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So Trump & Republicans are holding federal workers hostage but Dems are the bad guys if they refuse to pay the ransom?
President Trump's administration has raised the stakes in a showdown with Senate Democrats over a looming partial government shutdown, threatening to permanently remove workers from some federal agencies if funding runs out next week reut.rs/42QAbbQ
White House threatens sharp cuts in US workforce in shutdown standoff
President Donald Trump's administration has raised the stakes in a showdown with U.S. Senate Democrats over a looming partial government shutdown, threatening to permanently remove workers from some federal agencies if funding runs out next Tuesday.
reut.rs
September 25, 2025 at 8:06 PM
So Trump & Republicans are holding federal workers hostage but Dems are the bad guys if they refuse to pay the ransom?
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That was one of the most batshit press conferences of Trump's public life. He brandished a photo of Putin and promised to deploy the US military to occupy Chicago, New York, and San Francisco. A sane country would be moving toward impeachment and removal right now.
August 22, 2025 at 5:57 PM
That was one of the most batshit press conferences of Trump's public life. He brandished a photo of Putin and promised to deploy the US military to occupy Chicago, New York, and San Francisco. A sane country would be moving toward impeachment and removal right now.
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I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
July 3, 2025 at 6:58 PM
I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
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Maybe ICE will finally be able to afford badges and uniforms.
July 3, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Maybe ICE will finally be able to afford badges and uniforms.
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Frankly it is notable that it only took them 6 months to drastically cut healthcare for over 11 million Americans while making sure the richest got richer.
July 1, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Frankly it is notable that it only took them 6 months to drastically cut healthcare for over 11 million Americans while making sure the richest got richer.
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A Dem lawmaker and her husband were killed by a guy for their political views and it’s already out of the news.
June 21, 2025 at 11:05 PM
A Dem lawmaker and her husband were killed by a guy for their political views and it’s already out of the news.
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I mean, what the actual fuck!?!?
June 19, 2025 at 3:21 PM
I mean, what the actual fuck!?!?
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Trump has moved from saying you need a photo ID to purchase groceries to barfing out a conspiracy theory that China sent people here with fake license *plates* they used to cast fraudulent votes.
Anyway, this escaped dementia patient has the nuclear arsenal at his command, have a great weekend.
Anyway, this escaped dementia patient has the nuclear arsenal at his command, have a great weekend.
Trump: "That's a takeover of our govt. Not only they did they cheat -- I guess you saw yesterday, it came out with China & the license plates. Tens of thousands of cards. They used those cards to vote on the second election. The one 2020. Because as everybody here knows I won that election by a lot"
June 18, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Trump has moved from saying you need a photo ID to purchase groceries to barfing out a conspiracy theory that China sent people here with fake license *plates* they used to cast fraudulent votes.
Anyway, this escaped dementia patient has the nuclear arsenal at his command, have a great weekend.
Anyway, this escaped dementia patient has the nuclear arsenal at his command, have a great weekend.
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sure, the world is going up in flames, there's unrest in the streets, and America has become a global punchline, but at least Trump voters made the handful of trans athletes in the country feel extra bad
June 17, 2025 at 12:17 AM
sure, the world is going up in flames, there's unrest in the streets, and America has become a global punchline, but at least Trump voters made the handful of trans athletes in the country feel extra bad
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Everything that’s happened over the past six months has been a response to an imaginary crisis. There is no immigrant invasion. No trade crisis. No scientific or governance crisis. Just people completely high off their own supply trying to fundamentally reorder society. None of this had to happen.
June 9, 2025 at 12:39 AM
Everything that’s happened over the past six months has been a response to an imaginary crisis. There is no immigrant invasion. No trade crisis. No scientific or governance crisis. Just people completely high off their own supply trying to fundamentally reorder society. None of this had to happen.
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CBO is a nonpartisan, neutral org. Its director, Phill Swagel, worked in the GWBush administration and was appointed by Republican lawmakers to his current post. For many reasons, it's laughable that he or his professional colleagues would be cooking the books to help Democrats.
COLLINS: Republicans like Ron Johnson and Rand Paul say the bill will add to the deficit. Is the White House's position that those Republicans are blatantly wrong?
LEAVITT: It is ... there hasn't been a single staffer in the entire CBO that has contributed to a Republican since 2000
LEAVITT: It is ... there hasn't been a single staffer in the entire CBO that has contributed to a Republican since 2000
June 3, 2025 at 6:47 PM
CBO is a nonpartisan, neutral org. Its director, Phill Swagel, worked in the GWBush administration and was appointed by Republican lawmakers to his current post. For many reasons, it's laughable that he or his professional colleagues would be cooking the books to help Democrats.
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I'm Dr. Annie Andrews. I’m a pediatrician, not a politician. But either way I know how to handle people who are full of sh*t.
Today I am announcing my campaign for US Senate to replace Lindsey Graham. Share this if you're with me.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8wM...
Today I am announcing my campaign for US Senate to replace Lindsey Graham. Share this if you're with me.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8wM...
Annie Andrews Launch Video: "Unafraid"
YouTube video by Annie Andrews
www.youtube.com
May 29, 2025 at 11:50 AM
I'm Dr. Annie Andrews. I’m a pediatrician, not a politician. But either way I know how to handle people who are full of sh*t.
Today I am announcing my campaign for US Senate to replace Lindsey Graham. Share this if you're with me.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8wM...
Today I am announcing my campaign for US Senate to replace Lindsey Graham. Share this if you're with me.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8wM...
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Our country is a joke. A sick joke.
RAMAPHOSA: I am sorry I don't have a plane to give you
TRUMP: I wish you did. I'd take it. If your country offered the US Air Force a plane, I would take it
RAMAPHOSA: Okay
TRUMP: I wish you did. I'd take it. If your country offered the US Air Force a plane, I would take it
RAMAPHOSA: Okay
May 21, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Our country is a joke. A sick joke.
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Don't look away, don't normalize: this is the virtually unconstrained leader of the world's most powerful country ambushing the president of South Africa with conspiracy-fueled racist propaganda promoted by his unelected billionaire maybe-appointee who has caused the deaths of children through DOGE.
Trump is now giving the South African president the full Zelenskyy treatment
May 21, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Don't look away, don't normalize: this is the virtually unconstrained leader of the world's most powerful country ambushing the president of South Africa with conspiracy-fueled racist propaganda promoted by his unelected billionaire maybe-appointee who has caused the deaths of children through DOGE.
What the actual…
May 21, 2025 at 6:50 PM
What the actual…
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It's almost as if granting a criminal blanket immunity was a bad idea.
Rule of law is ‘endangered,’ chief justice says
Speaking at Georgetown Law, Chief Justice John Roberts denounced “ad hominem” criticism of the justices.
www.politico.com
May 13, 2025 at 1:54 PM
It's almost as if granting a criminal blanket immunity was a bad idea.
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@dgraham.bsky.social: “The Supreme Court has, in a series of recent decisions, made prosecuting politicians for corruption harder and harder, but that doesn’t preclude the rest of us from using plain language.”
There’s No Such Thing as a Free Plane
Donald Trump is in talks to accept a $400 million gift from Qatar—presumably not simply out of generosity.
www.theatlantic.com
May 12, 2025 at 10:48 PM
@dgraham.bsky.social: “The Supreme Court has, in a series of recent decisions, made prosecuting politicians for corruption harder and harder, but that doesn’t preclude the rest of us from using plain language.”
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This x100
I’m still baffled at how America took one of the basic principles of the presidency — the occupant shouldn’t be able to benefit financially from the office — and just said, nah, that just doesn’t count for this one guy.
An international trucking logistics firm is buying as much as *** $20 MILLION *** worth of President Donald Trump’s crypto coins to influence the administration’s trade policy.
www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
May 3, 2025 at 5:27 PM
This x100
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Real whiplash watching the Trump message go from “we’ll fix everything on day one” to “suck it up buttercup, this is gonna hurt.”
April 1, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Real whiplash watching the Trump message go from “we’ll fix everything on day one” to “suck it up buttercup, this is gonna hurt.”
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NONE of this is normal
March 22, 2025 at 3:28 PM
NONE of this is normal
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They're called public records for a reason. Starting today, WIRED will *stop paywalling* articles that are primarily based on public records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, becoming the first publication to partner with @freedom.press to offer this for our new coverage.
Wired is dropping paywalls for FOIA-based reporting. Others should follow
As the administration does its best to hide public records from the public, Wired magazine is stepping up to help stem the secrecy
freedom.press
March 18, 2025 at 1:11 PM
They're called public records for a reason. Starting today, WIRED will *stop paywalling* articles that are primarily based on public records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, becoming the first publication to partner with @freedom.press to offer this for our new coverage.
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Call it by its name: Trumpcession.
March 4, 2025 at 6:10 AM
Call it by its name: Trumpcession.
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DO IT
For my Democratic friends in Congress, please wear Zelensky’s Oval Office attire tomorrow night to Trump’s State of Union speech.
March 3, 2025 at 4:20 PM
DO IT
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OK FINE we are DOING THIS. Another 🧵as that sociopath Musk claims no one got hurt by the stoppage of foreign aid and his henchman Marocco prepares to LIE LIE LIE to Congress tomorrow. Can @propublica.org just testify instead please. We have shared so many stories about the harm 1/
March 4, 2025 at 12:28 AM
OK FINE we are DOING THIS. Another 🧵as that sociopath Musk claims no one got hurt by the stoppage of foreign aid and his henchman Marocco prepares to LIE LIE LIE to Congress tomorrow. Can @propublica.org just testify instead please. We have shared so many stories about the harm 1/