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If Josh Shapiro and his family were Teslas Pam Bondi would be all over the arson attack on his residence.

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Because the whole enterprise is based on a lie.

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If you are a young man working at a low-wage job that doesn’t offer health insurance, Mike Johnson wants to rip away your only source of health coverage, even if you are a dad caring for kids. The vast majority of Americans are better people than Johnson and disagree with his cruel policies.

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CBS News poll: Americans see Trump’s tariff policies benefitting the wealthy and large corporations- not the working class or small businesses.

submitted 15 hours ago • 33 comments

Trump and Hegseth in a nutshell

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"Only legislation can impose order on this administration." House and Senate Republicans - the ball is in your court. Take action, or own the consequences of Trump's economic chaos.

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DeSantis doing his best Trump impression: House Speaker Daniel Perez, R-Miami, said Wednesday that the transaction “looks as though it could be illegal.” Read more at: www.miamiherald.com/news/politic... www.miamiherald.com/news/politic...

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The House just passed its budget resolution, so reconciliation is now officially underway. This is their bill to destroy Medicaid and SNAP while cutting taxes disproportionately for the rich. THIS IS VERY REAL and can be enacted even if all Ds vote no. Thread on what's to come and WHERE TO FIGHT.

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Question for economists: How confident are you that Trump-Musk appointees are not messing around with government economic data, and how will we know if/when they do? #econsky

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Reality check: ✔️ 10% universal tariff tax that will cost American families $2,500 a year ✔️Trade war with China that will cost consumers and businesses more, while stifling agricultural and other exports ✔️ Economic instability caused by wild swings in policy

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The 10% tariff alone is a $2500 per household annual tax hike!

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In the new Economist/YouGov poll, 30% say the trade deficit is a very serious problem. To put that in perspective, 62% say that both inflation and corruption are very serious problems. And more Americans say that tariffs should be decreased (34%) than say they should be increased (20%).

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We have been unLiberated.

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Republican senators who are raising concerns about Trump's tariff taxes should demand that that Senator Thune hold a vote on the Grassley bill. If they are unwilling to do at least that, they will own the consequences for their constituents of this debacle. www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

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Herbert Hoover, 1929: “Any lack of confidence in the economic future or the strength of business in the United States is foolish.” Donald Trump, 2025: "Be cool."

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One thing we have learned conclusively about voters over the past two years is that they care a lot more about their own cost of living than the creation of someone else's manufacturing job. It is why Trump's messaging on his tariff taxes is doomed to fail.

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This is beautiful sportswriting by Marcus Thompson II. www.nytimes.com/athletic/626...

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Justice Jackson powerfully calls out Roberts' bowing to Trump in the deportations of Venezuelans: "This fly-by-night approach to the work of the SupremeCourt is not only misguided. It is also dangerous."

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The biggest transfer in history of the tax burden from the wealthy to everyone one else

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The logic of the government’s position is that if Trump wrongfully sent an American citizen (including, say, a political opponent of Trump) to a prison in El Salvador a court could not compel the government to secure their return because they would be out of our sovereign jurisdiction.

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Screwy.

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Combine the tariff fallout with Democrats' edge in low-turnout elections, and Senate races in red states like Kansas, Iowa and Texas start to look plausibly competitive in 2026. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/06/u...

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Pittsburgh PA

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The worst week for the stock market since the last time Freddy F*up was president. This time there is no pandemic to blame, just his own idiocy.

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I hope Nero is happy fiddling at the Saudi golf tournament today.

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How in the world is it possible that 50+ Republican senators could consider confirming this far right extremist?

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New: HHS Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr. said he wouldn’t take away childhood vaccines. Then he cut $2 billion from state health programs that helps get them to kids. Clinics canceled. Nurses fired. Immunizations stalled—all amid a measles outbreak. www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

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Like an operation where the patient’s vital signs crash because of medical malpractice.

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According to Paul Ryan’s former tax guy who was instrumental in writing the Trump tax cuts, the Trump tax plan is a “tax cut on high income taxpayers paid for by tax increases on the middle/working classes.”

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By 58% to 28%, Americans say that tariffs hurt the U.S. economy, not help it. Among independent voters, only 18% say that tariffs help the U.S. economy. These results are from the most recent Marquette University Law School national survey (March 17-27).

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Apropos of nothing: Kamala Harris predicted this exact moment happening: “Understand that part of Trump’s plan is to put in place a national sales tax of at least 20% on everyday goods and necessities.” She warned us over & over again & she was so right.

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Trump: Making America the Biggest Loser

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A short thread: In a seminar on the McCarthy era that I took long ago as a college freshman, the seminar instructor told us the story of a Harvard professor who was a refugee from Mussolini’s Italy. 1/3

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