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politically aware....apalled. Socially liberal worried about our experiment.
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"The layoffs come in the middle of tax filing season. Former IRS officials warned that losing such a large number of employees could disrupt Americans’ ability to easily file taxes this year, even if the layoffs are not supposed to affect those deemed 'critical'...” www.nytimes.com/2025/02/19/u...

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"Even cutting 1 in every 4 government workers would only reduce federal spending by about 1 percent..." www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

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slate.com/news-and-pol...

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In which our nation’s defense secretary ruminates on the phrase “uncle sucker” 😳 and dramatically intones, “you cannot shoot flags.” Uncle sucker? www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

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you can look at this and say we're divided or you can look at this and say that a majority of americans oppose every one of these things

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I just went through about 20 images of her and only 1 had a cross promininently displayed.

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Gift link here: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

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‘We broke the law’: A woman who pleaded guilty in the Jan. 6 attack rejects Trump’s pardon. “Accepting the pardon would be an insult to the Capitol Police officers, to the rule of law, to our nation,” said Pamela Hemphill, a 71-year-old, who was sentenced. READ MORE: www.msnbc.com/top-stories/...

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read this thread… it’s just jaw-dropping:

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www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

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"In states with abortion bans, pregnant women have bled to death, succumbed to fatal infections and died with what medical examiners recorded as 'products of conception' still in their bodies. "These are the kinds of cases maternal mortality review committees are supposed to delve into...

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"There is so much repellently sleazy behavior documented in the House Ethics Committee report about Matt Gaetz that a reader has to stop every few pages to look away and focus on what still seems astounding: This is the man that Donald Trump wanted to be the attorney general of the United States"

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Oh, to be above the law....🙄

submitted 56 days ago • 78 comments

I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget

submitted 69 days ago • 755 comments

Agree.

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Isn’t it funny how the U.S. media is suddenly posting stories about the improving inflation picture now that the election is over? 🧐

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Literally..

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Hello. This is your friendly reminder to tax the churches.

submitted 93 days ago • 547 comments

What could go wrong?

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"'Just to be clear, both of your clients testified that they were paid by Rep. Gaetz to have sex?' Chang asked Leppard. 'That's correct. The House was very clear about that and went through each." abcnews.go.com/US/lawyer-te...

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I would really like to see Kamala as the 47th President of the United States and Joe Biden can make that happen.

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The first rule of authoritarian politics is that there’s only one source of authority. Congress will be expected to give up its role in governing, particularly anything that restrains Trump’s choices and desires.

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might be handy to review some of our coverage from the last time trump considered nominating hegseth to an important job, before he got laughed off the stage: youtu.be/p1wnUPq_R7k

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There's a reason democracies don't let people who tried coups back into power.

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