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"All the important reforms" = extending tax cuts for the rich; cutting medicare and medicaid and health benefits. Cutting VA services. Those important reforms??

Passing the buck/blaming others ... like clockwork with some folks.

So I guess if you’re a Trump supporter who gets treatable cancer but loses Medicaid, you can rest in peace knowing you died while owning the libs

So proud to be a part of this amazing morning. Location ocean beach San Francisco
#nokings

Bass: If you want to go back in time, where was LA on Thursday? Fine, peaceful. Nothing was happening. The minute ICE rolled into town, that's when the chaos started and then add to that—bringing in federal troops.

Australian TV reporter shot in leg with rubber bullet, while her cameraman filmed the officer aiming at her. Blatant aggression!

Happening in LA.

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News reporter deliberately shot by office in Los Angeles

Australian television correspondent Lauren Tomasi was reporting live from downtown LA on the ICE protests when an officer targets her with a nonlethal round at close range.
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More Than a Dozen U.S. Officials Sold Stocks Before Trump’s Tariffs Sent the Market Plunging Records show well-timed trades by executive branch employees and congressional aides. Even if they had no insider inform

According to ProPublica, more than a dozen top executive branch officials and congressional aides sold stocks just before Trump's "Liberation Day" market crash. 

Today would be a great day to ban public servants from trading stocks, don't you think?

when i was a child, my family took CHIP and food stamps. this shaped my entire orientation toward government programs (positive) in a way most pundits don't have access to. and also, not to brag, but i think my siblings and i are proof that the ROI on feeding children is very high

Threatening universities. Attacking judges. Bullying law firms. Clamping down on free speech.

If it looks like it, talks like it, and acts like it, it is moving toward authoritarianism.

How many things have you done at 1AM that you’re proud of?

CFPB Quietly Kills Rule to Shield Americans From Data Brokers Russell Vought, acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, has canceled plans to more tightly regulate the sale of Americans’ sensitive personal data.

Russell Vought, acting head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, has canceled plans to introduce new rules designed to limit the ability of US data brokers to sell Americans’ most sensitive data, credit history, and Social Security numbers.

Everything he touches goes bankrupt.

Meanwhile, Amazon is actively selling shirts that have 86 46 in large print.

And Comey removed his post once he realized what it could indicate. I hope their "investigation" goes nowhere.

WATCH: “The politics of this are so bad it literally blows my mind.”

Republicans cutting Medicaid by $880 BILLION to slash taxes for the rich is wildly unpopular — and @MarshaBlackburn’s office just admitted it is their plan.

1 million Tennesseans are on Medicaid.

Paywall. :-/

AOC: The math is not adding up. Their claim is that one million undocumented people are on Medicaid. So why are they trying to cut 13.7 million Americans off their healthcare?

A bunch of bullies manhandled Congresspeople who are within their rights to investigate a federal facility. And they arrested the mayor of Newark.

Under Texas’ Abortion Ban, Where a Woman Lives Can Determine Her Risk of Developing Sepsis While the rates of dangerous infections spiked across the state after it banned abortion in 2021, women in Houston fared far worse than those in Dallas, according to ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind ana...

NEW: The rate of sepsis in Houston surged 63% after Texas banned abortion.

In the Dallas-Fort Worth area, where hospital leaders empowered doctors to intervene before patients’ conditions worsened, it rose just 29%.

A 98 year old World War 2 veteran, returned to his tank to destroy one last Nazi car. He has a message for Elon Musk, Tesla, Putin, Trump and the international regressive movement.

We crushed fascism before, and we'll crush it again, so let's go shall we? #3E #teslatakedown

A reminder that every small bit of good you do - whether it be putting art into the world, helping a friend or stranger, donating to a good cause, or just listening to someone who needs to vent - offsets all the evil in the world just a little bit. And sometimes that's just what the world needs.

Oh.

it really is astounding that a presidential administration crashed the growth trajectory of the wealthiest country on the planet in basically two months

This story is from a few years back, but the case is before the Supreme Court now, to determine whether Martin can sue for emotional damages, etc. based on the directing officer's mistake. See Billy Binion's account for more.

...an unknown *white* male wearing a medical mask...

Super rare magenta aurora in the sky over Finland!

Don't like the US, Andrew? Then please, leave! And stay out.