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Cool. How about you tell us what Donald Trump said to you that one time that made you wag your finger in his face? kthanksbyeeee

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In a less imperfect world, Musk and Trump would be forever cast as killers of children, and this would be front-page news for months and the subject of Sunday sermons in every church.

submitted 1 hour ago • 30 comments

And the new GOP bill is TAXING new wind and solar projects.

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It's incredible that neither the president nor VP was here. The politicization of all facets of American life is coming from the White House. No other American president would have failed to pay their respects. www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

submitted 10 hours ago • 1768 comments

An incumbent senator -- one who's been resisting the president's main legislative priority so much that the president threatened to get revenge on him -- just announced he'd retire rather than buckle under. Seems like a big story, but it doesn't have "Gaza magic word bingo" in it, so who knows?

submitted 3 hours ago • 28 comments

With this budget, ICE alone would have nearly as large a detention operation as all 50 states' prison systems combined. Bigger budget than the Marine Corps. Police-state levels of spending

submitted 10 hours ago • 211 comments

It’s amazing how much of the discourse about “what Democrats did in 2024” is just completely divorced from reality.

submitted 3 hours ago • 69 comments

BREAKING: Thom Tillis just announced he won’t seek re-election. That means that there will be an open North Carolina Senate seat in 2026. Let’s flip it. secure.actblue.com/donate/votse...

submitted 5 hours ago • 301 comments

If Joe Biden mused about being on Mt. Rushmore, the New York Times would have cited it as mental decline, not done a flashy exploration of what it would take to do it and how it would look. And if Obama had, well I think we know how that would have gone.

submitted 8 hours ago • 39 comments

I see this stuff all the time: Young guys insisting Democrats - who just last year had a football coach running for vice president - are telling men not to watch sports. Just completely made up.

submitted 4 hours ago • 263 comments

Anything for their goddamned billionaires.  Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget warns that the Republican bill will hasten the insolvency of Social Security and Medicare.

submitted 1 day ago • 79 comments

RON JOHNSON says Trump and Senate leaders agreed to back Rick Scott's amendment to phase out the 90% Medicaid match for expansion population under the ACA. "We can't afford it," said Johnson, expressing confidence they can get the votes. Guts part of Obamacare...

submitted 18 hours ago • 127 comments

As I was saying yesterday: Talk is cheap. Be skeptical when you hear Republican lawmakers complain about the bill; doesn’t mean they’ll vote it down. Nearly all of them have cultivated a track record of caving and voting “yes” when push comes to shove.

submitted 18 hours ago • 28 comments

Zohran Mamdani’s win has inspired over 3400 young people to raise their hands to run for office just since Tuesday. It’s now @runforsomething.net’s biggest candidate recruitment moment since the election. A new generation of leaders is here.

submitted 1 day ago • 314 comments

Never bet against the Republicans' willingness to sell out after spending weeks feigning concern. It's all an act. They're all self-serving cowards who will put party over country every single time.

submitted 21 hours ago • 415 comments

Absolutely incredible turnout for Budapest Pride! So proud of all the organizers, including some old friends, who estimate hundreds of thousands— major embarrassment to Orban

submitted 1 day ago • 503 comments

👇 Utter fascist madness

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Well, he's right about one thing. (and, uh, congrats @jessedjenkins.com?)

submitted 1 day ago • 40 comments

Cruelty is the point.

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A NYC candidate for mayor has called for reconsidering rent control in that city, while congressional Republicans are advancing a bill that would take a trillion dollars in health care away from working people all across America, but guess which one the pundits are all over right now?

submitted 1 day ago • 53 comments

"A provision that bars states from regulating artificial intelligence (AI) for a 10-year period can remain in President Trump’s sweeping tax package, the Senate parliamentarian determined Friday. "

submitted 1 day ago • 40 comments

The new bill text goes way beyond eliminating @wyden.senate.gov's tax credits for wind and solar. It actually TAXES CLEAN ENERGY Needless to say, this is an awful idea. It's an immediate rate hike for consumers, and hundreds of thousands of clean energy workers are about to lose their jobs.

submitted 1 day ago • 9 comments

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“But please pretend I care about working class people even though I’m voting to take away their health care.”

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“Every dictator who has ever cracked down on political opposition has done so by rendering them internal foreigners in rhetoric and deed, invaders of the body politic who can justly be crushed like insects.”

submitted 1 day ago • 16 comments

Clay Bennett, Chattanooga Times Free Press

submitted 1 day ago • 6 comments

This is excellent and exactly matches what we've seen in reporting w construction teams, farm managers, food service, bldg maintenance. Let's not even talk about packing houses Everyone knows this, except Miller, Noem, Homan, Trump, Congressional GOP. (Actually, they know.) 100% worth watching

submitted 1 day ago • 33 comments

I understand that there are media figures obsessed over an elderly president’s clear cognitive decline but they’re talking about a different president than Sundowny McMumbles here?

submitted 1 day ago • 44 comments

"MAGA allows for no breathing room after a tragedy, no space for unity. Instead, Trumpists immediately try to use the corpses to score political points without regard for the facts. Trump is a small, petty man and as a result, the GOP becomes smaller and pettier every day." — @playtyperguy.com

submitted 1 day ago • 135 comments

And consolidates power for themselves. You know if President Harris had issued an EO banning assault rifles and began seizing them, they wouldn't make every gun owner join a class action suit to stop her, and the Court would insert themselves immediately and stop her.

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A Melania Trump event is being investigated after promising to donate proceeds to a charity that doesn't appear to exist, report says. They’re ALL corrupt.

submitted 1 day ago • 206 comments

Federal agents used explosives to enter a U.S. citizen’s home and entered — guns drawn — on a baby, a 6-year-old, and their mother. She believes it’s because her boyfriend attended an ICE protest where he accidentally hit a cop car (and was released by cops). www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/h...

submitted 1 day ago • 94 comments

What he said

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Appeasement. Never. Works.

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almost ten years ago. what a different world this would be if people had listened instead of mocking her.

submitted 2 days ago • 78 comments

US citizens

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the president does not actually have the power to fire a university president or a museum director, but if elites simply roll over under pressure, then effectively he does

submitted 2 days ago • 241 comments

“You know what would help a lot? Some elite disapproval—publicly and boldly expressed. While a successful democracy depends on some degree of reasonableness from voters, a successful liberal democracy also depends on responsibility and even courage from elites.” www.thebulwark.com/p/the-public...

submitted 2 days ago • 207 comments

I feel like everyone memory-holed the fact that Michael Bloomberg—who spent over $8 million supporting Cuomo—ALSO campaigned on a free bus proposal in 2009.

submitted 2 days ago • 45 comments

Monstrous: "They were crying in fear. One of the agents at one point lifted up his shirt, which displayed the gun that he was carrying....The 6-year-old boy was terrified to see the gun. He urinated on himself and wet all his clothing. No one offered him a change of clothing for many hours."

submitted 2 days ago • 324 comments

In Tommy Tuberville's home state of Alabama, 23% of all personal income comes from transfer payments from the federal government. Alabama is the tenth most dependent on federal funding, getting $1.80 in spending back for every $1 its citizens pay in taxes. www.al.com/politics/202...

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Take note: Trump makes clear he aims to end birthright citizenship entirely, claiming just now the 14th amendment protections were “meant for the babies of slaves.”

submitted 2 days ago • 25 comments

So when do Blue states start banning firearms? And then start making every gun owner file an individual lawsuit seeking an individual injunction? Or they can go through the class certification process which, let me tell you having done it myself in litigation, takes forever. Let’s do this.

submitted 2 days ago • 40 comments