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Update: The House just passed the Republican voter suppression measure that threatens voting access for millions of Americans, including 69 million women whose married names don't match their birth certificates. Make sure your senators know you expect them to stand against it.

Leave it to Jimmy Kimmel! Please repost so it Does go viral. 💜

Sen. Rev. Raphael Warnock says Congress must curb Trump’s tariff power: “We just need enough Republicans to stand with us and take the steering wheel away from the mad man who's got us in a car driving us over a cliff.”

Not sure how these people sleep at night

Elon Musk’s DOGE goons have been busy crashing the Social Security Administration website. Even more disturbing, the crashes have been occurring for weeks — as DOGE demands cuts to the IT staff responsible for the SSA website. The ever-worsening problems can be traced directly to…

Ooh look it's a voter fraud, surely the Republicans will instantly drum her out of government and demand her arrest

I'm calling for an investigation into whether President Trump manipulated the market to benefit his Wall Street donors—all while working people and small businesses paid the price. Did Trump help insiders cash in on his tariff flip-flopping? It sure looks like corruption.

"Uh huh, quick follow up -- which teams? Name them."

Oh, to have to confidence of a Trump supporter who has no clue what she’s talking about.

Inside the horrific “judicial black hole” of El Salvador’s prison system — which should be a wakeup call for Americans living under Trump. Read @nikkimcr.bsky.social's harrowing coverage of El Salvador’s prisons under President Nayib Bukele.

“So unbelievably stupid, incompetent and insane.”

I am lamentably certain that 90% of the reporting on this is going to say something like “some experts disputed the methodology used to calculate foreign tariffs” rather than “Trump made up a bunch of nonsense numbers to justify his policy, and they’re all 10x-20x higher than the real numbers.”

Trump is imposing a 10% tariff on the Heard and McDonald Islands. The Heard and McDonald Islands are uninhabited.

There are no tariffs being put on Russia. Hmmm

Economic suicide

@heritagefdn.bsky.social thanks for destroying America and the rule of law

"Hi Senator I am a voter in [your home zip code] and I saw what Sen. Booker did for others and I want that for me. Good day". A phone call like this is worth 10,000 quote posts.