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Regulatory Battle: #OSHA heat standard hearing begins with tragic stories of workers dead on the job whose lives could have been saved by a strong standard -- and the same old tired arguments and imaginary theories from business representatives. jordanbarab.com/confinedspac...

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

ICE agents in tactical gear chase down and tackle a U.S. citizen in L.A. After realizing he’s American, they just slink away. Their only explanation: “Why were you running?” Probably because two masked men with guns were trying to snatch him.

submitted 4 days ago • 1221 comments

#No Kings With my daughter in San Francisco

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

I recently gave my first major political speech of this campaign season to retire Lauren Boebert. Like, share, follow, pitch in if you can. LET'S GO!!

submitted 13 days ago • 246 comments

At least 5.4 million U.S. children are estimated to be caring for family members at home, a number likely to rise if Medicaid cuts hit home-based care services.

submitted 22 days ago • 2 comments

Your regular reminder that the entire global economy is subject to the whipsaw whims of a person who doesn’t understand how the global economy works

submitted 33 days ago • 411 comments

New CBO analysis: The Republican party-line reconciliation bill would decrease household resources by 4% for the bottom 10 percent, while increasing them by 2% for the top 10 percent. As of 2033.

submitted 36 days ago • 21 comments

It’s 10 pm on a Sunday night and Republicans on the Budget Committee are cutting food assistance, health care, and access to education to give billionaires a tax break.

submitted 38 days ago • 34 comments

🚨🚨🚨 The House GOP just passed the #MedicaidMassacre bill out of the Budget Committee. #CA22 Rep. David Valadao (R) won by just 6.8% (Dems have overperformed by 12% so far this year)... ...while up to 198,000 of his constituents (21.3%) would lose healthcare coverage if this bill goes into effect.

submitted 38 days ago • 28 comments

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submitted 38 days ago • 1059 comments

Trump and MAGA Republicans are slashing Medicaid so billionaires can get another tax break. That means fewer people get the care they need—just so the rich can get richer. Tell them: hands off our healthcare:

submitted 38 days ago • 3 comments

What we’re watching this week is the President of the United States using his public office to personally enrich himself. He’s using the office we put him in to take bribes from foreign governments. It’s everything our Founders feared. And we’re letting it all happen right before our eyes.

submitted 42 days ago • 760 comments

Democrats have been saying it for months And here it is-in black and white for all to see Republicans want to cut $715 billion from Medicaid Ripping away insurance from 13.7 million Americans Just to give billionaires like Elon Musk another tax break Don't Mess With Medicaid

submitted 44 days ago • 83 comments

It’s official: Republicans want to kick millions of Americans off their health insurance to pay for tax cuts for billionaires. The nonpartisan scorekeepers at CBO just confirmed that the GOP’s plans would boot millions of people from Medicaid.

submitted 49 days ago • 57 comments

Trump's tariff war could reduce the supply of Christmas toys. But deporting children could reduce the demand.

submitted 56 days ago • 94 comments

The worst thing you can do right now is hide or go quiet. Stand up and talk back.

submitted 60 days ago • 290 comments

AFL-CIO issues "Death on the Job Report" for Workers Memorial Day. Meanwhile, Trump's OSHA is planning an event: “Honoring Those We’ve Lost and Supporting Those Left Behind” Nice sentiment. But an administration that destroys NIOSH does not honor those we've lost. jordanbarab.com/confinedspac...

submitted 63 days ago • 2 comments

I'm sorry I know there's a lot going on but how are we not screaming about Ron DeSantis stealing $10 million from Medicaid and the money ending up with pro-DeSantis superPACs, funneled through a charity run by his wife? HOW IS THIS NOT NATIONAL NEWS? www.miamiherald.com/news/politic...

submitted 64 days ago • 192 comments

Judas Iscariot got paid off around Easter. Why shouldn’t I? by Donald Trump

submitted 66 days ago • 14 comments

I'm just a poor country political historian and not some big city media fella, but it does seem like a slightly big deal that the leader of the United States presented comically faked "evidence" in the Oval Office to justify his power to disappear ordinary people into a Central American prison?

submitted 67 days ago • 188 comments

#trump #donaldtrump #Liberty #ICE #detainment #democracy

submitted 69 days ago • 2 comments

"It was the worst type of magical thinking to imagine Trump would have any serious constraints in a second term ... If his voters believed he wouldn’t be stupid and malevolent enough to obliterate the economy for no good reason, they simply didn’t pay attention to his first term or 2024 campaign."

submitted 75 days ago • 164 comments

If I dangle you over a building then pull you up I didn’t save your life, I nearly killed you! Keep that in mind as you watch Congress and the WH as they claim to protect you. #scpol

submitted 77 days ago • 13 comments

Those tariffs were so beautiful that the king had to hide them

submitted 77 days ago • 0 comments

Trump, Elon and RFK Jr. destroy the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health ( #NIOSH)-- the only government agency that researches occupational safety and health hazards, and certifies respirators. The result: More workers will get sick and die. jordanbarab.com/confinedspac...

submitted 85 days ago • 0 comments

Once again for the folks in the back: he doesn't like you. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

submitted 87 days ago • 7 comments

Based on the replies l, it looks like there a lot of fed workers on @bsky.app I just wanted to say THANK YOU. I can't imagine the shit you are going through right now Thanks for your service to our country

submitted 91 days ago • 1673 comments

There was a reason they attacked DEI first. It's because white christian male supremacist views are core to their movement. Dems should, contrary to the advice of some reflexive compromisers among us, respond by picking up the fallen banner of equality & opportunity. We should proudly champion it.

submitted 94 days ago • 56 comments

92 years ago today: The Reichstag passes the Enabling Act ("Law to Remedy the Distress of People and Reich"), giving the Chancellor, Adolf Hitler, power to make and enforce laws. The Center Party provides decisive support. With the Communist Party banned, Social Democrats are alone in opposition.

submitted 94 days ago • 36 comments

A completely serious question. When people, and businesses, and institutions with the resources and reputation to stand firm…don’t, where does that leave this country. cc Paul, Weiss. And Columbia. And so many others

submitted 97 days ago • 157 comments

I’d love a federal government that cares much about protecting people as it does about protecting Teslas

submitted 102 days ago • 435 comments

Schiff: "I was just listening to your guest [Hassett] trying to explain that these on-again off-again tariffs are not about trade. It's a drug war, but next month it's a trade war, but now it's a drug war. It was incomprehensible ... they're destroying the economy. That's where we need to focus."

submitted 108 days ago • 516 comments