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Work requirements are better at blocking benefits for low-income people than they are at helping those folks find jobs

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‘60 Minutes’ legend Lesley Stahl says she’s ‘angry’ at CBS boss Shari Redstone over Trump lawsuit

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Navy returns banned books to Naval Academy library shelves. abcnews.go.com/Politics/nav...

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Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor used an audience of lawyers to deliver a stern message to the legal profession: stand up for democracy, take on the hard fights and do whatever you can to win. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/just...

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“The Trumpists are no longer in their majesty. They control the executive, the Parliament, the Supreme Court and social networks. But in American history, the freedom fighters have always prevailed. They are beginning to raise their heads.” — Claude Malhuret, to the French Senate (March 4, 2025).

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The Kremlin today cheered the shift in US foreign policy under President Donald Trump, saying the American view now “largely coincides” with Russia’s take on geopolitics.

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I got laid off today, with the rest of 18F. 18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it. We made this website to tell our story: 18f.org

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Each day of Donald Trump’s second term is “its own fresh hell,” David Remnick writes, “bringing ever more outrageous news from an autocrat who revels in his contempt for the government he leads, for the foreign allies who deserve our support, and for the Constitution he is sworn to uphold.”

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We’ll be able to trace it all to this disgraceful moment, this day of historic shame for the United States. We’ve changed teams.

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Trump shares with Hitler more than just an affection for the prosaic, maudlin, and nationalistic. He also understands the strategic importance of controlling the arts.

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OPINION: Trump’s mass deportation plans will cost an estimated $88 billion per year. On top of destroying hard-working families, hurting our economy and stoking fear and division in our communities, these plans are also extremely expensive.

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A reminder, from February 25th, 2022:

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"North Carolina senator Thom Tillis told people that the FBI warned him about ‘credible death threats’ when he was considering voting against Pete Hegseth’s nomination for defense secretary."

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As Donald Trump's administration turns on Ukraine, EU and world leaders will head to Kyiv on Monday to rally around President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and talk security guarantees.

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ICE Protests Brutal Conditions Of Being Forced To Stand Outside Homes Of Immigrants For Hours theonion.com/ice-pro...

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Amid takedowns of various government sites and databases, several organizations are working to preserve vital climate, health, and scientific data before it’s gone for good.

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Reaching for a strudel? Listening for the distant sounds of a yodel? In Barry Blitt’s latest Kvetchbook, some things Adolf Hitler might be doing other than sieg-heiling: nyer.cm/kVk2VH4

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Former Vice President Kamala Harris, who ran a historic 100-day campaign against President Donald Trump in the hopes of becoming the first woman president of the United States, will again make history on Monday — and bring other women along. www.instagram.com/p/DFD7A5jpxQg/

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Here’s a (very long) fact sheet on the Biden Administration’s record of accomplishments. Please feel free to share this ahead of his Farewell Address to the Nation from the Oval Office tonight at 8 pm EST. 🇺🇸

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Hundreds of Mexican firefighters have arrived in Southern California to help combat the wildfires. Thank you, Mexico🇺🇸🇲🇽

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I’m normally against high taxes but I think we could balance the budget here via a 100-percent levy on morons

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Everything stated in this post is a provable fact. You are entitled to your own opinion. You are not entitled to your own facts. Looking at YOU, 2020 election-deniers.

submitted 153 days ago • 2058 comments

Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist Ann Telnaes resigned from the Washington Post after the paper killed her satirical cartoon depicting WaPo’s owner Jeff Bezos, as well as other media and tech giants, genuflecting to Donald Trump. Ann Telnaes’ integrity, journalistic standards, and…

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Democrats need to be as fierce.

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It’s not wrong.

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As long as Gaetz remains a talk-show host and not a candidate for Fla governor, the most important story in the Gaetz revelations is that Trump and a large percentage of Rs were ready to obscure his lurid record and push him through to serve as the nation's leading law enforcement officer.

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RFK Jr. isn’t impressed.

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Even Musk’s Grok acknowledges that he frequently lies on Twitter.

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🚨In this video, we expose the U.S. literacy crisis: 54% of adults read below a 6th-grade level, fueling poverty, incarceration, and $2.2 trillion in losses annually. This crisis threatens both democracy and the nation's future. www.youtube.com/shorts/rpXSu...

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they are gonna fuck this up so hard. They’ll win a bunch and do a ton of damage but that is not mutually exclusive from how hard they are gonna fuck this, because they are chronically morons

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Lesson 1: Do not obey in advance. Thread of lessons from my book #OnTyranny. Written in 2016.

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BREAKING: MTG threatens to expose “all” of GOP’s “Sexual Harassment and Assault Claims” if Matt Gaetz report is released: “All your sexual harassment & assault claims that were secretly settled paying off victims with taxpayer money…If we’re going to dance, let’s all dance in the sunlight”

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From 1989 to 2019, the richest 1% of families increased their share of total national wealth from 27% to 34%. At the same time, families in the bottom 50% saw their share drop from 4% to 2%. When we say trickle-down economics is a hoax, this is what we mean.

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