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Everyone around him likes to feed his ego.

submitted 4 days ago • 498 comments

A Republican lawmaker has introduced a bill to make Trump’s birthday a federal holiday. They refer to Trump as a “founder” and compare him to George Washington.

submitted 6 days ago • 1593 comments

None of the broligarchs knows what they’re talking about. They’re just hot air, spewing what sounds smart to them but is actually a telltale sign of ignorance.

submitted 6 days ago • 395 comments

Forbes has been tracking how government officials really get wealthy for years. Spoiler alert: there are plenty of perfectly legal ways to do it. My latest for @forbes.com here: www.forbes.com/sites/kylemu...

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

For any Republicans out there-- don't you see what's happening? Your elected officials, drunk with power, are quietly and quickly getting filthy rich. And in exchange, they're cutting your Medicaid, cutting your education funding, cutting SNAP benefits, cutting medical research.

submitted 6 days ago • 702 comments

@sanders.senate.gov: "You're looking at enormous power & wealth in the hands of a small number of people who could care less about working class people... They suffer from the addiction of greed. You got $50 billion? Ain't enough. We got to cut SS so I can get a tax break and maybe get $55 billion."

submitted 6 days ago • 217 comments

This is the way.

submitted 7 days ago • 822 comments

Gutting the CDC right as we’re on the cusp of major outbreaks of transmissible diseases is a very bad idea.

submitted 8 days ago • 1695 comments

Cans of tuna sold by major grocery chains in 27 states have been recalled by the Tri-Union Seafoods company over concerns a manufacturing defect with their easy-pull tab lids could allow the clostridium botulinum toxin, which causes botulism, to contaminate the product.

submitted 11 days ago • 4 comments

Staffers at the government arm responsible for maintaining core tech systems were concerned that such broad access for the former Tesla engineer now in charge would violate security measures.

submitted 11 days ago • 7 comments

27 religious groups are suing the federal government in response to the Trump administration's policy giving immigration agents more leeway to make arrests at "sensitive locations" like churches.

submitted 11 days ago • 35 comments

In a strongly-worded letter to Catholic bishops in the United States, Pope Francis is taking to task the Trump Administration's stance on migrants, and that he's following what he calls a "major crisis" with the initiation of mass deportation.

submitted 11 days ago • 122 comments

JUST IN: The remaining employees at the General Services Administration are being warned that their work will be heavily monitored, from their swipes into the office to what they type on their computers.

submitted 11 days ago • 327 comments

Musk and other Silicon Valley executives have long railed against the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau for its work overseeing the tech industry. Now, Musk hopes to eliminate the agency.

submitted 11 days ago • 54 comments

A coalition of news organizations said in a court filing that video exhibits from a Jan. 6 riot case had "disappeared" from a government platform that provided access to evidence used in court.

submitted 11 days ago • 1185 comments

@raskin.house.gov: "We're already hearing now, with [Trump] pulling the plug on USAID, that China is moving in-- to say that 'they don't want to help you, but we're happy to help you.'"

submitted 18 days ago • 101 comments

The department tracks student achievement, manages college financial aid and sends K-12 schools money to support students with disabilities and lower-income communities, among other things.

submitted 18 days ago • 44 comments

Exactly.

submitted 18 days ago • 47 comments

Jan 6 must be fully & conclusively adjudicated in a court of law if this country is to ever move forward. They can't just wish it away unless we let them.

submitted 21 days ago • 931 comments

Remember when Trump swept into office amid promises to lower costs? Well...

submitted 21 days ago • 507 comments

The joke is on us.

submitted 31 days ago • 1213 comments

Trump has ordered the National Institutes of Health to cancel their review panels on cancer research. “The impact of [Trump’s] collective executive orders appears devastating,” one senior NIH employee says.

submitted 31 days ago • 404 comments

She said, “May I ask you to have mercy Mr. President on those in our communities whose children fear that their parents will be taken away." If Mike Johnson thinks that’s “radical,” perhaps he has a fundamental misunderstanding of his own religion.

submitted 31 days ago • 2655 comments

The “free speech defenders,” ladies and gentlemen.

submitted 32 days ago • 1738 comments

"There was no justice done here... Violent criminals are now being returned to their neighbourhoods." Former Capitol police officer Winston Pingeon says President Trump's pardoning of January 6 rioters means "political violence has effectively gotten a free pass". #Newsnight

submitted 32 days ago • 26 comments