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The bottom line: The bill is cruel. Republicans don’t care about hurting people.
02.07.2025 12:58 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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June 30, 2025 "This is the most deeply immoral piece of legislation I have ever voted on in my entire time in Congress,” said Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT).
01.07.2025 10:46 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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June 19, 2025 Just a week ago, the Trump administration was preparing for a sixth round of negotiations with Iran over its nuclear program, scheduled to be held in Oman on June 15.

Talking Points Memo’s Marshall noted Tuesday that β€œthere is really, literally no one in the inner discussion of U.S. foreign policy today who has any level of foreign policy or military crisis experience at all.”

20.06.2025 10:33 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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June 17, 2025 Yesterday at the meeting of the leaders of the Group of Seven (G7), a forum of democracies with advanced economies, President Donald Trump told reporters: β€œThe UK is very well protected.
18.06.2025 10:10 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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June 11, 2025 While President Donald Trump is trying to project strength by ordering a federalized National Guard and the Marines into Los Angeles, a new Quinnipiac poll of American registered voters out today rein...
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June 10, 2025 Today President Donald J.
11.06.2025 10:21 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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June 7, 2025 In April, John Phelan, the U.S.
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June 3, 2025 On June 1, Ukrainian forces struck deep inside Russia in β€œOperation Spider Web.” One hundred and seventeen drones, each operated by its own pilot, hit airfields in five regions.

Lots of good information here.

04.06.2025 12:16 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The Three Huge Lies Trump is Telling Republican Senators about his Medicaid Cuts β€” to finance a big tax cut mostly for the wealthy Friends,
04.06.2025 01:11 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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June 2, 2025 The Republicans’ giant budget reconciliation bill has focused attention on the drastic cuts the Trump administration is making to the American government.
03.06.2025 11:23 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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An after-school program in Trump’s backyard struggles to survive DOGE cuts β€” The Washington Post Seven miles from the White House, a Northern Virginia nonprofit serving low-income families lost funding for more than a dozen teachers hired through AmeriCorps.

Real world consequences.

03.06.2025 01:29 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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May 31, 2025 β€œI would like to speak briefly and simply about a serious national condition,” Senator Margaret Chase Smith of Maine told her colleagues on June 1, 1950.

History gives us context for current events.

01.06.2025 13:44 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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May 30, 2025 In July 2024, according to an article published today by Kirsten Grind and Megan Twohey in the New York Times, billionaire Elon Musk texted privately about his concerns that government investigations ...

β€œMax Stier, who heads the Partnership for Public Service, suggests DOGE cuts could cost U.S. taxpayers $135 billion because agencies will need to train and hire replacements for the workers DOGE fired. Stier called DOGE’s actions β€˜arson of a public asset’.”

31.05.2025 04:45 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The Tragic History of Neoliberalism Don’t buy revisionist attempts to rehabilitate it. Instead, push for a bold progressive populism.
30.05.2025 12:06 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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What They Died For Publisher's Roundup 19, Memorial Day Edition

β€œHow do we honor those who died for freedom when we see liberty under attack here at home? How do we salute the flag and that idea of America it stands for, when its meaning is being assaulted daily by the very administration entrusted with its care?”

26.05.2025 12:01 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Justice Department cuts to public safety grants leave police and nonprofits scrambling β€” NPR Hundreds of public safety grants cut, worth $500 million, funded initiatives like drug treatment and gun violence prevention programs.

Real world consequences

25.05.2025 01:39 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Trump undermined Biden’s FEMA in North Carolina. Now the cleanup is lagging on his watch. As a candidate, the president spread misinformation about the Hurricane Helene recovery efforts, convincing many survivors that the federal government was out to get them.

β€œRogers lamented how misinformation besieged and complicated the recovery. How it infiltrated his neighbors’ minds and conversations. How it all could contribute to dismantling FEMA β€” which, for all its faults, is still in the thick of it, trying to get Haywood County back on its feet.”

24.05.2025 12:31 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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In America’s new budget, your worth isn’t measured in rightsβ€”it’s measured in revenue. This budget isn’t just a spreadsheetβ€”it’s a declaration of who matters, and who can be discarded.
23.05.2025 16:46 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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What you need to share about the "one big beautiful" ugly horrible bill (Resending so you can share over email without my inadvertent notes after the "share" button)
22.05.2025 17:47 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The Great Betrayal: How Trump Broke His Promises on Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid Trump didn’t just break his promise to protect Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaidβ€”he reengineered the state’s purpose: to protect capital, not life.
22.05.2025 15:24 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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May 21, 2025 Just after 1:00 this morning, the House Rules Committee began its hearing on what congressional Republicans have officially named The One Big, Beautiful Bill.

β€œPoorer Americans take a hit from the bill because it cuts federal healthcare and food assistance programs to partially offset the costs of the tax cuts.”

22.05.2025 14:57 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The Hidden Provision in the Big Ugly Bill that makes Trump King. Don't let this happen
22.05.2025 14:47 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Wealthy gain, low-income people lose from GOP megabill, analysis finds β€” POLITICO The report by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office is already fueling Democratic accusations that the legislation is a giveaway to the rich.
21.05.2025 22:12 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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May 20, 2025 Today was a rough day for administration officials on Capitol Hill as Senate committees held hearings on the 2026 budget requests for the Department of Homeland Security, the Department of Health and ...

Ignorance and incompetence at the highest levels

21.05.2025 12:00 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Sabotage Disguised as Stewardship: Why the Damage May Be Irreversible How a calculated campaign of cuts, tariffs, and institutional erosion is dismantling the American futureβ€”one budget line at a time.
20.05.2025 15:58 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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May 19, 2025 The House Rules Committee will take up the Republicans’ omnibus bill this week.
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May 18, 2025 Tonight, late on a Sunday night, the House Budget Committee passed what Republicans are calling their β€œBig, Beautiful Bill” to enact Trump’s agenda although it had failed on Friday when far-right Repu...

The rich get richer, and poor people lose healthcare.

19.05.2025 11:06 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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May 16, 2025 MAGA world is performing over-the-top outrage over a photo former Federal Bureau of Investigation director James Comey posted on Instagram, where he has been teasing a new novel.
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May 13, 2025 While President Donald Trump’s billionaire sidekick Elon Musk has said he is pulling back from his work with the β€œDepartment of Government Efficiency,” he is with Trump today in Saudi Arabia, along wi...
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The single stupidest statement about Trump ever made RFK Jr. doesn’t just kiss Trump’s derriere. He lies through his teeth.
13.05.2025 23:16 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0