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"We took freedom of speech away" should be in every campaign ad moving forward.

To be clear, what Pete Hegseth and Donald Trump meant was that the military is not white enough or alpha male enough.

They believe DEI has given people of color and women the upper hand. That’s what they were saying. However, these visuals don’t drive their POV home.

Trump promised an infrastructure bill for 4 years in his first term.

Said it was coming in 2 weeks many times.

Never delivered one.

Democrats then delivered critically needed funding for crumbling infrastructure.

Now Russ Vought is taking that away.

But only in blue states.

Quick reminder: they can still release the Epstein files during a government shutdown.

Trump quote from 2013: “A shutdown falls on the president’s lack of leadership. I mean problems start from the top sand they have to get solved from the top. A shutdown means the president is weak.

A la Jeff Tiedrich:

I’m telling you, there’s just not enough outrage about the craven actions of Speaker Mike Johnson.

Jesus Christ, how are you so unbelievably bad at this?

A deeply unpopular president is recklessly destroying our government, wrecking our democracy, covering up pedophilia and now threatening to use military force against our own citizens but you're tsk-tsking about protecting healthcare?

OBAMA: It's fair to say that 80% of the world's problems involve old men hanging on who are afraid of death and insignificance, and they won't let go. They build pyramids, and they put their names on everything. They get very anxious about it.

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I don't know which morons need to hear this, but THESE GUYS WERE ANTIFA, every last one of them.

They fought fascists.

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Who says time travel doesn't exist? The US has been transported back to 1930's Germany.

MASS SHOOTERS SINCE 2018 Trans: 4 Non-Transgender Female: 127 Non-Transgender Male: 4012 Source: Gun Violence Archive

A Permanent Stain on Our History The Trump administration’s embrace of nativism is as shameful as it is self-destructive.

“Three things made the US a rich and powerful nation: the rule of law, its science & innovation system, and openness to foreign talent. Remarkable how Trump has taken a sledgehammer to all three. No enemy of this country could do more.” From the archives:

California Passes Bill Allowing Omission of Patients’ Names From Abortion Pill Bottles The intent is to protect health care providers who send the pills to patients in states with abortion bans, and to reassure patients who fear they could be identified.

Breaking News: California passed a bill allowing the names of doctors, patients and pharmacists to be omitted from abortion pills mailed to states with bans. The intent is to protect providers and to reassure patients who fear they could be identified.

The NRA buys off Congress. No action on guns.

The oil industry buys off Congress. No action on climate.

Insurance companies buy off Congress. No action on health care.

The list goes on and on.

Money in politics is the root of our dysfunction.

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When President Clinton banned assault rifles in 1994, mass shootings dropped by 43%. After Republicans let the ban expire in 2004, they increased by 243% — please don’t tell me bans don’t work, because I don’t want to hear it.

The Trump Administration’s War on Children The administration is quietly putting America’s children at risk by cutting funds and manpower for investigating child abuse, enforcing child support payments, providing child care and much more.

Earlier this year, HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. dismissed all of the staff that distributed $1.7B annually in Social Services Block Grant funds, which many states depended on for their child welfare, foster care and adoption systems.

(Published April 2025)

The labor market is deteriorating!

For the first time in four years, the economy lost jobs.

Our economy is in the toilet right now and everything in the grocery store is higher priced than it was during the pandemic.

This is what losing looks like! Trump’s economy sucks!

Mexico's Supreme Court. Elected by the people. 12 year terms. No Re-election possible!

RFK Jr: It's gonna be the biggest infusion of federal dollar into rural healthcare in American history

BERNIE SANDERS: Yeah. You know why? Because you're cutting $150b for rural hospitals, you're putting $50b back. That's not an infusion. That's a loss of $100b.

AOC: Millionaires are very overrepresented in congress… If we want a congress that reflects the actual country we seek to represent and fight for, we need to have working class people who work here

"Stay tuned for more details" -- Epstein survivor announces that survivors are creating their own list of Epstein-related abusers

School shootings are only a "Fact of Life" in the only country in the world too stupid to do anything to stop them.

Republicans don't give a fuck about children oopsies!

I guess for no reason at all, I'm reposting a piece I wrote two years ago, entitled "Republicans don't give a fuck about children."

'This is an attack': Environmentalists warn of catastrophe as Trump tries to gut key rule The U.S. Department of Agriculture on Wednesday moved to rescind a conservation policy dating back nearly 25 years that has protected more than 45 million acres of pristine public lands, as the Trump ...

The Roadless Rule is one of our most important conservation safeguards, protecting forests from the bulldozer and chainsaw. The move to gut this protection is a handout to logging interests at the expense of clean water, wildlife, and local communities.

www.rawstory.com/roadless-rule/