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🚨 Hey Tennessee media— will anyone call out @MarshaBlackburn for crediting Trump with this @schneiderelectric investment in MT. JULIET that was announced in 2024 under Biden?🤷🏼‍♀️ She wants to be governor. Can we please stop giving her constant lying a pass? www.se.com/us/en/about-...

submitted 15 hours ago • 25 comments

Medicaid is a lifeline for millions of working families. They can’t afford to have their health care cut so Republicans can cut taxes for their billionaire donors.

submitted 14 hours ago • 1 comment

Looks like I will be on 60 Minutes on Sunday. That is me at the end of the clip.👀 www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1ef...

submitted 17 hours ago • 753 comments

Trump promised jobs. Michigan’s unemployment rate spiked to 5.5%, the 2nd highest spike nationwide. Trump promised lower costs. Tariffs will drive prices up. 🧵

submitted 1 day ago • 16 comments

A sure sign of dementia is seeing things that do not exist or are not there. Nowhere in this entire country is any of this happening. The only money pouring in is what will be pouring out of your pockets to pay for anything.

submitted 1 day ago • 335 comments

🚨BREAKING: Third Circuit Court of Appeals DENIES Pennsylvania’s motion that would allow counties to reject undated and wrongly dated mail-in ballots in the state's May primary elections. A victory for our clients and the voters of Pennsylvania www.democracydocket.com/cases/pennsy...

submitted 1 day ago • 281 comments

INBOX: “VUMC just laid off a bunch of research staff. I was one of them.” Messages to us👇🏽confirm this Reddit thread that Trump/Elon/DOGE cuts have hit Vanderbilt: www.reddit.com/r/nashville/... Hey @MarshaBlackburn @SenatorHagerty are y’all gonna speak up for Tennesseans?

submitted 17 hours ago • 14 comments

laying the groundwork for open defiance of judges

submitted 1 day ago • 2155 comments

Federal funding for public broadcasting is an irreplaceable investment in local communities. I will continue to fight strongly against these cuts and hope listeners in communities served by these invaluable services will also make their voices heard.

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

If the Supreme Court is going to force taxpayers to pay for religious education, they'd damn well better let the government tax churches.

submitted 2 days ago • 75 comments

Border Czar Tom Homan made a thinly veiled threat to arrest @govevers.wisconsin.gov for simply issuing guidance to state employees on how to interact with ICE agents on state property. To his credit, Evers is refusing to back down. These threats by the Trump Admin are grossly Unamerican.

submitted 1 day ago • 16 comments

Law firms have to resist these unconstitutional and moronic executive orders

submitted 1 day ago • 71 comments

Rubio publicly criticizing an ally for cracking down on right-wing extremism. And Germany hitting back. We are in a new world

submitted 1 day ago • 2340 comments

NEW: Legal group founded by Trump aide Stephen Miller sues Chief Justice John Roberts to give the executive branch control over two federal judicial offices. The lawsuit claims the move “preserves separation of powers but also keeps the courts out of politics.” From: @jaknutson.bsky.social

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Texas Senate Polling: Allred (D): 52% Paxton (R): 37% Houston Chronicle / April 2025 / n=1000

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Sen. HIRONO: Ed Martin likened the prosecution of January 6th rioters to what happened to Japanese Americans. Do you think he should be confirmed? “No, ma’am.” “I wouldn’t hire Ed Martin for an entry level position.” “He doesn’t understand the basics of what it means to be a prosecutor.” “No.”

submitted 3 days ago • 45 comments

Via @jennifershutt.bsky.social: The survey shows that 76% of those questioned wouldn’t support Congress slashing the amount of spending dedicated to the state-federal health program for lower-income Americans and some people with disabilities.

submitted 2 days ago • 11 comments

President & CEO of Nashville Public Radio on Trump going after public radio funding: “A free, independent press is essential to a healthy democracy… WPLN News and our new music discovery station WNXP are at grave risk.” www.tennessean.com/story/opinio...

submitted 1 day ago • 10 comments

Remember, Trump's pretense for acting to shut down Democratic funding platform Act Blue is the unsubstantiated claim that it accepted foreign money. Meanwhile Trump is operating a massive scheme to accept foreign gratuities for his own personal enrichment. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/29/u...

submitted 2 days ago • 20 comments

The Trump Administration's threat to withhold infrastructure funding is illegal. They don't get to threaten Arizona's economy to fight some culture war battle.

submitted 3 days ago • 6 comments

There is no aborted fetus debris in the MMR vaccine, or in any vaccine at all. It is worth noting that the Catholic Church, one of the most staunch anti-abortion organizations in the world, has a formal policy that encourages all vaccinations.

submitted 3 days ago • 309 comments

I’m going to continue reminding folks that this is the kind of thing that warrants impeachment. (Not for nothing but Republicans impeached Mayorkas for just existing)

submitted 3 days ago • 144 comments

As you can tell, I am flabbergasted, y’all. Where are you going to deport US CITIZENS to, House Republicans??

submitted 3 days ago • 4 comments

REPORT: Tennessee ranks 47th in 🇺🇸 for K-12 student spending Under #TNGOP control, Tennessee now ranks dead last in student funding among our neighboring states, according to the NEA. Sen. London Lamar: “This report is yet another wake-up call.” tnsenatedems.medium.com/tennessee-ra...

submitted 3 days ago • 6 comments

Our economy can't take another 100 days of Trump's tariff taxes. I voted today to end these disastrous tariffs. Too many Republicans in Congress are willing to stand by Trump instead of working families.

submitted 3 days ago • 15 comments

Wrong. Corrupt. Unconstitutional.

submitted 3 days ago • 38 comments

Call it something fancy like "malfeasance" or something simple like "incompetence" but either way there should be articles of impeachment to remove the HHS secretary for being a shameless liar who is working relentlessly to make people sick.

submitted 3 days ago • 311 comments

🤷🏼‍♀️

submitted 3 days ago • 148 comments

JUST NOW: @SenatorHagerty & @MarshaBlackburn officially voted to make Trump’s trade war their own, opposing a resolution to block Trump’s tariffs It failed 49-49 — Rand Paul, Murkowski, Collins joined the Dems against it

submitted 3 days ago • 86 comments

@lastword.msnbc.com donny "2 dolls" is perfect When he said it, all I heard was, "Let them eat cake."

submitted 3 days ago • 36 comments

🚨BREAKING: Every single republican on the House Judiciary Committee just voted to allow Trump to deport American CITIZENS! They are: 🧵 1/2

submitted 3 days ago • 32 comments

❤️ 🔥 Yet another reason to love Sheryl Crow: She calls Andy Ogles & @marshablackburn daily. (Marsha hasn’t had a town hall in 8 years) variety.com/2025/music/n...

submitted 3 days ago • 78 comments

We're trapped in a bad movie, right? This timeline can't be real.

submitted 3 days ago • 4 comments

Feel the Bern 🔥

submitted 3 days ago • 35 comments

Donald Trump is an unhinged bully. Let's hope CBS and 60 Minutes have more integrity and spine than others in legacy media have shown.

submitted 3 days ago • 314 comments

🚨BREAKING: Full Fourth Circuit DENIES Trump admin motion to stay order blocking Musk/DOGE access to personal data at Social Security Admin. Data will remain out of Musk/ DOGE’s hands. A BIG win for @democracyforward.org and its clients! Follow Democracy Docket for details. www.democracydocket.com

submitted 3 days ago • 436 comments

yeah i am pretty much on the side of primary everyone

submitted 3 days ago • 1170 comments

Why let the truth get in the way of a good story?

submitted 4 days ago • 47 comments

As a party, we are prisoners being held hostage by people who simply refuse to accept that their time has passed and won’t accept that others more capable right now. Stay in the Senate, but step down from leadership. It’s time for a new approach, a new face, & a new voice.

submitted 3 days ago • 2660 comments

Jamie Raskin with the "We shall fight on the beaches..." energy that smart Dems are taking into the second 100 days. Whole (short!) statement is here, and worth reading: democrats-judiciary.house.gov/news/documen...

submitted 3 days ago • 119 comments

When even Rand Paul is like, “Yeah, that’s too extreme.”

submitted 3 days ago • 598 comments

YESTERDAY: Largest strike in LA history - boosted by loss of Federal Grants. 55,000 union members striked and 10,000 marched. SEIU Local 721

submitted 3 days ago • 410 comments

Your kids get a max of two toys and then grow up to work in the same factory as their father and grandfather screwing in tiny screws. It’s called The American Dream.

submitted 3 days ago • 1981 comments

The so-called “moderate” GOP position on Medicaid cuts is no cuts above $500 billion. Hello? That would mean 18 million children and 2 million adults with disabilities lose health care coverage, according to the latest estimates. What’s “moderate” about that?

submitted 3 days ago • 448 comments

Anyone else find it strange that a man with a 14-year heroin addiction is railing against Narcan—the lifesaving drug that helped drive a sharp drop in overdose deaths after a federal distribution program? No one said Narcan cures addiction. It prevents funerals. That’s the point. The facts 👇🏾

submitted 3 days ago • 1090 comments

Not a word of this is true. Literally not a word.

submitted 3 days ago • 742 comments

Trump promised to bring down prices on day 1, but he’s 0 for 100 on delivering his promises to the American people. Here’s Trump’s WORST Hits in His First 100 Days. It’s a doozy. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yonp...

submitted 3 days ago • 34 comments

Elected in November

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