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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.

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OPINION by @jamescdownie.bsky.social: “In 2029, Americans making less than $30,000 will actually pay more in taxes under the GOP's plan than under current law.” READ MORE: www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

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Current and former officials say the current effort amounts to the dismantling of the civil rights division and its traditional mission.

submitted 13 days ago • 54 comments

😊

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My favorite protest sign from last week. Wichita Kansas.

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Three separate courts today blocked the Trump administration from defunding schools for engaging in diversity, equity, and inclusion programs. This sends a clear message: These efforts are unlawful.

submitted 37 days ago • 8 comments

The unexpected elimination of funding for the decades-long research project focused on women's health shocked scientists. They were heartened by the quick restoration of support.

submitted 37 days ago • 72 comments

This needs to be required listening for every US lawmaker and citizen! Thank you @hcrichardson.bsky.social for keeping up with the truth about the trump/putin connection. For all those wondering why suddenly Russia is our BFF. 🇺🇦 #ukraine heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/april-23-2...

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"The Partnership for Public Service, which studies the federal workforce, has used budget figures to produce a rough estimate that Trump's firings, re-hirings, lost productivity and paid leave of thousands of workers will cost upward of $135 billion this fiscal year." www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/u...

submitted 37 days ago • 391 comments

We must support Ukraine 🇺🇦

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There will be a protest in Wichita but I don’t know where. Yet.

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www.rawstory.com/elections-26...

submitted 38 days ago • 6 comments

Trump kills programs to combat opioid addiction: www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

submitted 38 days ago • 355 comments

Rep. Torres: "Donald Trump claims that he has the authority to defund whatever program he wants...He treats America as a monarchy and sees us as his subjects. We are here to send a simple message: Donald Trump is no king. America is no monarchy. We are not his subjects."

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(Bloomberg) - Two months into Donald Trump’s second term, the pillars of American financial hegemony — erected over the best part of a century — have rarely looked shakier. @bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

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"Lack of empathy for a presidential candidate whose leadership and legacy was harshly (and correctly) assessed by a newspaper: callous and despicable. Empathy for a migrant ripped from his family and abruptly flown to a brutal foreign prison: suicidal."

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Johnson's words "may sound like a defense of Medicaid and the people who need it, and surely that’s how Johnson hopes the public will interpret it. But that is also the language Medicaid critics have been using to describe a big, controversial downsizing."

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Trump’s war on the U.S. dollar continues 📉 www.cnbc.com/2025/04/21/u...

submitted 40 days ago • 93 comments

The Justice Department has granted Elon Musk’s staffers access to one of its most sensitive immigration databases, raising serious concerns about privacy, abuse of power, and political retaliation.

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In his Easter message, President Zelenskyy raises an existential question that many Ukrainians have had for years: “how can we not lose faith after everything we're going through?” After all the suffering and devastation. The answer is hope — something strong inside you that keeps you from giving up

submitted 42 days ago • 65 comments

“A new study models the impact of the implosion of U.S.-funded disease treatment and prevention in the developing world — and suggests that Elon Musk and Marco Rubio will go down as among history’s greatest monsters if funding and effective administration are not restored.”

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"Trump is reportedly paying Bukele $6 million for his gulag-style hospitality. It’s a nice profit center for El Salvador, and one trade deficit Trump doesn’t seem to mind." ICYMI @jilldlawrence.bsky.social: www.thebulwark.com/p/america-sh...

submitted 42 days ago • 62 comments

Today’s protest Wichita Kansas.

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Gird your loins! 🩵

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The VA looks like it is changing course on a plan that would have threatened the privacy of veterans receiving mental health care via telehealth, according to documents obtained by NPR.

submitted 43 days ago • 53 comments

Your courage is contagious. You inspire others to take action every time you show up or speak out.

submitted 43 days ago • 16 comments

"Transforming the I.R.S. and its tens of thousands of employees into political enforcers for the president — a doomsday scenario long feared by conservatives — would shake a foundation of American civic life..." www.nytimes.com/2025/04/18/u...

submitted 43 days ago • 172 comments

OPINION by @stevebenen.com: Steve writes as Trump wants to replace the IRS, the ‘White House should probably be looking for a Plan B as the existing tax agency faces repeated rounds of Trump-imposed chaos.’ READ MORE: www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

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The new page emphatically promotes a theory that many scientists question. Meanwhile, basic information about COVID testing and vaccines has disappeared.

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OPINION: Trump's failed market ‘Armageddon’ deepens: $6,400,000,000,000 wiped out, MAGA bankers revolt www.youtube.com/watch?v=4p4b...

submitted 53 days ago • 4 comments

"We are trapped in a constitutional order that no longer functions because the character of the American people has become so degenerated."

submitted 53 days ago • 88 comments

Maine officials sued the administration of President Donald Trump to try to stop the government from freezing federal money in the wake of a dispute over transgender athletes in sports.

submitted 54 days ago • 32 comments

There's something weird happening where The Discourse about the tariffs is about how Trump is trying to return us to 1950's and 1960's, the manufacturing heyday of America, but he's not! He' been very very explicit about this. He wants to return us to the 1890's. That's a different project!

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UPDATE: The Supreme Court has paused a deadline to return a Maryland man who was mistakenly deported to El Salvador, after a federal district judge ordered the administration to bring him back by tonight.

submitted 54 days ago • 251 comments

Man mistakenly deported to El Salvador doesn't need to be back in U.S. tonight, Supreme Court rules www.msnbc.com/deadline-whi...

submitted 54 days ago • 41 comments

Wichita Kansas. Hands off Saturday protest.

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If you’re in Kansas join us in Wichita at the old courthouse lawn at 1:00.

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Breaking: China to impose 34 percent tariffs on U.S. goods on April 10

submitted 58 days ago • 21 comments

Happy Thursday.

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Wake up. Show up. Before it’s too late.

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“Executives' attempts to pacify Trump have backfired spectacularly. Their dreams of deregulation and a business boom have quickly faded… While we are taught as children to stand up to bullies, their actions have only emboldened Trump's quest for greater power…” www.status.news/p/trump-medi...

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Opinion editor @claywires.bsky.social writes: Pulverized policy and loathsome law: Fuming Kansas Legislature hobbles across finish line #ksleg

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Wut?? www.wsj.com/politics/nat...

submitted 64 days ago • 1581 comments

U.S. Institute of Peace lays off most staff members

submitted 63 days ago • 38 comments

This should be a MUST READ for every American about how our Oligarchy is rapidly destroying America from within. The gutting of Education, Social Security, FEMA, etc. are designed to break the government. The thought police are in control now. #resist

submitted 64 days ago • 23 comments