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This cause is close to my heart - please sign: sign.moveon.org/petitions/te...

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It was reagan who passed the windfall act...of course.

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I haven't been able to receive my social security benefits since retiring in 2008 because of the windfall act. President Biden eliminated this act so that more than 3 million people could get finally their earned benefits. I'm sure trump will stop this from happening.

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When are people going to wake up. trump wants to cut all the money and resources he can away from hard working wage earners so he can give massive tax breaks to the rich.

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Fixed it 😘💅🍔

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This is absolutely disgusting.

submitted 2 days ago • 727 comments

Ok here is this,👇🏽

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Right in front of our eyes, we’re seeing the destruction of the US, and the beginning of a dictatorship run by a career criminal & his enablers, drawn from the worst among us. Nobody seems to be taking effective action against this, while many calmly accept this fate like lambs led to the slaughter.

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No amount of executive orders can make us cease to exist.

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The Cruelty Isn’t the Point. It’s the Pleasure. www.thebulwark.com/p/the-cruelt...

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The IRS is expected to fire upwards of 6,000 employees as early as today. This will mean fewer audits for rich tax dodgers. According to U.S. Treasury estimates, the top 1% underpay their taxes by $163 billion every year.

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"Republican Senators have in recent days made the case to Cabinet secretaries and other Trump officials... trying to finagle exceptions to Trump’s executive orders or cuts made by Elon Musk’s U.S. DOGE Service that freeze hundreds of billions of dollars..." www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

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When FAA employees are telling us it’s not safe to fly, we should probably listen.

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Without friends

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You had it right the first time.

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This story can't be repeated enough. The GOP is lined up behind the guy who is so incompetent that his quasi-gov't agency did this. They're confirming his highly questionable nominees & hurting the American people. And "accidentally"? It was stupidity, not accident. www.nbcnews.com/politics/dog...

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The House GOP budget plan that Trump has endorsed would cut Medicaid by about 10% and cut SNAP by about 20%. At the same time it would increase the deficit by $2.8 trillion to pay for tax cuts, mainly for the rich.

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People are fleeing Florida and Texas. As of Jan. 2025, those states collectively accounted for over 30% of ALL homes for sale in the US. Florida had 157,221 active listings—the highest in the country—followed by Texas with 102,552. Repressive state governments and rising insurance are to blame.

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The Glaciers Are On Their Way Out www.splinter.com/the-glaciers...

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I was electrocuted, beaten, stabbed in the leg and starved after being captured while defending my home and family in Mariupol. We held back Putin’s invasion for several weeks while Russia slaughtered over 25,000 predominantly Russian speaking Ukrainians including women and children.

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We need Pete Buttigieg as a clear messenger, more than ever.

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“Since 1963, the Munich Security Conference has seen many consequential speeches…But Friday’s speech by JD Vance has the potential to be the most consequential – the moment the world order against which Putin railed fell apart.”

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@johnjharwood.bsky.social points out that LBJ in 1965 foreshadowed Trump/Musk in 2025: “If you can convince the lowest white man he’s better than the best colored man, he won’t notice that you’re picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, he'll empty his pockets for you.”

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✅ DEI Employers of the Day™ 100+ corporations that have stated commitments to diversity, equity & inclusion Note: This list doesn't reflect companies' overall 'goodness' or political orientations. Thanks to everyone who submitted suggestions. Full list here: www.impactivize.org/dei-employer...

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after the overturning of roe, black infant mortality has spiked nearly 11% in states with abortion bans: www.reuters.com/world/us/inf...

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The Texas measles outbreak has now spread to New Mexico, with three cases reported.

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The measles outbreak in Texas has doubled to 48 cases. "All of the cases are in unvaccinated people or those who have unknown vaccination status. Most cases are in children 5 to 17 years old. Among the 48 cases, 13 have been hospitalized."

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BREAKING: Trump has signed an executive order to defund schools of federal dollars if they mandate COVID vaccines for students.

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Elon Musk’s DOGE Posts Classified Data On Its New Website “People are scrambling” to see if their sensitive information has been accessed by Musk’s programmers, said one federal intelligence employee. www.huffpost.com/entry/elon-m...

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Wow. Clerked for both Kavanaugh and Roberts. “I expect you will eventually find someone who is enough of a fool, or enough of a coward, to file your motion [to dismiss Adams charges]. But it was never going to be me.” Honor and admiration.

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Still thinking about the Sassoon letter. www.muellershewrote.com/p/the-sassoo...

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Best one yet!!

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you can look at this and say we're divided or you can look at this and say that a majority of americans oppose every one of these things

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“We haven’t seen this kind of disparity in state laws around human rights since the Civil War," one legal expert told Jezebel. "What constitutes a human right in one state is a capital crime in another." www.jezebel.com/louisiana-te...

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The U.S. Forest Service is firing roughly 3,400 federal employees across every level of the agency beginning today, according to two people familiar with the plans.

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RFK Jr. says: -Vaccines cause autism -Wifi causes cancer. -Antidepressants cause school shootings -AIDS isn't caused by HIV -Black people don't need the same vaccines as whites Our calling is to educate against his lethal disinformation. www.thebulwark.com/p/rfk-jr-one...

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I thought they were all self-made rugged individualists who didn’t rely on socialism.

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Why does trump hate the American people ?

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Just to underscore the tension at DOJ at the moment, here's what one federal law enforcement official told me about the acting deputy attorney general: "I, along with other career FBI and DOJ personnel that I’ve spoken with, really have one message for him and that is, “go fuck yourself, traitor.'"

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X marks the spot.

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People often ask what Democrats are doing to resist Donald Trump in this moment. One shining example is California Attorney General Rob Bonta, who is taking on Trump in the courts...and winning. The Big Picture spoke with him about his efforts to resist Trump.

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