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Chuck Schumer going door to door at the nursing home trying to recruit more elderly politicians to die in office
Schumer is out of his fucking mind. www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
September 3, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Chuck Schumer going door to door at the nursing home trying to recruit more elderly politicians to die in office
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An estimated 450,000 people have died because of the abrupt cuts to the United States Agency for International Development. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Protesters demand release of HIV funds ‘illegally’ withheld by Trump
People take to streets against Trump administration plans to rescind funding for life-saving international programs
www.theguardian.com
September 3, 2025 at 3:08 PM
An estimated 450,000 people have died because of the abrupt cuts to the United States Agency for International Development. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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I cannot put into words how much I hate these people.
Vinay Prasad, a former adult oncologist, has moved to disrupt the childhood vaccine schedule by asserting - against all evidence - that administering multiple vaccines at the same time “could blunt their efficacy.” The added burden/delay of separating shots would sharply reduce US vaccination rates.
FDA quietly positions itself to disrupt childhood vaccine schedule
While CDC turmoil grabbed the media spotlight, a quieter but potentially more consequential drama unfolded last week at FDA. The agency has positioned itse...
www.biocentury.com
September 3, 2025 at 12:22 PM
I cannot put into words how much I hate these people.
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This is the one the more tolerable focus group pieces, and the point Laura highlights gets back to what I've said for years: The Democrats in charge of U.S. cities and states must make affordability and competency core components of their terms.
Don't worry: It also has voters with brainworms.
Don't worry: It also has voters with brainworms.
July 31, 2025 at 2:54 AM
This is the one the more tolerable focus group pieces, and the point Laura highlights gets back to what I've said for years: The Democrats in charge of U.S. cities and states must make affordability and competency core components of their terms.
Don't worry: It also has voters with brainworms.
Don't worry: It also has voters with brainworms.
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"The implication...is that not only noncitizens but also U.S. citizens could be taken off the streets, forced onto planes, and confined to foreign prisons with no opportunity for redress if judicial review is denied unlawfully before removal. History is no stranger to such lawless regimes..."
#BREAKING: 5-4 Court, with Barrett joining the three Dem. appointees in dissent *vacates* Chief Judge Boasberg’s temporary restraining orders in the Alien Enemy Act cases. Judicial review must be available, Court holds, but has to come through habeas petitions:
www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
www.supremecourt.gov
April 7, 2025 at 11:07 PM
"The implication...is that not only noncitizens but also U.S. citizens could be taken off the streets, forced onto planes, and confined to foreign prisons with no opportunity for redress if judicial review is denied unlawfully before removal. History is no stranger to such lawless regimes..."
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What a great use of passive voice. No indication that Trump is intentionally causing this crisis for no purpose or that this crisis didn’t exist three months ago. The media is a total failure.
The Social Security Administration is engulfed in crisis — further undermining its ability to provide reliable and quick service to vulnerable customers, according to internal documents and more than two dozen current and former agency employees and officials, customers and others.
Long waits, waves of calls, web crashes: Social Security is breaking down
A flood of cuts led by Elon Musk has sent the agency into chaos as a new commissioner prepares to take charge.
www.washingtonpost.com
March 25, 2025 at 1:20 PM
What a great use of passive voice. No indication that Trump is intentionally causing this crisis for no purpose or that this crisis didn’t exist three months ago. The media is a total failure.
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This case should be a wake up call. Our client has been disappeared and locked up solely based on his tattoos. It is naive to think this kind of incarceration with no chance to refute the charges against you will be limited to asylum seekers. If this goes unchallenged, who could be next?
March 20, 2025 at 4:26 AM
This case should be a wake up call. Our client has been disappeared and locked up solely based on his tattoos. It is naive to think this kind of incarceration with no chance to refute the charges against you will be limited to asylum seekers. If this goes unchallenged, who could be next?
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Among the material devastation to everyday people, Senate Dems have now blown a hole in their ability to work with the House.
We had an agreed upon plan, House took immense risk, then Senate turned around midway and destroyed it w/ a fear-based, inexplicable abdication.
They own what happens next.
We had an agreed upon plan, House took immense risk, then Senate turned around midway and destroyed it w/ a fear-based, inexplicable abdication.
They own what happens next.
March 14, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Among the material devastation to everyday people, Senate Dems have now blown a hole in their ability to work with the House.
We had an agreed upon plan, House took immense risk, then Senate turned around midway and destroyed it w/ a fear-based, inexplicable abdication.
They own what happens next.
We had an agreed upon plan, House took immense risk, then Senate turned around midway and destroyed it w/ a fear-based, inexplicable abdication.
They own what happens next.
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Good luck securing a flu shot next year. Hope your immune system is solid and you're not too young or old to survive.
FDA meeting to pick next winter's flu shot is canceled, in ominous sign for US vaccine policy
FDA panel meeting to select flu vaccine strains canceled; Paul Offit confirms
endpts.com
February 27, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Good luck securing a flu shot next year. Hope your immune system is solid and you're not too young or old to survive.
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This would be completely illegal. But you wouldn’t know that from reading this post, the headline, or the lede. Unbelievably bad.
Breaking news: Trump is preparing to dissolve the leadership of the U.S. Postal Service and absorb the independent mail agency into his administration, potentially throwing the mail provider and trillions of dollars of ecommerce transactions into turmoil.
Trump expected to take control of USPS, fire postal board, officials say
The move threatens to upend trillions of dollars in ecommerce business and the 250 year-old Postal Service.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 21, 2025 at 3:00 AM
This would be completely illegal. But you wouldn’t know that from reading this post, the headline, or the lede. Unbelievably bad.
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Chris Murphy: "My prediction is that if you vote for Kash Patel, more than any other confirmation vote you make, you will come to regret this one to your grave."
February 19, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Chris Murphy: "My prediction is that if you vote for Kash Patel, more than any other confirmation vote you make, you will come to regret this one to your grave."
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Democratic leaders:
I think it's abundantly clear at this point that simply going along to get along ain't gonna work. Trying to negotiate ain't gonna work. Being collegial ain't gonna work. What you're doing right now isn't working.
Take your gloves off and punch back. Hard.
I think it's abundantly clear at this point that simply going along to get along ain't gonna work. Trying to negotiate ain't gonna work. Being collegial ain't gonna work. What you're doing right now isn't working.
Take your gloves off and punch back. Hard.
February 19, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Democratic leaders:
I think it's abundantly clear at this point that simply going along to get along ain't gonna work. Trying to negotiate ain't gonna work. Being collegial ain't gonna work. What you're doing right now isn't working.
Take your gloves off and punch back. Hard.
I think it's abundantly clear at this point that simply going along to get along ain't gonna work. Trying to negotiate ain't gonna work. Being collegial ain't gonna work. What you're doing right now isn't working.
Take your gloves off and punch back. Hard.
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*barely sublimating my personal rage* Remember: every time you're stuck in traffic on a bridge or in a tunnel, it's Donald Trump's fault
February 19, 2025 at 5:12 PM
*barely sublimating my personal rage* Remember: every time you're stuck in traffic on a bridge or in a tunnel, it's Donald Trump's fault
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Brooklyn Democratic Party is wildly corrupt and will back Adams to the hilt, and nobody wants to burn those bridges, plus there was a huge rightward swing in NYC last year, so everyone's terrified of looking too weak on immigration. Not good!
As the unofficial Dem strategy explainer on here I can't really tell you why Jeffries had such a wimpy response to the Eric Adams quid pro quo. At some point this just becomes a timid resistance to doing anything.
February 11, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Brooklyn Democratic Party is wildly corrupt and will back Adams to the hilt, and nobody wants to burn those bridges, plus there was a huge rightward swing in NYC last year, so everyone's terrified of looking too weak on immigration. Not good!
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The Washington Post editorial this morning essentially equating Biden's questionable pardons with Trump's outrageous Jan. 6 pardons was unconscionable. The newspaper I've been part of for 48 years has utterly lost its soul.
January 23, 2025 at 2:49 AM
The Washington Post editorial this morning essentially equating Biden's questionable pardons with Trump's outrageous Jan. 6 pardons was unconscionable. The newspaper I've been part of for 48 years has utterly lost its soul.
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It will change it a little bit in that these traitorous shitbags can now recruit and act again and the message sent to new recruits is that they can get away with it so long as Trump is in power.
All the pardons and commutations won't change the fact that the Jan. 6 rioters are traitorous shitbags, and they always will be.
January 21, 2025 at 12:18 AM
It will change it a little bit in that these traitorous shitbags can now recruit and act again and the message sent to new recruits is that they can get away with it so long as Trump is in power.
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Just a little reminder of what happened on January 6, 2021
Exclusive: New Video Footage From The Frontlines of Jan. 6
I was at the Capitol that day, with a camera. Here's what I saw.
www.thebulwark.com
January 20, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Just a little reminder of what happened on January 6, 2021
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Watching all the Democrats show up and shake hands only to have Trump immediately give a speech full of lies call them all evil pieces of shit is really something. Couldn't have seen this coming.
January 20, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Watching all the Democrats show up and shake hands only to have Trump immediately give a speech full of lies call them all evil pieces of shit is really something. Couldn't have seen this coming.
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Unless I’m mistaken, @nytimes.com has not deigned to cover this manhattan murder at all. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
Migrant teen stabbed to death in NYC by group of men who asked if he spoke English
Mayor Eric Adams said the incident could be classified as a hate crime
www.independent.co.uk
December 8, 2024 at 6:00 PM
Unless I’m mistaken, @nytimes.com has not deigned to cover this manhattan murder at all. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
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Also this is the kind of mistake you make when you *truly* have no idea what at all you’re talking about. Every single mildly informed budget person on the hill R or D knows SNAP is discretionary not mandatory spending.
SNAP falls under the Department of Agriculture, and its funding is through what's generally referred to as the "Farm Bill," which is under a temporary extension that expires on December 20 unless Congress acts to further extend it, so, good luck cutting off people's food in time for Christmas guy.
Rep. Tom Tiffany says he'd like to cut "mandatory spending" like food stamps
December 5, 2024 at 11:24 PM
Also this is the kind of mistake you make when you *truly* have no idea what at all you’re talking about. Every single mildly informed budget person on the hill R or D knows SNAP is discretionary not mandatory spending.
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A class act. The country was not ready for positivity. They want more turmoil and hate.
December 6, 2024 at 2:47 AM
A class act. The country was not ready for positivity. They want more turmoil and hate.
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the frenzy over the hunter biden pardon is a good reminder that the press knows how to make something a scandal and has decided that nothing trump does is truly deserving of that treatment
December 3, 2024 at 1:41 PM
the frenzy over the hunter biden pardon is a good reminder that the press knows how to make something a scandal and has decided that nothing trump does is truly deserving of that treatment
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“Boulos is a friend of Suleiman Frangieh, a Christian ally of Hezbollah and its candidate for Lebanon’s presidency”
Imagine if Biden had appointed as MidEast adviser a guy with connections to Hezbollah: the GOP and Fox would have lost their minds!
Imagine if Biden had appointed as MidEast adviser a guy with connections to Hezbollah: the GOP and Fox would have lost their minds!
Trump announces Massad Boulos as senior adviser on Arab and Middle East affairs
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www.timesofisrael.com
December 2, 2024 at 1:39 AM
“Boulos is a friend of Suleiman Frangieh, a Christian ally of Hezbollah and its candidate for Lebanon’s presidency”
Imagine if Biden had appointed as MidEast adviser a guy with connections to Hezbollah: the GOP and Fox would have lost their minds!
Imagine if Biden had appointed as MidEast adviser a guy with connections to Hezbollah: the GOP and Fox would have lost their minds!