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Jeffries: hey the GOP controls the government, absolutely nothing i can do, gonna work on my personal book tour Sanders: brb i am going to personally barnstorm strategic GOP house districts and try to peel off 2 votes so we can block Trump's cuts to Medicaid www.commondreams.org/news/bernie-...

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A group of wolves is called a pack and a group of Nazis is called a CPAC.

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Tr*mp is shutting down at midnight tonight the federal website for ordering free COVID tests (four per order). I just ordered four—can’t be easier. Last call. ------------------ covidtests.gov Please share

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Recall Alert: Tesla recalls thousands of vehicles.

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Good thing there are no longer any civics classes or we’d have to change all the checks-and-balances lessons. Dodged that bullet!

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Trump’s big goals in his first term were: 1) protect himself from criminal inquiries 2) enrich himself 3) be cruel to groups he hates He basically did all that

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democrats won’t admit it, but my family’s economic outlook has gotten a LOT better since Trump took office. but what do i know? i don’t have a fancy economics degree, i’m just a regular guy who runs an airplane scrapyard

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FBI cancels community outreach programs for seniors

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The greatest political scandal today is not what Trump is doing. It is the fact that congressional Republicans have given up their role in the constitutional system as a check on the executive branch. If we are in a constitutional crisis, it is as much on Mike Johnson and John Thune as anyone else.

submitted 6 days ago • 788 comments

Imagine if the media pointed out there was already a Government Accountability Office whose job it is to go after actual waste and fraud, not just things Elon doesn’t like, and found $70 Billion in savings last year and $2 Trillion in waste since 2003. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Governm...

submitted 6 days ago • 135 comments

⚾ Immaculate Grid 687 https://www.immaculategrid.com/grid-687 Reply with your score!

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Congress has to pass a budget, and if the Republicans who represent most of rural America wanted, they could demand that the farmers who got screwed by the Trump administration be made whole. Of course, that would require standing up for their constituents. Wonder what they'll do?

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LOL, the “founding fathers” are likely still “spinning in their graves” over abolishing slavery

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If you claim to be a leader but are too scared to lead, fine -- sit down and let someone else take your place. It is easy to be bold when there is no threat. Now is a time for courage. www.cnn.com/2025/02/16/p...

submitted 6 days ago • 1416 comments

Richest guy in the world is doing this

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Neo-Nazi terrorist and convicted mass murderer Anders Breivik, who killed 77 people in Norway in 2011, cited this same Napoleon quote in his manifesto.

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What these nihilistic vandals are doing to dismantle science & medicine—generations of expertise & public service & life improving benefits—is cultural revolution level national self harm. No foreign foe could inflict such brutal damage & senseless suffering on US so fast & effectively & unresisted.

submitted 8 days ago • 510 comments

This is just sheer brazen criminality by DOJ. Adams gets federal corruption charges dropped not because there isn’t overwhelming evidence, but because he agrees to help Homan round up migrants. And Homan says the charges will be refiled if Adams doesn’t “come through.”

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A lot of people who know very little about the US govt don't know that a big part of Dept of Energy's portfolio is nukes. That's okay. Not everyone has to know everything. But it turns out the people Elon put in charge of gutting the department's workforce didn't know that either.

submitted 8 days ago • 51 comments

Remember how they said they were going after criminals? That was funny.

submitted 8 days ago • 351 comments

The Indigenous People of North America have decided to go back to calling the Gulf of Mexico, “Chalchiuhtlicueyecatl”. It is what the Nahuatl People originally called it as it is the domain of the goddess Chalchiuhtlicue, who is assoc w/water bodies, including the Gulf of Mexico.

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Making sure folks realize that Alex Spiro is both Musk’s attorney and Eric Adams’ attorney.

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An Associated Press reporter and photographer were told they weren’t allowed on Air Force One due to the outlet’s continued use of “Gulf of Mexico.”

submitted 8 days ago • 130 comments

the whole game is to loot the public coffers to directly enrich the billionaires, to give the billionaires tax cuts, and to make it easier for billionaires to keep looting us in the future

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The Musk-Trump administration is objectively pro-cancer

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roses are red star wars is fun

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Extorting Ukraine was the reason for Trump’s first impeachment. He’s returning to the scene of the crime.

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My love for you is like a peregrine falcon. One more valentine from a past year.

submitted 9 days ago • 24 comments

Playbook | Sources report growing tensions between Republican senators who roll over for Trump and Republican senators who issue disapproving statements before rolling over for Trump.

submitted 9 days ago • 23 comments

It may feel weird or somehow improper to talk about your art or your writing, but we need it. It can’t be wall-to-wall nightmare all the time. Art is both counterweight and context. It’s escape and enlightenment and a mirror of our own exasperation. We need it. We NEED it. Keep showing us.

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See here's how to do a headline. fortune.com/2025/02/13/e...

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Not that anyone cares but a bunch of senior doj officials resigning over a corrupt instruction to drop a case was what triggered the Nixon impeachment, and in the Trump era it's just the 2pm scandal of a random Thursday and every day now has ~3 such scandals that would have ended any prior admin

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If Democrats in the Senate were being as obstructionist as they're claiming, Donald Trump's nominees wouldn't be getting confirmed at the fastest rate since George W. Bush. Yes, even faster than when Barack Obama had 56 votes in the chamber.

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Just looking at my bottle of Tagrisso, a cancer drug that literally reduced death by half in people like me. The product of intense clinical trials and meticulous science. The trials were supported by the National Cancer Institute, a part of NIH.

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Opinion | It's time to remake the military to put America First. We'll start by renaming bases for Confederate generals who waged war against the United States. by Pete Hegseth

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Incredible: Russ Vought’s daughter has cystic fibrosis and benefits from a “miracle drug” made possible by the National Institutes of Health—an agency Vought now aims to gut as part of the Project 2025 attack www.motherjones.com/politics/202... Scoop from @motherjones.com’s @metrauxjulia.bsky.social

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The CFPB has returned $21 billion to 205 million consumers who were scammed at the hands of predatory banks. You can root out waste, fraud, and abuse... or you can eliminate the CFPB. But you can't do both.

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Here it is in a nutshell: 1. Trump is an authoritarian. 2. With the GOP controlling Congress, courts are key to protecting democracy. 3. So far, courts are doing a good job on #2. 4. GOP will next attack election rules like they did in 2021. Don't let the cynics convince you not to fight. FIGHT!

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