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Donald Trump has picked Project 2025 architect Russell Vought to lead the Office of Management and Budget.

In Trump's first term, Vought crafted budget proposals that recommended Social Security and Medicare cuts.

Your reminder that Project 2025 was always the MAGA agenda.
Trump's Nomination of Project 2025 Architect Means Social Security, Medicare 'Are At Risk' | Common Dreams
President-elect Donald Trump's selection of Russell Vought, a Project 2025 architect, to lead the White House budget office was seen as further evidence of the threat the incoming administration poses...
www.commondreams.org
November 25, 2024 at 8:05 PM
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I’ve been in or around politics for over a half-century now.

If there's one thing I've learned, it's that studying the past is key to understanding the present and shaping the future.
My Ultimate History Crash Course | Robert Reich
Are we in a second Gilded Age?Is Trump really a Fascist?Why are we so politically polarized?How did corporations take over our politics?To understand the pre...
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November 23, 2024 at 8:34 PM
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Don't forget that Dr. Oz:

- Pushed Medicare privatization plans on his show
- Owns up to $600k in stock in private insurers
- Has ties to pyramid scheme companies that promote fake medical cures

His main qualification to oversee Medicare & Medicaid is loyalty to Trump.
November 20, 2024 at 8:08 PM
Learn how to use that block feature. Starve the trolls.
Just my 2 cents. But my goal is to ignore the trolls. Give them zero attention. Block them if they annoy me.

I think the worst thing we can do on this site is re-create the ad hominem/ personal attacks that occur across comments on Twitter/insta/tiktok/ etc
November 19, 2024 at 10:59 PM
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Lots of stories about how mass deportations will spike food prices and cause inflation. But as Tom Bonier noted, only one published before Election Day...
November 19, 2024 at 10:54 AM
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SpaceX and Amazon are asking the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals to find the National Labor Relations Board unconstitutional. The federal agency is tasked with enforcing workers' right to organize.
Accused of violating worker rights, SpaceX and Amazon go after labor board
SpaceX and Amazon are asking the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals to find the National Labor Relations Board unconstitutional. The federal agency is tasked with enforcing workers' right to organize.
www.npr.org
November 18, 2024 at 8:19 PM
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November 18, 2024 at 3:20 AM
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These appointments prove that insisting people achieve and be promoted based on “merit” was never really their real concern.
November 14, 2024 at 7:11 PM
Building community will be the most important thing as our country heads into a second Trump administration. I don’t know what this man is about to do, but I know who my people are, and I’m grateful for that.
November 14, 2024 at 3:18 AM