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Donald Trump has reportedly spent $18 million worth of taxpayer money to play golf since his inauguration.
This is happening as he slashes the federal workforce, guts funding for vital programs, and tees up major cuts to Medicaid to pay for more tax cuts for the rich.
Hello?
This is happening as he slashes the federal workforce, guts funding for vital programs, and tees up major cuts to Medicaid to pay for more tax cuts for the rich.
Hello?
March 17, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Donald Trump has reportedly spent $18 million worth of taxpayer money to play golf since his inauguration.
This is happening as he slashes the federal workforce, guts funding for vital programs, and tees up major cuts to Medicaid to pay for more tax cuts for the rich.
Hello?
This is happening as he slashes the federal workforce, guts funding for vital programs, and tees up major cuts to Medicaid to pay for more tax cuts for the rich.
Hello?
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My name is Isaiah Martin and I’m running for Congress.
We can’t solve today’s problems with yesterday’s politics.
Repost and follow if you’re ready to send Donald Trump a message that Democrats are ready to FIGHT BACK!
We can’t solve today’s problems with yesterday’s politics.
Repost and follow if you’re ready to send Donald Trump a message that Democrats are ready to FIGHT BACK!
March 17, 2025 at 3:24 PM
My name is Isaiah Martin and I’m running for Congress.
We can’t solve today’s problems with yesterday’s politics.
Repost and follow if you’re ready to send Donald Trump a message that Democrats are ready to FIGHT BACK!
We can’t solve today’s problems with yesterday’s politics.
Repost and follow if you’re ready to send Donald Trump a message that Democrats are ready to FIGHT BACK!
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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.
Meanwhile, the wages of the bottom 90% have seen just 44% growth.
Trickle down economics was always a hoax.
March 16, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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.
Meanwhile, the wages of the bottom 90% have seen just 44% growth.
Trickle down economics was always a hoax.
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Meanwhile over on the other place, rightwing free speech warriors (this guy is a former DeSantis campaign staffer) are calling for me to be denaturalized and deported because they don’t like my political speech. This is what fascism and racism looks like, folks.
March 16, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Meanwhile over on the other place, rightwing free speech warriors (this guy is a former DeSantis campaign staffer) are calling for me to be denaturalized and deported because they don’t like my political speech. This is what fascism and racism looks like, folks.
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Trump is slashing another 1,000 jobs at NOAA.
The National Weather Service, which is part of NOAA, provides life saving weather forecasting in the US.
A study found that for every $1 invested in NWS, it produces $73 in value to Americans.
Again, this isn't about efficiency.
The National Weather Service, which is part of NOAA, provides life saving weather forecasting in the US.
A study found that for every $1 invested in NWS, it produces $73 in value to Americans.
Again, this isn't about efficiency.
The US agency that monitors weather will cut another 1,000 jobs, AP sources say
Multiple sources tell The Associated Press that the Trump Administration is starting another round of job cuts — this one more than 1,000 — at the nation’s weather, ocean and fisheries agency.
apnews.com
March 12, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Trump is slashing another 1,000 jobs at NOAA.
The National Weather Service, which is part of NOAA, provides life saving weather forecasting in the US.
A study found that for every $1 invested in NWS, it produces $73 in value to Americans.
Again, this isn't about efficiency.
The National Weather Service, which is part of NOAA, provides life saving weather forecasting in the US.
A study found that for every $1 invested in NWS, it produces $73 in value to Americans.
Again, this isn't about efficiency.
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I don’t buy books on Amazon. Leftover from my previous life as an indie bookseller.
If you are freshly anti-Bezos, some of my favorite options:
📕 Buy Locally! Hopefully you still have a local bookshop.
📕 Bookshop.org
📕 Audio: Libby, Hoopla, Chirp, Spotify.
If you are freshly anti-Bezos, some of my favorite options:
📕 Buy Locally! Hopefully you still have a local bookshop.
📕 Bookshop.org
📕 Audio: Libby, Hoopla, Chirp, Spotify.
March 13, 2025 at 1:07 AM
I don’t buy books on Amazon. Leftover from my previous life as an indie bookseller.
If you are freshly anti-Bezos, some of my favorite options:
📕 Buy Locally! Hopefully you still have a local bookshop.
📕 Bookshop.org
📕 Audio: Libby, Hoopla, Chirp, Spotify.
If you are freshly anti-Bezos, some of my favorite options:
📕 Buy Locally! Hopefully you still have a local bookshop.
📕 Bookshop.org
📕 Audio: Libby, Hoopla, Chirp, Spotify.
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I'm old enough to remember when polio ripped through the globe and put my friends into iron lungs.
We dutifully lined up at school to get vaccinated. We eradicated the disease. We protected the common good and saved lives.
RFK Jr leading HHS is a disgrace.
We dutifully lined up at school to get vaccinated. We eradicated the disease. We protected the common good and saved lives.
RFK Jr leading HHS is a disgrace.
RFK Jr.: It Would Be Better if ‘Everybody Got Measles’
“The measles gave you lifetime protection against measles infection,” Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told Sean Hannity on Fox News.
www.thedailybeast.com
March 12, 2025 at 7:00 PM
I'm old enough to remember when polio ripped through the globe and put my friends into iron lungs.
We dutifully lined up at school to get vaccinated. We eradicated the disease. We protected the common good and saved lives.
RFK Jr leading HHS is a disgrace.
We dutifully lined up at school to get vaccinated. We eradicated the disease. We protected the common good and saved lives.
RFK Jr leading HHS is a disgrace.
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March 12, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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Why is Trump waging a war on the Department of Education?
Because he knows that his biggest enemies are educators and younger generations of learners who are unafraid to speak truth to power.
Attacks on education are central to the fascist playbook.
Because he knows that his biggest enemies are educators and younger generations of learners who are unafraid to speak truth to power.
Attacks on education are central to the fascist playbook.
March 13, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Why is Trump waging a war on the Department of Education?
Because he knows that his biggest enemies are educators and younger generations of learners who are unafraid to speak truth to power.
Attacks on education are central to the fascist playbook.
Because he knows that his biggest enemies are educators and younger generations of learners who are unafraid to speak truth to power.
Attacks on education are central to the fascist playbook.
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The 100 lowest-paying major US corporations spent $522B on stock buybacks from 2019 to 2023.
Buybacks artificially boost share prices and inflate CEO pay.
The typical worker at these companies earned just $34k.
Meanwhile, the average CEO was paid $14.7M.
See the problem?
Buybacks artificially boost share prices and inflate CEO pay.
The typical worker at these companies earned just $34k.
Meanwhile, the average CEO was paid $14.7M.
See the problem?
March 9, 2025 at 11:01 PM
The 100 lowest-paying major US corporations spent $522B on stock buybacks from 2019 to 2023.
Buybacks artificially boost share prices and inflate CEO pay.
The typical worker at these companies earned just $34k.
Meanwhile, the average CEO was paid $14.7M.
See the problem?
Buybacks artificially boost share prices and inflate CEO pay.
The typical worker at these companies earned just $34k.
Meanwhile, the average CEO was paid $14.7M.
See the problem?
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Not a good time to be a scientist in the US. Thankfully science will continue in countries where science is independent of politics.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Exclusive: NIH to terminate hundreds of active research grants
Studies that touch on LGBT+ health, gender identity and DEI in the biomedical workforce could be terminated, according to documents obtained by Nature.
www.nature.com
March 6, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Not a good time to be a scientist in the US. Thankfully science will continue in countries where science is independent of politics.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Tiffany Cross ❌
Mehdi Hasan ❌
Alex Wagner ❌
Joy Ann Reid ❌
Ayman Mohyeldin ❌
Joe and Mika ✅
Fire Black, brown, & Arab journalists who condemn Trump & keep white journalists who support Trump—yet still insist it has nothing to do with race.
“I can’t believe what you say, because I see what you do.”
Mehdi Hasan ❌
Alex Wagner ❌
Joy Ann Reid ❌
Ayman Mohyeldin ❌
Joe and Mika ✅
Fire Black, brown, & Arab journalists who condemn Trump & keep white journalists who support Trump—yet still insist it has nothing to do with race.
“I can’t believe what you say, because I see what you do.”
February 25, 2025 at 1:30 AM
Tiffany Cross ❌
Mehdi Hasan ❌
Alex Wagner ❌
Joy Ann Reid ❌
Ayman Mohyeldin ❌
Joe and Mika ✅
Fire Black, brown, & Arab journalists who condemn Trump & keep white journalists who support Trump—yet still insist it has nothing to do with race.
“I can’t believe what you say, because I see what you do.”
Mehdi Hasan ❌
Alex Wagner ❌
Joy Ann Reid ❌
Ayman Mohyeldin ❌
Joe and Mika ✅
Fire Black, brown, & Arab journalists who condemn Trump & keep white journalists who support Trump—yet still insist it has nothing to do with race.
“I can’t believe what you say, because I see what you do.”
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For every $1 the IRS spends auditing the top 1%, it can collect $13.
For every $1 the IRS spends auditing the top 0.1%, it can collect $26.
Laying off 7,000 IRS employees (during tax season) isn't about efficiency.
It's about making it easier for the rich to evade taxes.
For every $1 the IRS spends auditing the top 0.1%, it can collect $26.
Laying off 7,000 IRS employees (during tax season) isn't about efficiency.
It's about making it easier for the rich to evade taxes.
February 20, 2025 at 6:48 PM
For every $1 the IRS spends auditing the top 1%, it can collect $13.
For every $1 the IRS spends auditing the top 0.1%, it can collect $26.
Laying off 7,000 IRS employees (during tax season) isn't about efficiency.
It's about making it easier for the rich to evade taxes.
For every $1 the IRS spends auditing the top 0.1%, it can collect $26.
Laying off 7,000 IRS employees (during tax season) isn't about efficiency.
It's about making it easier for the rich to evade taxes.
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It's called The Gulf of Mexico. Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk.
February 12, 2025 at 4:30 AM
It's called The Gulf of Mexico. Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk.
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47,000+ Palestinians killed. 111,000 injured.
Trump’s response? Forcibly expel Palestinians to make Gaza “a real estate development for the future. A beautiful piece of land.”
No. Gaza must be rebuilt for the Palestinian people, not billionaire tourists.
Trump’s response? Forcibly expel Palestinians to make Gaza “a real estate development for the future. A beautiful piece of land.”
No. Gaza must be rebuilt for the Palestinian people, not billionaire tourists.
February 10, 2025 at 6:14 PM
47,000+ Palestinians killed. 111,000 injured.
Trump’s response? Forcibly expel Palestinians to make Gaza “a real estate development for the future. A beautiful piece of land.”
No. Gaza must be rebuilt for the Palestinian people, not billionaire tourists.
Trump’s response? Forcibly expel Palestinians to make Gaza “a real estate development for the future. A beautiful piece of land.”
No. Gaza must be rebuilt for the Palestinian people, not billionaire tourists.
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Throughout US history:
•98% of POTUS—white men
•98% of Senate—white men
•94% of SCOTUS—white men
•90% of Fortune 500 CEOs—white men
Now a tiny number of BIPOC & women get rights & fragile MAGAs criminalize DEIA.
This isnt about justice—it's about white supremacy
www.qasimrashid.com/p/ag-bondi-t...
•98% of POTUS—white men
•98% of Senate—white men
•94% of SCOTUS—white men
•90% of Fortune 500 CEOs—white men
Now a tiny number of BIPOC & women get rights & fragile MAGAs criminalize DEIA.
This isnt about justice—it's about white supremacy
www.qasimrashid.com/p/ag-bondi-t...
AG Bondi to Criminally Prosecute Private Entities for DEIA
Bondi makes clear that the "again" in MAGA refers to the period of Jim Crow America
www.qasimrashid.com
February 7, 2025 at 11:47 PM
Throughout US history:
•98% of POTUS—white men
•98% of Senate—white men
•94% of SCOTUS—white men
•90% of Fortune 500 CEOs—white men
Now a tiny number of BIPOC & women get rights & fragile MAGAs criminalize DEIA.
This isnt about justice—it's about white supremacy
www.qasimrashid.com/p/ag-bondi-t...
•98% of POTUS—white men
•98% of Senate—white men
•94% of SCOTUS—white men
•90% of Fortune 500 CEOs—white men
Now a tiny number of BIPOC & women get rights & fragile MAGAs criminalize DEIA.
This isnt about justice—it's about white supremacy
www.qasimrashid.com/p/ag-bondi-t...
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What if history just didn't repeat itself, for once?
February 8, 2025 at 5:36 PM
What if history just didn't repeat itself, for once?
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open.substack.com/pub/insideme... So they’re erasing whole groups of people from governmental history and consideration. Y’all see what’s happening, right?
BREAKING NEWS: CDC orders mass retraction and revision of submitted research across all science and medicine journals. Banned terms must be scrubbed.
Any unpublished manuscript mentioning certain topics, including gender and "LGBT," must be pulled or revised.
open.substack.com
February 2, 2025 at 3:58 PM
open.substack.com/pub/insideme... So they’re erasing whole groups of people from governmental history and consideration. Y’all see what’s happening, right?
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Imagine being a grown ass person that obsessed with the trans kids, their private parts and denying their existence..: weird right??
January 24, 2025 at 2:18 AM
Imagine being a grown ass person that obsessed with the trans kids, their private parts and denying their existence..: weird right??
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Devastating for scientists and their research, and everyone who benefits from that research.
I’m not sure if everyone outside academia is aware that a delay or “pause” in grant funding often means the researchers themselves are lost from the field, along with their expertise.
I’m not sure if everyone outside academia is aware that a delay or “pause” in grant funding often means the researchers themselves are lost from the field, along with their expertise.
NIH appears to have canceled/postponed all of its study sections—the independent review panels that approve federal grants for health research.
Such grants fund the work/salaries of 300k people at more than 2,500 institutions
Such grants fund the work/salaries of 300k people at more than 2,500 institutions
All NIH study sections canceled indefinitely. This will halt science and devastate research budgets in universities.
January 22, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Devastating for scientists and their research, and everyone who benefits from that research.
I’m not sure if everyone outside academia is aware that a delay or “pause” in grant funding often means the researchers themselves are lost from the field, along with their expertise.
I’m not sure if everyone outside academia is aware that a delay or “pause” in grant funding often means the researchers themselves are lost from the field, along with their expertise.
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DONALD TRUMP DECLARES A NATIONAL EMERGENCY. JUST LIKE HITLER DID…
Trump Declares National Emergency
YouTube video by Jolly's Rants
youtube.com
January 21, 2025 at 6:39 AM
DONALD TRUMP DECLARES A NATIONAL EMERGENCY. JUST LIKE HITLER DID…