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I mean, if you had a serious, important job and you made a mistake like this, you'd probably get fired...

Gonna say something obvious to most: real masculinity defends the defenseless, punches up not down, has compassion, and fights only on behalf of others to battle injustice or evil. It doesn’t just lift weights and tweet in all caps and listen to Rogan and grow a beard to feel accepted by other men

Cuts have consequences, illustrated. As seen on TV 📺

MURRAY: Will you allocate the $220m for literacy programs that Congress appropriated? McMAHON: We're looking at the unallocated dollars to determine which of those programs we can best spend on MURRAY: Those funds were appropriated. It looks to me like the dept is illegally impounding funding

Darren Beattie - the State Dept official who dismantled the US government's main center for fighting Russian and Chinese propaganda around the world - turns out to have personal ties to the Russian elite. www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2025...

I think top Democrats know it would be a winning issue to attack super-rich exploitation of the poor and middle class, but the Dems choose not to do so because they hope for some loose change from the super-rich.

Margaret Brennan totally exposes FDA Commissioner Makary for making it up as he goes and making conflicting recommendations in order to cast doubt on covid vaccines. He's so terrible during this interview that Brennan is left shaking her head as she wraps it up.

The USA is barely recognizable after 4 months; if you think you can sit on the sidelines and it will be handed back to you in four years you are out of your mind.

Musk should be asked about this in every interview he does now and forever. To ignore it is a dereliction of duty. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...

Lying: It's the Lord's work. Glory!

Robert F Kennedy Jr’s flagship health commission report contains citations to studies that do not exist, according to an investigation by the US publication Notus.

"Let cash registers ring!"

"Why attack universities? Why attack journalism? Because ignorance works for power ... With that done, power can rewrite history with grotesque, false narratives. They can make criminals heroes and heroes criminals." trib.al/oyBvPkF

Important to note: Trump never had the power to impose the tariffs. The court didn't remove the power. It underscored that he was exceeding his authority. Unanimously. A useful reminder that much of what Trump is seeking to do is blatantly illegal.

All states who believe in the privacy of our medical records should be doing this 👇

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BREAKING: Scott Pelley just risked everything to make one thing clear: The attack on free speech isn’t coming—it’s already here. Journalists are being silenced, critics are being punished, and most of the media’s playing dead. This is state-sponsored suppression. This is dictatorship in real time.

Ok. Then let it die. Because theft is theft. And even worse if you’re profiting from the crime.

Scores of staffers at the White House National Security Council have been abruptly dismissed as part of a sweeping overhaul that slashes the staff from over 300 to just 50. The move shifts the NSC’s role from policymaking to simply carrying out the president’s directives.

COLLINS: You testified that you have a team on the ground in Milwaukee. The city said that's not true and they're not getting the help they need. RFK Jr: The CDC is giving them assistance COLLINS: They just said one technician was on the ground RFK Jr: I can't tell you how many are on the ground

Another quote from the “MAHA Report”: “Many vaccines on the CDC's childhood schedule involved small participant groups, had no inert placebo-controlled trials, and had limited safety monitoring…” This is just a flat-out lie, which is why no references were provided for this statement.

Hey Dems - your talking points. Cutting funding for children’s cancer research, cutting Medicaid, Medicare, SNAP, taking healthcare from millions while spending hundreds of millions to modify an illegally “gifted” 747, throwing a military parade, golfing, cutting taxes for the richest.

REPORTER: On the president's dinner tonight, will the White House commit to making a list of the attendees public so people can see who's paying for that kind of access to the president? LEAVITT: The president is attending it in his personal time

Tariffs were NEVER going to “bring manufacturing back to the US.” There are many reasons, including: •Even with tariffs, US labor is prohibitively expensive •America’s supply chain isn’t ready •Most Americans don’t want to do manufacturing jobs •Not enough unemployed workers to fill new factories

I don't see why a state can't build social housing to assist residents with bad credit scores not be homeless, and build up financial security. Saw a creator who had to pay $9K down. Anyone else would be on the streets. Solving chronic social conflict isn't difficult if you care.

Using the coercive punitive power of the state to invent a fake genocide (SA) is the same vile enterprise as using it to deny a real one (Gaza).

Warnock: You literally have, in real time, the leader of another nation-state—in this case, South Africa—there to talk to him about trade, and he’s saying, “Sorry, Mr. President, we don’t have a plane to offer you.” And you see why we have an Emoluments Clause in the first place.

Tariff shakedowns continue.

Federal judge dresses down Alina Habba: "Your role is not to secure convictions at all costs, nor to satisfy public clamor, nor to advance political agendas. Your allegiance is to the impartial application of the law, to the pursuit of truth and to the upholding of due process for all."

McGovern: "This is not a governing philosophy. It is a scam. I wasn't sent here to vote for trash. I can't understand why you'd choose a career of public service to do this -- to rip away the healthcare & food assistance of working & middle class Americans. Is that really what you came here to do?"

Nobody should believe Elon Musk about anything ever. He’s an inveterate liar and has been for decades. Also, a fascist. Which has also always been true.

This is why Trump said today that Massie should be voted out of office. This kind of honesty is not permitted in Donald Trump’s Republican Party.

How many things have you done at 1AM that you’re proud of?

Rightfully, the cuts to Medicaid (over 10M people will lose their health care) and the tax cuts for the rich have been the story of the disastrous Republican budget bill. But I read the whole thing. And there are some hidden rats in there you need to know about. 1/ A quick🧵

People are using Klarna to go into debt to buy groceries GoFundMe has 250k pages dedicated to medical bills Interest rates for student loans can be up to 18% 60% of Americans have credit card debt Republicans: Let’s give more tax breaks to corporations and mega-rich people!!!

FACT CHECK: Habeas corpus is the centuries-old legal procedure that protects AGAINST unlawful imprisonment, and is a crucial part of our fundamental right to due process.

If you are wondering about the direction in which HHS is heading under The Regime, you may need to look no further than Russia. They have just “classified” specific demographic information such as births and deaths in an attempt to cover up their drastically declining population.

HASSAN: What is habeas corpus? NOEM: Habeas corpus is a constitutional right that the president has to be able to remove people from this country HASSAN: That's incorrect