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"There are moments in the world’s history when people look back and ask, ‘Where were the lawyers, where were the judges?’ In these moments, the rule of law becomes especially vulnerable." - U.S. District Judge John Coughenour

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“We take vaccines so for granted in the United States” ...“Women in the developing world know the power of [vaccines]. They will walk 10 kilometers in the heat with their child and line up to get a vaccine because they have seen death.”

Melinda Gates

03.08.2025 20:16 — 👍 7520    🔁 2397    💬 131    📌 63
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Trump Has “Accomplished” a Lot. It’s Just That America Hates It. In a sense, it’s true: Trump has done a lot of things. The problem is that people quite rightly hate them—and increasingly recognize that he’s a sleazeball.

newrepublic.com/post/198686/...

03.08.2025 07:28 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Trump Gets Rid of Those Pesky Statistics The numbers were simply not patriotic enough.

"For decades, Donald Trump has been at war with numbers. Some have capitulated more swiftly than others. His weight, his golf scores, and his net worth have long fallen in line."

www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

03.08.2025 02:32 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Graph showing the Standard and Poor 500 index down 150 points since July 30th

Graph showing the Standard and Poor 500 index down 150 points since July 30th

Sharp drop in the stock market caused by headwinds from Trump's tariffs and the latest jobs report.

02.08.2025 00:38 — 👍 34    🔁 18    💬 0    📌 1

📌Trump inherited the strongest economy in the entire world, and screwed it up in record time. Job growth has stalled, and is at a 16-yr low — or the last time a Democrat was fixing a battered economy left in shambles by a Republican.

Why did anybody think it would be any different this time around?

02.08.2025 01:11 — 👍 689    🔁 221    💬 32    📌 3

ARE YOU A WOMAN successfully running something big in Washington?

The commissioner of labor statistics?

The archivist of the United States?

The librarian of Congress?

The director of the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery?

A top general or admiral?

TOO BAD. TRUMP WANTS YOU GONE.

01.08.2025 20:02 — 👍 246    🔁 76    💬 2    📌 5

Dismal jobs numbers. Epstein scandal. Distraction needed. Announce an investigation into ... something or someone.

Rinse and repeat.

02.08.2025 02:29 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Ex-Trump prosecutor faces Office of Special Counsel investigation The Office of Special Counsel will look into the former federal prosecutor, saying that 'no one is above the law.'

You knew this was coming, right?

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

02.08.2025 02:25 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1
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Trump thinks it's going to help him when he uses his position as president to swap favors for convicted child sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell, in exchange for her falsely exonerating him.

I think it's going to backfire. People are going to see it for the outrageous coverup it is.

01.08.2025 23:43 — 👍 375    🔁 117    💬 34    📌 12

Yep.

02.08.2025 02:16 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

It will be a serious miscalculation, IMHO.

02.08.2025 02:14 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The massive list of suspended UCLA grants came out today: 300 NSF and 500 NIH grants. I am miraculously not on the list, but this is devastating. Science will be lost, progress will be frozen, people will lose jobs, and careers in science and medicine are being destroyed. This is not ok.

01.08.2025 20:49 — 👍 1463    🔁 589    💬 45    📌 39

Trump can’t actually fire Jay Powell; he can only demote him. But let’s say he is able to somehow strong arm the Fed to pull down interest rates. Tariffs are creating an inflationary environment that will only get worse unless Congress puts a stop to this nonsense

17.04.2025 11:49 — 👍 796    🔁 122    💬 24    📌 26

Trump: "Grab them by the pussy. You can do anything." Bush: "Yeah those legs. All I can see is the legs." Trump: "It looks good."

02.08.2025 02:02 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Trump: "Grab them by the pussy. You can do anything." Bush: "Yeah those legs. All I can see is the legs." Trump: "It looks good."

02.08.2025 02:02 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Grandpa Simpson didn’t write that garbage, and Grandpa Simpson thinks he’s playing “Battleship” with Putin.

Sleep well, America.

01.08.2025 20:55 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Whatever became of the motto "Loose lips sink ships"?

Trump would have announced the upcoming D-Day on his social media platform.

02.08.2025 01:51 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Whatever became of the motto "Loose lips sink ships"?

Trump would have announced the upcoming D-Day on his social media platform.

02.08.2025 01:51 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Just imagine -- New York could also redraw its districts and get rid of Elise Stefanik!

02.08.2025 01:45 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Just imagine -- New York could also redraw its district and get rid of Elise Stefanik!

02.08.2025 01:45 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
02.08.2025 01:41 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

🎯 Bullseye.

02.08.2025 01:35 — 👍 7    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Article II court is big mad at Article III court. 🤣

02.08.2025 01:34 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Article II court is big mad at Article III court. 🤣

02.08.2025 01:33 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Experts Say Foreign Governments Are ‘Playing Trump’ on Tariffs President Donald Trump on Thursday night signed an executive order applying blanket...

Experts Say Foreign Governments Are ‘Playing Trump’ on Tariffs talkingpointsmemo.com/news/experts...

02.08.2025 00:16 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Further Modifying the Reciprocal Tariff Rates By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including the International Emergency

The White House published its table of Trump’s latest global tariffs regime last night. And it just reaffirms that his trade policy has absolutely no rhyme or reason: 10% tariffs on the Falkland Islands, but 40% on Laos. Utterly random and bonkers. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

01.08.2025 10:34 — 👍 195    🔁 58    💬 14    📌 4

🤣

01.08.2025 01:39 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Um, where is this monstrosity being built? On the South Lawn?

01.08.2025 01:38 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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31.07.2025 08:59 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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