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This guy seems smart. Whatโ€™s his answer to the millions about to see ACA healthcare costs explode?

09.11.2025 04:29 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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With Trumpโ€™s massive tax cuts for the wealthy currently exploding the deficit, and now this, Trump and his oligarch cronies want to make us debt slaves from birth to death while truly owning nothing, while they buy bigger yachts and more mansions.

09.11.2025 01:26 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2140    ๐Ÿ” 658    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 191    ๐Ÿ“Œ 30

He had over a decade to come up with a plan

He lied-many times over-about formulating a better, cheaper plan

About releasing a plan in two weeks

About having the โ€œconcept of a planโ€

There never was any plan

And now-with the country facing ruin-in complete desperation

He doesnโ€™t know what to do

08.11.2025 18:17 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 311    ๐Ÿ” 92    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 28    ๐Ÿ“Œ 5

Ok, thanks for explaining to my dumb ass. I assumed SCOTUS was siding with trump. Maybe it more about getting a concrete legal outcome.

09.11.2025 03:42 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Sounds more like the Chuck we know.

09.11.2025 03:03 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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You can always count on Bernie for the truth.

09.11.2025 02:10 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 39    ๐Ÿ” 26    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

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Not even Dementia Don's
Scheme
Yesterday it was Senator Bill Cassidy from Louisiana BS on the Senate Floor

08.11.2025 23:43 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 103    ๐Ÿ” 65    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 11    ๐Ÿ“Œ 3
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Mike Johnson Wants You to Believe He Lives Under a Rock House Speaker Mike Johnson has made a habit of pretending not to know about Trump-related news events when asked to comment by reporters.

โ€œI donโ€™t know about that.โ€

โ€œI just saw a headline as I walked in.โ€

โ€œI didnโ€™t see it.โ€

โ€œI was a little busy.โ€

09.11.2025 02:00 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 935    ๐Ÿ” 215    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 67    ๐Ÿ“Œ 14
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Is there to be no end to this CRINGE?!

08.11.2025 23:52 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 174    ๐Ÿ” 64    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 54    ๐Ÿ“Œ 17

Theyโ€™ll do everything to make homebuilding, affordability, and economy significantly worse off with gimmicks instead of taking actions that soundly get America building again to drive down price inflation and get people housed.

09.11.2025 02:21 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 112    ๐Ÿ” 22    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 5    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2
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โ€˜You Are All Terroristsโ€™: Four Months in a Salvadoran Prison

40 men Trump sent to CECOT tell the NYT they were beaten, tortured, and sexually assaulted. The details are worse than you can imagine.

We canโ€™t let them get away with this. Miller and the other architects of this sadism need to go to prison.

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/w...

09.11.2025 02:20 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4425    ๐Ÿ” 1882    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 86    ๐Ÿ“Œ 80

glad to see jones getting back in the ring

09.11.2025 02:22 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2994    ๐Ÿ” 295    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 56    ๐Ÿ“Œ 11

At least Trump is coming back to DC early from his golf trip to Palm Beach so he can attend a football game while pressuring them to name the stadium after him.

Heโ€™s always working hard to improve our lives.

09.11.2025 02:14 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2026    ๐Ÿ” 433    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 83    ๐Ÿ“Œ 10

The past 24 hours really exposed the Republicansโ€™ non-plan on health care. Since they were unable to repeal the ACA, they intend to make health insurance premiums skyrocket so people canโ€™t afford health care, which will ultimately make emergency rooms their primary care doctors.

09.11.2025 02:04 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1462    ๐Ÿ” 365    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 74    ๐Ÿ“Œ 13
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โ€œI Donโ€™t Feel Safeโ€: Black Memphis Residents Report Harassment by Trumpโ€™s Police Task Force A pastor was pulled over for looking lost. A 72-year-old was marched out in his bathrobe due to mistaken identity. Memphisโ€™ mayor welcomed the federal law enforcement surge, but some residents say the...

Phillip Lewis, a 72-year-old cancer patient, said he was woken up and marched outside his home in his robe and underwear before federal officers even checked his ID.

He was not, it turned out, the man they were looking for.

By @wendicthomas.bsky.social & @kathsburgess.bsky.social

09.11.2025 02:00 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2015    ๐Ÿ” 1006    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 38    ๐Ÿ“Œ 26
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Pope Leo XIV asks the AI industry to 'cultivate moral discernment' Pope Leo XIV addressed AI developers in an X post on Friday, about six months after he said the tech poses "new challenges" to "human dignity."

Pope Leo XIV addressed AI developers in an X post on Friday, about six months after he said the tech poses "new challenges" to "human dignity."

08.11.2025 22:01 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 17    ๐Ÿ” 10    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2

Trump isnโ€™t going to do anything to address ridiculous prices, but he will let you mortgage a house for 50 years!

His banker buddies will LOVE that. A $400,000 house will cost you a million dollars over 50 years.

Whatโ€™s next, 10 year auto loans? ๐Ÿคข

09.11.2025 01:12 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1582    ๐Ÿ” 559    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 105    ๐Ÿ“Œ 17
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๐ŸŽฏ๐ŸŽฏ

08.11.2025 17:29 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 15067    ๐Ÿ” 4684    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 392    ๐Ÿ“Œ 191
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A majority of the days the government has ever been shut down, Donald Trump was president. www.howtoreadthisch.art/red-versus-b...

08.11.2025 19:04 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2844    ๐Ÿ” 1113    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 67    ๐Ÿ“Œ 51
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J.ย B. Pritzker Sounds the Alarm The governor of Illinois discusses what ICE is doing in Chicago, how the Trump Administration has created a โ€œsecret police,โ€ and what to do when the federal government is breaking the law.

In a new interview, Governor J. B. Pritzker talks about whatโ€™s happening in the streets of Chicagoโ€”and what he fears might happen to free and fair elections if military troops stay on the ground in American cities.
https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/4a1vEU

08.11.2025 21:30 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 131    ๐Ÿ” 34    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 4    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2

One thing I have marveled at is the way that crowds have been disciplined in capturing immigration enforcementโ€™s lack of discipline.

08.11.2025 23:00 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3056    ๐Ÿ” 968    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 97    ๐Ÿ“Œ 25
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Travelers, Confused and Concerned, Are Reconsidering Flying

GOP Shutdown Casts a Shadow Over Travelersโ€™ Thanksgiving Flight Plans - The New York Times www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/t...

08.11.2025 23:30 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Senate update: Republicans are now trying to sneak a backdoor national abortion ban into their government funding bill. Republicans will stop at nothing to control women's health care decisions.

08.11.2025 21:05 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5830    ๐Ÿ” 2966    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 250    ๐Ÿ“Œ 311
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This is the food distribution line at Nellis Air Force Base in Las Vegas 11/7/25. This is what Trump doesn't want you to see.

08.11.2025 19:17 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1072    ๐Ÿ” 947    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 71    ๐Ÿ“Œ 94
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Americans Unite Against Billionaire Influence Voters across party lines say billionaire power has gone too far and demand higher taxes

Among Democrats - "Do you think the amount that billionaires are currently taxed in the US is..."

๐Ÿ”ด Much Too Low: 73%
๐ŸŸ  Somewhat Too Low: 12%

๐ŸŸก About Right: 6%

๐ŸŸข Somewhat Too High: 3%
๐Ÿ”ต Much Too High: 1%

Read it here: usapolling.substack.com/p/americans-...

08.11.2025 20:39 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 91    ๐Ÿ” 21    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

08.11.2025 21:30 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7240    ๐Ÿ” 2427    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 679    ๐Ÿ“Œ 191

if your headlines ๐Ÿ’จ *poof* ๐Ÿ’จ change on a dime bc of backlash you're doing market research, not journalism

08.11.2025 22:50 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 41    ๐Ÿ” 15    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 4    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Trump wants to make the same mistake Biden did In the wake of the GOPโ€™s electoral drubbing this past Tuesday, President Donald Trump had thoughts. After insisting it wasnโ€™t his fault, he offered a prescription: Republicans need ...

This is oversimplified. Biden had agenda items to lift up lower income families, like student debt forgiveness, green energy jobs, lowering healthcare costs but republicans/SCOTUS kept stalling, overturning, sabotaging. Meanwhile trump took a shit on Bidenโ€™s economy www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

08.11.2025 23:21 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

The ICE budget is higher than all but about 15 militaries worldwide, and weโ€™re seeing what kind of country that gives us.

www.stephensemler.com/p/ice-budget...

08.11.2025 22:37 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 205    ๐Ÿ” 120    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 10    ๐Ÿ“Œ 6

All they do is lie. And keep lying even when caught. #republicans

08.11.2025 20:23 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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