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New post: This week, Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird & her staff lied repeatedly about a federal lawsuit Iowa joined, which could blow up Section 504 protections for people with disabilities. My report (with audio from my short Q&A with the AG on Monday): www.bleedingheartland.com/2025/02/16/b...

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I don’t know about y’all, but I’m starting to think the only thing that kept the planes from crashing before was diversity.

submitted 13 days ago • 268 comments

Does “Golden Age” refer to a time when planes keep crashing, eggs cost $10–15 a dozen, the U.S. is being booed and protested by all our allies, workers are losing their jobs, and Americans’ personal data is being rummaged through by unelected oligarchs and their strange crew of 20-something incels?

submitted 15 days ago • 3062 comments

"I'm a free speech absolutist who thinks reporters should be fired for discovering unflattering information about public officials"

submitted 16 days ago • 123 comments

So proud of my governor.

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

And when they find it, will the perpetrators then be elected to the senate? Probably.

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submitted 18 days ago • 33 comments

The United States Military Academy has just eliminated all Cadet clubs and activities for POC. Most of these have existed for decades like the Society of Black Engineers. They were there when I was a Cadet in 1987. All of the religious ones remain. This isn’t DEI. It’s white Christian Nationalism.

submitted 18 days ago • 2837 comments

Losing NOAA would be devastating. Project 2025 authors want to get rid of it because it monitors climate change, and privatize the information it currently provides for free, so you'll have to buy information about the weather and the winds (imperative for mariners).

submitted 18 days ago • 291 comments

Trump has headlines including the phrase “ethnic cleansing” in stories written about him just 2 weeks into his second term. uk.news.yahoo.com/trump-says-u...

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

You should print out your Social Security Statement. Elon and who knows how many countless others now have access to your private information, so it'd be wise to have a record of it.

submitted 19 days ago • 286 comments

Tom Homan: "It's gonna become violent. You're gonna see violence on the border. It's unfortunate, but we know it's coming. Border Patrol is prepared. It's great to have the military on the southern border. They're prepared."

submitted 19 days ago • 780 comments

This is a great idea. Do you know anyone in Congress you can talk to?

submitted 19 days ago • 2652 comments

Good!

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

Why does the world’s richest man, a man no one voted for, have access to my Social Security number?

submitted 21 days ago • 538 comments

"It seems like virtually every sector of the American economy" -- Fox News has put together a scrolling list of the "goods affected by Trump tariffs" 😬

submitted 21 days ago • 550 comments

What the right wing REALLY means:

submitted 21 days ago • 233 comments

They are politicizing standard payments. Illinois, we are in for a rough time. We need electeds to know we want action. Call your red AND blue senators and representatives. Both only have one goal: to get reelected. Tell them they won’t if they don’t do something. www.usa.gov/elected-offi...

submitted 21 days ago • 2 comments

The first Senators to actually do anything about the Trump admin

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The Ottawa crowd just booed the American national anthem at a hockey game against the Minnesota Wild. I don’t think that’s ever happened before.

submitted 22 days ago • 814 comments

Every country that Trump slaps a tariff on should retaliate by slapping a 1000% tariff on all Tesla and Starlink products, if only to show Elon that there is a downside to using our public government as his private playpen.

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Leopard: I will eat your face Bank analysts: Our baseline assumes no face-eating Leopard: Chomp chomp chomp

submitted 22 days ago • 209 comments

Banksters discover Trump is batshit insane.

submitted 22 days ago • 74 comments

Ouch. The Wall Street Journal Editorial Board just called Trump's new trade war "The Dumbest Trade War in History"

submitted 22 days ago • 541 comments

Welp. Turns out electing an unstable maniac is a bad idea after all.

submitted 23 days ago • 263 comments

They're such hypocrites.

submitted 23 days ago • 82 comments

Billionaire African immigrant previously charged with securities fraud seeks access to nation’s $6 trillion dollar Social Security fund that keeps the elderly alive & in their homes: www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

submitted 23 days ago • 3 comments

"Guys, Donald Trump is not a brown bear; we simply do not have to curl up in the fetal position and protect our vital organs. Also, given that RFK is going to be on the cabinet, faking being roadkill is gonna backfire when he loads us up in his truck and lets us rot while he dines at a steakhouse."

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

Trump and Elon got a bunch of figure skaters and their families killed.

submitted 24 days ago • 208 comments

Sounds like a shitty make-up call. (Of course, everything he does involves shitty make-up.)

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

So when all was said and done, the only country that opened it's prisons and sent crazy murderous criminals to prey upon innocent American citizens, was us.

submitted 32 days ago • 231 comments

I'll give Elon Musk a moment of grace when he gives me a billion dollars.

submitted 34 days ago • 0 comments

I can't help but imagine Molly Ivins greeting Cecile Richards with a very loud and full guffaw & a "Hot damn, you've got amazing timing! Whereever they are, it's a good place & I'm sure the beer is good and plentiful."

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