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This threatened military action directly contradicts what Secretaries Rubio and Hegseth told my Senate colleagues and I today about the mission and goals of their operations in the Caribbean. 1/2
December 17, 2025 at 1:25 AM
This threatened military action directly contradicts what Secretaries Rubio and Hegseth told my Senate colleagues and I today about the mission and goals of their operations in the Caribbean. 1/2
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I will not support a deal that does nothing to make health care more affordable.
We are in a health care emergency. A simple one-year extension of these tax credits would cost less than Donald Trump’s $40 billion bailout for Argentina.
A vote for this bill is a mistake.
We are in a health care emergency. A simple one-year extension of these tax credits would cost less than Donald Trump’s $40 billion bailout for Argentina.
A vote for this bill is a mistake.
November 10, 2025 at 1:06 AM
I will not support a deal that does nothing to make health care more affordable.
We are in a health care emergency. A simple one-year extension of these tax credits would cost less than Donald Trump’s $40 billion bailout for Argentina.
A vote for this bill is a mistake.
We are in a health care emergency. A simple one-year extension of these tax credits would cost less than Donald Trump’s $40 billion bailout for Argentina.
A vote for this bill is a mistake.
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The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person.
The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.
People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.
And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.
People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.
And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
November 10, 2025 at 1:49 AM
The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person.
The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.
People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.
And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.
People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.
And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
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NEW — I dug into the story of ICE abducting a 13-year-old boy in Massachusetts and moving him 500 miles across state lines without notifying his mother, local cop's complicity, and how the federal government's justification for such cruelty is already falling apart:
ICE took a 13-year-old they said had a gun. Local cops say he didn’t.
Now he's detained 500 miles away from his Massachusetts home.
www.thehandbasket.co
October 15, 2025 at 1:44 PM
NEW — I dug into the story of ICE abducting a 13-year-old boy in Massachusetts and moving him 500 miles across state lines without notifying his mother, local cop's complicity, and how the federal government's justification for such cruelty is already falling apart:
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ICE just blatantly violated the law and arrested sitting Chicago Alderperson Jessie Fuentes while seeking to illegally arrest a patient in a hospital. Fuck these fascists.
October 3, 2025 at 7:19 PM
ICE just blatantly violated the law and arrested sitting Chicago Alderperson Jessie Fuentes while seeking to illegally arrest a patient in a hospital. Fuck these fascists.
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October 3, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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October 1, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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So, basically, Pete wants a white, male, Christian nationalist military that is comfortable with war crimes at home and abroad (and that has high grooming standards), and if you're not OK with that, then you can resign.
Interesting to see how the Generals respond. Do they ignore it, or push back?
Interesting to see how the Generals respond. Do they ignore it, or push back?
Hegseth: "We unleash overwhelming and punishing violence on the enemy. We also don't fight with stupid rules of engagement. We untie the hands of our warfighters to intimidate, demoralize, hunt, and kill the enemies of our country. No more politically correct and overbearing rules of engagement."
September 30, 2025 at 1:23 PM
So, basically, Pete wants a white, male, Christian nationalist military that is comfortable with war crimes at home and abroad (and that has high grooming standards), and if you're not OK with that, then you can resign.
Interesting to see how the Generals respond. Do they ignore it, or push back?
Interesting to see how the Generals respond. Do they ignore it, or push back?
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"Last time I went after them, they gave me $16 Million Dollars. This one sounds even more lucrative.”
Bowing down to a bully never works.
And we can’t become numb to this corruption in plain sight.
Bowing down to a bully never works.
And we can’t become numb to this corruption in plain sight.
September 24, 2025 at 1:28 PM
"Last time I went after them, they gave me $16 Million Dollars. This one sounds even more lucrative.”
Bowing down to a bully never works.
And we can’t become numb to this corruption in plain sight.
Bowing down to a bully never works.
And we can’t become numb to this corruption in plain sight.
I cut the cord with streaming services a few months ago and bought my favorite movies on dvd (mostly for $1-5 at second hand stores). If you also tend to rewatch the same shows and movies and don’t want to lose them, go old school!
September 20, 2025 at 2:02 AM
I cut the cord with streaming services a few months ago and bought my favorite movies on dvd (mostly for $1-5 at second hand stores). If you also tend to rewatch the same shows and movies and don’t want to lose them, go old school!
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Terrific piece, especially this part.
September 19, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Terrific piece, especially this part.
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My mom called me last night about the Kimmel firing, saying "This is how Hitler got started!" I quickly responded, "By firing the late night tv hosts?"
Turns out, mom was right.
Turns out, mom was right.
September 18, 2025 at 8:27 PM
My mom called me last night about the Kimmel firing, saying "This is how Hitler got started!" I quickly responded, "By firing the late night tv hosts?"
Turns out, mom was right.
Turns out, mom was right.
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i do not think it can be overstated at this point that we do not know who killed charlie kirk or why they did it.
September 11, 2025 at 1:00 PM
i do not think it can be overstated at this point that we do not know who killed charlie kirk or why they did it.
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Anyone who wants a Covid vaccine should be able to get one, no matter what state you live in.
September 10, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Anyone who wants a Covid vaccine should be able to get one, no matter what state you live in.
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In @nytopinion.nytimes.com
“Tell me this is not what authoritarianism looks and sounds like,” our columnist Ezra Klein writes. “And so the question is: What are Democrats going to do about it? What can they do about it?”
“Tell me this is not what authoritarianism looks and sounds like,” our columnist Ezra Klein writes. “And so the question is: What are Democrats going to do about it? What can they do about it?”
Opinion | Stop Funding Trump’s Takeover
Democrats aren’t powerless, and they don’t have to enable autocracy.
nyti.ms
September 7, 2025 at 11:50 PM
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com
“Tell me this is not what authoritarianism looks and sounds like,” our columnist Ezra Klein writes. “And so the question is: What are Democrats going to do about it? What can they do about it?”
“Tell me this is not what authoritarianism looks and sounds like,” our columnist Ezra Klein writes. “And so the question is: What are Democrats going to do about it? What can they do about it?”
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This is not reporting. This is propaganda.
September 2, 2025 at 1:10 PM
This is not reporting. This is propaganda.
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BREAKING: The Pentagon has authorized up to 600 military lawyers to serve as temporary immigration judges.
This is a blatant expansion of military power into a civilian judicial process, a dangerous erosion of the separation between the two.
Every day, we inch closer to fascism.
This is a blatant expansion of military power into a civilian judicial process, a dangerous erosion of the separation between the two.
Every day, we inch closer to fascism.
September 2, 2025 at 6:15 PM
BREAKING: The Pentagon has authorized up to 600 military lawyers to serve as temporary immigration judges.
This is a blatant expansion of military power into a civilian judicial process, a dangerous erosion of the separation between the two.
Every day, we inch closer to fascism.
This is a blatant expansion of military power into a civilian judicial process, a dangerous erosion of the separation between the two.
Every day, we inch closer to fascism.
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Curtail? Congress and SCOTUS have willingly handed over power to the president.
“Donald Trump has figured out the cheat code for authoritarianism: Fake emergencies bring real power,” @rosenzweigp.bsky.social argues. Yet more troubling is the lack of effort from Congress or the courts to curtail the use of such “emergency” powers:
Trump Is Inventing Fake Emergencies to Gain Real-World Power
Today, the structure of law granting exceptional emergency powers is a grave threat to democracy and an avenue toward authoritarian rule.
bit.ly
September 2, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Curtail? Congress and SCOTUS have willingly handed over power to the president.
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Trump is illegally ripping away bipartisan funding approved by Congress.
Today, it's defunding efforts to end hunger and sickness.
Tomorrow, it could be abolishing the Education Dept.
Republicans can’t be trusted to honor a budget deal while they’re rigging government funding.
Today, it's defunding efforts to end hunger and sickness.
Tomorrow, it could be abolishing the Education Dept.
Republicans can’t be trusted to honor a budget deal while they’re rigging government funding.
August 29, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Trump is illegally ripping away bipartisan funding approved by Congress.
Today, it's defunding efforts to end hunger and sickness.
Tomorrow, it could be abolishing the Education Dept.
Republicans can’t be trusted to honor a budget deal while they’re rigging government funding.
Today, it's defunding efforts to end hunger and sickness.
Tomorrow, it could be abolishing the Education Dept.
Republicans can’t be trusted to honor a budget deal while they’re rigging government funding.
Make a public comment NOW. It only takes a couple of minutes.
This senseless and cruel change will absolutely destroy our ability to attract the world's most brilliant scholars, and for no clear reason. Say something now
This senseless and cruel change will absolutely destroy our ability to attract the world's most brilliant scholars, and for no clear reason. Say something now
I know there's a lot happening today, but this is sneaking in under the radar. This proposed new rule would absolutely crush foreign PhD students, potentially making it impossible for them to enroll with any certainty of their ability to finish www.politico.com/news/2025/08...
August 29, 2025 at 1:42 AM
Make a public comment NOW. It only takes a couple of minutes.
This senseless and cruel change will absolutely destroy our ability to attract the world's most brilliant scholars, and for no clear reason. Say something now
This senseless and cruel change will absolutely destroy our ability to attract the world's most brilliant scholars, and for no clear reason. Say something now
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I know there's a lot happening today, but this is sneaking in under the radar. This proposed new rule would absolutely crush foreign PhD students, potentially making it impossible for them to enroll with any certainty of their ability to finish www.politico.com/news/2025/08...
August 28, 2025 at 3:29 AM
I know there's a lot happening today, but this is sneaking in under the radar. This proposed new rule would absolutely crush foreign PhD students, potentially making it impossible for them to enroll with any certainty of their ability to finish www.politico.com/news/2025/08...
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While masked agents were violently attacking a delivery worker this morning, bystanders repeatedly asked to see their badge numbers but they refused.
Bystander: You guys are ruining this country, you know that, right?
Agent: Liberals already ruined it.
Bystander: You guys are ruining this country, you know that, right?
Agent: Liberals already ruined it.
August 16, 2025 at 3:56 PM
While masked agents were violently attacking a delivery worker this morning, bystanders repeatedly asked to see their badge numbers but they refused.
Bystander: You guys are ruining this country, you know that, right?
Agent: Liberals already ruined it.
Bystander: You guys are ruining this country, you know that, right?
Agent: Liberals already ruined it.
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US Park Police now doing traffic stops in DC, and charged at me with a baton for filming closer than they liked
August 14, 2025 at 5:30 PM
US Park Police now doing traffic stops in DC, and charged at me with a baton for filming closer than they liked
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Another gut punch:
Trump Administration Can Withhold Billions in Foreign Aid, Appeals Court Rules
In a 2-to-1 vote, a federal appeals court panel ruled that foreign aid groups that sued to recover funds that President Trump froze cannot challenge the decision.
Trump Administration Can Withhold Billions in Foreign Aid, Appeals Court Rules
In a 2-to-1 vote, a federal appeals court panel ruled that foreign aid groups that sued to recover funds that President Trump froze cannot challenge the decision.
Trump Administration Can Withhold Billions in Aid, Appeals Court Rules
www.nytimes.com
August 13, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Another gut punch:
Trump Administration Can Withhold Billions in Foreign Aid, Appeals Court Rules
In a 2-to-1 vote, a federal appeals court panel ruled that foreign aid groups that sued to recover funds that President Trump froze cannot challenge the decision.
Trump Administration Can Withhold Billions in Foreign Aid, Appeals Court Rules
In a 2-to-1 vote, a federal appeals court panel ruled that foreign aid groups that sued to recover funds that President Trump froze cannot challenge the decision.
This feels like a scene out of The Office
Trump: “It looks like it’s about $3.1 billion…”
Powell: “I’m not aware of that.”
Trump: “It just came out.”
Powell: “You are including the Martin renovation. You just added in a third building.”
Trump: “It’s a building that's being built.”
Powell: “No, it was built five years ago.”
Powell: “I’m not aware of that.”
Trump: “It just came out.”
Powell: “You are including the Martin renovation. You just added in a third building.”
Trump: “It’s a building that's being built.”
Powell: “No, it was built five years ago.”
July 25, 2025 at 4:14 AM
This feels like a scene out of The Office