MAGA Senator Stunned Into Silence After CNN Host Brutally Fact-Checks Him On Trump Funding Cuts

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I wonder how the Saudi Arabians, who have given the Trump family billions, or the Qataris, who have given Trump a $400,000,000 jet and a $5.5 billion golf course deal, would feel about Donald calling them "sand [n-word]s."

Immigrants in Donald's family:

Grandfather
Grandmother
Mother
First Wife
Current (for now) Wife
2 Father-in-Laws
2 Mother-in-Laws

Re: Sold his stock (+1) brunes69 4 days ago Woz is worth over 100M. He's not sitting in the poor house. Reply Share Flag Re: Sold his stock (+5, Informative) SteveWoz 4 days ago I gave all my Apple wealth away because wealth and power are not what I live for. I have a lot of fun and happiness. I funded a lot of important museums and arts groups in San Jose, the city of my birth, and they named a street after me for being good. now speak publicly and have risen to the top. I have no idea how much I have but after speaking for 20 years it might be $10M plus a couple of homes. I never look for any type of tax dodge. earn money from my labor and pay something like 55% combined tax on it. I am the happiest person ever. Life to me was never about accomplishment, but about Happiness, which is Smiles minus Frowns. I developed these philosophies when I was 18-20 years old and never sold out. Reply Share Flag

continue to be pleasantly surprised by Steve Wozniak managing to be one of the only big names in tech who isn't an enormous piece of shit

The last time the GOP tried to mess with Obamacare, they got a drubbing at the midterms. Let’s make sure that happens again this time around.

So let me see if understand how things work here in the United States. If you inconvenience a police officer with a harmless sandwich, you face jail time, but if you rape children and extort money from colleges, law firms, and corporations, you get a free $400,000,000 jet?

Seems a bit off.

Not only did federal goons show up to try and intimidate our governor, they did so on hallowed ground. Gov. Newsom was speaking at the Democracy Center at the Japanese American National Museum, which I helped found so we do not repeat the horrors and injustices of the past. Shameful.

JD Vance says U.S. is working for a meeting with Trump, Putin and Zelensky.

JD Vance says U.S. citizens are tired of funding the defense of Ukraine. Speak for yourself you pathetic loser. I would rather my tax dollars go to defend Ukraine than to your vacations or the tax cuts of the oligarchs. HE DOES NOT REPRESENT THE MAJORITY OF US!

www.nytimes.com/live/2025/08...

Note to Kristi Noem:

It is far better to be mocked in a cartoon for how you look than to be shoved into the back of a U-Haul and kidnapped for how you look.

Rest in Power

Here’s my thought: Scrub my socials, apply for one of these positions and resist from within. Thoughts?

Well I have to admit he’s done playing nice.

Oh so the president could release secret files if he wanted to, you say?

Without immediate intervention, the last reporters in Gaza will die July 21, 2025 AFP has been working with 1 writer, 3 photographers and 6 videographers, all freelance, in the Gaza Strip since its staff journalists left in 2024. Along with a few others, they are now the only ones left to report what is happening in the Gaza Strip. The international press has been banned from entering the territory for nearly two years. We refuse to watch them die. One of them, Bashar, has been working with AFP since 2010, first as a fixer, then freelance photographer, and since 2024, as lead photographer. On July 19th he managed to post a message on Facebook: “I no longer have the strength to work for the media. My body is thin and I can’t work anymore.” Bashar, 30, works & lives in the same conditions as all Gazans, moving from one refugee camp to another under Israeli bombings. For > a year he’s lived in utter destitution, working at extreme risk to his life. Hygiene is a major issue for him, with recurring bouts of severe intestinal illness. Since Feb, Bashar’s been living in the ruins of his home in Gaza City with his mother, 4 brothers & sisters and the family of one of his brothers. Their house is devoid of any furnishings, except a few cushions. On Sunday morning, he reported that one of his brothers had “fallen, due to hunger.” Even though these journalists receive a monthly salary from AFP, it’s no longer enough to buy food, or they have to pay completely exorbitant prices. The banking system has collapsed, and those who exchange money via online bank accounts charge a commission of up to 40%. AFP no longer has the ability to provide them with a vehicle and there is not enough fuel to allow these journalists to travel for their reporting. Driving a car means becoming a target for Israeli airstrikes. AFP reporters therefore travel on foot or by donkey cart. (alt txt continued in next post)

A horrifying statement published today by the Editorial Committee of the Agence France-Presse (AFP) news agency.

"Without immediate intervention, the last reporters in Gaza will die"

Translation from French to English by @cnorristrent.bsky.social:

Americans are losing spending power, say researchers: Most can no longer afford a 'minimal quality of life' The Ludwig Institute's Minimal Quality of Life Index found that, in 2023, only 40% of Americans earned enough money to get by in relative comfort.

With wages failing to keep pace, researchers find that consumers’ real spending power decreased by 4%, on average. The rich are getting richer and wage earning average Americans can’t even go to the movies and dinner. Explain the big picture! www.cnbc.com/2025/06/13/m...

Stop falling for the trap of latching on to the price of an item (eggs, beef…) as the message. The issue is affordability. From 2001-2023 wages failed to keep up with rising costs. Medical premiums rose 301% Travel expenses were up 170%. Rent grew by 131%. The cost of raising children grew by 107%.

Outrageous and disgusting! Cruelty is the point!

#TrumpIsAMonster
#RealMenWouldNotDoThis

Cite sources or we’ll be disbelieved and discredited.

‘Profound alarm’: US veterans agency roiled by fight over anti-discrimination provisions Nearly 100 lawmakers claim the agency’s recent actions put veterans’ healthcare at risk. Department of Veterans Affairs chief says ‘no one is being discriminated against at VA’

Doug Collins is a bigot and a liar. His leadership is hurting veterans and he doesn’t care. Fresh reporting from Aaron Glantz www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Murdoch is arguably the greatest catalyst for American fascism - and one of the most destructive figures in the history of the country - a truly wretched fascist .

if you haven't learned a fun fact today you can borrow the one i learned: seymour cray, designer of cray supercomputers, attributed his success and groundbreaking ideas to "the elves (who) will often come to me with solutions to my problem" while digging in the tunnel he made under his house

Naval Academy head is latest high-ranking woman ousted by Hegseth - NewsBreak The first woman to lead the U.S. Naval Academy is being reassigned by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth , the Department of Defense said Friday. The big pictu

Another high ranking female officer ousted by a weak minded pussy of a man who couldn’t survive as a career officer and has to have his own hair and makeup crew at his side. He’s a joke and an embarrassment to the military!

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E.P.A. Says It Will Eliminate Its Scientific Research Arm

Another Friday and the White House chooses to fire experts who work in the nation's service, in this case the scientific research arm of the EPA whose mission "is to protect human health and the environment".

Erratum: for 'is', read 'was'.

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www.nytimes.com/2025/07/18/c...

ABC fired a guy for saying Miller was fueled by hate.

Holy shit, I think this is officially sending the Catholic Church of the Diocese of San Bernardino underground.

This Week In The Big Picture It largely went under the radar, but as part of Donald Trump’s big ugly budget bill, Republicans have supercharged Trump’s immigration enforcement and deportation program to the tune of more than…

Trump's big, ugly budget bill is on all of our minds. With its super-sizing of Trump's immigration enforcement program, we're left to ask what ICE on steroids will truly look like. Also, how are Democrats making Republicans pay for selling out their own voters with Trump's megabill? Read more: