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Agree with this take 100%. Wife said there's gonna be "I Am In The Epstein Files" for sale at MAGA events soon and I think she's right. They're gonna celebrate it.

This is the tribute Gabbard must offer to keep her job after contradicting Trump on Iran’s nuclear progress. The DNI effectively said there was no evidence to support Trump’s rationale for bombing Iran - and he was pissed.

Her transgression required a show of unhinged loyalty. And here we are.

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It's a sign of deep societal decay that today, of all days, as the Big Cruel Bill was signed into law, he doesn't feel ashamed pretending he can't understand the relationship between the massive tax cut he just got and the loss in health care and food security for millions of people.

Nobody hates their country more than fake patriots.

56 years since this was published and it’s truer today than ever.

They’ve destroyed American medical research, the American education system, the American university research system, and the aid system that protected millions of lives, and they’ve given our anti-immigrant masked paramilitary police force a budget the size of a nation

I don't understand why it's so hard for people to understand that republicans are just bad people for free.

I never want to give Trump credit for anything, but taking Musk's money, then encouraging him to embarrass himself so badly that people stopped buying his cars, then driving him to this obvious madness, was an act of genius.

The Minnesota assassin appears to be a hate-filled right winger. So can we stop walking on eggshells about MAGA's legitimization of political violence?

Yes, Republicans have also been the target of inexcusable violence, but this isn't a "both sides" issue.

1/ A🧵on the danger.

I doubt anyone will see me post, but this needs to be known... if you have a visible following please repost 💙🔥💙

Admitting he wants "his people... aka US " to behave like north Korea for Kim Jong Un.🤬

The Tea Party protests in April 2009 had about a third of a million people involved, and the political media treated it like a game changer for the Obama presidency.

The No Kings rallies were AT LEAST ten times bigger than the Tea Party protests. Will the press keep pretending Trump is popular?

I want to be clear: I cannot get enough of this content. My appetite for this public humiliaition is insatiable. My schadenfreude tank is unfillable. I want more- always more.

Enough is enough. Exercising my right (& duty!) to protest against the oligarchy and fascists in my home country! 🇺🇸

Sorry, cancer patients, but we just don't have the money.

We had to prioritize spending tens of millions on a military parade so the president could compensate for his many personal inadequacies.

I'm sure you understand.

When we push for walkability, bike lanes, and good transit, it's called "forcing a lifestyle."

But when the auto industry traps you in a car-dependent society and drains your wallet, that’s somehow called “freedom.”

Got it...

The most powerful weapon in today's discourse should be the phrase "Explain to me why this is bad"

Explain to me why the trade deficit is bad.

Explain to me why immigration is bad.

Explain to me why trans people are bad.

And no, "I don't like it" is not a sufficient argument.

It's disappointing to see Simone Biles apologizing to Riley Gaines - everything she said about Gaines being a sore loser was frankly spot-on. But I think it underscores why it's important for people like me - schlubs who participated in sports during their high school or college years - to stand up.

If you want more American flags at protests, you are welcome to go to the protests and fly one. No one will stop you. You yourself can create that picture of tolerance and pluralism.

But don't sit on the sidelines and tell a community under racist assault not to assert its right to exist.

Arguably 300,000 wholly preventable, gratuitous deaths already from gutting USAID.

If this ends up basically banning vaccines, how many thousands more preventable gratuitous deaths?

And almost all of children.

Death of children, simply everywhere.

day laborers who stand outside the Home Depot are the only men on this planet a woman alone will roll up to, invite to get in her car, tell them she has cash, and drive them to her house, feeling perfectly safe the entire time, and LA is never ever gonna let Feds fuck with them

Cardinals could get big money from Missouri stadium deal for Chiefs, Royals Upgrades to Busch Stadium in St. Louis could get hundreds of millions of dollars in state aid under a bill passed by the Missouri Senate.

Bonkers to even be having this conversation right now. www.stltoday.com/news/local/g...

bridging with fascists is like trying to develop an intimate emotional connection with a running chainsaw

A bad President, for instance, has the power to do what? What can he not do? If he wanted to revolutionize this government, he could easily do it with this ponderous power; it would be an auxiliary power. He could cry “havoc, and let slip the dogs of war,”29 and say to the conspirators: “I am with you. If you succeed, all is well. If you fail, I will interpose the shield of my pardon, and you are safe. If your property is taken away from you by Congress, I will pardon and restore your property. Go on and revolutionize the government; I will stand by you.” The bad man will say or might say this. I am not sure but we have got a man now who comes very near saying it. Let us have done with this pardoning power. We have had enough of this. Pardoning! How inexpressibly base have been the uses made by this power—this beneficent power. It has been that with which a treacherous President has trafficked. He has made it the means of securing adherents to himself instead of securing allegiance to the government.

very fun to read frederick douglass accurately describe the problem with the pardon power in 1867

the entire republican caucus is currently angry they voted for and passed a bill that none of them read

7 ways Republicans are split over Trump’s ‘big bill’ Getting Trump’s tax and immigration bill through the Senate won’t be easy.

I'll be honest. Don't think they're too divided.

Robbing from the poor to drown people who earn $500,000+ w/ cash is what the party exists to do.

But the assault on Medicaid, which will reverberate across the health care system seems to be the best way in if Hawley is serious at all (probably not)