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This is getting fewer headlines than it should. After coming to power promising to help working people, the president is revealing his real priorities by actively making it easier for banks to rip people off.

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NEWS: Mack Trucks has announced layoffs at Lehigh Valley, PA plant, due to Trump's tariffs.

submitted 2 days ago • 263 comments

38 of the 43. "38 of 43 experts cut last month from boards that review science and research in NIH laboratories are female, Black or Hispanic. "The scientists typically serve five-year terms and were not given a reason for their dismissal..." www.washingtonpost.com/science/2025...

submitted 3 days ago • 932 comments

Trump will reportedly end the IRS Direct File program that allowed taxpayers to file taxes for free. This comes after Intuit, the maker of TurboTax, lobbied the government for years to block IRS free file. Intuit donated $1 million to Trump’s inauguration. See how this works?

submitted 3 days ago • 383 comments

well i am sure this administration will take strong action to make sure food safety is a top priority going forwa… hold on i am getting an update

submitted 3 days ago • 210 comments

What a song that will forever be associated with a scene from a movie or tv show?

submitted 3 days ago • 12 comments

UPDATE: It happened. In an 11:15 meeting, employees were told that the office has been eliminated and their positions will be terminated.

submitted 4 days ago • 80 comments

“It’s amazing that others in this room underwrote electing a man who, in the last week, single-handedly destroyed all of American science. It’s amazing how much good science you can destroy with $320 million and RFK Jr, very fast.” — Seth Rogen’s censored remarks presenting the Breakthrough Prize

submitted 5 days ago • 269 comments

no criminal record no gang ties no tattoos active pending asylum case **19 years old** sent by trump to prison (forever?) in el salvador www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

submitted 5 days ago • 507 comments

OK. I'm going to get a little personal with you guys. Back in November of 2023, I was laid off from my six-figure job. Fortunately, I had no debt other than my car loan. I got a job the following April, but it was in office rather than WFH. It was also less than half the pay, but it was a job.

submitted 6 days ago • 40 comments

"I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my Ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States." He is doing none of this…

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Sanders: He now wants to take away CBS’s license because they did a story that criticized him. Oh my word, CBS criticized him! Oh, let’s drive them out of business, how terrible… If you can’t take criticism, get out of the political process. This is a democracy

submitted 6 days ago • 364 comments

The Trump administration inheriting the Biden economy

submitted 6 days ago • 162 comments

Requiring REAL IDs and passports and birth certificates to vote?!? Imagine if these were required to buy a gun.

submitted 7 days ago • 607 comments

www.cbsnews.com/news/h-r-mcm... Nothing to see here…. move along.

submitted 11 days ago • 10 comments

The top five egg producers own roughly half of all U.S. laying hens. The biggest of those corporations is Cal-Maine, which just announced quarterly profits of $509 million — more than 3x what it made a year ago. Corporate concentration + bird flu = a price-hiking free for all.

submitted 11 days ago • 664 comments

#greedflation who didn't see this coming?

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I'm seeing grown-ass adults marvel at how high stocks jumped today - they must think their mom actually vanished when she played "peek-a-boo."

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