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The stock portfolios of more than two dozen members of Congress outperformed the market in 2024. This isn't due to luck or skill. Lawmakers can use privileged information to trade stocks while they’re supposed to be working for you. Make no mistake, it’s legalized corruption.

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Virginia Foxx is a career politician who supports large corporations over the small businesses here at home. I'm running to let Virginia Foxx and her buddies in Congress know that it's not about them — it's about you. Join our campaign at HubbardForCongress.com

submitted 6 hours ago • 1 comment

What's pathetic is using Medicaid for negotiation when the people in your district are struggling. Not that Virginia Foxx would know or care — she avoids her constituents like the plague. But she'll keep letting her staff tweet while she avoids accountability and refuses to hold a town hall.

submitted 6 hours ago • 5 comments

Chuck is running to unseat Virginia Foxx — please follow, support, amplify 👏🏼 @chuck.hubbardforcongress.com

submitted 8 hours ago • 141 comments

Jim Nantz presents the audience with an LSAT logic question

submitted 10 hours ago • 27 comments

....I'm so fucking angry right now.

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"After Helene struck in late September, the Biden administration gave the green light for FEMA to reimburse North Carolina on 100% of disaster relief assistance — particularly with debris removal and emergency protective services. The cost-share allowed state officials to plow ahead..."

submitted 9 hours ago • 0 comments

Trump just denied North Carolina’s request for FEMA relief from Hurricane Helene, calling it “unwarranted.”

submitted 10 hours ago • 992 comments

Frost: I come from Florida. See, Project 2025 is Florida 2024. We’ve seen this, but we also know how to deal with it. When they disappear, a college student, you take to the streets. When they steal your Medicare, Social Security, and Medicaid, you take to the streets.

submitted 10 hours ago • 39 comments

'Professor Gina Neff told the BBC ChatGPT is "burning through energy", and the data centres used to power it consume more electricity in a year than 117 countries.' That's OBSCENE. And that's assuming it's not 117 countries combined. #Ecocide #ClimateChangeCrisis www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

submitted 18 hours ago • 17 comments

Trump tried to bury this story on a Friday night, but it’s extremely important: He’s planning to take land on the border controlled by the Dept. of Interior and sign it over to Dept. of Defense so migrants “would have trespassed on a military installation,” resulting in harsher punishment.

submitted 12 hours ago • 198 comments

At least we can still laugh. 🤡

submitted 10 hours ago • 65 comments

"It's kind of like saying we're going to impose 100 plus percent tariffs on everything we buy from China,except for what we actually buy from them,"she dryly quipped."It's sort of crazy because we haven't even started negotiating, you know, this trade war and already we're making this announcement."

submitted 10 hours ago • 0 comments

77 million people voted for deregulation (Trump). Did they know they were also voting for pollution, cancer, and climate chaos loved ones and future generations? We can now be poisoned on purpose—without a check.

submitted 13 hours ago • 347 comments

Both Elon Musk and Christian nationalists call empathy "toxic," "suicidal," and even "satanic." But what they're really worried about is that empathy is feminine. And in MAGA, a woman is the worst thing a person can be. An analysis. www.salon.com/2025/04/11/m...

submitted 1 day ago • 69 comments

I’m not kidding; this is DOGE at work; multiple US citizens getting notices that they just leave the country because USCIS is revoking their humanitarian parole. www.politico.com/news/2025/04...

submitted 1 day ago • 147 comments

In case you haven't been paying attention for the past two decades and some, Erik Prince is a threat to liberal democracy and human rights on a global scale.

submitted 23 hours ago • 27 comments

Lower than COVID. Lower than the 2008 financial crisis. Lower than after 9/11. Lower than the dotcom bust. And none of those were due to one person.

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

Let’s make sure they all hear about it…👇 You know what to do. 😎✨

submitted 1 day ago • 800 comments

This is a big one - Amazon also responsible for Kindle content AFAIK, and susceptible to pressure from Trump admin as AWS is a major part of their revenues. It's open fascism.

submitted 1 day ago • 21 comments

The four law firms that it was announced are now Trump collaborators -- Kirkland & Ellis, Latham & Watkins, Simpson Thacher, and A&O Shearman Sterling -- ALSO agreed today to "Disavow DEI" as part of a settlement with EEOC. Why would any new associate join such a place? Why would any partner stay?

submitted 1 day ago • 631 comments

🚨NEW: The NC Supreme Court's GOP majority will retroactively nullify 2,000 to 7,000 ballots from military and overseas voters unless they quickly prove their identity—but only those who voted in a few Democratic counties. Could overturn Justice Riggs' victory. appellate.nccourts.org/orders.php?t...

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FCC Chair Brendan Carr sports a gold Trump-head lapel pin. Members of Trump’s cabinet, along with Congresspeople and Senators, are being instructed to wear a tribute to their inglorious, convicted-felon leader.

submitted 2 days ago • 212 comments

Hope this helps.

submitted 1 day ago • 1225 comments

what fucking planet have they been in for the laat 10 years?

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So I worked closely with John Oliver's staff on an episode of Last Week Tonight on Social Security disability, a ridiculously complex topic. And among Singal's many lies, I want to point out that "a heavy workload for his entire staff" is an incredibly stupid lie. A producer (one) takes point...

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"Pete Belton, 44, from Ilkeston says he was shocked to find his forearm featured in a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) document used to help identify alleged members of Tren de Aragua (TdA), a transnational criminal organisation." www.bbc.com/news/article...

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3 days ago RFK Jr. told the CDC to stop recommending water fluoridation, claiming it was a neurotoxin (this is a lie). Turns out he also just eliminated the CDC’s entire Lead Program, and now lead poisoned children in Milwaukee are just on their own. Lead IS a neurotoxin and harms brain development

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On today’s episode of “He’s Tearing This S**t Up”—Trump plans to dismantle NOAA, shutting down climate research and weather labs. In Texas, that means fewer hurricane warnings, less drought data, & more risk to our communities. This isn’t just a budget cut—it’s a threat to our safety.

submitted 1 day ago • 234 comments

A New Jersey mayor lashes out at Jon Bon Jovi's charitable, "pay it forward" restaurant, claiming the eatery is attracting a problematic number of unhoused people to the town of Toms River.

submitted 1 day ago • 26 comments