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Republicans cutting nearly a trillion dollars from Medicaid and then offering a $15 billion rural hospital fund, perfect, no notes www.axios.com/pro/health-c...

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It'd be nice if NYT treated likely lies with skepticism, rather than uncritically broadcasting them. Good chance what happened was: 1) Trump lied, falsely claiming "obliteration" 2) US intel leaked their assessment saying limited damage 3) Trump demanded staffers lie 4) CIA Director Ratcliffe did

submitted 8 hours ago • 31 comments

It's not a "deal", it's an illegal extortion, and that never ends well. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

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ICE Is Arresting 1,100 Percent More Noncriminals on the Streets Than in 2017 www.cato.org/blog/ice-arr...

submitted 8 hours ago • 2 comments

Massive job and contract cuts could have significant consequences for the D.C. area's economy, and for other areas where the government is a major employer.

submitted 8 hours ago • 1 comment

Since May: Federal district courts have ruled against Trump admin 94% of the time. Supreme Court has sided with the Trump admin 94% of the time. A judiciary at war with itself.

submitted 1 day ago • 258 comments

NEW from me: A deep dive into OMB Director Russell Vought — specifically, how his plan to reshape the government is rooted in a specific ideology: Christian nationalism. Also, his favorite religious quote from an early president may be, uh…not true. religionnews.com/2025/06/23/r...

submitted 2 days ago • 26 comments

Update: The Center for Renewing America — the think tank Vought founded — responded to my story with a thread on X, calling it "another media attempt to paint principled leadership as controversial." However, it appears their thread didn't aim to refute my reporting so much as…confirm it?

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If Trump wants more deportations, he’ll need to target the construction industry stateline.org/2025/06/24/i...

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A controversial new Ohio higher education law banning diversity efforts, prohibiting faculty strikes and regulating classroom discussion takes this week. ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/06/23/n...

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Florida congresswoman was denied care for a life-threatening ectopic pregnancy because of the state’s strict and vague anti-abortion law, which she herself supported. Her response is to blame the left for “fearmongering.” www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

submitted 3 days ago • 55 comments

The heatwaves next week are literally going to kill people even if the grids don’t go down; meanwhile, tech billionaires are trying to convince us that using the fake answer machines will solve all our problems.

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

the amount of contempt vance has for everyone he's talking to — such that he'll say obvious nonsense as if he's fooling you — is genuinely remarkable

submitted 4 days ago • 535 comments

i wonder if Charlie Kirk will debate Charlie Kirk on this issue

submitted 4 days ago • 36 comments

Republican legislatures never stop enacting voter suppression laws. We must never stop exposing and fighting them. www.democracydocket.com/analysis/red...

submitted 4 days ago • 23 comments

Tell the people who mean something to you that they mean something to you while you're all still here to say and receive it. Don't put it off.

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

yeah -- ground beef hit an all-time high last week, and nobody appears to be reporting on that www.bls.gov/charts/consu...

submitted 4 days ago • 80 comments

How does @riotgrlerin.bsky.social manage to outdo herself multiple times per week?

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

A Dem lawmaker and her husband were killed by a guy for their political views and it’s already out of the news.

submitted 4 days ago • 660 comments

The 5th Circuit (which covers Texas) just ruled this unconstitutional literally yesterday.

submitted 4 days ago • 95 comments

one other side of this is something that I try to emphasize to my students: "what does freedom actually mean" is not a 21stC issue anachronistically read backwards into the 18thC. The US, French, and Haitian Revolutions happened at more or less the same time, with an overlapping cast of characters

submitted 5 days ago • 24 comments

can’t overstate how shoddy the actual work is. “the framers didn’t think black people counted in the constitutional order” falls apart with a single question: “well what did they think about all the free blacks that most of them lived around, encountered, and even hired for work?”

submitted 5 days ago • 89 comments

Six former CDC vaccine advisory committee chairs warn: U.S. risks losing access to life-saving immunizations www.statnews.com/2025/06/20/a...

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👀 Scoop: Trump and Republicans want USPS to sell off its brand new EVs and chargers. That would mean literally ripping up post office parking lots to auction off assets with no private-sector value. It’s buried in the Senate’s “One Big Beautiful Bill.” www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

submitted 5 days ago • 199 comments

the reason these trucks look “silly” is that they have large windshields and a low hood, which increases visibility and reduces risk to pedestrians. trucks like this should look normal and F-150s should be the silly ones

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Look, folks, I did warn you that we were going to stop talking about the Suffering From Inflation™️ & the nonexistent Recession once Joe Biden was no longer in the White House. It was entirely predictable. bsky.app/profile/mcop...

submitted 4 days ago • 13 comments

If you don’t like the look of the USPS EVs I don’t think you have a drop of whimsy in your soul. They’re adorable! They look like a Richard Scarry drawing. Ideal friend shape

submitted 4 days ago • 17 comments

they're like a child's drawing of a car (complimentary) whereas the cybertruck is like a child's drawing of a car (derogatory)

submitted 287 days ago • 9 comments

When the floor session took place 4 Dems were recorded voting yes, but 3 said their votes were erroneously recorded and that they opposed the legislation. The story has been updated accordingly.

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I've been covering the impact of propsed Medicaid cuts since the beginning of the year and I'm still learning about the many problems they're likely to cause.

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www.texastribune.org/2025/06/20/t...

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And without due process this Georgia-born American citizen spends the rest of his life disappeared in a jail in Jamaica. Do you get it yet?

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The Trump administration’s slashing of budgets and staff have Great Lakes scientists concerned that they have lost the ability to protect the public from toxic algal blooms, which can kill animals and sicken people. (Published May 2025) By @annaleighclark.bsky.social‬

submitted 5 days ago • 46 comments

Donald Trump pledged to cement the US as the bitcoin mining capital of the planet. The president’s sweeping tariffs stand to simultaneously undermine and advance that ambition in one swoop. www.wired.com/story/a-fals...

submitted 6 days ago • 5 comments

THREAD: The assassinations in Minnesota highlight a dirty secret hardly ever mentioned in the news: U.S. has 1.1 million private police officers. There is an unprecedented footprint of privately organized violence that is doing all sorts of things most people have no idea about.

submitted 11 days ago • 142 comments

The New York Times covers trans issues the way Fox News covers ICE protests. Both lead the country to believe there is a conflagration by highlighting a few fires over and over, while ignoring the fact that most people just want to live their lives without the government in their faces.

submitted 6 days ago • 152 comments

I just have to say, as a historian of the Reconstruction-era Klan, that masked paramilitaries are very bad and masked vigilantes are even worse and there are causal links between the two and none of this is good for democracy.

submitted 6 days ago • 114 comments

ICE’s argument that its officers need to wear masks due to a surge in assaults doesn’t hold water. Gift link: wapo.st/4l7a1ch

submitted 6 days ago • 99 comments

The only reason Republicans have a reputation as "fiscal hawks" is that the press refuses to tell the public basic facts about what they do when they are in office.

submitted 7 days ago • 167 comments

The law in its infinite wisdom bans trans and cis people alike from being trans

submitted 7 days ago • 14 comments