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Before the midterms of 1866, President Andrew Johnson called his congressional opponents traitors and said they should be hanged.

Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.

IRS Direct File won't be available next year. Here's what that means for taxpayers The Trump administration has decided not to offer the IRS' electronic tax filing system for free next year, and its future is unclear

Democrats built Direct File to cut out middlemen like TurboTax that charge ridiculous fees.

Trump killed it. Thanks to Republicans, Turbotax wins and you lose.

Powerful.

With a Trump pardon in hand, Stewart Rhodes says he’s ‘rebuilding’ the Oath Keepers After vowing to bring back his group, Rhodes added that he’d like to see the president “order us all to come together ... under his command.”

"'Right now, under federal statutes, President Trump can call us up as the militia,' he said

Rhodes added that he’d like to see Trump 'order us all to come together in our counties under his command'...”

www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...

Bring it‼️

A year ago today Kamala Harris made her Ellipse rally speech warning everyone about Donald Trump and how important it was to vote.

Days later she lost because millions of Americans ignored the warnings and did not bother to vote. Everything she warned about came true. 💔

🫢 😳 😧 🤢 🤮 😡

I have an even worse feeling about THIS:

It's not about what this country can or can’t afford. It’s about priorities. [Cartoon by Jesse Duquette]

Our nation's federal employees are more than just numbers on a spreadsheet.

They make sure we have clean water.

They protect us from financial fraud.

They provide healthcare to our communities.

They make our government actually work for people.

Do not forget this.

Adelita Grijalva won her election fair and square.

Now House Speaker Mike Johnson is refusing to swear her in because she would be the final signature to release the Epstein files.

Mr. Speaker, respect democracy. Obey the law. Swear Representative Grijalva in immediately.

Stephen Miller said the quiet part out loud. Trump has “plenary authority,” then suddenly went silent. Their plan wasn’t to be public yet. Clearly, someone hit the panic button in his earpiece.

It gets weirder: CNN uploaded the interview with the “plenary authority” comment edited out.
1/2

Same.

#AlsoTiredOfWaitingForTheEPSTEIN_Files

GOP senators torn over luxury fundraising weekend during shutdown The Senate will not be holding votes this weekend on reopening the government as was initially expected, as some Republican senators will be attending a high-dollar fundraising retreat for the Nati…

While vulnerable families stress over how to afford milk as WIC funding runs out, GOP Senators are off to a luxury resort to raise money from the millionaires and billionaires they cut taxes for.

thehill.com/homenews/sen...

A new KFF study reports: 24 million Americans will see their health care premiums under the Affordable Care Act DOUBLE.

Further, 15 million people will be thrown off their health care entirely.
 
Unacceptable. We can’t subject millions of Americans to this unnecessary suffering.

AOC: I think there's two things that are happening at once: One, there absolutely is an unprecedented abuse of power, destruction of norms, erosion of our government and our democracy in order to prop up an authoritarian style of governance

However, they are weaker than they look…

YouTube video by MSNBC Rachel Maddow’s full interview with Kamala Harris I MSNBC EXCLUSIVE

WATCH: Rachel @maddow.msnbc.com’s FULL INTERVIEW with former Vice President @kamalaharris.com:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8Oy...

YouTube video by Jimmy Kimmel Live Jimmy Kimmel is Back!

As I was saying…

In historic move, UK recognizes a Palestinian state despite opposition from US and Israel British Prime Minister Keir Starmer says the U.K. is formally recognizing a Palestinian state despite opposition from the U.S. and Israel.

BREAKING: Canada, the U.K. and Australia recognize a Palestinian state despite opposition from the U.S. and Israel.

Why is the right so angry? They control the entire government and they’re still miserable f*cks.

Joy Reid nailed it.

More of this.

The Nineteenth Amendment Yesterday, I intended to write about the Nineteenth Amendment prohibiting states from denying women the right to vote because today is the anniversary of the amendment’s certification in 1920.

A video about the Nineteenth Amendment.

California didn't start the redistricting fight. But we're going to win it.

Republicans want to rig Congress and gerrymander their way to a permanent majority. If the GOP guts fair maps, blue states can’t just sit back. It’s time for Democrats to fight fire with fire: www.bluestatedefiance.org/redistrictin...

‘Daddy, police!’: New video shows masked ICE agents arrest father outside child’s school in Beaverton Newly published video provides insights into the immigration arrest of a chiropractor outside of his child’s Beaverton Montessori school.

ICE can fuck off. We're paying more to snatch people dropping their children at child care (which more than likely means their working) than paying those child care workers a liveable wage?

And we're okay terrorizing families? Because its not just this child and parent present. Its drop-off time.

Yesterday, Trump signed Republicans’ Big Bad Betrayal Bill into law.

While they lie to the American people about what this bill does, let’s do a quick fact check on some of what they’re saying 🧵

Wow! France gifted her to us, and now they’ve captured what so many Americans are feeling on Independence Day. The values the Statue of Liberty stood for are no more.

📌 A stunning mural of the Statue of Liberty covering her face was unveiled in Roubaix, France, on July 3, 2025.

Dr. Coni: One patient had been receiving treatment with eye drops, but then I didn’t see her for months.. I wondered what had happened to her.

When she finally returned, she told me she had lost her Medicaid coverage and couldn’t afford her drops. As a result, she had gone blind in one eye.