. He never hit back—just struggled—before being slammed into a CBP van. No records. No lawyer. His mom can’t find him. This is abuse of power. Keep recording. Don’t stop.

submitted 8 days ago • 244 comments

Jon Stewart asks: How many gun deaths is too many for the GOP?

submitted 8 days ago • 410 comments

Call me cautious, but I’m not optimistic about a war run by a reality TV show Commander-in-Chief and his TV talk show chatterbox Secretary of Defense.

submitted 9 days ago • 601 comments

“ICE agents have to wear masks and no uniform because they have become so deeply unpopular that it’s safer to appear to be a vigilante kidnapper” is a hell of an argument

submitted 9 days ago • 133 comments

For those unconditionally cheering the attacks on Iran, remember that our early strikes in Afghanistan and Iraq were “successful”. But we ended up getting dragged into costly wars that created more terrorists than we killed. The American people haven’t forgotten that.

submitted 8 days ago • 1540 comments

Having a bit of a hard time with the concept that if a guy in a police uniform who has a police vehicle shows up I should lock the doors and call 911, but if a guy in a ski mask with an hGH gut appears to be kidnapping my neighbor, I shouldn’t ask who he is if I don’t want federal charges.

submitted 9 days ago • 541 comments

Good morning bluesky!

submitted 8 days ago • 149 comments

Maybe reporters should have the courage to ask politicians simple questions like this. I bet we’d get similar results.

submitted 9 days ago • 99 comments

Today in "We Are Nothing Like the Gestapo".

submitted 9 days ago • 181 comments

If you watch one thing tonight, let it be this. This is delicious.

submitted 9 days ago • 667 comments

Trump is back to selling scams—this time, it's a $499 phone. He’s doing what he does best: turning the presidency into a business deal. Republicans spent years investigating the Bidens despite no evidence of corruption or pay to play. (1/2)

submitted 9 days ago • 179 comments

C-SPAN caller to Tapper: "When are you going to examine what's going on with Trump? ... this president has been pure chaos, which indicates to me that there is something wrong with him. We will never get a straight answer on his medical exam, and yet you have gone after Joe Biden with a vengeance."

submitted 9 days ago • 1312 comments

“'States’ rights,'” along with any other principle Republicans claim to value under a Democratic president, is just a convenient cudgel. Quite simply, they don’t think Democrats and the governments they run have any rights they are bound to respect." — @playtyperguy.com

submitted 9 days ago • 55 comments

Tina Smith on Mike Lee: "I went to him and I said, 'Your message on social media showed the image of the man who killed my friend ... and your message is, this is what happens? You need to take responsibility and accountability ...' And I wanted him to hear that from me directly."

submitted 10 days ago • 483 comments

Mr. Antiwar President has us inches away from a Civil War at home and a nuclear war abroad in defense of an ally that is starting random hot regional wars to detract from its ongoing genocide. I’m sure all of this will just naturally cool off.

submitted 10 days ago • 701 comments

Despite warnings from the law enforcement not to attend today’s No Kings rally after this mornings shooting of Minnesota lawmakers with the killer on the lose, the No Kings Rally is happening at the Minnesota State Capitol in St. Paul.

submitted 12 days ago • 372 comments

One in every 70 Americans was on the streets yesterday and it’s not on the NYT front page 24 hours later.

submitted 11 days ago • 4 comments

97% of extremist-related murders in the U.S. in 2024 were linked to right-wing extremists. It’s not a political movement anymore - it’s a hobby for failed men with too much testosterone and not enough brain cells.

submitted 11 days ago • 883 comments

I'm sorry but the largest protest of my lifetime is not the 7th or 8th biggest news story in the country behind "what does Gen Z want from Instagram?" This shit is humiliating. Rearrange your layout to meet this moment. Omitting the thing happening in every American city is malpractice.

submitted 12 days ago • 677 comments

absolutely horrifying: "Minnesota state senator John Hoffman in Champlin and Minnesota state representative Melissa Hortman in Brooklyn Park were reportedly shot in their homes by a gunman impersonating a police officer."

submitted 12 days ago • 1139 comments

The targeted attack on Minnesota state lawmakers, Sen. John Hoffman and Rep. Melissa Hortman, is absolutely horrific. Violence like this has no place in a democracy. I’m praying for their healing, their families, and every public servant who has to wonder if doing their job makes them a target.

submitted 12 days ago • 596 comments

I’ve activated the State Emergency Operations Center. Local law enforcement in Champlin and Brooklyn Park have the full resources of the State of Minnesota behind them. We are monitoring the situation closely and will share more information soon.

submitted 12 days ago • 588 comments

Horrifying news out of Minnesota this morning as political violence takes the lives of Speaker Emerita Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark. @Chasten and I are holding their loved ones in our hearts and praying for State Senator John Hoffman and his wife Yvette as they recover.

submitted 12 days ago • 537 comments

Walz announces that Rep. Melissa Hortman is dead as a result of a "politically motivated assassination"

submitted 12 days ago • 2248 comments

Undocumented immigrants paid an effective federal income tax rate of 5.27% in 2022. That means they paid a higher effective tax rate than 5 of the richest Americans…and a higher effective tax rate than 55 mega corporations. So let me ask you: who are the real freeloaders?

submitted 13 days ago • 403 comments

"The HHS document says that another paper it cites found 'an increase in placental blood clotting in pregnant mothers who took the vaccine.' But the paper doesn't contain any reference to placental blood clots or to pregnant women." www.npr.org/2025/06/13/n...

submitted 13 days ago • 1117 comments

Just so we're all clear: It's not a coincidence that the first senator they've used physical force against is Sen. Alex Padilla, a Latino man representing California.

submitted 14 days ago • 371 comments

The "I'll lower costs and get us out of endless wars" candidate is now presiding over surging costs and brand new wars.

submitted 13 days ago • 748 comments

Padilla: “We will hold this administration accountable”

submitted 14 days ago • 883 comments

A group of us have arrived on the Senate floor to challenge our colleagues - on both sides of the aside - to rise to this moment and jointly condemn what has happened to Sen. Padilla. Yes we still need to collect the full facts, but this appears to be a defining moment for the country.

submitted 14 days ago • 1628 comments

What happened to Senator Padilla is absolutely DISGUSTING. Point blank, period. This shit is out of control. Another elected official disrespected while doing their job. (1/2)

submitted 14 days ago • 1059 comments

Trump's military parade spews 2M kg of planet-heating pollution, rivaling 300 homes' yearly emissions. Tanks roll, jets roar, all to glorify war's gas-guzzling relics. Hypocrisy burns hotter than fuel: celebrate destruction, ignore the planet's cry. #3E

submitted 13 days ago • 8 comments

A DHS spokesperson defended the detainment, accusing Sen. Padilla of failing to properly identify himself during Sec. Kristi Noem's press conference. But multiple videos show Padilla clearly identifying himself as a senator.

submitted 14 days ago • 1502 comments

On 6/12, DHS Sec’y Kristi Noem said “We are staying here to liberate [LA] from the socialists and the burdensome leadership this governor and mayor have placed on this country and this city.” This use of military force to displace a democratically elected is the very definition of a coup.

submitted 14 days ago • 844 comments

"They took her in a car, in essence kidnapping her ... I met another young woman whose husband has quite literally disappeared" -- Newsom shares harrowing details of specific cases of ICE terrorizing immigrants in California

submitted 14 days ago • 490 comments

Workers are "terrified" as immigration agents sweep farms, the president of United Farm Workers says, adding that Americans should think about the "human loss" as well as "crops rotting" in the fields.

submitted 13 days ago • 129 comments