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This has always been the GOP's strategy: 1) Cut taxes for the wealthy & corporations by claiming they'll pay for themselves. 2) Explode the deficit. 3) Demand cuts to vital programs that help millions. 4) Repeat. They're trying to get away with it again.

submitted 32 days ago • 679 comments

There's nothing holy about writing discrimination into the law.

submitted 32 days ago • 689 comments

🎶 Imagine 🎼 🎶🎶

submitted 42 days ago • 563 comments

Elon Musk is seeking a repeat of the political victory he scored with President Donald Trump by deploying millions of dollars into Wisconsin's $82 million Supreme Court election, the most expensive judicial race in US history

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The Wall Street bank warned clients that it now sees a 35% chance of a recession in the next 12 months, up from 20% previously.

submitted 88 days ago • 49 comments

New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker has kicked off what is expected to be a marathon speech on the Senate floor to protest actions taken by President Donald Trump’s administration, saying that he will keep going “as long as I am physically able.”

submitted 88 days ago • 99 comments

Venezuelan men wearing Michael Jordan jerseys and sporting tattoos have been unfairly branded as "alien enemy" gang members worthy of deportation, according to lawyers challenging the Trump administration

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At least 17 Tesla cars were destroyed after a fire broke out at a dealership on the outskirts of Rome, according to Italian fire officials. No one was at the dealership when the fire broke out and no injuries have been reported.

submitted 88 days ago • 171 comments

The Palestinian co-director of Oscar-winning film "No Other Land" Hamdan Ballal was beaten up by Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank and taken away by Israeli soldiers, his colleagues and eyewitnesses said.

submitted 95 days ago • 49 comments

The US Justice Department is fast-tracking fights over Trump’s efforts to push the bounds of executive power, with at least a half dozen challenges coming down the pipeline

submitted 94 days ago • 15 comments

Yes. Let's fucking go. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

submitted 95 days ago • 167 comments

Protect your peace.

submitted 115 days ago • 1293 comments

Target is facing a 40-day consumer boycott starting Wednesday over the company’s shift away from diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) policies.

submitted 114 days ago • 1819 comments

I have an ex-in law who lived in Iran in the 70s. She wore short skirts to school and a two piece swimsuit to the pool. She fled before the revolution. Religious extremism boosted into government can lead to the imposition of terror on women and girls and allies. It can happen anywhere.

submitted 176 days ago • 355 comments

GEARING UP FOR TRUMP: New Yorkers who fear deportation flooding immigration lawyers…. gothamist.com/news/new-yor...

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President Joe Biden said law enforcement officials were examining if there was any link between the new Orleans attack and the explosion of a Tesla Cybertruck outside President-elect Donald Trump’s hotel in Las Vegas.

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New Orleans’ famed Bourbon Street devolved into a grisly crime scene just hours into the new year as a driver plowed a pickup truck through crowds of holiday revelers, killng at least 15 people and injuring dozens of others in what the FBI is investigating as a possible act of terrorism.

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The driver of the Cybertruck was killed and seven others nearby were injured when a combination of fireworks, gas tanks and camping fuel in the bed of the vehicle were detonated by a device controlled by the driver, police say. Read more: cnn.it/4iWRVsC

submitted 176 days ago • 59 comments

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submitted 179 days ago • 406 comments

Federal appeals court upholds jury's verdict against Trump that he sexually abused writer E. Jean Carroll and denies his request for a new trial

submitted 179 days ago • 116 comments

A property developer with close links to senior Conservatives has been fined nearly a quarter of a million pounds after breaching ministry of housing rules ⬇

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ROLLING STONE: #Trump #EPA Pick Of #NewYork's #LeeZeldin Is #FossilFuel’s Inside Man…. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

submitted 186 days ago • 2 comments

A curious Orange cutie! This ginger kitten is stealing hearts. Credit: red_cat_tommie #cats #catlover #cat

submitted 186 days ago • 196 comments

BREAKING: The House Ethics Committee accused Matt Gaetz of “regularly” paying women for sex and purchasing and using illicit drugs all while he was a member of Congress

submitted 186 days ago • 36 comments

The House Ethics Committee released a report that found evidence that former Rep. Matt Gaetz paid thousands of dollars for sex and drugs, including allegedly paying a 17-year-old girl for sex in 2017.

submitted 186 days ago • 82 comments