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NEW: Democrats stood down on an effort to ban Maryland sheriffs from joining ICE's 287(g) program, which empowers sheriff's deputies to act like ICE agents. GOP sheriffs are rushing to join this ICE program, and Dems came close to stopping then. But they then gutted the bill with 20 minutes to go.

submitted 18 hours ago • 45 comments

We need to sue Musk to recoup the hundreds of billions he has cost taxpayers.

submitted 12 hours ago • 21 comments

Trump inherited 3 extraordinary assets built up over decades: -the reserve currency of the world -the world's safest asset -the deepest, best regulated capital markets. Today: Stocks, the 10-year & the dollar are all down. Bonds & dollar dropping suggests further foreign loss of confidence.

submitted 3 days ago • 20 comments

You know what might actually inspire more young people to start families? Not driving the country into the ground. Taking stuff like climate change, student debt, ect., seriously. Just spitballing here www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/u...

submitted 3 days ago • 29 comments

1. There has been a lot of attention, rightly, on the Trump administration disappearing immigrants to El Salvador But something that has gotten much less attention is the Trump administration WRONGFULLY DETAINING US CITIZENS they "suspect" are undocumented immigrants.

submitted 3 days ago • 38 comments

Personally, I think it should be front page news for at least a month if a sitting US President is using falsified evidence to try and deny due process to a man who has committed no crime, but that’s just me

submitted 5 days ago • 820 comments

RFK Jr.’s lies about autism are disgraceful — and I won't share them to spread misinformation. He consistently undermines public health and reinforces dangerous myths. In Illinois, we stand with those with autism, and I’ll keep fighting for inclusion, science, and the truth.

submitted 7 days ago • 527 comments

Horrible. WH press sec. Karoline Leavitt says that if Abrego Garcia ever ends up back in the United States, “he would immediately be deported again. Nothing will change the fact that Abrego Garcia will never be a Maryland father. He will never live in the US of America again.” #BlueSky #MedSky

submitted 8 days ago • 254 comments

didn't take much for these guys to go from "big government is bad" to "what's the big deal if you're abducted by the government and trafficked to Mongolia"

submitted 8 days ago • 1105 comments

Bondi is escalating the rhetoric against Abrego Garcia, who she calls "one of the top MS-13 members" and "a terrorist"

submitted 8 days ago • 2817 comments

In today's edition of "Not A Drag Queen!" patch.com/florida/brad...

submitted 8 days ago • 1238 comments

AOC has more courage that the whole KKK GQP in Congress!

submitted 9 days ago • 24 comments

"If you can purchase US citizenship for $5 million, the “illegals” are only guilty of being poor." -Feminist News

submitted 8 days ago • 398 comments

Please repeat over and over: “Bending to the whims of a bully will not end his cruelty. It will only embolden him. The response to authoritarianism isn’t acquiescence. Bullies respond to one thing, and one thing only: a punch in the face.” —Gov. JB Pritzker

submitted 8 days ago • 606 comments

"taking nourishment" and "this press conference is an indication that I still have my wits about me" are pretty insane metrics for how a public official should decide whether to run, & yet it's this ubiquitous metric that explains a lot of Congress right now.

submitted 9 days ago • 46 comments

WSJ EDITORIAL BOARD: “.. The Supreme Court has repeatedly held that the government may not use federal benefits or funds to coerce parties to surrender their constitutional rights. This is what the Administration is doing ..” @wsj.com www.wsj.com/opinion/dona...

submitted 8 days ago • 378 comments

Ouch! Lead reporter here has done great reporting on the DOGE takeover of IRS. But major journalism fail from the Post editors here right out of the gate on the Harvard tax exempt story. This isn't a "no proof" situation, guys. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

submitted 8 days ago • 14 comments

Before the election, I warned that there is no safe haven under authoritarianism. If they can ship Kilmar Abrego Garcia to a foreign prison—accused of no crime, with no trial—they can do it to anyone. Americans of conscience must stand against this now.

submitted 8 days ago • 1874 comments

A watchdog said OMB Director Russell Vought’s move to disappear the public tracker of funds appropriated by Congress is “very concerning” and undercuts transparency. The government should not be hiding how it's spending taxpayers money. In fact, that's illegal.

submitted 10 days ago • 10 comments

Tale as old as time. Big businesses who make friends with the kleptocrats get special exemptions from the regulatory burdens so they can lock in their market position, rather than removing the regulatory burdens across the board.

submitted 12 days ago • 18 comments

This is a 12 alarm fire for the economy. If being friends with the president and giving him kickbacks makes you exempt from large import taxes Vs your competitors, it will stratify the whole economy and push corruption and loyalty and political controls deep into the private sector

submitted 15 days ago • 98 comments

I’m leading a letter with Rep. Terri Sewell and 131 colleagues demanding answers from the White House, USTR, Treasury, Commerce, and the SEC. Who knew about Trump’s tariff reversal? When did they know? How did they know? $300B didn’t move by accident. This is market manipulation.

submitted 13 days ago • 64 comments

You tell 'em, AOC!

submitted 14 days ago • 184 comments

Someone got called into the principals office

submitted 17 days ago • 1087 comments

❗️Stock markets today: 🇭🇰 Hong Kong: -13.6% 🇹🇼 Taiwan: -9.6% 🇯🇵 Japan: -9.5% 🇮🇹 Italy: -8.4% 🇸🇬 Singapore: -8% 🇸🇪 Sweden: -7% 🇨🇳 China: -7% 🇨🇭 Switzerland: -7% 🇩🇪 Germany: -6.8% 🇪🇸 Spain: -6.4% 🇳🇱 Netherlands: -6.2% 🇦🇺 Australia: -6.2% 🇫🇷 France: -6.1% 🇬🇧 UK: -5.2%

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submitted 21 days ago • 1121 comments

Senator Michael Bennet on Republicans' bill to give tax cuts to billionaires: "WHY?! WHY would we pass a bill like that?...For the first time in American history, if you are 30 years old in this country, you have a 50% chance of earning a salary as good as the one your parents had."

submitted 20 days ago • 9 comments

Can Wisco lead the charge on this @baldwin.senate.gov? Make Trump veto a bipartisan solution to his chaos. We need a stronger effort from Dems.

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

There's a lot going on, God knows, but don't miss that the President of the United States is using the full force of the Federal government, as well as tax dollars, to punish a state because its Governor... refused to do as he instructed. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/02/u...

submitted 21 days ago • 1373 comments

submitted 22 days ago • 6 comments

“Wait, you didn’t tell us we were gonna be authoritarian AND poor.” —American business executives.

submitted 22 days ago • 36 comments

Wow who could’ve guessed that this would happen It’s almost as if USAID was a pillar of American soft power and influence in the world It’s almost as if it was entirely predictable that America’s adversaries would work to fill the void left by USAID’s destruction

submitted 21 days ago • 970 comments

love how everybody's like "why would a Russian asset crash the US economy?"

submitted 22 days ago • 215 comments

@schumer.senate.gov Please step down as minority leader. @booker.senate.gov is our leader now.

submitted 22 days ago • 74 comments

It's weird to have elected leaders who say they want to crash the economy, reinstate segregation, strip human rights and create a perpetual underclass and then have people ask why are they doing this are they bad at economics ?

submitted 22 days ago • 129 comments

Can’t help but feel that if President Bernie Sanders pulled this move the entirety of American business would try to get him pushed out of office immediately.

submitted 22 days ago • 1121 comments

If you don't know @davetroy.com's work highly reccomend you get acquainted. I consider his podcast required listening to understand wtf is going on.

submitted 22 days ago • 23 comments

Today, we are being liberated from the burden of economic prosperity and growth! Happy Liberation Day! (Remember: we have always been allies with Eurasia… George Orwell)

submitted 22 days ago • 601 comments

The richest man in the world spent more money than most of us will see in our lifetimes to lose a state Supreme Court race by 10 points. And the fact his $25 million was a drop in the bucket compared to what he's spent on other elections is exactly why we must overturn Citizens United.

submitted 22 days ago • 1185 comments

Thanks to @dailybeanspod.bsky.social for pointing this out. Just in case we need it in #Canada. www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments