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This is a wonky process but BIG news regarding the Republican budget bill: My staff successfully got multiple provisions removed from the bill. Two key wins: 1) Medicaid provider tax. Striking this means Republicans have to backtrack on hundreds of billions in Medicaid cuts.

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"This being on TV I consider a victory for the shitposter community"

submitted 1 day ago • 30 comments

Yeah, that’s exactly what he wanted.

submitted 2 days ago • 84 comments

THEY F*CKING TOOK THE ICE CREAM MAN! The photo says it all. Masked ICE goons grabbed Enrique Lozano in front of a Culver City, CA church. A Community Coalition helped the family identify the abandoned cart, locate his belongings. For 20 years, loved in the community. "Hardened criminals" - my ass.

submitted 2 days ago • 145 comments

Maybe next time, don’t tweet pregame military strategy like it’s a WWE promo.

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OREGON HEALTH PROFESSIONALS WARN: MEDICAID CUTS WILL TERMINATE CARE, RAISE COSTS, AND SHUTTER RURAL HOSPITALS • 600+ doctors, nurses, and health workers urge Oregon lawmakers to stop GOP plan to slash health coverage and hospital funding • Follow Link to co-sign bit.ly/protect-ohp #SaveMedicaid

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So dark

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"The prospect of 400 kg of enriched uranium disappearing into the desert of a failed state is the kind of nightmare that should keep you up at night."

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Who did this? 😂

submitted 4 days ago • 1174 comments

So, if any Member of Congress is feeling frustrated that they have no voice, they can always move to Iran, where the Parliament votes on acts of war. www.newsweek.com/iran-parliam...

submitted 4 days ago • 27 comments

In other news, ChatGPT is damaging neural connectivity and students have such poor reading comprehension that the SAT is being revised to have shorter, more digestible reading passages. And the Big Beautiful Bill blocks regulation of AI for ten years. So great!

submitted 4 days ago • 4 comments

brilliant

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If you were too young in 2003 here is what Bush told the American people: 1) The Iraq War won’t cost a lot of money 3) We won’t need a lot of troops 4) We’ll bring peace and freedom to Iraq 5) We’ll find WMDs 6) We’ll be welcomed as liberators 7) It will be easy 8) It won’t take long All lies.

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Gen. Barry McCaffrey: “We are at war with Iran right now.”

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Iran did not have a nuclear weapon. Iran did not have a nuclear weapon. Iran did not have a nuclear weapon. Iran did not have a nuclear weapon. Iran did not have a nuclear weapon. Iran did not have a nuclear weapon. Iran did not have a nuclear weapon. Iran did not have a nuclear weapon.

submitted 4 days ago • 675 comments

And this right here!!! ⬇️

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Please media. Educate and inform Americans.

submitted 5 days ago • 45 comments

I watched a screener of this from PBS — it airs next week. Highly recommended. www.pbs.org/wnet/america...

submitted 6 days ago • 150 comments

This is shocking. Pure totalitarianism from DHS, and also blatantly unconstitutional. www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

submitted 7 days ago • 141 comments

Thank you @barackobama.bsky.social and @hcrichardson.bsky.social Take a listen, my Bluesky friends! #CTProud

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Palmer: Charges should be brought against each one of you AOC: Raising the prospect of charges against witnesses is a form of intimidation is it not? Palmer: I strike those words

submitted 14 days ago • 667 comments

Welcome to the World Cup in Donald Trump’s America!

submitted 14 days ago • 384 comments

NYT: “If you saw all this in any other country — soldiers sent to crush dissent, union leaders arrested, opposition politicians threatened — it would be clear that autocracy had arrived.” 😳🇺🇸 www.nytimes.com/2025/06/09/o...

submitted 16 days ago • 309 comments

Everything that’s happened over the past six months has been a response to an imaginary crisis. There is no immigrant invasion. No trade crisis. No scientific or governance crisis. Just people completely high off their own supply trying to fundamentally reorder society. None of this had to happen.

submitted 17 days ago • 896 comments

www.npr.org/2025/06/02/n...

submitted 17 days ago • 56 comments

BREAKING: Kamala Harris issues statement on Los Angeles.

submitted 18 days ago • 534 comments

President Trump stumbles while walking up the stairs to Air Force One

submitted 18 days ago • 516 comments

This needs as much coverage as protests or ICE raids. Los Angelenos FTW. ❤️🙌

submitted 18 days ago • 27 comments

My dad, who has lived under a dictatorship, knows one when he sees one. His first text this morning is that we are now officially in a dictatorship. It is all pretty grim.

submitted 18 days ago • 290 comments

Fascists want to provoke violence so they can justify crackdowns and get some good footage to distort for state propaganda outlets

submitted 18 days ago • 48 comments