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YouTube video by Senator Elizabeth Warren We are in a health care crisis.

We are in a health care crisis.

Democrats want to fix it. Republicans refuse to even talk about it.

YOOOOO big shout out to my man @mkraju.bsky.social for asking the question lmao run Mikey run

Well, I, for one, am proud of us for doing the sensible thing and basing our entire economy on computers that tell kids to kill themselves

This is jawdropping. The idea that a state about to be invaded by out-of-state soldiers that Trump is moving around the nation like chess pieces has no standing to object to the invasion!

I think it's @cooperlund.online who first pointed out that they're not so much interested in fascism as generating fascist content

I remember when New Yorkers put up posters in a desperate attempt to locate loved ones after 9/11.

Now they are desperately looking for loved ones disappeared by the government of this country.

This evening, President Trump is ordering 400 members of the Texas National Guard for deployments to Illinois, Oregon, and other locations within the United States. No officials from the federal government called me directly to discuss or coordinate. We must now start calling this what it is: Trump's Invasion. It started with federal agents, it will soon include deploying federalized members of the Illinois National Guard against our wishes, and it will now involve sending in another state's military troops. I call on Governor Abbott to immediately withdraw any support for this decision and refuse to coordinate. There is no reason a President should send military troops into a sovereign state without their knowledge, consent, or cooperation. The brave men and women who serve in our national guards must not be used as political props. This is a moment where every American must speak up and help stop this madness.

Statement from Illinois Governor JB Pritzker

Two dudes whom despite their best efforts have no power in Canada.

Raid of church leader’s Florida mansion reveals 57 forced laborers, feds say The victims, called “armor bearers” by the church, are threatened with damnation if they fail to meet their quotas, federal officials say.

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This is what they wanted politics being attached to sentiment means people who make them feel bad

Even if correct

Are bad

you're looking at a foreign country. the government rounds up people on the basis of skin color or other characteristic, puts them in 'detention' facilities, separates families, deports them without process, confiscates their property, denies them access to counsel. what would you call it?

Look Mark you're a Fox News host now. You're not supposed to be battering anyone. You're supposed to inspire poor people to batter them.

It’s fun to be writing a book about the great work the Civil Rights Division did in the 1960s to eradicate decades of entrenched segregation, discrimination and violence and then read about how the Division today is busy fighting to protect the privileged from imaginary crimes.

Which states contribute the most and least to federal revenue? | USAFacts In 2023, New Yorkers paid about $89 billion more to the federal government than they received.

in 2023 New York paid $89 billion more in federal taxes than it got back, California $78bn, New Jersey $70bn, Washington $55bn, etc usafacts.org/articles/whi...

SHUTDOWN STAKES: Democrats want to renew ACA Marketplace tax credits to keep health insurance costs from skyrocketing for 24 million Americans.

Trump & Republicans refuse to negotiate because “iLlEgaL iMmigRaNts.”

Who’s gonna tell them the truth? www.cnbc.com/2025/06/10/g...

Actually the Government Shut Down Months Ago Why federal workers don’t seem so outraged about waiting to get paid.

For, like, a month I've been looking around for some kind soul to bring the FAFO energy to this government shutdown, and in @ddayen.bsky.social I found my guy slate.com/podcasts/wha...

Republicans control the White House, Senate, and the House. This government shutdown is failed Republican leadership on full display.

I mean yes this is funny, but the fact that these unconstitutional stormtroopers are so directionless that they literally stand around waiting for random nonwhite delivery guys to bike past them is just pathetic. No mandate, no mission, no clue. Just racism.

"I spoke to the governor, she was very nice," Trump said. "But I said, 'Well wait a minute, am I watching things on television that are different from what's happening? My people tell me different.' They are literally attacking and there are fires all over the place...it looks like terrible."

I used to have to argue with people that the worst impact of misinformation was not really felt through public consumption but through elite consumption but I think it's as clear as it can get now.

“..Six months after the president’s ‘Liberation Day’ tariffs .., U.S. soybean farmers are learning that China — long the predominant market for their product — doesn’t need them anymore.”

@politico.com
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UCLA in the ranks of institutions that stand up—and prevail.

And another [non-Scotus, of course] federal judge in the ranks of those who stand up for rule of law.

Courage and principle are contagious. Stand up, and support others who do.

TV Group to Show Anti-Kerry Film on 62 Stations (Published 2004)

It's possible I've been missing mention of this in all the voluminous Jimmy Kimmel coverage but... people are conscious of Sinclair's media-political history, yes? Just seems maybe a teensy bit relevant www.nytimes.com/2004/10/11/p...

"We are closing the department in charge of education, but also taking more control over education" is a real puzzler

I still can’t believe this guy said this. What more proof do people need that this is a bubble? What exactly do you think “overbuild” means other than “the demand isn’t there”? When will everybody stop running the stupid asshole Olympics?

genuinely believe that a large number of political, economic and media elites do not realize that nearly half the voting public did not vote for trump

Media execs have fallen prey to a propaganda and harassment campaign that has completely divorced them from what people actually want right now.

Both their insular information environments (group chats, podcasts) and ambient noise (Twitter reactionaries) have put them in a very stupid bubble.

Happy they're speaking out now. Wish they would have don it 8 months ago. Feels far, far too late.

this is good. especially since I think it's clear it can escalate.