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Anything for their goddamned billionaires.  Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget warns that the Republican bill will hasten the insolvency of Social Security and Medicare.

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On just one Friday the Supreme Court brought my citizenship into question and the Trump administration gutted my employer and possibly threaten my career. I could only write about one of those things. newrepublic.com/article/1973...

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📌NOTE: Most of the trouble we're in is due to weak, whiny white Republican men -- young and old -- who can't compete on an equal playing field. Better then to just cut everybody else's legs off than to stand up, grow up and contribute to America's common cause.

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I am no Mamdani. But I was a progressive Dem nominee for Congress who won my primary with 80% OF THE VOTE. And the Dem machine did not back me because I irritated Pelosi about refusing to impeach Trump when we had the power to do so. I also irritated Big Sugar because I openly suggested that the

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Israeli soldiers and officers have said they were ordered to shoot at unarmed civilians waiting for food in Gaza.

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BillMoyers believed that speaking truth to power was the essential underpinning of the American experiment. His passing this week, at age 91, represents a profound loss for American journalism. But Bill would not want us to mourn. He would tell to fight harder than ever for journalism and democracy!

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“At the end of day, it doesn’t matter how moral our constitution is on paper, what matters is the morality of the people empowered to say what it means.” www.liberalcurrents.com/the-fight-ma...

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BREAKING: CASA (plaintiff in Maryland birthright citizenship case) has now filed an amended complaint seeking class certification for similarly situated individuals impacted by Trump’s EO. www.law.georgetown.edu/icap/wp-cont...

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Hey everyone 👋🏽 You may have heard that I just got elected as the lead Democrat on the House Oversight Committee. That means that we will be leading investigations against the corruption of Donald Trump and those who seek to harm the American people. Let’s get to work!

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If you’re zip-tying grandmas protesting losing health care maybe you’re not the good guys in the story?

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Boyle: For every American household that makes under $55,000 a year, they will be poorer as a result of this bill. So it's quite clear under this Republican betrayal— the poor get poorer, the rich get richer, and the middle class falling further behind. This is wrong.

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Budzinski: Families making over $700,000 a year will see a boost of $12,000 almost entirely from tax cuts. Shockingly, households making $23,000 a year or less are set to lose about $1600 a year, mostly due to deep cuts to Medicaid and food assistance

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NEW from me & Evelyn Quartz: Zohran Mamdani won a clear mandate - but the Democratic political/media elite is already trying to downplay it & pretend it was just vibes rather than a demand for policy change. The battle for the future has just begun. www.levernews.com/zohran-mamda...

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Chris Murphy: "Trump & the Republicans are trying to engineer the most massive transfer of wealth from the poor & middle class to the wealthy in history of the country...that's super unpopular. So how do you pass it? You can only pass it if you also destroy democracy & the means of accountability"

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I think that the outcome in the NY Mayoral race and the Wisconsin Supreme Court race both show that people power CAN beat the political money machine. That should give us all hope, and the motivation to work for the government we want.

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Liberalism isn’t a political stance; it’s humanity’s best cognitive framework for seeking truth together. And it’s under attack. My latest essay on why reclaiming a New Liberal Enlightenment is our greatest moral task.

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It isn’t hard. Life in the US has been made unbearably precarious and cruel by the wealth class and the rank and file Democrats are beholden to them. People want leaders who are more concerned with helping them than staying in the wealthy’s good graces and none of the transparent slander matters.

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House Democrats on Tuesday selected California Rep. Robert Garcia to lead their side on the influential Oversight Committee, marking a clear win for the party’s younger wing in its ongoing effort t...

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Mitch McConnell has a net worth of up to $52 million, and has had high quality government-financed healthcare for decades. Losing your healthcare, losing your loved ones, losing your life, isn’t something people should be told “get over it.”

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💰 WATCH: “How is that happening?” 🤷🏼‍♂️ @aoc.bsky.social informs a confused RFK Jr. that his own HHS is stuffing the pockets of insurance companies by doubling the rates taxpayers pay them even as they defraud us. 🤔

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"The Mamdani campaign’s focus on lowering the cost of living should serve as a blueprint for progressives across the country seeking to embed climate action in real improvements for working peoples’ lives." jacobin.com/2025/06/mamd...

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Is it too late to give Sacha Baron Cohen an Oscar for this? Not a damn lie told. 🇺🇸

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He just dropped $280,000,000 worth of artillery in a war that’s not ours, but our grandparents have to live on Ramen noodles because America can’t afford Meals on Wheels anymore. Make it make sense.

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Incredible stuff www.politico.com/news/2025/06...

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This is what we've wrought with the myth of meritocracy. By treating billions as a proxy for brilliance, we've allowed men like Peter Thiel to amass disgusting amounts of wealth and to leverage that wealth to destroy democracy for their own gain.

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Take it from me, a guy who went from a divisive political asshole to a proud, woke Democrat in just 15yrs, redemption is way better than retribution. Trump is all about retribution. Fuck that. We need a politics of redemption. Today’s Substack. Here.👇 open.substack.com/pub/socialco...

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open.substack.com/pub/robertre... "If America learned anything from the first Gilded Age and the fascism that grew like a cancer in the 1930s, it should have been that gross inequalities of income and wealth fuel abuses of political power"

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This ⬇️

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30 years ago, I warned that America was becoming a two-tiered society composed of a few winners and a larger group left behind, whose anger and disillusionment could be easily manipulated. I took a lot of heat for this speech. Watch. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bnd0eSuxu84

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I revere no god, but life itself; the fragile, fleeting beauty of existence, the Earth beneath our feet, the bonds we form through compassion. I’d never outlaw religion, but wish we’d outgrow the need for it, by nurturing values upon which no one has a monopoly: love, justice, compassion, humility!

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Seniors in Salt Lake City heading out for a #nokingsprotest in front of their assisted living facility.

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A soldier died unnecessarily because of the Convicted FElon

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ICE arrested former Afghan Nat'l Army soldier—our ally against Taliban—at his home in TX. He entered legally and atty says he has no criminal record. Was applying for asylum. Appears to be casualty of Trump decision de-documenting legal Afghan immigrants www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/new...

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Who is #CurtisYarvin and why does he matter? For that matter, why should he!? The kookiest, craziest ideas of the Silicon Valley #TechBros are now gaining footing in the U.S. government. @hcrichardson.bsky.social conducts an excellent interview with Gil Duran. www.youtube.com/live/FWjR6_q...

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Thank you to all the incredibly brave soldiers, sailors, and airmen who, not so long ago, gave so much to rid the world of Fascism and Tyranny. Let us not drop the baton, lest their sacrifices be in vain.

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An important detail about the new job numbers has gone largely overlooked: Excluding 2020, job growth over the first five months of this year has been the worst since the Great Recession. Something to keep in mind as Trump describes recent job growth as “great.” www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

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No man or woman is infallible, but evidence increasingly shows women often make better leaders. They’re generally less driven by ego, less prone to dominance games, & more attuned to collaboration. The emotions women bring, like compassion, empathy, & clear-headed reason, are strengths, not flaws.

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Good morning everyone Today is D-DAY Honor the HEROES Today marks the 81st anniversary of 156,000 strategically landing of British, Canadian, and AMERICAN troops on the beaches of Normandy. They were all so young and brave... Honor Them All This meme touches my heart Fight Fascism

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Maybe Musk will manage to cut some actual fat in the budget after all. Musk isn't an agency but costs the gov more than most agencies. Musk got $6.3B in government contracts last year > entire proposed EPA budget ($4.1B) in GOP budget bill.

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Hear, hear. Scott Galloway speaking truth to these two douchebags about what it means to be a man. Spoiler alert: Elon Musk ain’t it.

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June 5, 1989. A lone man blocks the path of 13 tanks in Tiananmen Square with his body. The day before, Chinese govt had violently cleared protestors after a 6 wk standoff. Nobody knows what happened to Tank Man, but his act of courage became one of the most iconic images of the 20th century. ✊🏽

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“You see, Billy, your mom died because she couldn’t go to work during chemo and Republicans cut off her Medicaid before her cancer was cured. But Peter Thiel has a shiny new tax-free contract to mine your personal data, so that’s good.”

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Is anyone else giving up hope that most of voting America is too mentally broken or old-fashioned stupid to understand that they're being fed a constant stream of lies by the GOP?

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Pete Buttigeig hits the nail on the head. #USDemocracy

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I find it UNLIKELY that the USA will EVER fully recover from the disloyalty of GOP CRIMINAL ENTERPRISE! The world can see what the GOP has done! The world can see that the MAGA/GOP base, millions of US citizens, support the GOP CRIME! The world has much better memory that the USA! #USDemocracy

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