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It's fun how modern conservatism gave up any pretense of intellectualism and just went all in on the "Daddy Trump" cult and the dipshit discourse that gave us "One Big Beautiful Bill" and the "MAGA" nonsense. We're a week away from a solemn Senate speech that's just "googoo gaga, I'm a widdle baby"

submitted 16 hours ago • 64 comments

Facts: If federal govt reduces Medicaid funding to nurcing homes ✔️27% NHs will shut down ✔️58% will ⬇️ current staffing (fire workers) ✔️55% will ⬇️ Medicaid census (not accept Medicaid funded patients)

submitted 17 hours ago • 3 comments

Holy Crap. Just straight up looting at this point. Or like was already looting. But just bringing in a semi to haul out the loot faster.

submitted 2 days ago • 411 comments

To answer the question in the headline: You quote him, period. It is not our job, nor is it appropriate, to protect the reading and listening public from the vulgarity of this president. I’m dismayed that this is even a newsroom debate in 2025. www.poynter.org/commentary/2...

submitted 4 days ago • 26 comments

If the government had $45 million to waste on Trump's failed military parade, then there's enough money to fund Social Security, Medicaid, Medicare, and Veterans Benefits. 💙 #ProudBlue #TrumpisaNationalDisgrace #TrumpIsUnfitForOffice #TrumpIsTheWorstPresidentInHistory

submitted 17 hours ago • 5 comments

It would be nice if America had an organization dedicated to opposing antisemitism, rather than another organization opposed to Americans criticizing the actions of a foreign government.

submitted 16 hours ago • 3 comments

Oh but don’t worry poor rural whites will be entertained by the cruelty of ICE — and the non-white poor in rural areas…well R don’t really care about them

submitted 16 hours ago • 0 comments

But…that’s exactly what you are doing

submitted 16 hours ago • 1066 comments

Democrats need to use every second to fight back against the Big Beautiful Bill. I’m helping hold the Senate all night and FORCE a full reading of this 940-page bill.

submitted 16 hours ago • 269 comments

All US politicians should have been at this funeral. ONE OF THEM, her husband and dog were assassinated, in the middle of the night in their own home while covering their daughter with their body.

submitted 17 hours ago • 6 comments

Are we great yet?

submitted 17 hours ago • 2 comments

The nonpartisan CBO has confirmed that the Senate bill will cut $930 billion from Medicaid. Just as before, these cruel cuts to Americans’ health care will strike a mortal blow to rural health care, & threaten the health & safety of kids, seniors, Americans with disabilities, & working families...

submitted 17 hours ago • 0 comments

By easily accepting the absence of respirator masks and other safety measures in medical settings, during an ongoing pandemic in which Covid-19, a fatal airborne disease, is spreading rampantly, the masses have overtly conveyed their willingness to accept any evil that is done to them. #COVID19

submitted 42 days ago • 0 comments

If you know a vaccine skeptic, get them to walk through a modern graveyard and take note of the ages on the tombstones. (Mostly old folks) Then have them walk through an old graveyard, a century or more old, and notice the ages on the tombstones there. Lots of dead kids & women between 15 & 35.

submitted 17 hours ago • 22 comments

The world has seen the US in the last five months go from a democracy to an authoritarian dictatorship. Last year SCOTUS gave Trump immunity and now they have given him terrific amount of power to go along with that immunity. He will use it towards complete dictatorship. www.cnn.com/2025/06/28/p...

submitted 17 hours ago • 0 comments

DEMOCRATS—hell yes, do it‼️ Force the full bill reading on the floor. No more Senators pretending they didn’t know what was in it when they voted. 📌 Senate Dems may make clerks read the entire budget bill out loud. Good. People want fight—this is one way to show it. @democrats.senate.gov

submitted 20 hours ago • 373 comments

🚨BREAKING: The latest version of the Republican reconciliation bill does not include provision that would have required those suing the Trump administration to post a huge bond if they won an injunction. A BIG VICTORY for Senate Democrats, democracy and the rule of law.

submitted 20 hours ago • 160 comments

the lander/mamdani partnership is fantastic because lander has that hater's spirit that zohran isn't allowed to bust out, every public-facing nice person needs a mean bud

submitted 20 hours ago • 12 comments

Lander is Mamdani's anger translator

submitted 18 hours ago • 11 comments

What the Court is saying is that the government is likely to suffer irreparable harm from being prevented from implementing a flagrantly unconstitutional policy that threatens to render an untold number of children stateless

submitted 17 hours ago • 16 comments

“But please pretend I care about working class people even though I’m voting to take away their health care.”

submitted 18 hours ago • 33 comments

Do not be lulled into thinking that the ongoing pandemic of Covid-19 has abated. The general situation of unrestrained spread continues to be alarmingly dangerous, with contagion, illness, and mortality rampant everywhere. Maintaining the utmost caution is still an absolute necessity. #COVID19

submitted 18 hours ago • 0 comments

Senator @blumenthal.senate.gov shared with me that this Big "Beautiful" Bill is devastating not only for his Connecticut constituency but for MILLIONS of Americans who depend on Medicaid. 966K people in CT would LOSE health access.💔 Your voices MATTER. Call Your Senators & say vote NO! 202-224-3121

submitted 18 hours ago • 16 comments

BREAKING: the chief of police in Huntington Park says they arrested a man Tuesday accused of impersonating a federal agent, with fake DHS docs, cell phones and a loaded gun in an unmarked car, amid ongoing ICE raids. They discovered he had a history of arrests for human smuggling

submitted 1 day ago • 24 comments

It’s not panacea by any means but I always decline to be photographed by CBP and airlines, and you also have the legal right to decline

submitted 18 hours ago • 4 comments

If the symbolism was any heavier, it would pull the rest of reality into it like a neutron star

submitted 18 hours ago • 35 comments

#ICE

submitted 18 hours ago • 12 comments

“This bill is so terrible that it has stained the very soul of our party, but, sure, I’ll vote for it.” - Josh Hawley

submitted 18 hours ago • 28 comments

Earlier this morning masked federal agents grabbed a man without a warrant close to Cal Tech student housing in Pasadena

submitted 18 hours ago • 8 comments

Deplorable. There are 800,000 people in poverty in Alabama, 250,000 are children. Do something about that.

submitted 1 day ago • 159 comments

🧵 THREAD: Why the Cato Institute’s new paper on “misinformation panic” is dangerously wrong, and why it completely misunderstands the real crisis we face. www.cato.org/policy-analy...

submitted 2 days ago • 78 comments

These MI GOP gubernatorial candidates have unique strategies for winning votes. State Sen. Aric Nesbitt voted to support Congress (incl. governor wannabe John James) in cutting Medicaid and SNAP for millions of Michiganders they hope to govern. Maybe they agree with Mitch? "They'll get over it".😡

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

The CATO Institute is sending out this PR spam email to reporters about "free speech" at the same time Trump's FCC boss is threatening any media company that doesn't bend the knee to authoritarianism great stuff

submitted 155 days ago • 10 comments

Alexis came all the way from North Carolina to tell Tillis: Medicaid keeps her disabled daughter, Kinsley, at home—not in a hospital. “Medicaid is a lifeline.” Families like hers aren’t begging—they’re demanding: Vote NO on cuts, or answer to your constituents. #MedicaidSavesOurLives

submitted 1 day ago • 14 comments

I don’t know what a “total rebuild” of the Democratic Party even means but the idea that we’re too close to an election to make important changes to a party that’s lost all popular support is laughable. We are 1 year 4 months and 7 days to Election Day. A fucking eternity.

submitted 1 day ago • 68 comments

the anti zohran mamdani coalition gains yet another close friend and associate of jeffery epstein

submitted 1 day ago • 387 comments

WOW! Republicans and affiliated groups are seeking a federal investigation into the citizenship status of Zohran Mamdani, who won the Democratic primary for the New York City's mayoral post, with some calling for his denaturalisation and deportation. www.msn.com/en-us/news/p... SHESHED

submitted 1 day ago • 23 comments