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AOC: Only 2% of people on Medicaid are able-bodied.. I saw Mike Johnson saying we have to stop all the able-bodied men from being on Medicaid — as if it’s a crime for someone to have healthcare in America. Healthcare is a human right, and everyone should have it.

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Q: 60 Minutes found 75% of the migrants who were sent to El Salvador do not have criminal records. That true? BONDI: They're not Venezuelan migrants. They're illegal aliens from Venezuela who should not have been in our country Q: So you're confirming they didn't commit a crime? BONDI: *leaves*

submitted 7 days ago • 2002 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 7 days ago • 662 comments

Tariffs xkcd.com/3073

submitted 7 days ago • 263 comments

Want to avoid massive layoffs when the stock market crashes? Worker co-ops are way more resilient during recessions/depressions because there's less financial incentive to fire your workforce when they own the company

submitted 8 days ago • 6 comments

I friggin knew it.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

#booksky #bookcomics

submitted 9 days ago • 136 comments

submitted 10 days ago • 163 comments

Trump just canceled Biden’s proposed rule to allow Medicare to cover weight loss drugs like Wegovy.

submitted 11 days ago • 225 comments

We’re cooked.

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

“In 2012, in Arizona v United States, the highest court in the land ruled that “as a general rule, it is not a crime for a removable alien to remain in the United States”. Got that? Not. A. Crime.” From my new Guardian op-ed:

submitted 11 days ago • 141 comments

Walz: "My beef on this is that this guy is out there crying about his portfolio, and my mom's Social Security check this month is late. That he's attacking the portfolios of working Minnesotans and working Americans who have paid into these programs that he calls a Ponzi scheme."

submitted 12 days ago • 562 comments

After tariffs dramatically raise the cost of basic goods, acting as a regressive, compounding sales tax that disproportionately harms those in the lowest income bracket... What happens when Republicans gut Medicaid, which covers half of adults in poverty? 72M people in total.

submitted 12 days ago • 35 comments

“There is no such thing as an ‘illegal immigrant’” My myth-busting piece for The Guardian today arguing that it is factually inaccurate & totally, utterly wrong to say that undocumented people are ‘illegal’ & are automatically ‘criminals’. I bring receipts:

submitted 12 days ago • 160 comments

pro tip: if you can afford to blow $250 million on a losing campaign in Wisconsin, you can afford to pay a 90% top tax margin

submitted 13 days ago • 279 comments

credit to cory booker for bothering to do anything at all

submitted 14 days ago • 171 comments

The wages of the richest 1% have skyrocketed 182% since 1979.  Meanwhile, the wages of the bottom 90% have seen just 44% growth.  Trickle down economics was always a hoax.

submitted 14 days ago • 411 comments

remember what i said about RFK Jr. being a eugenicist first and foremost? www.marketwatch.com/story/agency...

submitted 15 days ago • 668 comments

Deranged chaos agent RFK Jr is going to remove the office of vaccine promotion and HIV prevention. This should be considered the equivalent of murder because that’s exactly what it is.

submitted 16 days ago • 132 comments

Pete Hegseth brought his wife to his meetings with senators so it would be awk to ask him about his alleged sexual misconduct www.wsj.com/politics/nat...

submitted 16 days ago • 1398 comments

The reason that the US is locking up tourists for weeks in hellish detention centers rather than letting them book tickets back home is because the detention centers are owned by corporations. They are charging the taxpayers fortunes to cage these people, and making bonanzas off their suffering.

submitted 17 days ago • 989 comments

merit is back baby

submitted 17 days ago • 724 comments