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If you’ve ever paused to listen during the midday organ performance, visited the Christmas light show, or told someone “Meet me at the eagle,” this one is for you. 🔗 inquirer.com/columnists/m...

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Under the House GOP’s budget plan, the lowest-income taxpayers would see a LOSS of $1,125. The richest 0.1 percent of taxpayers, on the other hand, would see a more than $180,000 GAIN. This is trickle down economics on steroids.

submitted 1 day ago • 582 comments

you can say they're not sane or their arguments don't pass constitutional muster till you're blue in the face. they have the power. they're doing it. And unless they are stopped they will keep doing it.

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submitted 3 days ago • 760 comments

"Tesla's accounting is raising red flags as it appears there's 1.4 Billion dollars missing. If only they had a CEO who is an expert at finding fraud and waste"

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You should laugh at anyone who says the president should have unlimited power because he was elected. His power has to be limited because he's the president. This is fifth grade level social studies

submitted 4 days ago • 120 comments

“They were each other’s closest friend for a very long time.”

submitted 6 days ago • 210 comments

gift link... sober and practical. and very much where we are. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

submitted 5 days ago • 259 comments

These are e most important #s for the Dems. They should be tracking all local media and influencers in these states and reposting it everywhere The economic pain tariffs can indlict on red states need to be talked about more than anything else right now. It will flip voters.

submitted 5 days ago • 1884 comments

whether they’re retiring or not this should be the last term for each of them

submitted 8 days ago • 372 comments

The provision of the 14th amendment that the Supreme Court unanimously wrote out of the constitution existed for a reason. Its drafters knew what would happen if you allowed insurrectionists back into power.

submitted 8 days ago • 645 comments

“Trumpian incompetence will provoke a counterreaction, which will prove to be an opportunity and rebirth.” www.nytimes.com/2025/03/13/o...

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

Congress giving away its power, we’re cooked. Most compliant congress ever

submitted 8 days ago • 187 comments

“Appease Putin at your peril.”

submitted 8 days ago • 103 comments

This is the way…

submitted 8 days ago • 319 comments

It is not required for any other Senate Dem to vote with Schumer. Stand up for the people. Stand up for the party. Unite against this and lead where he won’t.

submitted 8 days ago • 406 comments

Remember: whatever happens from here on out the Dems who vote for this GOP budget are complicit. Because they willingly surrendered the power they had to stop it. The idea that allowing what’s been happening the last two months to continue is a way to avoid “blame” is madness

submitted 8 days ago • 399 comments

This is how to counter Trump’s folksy spigot based water myth. It all ended up in a dry lake bed. Images endure.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Schumer’s decision is an unconscionable surrender that shows he does not have what it takes to meet this moment, and the charade he pulled yesterday makes it even worse. Time for new leadership in the Democratic Party.

submitted 8 days ago • 1078 comments

The fight going on in the Democratic Party right now is not between hard left, left and moderate. It’s between those who want to fight and those who want to cave. And Team Fight stretches across all ideological aspects of the Party. Misread this at your own peril.

submitted 8 days ago • 791 comments

My two cents: we don’t abandon the Democratic Party. We remake it. It’s a good party. It just has bad leadership.

submitted 8 days ago • 2075 comments

these people swore an oath to defend the constitution but i guess that’s just too hard

submitted 8 days ago • 598 comments

Three years ago, three other reporters and I ID'd and called any school accused of having litter boxes for furries. We found one (1) in the entire country: Columbine's school district. Cat litter was for a "go bucket," in case kids were locked in during a shooting. www.nbcnews.com/tech/misinfo...

submitted 9 days ago • 415 comments

@johnfetterman.com

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I cannot emphasize this enough: no one will remember the shutdown even happened when it’s time to vote next year. One way or the other!

submitted 8 days ago • 1608 comments

I think some in the Senate have convinced themselves that the backlash to folding will be limited to “the left” and therefore ignorable. Those people are deeply and profoundly misreading the moment and the stakes. Virtually every swing district House Dem walked the plank to vote NO for a reason.

submitted 8 days ago • 5264 comments

Social security is a set of trust funds with a balance of about $2.7 trillion as of December 2024. We are the source of these funds. It belongs to us. These funds should be protected so we can protect each other. www.ssa.gov/oact/progdat...

submitted 9 days ago • 188 comments

The institutional Democratic Party is guided by an almost pathological level of conflict avoidance in almost every direction. “What can we do to make the least number of people mad?” is just a bankrupt way to operate.

submitted 8 days ago • 3686 comments

A YES on cloture is a YES for the bill. Do not let anyone play games with you.

submitted 8 days ago • 2369 comments

Surprise! The Russians, who have repeatedly said they don't want a ceasefire, have once again said they don't want a ceasefire

submitted 9 days ago • 217 comments

If you’re in the US, you can watch PBS for free using the app. There’s a series of documentaries called American Experience that’s really good—each is about a different event in history. Go watch The one about the Gilded Age in season 30. It feels so familiar, it’s genuinely eerie.

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With no USAID, cases of malaria, HIV, TB will rise. Global health is on the decline. Buckle up isolationists, the world is on the way here. www.propublica.org/article/trum...

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submitted 13 days ago • 881 comments

The perfect metaphor for what the Supreme Court did to this country with Citizens United v. FEC.

submitted 13 days ago • 453 comments

They do seem like inconsistent positions, but the attacks on teachers was really about dismantling public schools to get taxpayer dollars for home schoolers and private charter schools run by charlatans.

submitted 13 days ago • 556 comments

Is it safe to assume that Russia itself now has access to computers inside the US Treasury, IRS, FAA, FBI, CIA, etc.?

submitted 13 days ago • 628 comments

America was given a choice between a lawless, amoral monster and a qualified, intelligent, joyful woman of color—and it chose the monster. We need to reckon with the reality of what that says about so many of us here. johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/america-ch...

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