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This is a lie Or the Senator is stupid Sometimes people hesitate to call public statements “lies” because a lie is deliberate and people feel queasy assuming intent. Fair enough. So let’s make sure to offer the other option and the offending party can choose

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Today, the CBO shared an update: The Republican tax bill, which could add $2.4 trillion to deficits over the next 10 years, would also generate about $551 billion in interest costs to service that debt over that time period.

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New — I wrote about the injustice unfolding before our eyes as rich reality stars are pardoned for their crimes while law-abiding immigrants are rounded up and caged by ICE, and the way communities are rising up to say fuck no.

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They're literally doing the meme

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The California State Assembly is expected to be on call of the Speaker for budget votes on June 13, 14, 15, and 27, in addition to Monday and Thursday session days those weeks later in June. The likelihood of one weekend #CABudget session is probably at least 50/50. #CALeg

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There is simply nothing to add to @nickkristof.bsky.social piece today: This administration's policies result in the death of innocent children around the world. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/31/o...

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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...

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“Doctors have been clear that she will die within days” without this care, Lawyer Gina Amato said at a press. “Deporting this family under these conditions is not only unlawful, it constitutes a moral failure that violates the basic tenets of humanity and decency.”

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Trump take egg www.nytimes.com/2025/05/29/h...

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Trump admin just a bunch of high schoolers using chat got to do their homework

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Trump is killing the American Dream www.nytimes.com/2025/05/28/u...

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just absolutely insane that this is what Trump accused Biden of doing, and now he's done it himself.

submitted 11 days ago • 149 comments

The Agony in the Garden, by Eugène Delacroix, 1824-27, 📸 via @DimeUPROXX

submitted 12 days ago • 32 comments

This guy is like one of 4 Americans who actually went and got their REAL ID and immediately they said it was a fake. Just so everyone knows when they toss your ass in a truck it won't matter what passport or identification you have they'll throw it in the street and you're gone

submitted 13 days ago • 365 comments

Trump-brand Fyre Festival

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A lot of people who were screaming about the necessity of destroying USAID to keep us out of bankruptcy seem to be awfully quiet about a $4 trillion transfer to the wealthy paid for by USA debt

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the official position of the US gov is that the deficit doesn't matter, we can just "grow our way out of debt" apart from being total nonsense, it's awfully convenient that the debt stopped mattering the second they took power and wanted to cut taxes for their rich buddies/take food from poor kids

submitted 13 days ago • 60 comments

I don’t think Democrats realize that supporting Republican policies doesn’t really make those Democrats more popular, it just makes Republicans seem more bipartisan and as a result makes THEM more popular

submitted 14 days ago • 1 comment

A bill to make sure poor people stay hungry, sick, and dying so rich people can be slightly richer. Actually evil. We need to make people understand it in those terms and not something about “budgets” or “house reconciliation bills”

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NBA teams were 0-970 when down by 14 or more points in the final 2:50 of regulation in the playoffs over the last 27 postseasons. They are now 1-970.

submitted 14 days ago • 10 comments

So… cancel culture?

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The NBA will have seven different champions in seven seasons for the first time in league history. 2019 - Raptors 2020 - Lakers 2021 - Bucks 2022 - Warriors 2023 - Nuggets 2024 - Celtics 2025 - Thunder/Timberwolves/Pacers/Knicks

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I think it’s pretty obvious that the anti-DEI crowd would have been segregationists 50-60 years ago

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this is a letter to the editor from a high school track runner who came in second to a trans girl in a race. her state house rep in maine started talking about it. so she wrote this: www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/r...

submitted 20 days ago • 361 comments

Every Dem in the country should be running this basic ad

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Wow - I knew cutting Medicaid is unpopular. I didn't know it is this unpopular.

submitted 23 days ago • 85 comments

30% is an enormously high tariff!

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One of the tough things about covering Trump’s 2nd term is that he is breaking so many laws & norms that when you cover them each on their own, you come off as an anti-Trump Dem pundit w “Trump Derangement Syndrome.” But when you list it all out things indeed look pretty alarming

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It's 2015. President Barack Obama has accepted a "sky palace" jumbo jet from the Qatari government, which he'll own after he leaves office. "Everybody relax," he says in an interview with the New York Times. Everyone does. The networks then televise the military parade in his honor on his birthday.

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Yes — One of the sneakier things the GOP did in the 2021-23 redistricting cycle was to draw maps that look fairer at 50-50, but prevent a huge Dem "wave" (in the pop vote) from affecting seat control as much as it did in 2018. So they made super safe seats less safe to make Lean/Likely seats redder

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He’s running for Prez in 2028 Hasn’t been a lot of discussion about it, but I don’t think high-level Republicans are scared of Vance. Sununu could be another one

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Conservatives have been told by their leaders and media that border “enounters” = 1 undocumented immigrant so they think 20 kagillion faffillion people came illegally even though the undocumented pop has been stableish around 11-12 million for like 10 years bsky.app/profile/abby...

submitted 36 days ago • 11 comments

I love adding this one data point to economic charts. It works every time.

submitted 37 days ago • 121 comments

Step 1. Enact policy that isn’t very well thought through Step 2. Consequences happen. Backlash intensifies Step 3. Flip-flop on policy, claim victory for affected people Step 4. Go back to 1

submitted 37 days ago • 28 comments

Cancel culture

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Trump is working hard to hide how much his tariff tax is going to inflate our costs

submitted 37 days ago • 0 comments

personally would like to see every store show what part of the price increase is due to tariffs bc if these tariffs ever come down, i need to see that price go right back down

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