Remarkable that the economy is already so bad that Republicans are considering stimulus checks. We haven't had to do that since the last time Trump mismanaged the economy and caused massive inflation.
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Remarkable that the economy is already so bad that Republicans are considering stimulus checks. We haven't had to do that since the last time Trump mismanaged the economy and caused massive inflation.
oh no I'm actually convinced area51 definitely has a mach 7 scramjet powered reconnaissance plane that's currently nuking the company's profits and they just can't disclose it as a distraction because the prototypes keep exploding
This Epstein story is the final proof the government doesn’t have proof of ufos, because they would’ve put it out to salvage the news cycle
JD vance isn't out defending trump because JD wants to be president
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The Trump administration is telling us something: Whatever is in the documents, it's worse for them than the multi-week political circus the Administration and their Congressional allies are experiencing.
Congressional republicans serve the powerful. With legislation when they can, with coverups when they have to. The victims don’t factor into their calculations, be they abuse victims or families struggling for health care
sick of hearing reporters talk about how Trump's messaging diverged from Bush Trump's innovation over Bush was removing the word 'secret' from 'network of secret torture prisons,' and so on, for every area of policy.
oh i'm sending our own people to ask them about it
we need immediate transparency from the President about his Trump/Epstein/young girl parties. America deserves answers, at the very least. Who can oppose this? I'd like to hear from members of Congress.
"One of the girls on the boat was Shawna Lee, then a 14-year-old from a small town outside Toronto. She recalls how the contestants were encouraged to parade downstairs, one by one, and dance for Trump, Casablancas and others." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020...
MUST READ: @patdennis.bsky.social breaks down how Donald Trump's broken promises don't start and end with protecting known pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, and how Democrats can use this moment to persuade MAGA voters.
ICYMI: New in @washingtonpost.com, American Bridge President @patdennis.bsky.social reveals how Trump’s Epstein cover-up is a betrayal of his own base. Trump lies and Democrats must lead with truth & transparency. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
New from me: “If these voters decide Trump will break their trust to protect whatever is in the Epstein files, they might start to wonder if Trump has been lying to them about other things to protect his powerful friends — while their lives get worse” www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
American Bridge President: Republicans Stand By Pedophiles (or are pedophiles themselves) Watch me run through the list:
I'm from New Jersey, so I can't let this go without tweeting that Cruz voted against disaster relief after Hurricane Sandy
We have concepts of a client list
I'm super curious to discover if our nation's planned tax increase on trade with every nation on earth will happen as planned this week.
Republican tax cuts for rich people: permanent No tax on tips: temporary, two years only
Trump's bill brings Wall Street-style bonuses to the US government, with your t ax dollars: Trump's new bill cuts health care for families but allocates $2 billion for bonuses to government employees (without Congressional approval on who gets them)
the big beautiful bill branding is far underwater; using alternative names just confuses people. Nobody is getting tricked into thinking it's beautiful. Voters mainly see the term as sarcastic and ironic when you ask them
the Big Beautiful Bill specifically funds $350,000,000 to Elon Musk to design a spacecraft to deorbit the International Space Station
Republicans are giving a special new tax cut to bankers who lend money to buy land in rural (red) areas
Republicans are very mad Democrats made it free to file your taxes online, and are demanding the IRS spend $15,000 to find a way to get private companies back into the process
Big Beautiful Bill prohibits HHS from enforcing minimum staffing standards for nursing homes. Republicans decided it's about time somebody stuck it to these nursing home freeloading patients who have too easy lives in their too well staffed facilities.
Republicans have placed a moratorium on rules that would make it easier to sign up for Medicaid/Chip/Medicare
One thing that's interesting in the Big Beautiful Bill is it provides billions to the Border Patrol and Secret Service Directors to give as direct bonuses (or "performance awards") to their staff. I'll be interested to see exactly how and when this money is spent
middle class kids can't get a break on their student loans anymore, but private jet owners get a big tax break, so it all comes out in the wash
The Trump administration is dropping charges against ms-13 gang leaders after the gang leaders agreed to use their power as gang leaders to support Nayib Bukele politically in El Salvador. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/30/u...
The Trump administration is dropping charges against ms-13 gang leaders after the gang leaders agreed to use their power as gang leaders to support Nayib Bukele politically in El Salvador. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/30/u...
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Rob Bresnahan getting richer trading stocks on this Trump's family getting richer on crypto launches and launching a phone company Your family? Losing what little you had left as the economy spirals
Tax cuts for the wealthy, fewer vacations for normal people.
From supporting implementing a Texas-like heartbeat bill in Virginia, to refusing to rule out criminal penalties for abortion care providers, to spreading debunked conspiracy theories about abortions, you can watch all her extreme comments here ⬇️ www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
NEW FROM REUTERS: - U.S. business activity slowed in June, prices increased further amid President Donald Trump's aggressive tariffs - Suggests that an acceleration in inflation is likely in the second half of the year. www.reuters.com/business/us-...
Marely requires 24/7 care after receiving a heart transplant covered by Medicaid. The U.S. Senate is considering slashing the program. www.wbez.org/health-medic...
Just weeks after the U.S. House of Representatives approved billions in cuts to Medicaid, the Senate is considering chopping the program even more, a move that advocates say would have dire consequences for people with disabilities. www.disabilityscoop.com/2025/06/23/s...
Proposed Medicaid cuts could threaten the viability of five rural Pennsylvania hospitals. www.goerie.com/story/news/p...
getting mixed messages from Dr Oz here
every local publication today is running a story about how Trump's war is raising gas prices
Politicians will always crow about a successful first strike as if that’s the hard part. The hard part are the second order consequences, and in war those are never fully predictable.
More Medicaid: Vulnerable PA Congressman Scott Perry under fire at home over his disastrous Medicaid cuts -- putting local hospitals at risk of closing "some of the proposed cuts could be devastating... we know health care deserts go on to become economic deserts"
Important protests happening in Maine, these people deserve to be heard stop Republican Medicaid cuts!
the analysts keep saying that - tariffs are raising costs - uncertainty around tariffs slowing growth - Trump's war is raising oil prices and costs - immigration policy creating employment crisis in elder and child care resulting in inflation in those sectors - Debt exploding
they were both high for the entirety of the biden administration, caused me a lot of stress!
i mean things can get more expensive while the economy slows down, they're two different things
Just now: Disastrous news from the Federal Reserve:
BREAKING NEWS: This Pat Dennis guy has good messaging takes and you should listen to him
“These groups have a sense that they are effectively above the law because the president will pardon them for their crimes,” @ab21.bsky.social President @patdennis.bsky.social said. “And I believe that is done as an intimidation technique.” www.nbcnews.com/politics/202...
"A new tax bill on the Senate floor could bring higher costs to already struggling Americans. The Congressional Budget Office reports that the one big beautiful bill could cut benefits to low-income households by as much as $1600 a year."
Ashley Hinson says that there will be "fundamental changes" to Medicaid under the GOP's budget bill. Then, she tries to explain why it's okay that she's cutting health care for millions of people. This is why Iowans boo her wherever she goes. #IA02
Rob Bresnahan's American Dream: Getting elected to Congress to spend time daytrading stocks with the proceeds from selling the local business he inherited from his grandfather to a multinational private equity firm.
boiling water
vulnerable republican Mariannette Miller-Meeks is going YOLO on the Medicare-cutting Trump bill. She's happy to pay the political cost that Trump will try to dodge.
Doctors at Department of Veterans Affairs hospitals nationwide could refuse to treat unmarried veterans and Democrats under new hospital guidelines imposed following an executive order by Donald Trump www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
*Mississippi* Republican Cindy Hyde-Smith, persistent electoral underperformer, started to raise the alarm re: Trump's tariffs: "The tariffs have been brutal. No one said this was not going to be painful... I tell you, it's a rough road right now. I'll be honest" www.youtube.com/watch?v=NnQK...
NEW: inside Democrats $3 plan to appeal to the bro vote
Nancy Mace checking social media rn
I've been googling all over the place to try to figure out where I stole this from. Thank you! I have no memory of ever even seeing this movie but I knew i saw it in something
NEW IA-SEN AD: Joni Ernst doesn't care if you live or die
The world has gone to hell. It used to be when you bought a politician in this town, he'd stay bought!
MUST READ: @ab21.bsky.social President @patdennis.bsky.social's op-ed on how the Democratic response to Donald Trump's trade war needs to be more than just memes — because it's having real, devastating impacts on American families.
"Trump hasn’t 'chickened out' on his tariffs. He is — at this very second — inflicting great harm on American workers, families and the entire U.S. economy." @ab21.bsky.social President @patdennis.bsky.social for WaPo ⬇️ www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
Trump hasn’t “chickened out” on his tariffs. He is — at this very second — inflicting great harm on American workers, families and the entire U.S. economy. my latest in the Washington Post www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
guy making $50k a year is writing a $500 check to a guy making over $4 million a year... ...and the $50k guy now has to fill out extra forms on his health care to make sure he's not cheating (don't mess it up! or you can't go to the hospital)
Donald Trump when he's throwing himself a birthday party: 🤑🤑 Donald Trump when a veteran who served this country needs to see a doctor:🤏🪙 me on MSNBC earlier:
Big beautiful bullshit
Big beautiful bullshit
Donald Trump when he's throwing himself a birthday party: 🤑🤑 Donald Trump when a veteran who served this country needs to see a doctor:🤏🪙 me on MSNBC earlier:
Two-faced Thom Tillis has repeatedly admitted that Trump’s tariffs and layoffs are wrecking the economy, but when push comes to shove, Tillis won’t stand up to Trump. The only thing he cares about is how they might impact the #NCSen election next year. #TwoFacedTillis
most of these people got into politics post-aca for the specific political goal of cutting healthcare and especially medicaid expansion
After saying they wouldn’t, the GOP voted to support Trump’s bill that will kick 8.6m Americans off Medicaid and make life even harder for Americans struggling with Trump’s crumbling economy and sky-high prices. They lied, and we have receipts. 🧵⬇️
his feelings aren't super relevant to me
yes because presidential numbers are highly correlated with midterm performance
you're attributing the traits of his strongest supporters to his weakest supporters. His weakest supporters are different people with different priorities and opinions
That's just the Reuters poll. Marquette has him facing 32 percent disapproval within his own party on cost of living. He's 54 points0 (!) under water on the issue with independents.
nobody talks about Trump's emerging problems with his base: 20 percent of Republicans now disapprove of Trump's performance on cost of living issues, and they rank it as the most important issue
Ahead of her sit-down interview dropping tonight, something she’s been avoiding like the plague, here’s a few reminders about who #VAGov candidate Winsome Earle-Sears really is.
Bill Spadea has exclusively voted by mail since 2018. #NJGov
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Percentage of Social Security callers who heard a prerecorded disconnect message when trying to reach a Social Security representative, over time. This number was zero for virtually all of 2024 Guess when Trump and DOGE went after Social Security
i don't randomly post the good dirt on bluesky, just the funny stuff. good dirt goes to the Senate
i forgot to mention she asked trees for help
Trump just announced Casey Means as our new Surgeon General nominee. In her "How I Found Love At 35" Newsletter, the steps include: - set up a shrine - full moon ceremonies - take psychedelic mushrooms www.caseymeans.com/learn/newsle...
that's why we clipped it haha
embattled NY-17 congressman Mike Lawler talks about bipartisanship and then goes on Fox News to fundraise off of calling his constituents crazy, even setting up a text fundraising number with keyword CRAZY. Attacking your constituents who are concerned about jobs and the economy is bad politics!
Kids can go down to two toys when Trump goes down to two houses, or two jets
middle class families are losing their jobs and their homes and Republicans are focused on giving their tax dollars to the families of Jan 6 rioters. Kick them all out
the tank, drone, and humvee are a joke. but we do need to actually build the social security areleigh burke destroyer
having reviewed Trump's budget proposal, I have an proposal about how to convince Republicans to restore funds to programs critical to the American People
Lose your job in the recession while the price of everything goes up... ...so your kids and kids kids can work on an assembly line all day
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the study only includes people who identify themselves as working class
not at all, they don't like that, but they see democrats as weak and having no plan. Which, to them, is worse. So it's on us.
They're getting rich off of your while they cut your health care
Trump seems to honestly think he can hide why the prices of everything are going up
