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Republicans may lie about what's in their budget bill but the numbers sure don't.
June 29, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Republicans may lie about what's in their budget bill but the numbers sure don't.
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Which means a baby born in New York to undocumented parents will be a citizen. But a baby born to undocumented parents in Kentucky will not be a citizen.
This is madness.
This is madness.
June 27, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Which means a baby born in New York to undocumented parents will be a citizen. But a baby born to undocumented parents in Kentucky will not be a citizen.
This is madness.
This is madness.
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This is not about the merits of Iran’s nuclear program. No president has the authority to bomb another country that does not pose an imminent threat to the US without the approval of Congress. This is an unambiguous impeachable offense.
June 22, 2025 at 12:26 AM
This is not about the merits of Iran’s nuclear program. No president has the authority to bomb another country that does not pose an imminent threat to the US without the approval of Congress. This is an unambiguous impeachable offense.
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Remember the wonderful Biden economy. Last January, the expected US economic growth was 2.5-3%.
But now we have the Trump economy.
Yesterday, the US Fed cut its US growth forecast from 1.7% to 1.4%, but it is likely to fall further.
Trump & his supporters are to blame.
But now we have the Trump economy.
Yesterday, the US Fed cut its US growth forecast from 1.7% to 1.4%, but it is likely to fall further.
Trump & his supporters are to blame.
June 19, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Remember the wonderful Biden economy. Last January, the expected US economic growth was 2.5-3%.
But now we have the Trump economy.
Yesterday, the US Fed cut its US growth forecast from 1.7% to 1.4%, but it is likely to fall further.
Trump & his supporters are to blame.
But now we have the Trump economy.
Yesterday, the US Fed cut its US growth forecast from 1.7% to 1.4%, but it is likely to fall further.
Trump & his supporters are to blame.
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Our latest poll finds that most (72%) of the public have heard little or nothing at all about the ACA enhanced tax credits that are set to expire at the end of this year.
Without the tax credits, Marketplace enrollees could see out-of-pocket premiums rise by more than 75%.
Without the tax credits, Marketplace enrollees could see out-of-pocket premiums rise by more than 75%.
June 18, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Our latest poll finds that most (72%) of the public have heard little or nothing at all about the ACA enhanced tax credits that are set to expire at the end of this year.
Without the tax credits, Marketplace enrollees could see out-of-pocket premiums rise by more than 75%.
Without the tax credits, Marketplace enrollees could see out-of-pocket premiums rise by more than 75%.
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Here’s a cover of the Buffalo Springfield classic “For What It’s Worth.” Shout out Laurie ES from www.armadillicious.com for putting together this music video!
Tennessee Brando- "For What It's Worth" (Official Video)
YouTube video by Tennessee Brando
youtu.be
June 18, 2025 at 1:32 AM
Here’s a cover of the Buffalo Springfield classic “For What It’s Worth.” Shout out Laurie ES from www.armadillicious.com for putting together this music video!
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Please read and share this statement from Sophie and Colin Hortman, children of Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark.
(via WCCO reporter Caroline Cummings on X)
(via WCCO reporter Caroline Cummings on X)
June 17, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Please read and share this statement from Sophie and Colin Hortman, children of Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark.
(via WCCO reporter Caroline Cummings on X)
(via WCCO reporter Caroline Cummings on X)
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He hasn’t posted here in a while but this is @filmthepolicela.bsky.social helping out LAPD with some riot control tonight. Pretty funny.
June 14, 2025 at 2:36 AM
He hasn’t posted here in a while but this is @filmthepolicela.bsky.social helping out LAPD with some riot control tonight. Pretty funny.
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This happened live on the show today. Independent journalist Jorge Ramos caught up with a pregnant U.S. citizen who told us she was roughed up and arrested by federal agents during a detainment near Los Angeles. Watch!
June 10, 2025 at 11:13 PM
This happened live on the show today. Independent journalist Jorge Ramos caught up with a pregnant U.S. citizen who told us she was roughed up and arrested by federal agents during a detainment near Los Angeles. Watch!
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This took a while to get done, but I've chronicled my day among the protesters in Los Angeles, and the idea that this is anything but a celebration of cultural heritage and a firm, nonviolent demand to protect family, friends and neighbors is totally ridiculous.
prospect.org/justice/crie...
prospect.org/justice/crie...
Cries of Defiance and Songs of Joy in Los Angeles
The protesters are being called unspeakably violent by the Trump administration. I mostly saw clergy sit-ins and Tejano bands.
prospect.org
June 10, 2025 at 2:14 AM
This took a while to get done, but I've chronicled my day among the protesters in Los Angeles, and the idea that this is anything but a celebration of cultural heritage and a firm, nonviolent demand to protect family, friends and neighbors is totally ridiculous.
prospect.org/justice/crie...
prospect.org/justice/crie...
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We can't say they didn't warn us about cruelty to immigrants. Trump ran on that promise. Trump and his administration seem to have thought, therefore, that his cruelty to immigrants would be popular once he was in office.
It turns out they were really, really wrong about that.
It turns out they were really, really wrong about that.
June 3, 2025 at 2:16 AM
We can't say they didn't warn us about cruelty to immigrants. Trump ran on that promise. Trump and his administration seem to have thought, therefore, that his cruelty to immigrants would be popular once he was in office.
It turns out they were really, really wrong about that.
It turns out they were really, really wrong about that.
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"Pure pointlessness and waste": Rachel Maddow argues that Elon Musk's black eye is only the second-best metaphor for his time calling the shots in Washington. Consider the seizure of U.S. Institute of Peace building.
June 3, 2025 at 2:41 AM
"Pure pointlessness and waste": Rachel Maddow argues that Elon Musk's black eye is only the second-best metaphor for his time calling the shots in Washington. Consider the seizure of U.S. Institute of Peace building.
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It is hard to conceive of a more anti-American policy choice for US innovation and prosperity in the 21st century.
There are 2 previous historical cases of countries destroying their science and universities, crippling them for decades: Lysenkoism in the USSR and Nazi Germany. The Trump administration will be the 3rd.
It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.
It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.
May 31, 2025 at 11:32 AM
It is hard to conceive of a more anti-American policy choice for US innovation and prosperity in the 21st century.
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What infuriates me so much about this new operation is that it is literally punishing people for following the rules and showing up to their court hearings. It is so toxic to the basic concept of following the rules.
It is an operation designed by people who hate the concept of the rule of law.
It is an operation designed by people who hate the concept of the rule of law.
These people were following the law and went to check in with immigration like they are supposed to.
This woman's immigration case was dismissed, which made her immediately undocumented.
So ICE took her into custody.
The air conditioning was off in the back of the truck.
"I can't breathe."
This woman's immigration case was dismissed, which made her immediately undocumented.
So ICE took her into custody.
The air conditioning was off in the back of the truck.
"I can't breathe."
June 1, 2025 at 12:32 AM
What infuriates me so much about this new operation is that it is literally punishing people for following the rules and showing up to their court hearings. It is so toxic to the basic concept of following the rules.
It is an operation designed by people who hate the concept of the rule of law.
It is an operation designed by people who hate the concept of the rule of law.
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Doubling steel & aluminum tariffs increases overall US tariff rates by roughly 1.4%, meaning Trump will have more than septupled tariffs since he took office
It also means Trump won't break his record for longest period without changing tariffs, which is still only 28 days😭
It also means Trump won't break his record for longest period without changing tariffs, which is still only 28 days😭
May 31, 2025 at 3:10 AM
Doubling steel & aluminum tariffs increases overall US tariff rates by roughly 1.4%, meaning Trump will have more than septupled tariffs since he took office
It also means Trump won't break his record for longest period without changing tariffs, which is still only 28 days😭
It also means Trump won't break his record for longest period without changing tariffs, which is still only 28 days😭
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WATCH: “My son is afraid I won’t come home from work. People are scared. They’re taking anybody.”
Powerful NYT piece on the NASHVILLE raids by @TNHighwayPatrol + ICE that snatched hundreds, terrorizing communities. (Few had violent pasts)
Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DKM1ydH...
Powerful NYT piece on the NASHVILLE raids by @TNHighwayPatrol + ICE that snatched hundreds, terrorizing communities. (Few had violent pasts)
Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DKM1ydH...
May 28, 2025 at 2:49 PM
WATCH: “My son is afraid I won’t come home from work. People are scared. They’re taking anybody.”
Powerful NYT piece on the NASHVILLE raids by @TNHighwayPatrol + ICE that snatched hundreds, terrorizing communities. (Few had violent pasts)
Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DKM1ydH...
Powerful NYT piece on the NASHVILLE raids by @TNHighwayPatrol + ICE that snatched hundreds, terrorizing communities. (Few had violent pasts)
Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DKM1ydH...
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Joyce Wolford is alive today because of a cutting-edge NIH study.
Trump officials cut $2.7 BILLION from NIH funding in the first three months of this year.
The American people do not want us to slash lifesaving research to give tax breaks to billionaires.
Trump officials cut $2.7 BILLION from NIH funding in the first three months of this year.
The American people do not want us to slash lifesaving research to give tax breaks to billionaires.
May 23, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Joyce Wolford is alive today because of a cutting-edge NIH study.
Trump officials cut $2.7 BILLION from NIH funding in the first three months of this year.
The American people do not want us to slash lifesaving research to give tax breaks to billionaires.
Trump officials cut $2.7 BILLION from NIH funding in the first three months of this year.
The American people do not want us to slash lifesaving research to give tax breaks to billionaires.
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Imagine how massive the tax breaks for billionaires must be when cutting $700B from Medicaid, $500B from Medicare, and $300B in food assistance STILL leaves a $4T deficit.
May 22, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Imagine how massive the tax breaks for billionaires must be when cutting $700B from Medicaid, $500B from Medicare, and $300B in food assistance STILL leaves a $4T deficit.
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The House budget is a health care cataclysm for America.
15 million Americans will lose their health care. That's the total combined population of:
West Virginia
Hawaii
New Hampshire
Wyoming
Vermont
DC
Alaska
North Dakota
South Dakota
Delaware
Rhode Island
Montana
Maine
15 million Americans will lose their health care. That's the total combined population of:
West Virginia
Hawaii
New Hampshire
Wyoming
Vermont
DC
Alaska
North Dakota
South Dakota
Delaware
Rhode Island
Montana
Maine
May 22, 2025 at 4:15 PM
The House budget is a health care cataclysm for America.
15 million Americans will lose their health care. That's the total combined population of:
West Virginia
Hawaii
New Hampshire
Wyoming
Vermont
DC
Alaska
North Dakota
South Dakota
Delaware
Rhode Island
Montana
Maine
15 million Americans will lose their health care. That's the total combined population of:
West Virginia
Hawaii
New Hampshire
Wyoming
Vermont
DC
Alaska
North Dakota
South Dakota
Delaware
Rhode Island
Montana
Maine
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Good time to remember:
The last time Trump was president, he ran up more than 25% of ALL the debt in the entire history of America
$7.8 TRILLION DOLLARS
And he’s about to do it again — so he and his billionaire friends, Musk and Bezos and Zuckerberg, can get tax cuts
The last time Trump was president, he ran up more than 25% of ALL the debt in the entire history of America
$7.8 TRILLION DOLLARS
And he’s about to do it again — so he and his billionaire friends, Musk and Bezos and Zuckerberg, can get tax cuts
May 22, 2025 at 2:05 AM
Good time to remember:
The last time Trump was president, he ran up more than 25% of ALL the debt in the entire history of America
$7.8 TRILLION DOLLARS
And he’s about to do it again — so he and his billionaire friends, Musk and Bezos and Zuckerberg, can get tax cuts
The last time Trump was president, he ran up more than 25% of ALL the debt in the entire history of America
$7.8 TRILLION DOLLARS
And he’s about to do it again — so he and his billionaire friends, Musk and Bezos and Zuckerberg, can get tax cuts
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The Trump tariffs are "stackable," and so average tariff rates are higher than you're seeing in most media reports. Lemme 'splain.
May 18, 2025 at 10:54 PM
The Trump tariffs are "stackable," and so average tariff rates are higher than you're seeing in most media reports. Lemme 'splain.
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Food for millions wasted, children left to go hungry, and America’s reputation permanently damaged.
Exclusive: US aid cuts leave food for millions mouldering in storage
The food stocks have been stuck inside four U.S. government warehouses since the Trump administration's decision in January to cut global aid programs.
www.reuters.com
May 17, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Food for millions wasted, children left to go hungry, and America’s reputation permanently damaged.
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Republicans in Congress won’t tell you this:
Donald Trump’s “big beautiful bill” would be the biggest transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich in the history of our nation.
Donald Trump’s “big beautiful bill” would be the biggest transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich in the history of our nation.
Republicans in Congress won’t tell you this
YouTube video by Senator Elizabeth Warren
www.youtube.com
May 16, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Republicans in Congress won’t tell you this:
Donald Trump’s “big beautiful bill” would be the biggest transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich in the history of our nation.
Donald Trump’s “big beautiful bill” would be the biggest transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich in the history of our nation.
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We made a parody song about #PamBondi and the #Qatar #jet being the latest in a pretty sorry state of legal affairs at the #DoJ. It's based off the fantastic #NikKershaw and #ChesneyHawkes's "The One and Only" - though of course, Pam Bondi was really the number two choice. 😘🎶
youtu.be/yYfWkPekNTI
youtu.be/yYfWkPekNTI
"Pamela Bondi" - Marsh Family parody of "The One and Only" sung by Chesney Hawkes (by Nik Kershaw)
YouTube video by Marsh Family
youtu.be
May 15, 2025 at 9:14 PM
We made a parody song about #PamBondi and the #Qatar #jet being the latest in a pretty sorry state of legal affairs at the #DoJ. It's based off the fantastic #NikKershaw and #ChesneyHawkes's "The One and Only" - though of course, Pam Bondi was really the number two choice. 😘🎶
youtu.be/yYfWkPekNTI
youtu.be/yYfWkPekNTI
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If only he was half as obsessed with creating the best healthcare system for the American people as he is about getting his fat ass on the best plane.
May 14, 2025 at 5:47 PM
If only he was half as obsessed with creating the best healthcare system for the American people as he is about getting his fat ass on the best plane.