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There is no budget "deal" to be made President Trump has so broken the constitutional framework as to make joint normal, responsible government impossible.

If appropriations bills are not seen as enforceable contracts, why should any Member of Congress vote to fund any part of the federal government under Donald Trump? You're voting to provide money for lawlessness. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/there-is-n...

Mifepristone Reaches a Milestone Amid a Hostile Environment - Dame Magazine Twenty-five years ago, as September 2000 drew to a close, the FDA made a controversial announcement: A French medication that had been developed in the 1980s, then called RU-486 but now more commonly ...

Mifepristone has made it possible for anyone who wants to reclaim their bodily autonomy on their own terms to safely terminate a pregnancy whenever and wherever they choose.

@luxalptraum.com looks back at the medication's history and future.

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ACA Marketplace Premium Payments Would More than Double on Average Next Year if Enhanced Premium Tax Credits Expire | KFF KFF estimates that, if Congress allows the enhanced premium tax credits to expire at the end of this year, ACA Marketplace enrollees on average would see their premium payments more than double next y...

Democrats are fighting to stop your family’s health insurance premiums from doubling.

“We can do things during the shutdown that are irreversible, that are bad for them, and irreversible by them, like cutting vast numbers of people out, cutting things that they like, cutting programs that they like. And, you all know Russell Vought. He’s become very popular recently because he can trim the budget to a level that you couldn't do any other way. So they're taking a risk by having a shutdown. Because of the shutdown, we can do things medically and other ways, including benefits. We can cut large numbers of people. We don't want to do that, but we don't want fraud, waste and abuse.”

👀 Just Now -- President Trump in the Oval Office said a government shutdown gives his administration the power to cut benefit programs, which include Social Security and Medicare.

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The president just gathered the highest ranking officers in the military to tell them that he may order them to kill American citizens -- and that they better follow his orders. All in response to a series of crises that have no basis in reality.

I don't know how to yell any louder.

Thanks to @emilylhauser.bsky.social for making my suggestions (below) about how to make noise if you have GOP MoCs stronger.

And if you're not already, follow her for non-stop news/suggestions on how to stand up.

Do Good Cops Exist — and Why Is It Capt. Olivia Benson? - Dame Magazine Every few years, a writer comes along to extol the virtues of NBC’s police procedural Law & Order SVU, which had its 27th season premiere last Thursday. Praising a copaganda show may seem strange at a...

The criminal justice system has been anything but just to sexual assault survivors. So it would seem counterintuitive that so many women find comfort in watching the long-running SVU — but there's a good reason for it, writes Vivian Manning-Schaffel

The Word is Fascism. Use it to Describe Trump’s Regime.

Suppose it behaves like a fascist, talks like a fascist, & relies on the strategies and talking points of fascists. In that case, it's the Trump Administration.

With @muellershewrote.com

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Jared Kushner's Firm Is Said to Be Part of $50 Billion Buyout of Electronic Arts Mr. Kushner's private equity firm, Affinity Partners, is said to be in talks with the Saudi sovereign wealth fund and Silver Lake to buy out the video game giant.

We are watching a coordinated right-wing takeover of popular media and it won’t stop here. archive.today/bXzZd

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If you can join me, please do - both are independent outlets doing absolutely essential work as ICE terrorizes the greater Chicagoland area.

Through her creative platform, Saint Heron, Solange has launched The Saint Heron Library, a digital archive dedicated to making rare and out-of-print works by Black authors, poets, and artists accessible to all.

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Right now: As an ICE agent sets up floodlights facing a few protesters outside the Broadview ICE facility, one activist remarks that photos “better not be for your spank bank.” “Nothing from your genetic lineage would be in my sp…” the agent began to reply, cutting himself off.

We have a white supremacist gestapo with complete immunity in our country now.

Endless, unprecedented corruption large and small

Again.

This started...

...with Jenny McCarthy, Oprah Winfrey, and the U.S. white conservative Christian warrior mommy movement.

SpaceX Seeks Approval for 15,000 Satellites to Use MSS Spectrum SpaceX has filed with the FCC asking to launch 15,000 new satellites for D2D service that would use the spectrum SpaceX purchased from EchoStar.

Is Starlink unable to provide many users with internet access? Yes.

Is Starlink enabling organized crime? Yes.

Is Starlink making a mess of low orbit? Also yes.

It remains way past time to shut down this scam.

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Trump’s Eruption of Rage at Texas ICE Shooting Hints at a Darker Story To Trumpworld, the Dallas shooting appears to provide the perfect pretext to start silencing wholly lawful advocacy groups—for inciting “violence and terrorism.”

News --> Steve Bannon tells me he fully expects Trump to use the Texas ICE office shooting as the hook to unleash law enforcement on liberal immigration groups by connecting political violence to anti-ICE rhetoric.

This is going to get ugly. 1/

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Bondi fires a third federal prosecutor in Miami office, linked to anti-Trump posts Will Rosenzweig was considered a rising star at the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Miami.

Fired for comments he made 8 years ago on social media when he was in private practice & had a perfect 1st Amendment right to do so. Welcome to the Trump-loyalty corps at the Justice Department. www.miamiherald.com/news/politic...

There Is a Name for MAGA’s Death Cult Policies - Dame Magazine “Well, we are all going to die,” said Iowa Senator Joni Ernst to her constituents who were concerned about losing access to Medicaid. It’s a frightening way to talk to the people you represent, almost...

In 2024, an AHA report stated that 30% of Americans say they haven’t taken their medication as prescribed due to high drug prices & 1.1 M Medicare patients could die over the next decade because they cannot afford medications

100% tariff on pharmaceuticals is this admin's policy: necropolitics.

Thread. This is important. Don’t look away.

In the last 6 hours, Trump has imposed:

- A 100% tariff on medicine unless its producer starts building a new U.S. factory in the next 5 days
- A 50% tariff on kitchen cabinets and bathroom vanities
- A 30% tariff on upholstered furniture
- A 25% tariff on “Heavy (Big!) Trucks”

Patel is basically admitting on camera that the FBI no longer adheres to the Attorney General Guidelines, which prohibits investigating U.S. persons based solely on First Amendment activity (including membership in a group).

What Entropy Can Predict About the Future of Authoritarianism - Dame Magazine “And now we must act in complete unity, strongly against anyone who is trying to shut down our strength, the unity of our nation!” The crowd of thousands gathered, against the backdrop of a grey sky i...

I wrote about how to recognize when a regime - yes, even an authoritarian one - is about to slip into a period of vulnerability, for @damemagazine.bsky.social

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Top 10 American Fears of 2024 (Chapman Survey) Horizontal bar chart ranking the top fears of Americans (percentage “afraid” or “very afraid”): 1. Corrupt government officials (65.2%, top fear for years). 2. Loved ones becoming seriously ill (58.4%). 3. Cyberterrorism (58.3%). 4. Loved ones dying (57.8%). 5. Russia using nuclear weapons (55.8%). 6. Not having enough money for the future (55.7%). 7. U.S. becoming involved in another world war (55.0%). 8. North Korea using nuclear weapons (55.0%). 9. Terrorist attack (52.7%). 10. Biological warfare (52.5%). Red bars display percentages; small arrows indicate change from 2023 rankings.

Top Public Worries in the U.S. (Yale & GMU poll, May 2025) Stacked bar chart of worries among U.S. adults. Categories ranked by share “very worried”: • Government corruption (54% very worried, top issue). • Other leading concerns: cost of living (48%), the economy (47%), state of democracy (44%), disruption of federal services (44%), cultural/social divisions (36%), treatment of immigrants (35%), global warming (29%), crime (26%). • Lower worries include job security (17%), health (16%), and being targeted because of identity/beliefs (15%). Green shades show “very/somewhat worried,” yellow/orange shades show “not very/not at all worried.

Perceptions of Federal Government Problems (AP-NORC poll) Bar chart showing the percentage of U.S. adults who consider various issues in the federal government to be a major problem, minor problem, or not a problem. • Corruption: Overall 70% major, 22% minor, 7% not a problem. Higher among Republicans (78%) than Democrats (63%). • Inefficiency: 65% major overall, with Republicans (81%) much higher than Democrats (55%). • Red tape (bureaucracy): 59% major overall, with Republicans (73%) higher than Democrats (47%). • Civil servants unwilling to implement president’s agenda: More partisan split—Republicans 56% major problem, Democrats 20% major problem; overall 34% major, 36% minor, 28% not a problem. Title: “Majority of the public believe corruption, inefficiency, and red tape are major problems in the federal government.

Word Cloud of How People Describe American Government (Berkeley Democracy Policy Lab) Large central word: “Corrupt.” Other prominent words: Broken, Chaotic, Dysfunctional, Shit, Clueless, Divided, Inefficient, Crooked, Hijacked, Justice, Woke, Bloated, Untrustworthy, Hopeless, Frustrated, Disastrous, Messy, Sneaky, Turmoil, Delusional. Smaller scattered words include both negative and neutral terms such as Crap, Important, Poder, Resilient, Unfocused, Needs Help. Visual emphasizes “Corrupt” as the dominant public perception.

I’m starting to notice a trend in the polling data…

—Top Public Worry: Corruption

—Biggest problem in Fed Gov: Corruption

—Top fear: Corruption

—What one word would you use to describe American government?: “Corrupt”

It’s almost like voters are trying to tell us something.

A horror every 60 seconds.

Even for someone like me, you can’t help getting numb, sometimes. There are too many crises from this second Trump administration, even if each of them are uniquely awful in its own right

The DOJ - Soros news today is more than a five alarm firm. This is a staggering escalation and the White House…

As Trump's White House threatens more mass firings of the federal workforce, it's simultaneously focused on building 90,000 sq. ft. ballroom straight out of the Gilded Age.

He’s more concerned with projecting opulence and pomp than he is about governing. trib.al/jio280D