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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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Judge Harris handled this so well. She always has tough questions at OA.

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Me watching football teams that can’t run the ball

submitted 19 days ago • 58 comments

There's nothing holy about writing discrimination into the law.

submitted 29 days ago • 691 comments

Is it too much to ask for an IRS Commissioner who understands the law?

submitted 35 days ago • 1329 comments

Do you ever think about the great things America could do if we focused our energy on common good rather than corporate greed?

submitted 35 days ago • 802 comments

"Some National Weather Service offices, including Jackson, no longer have overnight staff from midnight to 7AM. All three Kentucky offices - Jackson, Paducah and Louisville - are short-staffed. There is no meteorologist in charge at any of the three offices..." www.kentucky.com/news/state/k...

submitted 36 days ago • 1256 comments

The Rules Committee meets at 1 AM on Tuesday night/ Wednesday morning to ram through this disastrous bill. Why? Because they don't want you to see them ripping healthcare from millions of Americans. You do not hold a hearing for a bill at 1 AM unless you're completely ashamed of it.

submitted 36 days ago • 702 comments

RFK Jr. said multiple times during his house and senate hearings today that no scientists have been fired from federal agencies. Our reporting has shown that hundreds, if not thousands, of scientists have been let go from NIH/CDC/FDA

submitted 41 days ago • 608 comments

Duffy: "By the way, during covid, when people weren't flying, that was a perfect time to fix these problems." (Who wants to tell him ... )

submitted 43 days ago • 1891 comments

“FDA Commissioner Marty Makary is sending signals that FDA will likely not authorize a COVID-19 booster vaccine this year for children, and perhaps not for the general population as a whole, saying he “cannot, in good faith” recommend booster vaccination for children.”

submitted 45 days ago • 106 comments

Just curious, what’s the tariff on a $400 million jet from Qatar?

submitted 44 days ago • 1680 comments

A Mother's Day meltdown by the owners of Stone Cellar Bistro (outside Denver) after they ask a nursing mom to stop breastfeeding in their restaurant (her right under CO law!) because they're worried about getting negative online reviews—which gets them negative online reviews

submitted 44 days ago • 48 comments

Article I, Section 9, Clause 8: “no Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under them, shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State.”

submitted 44 days ago • 2237 comments

It’s especially galling that AG Pam Bondi personally wrote the memo approving the gift of the Qatari airplane. Her last job was as a lobbyist for Qatar! efile.fara.gov/docs/6415-Ex...

submitted 44 days ago • 1073 comments

Walz: We don’t need to run government like a business, because we’re not in the profit-making business. We’re in the business of improving lives and looking toward the future. And second, this guy has a proven track record of being an absolute failure.

submitted 48 days ago • 462 comments

Quite an exchange just now between Sen. Merkley and FBI Director Kash Patel over whether due process applies to people targeted by the Alien Enemies Act.

submitted 47 days ago • 124 comments

To make matters worse, importers are leaving inventory in China ports. Waiting for tariffs to be lowered. If they are lowered enough, there will be a crush to ship them here and transport them when they get here. That will drive transportation costs way up. = More inflation, post tariffs

submitted 47 days ago • 385 comments

Hi Elmo, contact our HR team. Let's talk!

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* BILL GATES TO REUTERS: DEATHS WILL GO UP 'IN THE MILLIONS' DUE TO GOVERNMENT GLOBAL AID CUTS IN THE NEXT 4-6 YEARS @reuters.com

submitted 47 days ago • 93 comments

And teachers & doctors & artists & veterans & those who make sure our food is safe & those who protect consumers & librarians & those who protect our air and water & the Dept of Transportation & Infrastructure & the FDA & the CDC &.....

submitted 48 days ago • 29 comments

BILL GATES: “The picture of the world’s richest man killing the world’s poorest children is not a pretty one.” @financialtimes.com www.ft.com/content/bdd9...

submitted 47 days ago • 1085 comments

Wow, wow, wow Declassified National Intelligence Council, Sense of the Community Memorandum: "The Maduro regime probably does not have a policy of cooperating with TDA and is not directing TDA movement to and operations in the United States." Now consider: DOJ lawyers saying opposite to courts!

submitted 50 days ago • 132 comments

NEW from @joshgerstein.bsky.social: You’ve heard of Kilmar Abrego Garcia. Now meet the second man erroneously deported to El Salvador in violation of a legal settlement: Daniel Lozano-Camargo. Until now, he’d only been identified by a pseudonym in court. www.politico.com/news/2025/05...

submitted 50 days ago • 191 comments

"Pertussis, or whooping cough, is now spreading at a rate the U.S. hasn’t seen since vaccines were introduced in 1948." It's No Coincidence. Public health funding is being slashed. Vaccine misinformation is spreading. Fewer people are getting vaccinated. This is the result.

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Twitter is upset that most people agree that vaccination is good and pedophilia is bad

submitted 50 days ago • 59 comments

Latest data out from the Port of LA. ▶️ As expected, this week the port is seeing a 35% drop in container volume from this time last year ▶️Wk 20 is showing an 11% drop ▶️Wk 21 has a spike upward, BUT that number is always the softest. These ships have not all sailed yet, and some may blank (cancel).

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Josh Hawley is pressuring FDA Commissioner Marty Makary to change the FDA’s approach to mifepristone based on a study—without peer review—from the Ethics & Public Policy Center where Leonard Leo is on the board. (Hawley & Leo are connected via the Leo-led Teneo Network, which Hawley co-founded.) 1/

submitted 51 days ago • 63 comments

Good lord, just learned (form the conlawprof Listserv) about the most transparently Orbanist stunt yet. Steven Miller filed a FOIA suit against John Roberts as pretense to claim that the administrative office of the U.S. courts is really an executive agency storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 51 days ago • 32 comments

The Trump family stablecoin surged to 7th largest in the world because of a shady crypto deal with the United Arab Emirates—a foreign government that will give them a crazy amount of money. The Senate shouldn’t pass a crypto bill this week to facilitate this kind of corruption.

submitted 51 days ago • 222 comments

Things the president of the United States said on meet the press today: He doesn’t know if he has to follow the constitution He’s fine with a recession Americans can do with less Small businesses are just “a couple of little businesses”

submitted 51 days ago • 1312 comments

He's also the president who killed things like this. www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

submitted 51 days ago • 717 comments

Just asking questions, Elon!!

submitted 53 days ago • 27 comments

The Judge Howell opinion in favor of Perkins Coie (that the president can’t simply attack law firms they don’t agree with) is phenomenal.

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A black person asked Donald Trump about "Harvard," repeating the word very clearly twice, and Trump's brain just immediately transposed it to "Harlem." After talking inexplicably about "Harlem," Trump catches himself, and switches hastily back to "Harvard" while trying to stitch the two together.

submitted 54 days ago • 67 comments

WHEEZING "The Court did so over defense counsel's objection that had no apparent legal basis to support it!"

submitted 54 days ago • 33 comments

switch your politics/sellout ✅ get nominated for UN Ambassador ✅ get your nomination pulled ✅ it goes to the signal guy ✅

submitted 54 days ago • 125 comments

It's a massively stressful job and it was determined long ago that they should retire by 55 because of it. But sure, keep 'em on the job. What could go wrong?

submitted 54 days ago • 57 comments

He is so full of shit.

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Cal-Maine, the biggest egg producer, has been accused of using bird flu as cover to jack up prices and triple its profits from a year ago. It also received $22M in federal aid. While you're getting gouged at the grocery store, your tax dollars are subsidizing corporate greed.

submitted 54 days ago • 885 comments

Something is going on with Ed Martin's nom to be US attorney. But what, precisely, is unclear. Sen. Durbin said this AM: "It’s my understanding that we are not going to move forward on the Martin nomination." Grassley said he'd have more to say when Martin's nom was officially on the calendar.

submitted 54 days ago • 92 comments

Honestly this is just incredible content.

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