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Starmer puts UK cabinet on alert for potential US attack on Iran https://on.ft.com/4k08FhL

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Katie Miller instructed the head of the SSA to report that 40% of all calls placed to SSA phone lines were linked to fraudulent Social Security claims, a number Trump and Musk plucked out of thin air. Just more proof that DOGE is not transparent or efficient. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

submitted 7 hours ago • 52 comments

US businesses better pray that the rest of the world doesn't have Canada's patriotic determination. Maybe THAT is the oligarchic plan to bring manufacturing back to the US and get people to work the lines? Break it all down to rebuild it to their needs.

submitted 5 hours ago • 1 comment

These are what true leaders look, sound, and act like.

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Just asked SDNY if they were opening an election interference investigation against the people who arrested @bradlander.bsky.social yesterday, given Emil Bove's representation that such a thing would be election interference. Nicholas Biase declined to comment.

submitted 5 hours ago • 9 comments

Republicans are trying to rebrand their Big Murderous Budget Bill as “Healthcare Reform” There is no positive way to spin it, doesn’t matter what words they use — it will cut billions of dollars from Medicaid and Medicare. People will die as a result. ☎️ your Sens! www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

submitted 5 hours ago • 38 comments

A bill creating a minimum wage for farmworkers in Maine has been signed into law. Starting next year, farmworkers' minimum rate will rise to $14.65 an hour. Currently, their minimum wage is only $7.25/hr.

submitted 6 hours ago • 100 comments

CAUTION: Bounty Hunters are working in groups inside of California. If gangs were created for anything it is for these occasions. These aren’t Feds. Unmask them @governor.ca.gov

submitted 14 hours ago • 262 comments

damn -- Duckworth to Hegseth: "If you want to be the DHS secretary, maybe you can apply for that job when you're fired from this one due to your incompetence."

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New in PN: Judge rules that anti-woke is just racism “'I’ve never seen a record where racial discrimination was so palpable,' Judge Young fumed. 'I’ve sat on this bench now for 40 years. I’ve never seen government racial discrimination like this.' More of this, please"

submitted 9 hours ago • 665 comments

Duckworth to Hegseth: "You are blowing through money like my fellow cadets and I did in our first liberty after basic camp. Luckily I didn't end up with a questionable tattoo ... you're just an unqualified yes man who can't tell the president how to keep Americans safe."

submitted 6 hours ago • 566 comments

None of this is going to be good… Russia tells US not to strike Iran, warns of nuclear catastrophe - Reuters

submitted 5 hours ago • 9 comments

BREAKING: The Supreme Court ruled that incarcerated people have a right for their claims to be heard by a jury in cases where access to the prison’s grievance procedure is at issue. This is a step toward making justice more accessible for people in prison.

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It's unclear to me why the US Congressmen are not escorted by big armed cops to push through obstacles to them exercising their legal rights, and instead everyone now defers to the guys with no uniforms or badges or name tags to determine what is and is not legal?

submitted 6 hours ago • 97 comments

As a former Republican who still speaks with Republicans daily, I wholeheartedly endorse asking every Republican you know this question.👇

submitted 5 hours ago • 77 comments

THEM: how can you joke about Kristi Noem being hospitalized for having an allergic reaction ME: easily

submitted 19 hours ago • 798 comments

20+ years ago, results of a 'War Game' set up for the Atlantic (reported by me) showed that US attacks on Iran would backfire more sweepingly than land wars in Iraq or even Vietnam. The fundamentals have not changed. DO NOT DO THIS. Or even rant about it. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

submitted 5 hours ago • 33 comments

That @washingtonpost.com opinion writer who blocked me for calling out his soft take on Coney Barrett can eat a bag of dicks today.

submitted 7 hours ago • 36 comments

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submitted 7 hours ago • 1 comment

Today, ICE tried to sneak immigrant check-ins at an unmarked SF facility at 478 Tehama St on an unusual weekend schedule. But by 7AM, hundreds of community members showed up in force to shut it down. Money for jobs and education, not for war and deportations! ICE OUT OF EVERYWHERE!

submitted 3 days ago • 8 comments

Want to dig into all the ways the Senate has ratcheted up Medicaid cuts relative to the House? We've got you covered. www.kff.org/tracking-the...

submitted 5 hours ago • 1 comment

Any doctor who refuses to treat a patient due to marriage status or political beliefs should lose their medical license. Our obligation is to avoid causing harm.

submitted 5 hours ago • 1 comment

How do people who grew up during the Civil Rights era not understand that this is also a civil rights issue? If Schumer were senator in 1968, I feel like he'd complain that desegregation was a GOP attempt to distract from "kitchen table issues"

submitted 5 hours ago • 18 comments

WARREN: If the Supreme Court orders you to remove troops from American city streets, will you do so? HEGSETH: I don't believe district courts should determine national security policy, but if the Supreme Court rules on a topic, we will abide by that

submitted 6 hours ago • 188 comments

flip.it/YIdGXO NOBODY LIKES THE HEBREW GOEBBELS. TACO TRUMPF HATES EVERYBODY BUT HIMSELF. SO THAT IS VERY UNDERSTANDABLE.

submitted 5 hours ago • 1 comment

Jesus Christ this graph. Total and utter political failure.

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There’s going to be so much peace, you won’t be able to stand all the peace. Peace the likes of which nobody has ever seen before.

submitted 6 hours ago • 468 comments

The Felon’s mob mentality was on full display at the G7 when he said “The UK is very well protected. You know why? Because I like them, that’s why. That’s the ultimate protection.” 🤦‍♀️wtf His unstable mentality was also on full display for the world to see. #ProudBlue #Voices4Victory

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SLOTKIN: Have you given the order to be able to shoot at unarmed protesters in any way? HEGSETH: What is that based on? SLOTKIN: It is based on Trump giving that order to your predecessor, who I give a lot of credit to bc he didn't accept the order. He has more guts & balls than you

submitted 5 hours ago • 697 comments

Everyone should read this

submitted 18 hours ago • 3 comments

Way to go Gov!

submitted 1 day ago • 234 comments

Just launched my next health insurance survey! (On Medicare.)

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🌲𝟮𝟱𝟬+ 𝗠𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗔𝗰𝗿𝗲𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗣𝘂𝗯𝗹𝗶𝗰 𝗟𝗮𝗻𝗱𝘀 𝗮𝘁 𝗥𝗶𝘀𝗸! 🌲 The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee's reconciliation bill slaps a target on at least 2 million acres of Forest Service and BLM lands. It opens the door for the sale of over 250+ million acres across 11 Western states. 1/3

submitted 1 day ago • 50 comments

US senate Democrats cross the aisle to help Republicans pass crypto bill https://twp.ai/4iokjP

submitted 5 hours ago • 4 comments

For those unconditionally cheering the attacks on Iran, remember that our early strikes in Afghanistan and Iraq were “successful”. But we ended up getting dragged into costly wars that created more terrorists than we killed. The American people haven’t forgotten that.

submitted 6 hours ago • 924 comments

JFC. If you live in Pennsylvania, demand this asshole resign.

submitted 1 day ago • 37 comments

New book drop…

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A good question given that the Non-Detention Act (18 U.S. Code § 4001) prohibits the detention of US citizens w/o congressional authorization. "No citizen shall be imprisoned or otherwise detained by the United States except pursuant to an Act of Congress." No exception for temporary detentions.

submitted 5 hours ago • 2 comments

It’s damned about time. I absolutely LOVE this photo!! Intelligence vs. Idiocy .... Intelligence wins, every time.

submitted 9 hours ago • 128 comments

Disgraceful

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There is very little more vicious than an “evangelical” in charge of a budget that affects other people.

submitted 23 hours ago • 9 comments

Dr. Fiona Havers resigned on Monday after 13 years at the CDC, saying she could no longer continue while the health secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., dismantled the careful processes that help formulate vaccination standards. Read her first interview since resigning. nyti.ms/4k0mbCn

submitted 5 hours ago • 15 comments

Don’t forget to watch the documentary on the Ohio State sex scandal Jim Jordan tried to have blocked. It’s on HBO Max. www.max.com/movies/survi...

submitted 7 hours ago • 9 comments

This reply from the Iranians to Fat donnie is sure to get his ire up. Love the 2nd paragraph, they nailed it. Poor donnie's ego has taken another hit, 1st Mark Carney🍁and now this from Iran🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂 #FuckTrump

submitted 5 hours ago • 2 comments