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Odds of a recession in the next 12 months when Biden left office: 15% (Moody's) Odds of a recession in the next 12 months as of today: 60% (J.P. Morgan) Trump broke Biden’s booming economy with his tariffs.

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A citizen cannot, by definition, be deported. This 2-year-old child was forcibly removed from the country by US officials and sent to Honduras. In a clear violation of the Constitution. And without any consideration of either law or human decency.

submitted 13 days ago • 5 comments

Both of these walk backs are very good, and it shows pushback can work. 💪 But our medical establishment has no idea what they are doing. They are making it up as they go.

submitted 15 days ago • 14 comments

Toxicologist here! This will improve the health of zero Americans. Current synthetic food dyes are not causing health problems, and are often times used because they are actually safer than natural food dyes. Reminder that guns are the #1 cause of death of children but we are going to ban food dyes.

submitted 16 days ago • 205 comments

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submitted 18 days ago • 239 comments

Republicans in Congress have done a lot wrong, but their unforgivable political sin, in my book, is their conscious decision that making every American's life worse is an acceptable price to pay for not being primaried. They know what Trump is doing to America, and it doesn't matter to them.

submitted 18 days ago • 29 comments

It’s weird how you can accomplish things by simply trying to do them

submitted 22 days ago • 131 comments

The government isn't doing universities a favor by channeling federal funding through them. It's using a private entity to realize public goals, to accomplish things that benefit the entire nation. You'd think conservatives who call for privatization all the time would grasp that.

submitted 21 days ago • 43 comments

Why are elected politicians being granted anonymity to dehumanize the victims of state oppression? What’s the journalistic value?

submitted 23 days ago • 1 comment

Gotta say, I am not encouraged that SCOTUS has not yet resolved the El Salvador kidnapping case.

submitted 30 days ago • 295 comments

I took this photo last summer outside Dachau, the first concentration camp, located outside Munich in Germany. Did you know that it started as a prison for people who disagreed with the government?

submitted 176 days ago • 22 comments

He has never acted rationally. But rational people kept constructing rational edifices to explain his behavior.

submitted 31 days ago • 89 comments

In just two months, DOGE has —lost— the government an estimated half a trillion dollars. I propose that Musk pay it back personally.

submitted 33 days ago • 158 comments

I mean, true, but not by changing statutory rates...

submitted 33 days ago • 102 comments

Trump has done the same damage to our health, environment and security as to our markets, it's just that there isn't a stock ticker that measures the impact so clearly

submitted 33 days ago • 101 comments

Here’s what RFK Jr. has done since a measles outbreak began which has killed 3 people so far: 1. Buried a CDC report showing need for vaccination 2. Recommended vitamin A, resulting in liver damage in kids 3. Defunded vaccination clinics nationally 4. Hired a fraud to manipulate vaccine data

submitted 33 days ago • 91 comments

Indeed!

submitted 34 days ago • 0 comments

WaPo is talking about invading another country like it's a business plan.

submitted 38 days ago • 15 comments

I feel like this tweet did not get enough attention this week

submitted 42 days ago • 1481 comments

This is a very important point. Breathlessly vague headlines and summaries of these executive orders created for the executive powers it does not have. This kind of press contributed to authoritarian regime change.

submitted 43 days ago • 94 comments

I am BEGGING people to frame this properly. The issue here is not one colossal blunder where a reporter got info. The issue is it’s clear these people are all routinely ignoring the most absolutely basic security protocols, and WE HAVE NO IDEA what breaches this has already enabled.

submitted 45 days ago • 184 comments

"According to Haspel, the system also wrongly treats childcare like a market good, akin to a gym membership or a meal at a restaurant, instead of a social good, like a fire dept or school. “The economic model doesn’t work... because we’ve miscast the service as an individual commodity,” he said."

submitted 46 days ago • 3 comments

Has any new drug saved your life or the life of someone you know? If so, you can thank the NIH, which Trump and Musk are illegally destroying, in violation both of the law creating the NIH, and appropriations laws telling NIH what money to spend and how

submitted 47 days ago • 20 comments

Ummmmmmmmmm www.mediaite.com/politics/net...

submitted 51 days ago • 52 comments

For those bloviating about how Ukraine has to accept a difficult, unjust peace, a reminder: russia does NOT offer peace, it offers negotiated surrender.

submitted 51 days ago • 1 comment

My area of research is convict leasing. In the USA, when labor is forced outside of a punishment, such as before a guilty verdict, it is called slavery. This isn’t hyperbole…

submitted 54 days ago • 4 comments

This is horrifying.

submitted 55 days ago • 0 comments

There are just countless examples of this. But how much do you think the three or four dozen people who work at DOGE know about dams? it's not like building something from IKEA. Fairly technical issue. But they decide what staffing is needed. Analogs across breadth of federal govt.

submitted 55 days ago • 20 comments

"A survey of over 100,000 Germans revealed that 94% won’t buy a Tesla vehicle." lol electrek.co/2025/03/14/t...

submitted 56 days ago • 59 comments

To be clear, the US Institute of Peace is not part of the government.

submitted 56 days ago • 1 comment

Trump's government is struggling to track bird flu and contact its own nuclear weapons inspectors but is micromanaging college disciplinary committees?

submitted 57 days ago • 33 comments

The subject of the next round of constituent calls?

submitted 57 days ago • 8 comments

At ANY moment, the GOP could have worked with Dems to draft a passable bill. But no; they drafted one that lets Trump & Musk continue gutting the federal gov’t & deprives Congress of authorized powers. Dems are right to vote no on cloture, to protect all Americans. A shutdown is squarely on the GOP.

submitted 57 days ago • 0 comments

This is fantastic and I want to know who's funding it so I can give them some money because they're actually Doing Something

submitted 58 days ago • 9 comments

When I say "no more old white men in charge," Tim Walz is excluded.

submitted 58 days ago • 8 comments

This is our country now. www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/...

submitted 58 days ago • 119 comments

Keep calling your Senators. It's not over.

submitted 58 days ago • 1 comment

It's literally painful to grant that Chris "let's skip impeachment witnesses so we can get home for Valentine's Day" Coons did something good but

submitted 58 days ago • 9 comments

This isn’t about fixing bureaucracy in Washington. This is about defunding your local public school. amp.cnn.com/cnn/2025/03/...

submitted 59 days ago • 244 comments

DOCUMENT DESTRUCTION: My reporter Brett Murphy obtained a remarkable directive to folks at USAID: Empty the safes with the classified and personnel records and then, "Shred as many documents first, and reserve the burn bags for when the shredder becomes unavailable or needs a break."

submitted 59 days ago • 701 comments