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I lost my job, my wife has been deported, and I'm out of toilet paper. But at least I know that now my kids will learn that slavery wasn't really that bad.

submitted 7 hours ago • 86 comments

Do you know how much CEO pay has skyrocketed since 1978? 100%? 500%? Try 1,085% Meanwhile, the $7.25/hr fed. minimum wage hasn't budged in 15 years and the tipped min. wage has been $2.13/hr since 1991. This is what I mean when I say the system is rigged.

submitted 16 hours ago • 560 comments

Remember when republicans said we couldn’t have gun control because the real solution was mental health services?

submitted 1 day ago • 39 comments

RFK Jr on measles: "The MMR vaccine contains a lot of aborted fetus debris."

submitted 1 day ago • 2551 comments

Every now and then I just pause and think that … we could have just elected Kamala Harris, and we’d still have an economy that was the strongest in the world; we’d still have an American-led trans-Atlantic order; we’d be assured that our universities would remain the envy of the world; … (1/x)

submitted 2 days ago • 218 comments

“.. ‘The world hasn't been faced with such enormous potential impacts to trade in more than 100 years,’ CEO Carol Tome said on the company's earnings call.” @reuters.com $UPS www.reuters.com/markets/us/u...

submitted 2 days ago • 97 comments

Two former Wells Fargo executives were fined $8.5M by the Biden administration for covering up the bank's infamous fake account scandal. Trump just slashed those fines to a paltry $150,000 after Wells Fargo gave $1M to his inauguration. See how this works?

submitted 2 days ago • 516 comments

We made a deliberate choice as a nation, until now, not to have a police state. We siloed off federal data and put in place laws, regulations, policies and internal norms to prevent the federal government from putting together everything it knows about you into one place. Trump is ending all that.

submitted 2 days ago • 79 comments

Yes, this is a real tweet.

submitted 2 days ago • 8870 comments

Reporter: “Congressman, would you apologize to your constituents for breaking your promise to ban congressional stock trading?” Rep. Robert Bresnahan: 🦗🦗🦗

submitted 2 days ago • 36 comments

Greg Casar, who is Chair of the Progressive Caucus, doesn't get enough credit for the good messaging he's doing and where he has done it.

submitted 2 days ago • 28 comments

The recession is coming, folks: My wife bought us off-brand dyer sheets. No more pictures of seascapes or teddy bear mascots and rainbows on the box. It’s just a black & white drawing of a man alone in a room, sitting at a table with a Bible and a gun.

submitted 3 days ago • 28 comments

Economists now saying the average—AVERAGE—annual hit American households will face because of Trump’s trade war will be $5,000 !!

submitted 3 days ago • 30 comments

FBI Claims Gavel, Black Gowns Prove Ties To MS-13 Gang theonion.com/fbi-cla...

submitted 3 days ago • 226 comments

People forget that Cancer (the disease) donated like $300,000 to the Trump inauguration fund

submitted 3 days ago • 29 comments

One of many moments in Omar El Akkad’s new book, “One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This,” that will stop you in your tracks.

submitted 33 days ago • 138 comments

"Where's Nancy?": Website Launches Petition Demanding Rep. Mace Hold a "Legitimate Town Hall" holycitysinner.com/politics/whe...

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

Shedeur Sanders lacks the character to be an NFL starter. by Deshaun Watson

submitted 5 days ago • 36 comments

This is how terrified they are of people in government telling the truth to the American people about what they are doing behind the scenes. Cockroaches hate sunlight.

submitted 5 days ago • 934 comments

DOGE is basically, "I'm saving you money on auto maintenance by stealing your car."

submitted 5 days ago • 11 comments

Shadeur Sanders can still go in the first round if Mike Pence has the courage to do the right thing.

submitted 6 days ago • 31 comments

A hallmark of fascism is to attack the judiciary.

submitted 6 days ago • 257 comments

Lots of people I know that were furious about kids having to wear masks are real quiet about a two year old citizen being wrongfully deported

submitted 6 days ago • 448 comments

Toxicologist here! This will improve the health of zero Americans. Current synthetic food dyes are not causing health problems, and are often times used because they are actually safer than natural food dyes. Reminder that guns are the #1 cause of death of children but we are going to ban food dyes.

submitted 8 days ago • 209 comments

They’re taking our investment—the money that we spent months writing grants for, the hours and hours we all spent reviewing each others’ work, the money that was supposed to go to libraries and community groups—and blowing it on this nonsense.

submitted 7 days ago • 25 comments

See the problem here?

submitted 7 days ago • 426 comments

I feel the need to repeat that Slotkin got 23,847 fewer votes in Michigan than Kamala Harris did.

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Pledging to defend the Constitution right before the country you were about to become a citizen of unconstitutionally detains you

submitted 8 days ago • 52 comments

Who’s had multiple trials…

submitted 10 days ago • 80 comments

Where did Pope Francis go wrong with America's right-wing Catholic bloggers? For one thing, his celibacy was voluntary.

submitted 10 days ago • 84 comments

Yeah probably the most plainly he’s ever laid out his philosophy on tariffs and basically everything else in life

submitted 11 days ago • 214 comments

LOUDER FOR THE POLITICIANS HIDING IN THE BACK

submitted 11 days ago • 36 comments

Mic drop

submitted 11 days ago • 176 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 12 days ago • 820 comments

We must dissolve the Supreme Court and give Donald Trump unlimited powers. Or else we will have a dictatorship.

submitted 12 days ago • 192 comments

Page One in Cincinnati this wknd: Cincinnati.com

submitted 11 days ago • 110 comments

👇🏽

submitted 12 days ago • 375 comments

Friendly reminder. In the United States, criminals are entitled to due process. Even if you pay hush money rig an election, steal top secret documents, or incite a mob to overthrow the government; no matter how egregious your crimes, you’re entitled to due process.

submitted 12 days ago • 694 comments

“Department of Government Efficiency.”

submitted 13 days ago • 400 comments

Staple this to RFK Jr’s forehead.

submitted 12 days ago • 393 comments

A+ protest outside of JD Vance's residence in Washington, D.C. "Hillbully." 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

submitted 12 days ago • 35 comments