The U.S. has collected over $80 billion in tariff revenue since Trump unilaterally slapped them on our biggest trading partners. That's an increase of 65% from the previous year. In other words, Americans paid $80 billion more for goods than they should have paid.

Phang: Teachers are some of the least paid, most underappreciated people, and they work in such an intimate way in our lives. Your kids spend more time at school than they do at home, at least in waking hours. So why not encourage our teachers? Why create this oppressive environment?

America is beautiful, contradictory, unfinished. I am proud of our country even as we constantly strive to make it better, to protect and deepen our democracy, to fulfill its promise for each and every person who calls it home.

Happy Independence Day. No Kings in America.

Tom Paine: in monarchies the king is the law, but in the free societies the law is king.

Wishing everyone an exuberant and free Fourth of July. Together we fight for a more perfect union.

Happy Independence Day, TX-30.

Let this day be a reminder that democracy doesn’t protect itself.

We’ve got to keep showing up, speaking out, and standing firm—until freedom feels real for everyone.

Just called my Representative- (again!) and his staffer said that even if one comma is changed the Senate’s bill,then it cannot go through. Is that accurate?

Laughing in front of cages designed to hold migrants and refugees, many of whom came to this country fleeing extreme violence and poverty, and hoping to raise their children in a more compassionate country. And many of whom followed all the legal procedures to enter the country.

NYT Breaking News Paramount agreed to pay President Trump $16 million to settle his lawsuit over a "60 Minutes" interview with former Vice President Kamala Harris.

we’ve totally normalized that he’ll interfere with private business if he’s not paid off. every legal expert said this suit was meritless.

Final vote. 50-50. VP breaks the tie.

One single GOP Senator could have stopped this abomination. Saved millions of parents from watching their child go hungry. Saved the lives destroyed when Medicaid disappears.

They will all live forever with the horror of this bill.

The resistance is gonna need a bigger boat.

Just because he’s not smart, doesn’t mean he’s not dangerous.

Look Up Your Senators' Numbers Call your senators today and demand that they vote NO on this bill.

This isn’t over—we can still stop the GOP bill. I’m staying in the fight for every baby who shouldn’t go hungry. Every senior who shouldn’t get kicked out of a nursing home. Every American who shouldn’t lose their health care.

Now is the time to call your senators.

Spot on. This is the clearest explanation I’ve seen. It ‘s relatable, and humanizes the issue in a way everyone can understand.

Don’t let anyone say otherwise —> the Senate bill that’s being advanced this weekend very clearly will result in significant cuts to Medicaid.

Over 70 million Americans rely on this program.

Hospitals will close and ERs will serve as desperate last measures.

This is the true #MAHA agenda.

A long and -- at times -- brutal week. But we continue to fight for democracy with hope and determination. Thank you to everyone who has offered kind words of support on this journey. More soon. Goodnight.😴

Rob Sand, Dem candidate running for Governor in Iowa on school choice.

RFK Jr. says US won’t donate to global vaccine effort Kennedy ripped into Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, in a video address at its pledging summit.

This is a travesty & a nightmare. The US was a founder of @gavi.org. It lowers global vaccine costs, has vaccinated 1B children, & averted 19M deaths. This pull out will cost 100s of thousands of children's lives a year - and RFK Jr will be personally responsible.
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Socialism is what they called public power.

Socialism is what they called social security. 
 
Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations.
 
Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people.

—Harry Truman, 1952

All those Dems who endorsed Cuomo now need to quickly endorse Mamdani. Gillibrand, Clinton, Ritchie Torres, everyone else - you're not going to back away from the general election just because your guy lost the primary right? Let's see that commitment of support ASAP. Thanks!

We're getting very close to an *actual* WAR IS PEACE Fox news banner.

Just some creepy armed Mad Max guys trying to gain entry to Dodgers Stadium.

ICE says it wasn’t them. DHS says they were Border Patrol. But honestly who the hell knows? They’ve given permission for any psycho to put on a ski mask, point a gun, grab people & throw them into an unmarked vehicle.

Gun Deaths of Children Rose in States That Loosened Gun Laws, Study Finds

1/3 Trump wants all eyes on L.A. to distract us from news like this: A new study shows since the Supreme Court stripped states of their authority to enact common-sense gun safety laws in 2010, pediatric gun deaths have skyrocketed by 87% in just a decade.

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"Nobody’s going to spit on our police officers," says Trump, who four months ago pardoned people who beat police officers with pipes, flagpoles, baseball bats and 2-by-4s at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.

"That any of us have to care about the messy breakup of these two massive narcissists — and that they both individually wield such massive power — is an indictment of our political system and further proves the poisonous influence of Big Money on our democracy." - Robert Reich

#TaxBillionaires

Folks,

Please don’t lose sight of the fact that the President is supposed to serve the American people.

Not his pockets and his ego.

We’re so deep in the mire that we’re losing even the memory of normal.

Peanut farm, people.
Peanut farm.

Several guests who attended Trump's crypto dinner last night said they attended with the explicit intent of influencing him and U.S. financial regulations.

Trump is selling access to our government to the highest bidder while lining his own pockets.

It's all out in the open.

Imagine how massive the tax breaks for billionaires must be when cutting $700B from Medicaid, $500B from Medicare, and $300B in food assistance STILL leaves a $4T deficit.

I was going to be brave but

I was going to be brave
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EPA announces rollback for some Biden-era limits on 'forever chemicals' in drinking water The Environmental Protection Agency says it will roll back limits on several types of what are known as forever chemicals in drinking water.

True freedom includes the freedom to breathe clean air and drink clean water.

Trump and Zeldin are taking that freedom away from your kids and mine.

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