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“It’s the toughest time in years to be searching for work in America.”

@washingtonpost.com

Trump Is Accusing Foes With Multiple Mortgages of Fraud. Records Show 3 of His Cabinet Members Have Them. The White House has targeted opponents, including a Fed governor, for having more than one primary residence on their loan papers. ProPublica found that, in one case, a Trump cabinet secretary got two...

Strong reporting here from ProPublica, which found that three Trump Cabinet members -- at Labor, Transportation and EPA -- call multiple homes their primary residence on mortgages.

That's the same move that led Trump to fire Lisa Cook from her job at the Fed. bit.ly/466yMyI

As I wrote in @thehill.com, federal science funding isn’t just about labs, it’s about livelihoods. Cuts to NIH, NSF & NASA mean lost jobs today, stalled discovery tomorrow, and fewer opportunities for the next generation. When we invest in research, we are investing in workers and communities. ⬇️

Who will be first to introduce a bill naming it the Jeffrey Epstein Memorial White House Ballroom? Or will the identity of the bill author remain another wonderful secret?

Remarkable set of accomplishments in a short time. Thank you @wmatagm.bsky.social

CBS canceled Colbert’s show just THREE DAYS after Colbert called out CBS parent company Paramount for its $16M settlement with Trump – a deal that looks like bribery.

America deserves to know if his show was canceled for political reasons.

Watch and share his message.

The same company that's buying CBS (and needs Trump's approval to do so) is also trying to buy Bari Weiss' website. It's a political decision.

On July 5, as floodwaters were starting to recede, FEMA received 3,027 calls from disaster survivors and answered 3,018, or roughly 99.7 percent, the documents show. Contractors with four call center companies answered the vast majority of the calls. That evening, however, Ms. Noem did not renew the contracts with the four companies and hundreds of contractors were fired, according to the documents and the person briefed on the matter. The next day, July 6, FEMA received 2,363 calls and answered 846, or roughly 35.8 percent, according to the documents. And on Monday, July 7, the agency fielded 16,419 calls and answered 2,613, or around 15.9 percent, the documents sho

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/c...

a point I make over and over re: climate change is that there’s no point at which it’s time to throw up your hands and give up, because each tenth of a degree you can prevent is worth it

2C is better than 2.1C is better than 2.2C and so on and so forth

Summary Table of the massive defunding of biomedical research in the United States
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Warnock: "We are engaged in Robin Hood in reverse ... this is socialism for the rich."

Tomorrow is the day is the day in the Senate, and the House could be just a few days later. Begging you to get everyone you know to call their senators and House reps.

I promise you that someone you know will be harmed. There has never in US history been a law that has cut low-income programs more.

Tillis: What do I tell 663,000 people in two years, three years, when President Trump breaks his promise by pushing them off of medicaid because the funding's not there anymore, guys?

“Anyone who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.” —Voltaire

Disturbed member of death cult details the extent of her narcissism and callousness walking through a cemetery while trivializing throwing the poorest Americans off their health care for massive tax cuts for the richest

NEWS: Ranking Members Raskin, Jayapal, Crockett, Scanlon, Nadler, Johnson, and McBath release a joint statement on the Department of Justice’s unfounded targeting of Rep. LaMonica.

Local food banks have lost 1.4 million meals to Trump’s cuts As local food banks struggle to meet demand, the Trump administration has cut USDA funding meant to provide meals for those in need.

Thanks to Trump's disastrous USDA cuts, DMV food banks have lost 1.4 MILLION meals and food banks nationally are struggling to meet growing demand.

There's nothing "efficient" about taking food from people in need. It's just more cruelty from Trump and his cabinet of billionaires.

“And so the Greeks send me this horse, we’re talking about one of the most beautiful horses you’ve ever seen. So big. So strong. Normally they keep this kind of horse for themselves but they were such big fans they said sir, please take our big wonderful horse we’ll even bring it to your house”

Remember that scene in Last Crusade when the Nazis bribe the sultan with a fancy car, and later the bad guy dies the most grisly death imaginable when he thinks the cup of Christ is a fancy gold goblet?

White House considering suspending habeas corpus, Stephen Miller says The move marks another escalation in the Trump administration's fight again the judicial branch.

This fanatic is openly talking about fabricating a reason to suspend everyone's constitutional right to due process — and Trump has given him free rein.

Is there NO Republican in D.C. who will stand up to these constitutional arsonists?

"WE'VE ARRANGED A society based on science and technology, in which nobody understands anything about science technology. And this combustible mixture of ignorance and power, sooner or later, is going to blow up in our faces. Who is running the science and technology in a democracy if the people don't know anything about it?" "Science is more than a body of knowledge, it's a way of thinking. A way of skeptically interrogating the universe with a fine understanding of human fallibility. If we are not able to ask skeptical questions, to interrogate those who tell us that something is true, to be skeptical of those in authority, then we're up for grabs for the next charlatan, political or religious, who comes ambling along."

I think a lot about what Carl Sagan said in one of his final interviews.

Dangerous to the public and reckless. “It conducts research on the treatment and prevention of infectious diseases that are deemed “high consequence”—those that pose significant risks to public health…ex: the viruses that cause Ebola, Lassa fever, and Marburg, types of hemorrhagic fevers.”

Trump’s Cuts to Science Funding Could Hurt U.S. Economy, Study Shows (Gift Article) Reducing federal support for research and development could cause long-run economic damage and reduce government revenue.

"If you look at a long period of time, a lot of our increase in living standards seems to be coming from public investment in scientific research."

The devastating cuts to science funding aren't just academic, they threaten our livelihoods and wellbeing. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/30/b...

What a powerful moment.

I joined Leader Jeffries, Sen. Booker, Rep. Carson, and NEA President Becky Pringle on the Capitol steps in faith and fellowship.

America will know us by our love. Slashing Medicaid to pay for tax cuts for billionaires? That's not love, that's greed.

I'm paid on a per deal basis. I haven't been making many deals, but have been making a tremendous number of *subdeals* yet to be revealed. I'm sure my employer will understand my work is progressing apace.

In Annapolis, Van Hollen was *the* guy advocates went to if they wanted a chance at getting something *hard* done, because they knew he would work it. (Like banning oil drilling in the Chesapeake Bay, or taking on the gun lobby or the cigarette lobby or some other powerful interest.)

Raskin: If they can just sweep someone off the street, put them on an airplane, and send them to a torturer’s prison in an authoritarian state like El Salvador without due process… then they could do it to anybody.

“Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.” —8th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution

I keep coming back to @jfallows.bsky.social - this is like the Iraq War of economic policy, a deeply misguided and destructive impulse with justifications retrofitted to it and then discarded one after the next