Lauren Bar

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Democrats should never vote to fund a government that's waging war on its own citizens and firing officials *because* they insist on following court orders instead of breaking the law. Let Senate Republicans nuke the filibuster. None of this is normal and it shouldn't be treated as such.

Wilson also heard a weird noise

It’s the guns

Yesterday, Maurene Comey, who prosecuted the Epstein case, was summarily fired from SDNY. Her letter to colleagues pulls no punches. "Fear is the tool of a tyrant, wielded to suppress independent thought."

h/t @msnbc.com

KBJ Rips “Senseless” Supreme Court Decision on Trump’s Mass Firings Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson called out her colleagues for greenlighting Trump’s “legally dubious” layoffs in the federal government.

In a 15-page dissent, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson torched the Supreme Court’s Tuesday ruling allowing President Trump’s mass government layoffs to resume.Trump in February issued an executive ord...

This is what an authoritarian regime would do. Hidden deep in Trump’s 1,100-page bill that passed the House today is a provision that would block federal courts from enforcing contempt charges against government officials who violate court orders.

The fact that the attorney general's last job before this one was lobbying for the Qataris is a little on the nose.

May 9, 2025 Yesterday afternoon, President Donald Trump withdrew his nomination for interim U.S.

May 9, 2025

April 30, 2025 This morning the Bureau of Economic Analysis released a report showing an abrupt reversal in the U.S.

April 30, 2025

April 24, 2025 “Vladimir, STOP!” wrote President Donald Trump on his social media site this morning.

April 24, 2025

This has always been the GOP's strategy:

1) Cut taxes for the wealthy & corporations by claiming they'll pay for themselves.

2) Explode the deficit.

3) Demand cuts to vital programs that help millions.

4) Repeat.

They're trying to get away with it again.

The worst catastrophes of history are caused by men who are malevolent, ignorant, and have exceptional wills.

it’s weird that we’re staring down the second unprecedented economic catastrophe in five years and instead of a novel coronavirus that will go on to kill millions of people this one is just “no one was willing to tell him no”

I don’t do this often and promise not to make a habit of it, but just this once: WE TRIED TO WARN YOU!!!!!

April 1, 2025 Today Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) made history.

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“Let’s get in good trouble.

“My friend, madam president, I yield the floor.”

According to Washington Post technology reporter Drew Harwell, before he was through, Booker’s speech had been liked on TikTok 400 million times.

Dear Canadian Friends,

We’re sorry. Please know that most Americans did not vote and do not support the lunacy that has broken our relationship with your fine country. Know that we are with you and look forward to when this nonsense is over.

Signed,

An American friend

March 30, 2025 On the Fox News Channel this morning, Director of the National Economic Council Kevin Hassett said: “President Trump has a long run vision of a golden age of America and we’re working really, really h...

March 30, 2025

Since January, SpaceX has received over $560 million in government contracts—an amount projected to surpass $2 billion in taxpayer funding by year’s end, averaging roughly $6.1 million per day. Follow the money and see where it goes.

It’s like Watergate, only in this version Nixon directly mails the tapes to Woodward and Bernstein

March 23, 2025 Fifteen years ago today, President Barack Obama signed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, often called Obamacare, into law.

March 23, 2025

“It is high time that we all stopped being tools and victims of totalitarian techniques—techniques that, if continued here unchecked, will surely end what we have come to cherish as the American way of life.”
-Senator Margaret Chase Smith, 1950

AOC: I want to live in an America that guarantees healthcare to every person.

I want to live in an America that has a living wage for every person

I want to live in an America where you have free speech to express yourself and not be afraid of being put on a list or deported.

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March 17, 2025 From 1942 to 1945, the Code Talkers were key to every major operation of the Marine Corps in the Pacific Theater.

March 17, 2025

March 14, 2025 Today the Senate passed a stopgap measure from the House of Representatives to fund the government for six months through September 30.

March 15, 2025

March 13, 2025 Stocks fell again today.

March 13, 2025:

Another embarrassing day to be an American.

These yahoo’s literally have no plan. Just break shit and laugh