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TODAY’s ACTION ITEM: these 4 Dems voted to effectively take away millions of American’s ability to vote! Call and share: ”How dare you vote to make it impossible for millions of women & others to vote!” Golden(ME) 202-225-6306 Perez(WA) 202 225-2531 Cuellar(TX) 202 225-1640 Case(HI) 202-225-2726

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Loved this, “FREE” always tastes so good…

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Billionaires are stealing from us. They’re crashing our 401Ks and our kids’ 529s so that they can make money in the aftermath. The people who have the most are stealing from the people who have the least.

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President Trump's nominee to head NASA, Jared Isaacman, really really really really really did not want to admit that Elon Musk was in his meeting with Trump, when Isaacman was offered the NASA post. This ranks up there as some of the worst testimony that I have ever seen on Capitol Hill.

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The first-ever $1 TRILLION Pentagon budget is here. While defense contractors celebrate, working Americans suffer. Here's what that $1T could buy instead—and how the military-industrial complex is robbing us of our future.

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Santa Barbara #handsoff

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It really is a cult of the dumbest dumbfucks who have ever dumbed.

submitted 9 days ago • 1048 comments

Minority rule.

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The stock market is tanking so badly it almost feels like we are being governed by someone who went bankrupt six tim— Oh.

submitted 9 days ago • 872 comments

In the "personal news" department, this morning I let my colleagues know that I'm leaving The Washington Post. I'm retiring from my longtime journalistic home but not from journalism, and I'll keep you posted as I decide what my next chapter will be.

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Reminder.

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submitted 11 days ago • 37 comments

Again.

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BREAKING NEWS: Susan Crawford WINS the Wisconsin Supreme Court election DEFEATING Elon Musk puppet Brad Schimel! Congratulations Judge Crawford!

submitted 12 days ago • 335 comments

Je Suis Marine

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Republican Congresswoman Victoria Spartz just claimed at a town hall that people in America are not guaranteed the constitutional right to due process: “You break the law, you don't have due process.”

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The White House Correspondents’ Association said it fired host Amber Ruffin so it can instead focus the dinner on celebrating the First Amendment. Which apparently can be done best by preventing a gay black woman from speaking.

submitted 15 days ago • 933 comments

Cartoon by Adam Zyglis

submitted 14 days ago • 218 comments

Perfect 🤣🎯

submitted 15 days ago • 413 comments

The tariff threat again...we know how this goes 🙄🙄

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What RFK has done just this week to NOT support vaccines: -fired FDA's top vaccine scientist -buried CDC's measles forecast -shut down agency that runs the NATIONAL VACCINE PROGRAM (OIDP) -Hired anti-vaxxer to probe phony autism/vax links -Made Texas kids sick with his vitamin A measles 'cure'

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So we could lose $200B in tourism, $100B in immigrants paying taxes, $100B in weapons manufacturing, $500B in lost tax revenue from firing IRS employees… is it sinking in yet?

submitted 15 days ago • 1472 comments

The use of Russian-linked email and phone services by individuals in sensitive positions poses significant security risks. Russian state-sponsored cyber actors have a history of targeting government officials to gain unauthorized access to sensitive information.

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Yes! Zelenskyy REJECTS U.S. Mineral Grab – Ukraine's Sovereignty UPHELD youtu.be/yJqouk1V-a4?...

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Rumeysa Ozturk must not be deported. You can't kidnap someone off the street for their political views — this isn't Moscow. She has every right to speak her mind. I've contacted the Administration. I want answers.

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IT GETS WORSE Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth brought his wife, a former Fox News producer, to two meetings with foreign military counterparts where sensitive information was discussed, according to multiple people who were present or had knowledge of the discussions. New via @wsj.com:

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Breaking: RFK Jr. has forced out PETER MARKS, the nation’s top vaccine regulator. In his resignation letter, obtained by the Post, Marks said he was willing to work with RFK Jr on his vaccine concerns — but said Kennedy wishes “subservient confirmation of his misinformation and lies.”

submitted 16 days ago • 1255 comments

Sending strength and courage to all the couches in Greenland today, for no particular reason.

submitted 16 days ago • 290 comments

Good lord what a bunch of liars and incompetents. Also, as an aside. who sets their disappearing messages to 4 weeks if they want to avoid accountability? Also, @jeffreygoldberg.bsky.social is a badass.

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My latest, on the dumb people running our little American autocracy. Hide your war plans! www.joyannreid.com/p/the-daily-...

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The Democrats Need Their Own Project 2025: Elie Mystal Provides a Blueprint open.substack.com/pub/thelefth...

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I really like this guy. One to watch.

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Peeps, I asked and I got an answer from @malcolmnance.bsky.social about how to fight against the psycho megalomaniac billionaires. His answer is clear— suck all the money out of them and make them go broke. Protest, demonstrate until they can’t take it anymore. KEEP THE PRESSURE ON, it’s working!

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