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Hakeem Jeffries lays out the facts: 14 Million with canceled healthcare $700B cuts to Medicaid $300B cuts to SNAP food assistance $500B cuts to Medicare …while Billions in GIVEAWAYS go to the wealthy, big tech, corporate prisons, Elon, oil leases, logging, etc. #StopTheBillionaireBailout

JFC.

I’m sure that’s a coincidence. Right?

At 9:00 AM this morning the entire Pentagon got an email inviting them to a “Christian prayer and worship service” from the Office of the Secretary of Defense. A Cabinet member directly violating the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment.

This is your daily reminder that Republicans are planning to cut Medicaid to hand tax breaks to people like Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos.

“You shouldn't be within a thousand miles of the directorship of the IRS.”

@theweekendmsnbc.bsky.social Come on!! Leave Pres Biden alone. This is what you choose to discuss when god knows how much else is going on in the world!! JFC. DO BETTER!!

A reminder that if the minimum wage had kept pace with worker productivity gains since the 1960s, it would now be nearly $26 an hour.

Musk's Starlink was having a hard time getting permits abroad. Then Trump slapped tariffs on basically everything we buy from overseas—and suddenly countries negotiating trade deals started giving Starlink sweet deals! Looks like textbook corruption—and we're all paying for it.

Pres, Gagliardi, of the 🇺🇸 Federation of Musicians: “We will not remain silent as 2 of our members Bruce Springsteen & Taylor Swift r singled out & personally attacked by the POTUS. S&S r not just brilliant musicians, they r role models & inspirations 2 millions of ppl in the US & across the🌍” 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

@malcolmkenyatta.bsky.social and @davidhogg.bsky.social WORK IT OUT. You look like two petulant children airing your grievances in public. No republican would ever do this. Why is it that we Democrats cannot help ourselves and have to air our dirty laundry on every network? WORK. IT. OUT.

“We come bearing gifts for the emperor.”

@briefingwithpsaki.bsky.social LOVE the Q&A from the press briefing room. Great segment for Friday! Every week please!

You guys see what Trump’s doing, right? YESTERDAY: “You better go out and buy stocks now! This country will be like a rocket ship!” TODAY: Tariffs on China should be cut to 80%. Market manipulation…

Just to fact correct @stephruhle.bsky.social @lastword.msnbc.com @chrislhayes.bsky.social Pope Leo is NOT the first American pope. Pope Francis was as he hailed from SOUTH America. Pope Leo is the first NORTH American pope. Words matter. Do better.

Do not fly in and out of Newark without watching @maddow.msnbc.com's segment tonight. Air traffic controllers say it's not safe and even THEY are traumatized.

"What's to stop a foreign government, eager to bribe the American president, from quietly dumping money into Trump’s crypto project, effectively making direct payments to the president without public disclosure? Nothing." www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

"Access to both networks would normally require a "Q" clearance, the highest level of security clearance at the Department of Energy..." www.npr.org/2025/04/28/n...

pete hegseth's wife is conducting job interviews for the defense department?? www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Leaving this here without comment

Yes, this is a real tweet.

Jamie Dimon says the *best case* scenario for the US is now a recession. Cool, cool. From the best economy in the world to a self-inflicted recession in 4 months. Gotta be some kind of record.

International embarrassment

If you think a just-fertilized ovary is entitled to life but are indifferent to what happens to a kidnapped 4-year-old with cancer, sent to a dangerous country without meds, you don’t give a fuck about the lives of children. You are just in a cult that fetishizes being against abortions.

Our cover this week.

"I have concluded that it is necessary to rescind Merrick Garland's policies precluding the Department of Justice from seeking records and compelling testimony from members of the news media in order to identify and punish the source of improper leaks," Bondi wrote. www.axios.com/2025/04/25/b...

Trump on the huge drop in international tourism: "It's not a big deal." Are you in the tourism industry? Do you agree?

✅ DEI Employer of the Day Gap, Old Navy “We can’t succeed without the exceptional people who make our company what it is today, and we believe that the best hiring decisions are made by empowering leaders to embrace and fairly assess the wide range of experiences and perspectives candidates bring”

Funny how the paperwork only matters when it’s a woman or minority voter.