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Nancy Pelosi is right, it's all about healthcare We can win back the House if that's our focus. Don't get sucked in to all the other bullshit! We win by focusing on health, health care, public health Spread those messages at least once a day www.politico.com/newsletters/...

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Can't help but feel we're living through an increasingly existential war between spectacle and substance with spectacle winning battle after battle after battle.

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reputable medical journals keep saying that RFK and his pro-disease friends are full of shit and so naturally they must be shunned www.politico.com/news/2025/05...

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There it is. Trump confirms what we've said all along - he's been protecting Putin this entire time.

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Always & forever! 🏳️‍🌈 @ltwlauren.bsky.social

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"State of play: The cocaine was found in "the lobby area of the West Executive Avenue entrance to the White House" in July 2023, per a U.S. Secret Service statement announcing it was closing its investigation into the incident 'due to a lack of physical evidence.'" www.axios.com/2025/05/27/f...

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Breaking: My nephew has decided to retain his title as one of the world’s cutest (and most chill) babies. He won’t be taking any questions at this time. 😅

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"Denise Dahlhoff, the director of marketing and communications research for the Conference Board, a business group, recently recommended that executives should avoid the word “tariff” and use more “neutral terms,” such as “sourcing cost” or “supply chain cost.” www.nytimes.com/2025/05/26/o...

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"This isn't the first time that a falsehood that began on the fringes of the right-wing made its way to the Trump White House. NPR's Scott Detrow and Lisa Hagen examine how these beliefs have been able to reach the Oval Office"

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"President Trump's spreading of the false claim that South Africa is perpetrating a genocide against its white inhabitants is just the latest example of misinformation making its way from corners of the internet into presidential statements or even policy." www.npr.org/2025/05/25/1...

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Today, I was denied access to seeing my constituent, Mr. Kilmar Abrego Garcia. If there is nothing to hide, cut the crap. Let his lawyer and I check on him.

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It's completely different. Even Chris Hayes who like me thought we should filibuster the CR said it was a complicated choice, not an easy choice. I admit I was wrong. How many of you can at least join Earth 1.0 and acknowledge it was not an obvious choice? And the #s show he was right.

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Chuck originally supported filibustering the CR even though it would lead to a government shutdown. Then he studied the issue more and rightly concluded that not filibustering it but voting against it was the best thing we could do. Here there is no good reason for not voting against it.

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I knew there would be pitchforkers. One tried to connect this vote with the filibuster and shutdown government vote. I said he should filibuster it. I was wrong. Chuck was right. That's only if you care about objective reality, the numbers. Changing your mind to the correct position is smart.

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Schumer announced all senators who caucus with the Democratic Party are going to vote against it and you would have thought he said that they were all voting for it. It's one thing to criticize him when it's merited; it's something else when you criticize him because you're a Pitchforker.

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They feel obligated to give Donald Trump every benefit of every doubt, but they never do that with Democrats. MAGA is illiterate. They're not going to read or watch you.

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It not only cuts $715 Billion for Medicaid, $250 Billion from SNAP, but it also reduces Pell Grants and taxes endowments. Moreover, if you make decent money in a rural area, you will still be hurt because your local hospital depends upon Medicaid and cutting Medicaid may end your hospital.

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A guest for a NY Times opinion writer said, "it's not quite true that it's tax cuts for the wealthy" & 94% of Americans would get a tax cut. She was carrying water for them. Those tax cuts for the lower middle class are 1. Small 2. Temporary 3. Completely overshadowed by the damage in the bill.

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U.S. Treasury Bonds have the worst 20 yr return in 90 years, 30 year Treasury yields are over 5%. Ground beef at all time high. Doe down 1% because of EU tariff announcement, S&P down, Tourism in the US on track to lose $12.5 Billion this year.

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Ben Meiselas: the 30 year mortgage rate has jumped to 7.5%, one of the highest this century. Apple down 22% because of Trump (tariff). Trump said 50% tariff on the EU, then suddenly a pause (chaos, volatility, unpredictable). Container shipping is very low.

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Steve Rattner pointed out if we simply eliminated the tax cuts for those making more than $300,000 a year (eliminating these cuts would save $1.1 Trillion), we could avoid cutting Medicaid by $715 Billion and SNAP BY $250 Billion.

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Klein: Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, Trump's bill will add $5 Trillion to the national debt over the next decade.

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I am pleased to have this article, “The End of Rule of Law in America” in The Atlantic this morning. Thank you, Jeffrey Goldberg, @theatlantic.com, @washingtonweekpbs.social, @adriennelaf.bsky.social, @beccarosen.bsky.social

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The Wall Street Journal had a piece last night that the Judicial Conference of the United States — the policy making body for the federal judiciary — is discussing whether the Judiciary should have its own armed security force rather than rely on the U.S. Marshals for federal judges’ protection.

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The Memorial Day Message from the President of the United States of America, in memory of those who have given their lives defending America, the Constitution, and the freedoms that we Americans enjoy on this Memorial Day 2025.

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