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BOLDUAN: When I was asking you about Comey, you've twice now brought up the Epstein files and Tom Homan. Why?

RASKIN: Because the DOJ is in full coverup mode

26.09.2025 14:36 β€” πŸ‘ 22204    πŸ” 6234    πŸ’¬ 733    πŸ“Œ 296

I hope @lawrenceodonnell.msnbc.com welcomes you soon to @lastword.msnbc.com!

29.05.2025 20:49 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Overnight, House Republicans passed a budget that would give huge tax breaks to the ultra-wealthy at the expense of everyone else.

Now, it's on to the Senate.

Call your senators and demand they do everything in their power to stop this theft: 202-224-3121

22.05.2025 14:07 β€” πŸ‘ 2443    πŸ” 787    πŸ’¬ 95    πŸ“Œ 49

Isn't it about time? #Families #WomensRights #ChildCare #MaternityPaidLeave

12.05.2025 00:48 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Trump’s controversial meme coin β€˜contest’ proves predictably profitable for the president β€œThis isn’t Trump just being Trump,” a Democratic senator said. β€œThe Trump coin scam is the most brazenly corrupt thing a president has ever done.”

"What's to stop a foreign government, eager to bribe the American president, from quietly dumping money into Trump’s crypto project, effectively making direct payments to the president without public disclosure? Nothing."
www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

28.04.2025 19:23 β€” πŸ‘ 5254    πŸ” 1877    πŸ’¬ 395    πŸ“Œ 124
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Cuddling a water sausage.

11.04.2025 14:58 β€” πŸ‘ 26313    πŸ” 2824    πŸ’¬ 519    πŸ“Œ 307
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Trump’s budget plan eviscerates weather and climate research, and it could be enacted immediately | CNN The cuts could cripple US industries β€” including agriculture β€” that depend on free, accurate weather and climate data and expert analysis. It could also halt research on deadly weather, including seve...

Trump is destroying US weather forecasting and research because he dislikes the word "climate":

"While the phrase 'climate change' refers to manmade influence on climate via planet-warming pollution, 'climate' in NOAA parlance is simply weather observed over time..."

www.cnn.com/2025/04/11/c...

11.04.2025 20:02 β€” πŸ‘ 7202    πŸ” 2514    πŸ’¬ 649    πŸ“Œ 147

An innocent man, picked up by β€œmistake,” must not be allowed to rot in an El Salvadorian jail.

Mr. President. Obey the courts. Obey our Constitution. Bring him home immediately.

11.04.2025 20:51 β€” πŸ‘ 51020    πŸ” 11299    πŸ’¬ 1821    πŸ“Œ 409
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US fires Greenland military base chief for 'undermining' JD Vance The US military said it had lost confidence in Colonel Susannah Meyers' ability to lead.

Recap:
*Vance insulted our NATO ally Denmark in bizarre bid to take over Greenland
*Commander on the ground says his comments did not reflect the working relationship btw US and Denmark
*She is fired

The mildest pushback against their authoritarian fantasies is enough

www.bbc.com/news/article...

11.04.2025 11:12 β€” πŸ‘ 3326    πŸ” 1158    πŸ’¬ 116    πŸ“Œ 97

"I didn't vote for" you did. Sorry. You did. Should have listened to the woke libtards instead of your roided out imaginary friends who told you kids were pooping in kitty litter at school

07.04.2025 14:51 β€” πŸ‘ 44069    πŸ” 7929    πŸ’¬ 600    πŸ“Œ 263

Absolutely proud of you all! HUG! So far, 3.1 million protesters counted today β€” that’s nearly 1% of the U.S. population! Photos are flooding social media everywhere. Still waiting on more numbers to come in.

05.04.2025 21:04 β€” πŸ‘ 37322    πŸ” 6260    πŸ’¬ 889    πŸ“Œ 327
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cnbc front page just before 3pm on friday 4.4.25

the president himself is off to a golf event.

04.04.2025 18:56 β€” πŸ‘ 18899    πŸ” 5418    πŸ’¬ 979    πŸ“Œ 275

Breaking, per NBC News @garygrumbach.bsky.social --

Judge Paula Xinis in the District of Maryland has ruled that the United States Government must return Kilmar Abrego Garcia to the United States by April 7 at 11:59p

04.04.2025 18:59 β€” πŸ‘ 42511    πŸ” 8701    πŸ’¬ 1450    πŸ“Œ 544

1) Fox News is for real not showing stock-market ticker during this week's collapse.

2) Its economic news is "strong jobs report."

3) Every time I've checked in today, the coverage has been "illegal immigrants committing new crimes."

This is state propaganda, on a par with North Korea or PRC.

04.04.2025 20:16 β€” πŸ‘ 40093    πŸ” 10309    πŸ’¬ 1242    πŸ“Œ 483
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Eugene Robinson Leaves the Washington Post After Jeff Bezos' 'Significant Shift' to Opinion Section "I wish nothing but the very best for the paper and for all of you. I won't be a stranger," the political columnist tells his colleagues after 45 years at WaPo

Eugene Robinson is leaving the Washington Post after 45 years following Jeff Bezos' "significant shift" to the paper's opinion section

03.04.2025 16:56 β€” πŸ‘ 4139    πŸ” 1060    πŸ’¬ 152    πŸ“Œ 86
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Complete And Total Incompetence As Trump Slaps Tariffs On Penguins The Trump White House announced tariffs on the Heard and McDonald Islands. The problem is that no people live there.

β€œDonald Trump held a big event in the Rose Garden to slap tariffs on a bunch of Antarctic penguins.”

@karijerge.bsky.social @solnatamd.medsky.social

open.substack.com/pub/politicu...

02.04.2025 23:44 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Costa Rican former President Oscar Arias says US revoked his visa Former Costa Rican President and Nobel Prize winner Oscar Arias said on Tuesday that the U.S. had revoked his visa to enter the country, weeks after he criticized U.S. President Donald Trump on social media saying he was behaving like "a Roman emperor."

Former Costa Rican President and Nobel Prize winner Oscar Arias said that the US had revoked his visa to enter the country, weeks after he criticized US President Donald Trump on social media saying he was behaving like β€˜a Roman emperor’ reut.rs/4iRDMfK

02.04.2025 03:53 β€” πŸ‘ 5088    πŸ” 1971    πŸ’¬ 262    πŸ“Œ 268

β€œJustice does not have a price. Our courts are not for sale.”
-Susan Crawford

02.04.2025 02:44 β€” πŸ‘ 3419    πŸ” 555    πŸ’¬ 56    πŸ“Œ 17
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The American People Can't Be Bought As Elon Musk Humiliated In Wisconsin Election Elon Musk's attempt to buy the Wisconsin Supreme Court election has backfired as Democrats are on their way to big win.

β€œThis night was nothing short of a disaster for Republicans. Not only did the myth of the Trump mandate go up in flames, but the GOP’s money man tried to literally buy an election and failed.”

@karijerge.bsky.social @solnatamd.medsky.social @leahschade.bsky.social
open.substack.com/pub/politicu...

02.04.2025 03:26 β€” πŸ‘ 17    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Do you know who laid the foundation for the FDA?

President Theodore Roosevelt. Do you know why? Because he read a great piece of literature that exposed the mistreatment of immigrant workers and the disgusting, unsanitary practices in meatpacking plants…

The book is called β€œThe Jungle.”

01.04.2025 22:27 β€” πŸ‘ 23044    πŸ” 5280    πŸ’¬ 679    πŸ“Œ 222
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Booker finally yields after more than 25 hours of speaking πŸ‘πŸ‘πŸ‘

02.04.2025 00:08 β€” πŸ‘ 31389    πŸ” 4575    πŸ’¬ 602    πŸ“Œ 578
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Cory Booker Just Gave The Longest Speech In The History of The US Senate Only two men have spoken on the floor of the U.S. Senate...

Cory Booker just spoke to reporters at the Capitol: "I was very aware of Strom
Thurmond's record since I've gotten to the Senate. I always thought it was a strange shadow to hang over this institution. ... It always seemed wrong to me." talkingpointsmemo.com/news/cory-bo...

02.04.2025 00:48 β€” πŸ‘ 3562    πŸ” 505    πŸ’¬ 37    πŸ“Œ 19
Sen. Cory Booker putting his hand over his heart as he beats Strom Thurmond's floor address record

Sen. Cory Booker putting his hand over his heart as he beats Strom Thurmond's floor address record

It may be breaking, but @booker.senate.gov's voice has never been more powerful.

Thank you, my friend, for speaking out for freedom, justice, and the country we love.

02.04.2025 00:15 β€” πŸ‘ 70358    πŸ” 9490    πŸ’¬ 897    πŸ“Œ 318

Congratulations to Wisconsin’s newest Supreme Court Justice, Susan Crawford!

The voters spoke loud and clear: Wisconsin is not for sale.

02.04.2025 02:17 β€” πŸ‘ 4480    πŸ” 643    πŸ’¬ 96    πŸ“Œ 16

Feel like maybe @booker.senate.gov read The Sirens’ Call? Or at least he got the gist!

01.04.2025 22:19 β€” πŸ‘ 5270    πŸ” 305    πŸ’¬ 115    πŸ“Œ 11
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Sen. Booker’s speech was a substantive and moral account of this moment. He did not read the phone book. He did not babble.
For 24 hours @booker.senate.gov laid out a detailed, damning, and critical narrative of truth, history, politics, morality, humanity.

What will you do?

01.04.2025 23:46 β€” πŸ‘ 54501    πŸ” 10252    πŸ’¬ 946    πŸ“Œ 499
U.S. Senate The Senate will vote to advance President Trump's nomination of Matthew Whitaker to be the U.S. Ambassador to NATO. He previously served as Acting Attorney General during the first Trump Administratio...

Senator Cory Booker -- nearly 23 hrs into this -- is more coherent than your average elected official speaking (while seated) at an average legislative hearing.

Even if you haven't been watching all along, dip in for a moment -- he is making considerable sense:

www.c-span.org/event/us-sen...

01.04.2025 21:50 β€” πŸ‘ 16447    πŸ” 2518    πŸ’¬ 575    πŸ“Œ 117
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Cory Booker Erases Racist Strom Thurmond From History While Setting Senate Record Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) set the record for the longest floor speech in Senate history, and as a bonus erased Strom Thurmond from the record books.

β€œAny time that Strom Thurmond and his kind can be pushed deeper into the dustbin of history, it is a good day for America. The fact that it happened during the presidency of the modern Strom Thurmond, Donald Trump, is a bonus.”

@karijerge.bsky.social

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01.04.2025 23:54 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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