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Trump’s latest pardon blows up his promises on Social Security and law enforcement

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Iowa Republican Senator Joni Ernst has no problem with Americans dying for billionaire tax breaks. She's just saying the quiet part out loud: every Republican in the House who voted for the Bad Budget Bill made that choice.

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I'm old enough to remember when Republicans were against the Affordable Care Act because of made up 'death panels' - now they're saying 'no worries, everyone dies.' Are we in the Twilight Zone?

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I never knew this. Did you?

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And he's still doing all of those things.

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Republicans are predictably screaming about judicial overreach again, and it cannot be emphasized enough: if they think tariffs are so important and they have a popular mandate for them, there is nothing stopping them from passing them in Congress.

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

Hey Congress, if the Courts can stand up to Trump despite the death threats, then we expect you to do the same. Damnit do your job!

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"Alpha males"

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Trump pardons this asshole who STOLE HIS EMPLOYEES’ SOCIAL SECURITY CONTRIBUTIONS & STILL OWES SSA $4.4 MILLION because the guy’s mother gave Trump a million bucks. 4:1 return. Not bad. Corruption, anyone? www.nytimes.com/2025/05/27/u...

submitted 2 days ago • 15 comments

stop writing that he’s leaving DOGE without mentioning that just a few days ago the solicitor general told the United States Supreme Court that he is not part of DOGE

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MUST WATCH: ICE kidnapped a disabled American citizen. Her name is Alma Bowman. Born in the Philippines while her dad served in the U.S. Navy. She’s lived here 48 years. They crashed her wheelchair, denied meds, cut her off from her lawyer—and jailed her. She. Is. A. Citizen.

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I'm taking action on June 14 to remind Trump and his enablers that America has No Kings. Join me in Pittsburgh to reject authoritarianism and show the world what democracy really looks like. app.sosha.ai/s/qbVb2rhe

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Americans work more hours, take less vacation, work longer days, & retire later. But hey, at least we're not stuck with socialized health care.

submitted 8 days ago • 419 comments

House GOP morally and fiscally bankrupting America. CA-45 will be impacted with 250,000 losing Medicaid benefits. Over 100,000 veterans, elderly and children will lose access to healthcare. Disaster & disgrace. Demand Senate to protect what matters. thehill.com/homenews/hou...

submitted 8 days ago • 13 comments

The Republican budget guts the authority of federal judges to enforce contempt findings against government officials, including those in the Trump administration. Republicans are aiding and abetting Trump’s illegal actions by destroying checks and balances.

submitted 9 days ago • 14 comments

My friend is immunosuppressed due to cancer treatment. She’ll be able to get a booster. Her husband won’t. Her kids won’t. Her friends won’t. Her doctors won’t.

submitted 8 days ago • 5 comments

tens of thousands of active duty service members and their families rely on SNAP. "We love the military" #BlameTrump

submitted 9 days ago • 6 comments

Trump’s tariffs, announcements and posts dramatically affect the markets, and his administration has been benefiting with well-timed trades. There’s a reason why Trump fired the ethics officials and investigators who monitor the executive branch.

submitted 9 days ago • 4 comments

Don’t sleep on this. Time to call your Senators and Reps.

submitted 8 days ago • 2 comments

Sen. Ed Markey: Nearly 50% of all children in the U.S. are on Medicaid. The three billionaires that sat right behind Donald Trump at the inauguration—they control more wealth than the bottom 50% of our entire country. They do not need a tax break.

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No other developed nation in the world would tolerate the monstrosity that is the GOP's Murder-Suicide Pact with America. It's time to face the fact that virtually every other leading democracy on the planet serves their people better than we do here. My latest. www.thedailybeast.com/trumps-big-b...

submitted 9 days ago • 56 comments

Watching Project 2025 unfolding before us, it’s hard to think this is a problem of not enough information. So many Cassandras have been crying out for two years the dangers we are now seeing, only to be ignored. How many have to feel direct pain for enough to care? I’m afraid we may find out soon.

submitted 8 days ago • 51 comments

There are currently 390,000 children in foster care in the United States with nearly all of them on Medicaid for their insurance. After aging out of foster care, most children remain eligible for Medicaid until they are 26 years old … Pro-life, my ass and where’s Mrs. BeBest ?!

submitted 94 days ago • 59 comments

Every insurance company uses a predictive model and automated decision systems. Insurance is largely regulated at the state level. This would functionally end regulation of insurance. "Our model says to deny this coverage/claim and you cannot regulate that model or dispute its conclusions."

submitted 9 days ago • 5 comments

Phang: It’s time for federal judges to acknowledge that they have lifetime appointments—and that should give them the courage to uphold the rule of law, but also to put some damn teeth into the court orders they’re issuing. it’s time that we start seeing action from the judiciary. Grow some balls

submitted 8 days ago • 882 comments

House Republicans passed a budget bill that would block courts from enforcing certain orders unless a bond is paid. The rule could weaken judicial power in cases involving civil rights, voting and lawsuits against Trump. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

submitted 8 days ago • 27 comments

He tells us who he is, believe him.

submitted 9 days ago • 29 comments

Posted this afternoon. Masked ICE agents arresting immigrants at their court hearings in Dallas.

submitted 8 days ago • 87 comments

Three things made the US a rich and powerful nation: the rule of law, its science & innovation system, and openness to foreign talent. Remarkable how Trump has taken a sledgehammer to all three. No enemy of this country could do more.

submitted 8 days ago • 314 comments

Please explain to me like I am a five-year-old why Senator Corey Booker voted to confirm convicted felon Charles Kushner

submitted 11 days ago • 726 comments

Yes, the GOP budget guts Medicaid, SNAP and gives more tax breaks to the mega-rich — but it also: - Lets Big Oil buy public land to drill - 10 year ban on state AI regulations - Tax break on gun silencers - Restricts funding to nonprofits - Defunds women's health organizations

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Alex Lawson to Rep. Miller-Meeks: Last time you spoke with us you lied to our face and said you wouldn’t vote for Medicaid cuts, but you’ve voted for the largest cuts in the history of the country. Do you have any comment on the health care that 67,000 people in your district are going to lose?

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44% of all American children benefit from Medicaid or SNAP. Republicans' budget guts both programs. Yes: the so-called "party of family values" is putting 34 MILLION kids' health care access and food security at risk.

submitted 11 days ago • 124 comments

Some of the CDC's main channels for communicating urgent health information to the public have gone silent.

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The facts…

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Putin is playing this fool like a fiddle.

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If state election officials refuse to comply with Trump’s unlawful edict to share their voter rolls with Elon Musk, the attorney general could withhold law enforcement grants. “He’s going after the voter rolls in big cities, in blue states.”

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Oh. Moody’s downgraded our credit rating for the first time in U.S. history. We went from a AAA to AA1 rating. The company cited rising government debt and persistent fiscal deficits. Yet Republicans and Donald Trump want to raise the debt. 🤦‍♀️

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She was 9 weeks pregnant. She died. The state of Georgia is making the doctors keep her alive to incubate the baby. She’s been dead for three months. This is REAL. this isn’t about what should or should not be done. This is about having a VOICE. This is about having a CHOICE.

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This should be bigger news: ICYMI - Project 2025’s puppet master Russell Vought just replaced Elon as head of DOGE. People still in denial & believe Trump knew nothing about Project 2025, need to explain why he just handed the keys to the whole damn thing to its architect. He is the plan. Wake up.

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Hitler purged the Wehrmacht of all the generals who actually knew how to win bc he wanted a fake reality. Near the end Hitler was briefing them to use army groups that no longer existed. Thats where this is headed. apnews.com/article/nati...

submitted 16 days ago • 11 comments

Agriculture Building in DC today giving Danzig 1939 vibes...please don't gaslight us that this regime isn't a dictatorship

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@weissmann.substack.com national injunctions wouldn’t be needed if EOs weren’t used to end run around the other branches of govt - knee capping checks & balances. Since EOs are not explicitly defined in the constitution, how did this emerge as such a powerful tool & is there any way to limit it?

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