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Trump thinks the US has the 'resources' needed to make iPhones - 9to5Mac Trump’s massive 104% tariffs on China are set to go into effect at midnight tonight, a move that will have...

He’s ignorant 9to5mac.com/2025/04/08/t...

War hero schools a chickenhawk.

Lincoln talked about a government of the people, by the people, for the people.

Today, with Trump as our president, we have a government of the billionaires, by the billionaires, for the billionaires.

Epic idea

Rep. Mark Pocan draws packed crowd at town hall meeting, calls out Rep. Derrick Van Orden on transparency VILLAGE OF BELMONT, Wis (WKOW) -- In a town with just over 1,000 residents, hundreds of people packed the Village of Belmont's Community Building Saturday for a town hall meeting

"In a town with just over 1,000 residents, hundreds of people packed Belmont's Community Building Saturday for a town hall hosted by Democratic Rep. Mark Pocan.

The building was filled to capacity with people even waiting outside and peeking through the windows..."

www.wkow.com/news/politic...

Elon Musk's AI chatbot says a 'Russian asset' delivered the State of the Union | Opinion The chatbot Grok scoured available public data and found a '75-85% likelihood' that Donald Trump more or less works for Vladimir Putin.

www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...

The real State of the Union…

No, 150-Year-Olds Aren’t Collecting Social Security Benefits Elon Musk claims to have found rampant fraud in the Social Security Administration. There’s a much simpler explanation.

if you're watching the trump speech right now and hearing this false rant about social security, it's a good time to read/send this piece from @davidgilbert.bsky.social to people in your life:

Mexican & Central American immigrants w/low levels of education, which comprise a large share of immigrants from this region, are significantly less likely to be incarcerated than US born men w/similar level of education

#SOTU
#MomSky

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Trump whining that Democrats wouldn't applaud him even if he cured a disease and then a second later bragging about withdrawing from the World Health Organization

Let this sink in.

Last week, we reached 100,000 patients as part of our medical debt relief program.

I’m excited to announce that already we’ve alleviated this burden for more Illinoisans.

As of today, an additional 170,000 Illinoisans will have their debt erased — relieving $345 million.

Musk claims DOGE ‘restored’ Ebola prevention effort. Officials disagree. USAID’s initiatives to fight Ebola and other diseases have been gutted, current and former agency officials said.

Elon Musk said DOGE made a mistake by cutting USAID’s Ebola prevention but it had been “restored.”

That’s not true, current and former officials told me and @johnphudson.bsky.social.

“There have been no efforts to ‘turn on’” Ebola prevention, said Nidhi Bouri, who oversaw team until January.

In first month, Trump upends century-old approach to the world The president appears to be turning back the clock to a time in world history when countries with the biggest militaries constructed empires, demanded tribute from weaker nations and expanded their te...

Excellent article. Hell of a story to tell. wapo.st/3D5ziCC

Canadian MP Charlie Angus: Zelenskyy has shown the world what democracy means. Donald Trump is a convicted felon and a sexual pervert. These two men shouldn’t even be mentioned in the same sentence.

With multiple tariffs looming, farmers who support Trump grow nervous President Trump draws strong support from farm states. But the prospect of a trade war sequel has farmers who voted for him on edge.

I fry my corndog in MAGA tears.
With multiple tariffs looming, farmers who support Trump grow nervous www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Johnny (@jahnnysmooth) on Threads I've listed how many people are on Medicaid and the percentage of the overall population: Mississippi: 600k (20%) West Virginia: 516K (30%) Louisiana: 2 mil (44%) Arkansas: 825k (27%) Kentucky: 1.4 m...

Medicaid as % of population, Red States:

44%
Louisiana: 2M

30%
West Virginia: 516K
N Carolina: 3M

28%
Kentucky: 1.4M

27%
Arkansas: 825K

25%
Oklahoma: 1M

20%
Alabama: 1M
Missouri: 1.3M
S Carolina: 1.1M
Tennessee: 1.4M
Mississippi: 600K

18%
Georgia: 2M

Credit: www.threads.net/@jahnnysmoot...

At Think Big America, we love our nation’s people and our democracy – and we’ll do anything to keep Donald Trump and his MAGA allies from attacking what we love.

For too long, pharmacy benefit managers have been the middlemen between Illinoisans and their prescriptions, adding costs without real value.

Greater transparency and major industry reform are needed — the Prescription Drug Affordability Act reins in their predatory practices.

Tyranny requires your fear, your silence, and your compliance.

Democracy requires your courage.

“After we’ve discriminated against, deported, or disparaged all the immigrants, the gay and lesbian and transgender people, the developmentally disabled, the women, and minorities. Once we’ve ostracized our neighbors and betrayed our friends… what comes next?” - Gov. JB Pritzker

I'm watching Canadian officials hold a presser on the Toronto plane crash and remarkably they're not blaming DEI or recklessly speculating about causes. They could never cut it down here in Trumplandia.

Math is hard

America Chose the Monster We all make mistakes.

America was given a choice between a lawless, amoral monster and a qualified, intelligent, joyful woman of color—and it chose the monster. We need to reckon with the reality of what that says about so many of us here.

johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/america-ch...

The greatest business battle EVER to be fought will come when President Elon starts trying to implement AI for federal processes.

The battle will be fought over which company’s AI will be used by the feds.

This is a zero sum battle that will create more chaos than this country has ever seen

Yes. But they are missing that much of this has to be performative. That’s what Trump is great at and Dems are awful at.

You can’t just tell voters , you have to know how to sell voters.

Trump gives sales pitches, Dems show charts. One goes viral. The other is ignored and forgotten

"it plainly violates the First Amendment" www.ap.org/the-definiti...

The Guardian can say it. @hcrichardson.bsky.social can say it. Why can't our incumbent, institutional journalism? It is a #coup.
"The replacement of our constitutional system of government with the whims of an unelected private citizen is a coup."
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/february-3...