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I would support this guy for the next president. www.mediaite.com/politics/mar...

States Threaten Fines and Jail Time for Local Officials Who Resist Trump's Immigration Crackdown: Republican lawmakers in some states are threatening local officials with lawsuits, fines and jail time if they resist President Donald Trump's crackdown on illegal immigration

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Experts fear Trump’s mass layoffs will trigger 'deep, deep recession' — and soon: The total number of federal government workers who will lose their jobs because of mass layoffs being pushed by the second Trump Administration and the Elon Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) remains…

Latin America Prays for Francis, Region's First Pope: BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - People across Latin America prayed for Pope Francis, the first leader of the Catholic Church to come from the region, as...

Yet another casualty of mindless budget cuts...

Infuriating Infuriating Infuriating WRONG

I know Catholics that are going to be rejoicing when the pope dies and they think two guys with multiple kids with multiple wives/girlfriends are the moral compass of the US. Smh.

Disabled Military Veteran Trump Voter Blindsided by Getting ‘DOGEd’ in Wave of Federal Firings, ‘I Was Exceeding Expectations!’: In the latest Trumper tale of woe, a disabled military veteran in Virginia is struggling with what he plans to do next to provide for his family after he was fired on…

'Maximum transparency': Musk wants access to your tax data, yet his finances are still secret: Elon Musk, required by federal law to file financial disclosures as he rampages across government, doesn't want anybody else looking at this tax returns. Neither does Donald Trump, the first president or…

Measles Outbreaks in Texas and New Mexico Sicken Nearly 100 People: A majority of the cases have been in a Texas county where vaccination rates have lagged behind the rest of the state. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/22/u...

Trump and the Republicans are taking your money the old-fashioned way: by stealing it: The Republicans have wanted to privatize Social Security and Medicare pretty much since the start of both safety-net programs. They have tried a few times, most memorably after the 2004 presidential election, and…

They just now noticed?

JD Vance's best-selling book "Hillbilly Elegy" is among the books the Department of Defense pulled from school shelves for review after Donald Trump's recent executive order.

DEI exposes the myth of white male superiority — and that’s why they hate it: Trump and his white male supremacist buddies in government and rightwing media have been playing our legacy media and the American people for suckers. And it’s working. “Big Balls” and his openly racist buddies at DOGE…

Let me help those who just get mad and post. It will take years and possibly decades to build infrastructure anywhere in Ukraine to be able to mine these minerals. Then, the biggest refiner is China. It will take a decade for the first $ If Zelensky gets what he wants, who benefits the most ?

Trump Makes Chilling and Ominous Comment About Who the Next President Could Be: Just a month into his presidency, Donald Trump is already hinting at an extended stay in the White House. During the Republican Governors’ Dinner on Thursday night, he emphasized the importance of the 2026 midterm…

'South African chainsaw massacre': CNN's Tapper slams 'heartlessness' in DOGE's job cuts: CNN's Jake Tapper slammed Elon Musk's latest stunt surrounding the massive federal job cuts perpetuated by his Department of Government Efficiency and claimed some Republicans have started to feel…

Musk Is Firing People For Investigating His Businesses: A U.S. watchdog group and other critics are responding with alarm to reporting that federal employees reviewing applications related to a brain implant developed by Elon Musk's company Neuralink are among those fired as part of the billionaire…

Secretary Crash Dummy Duffy Tries To Deflect Blame For Crashes: Secretary Sean "Crash Dummy" Duffy went on Newsmax to defend his piss poor track record of multiple plane crashes since the President Elmo and First Concubine Orange Felonia took over. Needless to say, it did not go well: To cast…

Trump's Mass Surveillance Is About Controlling Brown People: Brittany Friedman, University of Southern California and Raquel Delerme, University of Southern California President Donald Trump has vowed to target his political enemies, and experts have warned that he could weaponize U.S.…

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The stock market is going down like Donald Trump’s approval ratings. It’s like we warned this would happen.

CSPAN Caller from West Virginia: I’m a diabetic and I’m on Medicare. When Biden was in there, my insulin was $6 for a 28 day supply. I just went to CVS, it went back up to $80…

Not an accident. Not a mistake.

Flailing their arms and crying out in anguish, Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr. were reportedly…: Flailing their arms and crying out in anguish, Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr. were reportedly panicking Thursday after getting their tongues stuck to a frozen column near the West Wing of the White…

General Milley Speaks Out “We Owe Our Allegiance To The Constitution”. 🇺🇸🔥🇺🇸🔥🇺🇸🔥🇺🇸🔥🇺🇸🔥🇺🇸🔥🇺🇸

When FAA employees are telling us it’s not safe to fly, we should probably listen.

IRS Plans to Lay off 7,000 Probationary Workers Beginning Thursday, AP Source Says: The IRS plans to lay off roughly 7,000 workers in Washington and around the country beginning Thursday

US Appeals Court Rejects Trump's Emergency Bid to Curtail Birthright Citizenship: By Nate Raymond(Reuters) -A U.S. appeals court on Wednesday let stand an order blocking President Donald Trump from curtailing automatic birthright...

Trump’s people rely on censorship because they know the truth is not on their side: There’s a clip going around, thanks to the indefatigable Aaron Rupar, of a CNN interview with that White House putz, Stephen Miller. In it, he defends his boss’s colonization of the federal bureaucracy. That’s as…

It's going to hurt my parents today.

Math doesn’t math.

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“Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain!”

This cause is close to my heart - please sign: sign.moveon.org/petitions/us...

I know it’s satire, but I’m inclined to believe he really thinks there is one.

Understand USDA is now fast tracking to rehire front line employees working on bird flu outbreaks. They were “accidentally” fired by the administration.  Translation: Nice job Musk! You and your friends will still get your tax breaks, but higher egg prices for everyone else.

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The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has returned $21 billion to people who were cheated by big banks and credit card companies. So why are Trump and Musk gutting an agency that's returning money to people who were scammed? For them, this has never been about cutting costs.