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When I was playing gigs in Atlantic City casinos with Al Jarreau way back, everybody bashed Donald Trump all the time. He was well-known as a mobbed-up asshole who fucked over everybody who worked for him. And here we are again, except this time the whole fucking country is at stake.

submitted 7 hours ago • 3 comments

I just voted NO on the motion to proceed on the Big Ugly bill. Let’s be clear: Voting YES on this procedural motion IS voting to let Republicans pass the largest health care cuts in history. This isn’t over. There will be debate & amendments. SENATORS MUST VOTE DOWN THIS BILL!

submitted 8 hours ago • 76 comments

Republicans chose to release the text of their Big Ugly bill late last night. They’re trying to pass the largest cuts to health care in history late on a Saturday. So Democrats are forcing the entirety of the bill to be read on the Senate floor. We won’t let them hide.

submitted 12 hours ago • 57 comments

Republicans told us they wanted to vote on their Big Ugly bill promptly at 4pm ET. We’re here. But it seems they’re not ready to go. I guess they’re still working on buying the votes they need to cut Medicaid, close hospitals, and kick seniors out of nursing homes.

submitted 11 hours ago • 49 comments

If Republicans won’t conduct oversight on Trump’s illegal immigration actions, I will. As Ranking Member of the Immigration Subcommittee, I’m conducting shadow hearings — and yesterday, we held a hearing on the administration's arrests at immigration courts.

submitted 1 day ago • 18 comments

This ruling is deeply alarming, but let's be clear: Trump’s lying again. Probably because his staff will tell him whatever makes him happy. Or maybe he just can’t understand. Regardless, his anti-American EO is still unconstitutional, and it WILL be fought any way we can.

submitted 1 day ago • 29 comments

My favorite Zohran moment of this campaign. And why, more generally, he won:

submitted 2 days ago • 51 comments

I'm going to try and communicate with my Republican colleagues in a new way.

submitted 2 days ago • 1043 comments

From prenatal support to cancer screenings, Planned Parenthood is dedicated to the full spectrum of women's health care. The Supreme Court is telling women that their lives are disposable and their health doesn't matter. Shameful.

submitted 2 days ago • 81 comments

Kari Lake is responsible for an agency that is supposed to promote truth. Yet she continues to promote dictators, authoritarians, and lies.

submitted 2 days ago • 18 comments

They’re telling us @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social is making lofty promises — meanwhile Trump said we wouldn’t have to pay taxes anymore because tariffs other countries pay for (nope, we do!) would cover it. GTFO.

submitted 2 days ago • 21 comments

We can't become numb to this lunacy. Republicans can't let anti-vaxxers like Lyn Redwood help OVERSEE vaccine safety. She will spread even more dangerous lies about vaccines—and she’s going to get kids killed. She doesn't belong anywhere near CDC. My full statement. ⬇️

submitted 2 days ago • 15 comments

Trump, Stephen Miller, and Tom Homan are arresting as many immigrants as possible — moms, dads, grandparents. ICE isn’t going after the “worst of the worst” like Trump promised. They’re disappearing asylum seekers, families, and relatives of citizens — many with no criminal record.

submitted 2 days ago • 11 comments

Russ Vought is already illegally withholding hundreds of billions in federal funding from our communities. Now, he's refusing to rule out cutting off even more funding with a new, illegal end run around Congress. He's ignoring common sense & the plain text of the law.

submitted 3 days ago • 24 comments

We all want to get rid of waste, fraud, and abuse. But the fraud in health care isn’t with poor and working people — it’s with the corporate insurers who rip off the government and the American people.

submitted 3 days ago • 11 comments

Elon Musk said Social Security is a "Ponzi scheme" and President Trump called it a "scam." Now, this Administration is decimating the Social Security Administration so they can privatize your hard-earned benefits. We've seen this playbook before. Hands off Social Security!

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Republicans in Mike Johnson’s own state are saying that “people are going to die” because of Trump’s big, bad betrayal budget. But he doesn’t care. He’ll do anything to make his billionaire buddies happy. www.politico.com/news/2025/06...

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Republicans may have a lot of power right now but that doesn’t mean we have none. Three years after Dobbs, I will keep telling the stories of the women suffering under Republican abortion bans. I will keep fighting anti-choice policies. And I’ll keep working to restore abortion rights nationwide.

submitted 4 days ago • 13 comments

AOC: Being taken is wrong, it is illegal, it is a violation of his First Amendment rights, it is an affront to every American, and we will not allow—and will continue to resist—the politicization and the continued political persecution that ICE is engaged in.

submitted 7 days ago • 534 comments

Gina raised her 3 grandkids after her daughter Tiffany died in 2007, delaying care for pulmonary hypertension because she was uninsured after losing her job. Tiffany's story helped pass the ACA. Now, Gina is fighting to protect Medicaid. No cuts to Medicaid. We can't go back.

submitted 7 days ago • 12 comments

Congress has the sole power to declare war – full stop. The idea that the US would potentially deploy a bunker buster bomb in Iran w/out Congressional approval not only flies in the face of our Constitution, it would also rope us into another forever war that Americans do not want.

submitted 8 days ago • 490 comments

Republicans want to destroy the solvency of Social Security so that they can get rid of it. Social Security is an EARNED BENEFIT. And I will never stop fighting to protect it.

submitted 8 days ago • 15 comments

Politicians should not be able to interfere in health care decisions that belong between doctors, patients, and their families. The fight for trans rights doesn't end at the Supreme Court. We carry it forward in Congress, in state capitols, and in our communities.

submitted 10 days ago • 8 comments

Former FTC Chair Lina Khan breaks down why monopolies and corporate concentration are bad for all of us. To hear more conversations like this, be sure to tune into my new podcast: The Power You Have — out on all streaming platforms!

submitted 10 days ago • 9 comments

While this outcome from the Supreme Court – which allows a Tennessee ban on gender affirming care to stand — is incredibly disappointing, I will never stop fighting for trans communities across this country. 🏳️‍⚧️ www.cbsnews.com/news/supreme...

submitted 10 days ago • 9 comments

Today, I visited the Denise Louie Education Center, an early learning center that provides support services for families and children. As Trump works to defund education across the country, I’m working to support places like Denise Louie and the good they do for our communities.

submitted 11 days ago • 2 comments

Jesus, this video. What a sadistic psychopath. And he was allowed to terrorize people for at least three years before he was finally held accountable.

submitted 12 days ago • 15 comments

There are no kings in America. We need to remind ourselves that our voices are important. That we do need to stand up and say what we believe in. That's how we change the direction of this country. That's what democracy is.

submitted 14 days ago • 17 comments

Medicaid pays for 60% of births in Mike Johnson’s home state of Louisiana — yet he voted to cut Medicaid. If you’re not voted into office to defend the health and wellbeing of your constituents, what the hell are you there for?

submitted 17 days ago • 62 comments

The American flag walked so this flag could fly.

submitted 17 days ago • 14 comments

Sly Stone made a lot of timeless, enjoyable, challenging music. But “Hot Fun in the Summertime” is arguably the greatest 45 RPM record ever issued.

submitted 19 days ago • 84 comments

If "may you live in interesting times" really was a Chinese curse, this is what it would wish on us.

submitted 18 days ago • 2 comments

Today, Republicans advanced a bill through committee to lock up parents and doctors for providing gender affirming care to young trans people. This targeting of trans kids who are doing zero harm and just trying to live their lives is beyond cruel.

submitted 18 days ago • 16 comments

My message to Trump’s NIH Director? No one in America wants us to do LESS cancer research. No one is asking Trump to make it harder to cure Alzheimer's disease. Yet Trump is cutting all of this NOW and demanding an $18 BILLION cut to NIH next year. Not on my watch.

submitted 18 days ago • 17 comments

I'm glad that some Republicans seem to know very well that immigrants power their communities and that Trump's indiscriminate mass deportations are just plain wrong and are speaking out against them.

submitted 18 days ago • 1 comment

Gavin Newsom Is Giving Democrats What They Wanted From Congress. youtu.be/utoxhn4hErM?...

submitted 18 days ago • 4 comments

Trump doesn't want you to know this, but he's currently trying to ram through a Big, Ugly Betrayal of a bill that will kick 16 million Americans off their health care. All just to cut taxes for billionaires and giant corporations who don't need it. Every Senator should vote NO.

submitted 18 days ago • 21 comments

Democrats know that our immigration system is broken and that the American people want a fair and humane system that actually works. They do NOT want terrifying ICE raids, or anymore kidnappings and disappearances.

submitted 18 days ago • 20 comments

Enough of the ICE raids that sweep up immigrants of every legal status. Enough of ignoring due process and the Constitution. Enough of tearing apart our families and communities. Trump’s lawlessness hurts all of us.

submitted 19 days ago • 31 comments

I’d add this: Decades of studies have shown that large groups want to be seen as legitimate, and largely self-police yahoos prone to violence — until law enforcement starts using violence, at which point they unite against a common enemy. It’s a lesson too few PDs ever seem to learn.

submitted 19 days ago • 19 comments

Unleashing Marines on L.A., having a $45 million Army parade, man the lengths this guy will go to achieve a single erection.

submitted 19 days ago • 17 comments

The Constitution is clear: the government cannot “deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law.” Yet the Trump administration continues to ignore the law and not give individuals any due process — violating their rights.

submitted 20 days ago • 17 comments

Trump’s travel ban 2.0 is just another attack on legal immigration. It’s discriminatory, it will tear families apart, and it will hurt our economy. We must pass the No Ban Act to stop this xenophobia.

submitted 21 days ago • 11 comments

Undocumented immigrants pay almost $100 billion in taxes each year. The top 1% evade $163 billion in taxes each year. Stop pretending that immigrants are the ones taking advantage of taxpayers.

submitted 21 days ago • 358 comments

Washington just took the reasonable step of not allowing the National Guard of other states to operate here without our agreement. It’s not the Guard personnel we are concerned about, it’s other governors in the Trump cult. katu.com/news/local/g...

submitted 68 days ago • 175 comments