There is absolutely zero chance that a man who took $50,000 in cash in a paper bag from an FBI agent on camera would have been appointed to any position by any other president.

Wages have gone up. We have record real wages, excluding a fake pandemic peak.

Coal Miners With Black Lung Say They Are ‘Cast Aside to Die’ Under Trump

Coal Miners With Black Lung Say They Are ‘Cast Aside to Die’ Under Trump

The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6.6 trillion.

The entire bottom 50% of America is worth just $4.2 trillion.

Read that back.

When 400 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.

“Fiction.”

@cnn.com
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Republican response strategy

BREAKING: Trump doesn't remember/believe/understand HE was president on January 6, 2021

This is how unstable, how mentally unbalanced, how much of a dangerous mixture of dishonesty and insanity Trump is:

"Biden's FBI?" By Jan. 6 2021, TRUMP had run the FBI for 1,448 days #25A

Your reminder—or maybe no one ever told you—that complications from a measles infection include immune amnesia (where you lose immunity to everything), vision and hearing loss, brain damage, and a fatal brain disease called Subacute Sclerosing Panencephalitis that can show up years later.

This senile liar who currently occupies the White House does not remember that he was President on January 6th.

If you voted for this senile liar, and if you enable him today, you clearly are ok with breaking America. The ruins of our once great nation are because of you.

FACTS👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼‼️‼️‼️

Donald Trump is not a king — and his administration is not above the law.

Today, the court confirmed what we all know: there is no credible evidence of a rebellion in the state of Illinois.

And no place for the National Guard in the streets of American cities like Chicago.

“The Founders would never believe that it would ever come to pass that one state militia could be sent to another state for the purposes of political retribution”

THAT PART!

Thank you, Judge Perry.

Live Updates: María Corina Machado of Venezuela Is Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize

Congratulations to new Nobel Peace Prize laureate María Corina Machado for her courageous struggle to bring democracy to Venezuela.

Bye, bye Miss American Pie The outlook: inequality and consumer angst

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Pritzker: "It's unconscionable. This has never happened before. They're calling out troops onto the streets of a state that doesn't want them and they're not even telling us where they're gonna go, what they're gonna do. This hasn't happened I don't think since the Civil War."

CBO: FY2025 budget deficit $1.8 trillion, same as 2024.
⚫️+6% Tax receipts
⚫️+3% Spending
⚫️Tariffs up $118B or 153%
⚫️Net interest exceeded $1T (record)
⚫️Spend exceeded $7T (record).
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YouTube video by The Ezra Klein Show What the Shutdown is REALLY About | The Ezra Klein Show

Today’s episode of The Ezra Klein Show.

What the Shutdown Is Really About

@neeratanden.bsky.social walks through the shutdown’s policy stakes.
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Opinion | What the Shutdown Is Really About

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Thanks, New Yorker

One should assume, if one had not already, that every single thing the GOP has to say about pretty much anything is a lie or fabrication.

Cartoon by @ivan-ehlers.bsky.social.

Turning the military on citizens.

Attempting to rig elections.

Toying with the idea of declaring martial law.

Attacking political enemies and punishing those who speak out.

If this were happening in another country, what would you call it?

No state where 40%+ of the population had a college degree voted for Trump.

181. Courts and Domestic Use of the Military In response to adverse judicial rulings, the President's advisers and supporters are claiming courts lack the power to halt domestic use of the military. A critical early precedent is to the contrary.

In light of Judge Immergut's ruling, there's a lot of noise today coming from the President's advisers and supporters about courts not having the power to provide prospective relief against domestic uses of the military.

Via "One First," me on the rather significant early precedent to the contrary: