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submitted 10 hours ago • 30 comments

It was an honor to talk with so many librarians at the @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social conference this weekend about my new graphic memoir, IT RHYMES WITH TAKEI. At a time when our fundamental freedoms are under attack, these heroes are on the front lines to defend the right to read.

submitted 7 hours ago • 21 comments

asked if he's hearing from constituents who are worried about losing their healthcare, Rep. Mike Turner stammers that "the American people feel that individuals should go and enter into the workplace."

submitted 7 hours ago • 231 comments

Just because he’s not smart, doesn’t mean he’s not dangerous.

submitted 13 hours ago • 70 comments

If the Trump administration proceeds with denaturalization efforts against Zohran Mamdani, don’t be surprised if we hear only superficial protestations from Democratic leaders as opposed to seeing action. He threatens the corrupt networks of power in which they are almost all entangled.

submitted 12 hours ago • 5 comments

Q: Do you think that it's appropriate to ban an LGBTQ Pride Parade? TAMMY BRUCE: Well, you know, when the vice president or any of us speak about the nature of policy or I think what's important regarding freedom of expression, um, that's our plan and what we feel is important to convey

submitted 11 hours ago • 201 comments

All the reactionary centrists attacking Mamdami every day will deny -- to us, even to themselves I think -- that they play a key role in enabling this kind of shit. But that is literally their function in the current US political structure.

submitted 12 hours ago • 157 comments

Trump is inventing a work visa, which already exists.

submitted 15 hours ago • 2 comments

I didn’t start out this month as a Zohran stan but every additional Islamophobic or straight up idiotic attack against him makes me more pro-Zohran. By November I’ll have a Z face tattoo

submitted 15 hours ago • 78 comments

My heart breaks for the two teenage girls shot outside Stonewall Inn last night after NYC Pride. One remains in critical condition. While we await further details, I pray for their recoveries.

submitted 16 hours ago • 271 comments

This was a partly-line vote, meaning every single GOP senator felt good about GOP staffers effectively hiding from the parls, refusing to debate 312 usage, because they knew she’d say they couldn’t do this - so when they did it anyway w/out asking her, they could pretend they weren’t ignoring her

submitted 16 hours ago • 7 comments

This isn’t just a bill. It’s a fundamental restructuring of American society in which the poor are abandoned, and “immigration jails” outrank healthcare. Billions taken from one and given to the other.

submitted 15 hours ago • 60 comments

What a disgusting person. Crooked and evil. ProPublica finds that Noem hid $80,000 in income she diverted from her own PAC. www.propublica.org/article/kris...

submitted 18 hours ago • 707 comments

Yep. Jeff Bezos founded Amazon in 1994, one year after Clinton raised taxes on the ultra rich and corporations. So if there’s any causal relationship at all between tax rates and innovation, it’d actually be the other way around — clearly higher taxes lead to more innovation, right?

submitted 18 hours ago • 36 comments

Breaking: The US dollar has suffered its worst first half of the year since 1973, as Donald Trump’s trade and economic policies prompt global investors to rethink their exposure to the world’s dominant currency. https://on.ft.com/4ev1ux1

submitted 19 hours ago • 40 comments

U.S. Rep. Don Bacon, a Republican from Nebraska, said Monday he will not seek reelection next year. His announcement comes a day after Sen. Thom Tillis of North Carolina, another Republican, also decided not to seek reelection.

submitted 14 hours ago • 36 comments

Its amazing to watch them charge head on into oblivion like this

submitted 14 hours ago • 56 comments

Thom Tillis of NC said, “Nope. I’m out.”

submitted 14 hours ago • 141 comments

Markwayne Mullin: "There are 35 million people that live below the poverty line inside the US. There are over 70 million people signed up for Medicaid. Now you're gonna tell me there's not room to make cuts?"

submitted 14 hours ago • 1097 comments

Have you ever wondered what it would have looked like if Hitler's SS had social media?

submitted 1 day ago • 38 comments

staring off into the distance thinking about how many rural small towns rely on a hospital to anchor their entire economy

submitted 14 hours ago • 30 comments

"Tillis's retirement is a rebuke to Trump — and to MAGA’s ugly, murderous policies" — @nberlat.bsky.social

submitted 14 hours ago • 110 comments

Fetterman missed his beach trip because of the voting on the GOP big bill and is sad about it:

submitted 14 hours ago • 28 comments

Turning the racism dial up to 11

submitted 13 hours ago • 150 comments

Camp Auschwitz => Alligator Alcatraz

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

It is obscene to give tax breaks to the top 1% by throwing more than 16 million people off health care, cutting nutrition for hungry kids and making it harder for working class young people to go to college. That is exactly what Trump's budget reconciliation bill does.

submitted 1 day ago • 132 comments

Actually what Americans just saw today was a prominent Republican US Senator announce he is quitting because he knows this budget is going to hurt millions of people and he was repeatedly threatened by the president and his cult for telling the truth about it.

submitted 1 day ago • 357 comments

jesus.

submitted 1 day ago • 20 comments

I want to be very clear about what’s happening: Senate Republicans know the parliamentarian will say they can’t use 312 to pretend tax cuts are free (because two have two Byrd rule problems). So they are refusing to meet with her so they can pretend they never ignored her when they do it anyway.

submitted 1 day ago • 61 comments

Amazingly, some news organizations are still using the term "fiscal hawk" to describe Republicans who are professing concern about the Trump bill adding $3.3 trillion to the debt. If those Republicans vote for the bill in the end, at that point can we stop calling them that?

submitted 1 day ago • 78 comments

MEDIA: Are you a communist? MAMDANI: I am not ... I call myself a democratic socialist in many ways inspired by the words of Dr. King from decades ago, who said: 'Call it democracy or call it democratic socialism, there has to be a better distribution of wealth for all of God's children'

submitted 1 day ago • 253 comments

Flint, Michigan, is still working on replacing all of its lead pipes.

submitted 1 day ago • 11 comments

Reminder as the national media and Democratic leaders lie about Mamdani's views, message, language, policies, goals, and supporters:

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

Corporate Media: Democrats v. Republicans who will win! So much fun! Reality: If Republicans "win" everyone except billionaires loose, including around 40,000 people per year who will die due to lack of access to healthcare. It is not Republicans v. Democrats, it is Republicans v. The People.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

There is no bottom to this barrel.

submitted 1 day ago • 226 comments

Seemed foreordained by last night’s vote

submitted 1 day ago • 183 comments

!! Tillis say's he's not running in 2026 "It's become increasingly evident that leaders who are willing to embrace bipartisanship, compromise, and demonstrate independent thinking are becoming an endangered species ... It's not a hard choice, and I will not be seeking re-election"

submitted 1 day ago • 73 comments

BREAKING: Republican Sen. Thom Tillis of North Carolina won't seek reelection after saying he'll oppose Trump's tax bill.

submitted 1 day ago • 42 comments

So if I’m understanding this, Tillis said he couldn’t support the bill. Trump said he would choose one of Tillis’s primary opponents to support. And then Tillis announced his retirement. All in about a 24 hour period.

submitted 1 day ago • 102 comments

"...said four people familiar with the classified intelligence circulating within the U.S. government." This is what happens when you lie to the public about obliterating things you didn't obliterate.

submitted 1 day ago • 7 comments

Maybe it was a mistake to have a kind of secret police whose only qualification is that you be a white guy in a neck gaiter who’s able to say “I’m arresting you now”

submitted 1 day ago • 38 comments

Most in Congress are afraid of the TRUTH on this issue. I’m not.🙋🏼‍♀️

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Listen, @housedemocrats.bsky.social @senatedemocrats.bsky.social address this flagrant, insulting & incendiary racism. Where is the censure motion? Stop jumping at every smear against Mamdani. Focus on what a U.S. Senator is saying abt a key part of your base. www.al.com/politics/202...

submitted 1 day ago • 219 comments

ICE already can't meet their detainment numbers without rounding up children, veterans, people born in the U.S., people with no criminal records, people at immigration hearings, plus academics and visitors with valid visas. So who do they plan to detain with >10x the budget? The answer is: you.

submitted 1 day ago • 360 comments

but republicans are better on the economy

submitted 1 day ago • 28 comments