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The largest SNAP cuts in history went into effect yesterday, eliminating or drastically cutting food assistance for millions of Americans. And it’s all to pay for more tax cuts that primarily benefit the super-rich. Trickle-down economics isn't just a hoax — it's cruel.
Right! And remember dick cheney? He showed up at Obama’s Inauguration in a wheelchair. I immediately thought he did it so he wouldn’t be booed when he rolled up on the stage.
The idea that he’s sick is to get ppl to talk abt his health rather than the Epstein files.
If you're 60, 69.1% of all job growth since your birth occurred under Democratic administrations. If you're 45, that number is 74.7%. If you're under 28, the number is 100%. Happy Labor Day.
You can’t make this up. Trump allegedly has covert operators on the ground in Greenland: www.cnn.com/2025/08/27/e...
Thanx so much for reposting this with clarity!
🚨BREAKING: Third Circuit STRIKES DOWN Pennsylvania requirement that mail-in ballots that arrive in undated or misdated return envelopes be discarded. Court holds that Constitution requires they be counted. A big victory for our clients DSCC and DCCC and PA voters!
He continued: "This is not a time to fall back into the reflexive crouch that I so often see, where the authoritarian creep by this administration is ignored in favor of some horse race piece on who will be helped politically by the president's actions." See also: presswatchers.org/2025/08/we-h...
What you missed overnight night.🥳 Utah's gerrymandered congressional map was struck down. The judge reinstated the citizen-led redistricting reforms voters approved in 2018. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Neil deGrasse Tyson: “Imagine thinking scientists, historians, scholars, economists, and journalists devoted their lives to deceiving you — but a reality-TV star, proven in court to be a lying felon, is your beacon of truth and honesty.”
We make contributions with EVERY paycheck. Without a doubt, we EARN Social Security!
“… empty headed balls of dryer lint.”
I know this is not a unique observation but public health was basically created to deal with the Spanish flu, and then a century later COVID hit and killed twice as many people and our response was to destroy public health
I power walk a mile in 17 mins on the treadmill. With elevation. If they can’t run fast enough to catch a fleeing person aren’t they more likely to shoot them?
Is this fella part Nachi goat??
Not too long ago I remember when 8pm Thursday was “The Cosby Show night” & folx didn’t budge from their TVs.
You might just get lucky with a summer rerun… …and down the road, there was always syndication. 📺🤓 But admittedly, there were no guarantees. As brother Lyle Lovett teaches us: “Life is so uncertain.“ 😁
Social Security works because it gets contributions from EVERY generation. EVERY generation EARNS benefits for when they retire, become disabled, or lose a family breadwinner.
For the first time in 30 years, the American Academy of Pediatrics is substantially diverging from U.S. government vaccine recommendations. Yeah, no shit, when the government is running by science denying morons. Get your shots, be safe, and vote these fuckers out. apnews.com/article/covi...
THIS IS NOT NORMAL
Russia appears to be behind the massive hack of our federal court files. The hack is broad and includes national security cases. I’m sure Trump will jump right on this: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/12/u...
Wonder how soon we will find out he’s closeted. He’s so pathetically offended by this group of ppl that self hate has to be the main component of his hatred.
The rich don’t spend the money they have, and the poor don’t have money to spend. This is a problem when 70% of the economy relies on consumer spending. Closing our nation's wealth gap isn’t just the right thing to do. It’s essential to save our economy. https://youtu.be/S6dCh48b4oI?feature=shared
His post is exactly why he doesn’t deserve to be mayor. He’s saying: ‘my name makes me qualified. Plus, I deserve it.’ Sheesh.🙄
Remember: The recipe for economic growth isn’t tax cuts for the rich. It’s investment in our people — in health care, infrastructure and education — to build a strong middle class. You don't grow the economy through trickle-down nonsense.
Tomorrow morning I offer my thoughts on the 60th anniversary of the passage of the Voting Rights Act. I explain how it went from it being a law celebrated by both parties to something the GOP wants killed--and why SCOTUS may grant their wish. Only for Dem Docket premium members. hubs.ly/Q03jcjqP0
Trump’s EPA has: -Killed $15 million in research into forever chemicals in farmlands -Attempted to roll back forever chemical limits in drinking water -Delayed rules requiring corporations to report their forever chemical usage How does this “make America healthy again”?
Employers who hire undocumented workers are not interested in hiring Americans who know the labor laws; require med benefits; PTO…etc. This is why so many undocumented workers are hired.
This, of course, comes after Tim Cook personally donated $1 million to Trump's inauguration fund. Since then Apple has received tariff exemptions. We're witnessing blatant crony capitalism. www.theverge.com/news/737757/...
In the USA it's illegal to go naked but normal to have mass shootings. Because seeing naked people is deadly whereas mass shootings are... Oh... Wait...
In 2019 the VA had a program for veterans to use urgent care. I operated an urgent care and I am a vet. I happily jumped through all the hoops so I could see my fellow veterans. 4 months into the program it was turned over to a private insurer who made it impossible to stay in the program
Americans are relearning the lesson we learned during the Gilded Age of the late 1890s, when robber barons ran the government and the economy for their own benefit: Oligarchy is incompatible with the common good. I'm hopeful we'll respond with a new progressive movement.
The American people know that Social Security is stable, safe, and reliable. We will not hand our earned benefits over to billionaires who are willing to risk our livelihoods to satisfy their never-ending greed!
And IF you aren’t clear, Ghislaine Maxwell IS the one who “stole” underaged Virginia Giuffre from MAL AND the one who recruited ALL the underaged girls for Epstein AND then sexually assaulted them WITH Jeffrey. She’s the person MAGA rails about, yet their idol is FULLY PROTECTING HER!
“Both of them.”
Heartbreaking.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics is the crown jewel of knowledge about jobs and the economy. Trump has destroyed the credibility of this extraordinarily important source of information. This should alarm everyone. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/trump-destroys-our-source-of-information
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Naaah. I think he’s skerred.
The NYPD officer killed by the active shooter was an immigrant from Bangladesh. He had 2 kids and a 3rd on the way. The US State Dept travel advisory for Bangladesh is level 3; “Reconsider Travel” for violence, crime and terrorism. He died here, for us, shot with a Colt M4 rifle. Think about that.
In 2016 this guy went to a law office with the goal of killing his wife’s lawyer. He hacked a woman to death with a machete and bludgeoned two other people to death (including a man he falsely thought was that lawyer), then set fire to the building to cover his tracks. Anyway, Trump just freed him.
Purely intentional. Political performative art. He, that other congressman and Kudlow participated in this to throw any attention away from epstein scandal.
RFK Jr. just fired thousands of federal workers at crucial health agencies, including the FDA, CDC, and NIH. These are the people who inspect our food, track infectious diseases, and research life-saving treatments and cures. How is this "Making America Healthy Again"?
… and banning books!
At the very beginning of their professional lives, some young people have had their summer internships derailed by the Department of Government Efficiency.
We should know by now the response to any of his ridiculous posts should always be: “OK. What is he trying to divert our attention from?”
I’m not Brazilian but saw this happening as well. Also since ice agents have no problem taking children away from their parents, it isn’t hard to imagine SAs donning ice uniforms in order to kidnap children to sxe traffic; sell into slavery & other nefarious things.
Moskowitz: "Kristi Noem doesn't know what she is doing. She has no idea what she is doing when it comes to FEMA ... what she did is she broke it, and she broke it on purpose so that when it fails this summer, she can say, 'Oh, see, we told you -- FEMA doesn't work.'"
As Trump slashes NOAA and the National Weather Service, several of his appointees — including Howard Lutnick — have close financial ties to companies that would profit from privatizing weather forecasting. Everything is for sale.
Last year, a majority of voters in Missouri passed a ballot initiative enacting paid sick leave. Yesterday, Missouri's Republican governor signed legislation repealing it. Do Republicans ever listen to the will of their voters? https://www.commondreams.org/news/missouri-paid-sick-leave
Sounds like a good idea to me.
Trump is touting the no tax on tips provision in his budget bill. But many tipped workers won't benefit because their earnings are so low. And the provision expires in 2028. The estate tax cuts that primarily benefit the rich? Those were made permanent. Funny how that works.
That’s the thing, tho: anyone who dares to oppose him/call him out on his lies or says/writes something he doesn’t like is retaliated against. That retaliation is intentionally made public to instill fear and passivity in others. Unfortunately, this is an A+ strategy for authoritarians & fascists.
The Supreme Court’s “shadow docket” has cast very different shadows depending on which party holds the White House. When lower courts blocked Trump admin policies, SCOTUS intervened on an emergency basis to lift those orders in 77% of cases. For the Biden administration, that number was 0%.
Part of me thinks his outrageous comments are intentional as he now has billions of dollars & unchecked power. So he has it all: money & power. He can say & do whatever he wants with impunity. No one has the guts to stop or restrain him & he knows it.
Nope. And the ppl who could do something abt him-AKA impeachment-continue to do nothing.
It should be just as easy to cancel a subscription as it is to sign up for one, right? Well, three GOP judges blocked the FTC's "click to cancel" rule established by Lina Khan. Trump's FTC chair voted against finalizing the rule last year. Another win for Corporate America.
It’s all meant to distract. He doesn’t care how dumb, stupid, appalling or treasonous he sounds. He suffers no consequences & acts with impunity.
Trump and Elon made massive cuts to all US weather tracking and warning systems in the spring of 2025.
TX officials blame an inaccurate forecast by NWS for the deadly results of the flood, incl girls still missing from a camp. In the time of climate change we need better weather prediction from fed’l resources, not the dramatic cuts Trump/Musk have imposed. joycevance.substack.com/p/when-the-c...
Republicans in Congress have structured the most painful benefit cuts in their budget bill to kick in AFTER the 2026 midterms. But the tax cuts for the ultra-wealthy? Those begin immediately. Remember this.
BREAKING: In response to today's Supreme Court ruling, we filed a nationwide class-action lawsuit against the Trump administration’s executive order restricting birthright citizenship. Birthright citizenship makes our country strong and dynamic. We are using every tool in our toolkit to defend it.
Let’s be absolutely clear. This decision, based on fringe conspiracy theories, will kill children. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
16 million people would lose health coverage and become uninsured under the Republican health agenda, including 369,000 people in Michigan. Policymakers should protect people’s health care, not cut it.
But you know there will be.
President of American Academy of Pediatrics, which normally acts as a “liaison” to the CDC’s vaccine advisory board, this morning: “We won’t lend our name or our expertise to a system that is being politicized at the expense of children’s health.”
Same thing was said about Obama.
As an independent, I also agree.
Of interest, @citizensimpeachment.com @senategabe.bsky.social for who's on this list and who isn't.
Use the The ‘ABC’ method when voting for the next mayor of NY: Anyone But Cuomo 🗳️
Trump and the GOP's main goal with their Big Billionaire Bill is to make sure working families lose—which is why they want to shamelessly cut taxes for billionaires and Wall Street executives even if the lowest income Americans lose $1,600 a year. They fight for their donors, not us.
Let me tell you how the Senate Republicans are making even deeper cuts to Medicaid than the House did. Here are 3 things you should know as we fight to save Medicaid.
What’s disgusting are the jokes bush made @ a repube dinner abt looking for WMDs. A video was shown of him looking under furniture, out windows…The audience laughed when he said in the video: “Those WMDs have got to be somewhere.” This after thous of soldiers had already died in that bogus war.
Suggestion? Follow the ABC Rule when voting for the next NY Mayor: “Anyone But Cuomo.”
ICYMI when we broke the story in April, but Andrew Cuomo used ChatGPT to come up with his housing plan. (Earlier in his career, he was the HUD secretary) hellgatenyc.com/andrew-cuomo...
No money for Medicaid or SNAP or museums or schools or sidewalks or gun violence prevention or art or libraries. Always money for war.
He just dropped $280,000,000 worth of artillery in a war that’s not ours, but our grandparents have to live on Ramen noodles because America can’t afford Meals on Wheels anymore. Make it make sense.
Is it too late to give Sacha Baron Cohen an Oscar for this? Not a damn lie told. 🇺🇸
I have no words….
61 years ago today, the Klan murdered three civil rights workers in Mississippi. One of them was a childhood friend. I'd like to share what he meant to me. https://youtu.be/u-kv3wdqqNo?si=Zc3Uh-CJOcODt-RW
🇺🇸 #Casar: What’s just so sick about it is these #right-wing politicians 'they eat food cooked by #immigrants, they get their fancy cars cleaned by immigrants, they do their corrupt deals in buildings engineered, built, and maintained by immigrants...
"This case highlights the significant threat posed to U.S. citizens by frequent ICE errors, which are exacerbated when local law enforcement agencies participate in immigration enforcement...” www.bet.com/article/6rdn...
Just a reminder that Republicans in Congress could put a stop to this at any time.
BREAKING: In a unanimous decision, a federal court of appeals has ruled that Louisiana's law requiring the Ten Commandments to be displayed in all public school classrooms is unconstitutional. We’ll keep saying it: Public schools are not Sunday schools.