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America, this is so utterly embarrassing.

submitted 2 days ago • 201 comments

Anyone running for president in 2028 better have a plan to address housing affordability because it is single-handedly destroying the American dream.

submitted 3 days ago • 24 comments

Here we go again.

submitted 8 days ago • 10 comments

Ralph Lauren joins dozens of major retailers in significantly raising prices due to Trump’s tariffs.

submitted 8 days ago • 2 comments

Reporters who ran with ‘Trump vows to protect Medicaid’ or ‘Trump considers taxing the rich’ in the past few weeks should seriously reconsider whether their job is journalism or stenography.

submitted 9 days ago • 23 comments

Devastated by the act of terror outside the AJC gathering last night. The murder of two young, innocent people is a heartbreaking reminder that antisemitism is alive and dangerous. Everyone who believes in dignity and peace mourns today.

submitted 9 days ago • 3 comments

The Midterm attack ads write themselves.

submitted 9 days ago • 2 comments

To recap: House Republicans passed a budget in the dead of night by a single vote that will strip health care from millions of Americans, deliver a massive wealth transfer to the richest Americans, and exploded the deficit.

submitted 9 days ago • 23 comments

Markets are tanking and the bond market is in panic mode over the reckless GOP budget: “We don't see any contraction in the deficit over the foreseeable future. If this dynamic is unchecked, it is inevitable that the US has a spike in rates volatility.”

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

For all their sanctimonious talk about “regular order,” House Republicans have been meeting overnight to fast track Trump’s budget — a bill still being negotiated and which hasn’t been drafted. It’s simply unprecedented to force a vote today on a plan no one has seen.

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

Pivoting a conversation from a deadly natural disaster to plug a colleague’s book has to be one of the most grotesque cable news tactics.

submitted 10 days ago • 3 comments

Not sure there’s ever been a CBO score as politically toxic as Trump’s budget. It rips food and medicine from the poor to fund tax cuts for the rich — while still managing to blow up the deficit. It’s cruelty and fiscal ruin, all in one.

submitted 10 days ago • 7 comments

Non-partisan CBO on the GOP budget bill: • Massive wealth transfer to the richest • Screws working class Americans • Explodes the deficit

submitted 10 days ago • 4 comments

CNN turning its news coverage into a nonstop promo for its anchor’s book is truly embarrassing. Instead of reporting the news, it’s a QVC segment for the guy behind the desk. People tune in for news, not narcissism.

submitted 10 days ago • 6 comments

New Reuters/Ipsos poll finds Trump’s approval rating has fallen to 42%, the lowest level of his term as Americans maintain an incredibly negative view of his handling of the economy.

submitted 10 days ago • 4 comments

Not here to give Mike Johnson political advice, but inviting Trump to the House GOP conference just so he could publicly insult the very members whose votes he needs to pass his budget seems like — not a winning strategy.

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

Maybe people would trust the media more if every outlet wasn’t breathlessly quoting Trump saying “don’t fuck around with Medicaid” and instead focused on the fact that his budget strips health care from 14 million Americans.

submitted 11 days ago • 2 comments

Shoutout to the pundits who insisted Trump wouldn’t actually jail his political opponents, when less than six months in he’s now arrested a sitting judge, the mayor of New Jersey’s largest city, and a member of Congress.

submitted 11 days ago • 7 comments

The reality is the president was rage tweeting Walmart less than 48 hours ago after they announced price hikes due to Trump’s tariffs. Just constant lies from this White House.

submitted 12 days ago • 31 comments

On the topic of presidential mental acuity, the current president was awake at 1:30am rage tweeting about his former opponents’ crowd sizes and calling Beyoncé, Bono, and Bruce Springsteen ‘unpatriotic entertainers.’ Where is the news cycle about his fitness for office?

submitted 12 days ago • 222 comments

Pretty weird that 24 hours after a domestic terrorist bombed a fertility clinic in Palm Springs there’s been zero statement from Donald Trump. Remember when presidents used to loudly and quickly condemn terrorism?

submitted 13 days ago • 10 comments

Terrible situation in Kentucky where at least 10 are dead and many still missing after a tornado outbreak last night. The local National Weather Service office was severely impacted by DOGE cuts, leaving it without an overnight forecaster.

submitted 14 days ago • 3 comments

Moody's Ratings just downgraded the United States government rating to Aa1 from Aaa. "We do not believe that material multi-year reductions in deficits will result from current fiscal proposals under consideration." Trump is destabilizing America’s economy.

submitted 14 days ago • 2 comments

Trump is having quite the disaster of a day: • Threatened Bruce Springsteen • Insulted Taylor Swift’s appearance • Botched Russia-Ukraine peace talks • Watched House GOP nuke his budget • Consumer confidence near record low

submitted 14 days ago • 3 comments

Let’s be clear: Republicans just torpedoed their own budget bill because they don’t think the cuts to Medicaid are big enough.

submitted 14 days ago • 1 comment

“Americans who make less than $51,000 a year would see their after-tax income fall as a result of the Republican proposal beginning in 2026. By contrast, the top 0.1 percent benefit more from the Republican measure because it cuts taxes on the wealthy.”

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

Yikes: New consumer sentiment numbers from UMich are brutal — down over 30% since November and now at the second lowest level ever recorded. Americans feel worse today than during the depths of the pandemic.

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A story of staggering hypocrisy, in two tweets.

submitted 15 days ago • 103 comments

Just when you think the GOP can’t sink any lower, they try to turn human suffering into a reality show. Anyone who supports this is truly sick.

submitted 15 days ago • 3 comments

Axios on the winners and losers of the GOP tax plan: High earners and the wealthy get “more money in the bank.” Everyone else “will have to scramble to stay fed or get health care.”

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

Walmart announces plans to raise prices due to Trump’s tariffs. “The consumer is going to start seeing higher prices. You’ll begin to see that, likely towards the tail end of this month, and then certainly much more in June.”

submitted 16 days ago • 3 comments

Josh Hawley: “This is real Medicaid benefit cuts. I can't support that. No Republican should support that.” Democrats just got their attack ad in every House swing district.

submitted 16 days ago • 4 comments

Tells you everything you need to know that House Republicans are threatening to torpedo their own budget not because it kicks millions of Americans off their health insurance, but because it doesn’t hand a big enough tax break to the wealthy.

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

Don Bacon has to be watching the Omaha mayoral results tonight and seriously considering whether it’s time to retire.

submitted 17 days ago • 4 comments

Omaha’s Republican mayor Jean Stothert was a 12-year incumbent, once seen as untouchable. Then she endorsed Trump, ran on anti-trans bathroom bans — and lost decisively. A clear rejection of MAGA at the ballot box.

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

Wow: Omaha's Republican mayor Jean Stothert is trailing Democrat John Ewing 54-46% with a large chunk of the vote in. Ewing would be the first Democrat to lead the city in 12 years, and would also be the city’s first Black mayor.

submitted 17 days ago • 3 comments

Trump says the Qatari jet is ‘free.’ It’s a lie. CNN reports it would cost hundreds of millions of dollars and take two years just to make it secure enough to serve as Air Force One.

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The Charlotte Observer reports GOP Rep. Chuck Edwards assaulted a constituent with a clipboard after a Rotary Club speech this weekend. The GOP’s disregard for voters is shocking.

submitted 17 days ago • 3 comments

Chuck Schumer plans to block all DOJ nominees in response to Trump’s $400 million luxury jet bribe from Qatar. A critical first step. Every elected Democrat should be treating this for what it is: a brazen, unconstitutional scandal.

submitted 18 days ago • 40 comments

NEW: Report from the nonpartisan Yale Budget Lab finds that, despite trade ‘deals’ with China and the UK, Trump’s tariffs will still cost American families $2,800 more this year. It’s the highest tariff tax in nearly 100 years.

submitted 18 days ago • 12 comments

Scathing new op-ed from the Wall Street Journal editorial board torches Trump’s economic failure: “Rarely has an economic policy been repudiated as soundly, and as quickly, as President Trump’s Liberation Day tariffs.” www.wsj.com/opinion/u-s-...

submitted 18 days ago • 11 comments

GOP Senator Rand Paul on Trump’s luxury jet scandal: “The Constitution says that the President cannot take gifts from foreign leaders. There is a provision that says you cannot do this. I wouldn’t take it. I don’t think it’s a good idea.”

submitted 18 days ago • 2 comments

Really can’t get over the fact that Trump is trying to score a $400 million luxury jet for himself on the same day his party announces a budget that’d rip health insurance from 13.7 million Americans.

submitted 18 days ago • 12 comments