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submitted 4 days ago • 102 comments

You tell 'em, AOC!

submitted 5 days ago • 184 comments

I am but a humble cable news host with a bachelor’s in philosophy, but I feel like at some point the bond market is also going to notice that the GOP is going to pass a deficit financed 5 trillion dollar tax cut. Maybe?

submitted 5 days ago • 935 comments

BREAKING: The House of Representatives just passed the SAVE Act, a bill that would make it much harder for millions of people to register to vote. We're calling on the Senate to reject this legislation.

submitted 5 days ago • 424 comments

🚨 NEWS: The White House confirms the tariff on Chinese imports is now 145%—not 125%. Reminder: tariffs are taxes on imported goods, which means Americans end up paying more.

submitted 5 days ago • 1225 comments

Good morning. Today is the 80th day that the U.S. President is running a backdoor bribery scheme in which any CEO or foreign oligarch can send him money secretly through his crypto coin scam in exchange for favors. It's the biggest scandal in the history of the Presidency.

submitted 7 days ago • 2276 comments

I still can’t figure out when “we can deport you” turned into “we can put you in a hell hole prison in a third country, indefinitely, with no legal recourse.”

submitted 7 days ago • 1474 comments

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." -Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953

submitted 7 days ago • 662 comments

Justice Sotomayor with a bone-chilling dissent today: “The implication of the govt’s position is noncitizens AND US citizens could be taken off streets, forced onto planes, confined to foreign prisons with no opportunity for redress…This Nation's laws is designed to prevent, not en-able, their rise.

submitted 8 days ago • 129 comments

Sotomayor is right. According to this Supreme Court, the US can now kidnap, detain, and fly legal immigrants and citizens to a foreign country's prison, even if it's a whoopsie. America, people. Freedom and stuff.

submitted 8 days ago • 809 comments

They are snatching people off the street and sending them away to brutal prisons in foreign lands with zero due process - and they won't even bring them back when they realize a mistake was made. That's frightening stuff for any American who actually loves their country. #StopTrumpsTerror

submitted 8 days ago • 563 comments

WTF: “Trump’s treasury secretary Bessent seeks ‘meaningful negotiations’ with more than 50 countries”. BUT why didn’t they negotiate BEFORE imposing massive tariffs that caused market to crash, wiped out nest eggs and are ushering in a recession?! This is beyond incompetence. It’s criminal!

submitted 8 days ago • 86 comments

Like I said, AIPAC targets PROGRESSIVE Dems. prospect.org/blogs-and-ne...

submitted 9 days ago • 9 comments

Trump is following Herbert Hoover’s playbook that caused the Great Depression. The Question is Why?! Sen Chris Murphy warns “the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy.” He wants people to demand loyalty in exchange for economic relief. My article: deanobeidallah.substack.com/p/trump-is-f...

submitted 9 days ago • 10 comments

A reminder of what Trump inherited from Biden.

submitted 11 days ago • 62 comments

This is part of what’s so insane. As they talk about re-shoring and manufacturing they are actively trying to destroy an entire us manufacturing industry that already exists.

submitted 11 days ago • 625 comments

The IRS unit that audits ultrawealthy earners has lost 38% of its employees this year. This will starve the government of revenue by making it easier for the rich to evade taxes — which the top 1% already do to the tune of $163B a year. See what DOGE is really about?

submitted 12 days ago • 467 comments

It’s still hard to believe the simple fact that this is all self-imposed. Everything that’s happening right now wasn’t the result of some foreign adversary destroying the country. We did this all to ourselves by electing the dumbest motherfucker to ever rule a nation.

submitted 13 days ago • 1381 comments

While Republicans rush to pass a bill that'll allow Donald Trump and Elon Musk to take control of your money, Rep. Maxine Waters and I are calling on the SEC to investigate Trump's crypto business for conflicts of interest. Americans deserve better.

submitted 13 days ago • 66 comments

pro tip: if you can afford to blow $250 million on a losing campaign in Wisconsin, you can afford to pay a 90% top tax margin

submitted 13 days ago • 279 comments

I may be tired and a little hoarse, but as I said again and again on the Senate floor, this is a moment where we cannot afford to be silent, when we must speak up.

submitted 14 days ago • 10953 comments

Trump and Musk just executed the final kill shot: USAID is gone. 10,000 workers fired. Every foreign office shut. Every program terminated. American diplomats and local staff—wiped out. No aid to Gaza. No support for Ukraine. This isn’t reform. It’s a global retreat in plain sight.

submitted 14 days ago • 25 comments

Pete Hegseth just texted me: the fuck is up bro??? Ready to invade Mars lol but for real tuesday it’s goin down. bout 2b lit. sorry. wrong number. bout 2b lit tho 4real

submitted 22 days ago • 46 comments

You #dickdurbin fucked me over. God damn you

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

Gotta admire the truly old school energy of shaking your cane angrily at a man intent on overturning the democratic order.

submitted 42 days ago • 138 comments

Worth a listen to what Al Green says after he was removed from the chamber.

submitted 42 days ago • 286 comments