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PETE: “What we have to do now is make clear we do want government to work differently and better than it has, but burning it to the ground won’t do that for anyone.”

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Baldwin: "Last night, the president said 'I'm not touching Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, VA, I'm not touching them.' By this morning, he endorsed the House budget resolution which paves the way for massive cuts to Medicaid."

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Wow! What a hero! 💙

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hello cis friends this is what people mean by trans genocide if a type of person does not officially exist, then any harm against them cannot be measured or reported this headline change isn't even being caused by an executive order it's simply the NYT editors deciding we don't deserve to exist

submitted 4 days ago • 151 comments

If you wanted to cut waste, fraud, and abuse, you would empower the inspectors general. If you wanted more waste, fraud, and abuse, you would fire them.

submitted 5 days ago • 2291 comments

Now that musk is saying he’s doing the DOGE stuff “because the globalists have plotted a Great Replacement in which they use government handouts to buy votes from illegal immigrants and urban blacks” maybe we don’t have to act like this is about deficits or cost cutting anymore

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The irony of the richest man in the world almost single-handedly destroying an agency designed to help the world’s poor, so that the U.S. federal budget has more room for another giant tax cut for the richest man in the world and his pals, should not be lost on anyone. [Cartoon by Mike Luckovich]

submitted 6 days ago • 942 comments

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submitted 7 days ago • 37 comments

Across the government, probationary employees and Schedule A workers—including individuals with severe physical, psychiatric, or intellectual disabilities, as well as veterans—are being let go.

submitted 8 days ago • 418 comments

Dammit! I laughed way too hard at this.

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Tulsi Gabbard has just been confirmed as the Director of National Intelligence. 😫

submitted 10 days ago • 1277 comments

A mystery for the ages.

submitted 10 days ago • 152 comments

This reads like the opening paragraph of a novel so bleakly dystopian you'd put it down after five pages

submitted 10 days ago • 639 comments

i’m not a believer but sometimes other people’s faith really really helps me

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Thank you for your kindness, your library joy, for helping me stay, for encouraging this librarian to try my best to love this silly little thing called life 💚 Amongst the anxiety, worry, grief, pain, the lack of hope… I hope you choose to try again each & every day ❤️‍🩹🥰 All the library love 💛

submitted 16 days ago • 349 comments

Republicans ran into the room to SHEILD Elon Musk from having to come and speak to Congress. They want their billionaire takeover done behind closed doors. The people deserve transparency. No one elected Elon Musk.

submitted 17 days ago • 527 comments

Which is incredible because Bills Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos, and Elon Musk do not believe in Christ. None of them are Christians. But Christianity is useful in making minions out of morons

submitted 17 days ago • 1 comment

The man wants Gaza, Greenland, Panama, Canada, and now this. This is truly a madness, narcissistic, transactional imperialism. Rare earths are critical in magnets for electric motors and turbines and in all modern electronic displays.

submitted 17 days ago • 150 comments

this is complete ethnic cleansing and genocide. untold horrors are about to begin, across the entire world. america is driving ybe earth into a complete death drive

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Sharing this from Rt. Rev. Jonathan H. Folts, Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of South Dakota. “One of our own priests was targeted at his home—so let no one say, ‘it can’t happen here.’ It can. It has. It is. And rest assured, we will not remain silent or passive in responding.” My heart aches.

submitted 19 days ago • 107 comments

I’m not ringing any false bells of alarmism, nor will I mince words: There is a political coup happening in the U.S. And it’s mostly because of White Christian Nationalism. 🧵

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Here are the options on the table (which are not mutually exclusive): 1. House Dems bring articles of impeachment* 2. Senate Dems play constitutional hardball and obstruct everything 3. State AGs litigate (and prosecute) everything they can 4. Citizens march en mass

submitted 21 days ago • 4939 comments

So using a Bonhoeffer metaphor: There's a horse and carriage that has broken loose and trampled crowds of people. Mercy is tending to the wounded, and justice is someone stopping the horse. The democratic members of Congress are fundraising for bandages and then slapping the horse on the but again

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In the words of Dungeon Crawler Carl: You will not break me. F*ck you all.

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POTUS is shutting the US government down, except for immigration enforcement and military activities. That’s the story. He’s shutting the whole government down. He’s closing up every aspect of the United States operation, except the parts with guns.

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Yes, everyone is sick. www.infectioncontroltoday.com/view/covid-1...

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I just had my doctor approve lowering one of my BP meds. But I just got to thinking that I started having HBP when he-who-must-not-be-named was in office last time.

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"Masculine Energy"

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Filling out the anxiety screening questionnaire for my upcoming physical, and I feel like I would be having a break with reality to mark "not at all" on any of the questions.

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It is truly wild that it is estimated that more than 20 million people died of Covid and the prevailing vibe is that the world overreacted. That is an astonishing toll! More people died of Covid in the US than in the Civil War. www.pbs.org/newshour/hea...