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$200 million taxpayer dollars spent on “tell me I’m pretty” ads to stroke his own ego, while he fires people to “save money.” Sociopathic.

submitted 5 days ago • 496 comments

Medicaid is not for sale. NASA is not for sale. The Post Office is not for sale. America is not for sale. We have an obligation to resist kings. We outnumber them. And they can be overwhelmed.

submitted 6 days ago • 2513 comments

3rd day in a row on the golf course while Musk runs the country. He didn’t even know yesterday that the head of the Social Security Admin resigned, and didn’t know SpaceX employees were working at the FAA/DOD, and claimed Medicaid wasn’t being cut when it’s being cut massively.

submitted 8 days ago • 1245 comments

Even the most disturbing RFK Jr. headline always manages to have a detail inside creepier than you could have imagined. I’m sorry, did you just say Black kids should have a chance to get “re-parented”???? Gift link wapo.st/4hW2xGI

submitted 10 days ago • 819 comments

813 US billionaires held a record $6.72 trillion in wealth at the end of 2024. The bottom 50% of Americans held roughly $3.9 trillion in wealth. When 813 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.

submitted 10 days ago • 175 comments

When I was a Hill staffer in 2009, a Dem trifecta was trying to pass universal healthcare. In response, Senate GOP released a memo detailing all of the tactics they in the minority could use to delay the effort as much as possible. I'm recirculating that 2009 GOP memo here. Take inspiration from it.

submitted 25 days ago • 1309 comments

Musk’s wealth in 2012: $2 Billion Musk’s wealth in 2024: $447 Billion Bezos’s wealth in 2012: $18 Billion Bezos’s wealth in 2024: $249 Billion Zuckerberg’s wealth in 2012: $44 Billion Zuckerberg’s wealth in 2024: $224 Billion Minimum wage in 2012: $7.25 Minimum wage in 2024: $7.25

submitted 69 days ago • 160 comments

adopted son/sex trafficking assistant www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

submitted 100 days ago • 21 comments

"I don’t think there’s a trend towards actual conservatism in the Valley — there’s a trend towards monopoly and corruption, and that’s led a bunch of VCs directly to Trump." www.status.news/p/nilay-pate...

submitted 101 days ago • 63 comments

The people screaming, “protect our kids!” about a public bathroom want to make a pedophile Attorney General of the United States.

submitted 100 days ago • 221 comments

Sometimes I think how hypocritical it is for these “men of God” to spend so much time protecting rapists and pedophiles but then I remember the Catholic Church and it all makes sense.

submitted 102 days ago • 33 comments

A frustrating thing for me right now is the media narrative that RFK Jr is just an “anti-vaxxer” when he has said so many crazy things about other stuff over the years. We compiled 10 nutty clips on various topics, which still barely scratches the surface. open.substack.com/pub/meidasto...

submitted 103 days ago • 2170 comments

Trump wants Senate Republicans to try and stop Biden from appointing judges as a lame duck. Of the judges confirmed under Trump, 1 in 14 came after he lost in 2020, including Judge Cannon.

submitted 106 days ago • 10 comments

According to the Senate’s official historian, Katherine Scott, Trump’s demand for unilateral control of appointments is unprecedented. Never before, she said, has the Senate deliberately abdicated its power to confirm nominations by recessing at the president’s request. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

submitted 106 days ago • 1 comment