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Sanders: Saturday, millions of people are going to come out on a No Kings day. Speaker Johnson said this is a hate America rally because people are coming out expressing their concerns.. It’s not a hate America rally, it's a love America rally.
October 16, 2025 at 2:40 AM
Sanders: Saturday, millions of people are going to come out on a No Kings day. Speaker Johnson said this is a hate America rally because people are coming out expressing their concerns.. It’s not a hate America rally, it's a love America rally.
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The Trump administration has cancelled 4,304 deliveries to food banks so far this year, refusing to deliver 94 million pounds of contracted-for food. Food banks simply can’t feed people enough anymore. Millions of Americans are going hungry as a result.
Trump Canceled 94 Million Pounds of Food Aid. Here’s What Never Arrived.
ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the millions of pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the administration’s cut...
projects.propublica.org
October 5, 2025 at 1:43 PM
The Trump administration has cancelled 4,304 deliveries to food banks so far this year, refusing to deliver 94 million pounds of contracted-for food. Food banks simply can’t feed people enough anymore. Millions of Americans are going hungry as a result.
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I didn’t sign a stupid piece of paper or leave my friend alone. Troll somewhere else. 🤡
August 19, 2025 at 9:01 PM
I didn’t sign a stupid piece of paper or leave my friend alone. Troll somewhere else. 🤡
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US BUDGET DEFICIT SOARS
The deficit jumped 19% to $291B in July. This is despite $21B collected from Americans due to higher import taxes, which led to higher costs on goods like furniture, footwear, and auto parts.
The deficit for 2025 is already $1.63 trillion, up 7% from the last year.
The deficit jumped 19% to $291B in July. This is despite $21B collected from Americans due to higher import taxes, which led to higher costs on goods like furniture, footwear, and auto parts.
The deficit for 2025 is already $1.63 trillion, up 7% from the last year.
August 12, 2025 at 10:17 PM
US BUDGET DEFICIT SOARS
The deficit jumped 19% to $291B in July. This is despite $21B collected from Americans due to higher import taxes, which led to higher costs on goods like furniture, footwear, and auto parts.
The deficit for 2025 is already $1.63 trillion, up 7% from the last year.
The deficit jumped 19% to $291B in July. This is despite $21B collected from Americans due to higher import taxes, which led to higher costs on goods like furniture, footwear, and auto parts.
The deficit for 2025 is already $1.63 trillion, up 7% from the last year.
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This graphic is a simple and effective explanation of gerrymandering. Both Republicans and Democrats do it. Democrats want a fairer system. Republicans don’t. And thankfully, Democrats won’t unilaterally disarm.
We need better system.
We need better system.
Gerrymandering: the art of mathematically disproving majority rule.
July 30, 2025 at 2:37 PM
This graphic is a simple and effective explanation of gerrymandering. Both Republicans and Democrats do it. Democrats want a fairer system. Republicans don’t. And thankfully, Democrats won’t unilaterally disarm.
We need better system.
We need better system.
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Republicans’ “big, beautiful” law will add nearly $3.4 trillion to deficits during the next decade and lead 10 million people to lose access to health insurance, according to an analysis released Monday by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/07/21/r...
Trump tax law runs up deficit by $3.4T, throws 10 million off health insurance, CBO says • Ohio Capital Journal
Republicans’ “big, beautiful” law will add nearly $3.4 trillion to deficits during the next decade and lead 10 million people to lose access to health insurance, according to an analysis released…
ohiocapitaljournal.com
July 22, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Republicans’ “big, beautiful” law will add nearly $3.4 trillion to deficits during the next decade and lead 10 million people to lose access to health insurance, according to an analysis released Monday by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/07/21/r...
What a waste!
It is hard to think of something more wasteful than paying to essentially set taxpayer dollars on fire.
The Trump administration is spending $130,000 to burn $800,000 worth of food meant for hungry children
If the president truly cares about cutting waste, he should not be paying to set $800,000 worth of food on fire.
reason.com
July 16, 2025 at 7:04 PM
What a waste!
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Trump 2017: "It is my pleasure and my honor to announce my nomination of Jerome Powell."
Trump today: "He's a terrible Fed chair. I was surprised he was appointed. I was surprised frankly that Biden put him in and extended him."
Every news story will include both clips, right?
Trump today: "He's a terrible Fed chair. I was surprised he was appointed. I was surprised frankly that Biden put him in and extended him."
Every news story will include both clips, right?
July 16, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Trump 2017: "It is my pleasure and my honor to announce my nomination of Jerome Powell."
Trump today: "He's a terrible Fed chair. I was surprised he was appointed. I was surprised frankly that Biden put him in and extended him."
Every news story will include both clips, right?
Trump today: "He's a terrible Fed chair. I was surprised he was appointed. I was surprised frankly that Biden put him in and extended him."
Every news story will include both clips, right?
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Cal Raleigh is on a historic pace, hitting 38 home runs before the All-Star break. Some changes he made in the minor leagues have fueled his tear.
The month that turned Cal Raleigh into baseball’s best home-run hitter
The Seattle catcher is on a historic pace, hitting 38 home runs before the All-Star break. Some changes he made in the minor leagues have fueled his tear.
nbcnews.to
July 15, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Cal Raleigh is on a historic pace, hitting 38 home runs before the All-Star break. Some changes he made in the minor leagues have fueled his tear.
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Consumer prices were up 2.7% from a year ago — a larger annual increase than the month before.
Inflation heats up in June as President Trump's tariffs start to bite
Consumer prices were up 2.7% from a year ago — a larger annual increase than the month before.
n.pr
July 15, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Consumer prices were up 2.7% from a year ago — a larger annual increase than the month before.
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Occurs to me that here JD Vance is pretty openly telling MAGA voters who are set to lose health coverage due to Medicaid cuts not to think too much about that eventuality. It'll all be worth it once they get to see lots more migrants detained and frog-marched on to deportation planes.
JD Vance is salivating at the prospect of tens of billions of additional dollars for detentions. That's why this death is such a big deal: It's a harbinger of much, much worse to come once detentions really ramp up.
July 1, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Occurs to me that here JD Vance is pretty openly telling MAGA voters who are set to lose health coverage due to Medicaid cuts not to think too much about that eventuality. It'll all be worth it once they get to see lots more migrants detained and frog-marched on to deportation planes.
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We have “a chief justice who schizophrenically imagines he can both credibly urge caution toward judges and ignore his own role in contributing to violence against judges and other lawlessness by exacerbating Trump’s power.”
open.substack.com/pub/america/...
open.substack.com/pub/america/...
"A Zone of Lawlessness"
One year after the Supreme Court’s reckless immunity ruling, the Roberts-led supermajority has further expanded Trump’s power to violate the law
open.substack.com
June 30, 2025 at 12:35 PM
We have “a chief justice who schizophrenically imagines he can both credibly urge caution toward judges and ignore his own role in contributing to violence against judges and other lawlessness by exacerbating Trump’s power.”
open.substack.com/pub/america/...
open.substack.com/pub/america/...
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By the Numbers:
Republicans may lie about what's in their budget bill but the numbers sure don't.
June 29, 2025 at 1:53 PM
By the Numbers:
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Republican lawmakers know their rich donors will remember in the midterms that they give them a huge tax cut. They're counting on their non-rich voters to forget that they got screwed.
June 29, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Republican lawmakers know their rich donors will remember in the midterms that they give them a huge tax cut. They're counting on their non-rich voters to forget that they got screwed.
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Save this schedule folks. Pre-RFK jr vax schedule.
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Vaccination schedules on the CDC website have already started changing under RFK Jr. So we published a guide to the evidence-based vaccine recommendations in place *before* all 17 members of the advisory panel were abruptly dismissed by the new admin. www.scientificamerican.com/article/see-... 🧪
Here’s Your Cheat Sheet for Vaccine Recommendations Backed by Science
These graphics will guide you through science-based vaccine guidelines for children and adults
www.scientificamerican.com
June 25, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Save this schedule folks. Pre-RFK jr vax schedule.
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A fiery dissent from the newest justice warns that the Supreme Court is doing grievous reputational harm to itself by playing favorites with “moneyed interests.” https://trib.al/7VHdb4G
Ketanji Brown Jackson Wants to Save the Supreme Court From Itself
A fiery dissent from the newest justice warns that the Supreme Court is doing grievous reputational harm to itself by playing favorites with “moneyed interests.”
trib.al
June 20, 2025 at 10:37 PM
A fiery dissent from the newest justice warns that the Supreme Court is doing grievous reputational harm to itself by playing favorites with “moneyed interests.” https://trib.al/7VHdb4G
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Lawmakers quietly added a line that effectively subsidizes Wall Street buying up companies, slashing wages, closing factories, and firing workers. www.levernews.com/trump-tax-bi...
Trump Tax Bill Bails Out Private Equity’s Layoff Scheme
Lawmakers quietly added a line that effectively subsidizes Wall Street buying up companies, slashing wages, closing factories, and firing workers.
www.levernews.com
June 20, 2025 at 12:37 AM
Lawmakers quietly added a line that effectively subsidizes Wall Street buying up companies, slashing wages, closing factories, and firing workers. www.levernews.com/trump-tax-bi...
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If we don't want to repeat history, we'd better be strong enough to learn from it.
The authoritarian playbook starts with pointing to a group of people who don’t look like you and blaming them for your problems.
When those issues are still there, what comes next?
The authoritarian playbook starts with pointing to a group of people who don’t look like you and blaming them for your problems.
When those issues are still there, what comes next?
“The end of the constitutional republic as we know it could be happening now.”
@govpritzker.illinois.gov studied Germany in the 30s — targeting immigrants and jews — and he’s concerned about what could lie ahead in the US.
He says we all need to “speak out” and “show up to protest.”
@govpritzker.illinois.gov studied Germany in the 30s — targeting immigrants and jews — and he’s concerned about what could lie ahead in the US.
He says we all need to “speak out” and “show up to protest.”
June 18, 2025 at 7:37 PM
If we don't want to repeat history, we'd better be strong enough to learn from it.
The authoritarian playbook starts with pointing to a group of people who don’t look like you and blaming them for your problems.
When those issues are still there, what comes next?
The authoritarian playbook starts with pointing to a group of people who don’t look like you and blaming them for your problems.
When those issues are still there, what comes next?
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Not a doctor. Not a scientist. No. A longtime heroin addict and current steroid enthusiast who perjured himself in confirmation hearings in order to pursue a twisted agenda that will kill more Americans than Osama Bin Laden.
Kennedy Removes All C.D.C. Vaccine Panel Experts
www.nytimes.com
June 10, 2025 at 5:53 AM
Not a doctor. Not a scientist. No. A longtime heroin addict and current steroid enthusiast who perjured himself in confirmation hearings in order to pursue a twisted agenda that will kill more Americans than Osama Bin Laden.
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Hundreds of public safety grants cut, worth $500 million, funded initiatives like drug treatment and gun violence prevention programs.
Justice Department cuts to public safety grants leave police and nonprofits scrambling
Hundreds of public safety grants cut, worth $500 million, funded initiatives like drug treatment and gun violence prevention programs.
www.npr.org
May 24, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Hundreds of public safety grants cut, worth $500 million, funded initiatives like drug treatment and gun violence prevention programs.
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A small cluster of mostly uninhabited islands in the South Indian Ocean was hit with 10% tariffs on U.S. imports ... which is home to a U.S. military base and not much else.
Trump’s tariffs will mostly affect the service members there.
Trump’s tariffs will mostly affect the service members there.
Stable Genius Trump Just Put Tariffs on a U.S. Military Base
Donald Trump imposed tariffs on an island inhabited only by American soldiers.
newrepublic.com
April 3, 2025 at 2:49 PM
A small cluster of mostly uninhabited islands in the South Indian Ocean was hit with 10% tariffs on U.S. imports ... which is home to a U.S. military base and not much else.
Trump’s tariffs will mostly affect the service members there.
Trump’s tariffs will mostly affect the service members there.
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U.S. Supreme Court sides against Trump in legal fight over $2B in frozen foreign aid.
@jennifershutt.bsky.social kentuckylantern.com/2025/03/05/r...
@jennifershutt.bsky.social kentuckylantern.com/2025/03/05/r...
U.S. Supreme Court sides against Trump in legal fight over $2B in frozen foreign aid • Kentucky Lantern
U.S. Supreme Court orders Trump administration to continue payments on $2 billion in foreign aid that had been frozen.
kentuckylantern.com
March 5, 2025 at 5:17 PM
U.S. Supreme Court sides against Trump in legal fight over $2B in frozen foreign aid.
@jennifershutt.bsky.social kentuckylantern.com/2025/03/05/r...
@jennifershutt.bsky.social kentuckylantern.com/2025/03/05/r...
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The CDU leader said Europe must be prepared to act independently.
Merz calls Trump-Zelenskyy spat at White House 'manufactured escalation'
The CDU leader said Europe must be prepared to act independently.
l.euronews.com
March 4, 2025 at 12:07 AM
The CDU leader said Europe must be prepared to act independently.
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Trump just quietly killed an anti-money-laundering, anti-tax-evasion law that his own Justice Department said is needed.
Trump's DOJ declared “the absence of company-ownership information threatens U.S. national-security and foreign-policy interests.”
www.levernews.com/how-trumps-c...
Trump's DOJ declared “the absence of company-ownership information threatens U.S. national-security and foreign-policy interests.”
www.levernews.com/how-trumps-c...
March 3, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Trump just quietly killed an anti-money-laundering, anti-tax-evasion law that his own Justice Department said is needed.
Trump's DOJ declared “the absence of company-ownership information threatens U.S. national-security and foreign-policy interests.”
www.levernews.com/how-trumps-c...
Trump's DOJ declared “the absence of company-ownership information threatens U.S. national-security and foreign-policy interests.”
www.levernews.com/how-trumps-c...