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It’s hard to imagine an American home without Chinese products. Many essentials are imported almost entirely from China — and with new tariffs, they’re likely to become more expensive. We analyzed import data to show where Americans may see product shortages, fewer choices and price increases.

submitted 5 days ago • 90 comments

Trump is terminating grants for a program that helps advocate for children who have been the victims of abuse and neglect. Is that the Republican Party's platform now? Abandon child victims of crime to make room to cut taxes for billionaires?

submitted 6 days ago • 42 comments

The Supreme Court ruled that the Trump admin must facilitate the return of SMART Union Local 100 apprentice Kilmar Abrego Garcia. They need to quit wasting time and bring our union brother home NOW!

submitted 16 days ago • 101 comments

The SEC is the only agency that could get to the bottom of who did these trades — and they would have to want to know.

submitted 23 days ago • 125 comments

Great description

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60 Minutes found no criminal record for 75% of the Venezuelan migrants the U.S. sent to a mega-prison in El Salvador. https://cbsn.ws/4lC4Vp5

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Booker: "I confess that I have been imperfect. I confess that I've been inadequate to the moment. I've confess that the Democratic Party has made terrible mistakes that gave a lane to this demagogue. I confess we all must look in the mirror and say 'we will do better.'"

submitted 31 days ago • 1425 comments

This is very smart www.thebulwark.com/p/how-to-thi...

submitted 33 days ago • 472 comments

The oldest Bison I've ever seen. This old boy had just made is through another winter and was fattening up again to face another. Toughest animals you'll ever meet.

submitted 33 days ago • 19 comments

"Wow. Wow. Am I officially a scorer now?" 😆 –– Sandro Mamukelashvili on being the first player in #NBA history to score 34+ in under 20 minutes (via New York Basketball) #Mamu #PorVida #GoSpursGo 🙌

submitted 44 days ago • 0 comments

Musk has now poured $8.3 million into buying the tie-breaking Wisconsin Supreme Court seat for Brad Schimel. That is vastly more than any other single donor—to eliminate a state-level check on his and Trump's power. Help us fight back and elect Susan Crawford: PeopleVMusk.com

submitted 53 days ago • 190 comments

The United States now playing the role that communist satellite states once played in the UN: sponsoring resolutions in its own name but on behalf of Moscow.

submitted 66 days ago • 362 comments

THE Rep. Jasmine Crockett to Elon Musk: "Fuck off." So say we all. 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 Video clip courtesy of @calltoactivism.bsky.social

submitted 66 days ago • 853 comments

If you wanted to cut waste, fraud, and abuse, you would empower the inspectors general. If you wanted more waste, fraud, and abuse, you would fire them.

submitted 74 days ago • 2248 comments

Repost this if you agree Elon and DOGE should be SUED!

submitted 82 days ago • 774 comments

Whether it’s Donald Trump cutting off cancer research funding or Joe Biden cutting off payments to Trump hotels and resorts, presidents from both parties have made dramatic cuts in their early administration.

submitted 83 days ago • 10 comments

Dear @Doge If there is nothing to hide. Hide nothing

submitted 85 days ago • 2126 comments

submitted 87 days ago • 1459 comments

Turns out the 25-year-old DOGE operative that got access to the Treasury Dept payment systems that manage 95% of all US govt payments, didn't just get "read only" access was previously claimed. He got "admin" access and has already made extensive changes to the code base

submitted 87 days ago • 81 comments

BREAKING NEWS: In a massive lawsuit, the AFL-CIO has SUED the Treasury Department: “for their unlawful…disclosure of personal and financial information…to Elon Musk and other members of the so-called ‘Department of Government Efficiency’ (DOGE).”

submitted 88 days ago • 454 comments

Elon Musk is a terrible president.

submitted 88 days ago • 1677 comments

#CouplonMusk paid about $250m to help Trump win the White House. He is getting access to the personal information of 334.9m Americans. And allegedly storing it on private servers. That is less than $1 per person. To sell America out. nymag.com/intelligence...

submitted 88 days ago • 80 comments

Demagogues, oligarchs, and literal teenage boys are tearing apart our government. They are fueled by Silicon Valley’s dream of a monarchist network state and blood and soil white nationalism and every day they are in power means years of work required to fix it. www.garbageday.email/p/musk-s-sup...

submitted 88 days ago • 35 comments

Thanks to George Conway for posting Caroline Kennedy’s letter to Senators setting the truth about her cousin RFK jr Straight He is truly unqualified in every way possible.

submitted 94 days ago • 318 comments

It’s as if the Joker threw open the prison gates of Gotham.

submitted 101 days ago • 131 comments

President Trump's inaugural address was a misleading assessment of the U.S. It has a growing economy, falling inflation, slowing illegal immigration, a record-breaking stock market, the lowest levels of violent crime in years and a military that has limited engagement in conflicts around the world.

submitted 102 days ago • 697 comments

American media: What could Elon Musk's hand gesture have meant? German media: We know exactly what the fuck that meant

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submitted 103 days ago • 1966 comments

In this Viewpoint, Josip Car and @erictopol.bsky.social call upon academic institutions, industry stakeholders, and policymakers to collaborate in developing and adopting a Master of Digital Health with specializations. #MedEd ja.ma/40Anl0D

submitted 106 days ago • 0 comments

NEW: Platformer has obtained the dehumanizing new guidelines moderating what people can now say about trans people on Facebook and Instagram. Employees tell me these changes are likely to inspire more violence against LGBT people: www.platformer.news/meta-new-tra...

submitted 113 days ago • 986 comments

Bernie woke up, went on X, and chose violence.

submitted 114 days ago • 1058 comments

The Seventh Seal, directed by Ingmar Bergman, 1957, 📸 of @wemby by @johnhateclub

submitted 125 days ago • 18 comments