David Badash

It just hit me: This is the last summer we will live as a free people in a functioning democracy, for a long time.
Now that Trump has signed his “Big Beautiful Bill” into law, this weekend feels like a demarcation point—the moment in time we’ll remember as the line where freedom fell.

Today’s billionaires hoard yachts and launch vanity rockets.

If the poorest Americans are paying for their tax cuts, the rich damn well better pay for health care, education, and research for the neediest among us.

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Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” shovels billions to the ultra-wealthy—and it’s about to pass.

The Rockefellers, the Carnegies, the Vanderbilts built libraries, hospitals, and universities. They at least bought some redemption.

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GOP 'voucher scheme for the wealthy' would hand $5 billion to religious, private schools Speaker Mike Johnson’s House Republicans want to insert a provision into their massive tax cuts bill that would create a system to hand private and religious schools $5 billion annually and wealthy donors yet another tax break.Calling it an “unprecedented effort to use public money to pay for privat...

GOP 'voucher scheme for the wealthy' would hand $5 billion to religious, private schools

'Embarrassed Emoji': Trump torched for calling major drop in port traffic 'good' President Donald Trump is facing backlash after claiming that a sharp decline in port traffic—and a significant drop in goods entering the U.S.—is actually a positive development. When warned that the...

"Frankly, if we didn't do business, we would have been better off."

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TikTok video by Bill Holden

This just fed my soul.
How far we as a nation have sunk.
How much of what America means we have lost.
Hope you can hear this.

www.tiktok.com/t/ZTjAN1acp/

To hell with this.

Hitler’s Terrible Tariffs By seeking to “liberate” Germans from a globalized world order, the Nazi government sent the national economy careening backwards.

Um www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

The stock market lost $1.4 trillion in value today.

Another day in Trump’s America.

Secretary Hegseth must be fired. Period. And to impart national and international confidence in the U.S. and the Pentagon, President Trump *must* nominate a Democratic or Independent previous Secretary of Defense to this critical position.

The Trump administration has quietly doubled down on its decision to stop sending emergency food to children starving in Bangladesh, Somalia, and other countries. Without urgent intervention, these children might die within months, @hana-kiros.bsky.social reports. https://theatln.tc/kQAZFJJw

Literally “if you ask us to prove he’s a terrorist, then maybe YOU are a terrorist!”

Pretty sure RFK jr just has no idea what either autism or vaccines actually are

'Cruelty': Johnson buried for using 'classist stereotype' to justify GOP’s Medicaid cuts Speaker of the House Mike Johnson is blaming what he calls “young men” playing video games instead of working, as he defends Republicans’ plan to gut Medicaid—slashing what Democrats say is $880 billi...

“So if you clean that up and shore it up, you save a lot of money, and you return the dignity of work to young men who need to be out working instead of playing video games all day."

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Kristi Noem slammed for pointing assault rifle at law enforcement officer Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem—who has been participating in immigration raids across the country and traveling to prisons beyond U.S. borders—is facing sharp criticism from veterans and fire...

“Noem is pointing the M4 muzzle at an agent with an open dust cover, indicating a chambered round. It’s the worst possible place to point it."

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'Dangerous' new Trump drug tariffs would lead to shortages, soaring costs, death: critics In his 2023 State of the Union Address, then-President Joe Biden vowed, “Make no mistake: if Republicans try to raise the cost of prescription drugs, I will veto it.” Democrats cheered and applauded, ...

"Donald Trump wants to slap tariffs on pharmaceuticals, most of which are made outside the States, including the raw ingredients that go into almost every pill we take? That’s not being tough on China—that’s playing politics with people’s lives."

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'No plan': Trump ripped for 'lurching' strategy after surprise tariff reversal One week after “Liberation Day” and just hours after his latest wave of global tariffs took effect, President Donald Trump announced what appears to be a temporary “pause” on some of his market-roilin...

Critics blasted the President for having inflicted the week-long imposition of high tariffs that have caused a global trade war, and for appearing to have no actual plan.

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'Is this market manipulation?' Rumors swirling over potential Trump admin insider trading After one of the best days on Wall Street since World War II, fueled by President Donald Trump and his team's conflicting messages and actions on tariffs, questions are swirling over possible insider ...

"Who's benefiting? What billionaire just got richer?"

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'Answer the question!’: Senator berates Trump official over 'ridiculous policy' Jamieson Greer, the U.S. Trade Representative under President Donald Trump, came under sharp criticism from Senator Mark Warner, a leading Democrat, for the administration’s sweeping tariff policy—inc...

“We have a trade surplus with Australia,” Warner, shouting, said as he chastised Greer. “We have a free trade agreement. Why? They are incredibly important national security partner. Why were they hit with a tariff?”

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'I will not be bullied': Whistleblower accuses DOJ of sending 'armed deputies' to her home A former U.S. Department of Justice pardon attorney delivered sworn testimony before Congress on Monday, accusing her former agency—now under the leadership of Attorney General Pam Bondi—of “corruptio...

“I was in the car with my husband and my parents, who are sitting behind me today, when I got the news that the officers were on their way to my house, where my teenage child was home alone."

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Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) $ 116 BILLION Total Projects 181 Total Investment Dollars Total Jobs Created 99,500 CHIPS and Science Act (CHIPS) Total Projects 37 Total Investment Dollars $ 272 BILLION Total Jobs Created 36,300 JOBS

1/ Just as a reminder, we WERE onshoring a bunch of manufacturing jobs, thanks to the CHIPS and IRA acts. Those jobs were spread around the country, many/most in red districts.

Trump trying to kill them all.

www.jackconness.com/ira-chips-in...

Donald Trump did this:

It took under 100 days for "I'll lower prices on day one" to become "who needs money or a 401k when your heart is full of love for Dear Leader Trump"

Former Solicitor General Don Verilli aligns 504 law firms, including several of the country’s top 100, as amici in support of Perkins Coie. The collective action problem is being tackled. www.mto.com/wp-content/u...

'Bananas': Trump blasted as he heads to golf tournament after 'blowing up' world trade Declaring a “national emergency that threatens our security and our very way of life,” President Donald Trump, after markets closed on Wednesday afternoon, announced sweeping tariffs on nearly every n...

Economists and economic experts are stunned by Trump's massive tariffs, deemed "worse than the worst case scenario."

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The only jeans I buy.

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Antarctica Tariffs Announced

It's about time those deadbeat slackers started pulling their weight...

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