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YouTube video by Senator Bernie Sanders Where We Are With the Government Shutdown | Sen. Bernie Sanders

I'm asking YOU:

What will a doubling of health care premiums mean for your family?

What it will mean if you're one of the 15 million being thrown off their health care?

Please comment below or submit a story here: tinyurl.com/3rbdfdmz

Ages 0-4 are the most important, emotionally & intellectually, in human development.

Yet, in the US, we have a very high rate of childhood poverty and a broken child care system.

Congratulations to New Mexico for leading the way forward for high quality, free child care. Other states must follow.

Elizabeth Holmes’s Partner Has a New Blood-Testing Start-Up

Are men really this desperate for dateable women?!
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/10/b...

#eugenics is a pack of bigotries in a trench coat with the word SCIENCE written across the lapel.

Hegseth initiates ban on transgender troops after Supreme Court ruling The Trump administration said it is moving quickly to purge the military of about 1,000 service members who have self-identified as having gender dysphoria.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Thursday that service members who have self-identified as having gender dysphoria will have between 30 and 60 days to leave voluntarily or be forced out.

Holding It Together: How Women Became America's Safety Net How Women Became America's Safety Net

Need a last-minute Mothers' Day gift? Holding It Together will ungaslight the mom in your life, showing her how billionaires and their cronies have forced women to DIY society (and incentivized men and anyone with a bit of privilege to push the work of care downstream).

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Trump Slammed After Saying He's 'Not Joking' About Running For A Third Term The possibility is nauseating.

No. Just no.

Vivian Wilson Claims Elon Musk's Former Liberal Views Were Just A 'Marketing Scheme' Vivian tells it like is.

Go, Vivian!

I'm not a programming guy but MSNBC and CNN should be airing this Cory Booker thing in the same way you take over programming if there's a no-hitter or a basketball player with 60 points in three quarters. It's a physical feat! Cut in for this kind of thing. Costs nothing, gooses ratings, good TV.

NJ Senator Cory Booker standing behind a podium on the Senate floor, looking at his phone. Chyron underneath reads “SEN BOOKER BREAKS RECORD FOR LONGEST FLOOR SPEECH”

And there it is

Seals fight like cats

Understanding Republicans’ Proposed Cuts to Medicaid | KQED Donald Trump has said that cuts to Medicaid are off the table, but congressional Republicans' proposed budget to pay for the president’s signature $4.5 trillion dollar tax cut relies on massive cuts t...

“Many hospitals are dependent on Medicaid to stay in business. As CMS Administrator I talked to hospitals across this country who were struggling, particularly in rural areas, & there was a significant difference in the health of hospitals in states that expanded Medicaid vs those that did not.”

Trump administration to slash funding for enforcement of fair housing laws President Donald Trump’s administration has begun terminating grants to organizations that enforce the Fair Housing Act by taking complaints, investigating and litigating housing discrimination cas…

Landlord with history of discriminatory housing practices cuts funding for efforts to prevent discriminatory housing practices.

www.chicagotribune.com/2025/02/28/t...

CDC Staff Prohibited From Co-Authoring Papers With World Health Organization Personnel It’s just the latest “Orwellian” crackdown on government scientists.

I don’t even know how this could be presented as being in service of anything other than hindering scientific progress.

the picture shows a round cake in a baking pan with a noticeable chunk missing from one side. A gray tabby cat sits nearby on a windowsill, looking at the cake with a suspicious expression. The cat appears to be the likely culprit behind the missing piece…or maybe he’s innocent..suspicious…

Trump-Zelensky White House meeting quickly turns contentious The Ukrainian leader came to Washington to prevent Trump from abandoning Kyiv in favor of Moscow three years into Russia’s war on his country but was met with vocal anger from the American president.

President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky engaged in a heated dispute in the Oval Office on Friday.

“You’re in no position to dictate what we’re going to feel,” Trump said in the Oval Office. “You don’t have the cards right now.”

Social media post by Public Citizen (@Public_Citizen ) on X, featuring their logo with a stylized Statue of Liberty, with the text: 'it’s almost like government employees make the government more efficient.' Below this, a headline from the Agriculture section reads: 'Trump officials race to rehire bird flu employees as egg prices skyrocket. USDA supervisors are being asked to justify rehires and some employees still haven’t gotten their laptops back.'

Fire / Rehire / Expire

Trump berates Zelensky, the leader of a democratic country courageously fighting Russian imperialism, while he allies himself with Putin, a dictator who started the bloodiest European war in 80 years.

Sorry, President Trump. We believe in democracy, not authoritarianism.

Black graphic with text "Transgender and intersex people have always been here, and we’re not going anywhere — no matter what President Trump says." Above the text is a purple and black photo of people holding signs that read "trans people belong"

Count on it.

MAGA Rep Introduces Bill Directing The Treasury To Create A $250 Bill With Trump's Face On It Because of course he did.

Of course... 🤦

Trump’s disgusting behavior in our Oval Office in the company of a genuine hero and defender of democracy like Volodymyr Zelensky may be the most disgraceful public behavior by any president in our history.

ZELENSKYY: Putin broke the ceasefire. What kind of diplomacy, JD, are you speaking about?

VANCE: I think it's disrespectful to come into the Oval Office and try to litigate this in front of the American media

What that disgusting felon and his vp couch sidekick did to Zelensky in the Oval today was disgraceful. I’m not posting the video clip because I made a pledge that the orange felon’s face would never appear on my TL. I stand with Ukraine!