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Tonight, Senate Republicans are charging ahead with their budget proposal.

They’re making clear who matters to them: billionaires and giant corporations. 

And who does not: working families.
February 20, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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If any party, including the government, doesn’t like a court order, it can appeal it. It doesn’t get to just disregard it. Vance took an oath to uphold the Constitution, just like Sen. Cotton did. www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
Opinion | JD Vance is turning his back on his law degree — and his oath of office
The political consequences of these misplaced legal arguments have to be taken seriously. But the legal arguments underpinning them are shamefully unserious.
www.msnbc.com
February 11, 2025 at 2:36 AM
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Not a single Republican senator stood against Gabbard -- ignoring the law requiring the director of national intelligence to have deep national-security experience. She has none. She represents the disastrous rise of misplaced power, and a danger to the United States. www.axios.com/2025/02/10/t...
Tulsi Gabbard's intel chief nomination clears key Senate hurdle
Senators voted to limit debate on Gabbard's nomination, paving the way for a final vote later this week.
www.axios.com
February 11, 2025 at 3:41 AM
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Congress created the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, and no one — not the President, not Musk, not Vought – can illegally shut down its work.

There is power in fighting back, and we will not let up in Congress, in the courts, or in public until we win this fight.
February 10, 2025 at 2:30 PM
This….is criminal. Lock him up.
Elon Musk has shared this fake E! News video on X, which claims USAID has paid millions to Hollywood celebrities to visit Ukraine.

The clip, now community noted, is the work of a well-known Russian disinformation campaign that creates fake videos of news outlets to push anti-Ukrainian narratives.
February 6, 2025 at 9:38 AM
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Will it ever really come "to a close"?

"The agreement brings to a close an ugly chapter in which Republicans in Congress pinned allegations of Biden family corruption largely on claims Smirnov made to FBI agents in 2020 — claims that Smirnov now admits were lies..."
Informant accused of lying about Biden family reaches plea deal
Alexander Smirnov admitted he concocted a tale of President Joe Biden and his son Hunter accepting bribes in exchange for protecting a Ukrainian energy company.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 16, 2024 at 6:32 PM
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We have established a playing field in which the forces of MAGA can slander, libel, and defame with near impunity...while simultaneously using libel law to attack legitimate critics in an attempt to chill everyone else’s speech.”

From @jvl.bsky.social

open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
Weakness Is a Provocation
ABC News, billionaires, media orgs, and CEOs are surrendering to Trump because they think he’s a lame duck. They’re making a terrible mistake.
open.substack.com
December 16, 2024 at 7:23 PM
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Stable genius.
Trump Posts Bizarre AI Image Of Himself On 'Canadian' Mountain That's Not Even In Canada
Stable genius.
www.comicsands.com
December 5, 2024 at 8:47 PM
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Others woul pay a penalty (which Hunter already paid on his taxes) and a fine and/or probation. Trump’s conduct, like Nixon’s, abused his power as president and threatened democracy and natl security. Accountability is necessary.
December 5, 2024 at 7:14 AM
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1/Arguing that @joebiden46th.bsky.social should have pardoned Trump to equalize pardoning his son is laughable and wrong. Pardoning Trump would be as bad a mistake as Ford’s pardon of Nixon. Hunter was charged criminally when others doing what he did would not be. It was a political case.
December 5, 2024 at 7:14 AM
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🚨 Jane Mayer writes that Trump DoD nominee Pete Hegseth was drunk at work in prior jobs & tolerated & participated in sexual harassment while ignoring at least one employee complaint of an assault. Gotta go. www.newyorker.com/news/news-de...
Pete Hegseth’s Secret History
A whistle-blower report and other documents suggest that Trump’s nominee to run the Pentagon was forced out of previous leadership positions for financial mismanagement, sexist behavior, and being rep...
www.newyorker.com
December 2, 2024 at 4:59 AM
Agree.
“Much as we might be sympathetic to people with continuing alcohol problems, they shouldn’t be at the top of our national-security structure.”
Pete Hegseth was forced to step down from both of the nonprofit advocacy groups that he ran in the face of serious allegations of financial mismanagement, sexual impropriety, and personal misconduct, @janemayer.bsky.social reports.
December 2, 2024 at 11:57 AM
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When making a MAGA cabinet, it's very important to strike a careful balance between billionaires, sex criminals, Russian assets, anti-vaxxers, and just plain unpleasant people.
November 30, 2024 at 7:50 PM
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Great collection by @JoyceWhiteVance.bsky.social of the many reasons Kash Patel is unfit to serve as FBI Director
open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...
The New Matt Gaetz
It’s tempting to look at Trump’s announcement that he will appoint Kash Patel to be director of the FBI as just another attempt at trolling.
open.substack.com
December 1, 2024 at 3:12 AM
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"You are an abuser of women": The searing email that Pete Hegseth's own mother sent him in 2018 accusing him of sleeping around, cheating on his wife and debasing and belittling women. www.nytimes.com/2024/11/29/u...
Text of the Email That Pete Hegseth’s Mother Sent Him
Penelope Hegseth sent the email to her son in 2018 as he was in the middle of divorcing his wife, Samantha.
www.nytimes.com
November 30, 2024 at 2:38 AM
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Wow. Here is one to brighten up your morning. The first images of the restored interior of Notre Dame cathedral. Breathtaking. In just five years France did it
November 29, 2024 at 8:08 AM
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People are often surprised when I tell them this: both Twitter and Facebook/insta/threads are now specifically engineered to downgrade, hide, suppress real journalism. If this platform is different, that's a huge change
November 27, 2024 at 6:22 AM
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Freeing hearts to love and be loved. 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈
💜www.FreedHearts.org💜

#DeconstructingFaith #LoveIsLove #FaithDeconstruction #Exvangelical #bisexual #Queer #gay #lesbian #nonbinary #transgender #lgbtq #LGBTQIA #Intersex #Pride #resistance
November 25, 2024 at 5:11 PM
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November 22, 2024 at 2:48 PM
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This is it right here. And Kamala won every state where college graduates make up 40 percent or more of the population. Trump won every state where college graduation is below 40 percent.
And, scene… 🙇🏽
November 16, 2024 at 4:27 PM