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This is getting fewer headlines than it should. After coming to power promising to help working people, the president is revealing his real priorities by actively making it easier for banks to rip people off.
The CFPB Has Been Gutted
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau terminated the positions of 1,406 employees at the congressionally mandated agency.
www.wired.com
April 19, 2025 at 2:13 PM
This is getting fewer headlines than it should. After coming to power promising to help working people, the president is revealing his real priorities by actively making it easier for banks to rip people off.
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Jeanine: We found out there are people who are between the ages of one and four who are getting social security
Jessica: That's the benefit for kids whose parents are dead.
Jessica: That's the benefit for kids whose parents are dead.
April 10, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Jeanine: We found out there are people who are between the ages of one and four who are getting social security
Jessica: That's the benefit for kids whose parents are dead.
Jessica: That's the benefit for kids whose parents are dead.
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Sen. Booker’s speech was a substantive and moral account of this moment. He did not read the phone book. He did not babble.
For 24 hours @booker.senate.gov laid out a detailed, damning, and critical narrative of truth, history, politics, morality, humanity.
What will you do?
For 24 hours @booker.senate.gov laid out a detailed, damning, and critical narrative of truth, history, politics, morality, humanity.
What will you do?
April 1, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Sen. Booker’s speech was a substantive and moral account of this moment. He did not read the phone book. He did not babble.
For 24 hours @booker.senate.gov laid out a detailed, damning, and critical narrative of truth, history, politics, morality, humanity.
What will you do?
For 24 hours @booker.senate.gov laid out a detailed, damning, and critical narrative of truth, history, politics, morality, humanity.
What will you do?
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No one could’ve predicted that a candidate who threatened journalists and spoke of jailing protesters would turn out to be an enemy of free speech.
March 24, 2025 at 12:20 AM
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Conservatives Boycott Computers After Noticing Keyboard Can Be Used To Type ‘Trans’
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March 23, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Conservatives Boycott Computers After Noticing Keyboard Can Be Used To Type ‘Trans’
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The populist message of Sen. Bernie Sanders' "Fighting Oligarchy" tour has resonated with voters frustrated by President Trump's agenda — and the Democratic Party's muddled response.
Bernie Sanders is drawing record crowds as he pushes Democrats to 'fight oligarchy'
The populist message of Sen. Bernie Sanders' "Fighting Oligarchy" tour has resonated with voters frustrated by President Trump's agenda — and the Democratic Party's muddled response.
www.npr.org
March 22, 2025 at 5:06 PM
The populist message of Sen. Bernie Sanders' "Fighting Oligarchy" tour has resonated with voters frustrated by President Trump's agenda — and the Democratic Party's muddled response.
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March 23, 2025 at 12:21 AM
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Sometimes I think everyone would be well served with a 2 hr crash course in the core grievances that lead to the founding of America — like shipping citizen convicts overseas against their will to serve sentences in places where they had no rights & no way to defend them
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Rubio says El Salvador offers to accept U.S. deportees of any nationality, including violent American criminals
Secretary of State Marco Rubio says “there are obviously legalities involved” in Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele’s offer to accept and jail violent American criminals.
www.pbs.org
March 23, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Sometimes I think everyone would be well served with a 2 hr crash course in the core grievances that lead to the founding of America — like shipping citizen convicts overseas against their will to serve sentences in places where they had no rights & no way to defend them
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Yes! Please God let this be the death rattle of the patriarchy. Tomorrow is coming, and yesterday can’t stop it.
How broken are these men, that a woman doing a tough job and doing it well threatens them so much? I don't care what hurt them, I don't care what they think they need to be whole again. I just want them to crawl away quietly.
March 23, 2025 at 1:01 AM
Yes! Please God let this be the death rattle of the patriarchy. Tomorrow is coming, and yesterday can’t stop it.
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If Bea were alive today
March 22, 2025 at 11:59 PM
If Bea were alive today
Don’t come for the Golden Girls. This could be what finally gets the people in the streets. Should have been dehumanizing immigrants, trans kids, people of color, and women… but if this is the wake up call we need to organize and stand up for one another, y’all bigots picked the wrong punching bag
Iconic Golden Girls actress Bea Arthur, who served in the Marine Corps, has had her contribution scrubbed from Department of Defence website
Web page about iconic Golden Girls actress becomes latest victim of DEI purge
Bea Arthur, who served in the Marine Corps, has had her wartime contribution scrubbed from the Department of Defence (DOD) website. The URL now reads "DEIBefore".
www.thepinknews.com
March 23, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Don’t come for the Golden Girls. This could be what finally gets the people in the streets. Should have been dehumanizing immigrants, trans kids, people of color, and women… but if this is the wake up call we need to organize and stand up for one another, y’all bigots picked the wrong punching bag
What about the path back to power for the American people based on leaders who listen to those they represent and decide on issues accordingly instead of making decisions in blind allegiance to a political party?
The path back to power for the Democratic Party is to be the party that gets shit done.
March 23, 2025 at 12:54 AM
What about the path back to power for the American people based on leaders who listen to those they represent and decide on issues accordingly instead of making decisions in blind allegiance to a political party?
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I say to you Adam, the same thing I said to Jamie Raskin...
Colbert pays you to come onto his show to talk and entertain his guests.
Your constituents pay you to take action and protect our Democracy.
Colbert pays you to come onto his show to talk and entertain his guests.
Your constituents pay you to take action and protect our Democracy.
March 23, 2025 at 12:49 AM
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… how ‘bout be the leaders who listen to their constituents and act? Who respect the Constitution and protect it?
Or at least be the people who get good things done instead of shit??? We have enough shit to wade through for the next decade if we’re lucky enough to last it.
Or at least be the people who get good things done instead of shit??? We have enough shit to wade through for the next decade if we’re lucky enough to last it.
The path back to power for the Democratic Party is to be the party that gets shit done.
March 23, 2025 at 12:47 AM
… how ‘bout be the leaders who listen to their constituents and act? Who respect the Constitution and protect it?
Or at least be the people who get good things done instead of shit??? We have enough shit to wade through for the next decade if we’re lucky enough to last it.
Or at least be the people who get good things done instead of shit??? We have enough shit to wade through for the next decade if we’re lucky enough to last it.
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The advisories come after some citizens from European countries and Canada have been detained and deported by immigration officials while traveling to the United States.
Some European countries and Canada issue advisories for travelers to the U.S.
The advisories come after some citizens from European countries and Canada have been detained and deported by immigration officials while traveling to the United States.
www.npr.org
March 22, 2025 at 4:46 PM
The advisories come after some citizens from European countries and Canada have been detained and deported by immigration officials while traveling to the United States.
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The Trump administration's efforts to end DEI programs is hitting some unexpected targets, including a nationwide effort planting shade trees in neighborhoods to reduce extreme heat.
Is planting trees 'DEI'? Trump administration cuts nationwide tree-planting effort
The Trump administration's efforts to end DEI programs is hitting some unexpected targets, including a nationwide effort planting shade trees in neighborhoods to reduce extreme heat.
www.npr.org
March 22, 2025 at 8:35 PM
The Trump administration's efforts to end DEI programs is hitting some unexpected targets, including a nationwide effort planting shade trees in neighborhoods to reduce extreme heat.
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Pete Buttigieg breaks down DEI for everyday folks…
“The opposite of diversity is uniformity. The opposite of equity is inequity. The opposite of inclusion is exclusion.” @petebuttigieg.bsky.social
Our problem: too many value uniformity over inclusion and they’re the ones running the government.
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“The opposite of diversity is uniformity. The opposite of equity is inequity. The opposite of inclusion is exclusion.” @petebuttigieg.bsky.social
Our problem: too many value uniformity over inclusion and they’re the ones running the government.
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March 22, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Pete Buttigieg breaks down DEI for everyday folks…
“The opposite of diversity is uniformity. The opposite of equity is inequity. The opposite of inclusion is exclusion.” @petebuttigieg.bsky.social
Our problem: too many value uniformity over inclusion and they’re the ones running the government.
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“The opposite of diversity is uniformity. The opposite of equity is inequity. The opposite of inclusion is exclusion.” @petebuttigieg.bsky.social
Our problem: too many value uniformity over inclusion and they’re the ones running the government.
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Tucson, Arizona today.
Original projected attendance was 3,000 people.
23,000 showed up.
Original projected attendance was 3,000 people.
23,000 showed up.
March 22, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Tucson, Arizona today.
Original projected attendance was 3,000 people.
23,000 showed up.
Original projected attendance was 3,000 people.
23,000 showed up.
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With cuts to nearly all the staff at the Department of Education's primary data agency, low-income and rural schools may not get the federal funds they rely on in coming years.
How the Education Department cuts could hurt low-income and rural schools
With cuts to nearly all the staff at the Department of Education's primary data agency, low-income and rural schools may not get the federal funds they rely on in coming years.
www.npr.org
March 21, 2025 at 5:30 PM
With cuts to nearly all the staff at the Department of Education's primary data agency, low-income and rural schools may not get the federal funds they rely on in coming years.
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U.S. border officials are using more aggressive tactics at ports of entry as the Trump administration scrutinizes legal immigrants who have expressed opposition to its policies. It has prompted American allies to update their travel advisories.
Trump’s Deportation Agenda Expands to Legal Immigrants and Tourists
U.S. border officials are using more aggressive tactics at ports of entry as the administration scrutinizes green card and visa holders who have expressed opposition to its policies.
www.nytimes.com
March 21, 2025 at 7:43 PM
U.S. border officials are using more aggressive tactics at ports of entry as the Trump administration scrutinizes legal immigrants who have expressed opposition to its policies. It has prompted American allies to update their travel advisories.
Up for top billing in today’s edition of “my job isn’t that bad,” the police officer that had to wait, monitor, supervise and then recover the digested diamond earrings…
@petersagal.bsky.social is it too late for tomorrow’s Wait Wait?
@petersagal.bsky.social is it too late for tomorrow’s Wait Wait?
The Orlando Police Department announced that it had recovered two pairs of diamond earrings worth a total of $769,500 from Tiffany & Company that were stolen by a suspect who swallowed them as the police were about to arrest him.
Police Recover Diamond Earrings Worth $769,500 That Thief Swallowed
The police in Orlando, Fla., said that a suspect spent time in a hospital while they waited for the stolen jewels to be “expelled from his system.”
www.nytimes.com
March 22, 2025 at 2:03 AM
Up for top billing in today’s edition of “my job isn’t that bad,” the police officer that had to wait, monitor, supervise and then recover the digested diamond earrings…
@petersagal.bsky.social is it too late for tomorrow’s Wait Wait?
@petersagal.bsky.social is it too late for tomorrow’s Wait Wait?
“Fair proceedings free from any suggestion of impartiality are essential to the integrity of our country’s judiciary…”
My brain hurts from the mental gymnastics it took to process the heinous typo or willful ignorance it took to open the legal motion to disqualify a federal judge with this phrase.
My brain hurts from the mental gymnastics it took to process the heinous typo or willful ignorance it took to open the legal motion to disqualify a federal judge with this phrase.
BREAKING: Justice Department seeks to remove Judge Beryl Howell from Perkins Coie's challenge to Trump EO order targeting the firm. DOJ says Howell, an Obama appointee, has record of anti-Trump bias. Doc: www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...
Howell
www.documentcloud.org
March 22, 2025 at 1:52 AM
“Fair proceedings free from any suggestion of impartiality are essential to the integrity of our country’s judiciary…”
My brain hurts from the mental gymnastics it took to process the heinous typo or willful ignorance it took to open the legal motion to disqualify a federal judge with this phrase.
My brain hurts from the mental gymnastics it took to process the heinous typo or willful ignorance it took to open the legal motion to disqualify a federal judge with this phrase.