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Karoline Leavitt, "China needs to make a deal with us, we don't have to make a deal with them" "China wants what we have, what every country wants, what we have, the American consumer" "Or to put it another way they need our money"

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I don’t think a better headline could have been written about what happened yesterday. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

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The administration that called Canada “the 51st state” and said “we’re going to get” Greenland is suddenly cowed by sovereignty.

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@gregcasar.bsky.social: "Elon Musk gets $8 million a day in federal government contracts and subsidies. $65 a day is how much your average senior gets on Social Security just to barely survive on after working their entire life."

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Times left out this part

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Here is how WaPo handled Dem's 10-day long effort to count every vote in PA vs. GOP's 5-month long effort to throw out thousands of votes in NC. Support independent, pro-democracy media.

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If the president can spend a quarter of his days in office golfing, corporations can give workers a four-day work week.

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Would men need to provide a marriage certificate to vote? No? Just women? Got it.

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"If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you." - President Lyndon B. Johnson

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Called my congressman who voted for the SAVE act. Me: What documents will I need to vote if this passes? Staffer: a DL and birth certificate. Me: The documents don’t match Staffer: Then a marriage certificate. Me: Will my husband need the marriage certificate too? Staffer: No Me: See the problem?

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I think it's bad that the country is led by people who haven't had a real problem in their entire lives and couldn't get a regular job due to being too weird

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“They were careless people…they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness…and let other people clean up the mess they had made…” -- F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (April 10, 1925).

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“He made 2.5 million today and he made $900 million. That’s not bad.” Sounds like market manipulation to me. That’s bad.

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THE MORE YOU KNOW…💫

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The White House. The actual White House. This is the attitude of every abuser, who is now fearful of the consequences of their abuse.

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You set the house on fire, watched it burn, and then lost your nerve and put it out. You now have a partially burned house. Great job.

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It always boggles my mind that I, a journalist, am expressly forbidden from trading stocks, but members of Congress, with vastly greater knowledge of market-moving news, are allowed to profit by front-running markets, and so may profit by in essence stealing from the public they represent.

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What a duo of tweets.

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In any other administration, the president would already be huddled with advisors trying to stave off collapse

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War hero schools a chickenhawk.

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WARNER: Can you explain how it helps natl security or our trade balance - I loved your fancy Greek formula which was bad math on steroids - how with a trade surplus Australia got hit with a 10% tariff as well? GREER: Australia has the lowest rate available WARNER: We have a trade surplus!

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"The DOGE team is also using the Signal app to communicate." In other words, they're playing thought police with federal workers — while literally disappearing their own communications. www.reuters.com/technology/a...

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@dropkickmurphys.com debuts new protest anthem “Stand with Us” at Boston Hands Off Protests with over 100k protesters in the city.

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Q: 60 Minutes found 75% of the migrants who were sent to El Salvador do not have criminal records. That true? BONDI: They're not Venezuelan migrants. They're illegal aliens from Venezuela who should not have been in our country Q: So you're confirming they didn't commit a crime? BONDI: leaves

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the answer to “what would you have done in germany in 1933” is, for a disturbing number of people, “cooperate eagerly”

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NEW: Yesterday, the Justice Department sent armed marshals to warn former U.S. pardon attorney Liz Oyer not to disclose internal DOJ information during her Senate testimony. Today, Oyer is speaking out to condemn the DOJ’s actions and defend the rule of law.

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COVID didn't "turn out fine." Over 1 million people died in just the US. People are still dying. 100s of thousands of people are still dealing with the effects of Long COVID. And the entire country lost its shit and is still unwell. Tariffs will not "turn out fine." Effects will be experienced.

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Kristi Noem in Phoenix today.

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FINALLY! Some may say this is 77 days late. I would say I'm glad we're seeing pushback and also, did these 77 days not feel like FORF*CKINGEVER?

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Crockett: "If we are gonna talk about efficiency, let's talk about the fact that as of March 30, Trump's golfing has cost us approximately $26 million. And the last time I checked, we're not getting anything in return for that ... he decided he was going to golf instead of receiving four heroes."

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Surprise, surprise. readsludge.com/2025/04/07/m...

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A friend noted how much Kevin Hassett looks and acts like Colin Robinson from WWDITS and I can't unsee it.

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The Revolution will not be televised.

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We wouldn’t be here if SCOTUS had allowed the January 6th trial to go forward as scheduled.

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roberts et al have divined the Actual Intent of the constitution, which is to allow the government to exercise nearly unaccountable power to strip people of their rights. it is why we fought the revolution!

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JD Vance calls working class people in China "peasants." We know that is what the arrogant prick/millionaire Vance thinks of working class Americans as well www.politico.eu/article/chin...

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we are maybe two weeks from jesse watters declaring that it’s gay for men to have sex with women

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Anger and outrage gripped the hometown of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Monday as it held funerals for some of the 20 people, including nine children, killed by a Russian missile that tore through apartment buildings and blasted a playground.

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NEW: The Supreme Court took 6 months to decide immunity, but just 6 days to effectively strip the rest of us of due process. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/the-corrup...

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social: "The only way you can think that recognizing the accomplishments of Jackie Robinson, Elizabeth Eckford or Harriet Tubman is somehow divisive, is if you think that black people are not Americans. Their heroism as Americans makes the country better."

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I can only imagine the bailout package they are drawing up for themselves. As the saying goes, privatize the profits, and socialize the losses.

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As the economic news keeps coming out over the coming weeks keep one thing in mind: this is the fault of one man and didn’t need to happen.

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Hosting the Olympics and World Cup are going to be impossible. What athlete in their right mind would risk coming to the US now?

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