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Democratic Senator Ron Wyden said he will force a vote on repealing the sweeping global tariffs Donald Trump announced last week, testing political support for the president’s trade war

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If you haven’t seen this, you need to! Trump is short-selling America—deliberately tanking the economy so that businesses and entire industries bend the knee and beg him to save them. Thanks, @chrismurphyct.bsky.social, for sounding the alarm. Now, what is Congress going to do about it?

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Reminder: We are not at war with Venezuela. The people deported are not enemies. The law in question should not apply. Among the most dangerous aspects of the SCOTUS ruling is the idea that the president and his people have the right to arbitrarily determine who our enemies are.

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We wouldn’t be here if SCOTUS had allowed the January 6th trial to go forward as scheduled.

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They are snatching people off the street and sending them away to brutal prisons in foreign lands with zero due process - and they won't even bring them back when they realize a mistake was made. That's frightening stuff for any American who actually loves their country. #StopTrumpsTerror

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Think about what kind of person you have to be to lie about sending someone to a torture prison for life based on nothing bsky.app/profile/atru...

submitted 10 hours ago • 1043 comments

NEWSBREAK! Children do not have to die from measles. Or get deaf or mentally affected. GET VACCINATED ! It has worked for all children for decades.

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JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon sounds the alarm bell on tariffs.

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#ICYMI: Speaker Mike Johnson lives in a $3.7 million D.C. townhouse with evangelical pastor Steve Berger, who has attacked the separation of church and state as “a delusional lie." Berger's project: ministering to members of Congress so that what “they learn is then translated into policy.”

submitted 23 hours ago • 126 comments

Can we stop calling these atrocities "deportations." These people sold to El Salvadorian prisons were not deported. Deportation is a process that did not take place. They were rounded up and removed with no process. They were kidnapped, not deported.

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Most people in the United States who have never faced housing insecurity have no idea how easy it is to evict someone in this country. Before the pandemic, every US state evicted more people annually than all of mainland Europe COMBINED. Many states don't even allow counterclaims in evictions.

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Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick says regular folks won't mind if one of their Social Security check doesn't show up. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says Americans ready to retire don't care about "day-to-day" market fluctuations. These people are robber barons with no empathy for normal people.

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What are the odds that enough Supreme Court Justices believe we shouldn't put people in foreign torture prisons without due process & especially when the government misrepresents the evidence it has in briefs it submits to the Court?

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Reporters need to ask Mike Johnson why he's not rescuing the American people from Trump's tariffs. Congress could stop this madness, but the GOP leadership won't. Reporters should put it this way to Johnson: "Don't you own this economic crisis too by going along with Trump?"

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7 senate Republicans have come on board to sign a law that would limit Trump‘s ability to unilaterally impose tariffs. Trump said today he will veto it, but still, this is progress and an admission by the GOP of how badly this will hurt them.

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next to a tanking stock ticker, Maria Bartiromo acknowledges we might be heading toward a recession

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If the Supreme Court decides that the government can "erroneously" disappear you off the street to a foreign torture prison, and that federal courts have no power to do anything about it, that is, in a meaningful way, Pretty Much It www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/24...

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It’s clear something is shifting. More and more people are refusing to accept what’s being torn down—and we’re fighting back with everything we’ve got.

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You may be fearing your 401k is no longer enough for you to retire. But with all the cuts to NIH and Medicare you also won't live as long. So the policies are integrated.

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60 Minutes found no criminal record for 75% of the Venezuelan migrants the U.S. sent to a mega-prison in El Salvador. https://cbsn.ws/4lC4Vp5

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The Senate bill to curb the president's tariff powers now has seven Republican co-sponsors. The bill would make it so that the president must notify Congress of new tariffs within 48 hours. Congress would then have to approve them within 60 days or they expire.

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Kids in grade three…

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Where is our humanity?

submitted 2 days ago • 1839 comments

I became viscerally enraged today listening to NPR talk about the tariffs and thinking about how the economic master plan seems to be to fire all the scientists and bring back garment workers. Just sheet brilliance.

submitted 2 days ago • 18 comments

I can only imagine the bailout package they are drawing up for themselves. As the saying goes, privatize the profits, and socialize the losses.

submitted 1 day ago • 297 comments

One man just wiped out $10 trillion in wealth, is destroying centuries-old legal protections, and seems determined to unravel humanity’s greatest public health achievement. In 3 months. I don’t know how we get out of this. But if we do, one person can never have that kind of power again.

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“It’s hard not to wonder if the damage is intentional, given that Project 2025 called for wiping out Head Start and the existing child-care subsidy system—and that trying to do that by passing legislation would be difficult politically.” open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

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True ✅

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West Coast numbers are coming in, and estimates have now surpassed 5 million. People are still pouring into the streets—nearly 2% of the American population is rising up. America, we are so proud of you. You did it.

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They defunded schools at the same time they rolled back child labor laws…

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Please share!!! This is getting ridiculous—they just can’t accept a loss. Please help spread the word to North Carolina. The North Carolina Court of Appeals ruled in a 2-1 decision that over 60,000 votes cast in last year’s closely contested state Supreme Court race must be verified and recounted.

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“A sharp rise in trade-war intensity sent Wall Street spiraling Friday, pushing the Nasdaq into a bear market denoting a 20% decline from its peak. … The marketwide toll from the two-day tariff rout surged to a record $6.4 trillion.” www.wsj.com/livecoverage...

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There are 33m companies in the USA. Only 21k employe 500 or more. And they only make up 23% of workers. Trump and Elon are ignoring the more than 32m entrepreneurs that can't afford to build a new factory or pay tariffs or absorb cancelled contracts.

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The entire permanent staff of the Division of Environmental Health Science and Practice was laid off. This division addresses issues such as asthma and air pollution, climate change and health, childhood lead poisoning, and cancer clusters.

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Sens. Chuck Grassley and Maria Cantwell just introduced a bill to reassert Congress's power over tariffs. The Trade Review Act of 2025 says a president must notify Congress about new tariffs within 48 hours of imposition. It requires Congress to approve them within 60 days or they expire.

submitted 5 days ago • 392 comments

Sen. Tillis (R-N.C.) says he’s inclined to support the Grassley-Cantwell bill. Says he’s heard from constituents worried about the tariffs, esp farmers & restaurant/lodging sectors. Everyone in red states :: call your reps!!

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MSNBC just showed a montage of world leaders calling the USA idiotic, illogical, hostile, unhinged.... literally never seen anything like this. From the shining city on a hill to an object of global derision and contempt.

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100 billionaire families spent $2.6 billion in the 2024 election. 70% of these donations went to Republicans. Now, Republicans in Congress are gearing up to slash essential programs to pay for another round of tax cuts for the rich. This is what oligarchy looks like.

submitted 5 days ago • 166 comments

Today's stock market crash was the worst since the Spring of 2020. Can you guess who was president during both crashes? I bet you can!

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Reminder that Congress can stop this shitshow anytime they want.

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Wow who could’ve guessed that this would happen It’s almost as if USAID was a pillar of American soft power and influence in the world It’s almost as if it was entirely predictable that America’s adversaries would work to fill the void left by USAID’s destruction

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Yes, the stock market may be tanking and our national security apparatus has never been more vulnerable and we're on the verge of both economic collapse and war, but it was all worth it to keep pronouns out of email signatures.

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