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If you are not ashamed today to be an American you are no more than a cretin, a moron, or both. Our leaders are simply trash. And the self-loathing that any decent citizen feels from knowing this is entirely earned. We elected them.

submitted 4 hours ago • 59 comments

-Fed GDP predictions went negative, predicting recession -Trump is firing 50% of Social Security Administration -Medicare telehealth for seniors is on track to disappear this month because Trump killed the bill to extend it -every Republican house member voted to slash Medicaid health insurance

submitted 6 hours ago • 6 comments

In China even poor have egg, in America only rich because trump take egg

submitted 7 hours ago • 1 comment

ppl getting angry at this but he's talking alliances and he's 100% right- you cannot trust a country where every 4 yrs the foreign policy does a complete 180 & tears up treaties and reneges on deals and withholds payments because some sheep farmers in Wisconsin think too many black women have jobs

submitted 10 hours ago • 167 comments

Trump’s disgusting behavior in our Oval Office in the company of a genuine hero and defender of democracy like Volodymyr Zelensky may be the most disgraceful public behavior by any president in our history.

submitted 10 hours ago • 464 comments

huh, is this bad?

submitted 15 hours ago • 333 comments

my dog when I ask what’s in his mouth

submitted 10 hours ago • 335 comments

lmao going from +2.3%->-1.5% for first quarter amazing

submitted 13 hours ago • 1 comment

Consumers already seem worried about policy madness, and they ain't seen nothing yet

submitted 15 hours ago • 89 comments

For comparison, Atlanta's prior forecast was +2.3%.

submitted 13 hours ago • 49 comments

Really simply remarkable talent to take a strong economy and create a recession in a month.

submitted 13 hours ago • 3 comments

I just got fired from NWS . This email is all I know. Read if you want.

submitted 1 day ago • 296 comments

US REAL PERSONAL CONSUMPTION MOM ACTUAL -0.5% (FORECAST -0.1%, PREVIOUS 0.4%) $MACRO

submitted 16 hours ago • 0 comments

A surprise drop in personal spending last month. Worst print since Feb 2021. 🇺🇸 @cnbc.com

submitted 16 hours ago • 21 comments

Trump take egg

submitted 1 day ago • 8 comments

The U.S. has two tsunami warning centers, both operated by NOAA. Employees were terminated from these centers today. The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center covers Hawaiʻi, and now it is less safe to be near the beach. www.tsunami.gov

submitted 1 day ago • 273 comments

It's absolutely insane that Elon Musk and his wrecking crew are saying they're firing entire swaths of our government infrastructure and the press are just like "oh that's sad but what are you gonna do, guess they're fired." It is batshit crazypants, and it's being covered like normal policy choices

submitted 1 day ago • 45 comments

Tesla lost enough value today that it could have fully funded USAID for a year.

submitted 1 day ago • 496 comments

SCOOP: Elon's favorite anon data expert, who's been appearing on NewsNation in sunglasses, isn't a govt. spending expert but rather a senior employee at an AI lending firm that's battled the CFPB for years. Me at @rollingstone.com www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

submitted 2 days ago • 77 comments

our boy here is gonna blow up LE better than any defund the police movement could lmao

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

Trump crash stonks

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BREAKING: The mass firing of upwards of 1,800 workers at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, including top climate scientists and weather forecasters, has begun. The firings reportedly include workers at the National Weather Service.

submitted 1 day ago • 215 comments

also to be clear, if you can't easily understand the value of a functioning government in Liberia, you should stop eating paint

submitted 1 day ago • 6 comments

there really ought to be more discussion about the fact that virtually every promise (or denial) trump made during the campaign was a total lie

submitted 1 day ago • 538 comments

We’re witnessing a Brexit-level instance of completely unnecessary economic destruction. A country that’s not hit by any shock, but simply chooses policy self-harm.

submitted 2 days ago • 137 comments

DOGE Gains Access to Confidential Records on Housing Discrimination, Medical Details—Even Domestic Violence talkingpointsmemo.com/news/doge-ga...

submitted 2 days ago • 142 comments

Not holding townhalls because constituents are pissed off is the civic equivalent and stopping testing because that way the COVID numbers can't go up.

submitted 2 days ago • 234 comments

Every single Democratic governor and attorney general needs to do this -- if only to make it clear to voters right now that the firings and funding freezes that are about to hurt their states badly are the work of Trump-Musk in Washington. Get ahead of this now, or get blamed for it later.

submitted 2 days ago • 168 comments

george lucas and kathleen kennedy at the Glendale food court (2026)

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

The thing about American reactionaries online is that they’re like “under a true Christian monarch, the West will flourish with the enlightened guidance of a philosopher king…” and it’s meant to justify supporting a senile gameshow host and a drug-addled manchild who cheats at Diablo.

submitted 2 days ago • 34 comments

We just watched President Musk hold a cabinet meeting: Absolutely unproductive It’s clear who’s really in charge All about trying to please Musk What’s going on here? www.nbcnews.com/politics/whi...

submitted 2 days ago • 465 comments

"Moderate" Republicans swore they wouldn't cut Medicaid yet last night they punked out as soon as Trump called. Last week, the Senate did the same Over 3M in PA rely on Medicaid + CHIP for healthcare I wonder if our Senator McCormick will keep serving Trump or start serving the people of his state

submitted 2 days ago • 7 comments

Massive encroachment by Bezos into The Washington Post’s opinion section - makes clear dissenting views will not be published I still have not felt encroachment on my journalism on the news side, but if Bezos tries interfering with the news side I will be quitting immediately and letting you know

submitted 2 days ago • 732 comments

We are increasingly concerned about the crisis in UK Higher Education. Read our joint statement with @royalhistsoc.bsky.social , History UK and the @histassoc.bsky.social https://buff.ly/4hSg16N #history #skystorians

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

Word of the Day is ‘ingordigiousness’ (18th century): extreme greed at the expense of principles.

submitted 2 days ago • 477 comments

aint no way we cut medicaid and housing assistance so jeff bezos could buy this shirt

submitted 2 days ago • 2685 comments

NEW — House Republicans are putting the brakes on town halls after blowback over the Trump administration's cuts. One GOP aide said House Republican leaders are urging lawmakers to stop engaging in them altogether. www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...

submitted 3 days ago • 380 comments

This vote was to start the process of the cuts. It WILL come back for a final vote. There are some chances to slow or potentially stop it. Need constant pressure on GOP Focus on GOP swing seats & key committees. Energy & Commerce is where the Medicaid fight will go down. Ways&Means for tax fight.

submitted 3 days ago • 1221 comments

So House Republicans voted on a budget tonight that would cut ~$800B+ from Medicaid. Among other things, but it’s important to understand how much that will hurt every single one of us. (Spoiler: they know all of this - but they hate you.)

submitted 3 days ago • 23 comments

Tonight, 217 Republicans voted to betray the needs of ordinary Americans by shoveling over $1 trillion in tax giveaways to the richest 1%. Instead of working to lower costs, Republicans are charging full steam ahead to abandon their constituents and cut health care and nutrition programs.

submitted 3 days ago • 8 comments

House Republicans just voted to gut Medicaid, which covers 1 in 5 Americans overall, including 41% of births and 63% of nursing home care. They also just voted to gut SNAP, on which 41 million food insecure Americans rely. This won’t just harm people. This will kill people. They own this.

submitted 3 days ago • 228 comments

Alright, you want your congressmen/women to "DO SOMETHING" - this is doing something. Petterson gave birth 3 weeks ago. Mullin is hospitalized with complications from knee surgery.

submitted 3 days ago • 20 comments

they pulled it. sucks to suck, losers

submitted 3 days ago • 16 comments

I’m demanding answers, alongside members of the Illinois federal delegation, from the Trump administration for ignoring court orders to release almost $1.88 billion in federal funding for our state. If they can't hold their end of the deal, Illinoisans deserve to know.

submitted 3 days ago • 141 comments

Amazing scenes. There’s a reason Trump/Elon love the executive orders and the king routine, and part of it is: they don’t have the votes to do it constitutionally.

submitted 3 days ago • 163 comments

COUNT EVERY WIN, THIS IS A WIN. IT'S NOT OVER, IT'S NOWHERE NEAR OVER, BUT THIS IS SUCH A WIN EVERYONE who has made calls, EVERYONE who has been at the rallies, town halls, protesting, talking, yelling -- it matters!

submitted 3 days ago • 8 comments

HOUSE REPUBLICANS ARE PULLING THE VOTE ON THE BUDGET RESOLUTION. THEY DON'T HAVE THE VOTES!

submitted 3 days ago • 163 comments