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Your daily reminder that the U.S. Postal SERVICE is a service that is designed to benefit taxpayers and not a business that should be expected to turn a profit.
NEW: The U.S. Postal Service posted a net loss of $3.3 billion in this fiscal year’s second quarter mainly due to “significant challenges out of our control,” including workers’ compensation costs, Luke Grossmann, USPS chief financial officer, said at the open session of the governing board meeting
May 10, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Your daily reminder that the U.S. Postal SERVICE is a service that is designed to benefit taxpayers and not a business that should be expected to turn a profit.
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this guy hates this country, its laws and its traditions
Stephen Miller says they are “actively looking at” suspending the writ of habeas corpus, which is only allowed when the US has been invaded or during an insurrection, which would not allow people to challenge their incarceration in court if they are arrested and detained.
May 9, 2025 at 7:17 PM
this guy hates this country, its laws and its traditions
The democrats should run this as an ad
Billionaire says out loud that he and his Pharma CEO wife have way more access to a Republican White House than a Democratic one
April 10, 2025 at 6:32 PM
The democrats should run this as an ad
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This is big: House Republicans tucked language into the budget res “rule” that bans the House from voting to terminate Trump’s emergency declaration used to impose tariffs. TL;DR lawmakers who vote for this are officially giving up their power to revoke his tariffs until October.
April 9, 2025 at 4:29 PM
This is big: House Republicans tucked language into the budget res “rule” that bans the House from voting to terminate Trump’s emergency declaration used to impose tariffs. TL;DR lawmakers who vote for this are officially giving up their power to revoke his tariffs until October.
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Sure, Kamala Harris would have have preserved our global power and domestic prosperity. But she would have done so as a Black woman.
by Pete Hegseth and Stephen Miller
by Pete Hegseth and Stephen Miller
April 9, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Sure, Kamala Harris would have have preserved our global power and domestic prosperity. But she would have done so as a Black woman.
by Pete Hegseth and Stephen Miller
by Pete Hegseth and Stephen Miller
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The corollary of “with great power comes great responsibility” is “with no power comes no responsibility” and what we’re discovering is that most of our institutions and leaders fear responsibility more than they want power, and will happily cede the latter to avoid the former
April 9, 2025 at 4:44 PM
The corollary of “with great power comes great responsibility” is “with no power comes no responsibility” and what we’re discovering is that most of our institutions and leaders fear responsibility more than they want power, and will happily cede the latter to avoid the former
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People keep saying "it's horrible that one man has the power to do this much damage" but he doesn't. It's not one man; the entire Republican Party has decided that they want us to be poorer so they can cosplay Archie Bunker.
April 9, 2025 at 4:22 PM
People keep saying "it's horrible that one man has the power to do this much damage" but he doesn't. It's not one man; the entire Republican Party has decided that they want us to be poorer so they can cosplay Archie Bunker.
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very excited to see what this does to the lives and livelhoods of my friends and family. also excited to live through, what, the third economic collapse that is the direct product of republican governance?
April 3, 2025 at 11:53 AM
very excited to see what this does to the lives and livelhoods of my friends and family. also excited to live through, what, the third economic collapse that is the direct product of republican governance?
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Donald Trump just put a 10 percent tariff on the Heard Island and McDonald, which has a population of zero people and is inhabited only by penguins.
April 2, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Donald Trump just put a 10 percent tariff on the Heard Island and McDonald, which has a population of zero people and is inhabited only by penguins.
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and that’s why you do performative things
April 1, 2025 at 10:52 PM
and that’s why you do performative things
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Not gonna pretend like I know anything about Carney’s politics because I don’t, but I watched his speech yesterday and he essentially told Trump to fuck off and now Trump’s speaking about him with a modicum of respect.
I feel like there’s a lesson in there somewhere.
I feel like there’s a lesson in there somewhere.
Trump drops the demeaning "governor" stuff and calls Carney by his correct title
March 28, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Not gonna pretend like I know anything about Carney’s politics because I don’t, but I watched his speech yesterday and he essentially told Trump to fuck off and now Trump’s speaking about him with a modicum of respect.
I feel like there’s a lesson in there somewhere.
I feel like there’s a lesson in there somewhere.
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Yunseo Chung is:
– a legal permanent resident
– a high school valedictorian
– a Columbia student who merely participated in pro-Palestinian demonstrations
And ICE wants to deport her. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/24/n...
– a legal permanent resident
– a high school valedictorian
– a Columbia student who merely participated in pro-Palestinian demonstrations
And ICE wants to deport her. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/24/n...
Columbia Student Hunted by ICE Sues to Prevent Deportation
Yunseo Chung, a legal permanent resident who has lived in the U.S. since she was 7, participated in pro-Palestinian demonstrations. Immigration agents visited residences looking for her.
www.nytimes.com
March 24, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Yunseo Chung is:
– a legal permanent resident
– a high school valedictorian
– a Columbia student who merely participated in pro-Palestinian demonstrations
And ICE wants to deport her. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/24/n...
– a legal permanent resident
– a high school valedictorian
– a Columbia student who merely participated in pro-Palestinian demonstrations
And ICE wants to deport her. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/24/n...
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it's been years upon years of labored "campus culture" op-eds from salaried writers hectoring students about free speech, and now the state is kidnapping students for their speech in broad daylight
March 26, 2025 at 8:00 PM
it's been years upon years of labored "campus culture" op-eds from salaried writers hectoring students about free speech, and now the state is kidnapping students for their speech in broad daylight
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Never, ever accept that these people give one shit about your kids. They send cops into your schools to arrest the people who care for them. They love the cops, not your kids.
🚨ALERT 🚨ICE activity has been reported in Adams Morgan: this morning (3/26) HSI agents showed up at H.D. Cooke Elementary School and tried to detain a school employee as they got out of the car. The agents did not show a warrant and other employees managed to intervene and prevent the arrest. 1/
March 26, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Never, ever accept that these people give one shit about your kids. They send cops into your schools to arrest the people who care for them. They love the cops, not your kids.
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Democrats love nothing more than setting up red lines that are in the future and then, when those red lines are crossed, doing nothing and setting up more red lines that are also in the future
Schumer: "If he defies the Supreme Court, then we are in uncharted territory ... our entire democracy is at risk. I believe that if Donald Trump should defy the courts, the public will rise up. Democrats will fight it in every single way ... autocrats only succeed if the public lets them."
March 23, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Democrats love nothing more than setting up red lines that are in the future and then, when those red lines are crossed, doing nothing and setting up more red lines that are also in the future
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Democrats will circle the wagon seeing their greatest threat (an actual progressive)
AOC: If you are an LGBTQ kid or family, we cannot throw you under the bus in order to win an election. In this house, we stand together
March 22, 2025 at 2:09 AM
Democrats will circle the wagon seeing their greatest threat (an actual progressive)
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Kaufmann: DOGE claims to have found Social Security loans going to 11 year olds and under. It's a survivor benefit annuity to young children whose parents have passed. That's the problem billionaires without a clue doing a job they don't understand
March 22, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Kaufmann: DOGE claims to have found Social Security loans going to 11 year olds and under. It's a survivor benefit annuity to young children whose parents have passed. That's the problem billionaires without a clue doing a job they don't understand
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I'm trying to think of a coherent defense for Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick urging the public to buy a specific stock tied to the president's top campaign donor.
Nothing is coming to mind. www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...
Nothing is coming to mind. www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...
Why is Trump’s Commerce secretary urging the public to buy Tesla stock?
Howard Lutnick told a national television audience to buy a specific stock tied to the sitting president’s top campaign donor.
www.msnbc.com
March 20, 2025 at 1:46 PM
I'm trying to think of a coherent defense for Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick urging the public to buy a specific stock tied to the president's top campaign donor.
Nothing is coming to mind. www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...
Nothing is coming to mind. www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...
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to celebrate Jackie Robinson without highlighting his race and the discrimination he faced because of it in every aspect of his life is ridiculous and insulting.
I can’t believe this has to be said, but: You cannot tell the story of Jackie Robinson—as a ballplayer, serviceman, or human—without discussing our country’s history of racism.
From Around the Horn:
From Around the Horn:
March 19, 2025 at 11:18 PM
to celebrate Jackie Robinson without highlighting his race and the discrimination he faced because of it in every aspect of his life is ridiculous and insulting.
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I can’t believe this has to be said, but: You cannot tell the story of Jackie Robinson—as a ballplayer, serviceman, or human—without discussing our country’s history of racism.
From Around the Horn:
From Around the Horn:
March 19, 2025 at 9:33 PM
I can’t believe this has to be said, but: You cannot tell the story of Jackie Robinson—as a ballplayer, serviceman, or human—without discussing our country’s history of racism.
From Around the Horn:
From Around the Horn:
To quote John Mulaney, “If there are two words, and you won’t say one of them, that’s the worse word.”
Greg Gutfeld: "By the way, Nazi this, Nazi that, I'm so sick of the n-word. Look, we're going to have to normalize this. From now on I'm going to come up to you and say, 'What up, my Nazi?'"
www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/gre...
www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/gre...
Greg Gutfeld compares being called a Nazi to "the n-word"
www.mediamatters.org
March 19, 2025 at 9:31 PM
To quote John Mulaney, “If there are two words, and you won’t say one of them, that’s the worse word.”
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Why did Schumer and Co. surrender to the GOP's disastrous DOGE Continuing Resolution, granting Trumpers 6 more months to hack away at the U.S.? Here's my view on why these leaders ended up failing the nation at a key moment, and the lessons that must be learned from this preventable disaster, in PN.
Playing a bad hand badly
Schumer's submission was months in the making.
www.publicnotice.co
March 18, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Why did Schumer and Co. surrender to the GOP's disastrous DOGE Continuing Resolution, granting Trumpers 6 more months to hack away at the U.S.? Here's my view on why these leaders ended up failing the nation at a key moment, and the lessons that must be learned from this preventable disaster, in PN.
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This is, quite literally, how democracies die www.nytimes.com/2025/03/19/u...
March 19, 2025 at 1:50 PM
This is, quite literally, how democracies die www.nytimes.com/2025/03/19/u...
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We're living through not a "constitutional crisis" but a "constitutional crash" — the sudden, ER-style flatlining of the healthy biorhythms of our 249-year-old constitutional order. Our national system is dead on the table—can it be shocked back to life? www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/america-s-...
America's "Constitutional Crash"
This isn't "just" a crisis.
www.doomsdayscenario.co
March 18, 2025 at 2:29 PM
We're living through not a "constitutional crisis" but a "constitutional crash" — the sudden, ER-style flatlining of the healthy biorhythms of our 249-year-old constitutional order. Our national system is dead on the table—can it be shocked back to life? www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/america-s-...