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Karoline Leavitt is a professional liar Trump’s press secretary is paid by the taxpayers to hoodwink the taxpayers.

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The Trump administration terminated funding for polio, H.I.V., malaria and nutrition programs around the world this week. I guess “Love thy neighbor” only includes Americans! www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/h...

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Trump coordinating with Israel on blocking all aid into Gaza makes us complicit in a war crime - using starvation as a weapon of war. Republicans don't care how many children die of starvation and from freezing. They are not "pro-life!" abcnews.go.com/Internationa...

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A new poll shows that by a nearly 2-1 margin, voters oppose President Trump’s plans to issue an executive order to abolish the U.S. Department of Education. protectborrowers.org/new-poll-con...

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Our president thinks he is above the law and doesn't need to follow any court orders. He just posted on Truth Social: "He who saves his country does not violate any law." www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

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66% of Americans think Donald Trump is not focusing enough on lowering prices. x.com/CBSNewsPoll/...

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Why Donald Trump chose to fire several inspectors general from major federal agencies: “This is Donald Trump’s way of telling us he’s terrified of accountability." - Sen. Chuck Schumer “He broke the law, and not just any law, but a law meant to crowd out waste, fraud and abuse." - Sen Adam Schiff

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President Trump endorsed the genocide and ethnic cleansing in Gaza, saying that we need to "just clean out” the Palestinians from the Gaza Strip, and reauthorized the use of 2000 pound US bombs to help make this happen.

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An "essential part of U.S. history" is no longer being taught to our military. The Air Force has removed some training courses to comply with Trump’s crackdown on DEI initiatives. Some of the removed courses included historical videos of the Black Tuskegee Airmen and Women Airforce Service Pilots.

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Trump's administration announced it was re-launching the program "Remain in Mexico," which forced non-Mexican asylum seekers to wait in Mexico until their cases in the US were resolved. Such a move would require the country receiving the asylum-seekers to agree, and Mexico has not done so.

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The optics of giving the 3 richest people in the world front row seats in front of his Cabinet at Trump's inauguration, tells us everything we need to know about the corruption that will be part and parcel to this administration.

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White supremacists love when DEI programs are scrapped because they know it will reduce the number of people of color in companies that many of them work for.

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"With polls indicating sharp partisan divisions about the merits of clemency for the Jan. 6 insurrectionists, the president’s action will divide, not unify. It will inflame divisions, not heal them. That possibility does not bode well for a country already on edge and divided into warring camps."

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ICE is planning immigration raids starting Tuesday. Please amplify.

submitted 155 days ago • 1177 comments

"Donald Trump has nominated more than a dozen billionaires to be in his government. Three of the wealthiest people in the world will be next to him on the dais when he takes the oath of office. Donald Trump and the Republicans have a government of, by and for the ultra-wealthy." - Dan Pfeiffer

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"At a time of massive income and wealth inequality..it would be an outrage to provide hundreds of billions of dollars in additional tax breaks to large corporations and the wealthiest people in this country. Any new tax cuts should go to the working families of this country." - Bernie Sanders

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"We must not throw millions of people off of the health care they have by making massive cuts to Medicaid and other public health programs..Medicaid is a lifeline not only for millions of Americans, but also for over a million seniors in nursing homes and people with disabilities." - Bernie Sanders

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Four years ago, Trump handed Biden a nation in the throes of a deadly pandemic and economic collapse. On Monday, Biden will hand Trump a post-covid America with an economy that's been bolstered by major public investments. The cycle of Democrats cleaning up GOP messes goes on.

submitted 157 days ago • 9 comments

When three people on top own more wealth than the bottom half of America … When a handful of corporations control the economy … When you get one vote but billionaires can spend hundreds of millions of dollars to elect the candidate of their choice … That’s oligarchy. - Bernie Sanders

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Let’s be clear about why Meta is removing fact checking.

submitted 165 days ago • 214 comments

"There’s a lot of high-ranking people talking about Greenland, and the people of Greenland, as an object, as property, as something that can be bought. It’s taking away our voice and dehumanizing us."

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"I would like to begin by addressing the heinous attack on the United States Capitol. Like all Americans, I am outraged by the violence, lawlessness and mayhem....The demonstrators that infiltrated the Capitol, have defiled the seat of American democracy." - Donald Trump, Jan 7, 2021

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In other news, Facebook will now allow users to refer to “women as household objects or property" and allow “allegations of mental illness or abnormality when based on gender or sexual orientation."

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Mark Zuckerberg, on effectively putting an end to its long-standing fact-checking program: “It means that we’re going to catch less bad stuff." Quite the understatement!

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The "America First" slogan is inextricably linked to the KKK and code for white supremacists.

submitted 170 days ago • 0 comments

Everything stated in this post is a provable fact. You are entitled to your own opinion. You are not entitled to your own facts. Looking at YOU, 2020 election-deniers.

submitted 171 days ago • 2054 comments

Glad to see it. When you step up to battle fascism in America, we share an important common ground.

submitted 171 days ago • 101 comments

218 Republicans in the House voted for Mike Johnson, who believes: ALL abortions should be criminalized; Making trillions of dollars of cuts to Social Security/Medicare should be "our #1 priority"; Health insurance shouldn’t cover people with pre-existing conditions; Dinosaurs were on Noah’s Ark

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Some of America's richest individuals paid all of their Social Security taxes yesterday for the entire year. Most Americans will pay Social Security taxes all year long. That's because in 2025, SS taxes are only applied to the first $176K earned. This cap has put Social Security at risk.

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Trump, Vance, Hawley, MTG, and many GOP leaders have stoked hate with statements either saying or implying that the attack in New Orleans was from an illegal migrant. None have corrected this misinformation. Apparently, they would rather fearmonger & prey on people's xenophobia than tell the truth.

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"Holiday sales from the beginning of November through Christmas Eve climbed 3.8%, outpacing the 3.1% increase from a year earlier." More evidence that Bidenomics is working.

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This is it in a nut shell 🦋

submitted 178 days ago • 1271 comments

This nails it perfectly.

submitted 179 days ago • 420 comments

"Five Gaza Journalists Killed in Israeli Strike" Using famine as a weapon of war. Let's call it what it is: war crimes.

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"Russia launched a massive attack on Kharkiv's energy infrastructure on Christmas Day, Dec. 25, firing 12 missiles at heating plants, thermal power plants, and other energy facilities..A criminal case has been opened regarding war crimes under Article 438 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine."

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Since 2010, profits of top health insurers have hit a collective $371 billion. $120 billion was funneled shareholders. Meanwhile, half of US adults say they can’t afford an unexpected $500 medical expense. We do not have to keep living like this.

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Does the "Daniel Penny effect" mean that people think they can get away with murder in the NYC subway or that bystanders, even police, are reluctant to get involved?

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"The House Ethics Committee report concluded that the actions by Mr. Gaetz violated state sexual misconduct laws, including Florida’s statutory rape law, and violated House rules." This is who President-elect Donald Trump wanted to represent the United States in legal matters.

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Trump, who is allegedly a populist leader, tanked a bipartisan spending bill in order to shield the Chinese investments of the richest man in the world and to protect the profits of the UnitedHealth Group, the corporation for which murdered executive Brian Thompson worked. - Heather Cox Richardson

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Pope Francis' Christmas address comments on Gaza: “Yesterday, children were bombed. This is cruelty. This is not war. I wanted to say this because it touches the heart.”

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Fox closed her eyes, felt the cold on her face She smiled at the darkness, lost in winter's brace Solstice had come, the promise of more light Nature's cycle was done by end of this night She wished all souls love with the return of the sun and #SolsticeBlessings for everyone

submitted 184 days ago • 165 comments

“The real 'fear' at play here seems to be that seeing and hearing from Robert will make it clear to the public that an innocent man sits on death row who is also a gentle soul with a pronounced disability. Texans deserve better.”

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Soon after taking his wrecking ball to Congress, un-elected co-President Elon Musk has moved on to wreaking havoc in Germany and beyond.

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Elon’s politics are disturbing.

submitted 185 days ago • 591 comments