A huge tax break snuck into Trump & the GOP's big ugly bill would allow private jet owners to write off the full cost of their planes in the first year of purchase.

Meanwhile, the law will cause millions to lose food assistance and healthcare.

"Party of the working class."

Why did Congressional Republicans jam through an unpopular budget with the largest Medicaid cuts in history?

It could be because nearly 70% of them would financially benefit from the bill's extension of Trump's tax cuts for the rich.

Reverse Robin Hood.

Medicaid covers...

-40% of births nationwide
-50% of kids with special needs
-72 million people in total

Remember this as Republicans move to gut the program to finance tax cuts that will overwhelmingly go to the richest 1% of Americans. 

"Party of family values."

DOGE initially promised to save taxpayers $2 trillion. 

Now it admits it's only delivered $160B in cuts.

And even those minimal savings are nearly wiped out by the cost of implementing DOGE's cuts: $135B.

We're losing vital government services for basically nothing in return.

AOC: Donald Trump is a criminal. He was found guilty of 34 felony counts of fraud, found liable for sexual abuse. If he wants to find the rapists and criminals in this country, he should look in the mirror

The two tipping points for when we officially become a dictatorship could occur this week Friends,

The Trump regime is on the cusp of a showdown with the Supreme Court.

Depending on what the Court does and how the regime responds, it could openly become a dictatorship two ways. Some thoughts... robertreich.substack.com/p/the-two-ti...

“Race does not provide an accurate representation of human biological variation,” the statement reads. “Humans are not divided biologically into distinct continental types or racial genetic clusters. Instead, the Western concept of race must be understood as a classification system that emerged from, and in support of, European colonialism, oppression, and discrimination.” “It thus does not have its roots in biological reality, but in policies of discrimination,” the statement says. “Because of that, over the last five centuries, race has become a social reality that structures societies and how we experience the world. In this regard, race is real, as is racism, and both have real biological consequences.”

Trump's 3/27 executive order targets the Smithsonian for advancing "the view that race is not a biological reality but a social construct."

Trump argues that the exhibit's statement, below, is unscientific. He's wrong. As a biology professor and population geneticist, I agree with every word of it.

Yep

So we could lose $200B in tourism, $100B in immigrants paying taxes, $100B in weapons manufacturing, $500B in lost tax revenue from firing IRS employees… is it sinking in yet?

NIH has rescinded its scientific integrity policy. Hard to see this as anything other than clearing the way for shoddy research on things like vaccines. Regardless of the rationale, it's bad news for public health.

grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

Boston folks--rally this evening to support the Tufts PhD student, here on a visa, nabbed off the street yesterday 👇👇👇

I’m so fucking pissed that I already go into a classroom thinking “what do I do if there’s a mass shooter” and now I gotta add “what do I do if armed agents of the state come to drag away a student?”

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Londoners! I'll be doing an event and fundraiser for @afcwimbledon1889.bsky.social at Plough Lane on April 17th. Can't wait to see some of y'all there. www.afcwimbledon.co.uk/news/2025/ma...

If Trump can disappear green card holders for protesting war, he can disappear you.

If he can disappear visa holders for criticizing him, he can disappear you.

If he can disappear asylum seekers for tattoos, he can disappear you.

We must speak out now — before there is no one left to speak out.

Pete Hegseth never should have been tapped for this job. It's too important.

He should be fired immediately.

Boob job, penis enlargement, face lift, pec implants, hair removal, fillers, nose job, butt lift...

Cis (non-trans) people are the main users of gender-affirming treatments

I've never seen a GC person argue against this

If you only have an issue when trans folk do it, that is a YOU problem

15 years ago, the Affordable Care Act expanded Medicaid—and it’s been helping families get the care they need ever since.

Cutting Medicaid will kick roughly 80 million off their health insurance.

Shame on Trump for putting it on the chopping block to fund billionaire tax cuts.

Now I get it — you’re probably tired of being told to just keep voting. But state and local offices have a huge impact on your day-to-day life. Electing people-powered leaders who believe in democracy and the rule of law will be instrumental in pushing back against Trump and his billionaire cronies’ lawless agenda. So please register, volunteer, donate, and vote. You DO have a voice. And right now it’s more important than ever to join the fight against fascism in America. You can go to Vote.org or Ballotpedia.org to look up the elections happening where you live. Remember: Tyranny cannot prevail over people who refuse to succumb to it. Don’t agonize. Organize! The Fight Against Trump Isn’t Over

This year:

-Wisconsin will fill the deciding seat on its Supreme Court.
-New Yorkers can choose a new mayor.
-New Jersey and Virginia will elect their next governor.

Make no mistake: 2025 is a major election year.

Donald Trump is illegally firing FTC commissioners whose jobs are to protect American consumers from corporate greed.
 
That's right. Trump is making it easier for his billionaire pals to skirt the law, screw you over and get away with it.
 
A wannabe king acts this way.

DOGE plans to fire 430 workers at the IRS Taxpayer Advocate Service — which helps low-income and small business filers.

Meanwhile, its wider agency layoffs will make it even easier for the rich to get away with skirting what they owe.

See what DOGE is really about?

BREAKING: I just offered an amendment on the floor to give Veterans fired in the Trump-Musk layoffs their jobs back.

Every single Republican blocked it.

Shame on them for betraying our heroes.

Jackie Robinson smiling, wearing his military uniform when he served as a second lieutenant for the Army in World War II.

Trump erased a DoD webpage on Jackie Robinson—the great American hero who challenged racial segregation in our military while serving as a second lieutenant in the Army before breaking MLB's color barrier.
 
That's no way to honor a brave American Veteran.

Arlington Cemetery Website Loses Pages on Black Soldiers, Women in Military and Civil War The cemetery, which is operated by the Army, said it was working to restore the content. Among the obscured pages was material about civil rights.

The five-time draft dodger is now erasing women and Black Americans’ service from our nation’s history.
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/14/u...

Arlington Cemetery Website Loses Pages on Black Soldiers, Women in Military and Civil War (Gift Article) The cemetery, which is operated by the Army, said it was working to restore the content. Among the obscured pages was material about civil rights.

www.nytimes.com/2025/03/14/u...

The Trump regime is reportedly planning to gut a unit within the DOJ that prosecutes corruption by elected officials.

This comes after Trump's DOJ dropped bribery charges against Eric Adams and suspended enforcement of a foreign anti-bribery law.

"Drain the swamp."

YouTube video by Parkrose Permaculture I may have spoken too soon...Senate Dems are up to something

FUUUUUUUCK. youtu.be/8ohvAMQcqBU

Trump called pretty much every traditional ally of the United States thieves that have been stealing from the USA again today.

The only rational reason I can think of for doing that, and for Trump’s trade war, is to further weaken & isolate the United States.

Which of course is what Putin wants.

This can never be forgiven.

Never.

Can’t believe Twitter keeps crashing despite Elon hiring the best 19-year-old interns that racism has to offer

Setting aside the incredibly dangerous and fascist aspect of this, is there actual evidence that Khalil was a “Hamas supporter”? Or is the standard for a green-card holder being sent to a secret location and possibly deported just “critical of Israel”?