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Chris Murphy: "Trump & the Republicans are trying to engineer the most massive transfer of wealth from the poor & middle class to the wealthy in history of the country...that's super unpopular. So how do you pass it? You can only pass it if you also destroy democracy & the means of accountability"

submitted 20 hours ago • 105 comments

Phang: You do not do the bidding of Donald Trump simply because that’s what he wants. You do not want somebody like Emil Bove as a Third Circuit Court of Appeals judge. You don’t even want him to be—I don’t know—a parking garage or strip mall lawyer, do you? That’s an Alina Habba job.

submitted 19 hours ago • 45 comments

Republicans just want you to die. Faster.

submitted 18 hours ago • 1 comment

Are you actually SURPRISED? 👇 Well, are you?! Miller. Is. Human. Scum. 😎✨

submitted 1 day ago • 55 comments

The more you know…💫 Enjoy. 😎✨

submitted 3 days ago • 5 comments

“The Situation Room” anchor Pamela Brown defended the network against what she called Trump’s “blatantly manipulative” attacks.

submitted 18 hours ago • 4 comments

Let’s. Do. This. 😎✨

submitted 17 hours ago • 23 comments

On the platform that you really don’t hit peak effectiveness until your 90th birthday.

submitted 17 hours ago • 82 comments

And then this shit just came out. When you’re making over $700k a year, gaining $12k is nothing. It’s a nice vacation, redoing the garage, giving a niece/nephew a car. When you’re making $23k a year, losing $1600 is “are we paying for food or for the house or for medical bills” territory.

submitted 17 hours ago • 204 comments

Nuclear nonproliferation expert Joseph Cirincione says he trusts U.S. intelligence, not White House spin.

submitted 17 hours ago • 2 comments

Boyle: For every American household that makes under $55,000 a year, they will be poorer as a result of this bill. So it's quite clear under this Republican betrayal— the poor get poorer, the rich get richer, and the middle class falling further behind. This is wrong.

submitted 18 hours ago • 93 comments

Budzinski: Families making over $700,000 a year will see a boost of $12,000 almost entirely from tax cuts. Shockingly, households making $23,000 a year or less are set to lose about $1600 a year, mostly due to deep cuts to Medicaid and food assistance

submitted 17 hours ago • 852 comments

The secretary of health and human services said that funding will be curtailed until Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, takes into account the science of vaccine safety in its campaigns.

submitted 17 hours ago • 115 comments

Scanlon: They're flat out lying when they say they're just kicking undocumented immigrants off Medicaid because those folks were never eligible for Medicaid in the first place. The truth is Republicans know that kicking millions of Americans off of health insurance is unpopular.

submitted 17 hours ago • 129 comments

Merkley had a pretty effective day. Or will have, if you make this go viral.

submitted 19 hours ago • 57 comments

The Republican tax plan would take health care from millions and add $4.2T to the deficit — to help finance billionaire tax cuts. Tomorrow @alsobrooks.senate.gov and I are answering questions from Marylanders about this bill and how we're fighting back. 📋RSVP: outreach.senate.gov/iqextranet/E...

submitted 17 hours ago • 15 comments

Federal and local law enforcement wearing masks is just plain unamerican. It’s a cowards move, and shows the fact that the kinds of deportations happening and the methods are, shameful and unpopular. adamkinzinger.substack.com/p/why-are-fe...

submitted 17 hours ago • 979 comments

CNN: “Trump planning to dismiss asylum claims for potentially hundreds of thousands of migrants and immediately deportable…” The Statue of Liberty 🗽 is straight-up lying to people at this point. www.cnn.com/2025/06/25/p...

submitted 17 hours ago • 73 comments

Looney Tunes

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HOLY SHIT!! 💩 The Pentagon created fake Iran war plans because they knew Trump would leak the real one on Truth social. That's like giving a toddler a toy steering wheel while you drive the car… Insane, but not entirely unsurprising, is it?! 😎✨

submitted 17 hours ago • 37 comments

You don't "not recall" telling DOJ lawyers to say "fuck you" to court orders. You either remember saying it, or you remember that you definitely didn't say it. Emil Bove saying he doesn't recall means he definitely said it, and there's a roomful of people that can testify to it.

submitted 19 hours ago • 546 comments

Some good news for a change…👇

submitted 20 hours ago • 27 comments

It’s been about 30 years since I was an Assistant U.S. Attorney. And maybe it’s just me, but I think I would remember telling my fellow prosecutors that we should ignore a court order and tell the court “fuck you.”

submitted 21 hours ago • 249 comments

If Republicans pass their budget the uninsured rate in Arizona will go up by 50%. That means more kids missing checkups, more ER visits for treatable conditions, more people choosing between rent and medications. All to give billionaires another tax break.

submitted 21 hours ago • 18 comments

Undocumented immigrants pay over $100 Billion in taxes every year, and receive ZERO federal benefits. Unlike the wealthy who don't pay taxes and expect us to give up health care so they can have even MORE money. Time to get angry at the right people, because… The. Rich. Steal. Everything. 😎✨

submitted 21 hours ago • 18 comments

Republicans are lighting $800 billion in Medicaid funding on fire and then trying to douse it with a $15 billion so-called rural hospitals fund. I don’t think so.

submitted 21 hours ago • 4 comments

Trump's America. They literally just zip-tied the hands of disabled Medicaid activists in wheelchairs before Capitol police arrested them at the Russel Senate Office building. How about we arrest the people scamming Americans, like the president?

submitted 22 hours ago • 274 comments

President Zelensky and the Secretary General of the Council of Europe (COE) Alain Berset have signed a document that establishes a tribunal for the establishment of a Special Tribunal for the Crime of Aggression against Ukraine.

submitted 22 hours ago • 15 comments

This won’t succeed but it is not normal. This is very dangerous. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

submitted 22 hours ago • 1278 comments

WATCH: Sen. Chris Murphy on the intel report showing the U.S. strikes on Iran nuclear program were not as effective as Trump claimed: "We were supposed to get a briefing today. It got canceled. I think it got canceled because they are trying to figure out how to lie their way out of this mess."

submitted 1 day ago • 68 comments

Starting July 7, 2025, the National Archives at College Park will shut its doors to the public. Only those with “legitimate business” can enter. A federal records facility—closed to the very public it’s supposed to serve? This should raise eyebrows. It smells BAD.

submitted 1 day ago • 47 comments

Mic drop.

submitted 1 day ago • 1254 comments

Whistleblower reveals Emil Bove, Trump DOJ nominee... allegedly told staff to “f‑‑‑ you” court orders blocking deportations—prompting mass uproar and DOJ firings. His confirmation hearing kicks off amid intense scrutiny over his approach to the rule of law. A bad man.

submitted 1 day ago • 29 comments

1) Medicaid cuts worse now 2) Freedom caucus wants deeper cuts 3) Tax cuts for wealthy in tact 4) Cruz makes broadband funding contingent on NOT regulating AI 5) SALT Republicans to get rolled 6) Bill is like a rotting fish 7) Mike Lee making second run at public lands selloff

submitted 1 day ago • 31 comments