Medicare for All would save $450B a year.
Every dollar spent on food stamps generates $1.50-$1.80 in economic activity.
Each dollar going to low-wage workers adds $1.20 to the economy overall.
Itβs not about what this country can or canβt afford.
Itβs about priorities.
14.02.2026 21:00 β π 17427 π 6022 π¬ 474 π 208
After nearly 9 decades of tracking presidential approval ratings, Gallup has decided to end their poll measuring following threats from the orange felon after showing his historically low approval ratings.
This is what cowardice and bending the knee to a tyrant looks like.
11.02.2026 21:38 β π 3797 π 1139 π¬ 169 π 67
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The so-called Save America Act will force 21 million American citizens to produce passports or birth certificates just to register to vote. Most do not have them ready. Turning paperwork into a barrier is a poll tax by another name. #HandsOffHerVote social.demcast.com/s/L9X3k1fQ
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photo of Pam Bondi testifying in the foreground as a group of 7 women and 1 men raise their hands
Likely-historic photo by NBC News of all the Epstein victims asked to raise their hands if they've not yet been asked to meet with the DOJ as Bondi testifies in foreground
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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) β Alberto CastaΓ±eda MondragΓ³n says his memory was so jumbled after a beating by immigration officers that he initially could not remember he had a daughter and still struggles to recall treasured moments like the night he taught her to dance.
But the violence he endured last month in Minnesota while being detained is seared into his battered brain.
He remembers Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents pulling him from a friendβs car on Jan. 8 outside a St. Paul shopping center and throwing him to the ground, handcuffing him, then punching him and striking his head with a steel baton. He remembers being dragged into an SUV and taken to a detention facility, where he said he was beaten again.
He also remembers the emergency room and the intense pain from eight skull fractures and five life-threatening brain hemorrhages.
ICE told nurses this Minneapolis man βpurposefully ran headfirst into a brick wall.β
What actually happened is that they pulled him from a car, beat him so viciously with a steel baton that he had 8 skull fractures, 5 life-threatening brain hemorrhages, and couldnβt remember he had a daughter.
07.02.2026 17:54 β π 17901 π 9179 π¬ 494 π 703
ICE detainees from Maine being held under βinhumaneβ conditions in Mass. facility, attorneys say
An Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokesperson said the allegations of overcrowding and lack of access to lawyers are false.
Concentration camps: stories of as many as 50 people to a cell β men and women in some cases β with no windows and limited airflow, a single camera-monitored toilet, aluminum blankets, no showers and poor quality food.
07.02.2026 13:10 β π 4407 π 2725 π¬ 135 π 221
Gladys Mae West obituary: mathematician who pioneered GPS technology
She made key contributions to US cold-war science despite facing huge barriers as a Black woman.
No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientistβbecause the person felt she did didnβt deserve the recognition.
Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
06.02.2026 09:09 β π 46756 π 19175 π¬ 1339 π 784
Checking in with an update on the Crespo-Gonzalez family and my oversight visit to ICE facilities in Texas.
Yesterday, I was denied entry into the facility jailing my constituents, but I am not deterred. I will return today and keep fighting to bring these Oregonians home.
06.02.2026 16:31 β π 395 π 93 π¬ 23 π 6
I was just denied entry to the Dilley detention facility while my constituent, seven-year-old Diana, remains inside.
What kind of sick, horrific conditions are children being forced to endure in there?
I will be back tomorrow. Accountability canβt wait.
06.02.2026 02:35 β π 31137 π 9139 π¬ 968 π 318
Jeffrey Bezos is destroying the Washington Post for the same reason Musk destroyed Twitter and Ellison is destroying CBSβoligarchs oppose the free press when if it threatens their wealth and power.
They donβt want normal people to see what is happening in America.
04.02.2026 14:47 β π 14114 π 4480 π¬ 410 π 203
For those keeping score at home:
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Fight ICE and CBP by mocking the sh*t out of themβ¦..they are small, cowardly idiots!! Peeps in Minneapolis are soooo creative, LOVE IT!! MINNESOTA STRONG!!πͺπ½π
04.02.2026 22:44 β π 166 π 53 π¬ 7 π 3
Crockery dies in darkness
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1. Build huge subscriber base by telling them their $ supports democracy.
2. Donβt establish other revenue sources.
3. Rug-pull subscribers by pushing opinion side to the right.
4. Subscribers leave, revenue falls.
5. Enact crippling newsroom cuts.
04.02.2026 11:52 β π 4161 π 760 π¬ 125 π 69
ICE just tear-gassed the shit out of the entirely peaceful union protest here in Portland. Children. Elderly. Thousands of people exercising our First Amendment rights.
01.02.2026 00:55 β π 729 π 226 π¬ 16 π 9
Opinion | How Much Can One Man Make From Being President?
The president took an oath to serve the American people. Instead, heβs focused his second term on enriching himself and his family.
$1,408,500,000.Β
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The Grifter-in-Chief is lining his own pockets while ripping nutrition assistance and health care away from millions of Americans. Disgusting.
01.02.2026 01:03 β π 191 π 100 π¬ 24 π 10
βMy nation is under attack," Army vet Ian Austin told our @julialurie.bsky.social in a viral video last week.
NOW: Julia has learned Austin has been arrested. He was one of the protesters who interrupted a service at a church in St. Paul, where a local ICE official serves as a pastor.
WATCH:
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Sit-ins are being held at Target stores across the state. Demonstrators want Target to "stand with Minnesotans" and publicly call for ICE to leave, according to organizers.
Ongoing coverage: bit.ly/3NO1vD6
π·οΈ Anthony SoufflΓ©/The Minnesota Star Tribune
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I get tired of saying it, but Iβll say it again: the nature of oppression in America is that they workshop it first on Black, Latino, Asian & Native people.
But it is always, in the end, coming for everyone.
30.01.2026 16:46 β π 15724 π 5633 π¬ 243 π 126
Don was taken into custody by federal agents last night in Los Angeles.
30.01.2026 12:58 β π 17408 π 7723 π¬ 1249 π 1455
The arrests of journalists Don Lemon and Georgia Fort are a test for every MSM member with a platform. If you are not voicing your outrage at this blatant violation of the First Amendment, you are utterly discredited as a journalist.
30.01.2026 16:44 β π 24775 π 7993 π¬ 443 π 304
Why not press ahead with impeachment anyway?
27.01.2026 18:46 β π 1125 π 200 π¬ 86 π 16
Sen. Ruben Gallego, D-Ariz., rolls out his demand for supporting a DHS appropriations bill: fire Stephen Miller
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Suddenly republicans have forgotten what the constitution says π€·πΌ πΊπΈ
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