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Rand Paul says he thinks there are at least four Republicans who are opposed to the House GOP spending bill, "and I would be very surprised if the bill at least is not modified." But he also adds that he "wants to vote for it."

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This is EXACTLY who you voted for.

submitted 5 days ago • 100 comments

The reality that masked men without proper identification are confronting and arresting and taking away people should be intolerable to anyone who calls themselves American.

submitted 7 days ago • 558 comments

No words www.nytimes.com/2025/05/29/h...

submitted 7 days ago • 405 comments

You can’t be “addicted” to a human right.

submitted 7 days ago • 1241 comments

There was a criminal standing right next to her at her swearing in

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Page One. @nytimes.com

submitted 8 days ago • 491 comments

Old: Drain the swamp. New: Pardon the swamp.

submitted 8 days ago • 176 comments

Scoop: Nancy Mace's fmr staff tell me they were assigned to create burner accounts to bolster their boss online. “We were congressional staff, and there were actual things we could be doing to help the constituents," one said. 1/ www.wired.com/story/nancy-...

submitted 8 days ago • 349 comments

Not to mention…

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Update: reports today that multiple legal observers were arrested today in New York at two separate immigration courts, for allegedly “obstructing” ICE. Not only that, apparently some immigration courts are barring the public from attending hearings. This mess is escalating fast.

submitted 8 days ago • 246 comments

A new Supreme Court ruling moves toward giving Donald Trump greater power—and shows how the American right has gone from fearing big government to embracing it, @dgraham.bsky.social writes in The Atlantic Daily.

submitted 9 days ago • 18 comments

A dangerous precedent, for sure. And it’s un-American too.

submitted 9 days ago • 23 comments

www.cnn.com/2025/05/27/p... Trump asked the Supreme Court on Tuesday to make it easier for his administration to deport people to South Sudan and other countries that are not their homeland.

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ICE just detained a US citizen with a REAL ID on him, and dismissed it as fake just because he was brown.

submitted 12 days ago • 89 comments

Work requirements hurt poor people AND are a waste of money. Arkansas spent $26 million on administrative costs for work requirements — and saw no increase in employment. Georgia’s program cost $40 million in one year — 80% of that went to administrative and consulting costs.

submitted 11 days ago • 409 comments

JUST IN 🚨: 30-Year Mortgage Rate jumps to 7.5%, one of the highest levels this century 👀

submitted 14 days ago • 61 comments

What is a nation supposed to do when its leader is publicly committing impeachable offenses on a daily basis and the impeachment process is utterly broken due to slightly more than half of the nation's Congress being members of a cult dedicated to destroying rule of law

submitted 13 days ago • 605 comments

Are we great yet?

submitted 13 days ago • 1652 comments

That's Exactly What He Did And It Was All Illegal!!

submitted 15 days ago • 582 comments

MUST WATCH: They didn’t just burn Tulsa — they burned proof. Black wealth. Black futures. Gone. And now they’re banning books so you never learn it happened. 📚 ERASED tells the truth they’re scared of. Read it before they erase that too: stan.store/gxldsociety/...

submitted 15 days ago • 404 comments

This might be the most foolish decision by a government since the acceptance of the Trojan horse. 🤦🏻‍♀️ www.nytimes.com/2025/05/21/u...

submitted 15 days ago • 135 comments

Another word for this is “kidnapping”

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BREAKING: A judge says of the flight to South Sudan: "The Department’s actions in this case are unquestionably violative of this court’s order."

submitted 15 days ago • 335 comments

House GOP is holding a hearing on their tax bill at 1:00 AM because they don't want us to know about their scheme to strip 13.7 million people of health coverage & they think no one will stay awake for it. I’ll be there, testifying & offering amendments to protect our families.

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“There is perhaps no more accurate encapsulation of a country’s values than whom it is willing to include in its citizenry.” @michaelluo.bsky.social examines the history of one of the country’s longest running struggles.

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See you at 1 AM, yes, you read that right, when Republicans take up the spending bill, which includes a provision that would restrict courts from holding gov’t officials in contempt for violating court orders—possibly explaining the subterfuge. www.justsecurity.org/113529/terri...

submitted 16 days ago • 144 comments

This is a political time to wake up EVERYDAY prepared to Speak Truth to Power!.........

submitted 16 days ago • 182 comments

Top administration officials have been “pressuring world leaders to accept deportees who aren’t their own citizens, floating it as a way to ingratiate themselves to Trump,” @nickmiroff.bsky.social writes:

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DURBIN: How can we give hope to people across the country who are suffering from so many diseases when our government is cutting back on that research? RFK Jr: I do not know about any cuts to ALS research D: I just read them to you! R: I didn't know about them until you told me about them

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"Losing a child is a brutal reminder that nothing is fair in this world,” Billy Ball wrote in 2023. “The harassment made me feel like there was nothing good in it either.”

submitted 17 days ago • 5 comments

1. The "big beautiful bill" that Republicans advanced late last night is a massive transfer of wealth from the poorest Americans to the richest The bottom 20% of earners will see their income DECLINE BY 10% The top 0.1% will get a GIGANTIC WINDFALL

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What do you do when you just took a $400 million plane bribe from a terrorist supporting country? Accuse your opponents of “corruption.”

submitted 17 days ago • 379 comments

ST. LOUIS MAYOR says FEMA has not helped them after the storm. (Trump & the GOP are cutting FEMA, Trump has discussed privatizing it)

submitted 17 days ago • 169 comments

Tuberville: "Putin is to the point where he's making so much progress ... he's gonna want a lot from the Ukrainians. He's gonna want a lot in terms of land, possibly even Odessa, he's gonna want Crimea, but he's gonna want NATO to stay away from his borders, and I can't blame him for that."

submitted 17 days ago • 1342 comments

Former chair of the Tennessee Libertarian Party 👇🏽

submitted 17 days ago • 218 comments

What a disgrace by our "Justice" Dept. The family of Ashli Babbit to recieve nearly 5 million dollars.

submitted 17 days ago • 1084 comments

Speaker Mike Johnson on the US credit downgrade: "Moody's is not incorrect, but that emphasizes the very need for the legislation we're talking about -- historic spending cuts." (Part of Moody's concern is in fact the reconciliation bill, which is projected to add trillions to US debt)

submitted 18 days ago • 1494 comments

They found no fraud—just a new way to screw over retirees at Silicon Valley speed.

submitted 18 days ago • 476 comments

Florida’s SB 1580 is now 2 years old. Not a single public case of it being used because there was never a need for it. But LGBTQ+ people still have to wonder: Will my doctor treat me? Hate doesn’t need to be enforced to do damage. Fear does the job.

submitted 19 days ago • 88 comments

He also halted arms shipments to Ukraine without telling anyone, until congressional Republicans found out about it and got it reversed. P.S. - Biden is old.

submitted 20 days ago • 256 comments

DHS says it’s in beginning stages of ‘vetting process’ for immigrant reality TV show CNN helping normalize this garbage..I hope Worsoff pays a heavy price.. anybody that Returns His phone calls or advances and idea from him is complicit and deserves what they get to

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For the first time in modern US history, Moody’s has downgraded the United States credit rating from Aaa to Aa1. A direct consequence of economic mismanagement & tariff terrorism by Trump and the GOP, which will lead to higher interest rates on mortgages, credit cards, car loans, and student loans.

submitted 20 days ago • 235 comments

Brick by Brick ... Take them all down...👍

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