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Husband, Father, Policy Nerd, Millennial, Doctor, just trying to figure it all out.
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"If you can purchase US citizenship for $5 million, the “illegals” are only guilty of being poor." -Feminist News

submitted 20 hours ago • 375 comments

I can't emphasize enough that the most important thing journalists can do right now is publish exactly this kind of article

submitted 1 day ago • 802 comments

Especially if a felon can be president. But really even regardless, no taxation without representation remember?

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." -Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953

submitted 6 days ago • 5 comments

Especially as a Jewish American, it is nauseating and chilling to see the admin targeting groups for harassment and deportation in the name of “fighting antisemitism” when they themselves are the party of white nationalists

submitted 8 days ago • 6 comments

Spotted at Columbia

submitted 8 days ago • 11 comments

So.... Minority Report? They were inspired by Minority Report

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

An important reminder to people that anti-expansion, pro-human rights, pro-Palestinian is not in anyway "antisemitic". That would be like saying anti-Trump is anti-American.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Call me crazy but how about they target us as a country and not just the red states. We rise together/fall together, or else we fall apart, no?

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

It’s a month since the administration detained and disappeared a green card holder, a lawful permanent resident. We cannot allow this to be normalized or forgotten.

submitted 8 days ago • 789 comments

So Roberts is saying the man is safe where he is right? That this El Salvadoran prison isn't going to send back a body in a bag by the time everyone is done philosophizing on semantics over how the government should undo a mistake they already admit they made.

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

Is it correct to say the biggest difference between this crashing 1929 is that there hasn't been a run on the banks? If so, why hasn't there been? Is it simply the FDIC, or could it be that unlike 1929, people today are used to having negative amounts of money?

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

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submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

Indeed, why???

submitted 12 days ago • 37 comments

Please…

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

Mahmoud Khalil has been in ice detention with no charges for almost a month. How are we allowing this kind of tyranny to happen

submitted 12 days ago • 32 comments

This👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇

submitted 12 days ago • 4 comments

"We now have the techniques and the resources to get rid of poverty. The real question is whether we have the will." — Martin Luther King Jr., March 31, 1968

submitted 12 days ago • 29 comments

Really telling that a whole bunch of people didn’t realize this was a crisis when it was just people of color, LGBTQ+ people, veterans, scientists, teachers, immigrants, and the poor getting destroyed. They only noticed when it was the stock market.

submitted 13 days ago • 27 comments

In a humorous mix up, I started to read this with Jimmy Buffett in mind. No disrespect to the Mayor of Margherita-ville who before his death spoke out against Trump.... Time for my second cup of coffee.

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

It would be bad if it were only the poor and uninsured, but this could and likely will make new people poor and hurt even those with insurance.

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

You don't have to be a genius to see why this would be a bad idea, but in case Trump hasn't thought it all the way through, insurance companies don't change their formulates quickly. Even at times of national shortage of their preferred brand, they refuse nonformulary options! Prices will rise.

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

I think it's a mistake to focus on stock prices in this moment. As we've seen, stock prices can be manipulated, and don't represent the real economy. If the stock market were to reverse course are we going to start singing this administration praises?

submitted 13 days ago • 202 comments

This rainy Friday is day 3 of 6 and I'm feeling crabby so here's a picture of the cutest goblin ever. Hope he's having fun at daycare.

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

Every day I wake up to the news

submitted 14 days ago • 107 comments

Those of us old enough to remember his Muslim Ban should not be surprised (that's conservatively everyone at least 15 years old).

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

While a lot is being said about "the market", what's being said about the people about to be laid off, the people about to go hungry, the people about to choose between their food and the rent. "The market" may eventually recover, but many individuals, families, and communities may never do so.

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

While the markets tank, friends don't trust us, we disappear large groups to jails on foreign soil... the Senate bends the knee. Pathetic, but then again they're mostly sexagenarians and octogenarians that will never need Medicare or Medicaid.

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submitted 19 days ago • 42 comments

Eid Mubarak! To all Muslims observing Eid al-Fitr across the world, I wish you a joyous celebration of the conclusion of Ramadan.

submitted 18 days ago • 24 comments

Saying “the birth rate is plummeting” is wrong (in addition to the fact it’s eugenics) - and blames the ppl not having children The truth is “the material and psychological conditions in which having a child might be feasible are absent”

submitted 19 days ago • 70 comments

Every American Citizen right now has privileges of free speech that those with Visas or Greencards currently do not. It is your *duty* to speak up loudly and contest what's happening. The Constitution is getting violated daily, which isn't surprising, but highly dangerous. Wield your privilege.

submitted 18 days ago • 3 comments

Jersey Reyes Barrios, Franco Jose Carabello Tiapa, Mahmoud Khalil, Rumeysa Ozturk... how many more will there be? This needs to stop and it needs to stop now. We must refuse to become a nation that disappears people who do not look "white" enough, who do not think "right" enough. E Pluribus Unum

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

WITHOUT DUE PROCESS FOR ANY ONE PERSON, THERE IS NO JUSTICE FOR ANYONE… REMEMBER THAT.

submitted 20 days ago • 20 comments

Dear Democratic Members of Congress, Stop telling me about what he's doing. We can all see it. Start telling me about what you're doing to stop it! Signed, Americans

submitted 20 days ago • 948 comments

Wait, he's back? And he's winning? Is it because there are too few people willing to be mayor or because we really only care about name recognition and not WHY that name is recognized?

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

Exactly, this is why we went with rule of law and not the divine right of kings. Equal protection for all, not just the ones we like.

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

Overdraft fees were created in 1990. Abolish them. We can live without them.

submitted 20 days ago • 24 comments

@drrobdavidson.bsky.social thehill.com/policy/healt...

submitted 21 days ago • 12 comments

Democratic leadership in Congress presided of losing the House, Senate, White House and popular vote to MAGA. The Democratic Party currently has a 29% approval rating. Senator Schumer is canceling public appearances, fearing protest. Yet the entire leadership remains intact?!

submitted 31 days ago • 24 comments

submitted 31 days ago • 1061 comments

As I'm getting ready for bed, I catch a glimpse of a small spiral bound book and am suddenly filled with somewhat angry disbelief that multiple groups of people actually got together to decide how we should write an essay right down to how many spaces we should indent a paragraph. Why?!?

submitted 42 days ago • 0 comments

— Accidentally fired workers trying to contain bird flu — Accidentally fired workers overseeing our nuclear stockpile — Accidentally fired workers providing health care to Native Americans “Accidentally.” More like gross incompetence and mismanagement. Opposite of efficient.

submitted 55 days ago • 1114 comments

You cannot determine whether you saved or cost money based solely on one side of the ledger. Example: I saved my household $2K by not paying the mortgage.

submitted 59 days ago • 1506 comments