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Don't hate me because I'm beatific.
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CNN is taking Trump's rally live but Fox News is not
May 30, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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People believe there's something wrong with Elon Musk during the Inauguration, that he was high on drugs like ketamine or some other substance. Sure looks weird though.
May 30, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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The International Monetary Fund says the global economy will slow sharply this year — weighed down by Trump’s tariffs.

Global growth will downshift to an annual rate of 2.8%, half a percentage point lower than projected in January and a "significant slowdown."
April 22, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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A+++++

No notes.
March 25, 2025 at 12:50 AM
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literally every day is going to provide more evidence that the "let's provide some votes for the least bad trump nominees out of respect for the presidency" was a boneheaded strategy. any idiot could have told senate democrats that any vote for any of these people was going to make them look bad.
March 25, 2025 at 12:42 AM
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You heard Trump’s attorney general — if you visit a Tesla dealership, she will prosecute you.

Be safe! Shop somewhere else.
Pam Bondi: "If you're gonna touch a Tesla, go to a dealership, do anything, you better watch out, because we're coming after you."
March 14, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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Whitehouse confirmed to local press he’s a No on the CR and cloture.
March 14, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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And so now, anytime anyone insists that Schumer is just articulating a principled position as to the limits of the possible, the rebuttal is simple, clear, and obvious.

"He fucking lied about the CR, knowing he was going to sell us out. Why do you think he's not lying now?"
March 14, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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He lied to us. We demanded that he fight, and because we demanded that he fight, he told us he would fight. But it was a lie.

And when the lie was revealed, he pivoted seamlessly to insisting that no fight had ever been possible, would ever be possible.
March 14, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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His biggest test of the second Trump administration, and Schumer just got up and lied to the Democratic base about what he was going to do, planning to covertly sell them out. And when it became clear he couldn't sell them out covertly, he just reversed course and did it in public.
March 14, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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AOC: It is almost unthinkable why Senate Democrats would vote to to hand the few pieces of leverage that we have away for free when we've been sent here to protect social security, protect medicaid, and protect medicare.
March 14, 2025 at 12:16 AM
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In a world of Matts, be a Derek.
March 10, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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This morning at Dept of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) HQ in DC as mandatory return to office began, this video played on loop for ~5 mins on screens throughout the building, per agency source.

Building staff couldn’t figure out how to turn it off so sent people to every floor to unplug TVs.
February 24, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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the military purge starts
February 10, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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Yes. Former Treasury and OMB officials explained to me in detail what sort of power Elon Musk has now been granted. They described it as akin to having his hands on a series of spigots that he can now turn on and off:

newrepublic.com/article/1910...
February 2, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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Not gonna lie I did kinda expect our Democratic politicians to have something like a plan to counter the 920-page detailed fascist blueprint that was published in April 2023
January 29, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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@schumer.senate.gov you made a deal to advance 3 cabinet secretaries in return for having the weekend off??!!! WTF is wrong with you. They are dismantling our government. And you want time to go for brunch?
Good God, @schumer.senate.gov, what on earth are you doing on RECESS?!

Trump is tearing democracy apart in front of our eyes in real time.

You don’t get a BREAK.

Stay in DC and fight, FFS.

@indivisible.org
February 1, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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These are the dems that voted to confirm the guy that just handed the Treasury to Musk:
Blunt Rochester
Booker
Cantwell
Coons
Fetterman
Gallego
Gillibrand
Hassan
Hickenlooper
Kaine
Kelly
King (Independent)
Peters
Shaheen
Slotkin
Warner
February 2, 2025 at 1:51 AM
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Isn’t it weird how the word “filibuster” has disappeared since the election? Isn’t it odd that Mitch McConnell could lock down Obama’s first term but nobody can stop unelected Elon from pulling the wires out of the walls? Even if 49% of the country voted for this, what about the 48% that didn’t?!
February 2, 2025 at 2:23 AM
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My mentions are filled with people insisting Senate Democrats are powerless.

They’re not. They can throw up roadblocks by denying unanimous consent, forcing quorum calls, using holds and filibusters, etc

It’s so easy to figure out even a dimwit like Tuberville managed to pull it off.
"Oh, but whatever could the Senate Minority Leader do to gum up the works? There's nothing he could possibly do!"
a man wearing glasses and a purple tie is making a face .
ALT: a man wearing glasses and a purple tie is making a face .
media.tenor.com
February 2, 2025 at 12:09 AM
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Turns out Quiet Quitting was Congress all along.
February 2, 2025 at 12:21 AM
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The first Senators to actually do anything about the Trump admin
NEW - Ottawa Senators fans booed the American national anthem at the beginning of tonight’s hockey game.
February 2, 2025 at 1:07 AM