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"The ballroom is really the president's main priority."

Not your health care.
Not rising prices.
Not the dragging economy.
Not ending the shutdown.

Trump's "main priority" is wrecking the White House so he can build a fancy new ballroom.

Glens Falls, NY #NoKings

Seeing all the #nokings protest across the nation and world has me feeling more patriotic than almost anything in my 39 years. Love to see it. #americanpride

This is why white conservative Christians have zero credibility. In politics and in Christianity.

Returning Jesus Christ Downed By U.S. Missile Defense 30,000 Feet Before Making Landfall

Returning Jesus Christ Downed By U.S. Missile Defense 30,000 Feet Before Making Landfall

Korea Herald editorial:

"Three South Korean battery companies are constructing plants at 10 US locations. Their combined investments amount to $43 billion. If it remains difficult for employees to travel to the US ... investment plans will be frozen or put off."

www.koreaherald.com/article/1057...

SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in a college applicant's file is blatantly unconstitutional

ALSO SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in targeting whom to detain and deport is cool cool cool

Making them wear high-visibility vests over camo is such a good joke you couldn’t write it

Morgan Wallen Boycotts Grammys In Protest Of Desegregation

Morgan Wallen Boycotts Grammys In Protest Of Desegregation https://theonion.com/morgan-wallen-boycotts-grammys-in-protest-of-desegregation/

As a Georgian, JD can fuck right on off.

Kennedy's case against mRNA vaccines collapses under his own evidence “This isn't scientific disagreement. It's either staggering incompetence or willful misrepresentation,” writes infectious disease physician Jake Scott.

RFK Jr. put out a document justifying pulling $500M from mRNA research. It was assembled by a dentist, not a virologist. The "science" he refers to was not systematic review of the research.

He cited work that CONTRADICTED his views.

More reason to oust him.

🧪 🔗 www.statnews.com/2025/08/13/r...

Trump Claims He Can Overrule Constitution With Executive Order Because Of Little-Known ‘No One Will Stop Me’ Loophole WASHINGTON—Saying his latest executive order was legal due to an “underutilized but totally feasible workaround,” President Trump claimed Tuesday that he could overrule the U.S. Constitution by means ...

This is from 2018…🤦

Banning chemtrails is impossible, because they aren't real. Thank you for attending my TED Talk.

Trump says undocumented immigrants do farm work "naturally" because "they don't get a bad back."

Mississippi's Declaration of Secession similarly said slavery must be protected because "by an impervious law of nature, none but the black race can bear exposure to the tropical sun."

Aerial view of the White House with multiple red map pointer icons above it.

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.

This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.

It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

To recap the saga of the OBBB:

The House quickly passed an awful bill to satisfy Trump's deadline
The Senate reworked it and passed on the assumption the House would rework their rework
The House changed nothing after being bribed with Trump merchandise
Trump doesn't know what's in the bill

END

You’re at a protest and saw someone do something that you don’t approve of, that might get them in trouble with the cops? No you didn’t. Mind your business.

Re: the big No Kings protests this weekend, remember that the corporate media, politicians, etc are obviously champing at the bit to be able to force a “good protestors vs bad protestors” narrative to discredit the anti-ICE/anti-genocide movement.

Do not let them. Embrace a diversity of tactics.

A table on Opportunity Scholarship Voucher Recipients in 24-25 showing that the vast majority of funding is going to families who already had their kids in private schools

New data from North Carolina indicates that a whopping 87% of new vouchers in 24-25 went to kids who had never been in public school
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"jesus" is french for " i am sus"

graph showing debt/gdp from 2001 to present. it breaks out the effect of the bush tax cuts, the trump tax cuts, and our one-time responses to the great recession and to covid. without the bush and trump tax cuts, debt/gdp would be stable.

I updated this old graph of mine. It shows that, if not for the Bush and Trump tax cuts, debt/GDP would be stable rather than rising forever.

I've updated the methodology to first assume an AMT patch at Clinton levels, so I'm only attributing to the Bush tax cuts their portion of the AMT patch.

There 👏 are 👏 no 👏 deals

The Presidents of the United States of America’s 1994 debut album is a perfect record from start to finish.

Sen. Rosen to Rubio: "I'm not even mad anymore about your complicity in this administration's destruction of U.S. global leadership. I'm simply disappointed. I wonder if you're proud of yourself in this moment when you go home to your family?"

this is special and so right on🧪

This is the moment I was invited into Delaney Hall. Nobody was kicking or shoving like the coverage suggests. We were invited in.