NEW: Trump has baselessly claimed unfettered permission to slash spending already approved by lawmakers. These repeated "pocket recissions" are unconstitutional, illegal, and must be rejected.
IPS scholar @karendolan.bsky.social:
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NEW: Trump has baselessly claimed unfettered permission to slash spending already approved by lawmakers. These repeated "pocket recissions" are unconstitutional, illegal, and must be rejected.
IPS scholar @karendolan.bsky.social:
NEW: The U.S. Census just released its annual data on poverty, income, and health insurance for 2024.
It shows stagnation for most people, but a 4.2% income jump for those at the top — trends that will be majorly exacerbated by the Trump-GOP big, brutal bill. IPS scholar @karendolan.bsky.social:
Today it was confirmed that the president told the world's most infamous pedophile and child sex trafficker: "We have certain things in common."
For any other president, it would be the biggest scandal of their lives, possibly career-ending.
For Trump, it's just Monday.
CNN put together a clip of RKF Jr denying today he linked antidepressants and mass shootings, followed by a clip of RFK Jr last week linking antidepressants and mass shootings
05.09.2025 01:14 — 👍 18944 🔁 6123 💬 793 📌 391I am once again asking you to stop sending us money.
But we do need your time. ⏰
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More than 300k Black women being pushed out of the labor market while white men gained 365k more jobs is what we mean when we refer to racism as systemic.
05.09.2025 15:43 — 👍 8409 🔁 2830 💬 105 📌 88Yesterday, President Trump said of RFK: “I like the fact that he's different."
Yes. RFK is *different.*
He’s the first HHS secretary to actively endanger children by undermining what doctors & scientists around the world know to be true:
Vaccines have saved millions of lives.
Data shows us that Black women are disproportionately impacted by federal workforce cuts.
Why is this the case? CBPP Chief Economist @gbenga-ajilore.bsky.social provides analysis on the August #JobsReport released this morning. www.youtube.com/shorts/3R8t4...
NEW: Trump promised an anti-war presidency. Instead, he’s expanding the “forever wars” in the Middle East, East Africa, the Caribbean, and here at home.
Resisting Trump must include resisting his militarism. Azadeh Shahshahani of Project South and IPS scholar Khury Petersen-Smith in @newsweek.com:
@americanhomeshield.bsky.social you’re basically committing fraud now. It’s been almost 6 weeks that you have not provided me service and I’ve paid you thousands. Anyone else getting screwed by this horrendous company? I know there are. Pls report them to BBB
26.08.2025 14:56 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Immigrants aren’t stealing your jobs.
But employers are stealing $50 billion in wages from workers each year.
Cal Poly Pomona canceled a job fair because ICE and the FBI signed up as employers.
26.08.2025 01:25 — 👍 439 🔁 94 💬 6 📌 11So let me get this straight: Jack Smith investigates a guy who tried to overturn an election and incited an insurrection… and he’s the one being investigated?
We’re not a serious country. We’re a banana republic with better branding…but that’s going to shit, too.
we are currently watching an entire political party run cover for the most notorious sex trafficking ring in modern human history
22.07.2025 01:01 — 👍 25207 🔁 6732 💬 537 📌 307ATTN: If you’re one of the 1,000 FBI agents who reviewed the Epstein files, feel free to reach out to me via signal (in my bio). I’ll keep you anonymous- as I have the thousands of current and former federal workers who have sent me tips. Please share this widely. 🙏🏻
19.07.2025 19:51 — 👍 35026 🔁 15920 💬 398 📌 431Just heard Bill Kristol, former chief of staff for Dan Quayle, say he thinks ICE should be defunded and that the entire DHS should probably be disbanded, which puts him to the left of maybe the majority of elected Democrats. Truly wild times we’re living in.
01.07.2025 23:03 — 👍 12505 🔁 2430 💬 257 📌 304Senate Republicans are trying to jam through their “Big Beautiful Bill" that would kick 17 MILLION people off of their health care.
I’m on the Senate floor to say NO.
youtube.com/live/6RL1Aj8...
In today’s episode of What Are They Thinking: “If you don’t see a hurricane coming… does it really exist?”
🚨 The Dept of Defense is shutting down its weather satellite program. No more data. No more updates. Meteorologists are scrambling—and we’re heading into peak storm season.
Brilliant timing.
Just a reminder that while her ex nonstop soils himself in public with tasteless displays of wealth and look-at-me, thirsty nonsense, Mackenzie Scott has given away close to $20 billion to 1,600 charities, no strings attached and without any need for recognition.
30.06.2025 04:46 — 👍 8574 🔁 1589 💬 259 📌 89New Congressional Budget Office (CBO) numbers confirm what we already knew – the reconciliation bill is getting worse, not better. The Senate bill will cut health care more deeply than the House bill and leave more people uninsured. www.cbo.gov/publication/...
29.06.2025 19:45 — 👍 58 🔁 44 💬 3 📌 4People in wheelchairs are getting arrested right now in the Russell Senate Office Building in DC. They showed up to tell Congress not to cut their Medicaid, because they cant afford health care without it. If you look closely you can see the zip ties on their hands. #WeWontGetOverLosingMedicaid
25.06.2025 18:26 — 👍 25127 🔁 13002 💬 2541 📌 2028If you’re zip-tying grandmas protesting losing health care maybe you’re not the good guys in the story?
25.06.2025 21:51 — 👍 44081 🔁 17703 💬 2328 📌 1646Sign our letter telling your U.S. Senators to VOTE NO on the Republican Big Bad Betrayal Bill and instead prioritize families and our economy over billionaires. #MomsSky action.momsrising.org/sign/SenateR...
25.06.2025 16:21 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0There is confusion about whether the Parliamentarian has indicated that a slightly revised version of the #SNAP cost-shift to states in the Senate Republican bill complies with the Byrd rule. But what’s clear is: the provision’s harmful impact is unchanged.
24.06.2025 21:23 — 👍 18 🔁 17 💬 1 📌 3At 92, Willie Nelson was moved to tears after an eight-minute standing ovation at the 2025 Outlaw Music Festival in Phoenix. Thousands chanted “Forever Willie,” honoring the legendary singer with a powerful outpouring of love and gratitude.
#BlueCrew #ProudBlue #BlueCircleFamily 💙💙