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President Obama signed the Affordable Care Act into law in 2010.

Republicans have been trying to coalesce around a health care plan for over 15 years.

YouTube video by Randy Rainbow It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like F This - A Randy Rainbow Song Parody

Merry Crisis! My new Christmas special is here and you’ll want to sing along. 🎄🔥😅

Trump said he’d have “no problem” releasing the full Venezuela boat strike video. He’s backpedaling because the truth is ugly and he knows it looks like a war crime.

Republican Women Suddenly Realize They’re Surrounded by Misogynists. (Gift article, free to read)
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it is actually kind of bananas how unitary executive theorists have taken a straightforward clause requiring the president to "faithfully execute the laws" and transformed it into a grant for the exercise of limitless unenumerated power.

Live footage of "Why that baby aint got no coat on?"

Today the Supreme Court is hearing a GOP attempt to get rid of one of the last remaining campaign finance guardrails. Alito kicking us off by citing the "much maligned - unfairly maligned" decision, Citizens United

Fun fact: Some state constitutions vest "the executive power" in a governor—but also allow for the independent election of the state attorney general and other executive officials.

It simply was not well-established in the 18th or 19th centuries that "the executive power" meant a unitary executive.

The conviction that a "unitary executive" guarantees "democratic accountability" is more like a civic religion or folkloric superstition than a constitutional theory. Federalist Society true-believers drill it into their acolytes and teach them never to question it, but it's fundamentally nonsense.

When you see the SCOTUS acting like a partisan rubber stamp for the Trumpublican MAGA agenda without any regard for precedent or the US Constitution, of course they lose all legitimacy, trust and respect. The Roberts 6 are singlehandedly destroying our judicial system from within!

Speaking to reporters at the White House, Trump denied saying Wednesday that he was open to releasing the video - despite doing so on camera - and then attacked the journalist who asked him about his previous comments, calling her "fake news. "I didn't say that. You said that," Trump said. "Whatever Hegseth wants to do is okay with me.

Good to see the Washpost putting this as grafs 2 and 3 of tonight’s Hegseth story.

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it’s pretty funny that Duffy is simultaneously

1. scolding passengers for not wearing fancy clothes while flying

2. supporting airport gyms so passengers can be sweaty and gross while flying

both of these proposals are idiotic but the direct contradiction is next level

This is what MAGA is afraid of.

This is true. We could have a near utopia; or, we can have the dystopia that this regime, and more importantly it's billionaire backers, is implementing.

#TheAlliedForces

Nicole Foy ProPublica is an independent, non-profit newsroom that produces investigative journalism in the public interest.

Hey folks 👋 I'm the reporter who revealed immigration agents detained 170+ citizens this year

My fellowship w/ProPublica has been incredible, but it wraps January. I'm looking for my next gig. Please reach out to share leads & opportunities! nicolemfoy@gmail.com
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto Finland ended homelessness with a housing first strategy that gave people apartments before they secured employment Now they're proposing a 4 day work week and 6 hour work days True work life balance Meanwhile in the US, people work two jobs and can't afford food or healthcare

One of the reasons the oligarchs want to break apart the EU is because of all the money they can steal if they're successful in convincing Europeans to give up their social programs

We in the U.S. could have everything they have in Finland

me dressed up and exercising at the airport before my 8 hour flight

Powerful 🇺🇸

Goddamn, I wish our United States of America were as committed to actual due process and justice as the rest of the Americas. We look like stupid chumps here in the USA.

If they were really protecting the US from drugs, Trump wouldn't have pardoned an convicted narco-terrorist, the former president of Honduras. The DGAF about drugs. They want regime change, for profit.

Trump doesn’t actually give a shit about Americans using drugs. He pardoned the former Honduran president who trafficked 400 tons of cocaine. He DGAF that Don Jr. snorted all that cocaine. He has no plan to help Americans get treatment for drug addiction. He wants to jail them or let them OD.

This is abuse. It is verbal violence, denigrating a woman for simply doing her job. It is racist, misogynistic, white supremacist abuse. Plain and simple.

She has done great work!! Hire her!!

We are dealing with such corruption in every aspect of our government, I don't know how we undo the damage.

The gig, as they say, is up.

Swing District Republicans in States Like Pennsylvania Brace for Political Fallout if Health Care Subsidies Expire - Bucks County Beacon One of those is first-term U.S. Rep. Ryan Mackenzie, R-Pa., whose victory for the Allentown-area seat last year was among the narrowest in the nation.

Swing District Republicans in States Like Pennsylvania Brace for Political Fallout if Health Care Subsidies Expire | One of those is first-term U.S. Rep. Ryan Mackenzie, R-Pa., whose victory for the Allentown-area seat last year was among the narrowest in the nation.

I’m sure everyone hurt by Trump’s policies would like a government bailout, but apparently those only go to farmers who can’t sell their products to other countries.

YEP!

Zelensky rules out ceding land to Russia, refusing to bow to Putin or Trump Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said his country would not give up territory, not to hasten peace talks, not to satisfy Washington and not under pressure from Moscow.

JUST IN: Ukraine will NOT surrender territory, President Zelensky declared Monday, rejecting a central Russian demand that Donald Trump had incorporated into his “peace plan.”
www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...

it intensely angers me every time I open a book PDF in Acrobat and the software reminds me that I’m reading a Long Document and gee, wouldn’t I prefer a summary instead

I am not a first grade child who requires the easy-reader version of big kid books, demon machine