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The Americans who will pay most if health care costs rise Many Americans are set to see huge increases in their health insurance costs, although some will be more affected than others.

House and Senate Republicans, killing small business growth and destroying the livelihoods of self-employed people in the gig economy.
Trump is too stupid and self-centered to care, but anyone hoping to get elected or re-elected better damn well learn to.

"Speaker Johnson, it looks as though the president is currently stabbing you with a knife. Do you have any comment?"

"Well, look, this is the first I'm hearing about it. As you know, I've been really busy not doing my job, so I just don't know enough about this alleged stabbing to make a comment."

it's time for journos to start asking Johnson meta questions

"Speaker, on 5 occasions last week you said 'I haven't seen it' when asked about news events w/big implications for public policy. Do you ever read the news, and do you agree it's problematic for the Speaker to be so woefully uninformed?"

Q: What do you call it when many people in multiple events are deliberately killed on the open seas outside of a declaration of war?

A: Murder. Mass murder. Crimes against humanity.

Can't overstate how fucked up it is that unraveling what is arguably the greatest achievement in the history of humanity is now a motivating issue of one of the two dominant parties in the U.S.

I can’t stress this enough. They want to do inside the US the kind of extrajudicial murders they’ve been doing internationally. This has always been about normalizing the ability of Trump to smite his personal enemies without suffering legal consequences. Trump’s testing for compliance & resistance.

100%
I hear so much lately, "I didn't know (x) was happening." or "When did (y) happen?" or even more terrifying, "Is that unusual?" YES DAMMIT! YES!! None of it is normal

Nobody is giving your kids drugs!!! Gummies are expensive enough as it is. Can we please stop with this nonsense???? #Halloween

Waiting for someone to explain why the announcement of a trade relationship that is worse than the one we had a year ago is received as a big success

Good morning and happy Thursday to everyone. Funny how mainstream media isn’t asking El Jefe de Covfefe why he’s had an MRI, two 'annual' checkups, multiple dementia screening tests, drooping face, swollen ankles, bruised hands, a mysterious week off, and now looks utterly lost on camera. 🙃

Are they in a mass grave?

If those make you sick don't look at Pidro.

JD Vance was fed by the government as a child, and now he wants to pull that ladder up behind him.

This is an unfit man to lead a nation. This is a megalomanic. Corrupt to the core.

I appreciate the time and passion you have put in Phil. I didn't always agree with your views, especially during the early SLTFC days, but I appreciated the perspective. You have definitely educated me throught the years. This is the hard thing about well run fan podcasts. Family (should) wins out

Andrew Desiderio V @AndrewDesiderio X.com Funny moment just now in the Senate: Lindsey Graham whispered something into his phone and then Siri responded with full volume: "Calling Sean Hannity mobile" 8:57 AM • 10/28/25 • 276K Views

We live in an episode of Veep

Democracy is dead It will take a miracle to bring it back

New from Jim Casey Jr.: Democracy is dead/It will take a miracle to bring it back.

"Until or unless Americans start dealing with facts instead of lies, democracy cannot come back."

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The depth of the shame of a country this wealthy and abundant allowing its people to go hungry is impossible to measure. The fact that a handful of people could fix this by paying their fair share of taxes while still remaining obscenely wealthy makes it even worse.

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I've talked before about power struggles within hardening authoritarianism. Usually, regime supporters fight over using rule-of-law in crackdowns (with massive abuses, of course) vs. completely embracing extrajudicial methods. Here, we see the latter dominating. Which is very bad news going forward.

241 MPH WIND GUST! One of the strongest wind gusts EVER measured in a hurricane was just recorded by hurricane hunters that continue to fly through Melissa tonight. This insane wind gust was measured about 700 feet above the ocean's surface. This thing is absolutely terrifying.

ICE violently detain father & son walking to school—teenage boy had to be rushed to hospital.

"I was just going to school," kid cries out. "I'm underage!"

The 16-year-old star athlete is a U.S. citizen—agents sent him to the hospital with severe injuries to his back & neck.

Houston, Texas.

“The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government…”

~Patrick Henry

Another reason why "Back to the Office" truly sucks; the return of being crop dusted. WTF people?! Get some probiotics in your diet.
Thank gawd this is only once a month.

Thin skinned, Authoritarian behavior on full display by ICE and the FED government.

🚨ICE trying to disappear kids have pics taken for photo recognition.
ICE — Q: Why aren’t you in school?
A: Minor — Parent-teacher conferences
Minor — Q: Are you Mexican? A: (not heard) Follow up: Why are you covering your faces?
Trolling ICE - not wise, but brave AF

Just so everyone is clear, the main issue in the Supreme Court voting rights case tomorrow is whether it's racist against white people to enforce the Voting Rights Act.

I'm dead serious. We live in incredibly stupid times.

Please be conscious if you protest this weekend that there are feds at the protest. They look like you and they sound like you, not like Steve Buscemi in that one clip with the skateboard. Thinking you can spot them is self delusion. Nobody you haven’t met needs to know your last name.

ICE is thug trash.

NEW: There’s a disaster unfolding in Alaska right now. And no major network is covering it.

The remnants of Typhoon Halong battered western Alaska overnight. Homes, with people in them, have literally been swept into the Bering Strait.

At least 20 are missing. No comment from any federal agency.