According to Goldman Sachs, 88% of US tariffs are being paid by American companies and consumers. Only 9% are being paid by foreign exporters.
#TrumpTariffs

Vaccines are safe and effective.

Autism isn't caused by vaccines, and autistic people and their families deserve our support.

When you want information, ask your doctor.

It's more important than ever for all of us to speak plainly, truthfully, and directly about public health.

If Rep. Young Kim (R) won’t speak with her constituents, I will.

Join me this Thursday in CA-40 for an in-person Town Hall where we’ll talk Trump’s authoritarianism, GOP budget cuts to healthcare and education, and Young Kim’s deafening silence. Sign up here:

www.mobilize.us/dpoc/event/8...

Leans in? @politico.com must be kidding.

In Miami-Dade, nearly 1 in 4 of all households rely on SNAP to pay their grocery bills.

Rep. Maria Salazar voted to cut food assistance for her own constituents.

Shhh. Republicans are trying to repeal Obamacare again. Sort of. They’re not branding it an Obamacare repeal this time around, but congressional Republicans are pursuing cuts to programs that are part of the 15-year-old health-care law.

Here's something everybody should be paying attention to: Congressional Republicans are trying to weaken the Affordable Care Act and put millions of people at risk of losing their health care. Call your Senators and tell them we can't let that happen.

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Three things made the US a rich and powerful nation: the rule of law, its science & innovation system, and openness to foreign talent. Remarkable how Trump has taken a sledgehammer to all three. No enemy of this country could do more.

Under the bill passed by the House, those in the US earning LESS than $17,000 will LOSE $1,000 a year, the top 0.1 per cent of taxpayers will gain nearly $400,000 a year. How sick is that? And 8.6 million people will lose their Medicaid coverage. This is like a death sentence for many.

The House Just Passed The Biggest Medicaid Cut in U.S. History, Twice the Size of Reagan's Cuts So much for realignment. New analysis from UnidosUS shows the House’s cuts to Medicaid and SNAP are unprecedented, twice as large as anything under President Reagan,

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So:
1) Takes food from children
2) Gives the richest man in the world a tax cut
3) Makes the deficit worse

What evidence? Evaluating the coverage they dedicated more coverage to Hillary’s emails or Biden’s age than to many of the illegal things Trump is doing. He flat out lies and they headline “it stretches the boundaries of what is acceptable”

President Trump was up at 1:30am rage tweeting about Bruce Springsteen, Beyoncé, Bono, and Oprah Winfrey, raising serious concerns about Biden's mental state during his last year in office.

Trump's big beautiful bill expands the estate tax exemption yet again.

While millions will get kicked off healthcare and lose crucial food assistance, Republicans are enabling the super-rich to pass down their obscene wealth virtually tax free.

We must stop this bill.

Republicans tweak megabill's SNAP, Medicaid provisions Hard-liners also secured a rough agreement to speed up the phase-out of Biden-era clean energy tax credits.

The damage these cuts will cause the most vulnerable will be devastating.

I don’t think senate republicans will stop this monstrosity. The result will be benefit slashed for poor people and an insane increase on the deficit.

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I am a firm believer in free speech. That’s why I remain on a platform owned by a fascist billionaire who shadow bans everyone who criticizes him.

The current President is taking bribes from anyone who’ll offer them but I’m so glad Alex Thompson and Jake Tapper are not letting that distract them from the fact that the former President who just got diagnosed with cancer is also old.

Voters want Dems to stand up to Trump, not self-flagellate Sorry, Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson.

"Tapper and Thompson want to be the center of the conversation because it will help them sell books. But with daily assaults on our constitution by the current inhabitant of the White House, the rest of us have, or should have, more important things to focus on."

Bookish friends are great because you can be all "read this, it will absolutely crush your soul and tear your beating heart into a million little pieces and you will literally never recover from it" and they'll be like omg yaaaasssss

Study begun pre-COVID finds remote work increased sleep by 1/2 hr/night, decreased commute by 4.5 hr/week replaced with work, family & leisure and led to healthier eating. Remote and hybrid employees report higher job satisfaction and well-being. farmingdale-observer.com/2025/05/16/s...

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It is tedious to keep harping on the editorial judgment of legacy media in this day and age, so I'll say instead: Wired is doing good journalism right now. So is The Verge. So is 404 Media. So is Pro Publica. So is Teen Vogue. So is High Country News. So is The Daily Yonder. So is CalMatters.

The Social Security Administration (per DOGE) instituted anti-fraud checks for benefit claims made over the phone.

Only two out of over 110,000 claims had a high probability of fraud — a rate of .0018%

But it slowed retirement claim processing by 25%.

"Efficiency."

Hey NY Times--

It is still a "fringe theory" -- every court has rejected it.

There is still a "broad consensus" -- John Eastman is a disgraced lawyer under indictment.

The only thing that has changed is the Times.

There are numerous tax cuts and loopholes in the "big, beautiful bill."

But it boils down to this simple fact:

Republicans are facilitating a massive transfer of wealth to the richest Americans while making cuts that would rip away healthcare and meals from millions of people.

Oh really? I bet the NY Times would say “this strains the bounds of propriety” as they usually do.

Stephen Miller: We're seriously looking into feeding the entire constitution to Elon's wood chipper.

CNN: BREAKING: New book reveals startling revelations - Joe Biden is old.

AOC: The math is not adding up. Their claim is that one million undocumented people are on Medicaid. So why are they trying to cut 13.7 million Americans off their healthcare?

Computer Ban Gave the Government Unfair Advantage in Anti-War Activist’s Case, Lawyer Says A lawyer for anti-war activist Mahmoud Khalil, currently being held by ICE, says she was barred from using a computer in a key hearing—an example, experts say, of the unfairness of immigration court.

Moments before an immigration court hearing in Mahmoud Khalil's case, our lawyers were abruptly banned from using laptops in the courtroom — but the government's lawyers weren't.

No one should be denied the basic tools they need to defend themselves in court.