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Egg prices are up 53% compared to last year and the spread of bird flu is a major reason why. How has Trump responded? By letting DOGE fire thousands of federal employees across the CDC, NIH, FDA, and the USDA who could respond to this outbreak.

submitted 5 days ago • 204 comments

Among the Jan 6 rioters who Trump pardoned were 3 men with charges against them for child rape. 2 of the 3 are already incarcerated again for reoffending Elon Musk wants the Tate brothers released for reasons known only to him but my supposition is that him and Don are fine with rape when it suits

submitted 5 days ago • 18 comments

Maybe I wasn’t clear about this. I wanted more egg and no plane crash, not many plane crash and no egg.

submitted 5 days ago • 609 comments

I'm starting to think DEI may have been the only reason so many planes stayed in the sky...

submitted 5 days ago • 187 comments

Cognitive dissonance is Elon baselessly accusing other people of using the government as their piggy bank while he took in ~$20 BILLION in taxpayer funds.

submitted 6 days ago • 260 comments

Fired Department of Labor IG Larry Turner found $191B in improper COVID unemployment payments, much of it fraud, and was hunting down $135B more when he was fired. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 6 days ago • 91 comments

“We must especially beware of that small group of selfish men who would clip the wings of the American eagle in order to feather their own nests.” -FDR, 1941

submitted 8 days ago • 536 comments

Trump is reportedly looking to shrink the FDIC and consolidate it into other govt agencies. The FDIC was created during the Depression to protect bank deposits. This would come after Trump and DOGE shuttered the CFPB, which protects us from financial fraud. See the pattern?

submitted 10 days ago • 244 comments

Because I learned I missed one, making a list of Pete Hegseth's crashes: Hegseth confirmed: 1/25 F-35, AK: 1/28 Black Hawk, DC: 1/29 Surveillance plane, Philippines: 2/6 Growler, Sand Diego: 2/12 USS Truman, Egypt: 2/13

submitted 10 days ago • 81 comments

This has always been the GOP's strategy: 1) Cut taxes for the wealthy & corporations by claiming they'll pay for themselves. 2) Explode the deficit. 3) Demand cuts to programs that millions of people rely on. 4) Repeat. Don't let them get away with it.

submitted 10 days ago • 240 comments

How much Elon Musk makes from the government a day: $8 million. How much a senior on Social Security gets a day: $65 Guess which budget Musk and Trump want to cut?

submitted 11 days ago • 898 comments

Crockett: While he was stopping money… somehow the only money that didn’t stop was the money going to his organization. I don’t know you can have him be watchdog as well as the guy living off of the government. If you want to talk about government welfare, it looks like Elon Musk

submitted 11 days ago • 312 comments

Economist/YouGov, Trump job approval, RVs: Week 1 - 50% approve, 46% disapprove (+4) Week 2 - 48% approve, 47% disapprove (+1) Week 3 - 47% approve, 49% disapprove (-2) 6 pt drop in 2 weeks here, 7 pt drop in Morning Consult, big drop in UMich survey. projects.fivethirtyeight.com/polls/approv...

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On tRump's trade war: Canadians account for the most international visits to the United States. A 10% reduction in Canadian travel could mean 2 million fewer visits, $2.1 billion in lost spending and 14,000 job losses, according to the U.S. Travel Association. www.tampabay.com/news/florida...

submitted 13 days ago • 40 comments

Operation ICE Ride-Along isn’t going as planned. 🔥 Fox News tagged along with ICE, hoping for an exclusive look at “dangerous criminals.” Instead, they got a whole lot of nothing. No threats, no big arrests—just a community that wasn’t having it. The narrative is falling apart.

submitted 16 days ago • 1477 comments

FACTS: "There are proposals from Republicans to cut $2.3 trillion from Medicaid." THIS is what it would do: It would destroy Medicaid. It wouldn't fight inflation. It wouldn't bring anybody's prices down. It would just steal people's health care #HandsOffOurMedicaid

submitted 16 days ago • 11 comments

Good thing climate change is a hoax or this might be worrisome /s 😒

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

A reminder that safety regulations are written in blood and by the bodies of those who weren't protected by them. My stepdad was an expert witness for a few cases where safety regulations were ignored. He had to stop because of the nightmares from reading what workers were put through.

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

As we speak, an unelected billionaire, born in South Africa, is staging an unconstitutional coup in the United States, shutting down an agency that happened to fight the apartheid regime he and his family thrived under as rich whites. Now take a moment and read that again. the.ink/p/usaid-foug...

submitted 20 days ago • 10 comments

Costco - the only company to publicly come out in support of Diversity initiatives despite pressure from the GOP and they just raised the pay for their workers. Stop shopping at Target. Costco to raise hourly pay for most US store workers to over $30 www.reuters.com/business/ret...

submitted 22 days ago • 803 comments

Reminder: Tariffs aren't paid by other countries. They're eventually paid by us at the check out line. The tariffs Trump is unleashing tomorrow on Mexico, Canada, and China — our biggest trading partners — are estimated to cost households an extra $1,250 annually.

submitted 22 days ago • 305 comments

Would be great if the reporters who turned Joe Biden's dog biting a USSS agent into the crime of the century could be bothered to report on an unelected billionaire's employees basically taking over the HR function for 3 million federal workers.

submitted 22 days ago • 23 comments

Move fast and break things is not a responsible way to govern.

submitted 22 days ago • 168 comments

it has always been wild to me that the model these guys have for the united states is a country that would rival mississippi for poorest state if it became part of this country

submitted 27 days ago • 77 comments

Donald Trump has promised retribution. When you hear that a Trump foe is under investigation, be skeptical. When you read about anonymous leaks against pro-democracy leaders, consider that it may be part of an effort to discredit their work. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/10-t...

submitted 27 days ago • 108 comments

As I explained in my post about birthright citizenship, Native Americans do not derive their citizenship from the 14th Amendment but from the Indian Citizenship Act of 1924. So this question has literally been asking and answered but Trump knows nothing about the nonwhite history of the country.

submitted 30 days ago • 85 comments

Call your senators, even if you're convinced they won't listen. MAGA is calling and demanding that they confirm everyone Trump wants. Don't let them be the only voices heard.

submitted 33 days ago • 13 comments

Look, if Russia is investing millions of dollars and dozens of troll farms to oppose and smear a candidate in your country, then that’s the fucking person you need to elect.

submitted 36 days ago • 124 comments

“A mere 57 oil, gas, coal and cement producers are directly linked to 80% of the world’s global fossil CO2 emissions since the 2016 Paris climate agreement”

submitted 43 days ago • 101 comments

My own opinion is that it's good to signal (through words and/or actions) the virtues that you value; that's one of the most important parts of maintaining a healthy community.

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Seniors: Democrats gave you $35 prescription drugs and Republicans are already plotting to take it away. Elections matter.

submitted 44 days ago • 22 comments

So, we're having an "open border crises" at our southern border and the solution is to make Mexico part of the US? I suppose that is one way to solve that "problem" 🤦‍♀️

submitted 45 days ago • 0 comments