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Trump Did This…
Allies don’t trust us with their intelligence. That doesn’t just hurt them—it hurts us.
Trump and his reckless security advisers passing secret information on Signal don’t see their actions as a problem—but our allies do.
Allies don’t trust us with their intelligence. That doesn’t just hurt them—it hurts us.
Trump and his reckless security advisers passing secret information on Signal don’t see their actions as a problem—but our allies do.
March 25, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Trump Did This…
Allies don’t trust us with their intelligence. That doesn’t just hurt them—it hurts us.
Trump and his reckless security advisers passing secret information on Signal don’t see their actions as a problem—but our allies do.
Allies don’t trust us with their intelligence. That doesn’t just hurt them—it hurts us.
Trump and his reckless security advisers passing secret information on Signal don’t see their actions as a problem—but our allies do.
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First off, Pete Hegseth is a disgrace and should be fired.
Second, instead of being an asshole and trash-talking the journalist, he should be thanking him for not posting anything top-secret that’s still to come.
Second, instead of being an asshole and trash-talking the journalist, he should be thanking him for not posting anything top-secret that’s still to come.
March 25, 2025 at 4:18 AM
First off, Pete Hegseth is a disgrace and should be fired.
Second, instead of being an asshole and trash-talking the journalist, he should be thanking him for not posting anything top-secret that’s still to come.
Second, instead of being an asshole and trash-talking the journalist, he should be thanking him for not posting anything top-secret that’s still to come.
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The U.S. has officially recorded its first measles death since 2015. Texas health officials have confirmed that an unvaccinated child has passed away from measles amid a massive outbreak that has impacted nine counties in West Texas.
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February 26, 2025 at 4:41 PM
The U.S. has officially recorded its first measles death since 2015. Texas health officials have confirmed that an unvaccinated child has passed away from measles amid a massive outbreak that has impacted nine counties in West Texas.
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Medicaid supports nearly half of all U.S. births and provides two-thirds of nursing home care for our seniors. Yet GOP leaders are pushing a budget plan that would gut this vital lifeline to fund more tax cuts for the top 1%. Is this the future we want for our most vulnerable?
February 25, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Medicaid supports nearly half of all U.S. births and provides two-thirds of nursing home care for our seniors. Yet GOP leaders are pushing a budget plan that would gut this vital lifeline to fund more tax cuts for the top 1%. Is this the future we want for our most vulnerable?
Two add’l Air Force one jets ($4B), Super Bowl($15-20M), Daytona 500 ($5M), numerous trips to MAL to play golf ($3.5M each trip). Seems like Trump really isn’t that worried about frivolous spending of taxpayer money.
February 21, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Two add’l Air Force one jets ($4B), Super Bowl($15-20M), Daytona 500 ($5M), numerous trips to MAL to play golf ($3.5M each trip). Seems like Trump really isn’t that worried about frivolous spending of taxpayer money.
Trump admin now requires loyalty to Trump as a key hiring factor for gov jobs—blatant Hatch Act violation. The law protects federal employees from political coercion. There must be a solid line between partisan politics and unbiased governance. #HatchAct
February 17, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Trump admin now requires loyalty to Trump as a key hiring factor for gov jobs—blatant Hatch Act violation. The law protects federal employees from political coercion. There must be a solid line between partisan politics and unbiased governance. #HatchAct
You contribute to Social Security your whole working life. The govt uses your money without paying you interest and makes you pay taxes instead. Invested money would have grown significantly. It’s a pretty raw deal when you think about it. Now Republicans want to take it from you.
February 17, 2025 at 2:17 AM
You contribute to Social Security your whole working life. The govt uses your money without paying you interest and makes you pay taxes instead. Invested money would have grown significantly. It’s a pretty raw deal when you think about it. Now Republicans want to take it from you.
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You are not powerless, and he is not unstoppable. Look at, and learn from, the funding freeze and how quickly he was forced to surrender.
February 10, 2025 at 3:26 PM
You are not powerless, and he is not unstoppable. Look at, and learn from, the funding freeze and how quickly he was forced to surrender.
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Elon shared a tweet suggesting it may be time to defy the courts. He also boosted Trump allies who are seething over these rulings. All that amounts to a pretty dark threat from Musk: He and MAGA appear to be steeling themselves to defy judicial rulings.
newrepublic.com/article/1913...
newrepublic.com/article/1913...
Musk’s Threats Suddenly Darken as Trump Legal Losses Trigger MAGA Fury
As MAGA begins flirting with defying the courts, prominent Trump opponent Norm Eisen explains why the legal resistance is beginning to have success, why that’s infuriating Musk, and what’s coming next...
newrepublic.com
February 11, 2025 at 12:56 AM
Elon shared a tweet suggesting it may be time to defy the courts. He also boosted Trump allies who are seething over these rulings. All that amounts to a pretty dark threat from Musk: He and MAGA appear to be steeling themselves to defy judicial rulings.
newrepublic.com/article/1913...
newrepublic.com/article/1913...
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The CFPB has:
-Returned $20B to victims of financial fraud
-Cracked down on junk fees
-Fought against politically-motivated debanking
-Protected veterans from predatory lenders
-Protected consumers' data from corporate abuse
Oligarchs want to reverse all of this.
-Returned $20B to victims of financial fraud
-Cracked down on junk fees
-Fought against politically-motivated debanking
-Protected veterans from predatory lenders
-Protected consumers' data from corporate abuse
Oligarchs want to reverse all of this.
Laws Are Not Suggestions: How the CFPB Is Delivering for the American People - American Economic Liberties Project
Under Director Rohit Chopra, the CFPB has held scammers like Wells Fargo accountable, returning billions of dollars of Americans’ hard-earned money to their bank accounts; fought back against Wall Street and Big Tech’s discriminatory and anti-competitive behavior; ensured violating the law can no longer be written off as just a “cost of doing business;” and restored financial freedom to millions of Americans held hostage by the credit reporting cartel.
www.economicliberties.us
February 10, 2025 at 6:30 PM
The CFPB has:
-Returned $20B to victims of financial fraud
-Cracked down on junk fees
-Fought against politically-motivated debanking
-Protected veterans from predatory lenders
-Protected consumers' data from corporate abuse
Oligarchs want to reverse all of this.
-Returned $20B to victims of financial fraud
-Cracked down on junk fees
-Fought against politically-motivated debanking
-Protected veterans from predatory lenders
-Protected consumers' data from corporate abuse
Oligarchs want to reverse all of this.
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House Democrats made an unsuccessful attempt to subpoena billionaire Elon Musk to testify about his efforts to radically reshape the federal government, only to be blocked by Republicans.
February 5, 2025 at 9:37 PM
House Democrats made an unsuccessful attempt to subpoena billionaire Elon Musk to testify about his efforts to radically reshape the federal government, only to be blocked by Republicans.
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They have also sought access to payment and contracting systems across HHS, which manage hundreds of billions of dollars in annual payments to health care providers. Musk’s staff has already gained access to these systems, including CMS’s grant-management system.
February 6, 2025 at 5:42 AM
They have also sought access to payment and contracting systems across HHS, which manage hundreds of billions of dollars in annual payments to health care providers. Musk’s staff has already gained access to these systems, including CMS’s grant-management system.
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Musk’s staffers fanned out across several agencies today, sending representatives to the Atlanta headquarters of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and meeting with the Labor Department to seek access to sensitive data.
February 6, 2025 at 5:42 AM
Musk’s staffers fanned out across several agencies today, sending representatives to the Atlanta headquarters of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and meeting with the Labor Department to seek access to sensitive data.
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Indivisible is urging people to visit their senators' local offices between now and Thursday to demand that they use every tool—including denying a quorum and blocking unanimous consent—to fight the confirmation of Project 2025 architect Russell Vought for head of OMB docs.google.com/document/d/1...
February 3, 2025 at 1:45 AM
Indivisible is urging people to visit their senators' local offices between now and Thursday to demand that they use every tool—including denying a quorum and blocking unanimous consent—to fight the confirmation of Project 2025 architect Russell Vought for head of OMB docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Buckle up. I fear our economy is going to tank soon news.sky.com/video/canadi...
Canadian prime minister slaps tariffs on US in retaliation for Trump's tariffs
Justin Trudeau's announcement came just hours after Donald Trump ordered 25% tariffs on Canadian and Mexican imports and 10% on goods from China.
news.sky.com
February 3, 2025 at 3:15 AM
Buckle up. I fear our economy is going to tank soon news.sky.com/video/canadi...
Important to listen to Sen Murphy - he’s trying to tell us what’s happening. x.com/chrismurphyc...
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January 31, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Important to listen to Sen Murphy - he’s trying to tell us what’s happening. x.com/chrismurphyc...
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Look, Trump is trying to oversaturate us with nonstop chaos so we can’t react meaningfully to any one thing.
But Friday's global stop work order on almost all U.S. aid is dumb and murderous. You need to know about it.
1/ A short🧵on this evil.
But Friday's global stop work order on almost all U.S. aid is dumb and murderous. You need to know about it.
1/ A short🧵on this evil.
US freezes almost all foreign aid effective immediately | CNN Politics
The US State Department has frozen nearly all foreign assistance worldwide effective immediately days after President Donald Trump issued a sweeping executive order Monday to put a hold on such assist...
www.cnn.com
January 28, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Look, Trump is trying to oversaturate us with nonstop chaos so we can’t react meaningfully to any one thing.
But Friday's global stop work order on almost all U.S. aid is dumb and murderous. You need to know about it.
1/ A short🧵on this evil.
But Friday's global stop work order on almost all U.S. aid is dumb and murderous. You need to know about it.
1/ A short🧵on this evil.
That didn’t take long - House introduces a nationwide abortion ban under the 14th Amendment. www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c...
www.congress.gov
January 29, 2025 at 7:58 PM
That didn’t take long - House introduces a nationwide abortion ban under the 14th Amendment. www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c...
He’s such a childish bully. He looks so pathetic going after a kind-hearted bishop who spoke quietly and with empathy.
January 22, 2025 at 7:37 PM
He’s such a childish bully. He looks so pathetic going after a kind-hearted bishop who spoke quietly and with empathy.
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DOGE is not aiming to eliminate a wasteful, lawless, and antidemocratic bureaucracy in Washington—it is hoping to become one.
The More You Learn About Elon Musk’s DOGE, the Less Sense It Makes
The masterminds behind the proposed government efficiency agency have provided more detail about how it would function. Their explanations only makes their enterprise seem less plausible.
newrepublic.com
December 31, 2024 at 7:30 PM
DOGE is not aiming to eliminate a wasteful, lawless, and antidemocratic bureaucracy in Washington—it is hoping to become one.
The ultra-wealthy are now able to buy media empires, USSC justices, & politicians so they can mold the world to enrich themselves while erasing the middle class. This means taking over the govt and making laws to benefit only the rich. Removing our society’s safety nets for the poor. It’s shameful.
The world’s richest 1% have more wealth than the bottom 95% put together, according to Oxfam.
There is no moral justification for this extraordinary level of inequality.
It's distorting politics, rigging our markets, and granting unprecedented power to a handful of people.
There is no moral justification for this extraordinary level of inequality.
It's distorting politics, rigging our markets, and granting unprecedented power to a handful of people.
World’s top 1% own more wealth than 95% of humanity, as “the shadow of global oligarchy hangs over UN General Assembly,” says Oxfam | Oxfam International
www.oxfam.org
December 4, 2024 at 10:28 PM
The ultra-wealthy are now able to buy media empires, USSC justices, & politicians so they can mold the world to enrich themselves while erasing the middle class. This means taking over the govt and making laws to benefit only the rich. Removing our society’s safety nets for the poor. It’s shameful.
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Everything Elon is about to do has the same ambition as the Bureau of Land Management hoax Trump pulled in 2019-20. We now know the goal was to force people (especially nonwhites) to quit—and force those who remained to have harder jobs so the Bureau would be less experienced and fail in its duties.
‘Wildly disruptive’: What happened last time Trump moved a federal agency out of DC | CNN Politics
As part of his campaign to reclaim the White House, Donald Trump made clear that in a second term in office, he’d move tens of thousands of federal jobs outside the “Washington swamp” and into “places...
www.cnn.com
November 29, 2024 at 11:21 PM
Everything Elon is about to do has the same ambition as the Bureau of Land Management hoax Trump pulled in 2019-20. We now know the goal was to force people (especially nonwhites) to quit—and force those who remained to have harder jobs so the Bureau would be less experienced and fail in its duties.