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It’s fun to be a Republican when you can just make shit up

Actor Robert De Niro: “I like what Letitia James is doing. She’s fighting back. She’s saying fuck you. I’m sorry, this is where we are. She’s saying this is it. I will not be taken down by this person. I am not afraid of him. God bless her for that.”

Lower-Income Americans Are Missing Car Payments Inflation and a tough job market are making it harder for some people to pay back the car loans they signed in better times.

More Americans are struggling to make their monthly car-loan payments, one of the clearest indications that low- and middle-income families could be starting to buckle, even as the U.S. economy on its surface has appeared to hold up relatively well.

He got the COVID and flu Vaccines like every 79 year old should this is a good thing.
"Cardiovascular age validated by by ECG and found to be 14 years younger than chronological age" is a nonsensical phrase.
I am an internist this is not something we do or write in medical reports.

Letting the health care tax credits expire would devastate American families — and we’re making that crystal clear by giving you the data.

We’ve built graphics showing how much costs would rise in every GOP district.

Let’s start with Mike Johnson (R-LA):

Bad Bunny rolling into the Super Bowl with a demonic sexual performance in Spanish.

We’re in a moment now where it would be worth people taking three hours to watch Gandhi, particularly the scene of the salt march. There is value to making the brutality of your opponent so plain as day that no one can argue with it. The clarity of that brought down an empire

Oh look the party that screams “family values” every five minutes is silent when one of their megachurch darlings pleads guilty to child sex abuse. But they’ll trip over themselves to ban books and attack drag shows. Tells you everything you need to know.

Love this. Superbly done. Please send this far and wide. @donwinslow.bsky.social

If and when America finds a way out of authoritarianism, not only will ICE have to be abolished: All these people will need to be held accountable in a court of law for the monstrosities they are committing - those who are ordering them as well as those who are carrying them out.

Every single one.

Serious question: What's stopping the State of Illinois from arresting Stephen Miller & charging him with incitement?

The Senate didn't confirm him. He's just a guy.

At some point, the states MUST use their authority to prosecute, because the federal government certainly will not.

I strongly object to the comparison many are making these days between Stephen Miller and Joseph Goebbels.

I think it's deeply misguided, and unfair, to compare them.

Goebbels was a far better propagandist, and didn't execute much policy.

Miller far more closely resembles Heinrich Himmler.

The market the farmers had was absolutely fine until Trump fucked it all up

The politics of full service to the fossil fuels industry, and spreading its malicious propaganda, on full display.

We all know how Trump’s trade war with China is going to end because we’ve seen it many times before.

He will surrender and declare victory.

MAGA’s “Voter Fraud” Watchdog Votes in a Swing State. He Doesn’t Live There. A long paper trail shows that Jack Posobiec casts a ballot in one state and lives in another.

SCOOP — Pennsylvania prosecutors were alerted to possible voting irregularities by one of MAGA's leading voices against voter fraud. A long paper trail shows Jack Posobiec has been living in Maryland but voting using his parents' PA address for years.

From @jsweetli.bsky.social, @slate.com + me:

Solidly in the FO of the FA

White House Anti-Terror Order Targets ‘Anti-American’ Views The order, experts warn, could target protestors' constitutional right to protest and free speech.

The Trump admin's order on "countering domestic terrorism and political violence" is dangerously broad, could target speech and protest. It "covers many aspects of First Amendment protected activity," says @faizapatel.bsky.social.

What does this tell you about the Trump administration’s health policies? Everything.

I stand with PBS.

I stand with NPR.

I stand with Stephen Colbert.

I stand with Jimmy Kimmel.

I stand with the First Amendment.

PERIOD.*

*Also #ReleaseTheEPSTEIN_Files

House Judiciary Committee Rejects Request to Subpoena Banks in Epstein Case Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee rejected a request by Democrats yesterday to subpoena four major banks -- JPMorgan, BNY, Bank of America and Deutsche Bank -- about their connections to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

House Judiciary Committee Rejects Request to Subpoena Banks in Epstein Case

BREAKING: Eric Swalwell just told the FCC chairman to hire a lawyer and preserve records because they will be held accountable in 2027 when democrats take the House.

Oh and he’s wearing a Jimmy Kimmel hat.

Ken Paxton’s legal crusade against Beto O’Rourke is faltering before an all-Republican appeals court The court, appointed by Gov. Greg Abbott, recently allowed O’Rourke to continue raising and dispersing donations, and cast doubt on Paxton’s main arguments.

Six weeks, four courts, two counties, dueling rulings and hundreds of thousands of dollars in legal expenses later, Ken Paxton’s case against Beto O'Rourke seems on the brink of collapse.

Questions Are Raised About Vaccine Panel’s Reliability as Policy Review Gets Underway

The announcement of health insurance companies that they’ll continue covering routine vaccinations is a huge vote of no confidence in ACIP's recommendations. It reflects a desire by insurers to avoid the cost of illnesses by having their customers vaccinated.

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Victim of Boulder Firebombing Attack Dies of Wounds The death of Karen Diamond, 82, has turned the attack in Boulder, Colo., on marchers for Israeli hostages into a possible death-penalty case.

Breaking News: An 82-year-old woman wounded in a Boulder, Colorado, attack on marchers who had gathered to support Israeli hostages died of her injuries.

Q: Do you think that it's appropriate to ban an LGBTQ Pride Parade?

TAMMY BRUCE: Well, you know, when the vice president or any of us speak about the nature of policy or I think what's important regarding freedom of expression, um, that's our plan and what we feel is important to convey

An open letter from an American-owned tour company to our Canadian travel buddies 🍁

Tucker have a seat. No Black Woman Surgeon wants to operate on you!

Rick Scott, who took the 5th 75 times when he was investigated for Medicaid fraud, says AOC “should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law” for advising people of their rights: “We took an oath to uphold the constitution, not to tell people how to evade the constitution.”