August 6, 2025 Members of the House of Representatives are back in their districts for August, and on Monday, Republican Mike Flood of Nebraska held a town hall in Lincoln.

August 6, 2025

Hearing Trump speak is often like hearing the voices of enslavers echoing down the centuries.

August 4, 2025 President Donald J.

August 4, 2025

August 1, 2025 Economists have been expressing concern about the accuracy of economic statistics coming out of the Trump administration for months.

August 1, 2025

If we are not educating our children, what are we even doing here?

I had heard people refer to this and I assumed they were exaggerating. My bad.

Just read the Brown University agreement and this really jumped out.

"The University will not perform gender reassignment surgery or prescribe puberty blockers or hormones to any minor child for the purpose of aligning the child's appearance with an identity that differs from his or her sex."

July 27, 2025 On July 23 the X account of the Department of Homeland Security posted an image of an 1872 oil painting by John Gast, titled American Progress. Gast represented the American East on the right side of ...

July 27, 2025

YouTube video by mpatter572 Carol Burnett Blooper

Rough days demand Carol Burnett.

If by chance someone who knows her sees this post, please thank her for sharing her genius with the world for all these years.

July 26, 2025 Ten days ago, ten Republican senators wrote to Office of Management and Budget director Russell Vought, asking him to release the funds Congress appropriated in March to support education.

July 26, 2025

Julie K. Brown has been involved in exposing the truth about Epstein from the beginning, before he was convicted in Florida. She has more knowledge and information than anyone else because of it. I would suggest she hire some security/invest in a firearm, because she is definitely in danger.

July 25, 2025 “We’re going to end up shooting some of them.”

July 25, 2025

July 23, 2025 This morning, President Donald J.

July 23, 2025

July 22, 2025 First thing this morning, Attorney General Pam Bondi posted on X a statement from Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche saying that under Bondi’s direction, he had talked to the lawyers for Ghislaine M...

July 22, 2025

Gov. Gavin Newsom: “80% of Californians pay about average taxes. 40% of Californians pay lower taxes than they do in Texas and Florida. Texas and Florida tax their lowest wage earners more than we do our highest wage earners. So who’s the high tax state? Is it California or is it Texas?”

'This is a dark time for our nation' | US congressman responds to federal plan to hold immigrant detainees at Indiana's Camp Atterbury It remains unclear when detainees might begin arriving at the Edinburgh facility or how many individuals could be housed there.

It looks like Indiana will be home to another concentration camp. This makes me physically sick.

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Junior lied

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July 18, 2025 [There is a lot about sexual assault in tonight’s letter.]

July 18, 2025

July 17, 2025 Five years ago tonight, Georgia Representative John Lewis passed away from pancreatic cancer at the age of 80.

We miss you, John! 🤗

"Representative Lewis once told an audience. “When you see something that is not right, not fair, not just, say something! Do something! Get in trouble, good trouble, necessary trouble.”"🎯

#GoodTrouble

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July 17, 2025 Five years ago tonight, Georgia Representative John Lewis passed away from pancreatic cancer at the age of 80.

July 17, 2025

July 16, 2025 After years of covering Donald J.

July 16, 2025

July 15, 2025 Without any explanation, the right-wing majority on the Supreme Court yesterday granted a stay on a lower court’s order that the Trump administration could not gut the Department of Education while th...

July 15, 2025

July 13, 2025 This weekend saw the development of an extraordinary rift in MAGA world.

July 13, 2025

July 12, 2025 On July 5, the day after the Texas floods hit, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) received 3,027 calls from survivors and answered 3,018 of them, about 99.7%, according to Maxine Joselow o...

July 12, 2025

July 10, 2025 Just a week ago, Republicans in the House of Representatives passed the nearly 1,000-page budget reconciliation bill President Donald Trump demanded, and at the signing ceremony for the bill the next ...

July 10, 2025

July 9, 2025 On July 9, 1868, Americans changed the U.S.

July 9, 2025

July 8, 2025 One hundred and eleven people are dead and more than 160 are still missing in Texas after Friday’s tragic flood.

July 8, 2025

July 6, 2025 At least 80 people are dead and more than 40 are still missing in Central Texas after almost a foot (30 centimeters) of rain caused flash floods overnight on Friday.

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"Molly Taft at Wired confirmed that NWS published flash flood warnings but safety officials didn’t send out public warnings until hours later."

So many things here to read as always ... GOP are destroying our nation one day at a time ...

July 7, 2025 At about 10:30 this morning local time, heavily armed masked agents in trucks, armored vehicles, a helicopter, on foot, and on horseback, accompanied by a gun mounted on a truck raided the MacArthur P...

July 7, 2025