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Federal judge dresses down Alina Habba: "Your role is not to secure convictions at all costs, nor to satisfy public clamor, nor to advance political agendas. Your allegiance is to the impartial application of the law, to the pursuit of truth and to the upholding of due process for all."

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NEW: The Pentagon has officially accepted the illegal $400M emolument from Qatar. abcnews.go.com/Politics/pen...

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McGovern: "This is not a governing philosophy. It is a scam. I wasn't sent here to vote for trash. I can't understand why you'd choose a career of public service to do this -- to rip away the healthcare & food assistance of working & middle class Americans. Is that really what you came here to do?"

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Crockett: Right now, it seems like you don’t care about the constitution unless it’s the second amendment and that’s misinterpreted as well. There’s other amendments.. And we don’t get to just change it because our fearless leader says that he doesn’t like it

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This is the weaponization of government—full stop. If you speak out against them—or in this case do your job—they will come for you. What we’re seeing with @replamonica.bsky.social is a political stunt, and we won’t stand for it.

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Some of the CDC's main channels for communicating urgent health information to the public have gone silent.

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DURBIN: How can we give hope to people across the country who are suffering from so many diseases when our government is cutting back on that research? RFK Jr: I do not know about any cuts to ALS research D: I just read them to you! R: I didn't know about them until you told me about them

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House chamber burst into laughter when Marjorie Taylor Greene called for "decorum."

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Unthinkable evil.

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I'd love for any 🍊💩 supporter to show me the gas being $1.99.... nowhere near that. it's about $2.99 where I am. there is no record of gas below $2.66 in the entire country and that is only in a handful of places. 🤔

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Number of US gas stations currently selling gas for $1.99: Zero. @gasbuddyguy.bsky.social @nbcnews.com 🇺🇸

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“you should have a choice” means “we get to choose for you”

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Scalise on CNBC: "This bond downgrade is another serious blow that shows that America needs to get its fiscal house in order. We start to do that in this bill." NOTE: The bill is project to increase the debt by trillions of dollars, hence the pushback from the right. Via CRFB >

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This should be the end of Noem’s career in public life. It almost certainly won’t be, however, which is itself damning.

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Former chair of the Tennessee Libertarian Party 👇🏽

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I stand with Rep. LaMonica McIver. This is a political stunt—point blank.

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Jeffries on the $5m payout to Ashli Babbitt's family: "This settlement is just an extension of what they've previously done, which is to pardon violent felons who violently attacked the Capitol on January 6, including police officers."

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Chris Murphy: "In retrospect, you can't defend what the Democratic Party did because we are stuck with a madman, a corrupt president in the Oval Office, and we should've given ourselves a better chance to win."

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Some good news! www.cnn.com/2025/05/18/e...

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Khanna: "I appreciate that he's trying to get a deal with Iran. I don't like the fact that the biggest AI center, research center, is going to be in Dubai. I mean, what happened to America first? Why don't we put that center in Pennsylvania or in Ohio?"

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How long until we see Disney change its language? I guess at least it didn't comply in advance...🙄

submitted 3 days ago • 360 comments

If ANYONE tries to employ Biden's cancer diagnosis in an argument about the 2024 election, I will block you. Twice. Miss me with that shit.

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Sen. Chris Murphy to NBC on Democratic opposition to the GOP mega-bill: "What we're standing in the way of is the most massive transfer of wealth from the poor and the middle class to the rich in the history of the country."

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Speaker Mike Johnson on the US credit downgrade: "Moody's is not incorrect, but that emphasizes the very need for the legislation we're talking about -- historic spending cuts." (Part of Moody's concern is in fact the reconciliation bill, which is projected to add trillions to US debt)

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“Can’t 86 him? 25th him.” — Founding Fathers, probably.

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men will literally dismantle the federal government instead of going to therapy

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read the whole thread...

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He’s got private golf resorts, personal jets, and towers with his name on them and yet he’s still begging oil despots for a luxury plane instead of helping people working two jobs who can’t make rent.

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It’s amazing how many tragic natural disasters Andy Beshear has had to shepherd Kentucky through.

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To the cartoonist who drew this, well done.

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My heart is with President Biden and his family. Lifting him up in prayer and wishing him a peaceful, successful healing journey. www.cnn.com/2025/05/18/p...

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average comment section in 2025

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Disclosure forms show that Bondi sold her Trump Media stock on April 2, the same day as the president’s “Liberation Day” press conference. Trump Media fell 13% in the following days, before rebounding. By @robert-faturechi.bsky.social and @bxroberts.org

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😳

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Trump Republicanism in action. What could possibly go wrong? www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2025...

submitted 5 days ago • 377 comments

this is what a crazy person would post... he is so unfit to be president. the secondhand embarrassment I feel is overwhelmed 🥴

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The entire federal government has been mobilized for SeashellGate. It’s all hands on deck.

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oops said the quiet part out loud 🤦🏽‍♀️

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And the Qatari royal family has been unsuccessfully trying to sell it for five years.

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Why? Because this is the agenda & narrative that CNN, Axios, Politico and other mainstream media want to set for Democrats over the next 3 years? Fuck that and fuck them. Don’t play their DC cocktail circuit game, because Americans care about things affect their lives right now.

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