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Reminder: watch what they do, not what they say

Last year four Maine hospitals were identified as at risk of closing due to HR 1. If these hospitals closed, Aroostook County would lose $113.6 million in wages, Hancock County $55.3 million, and Washington County $15.8 million. #mepolitics www.mecep.org/blog/medicai...

"In today’s America, it is actually Trump, himself, who is taking government stakes in private enterprises." Yet no journalist talks about Trump's communist streak with gov owning private business and one party rule!

Thanks to Trump's tax cuts, 88 corporations — including Coinbase, CVS, and Disney — paid ZERO federal income tax last year. They also spent $852M on political donations and lobbying. Their combined tax savings: over $26 BILLION (a 3,000% ROI!) We must break this corrupt cycle.

Trump systematically denies disaster relief funds to any state that voted against him.

"I don't think about Americans' financial situation" 175 more days until you get to vote against this and every Republican who enabled it to go on this long.

What happened to I’m not bothered? Donald Trump clearly expects things to get much worse and fast. The President’s trying to save face from getting into a war that’s crushing Americans at the pump.

A Florida Republican Sheriff, Grady Judd, announced the arrest of 266 defendants in a sex trafficking scheme & minced no words. He identified influencer Craig Long, who he said moved in high circles including with the president, holding up a picture of Long with Trump www.youtube.com/watch?v=x03q...

The Fifth Circuit just told millions of women that three judges know better than the FDA, their doctors, and 25 years of evidence. They don't. This restriction on medication abortion is a nationwide abortion restriction, full stop. I have no intention of letting this stand.

NOT SO FUN FACT—half of all U.S. war casualties during WWI were due to influenza. Today—Trump’s War Secretary remove the flu vaccine requirement for all U.S. military. Plus, bragging about this to all enemies is just absolute idiocy. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

In new episode of #SistersInLaw, we share our disgust over DOJ’s false portrayal of prosecutions of attacks on abortion clinics. These cases were about crimes, not peaceful protest or religious beliefs. You can listen here. www.politicon.com/podcast-epis...

Good morning! Since Trump was re-elected, Forbes estimates— 💰His net worth is up $2.1 billion, to $6.4 billion 💰Eric’s is up 10x, to $400 million 💰Don Jr.’s is up 6x, to $300 million 💰20-year-old Barron is worth $150 million And Jared became a billionaire last year. Have a great day!

In his second administration, President Trump’s family members are expanding their business ventures, earning hundreds of millions of dollars and prompting fresh concerns about influence peddling and conflicts of interest. https://to.pbs.org/4tTfPdh

Friendly reminder: Republicans continue to block our efforts to lower healthcare costs.

"Ms. Ramos is a devout Christian who teaches Sunday school to children at her church, Ms. Rickling said. She was in her high school’s marching band. And she was a few months from finishing a bachelor’s degree in biochemistry." Clearly, the 'worst of the worst.'

This man is still serving in Congress with the support of Mike Johnson.

conversion therapy and crisis pregnancy centers both benefit from putting quackery and expertise on equal footing, except even that's not enough. CPCs got millions from HHS while they also tried to block Medicaid recipients from obtaining care at Planned Parenthood. Quackery REPLACES expertise.

One reason why the East Wing resonates with people is that it will be incredibly difficulty, divisive and costly to undo this shit. And in that respect it serves as an apt metaphor for the Trump administration.

“They’re standing there like Ken and Barbie dolls in the back of us. They can’t do anything. They’re not trained.” ICE agents are largely standing around at Atlanta’s busy airport www.ajc.com/business/202...

Oh. So they want Obama’s nuclear deal minus Obama’s signature. Got it.

BREAKING: 49 Senate Republicans just VOTED DOWN our simple bill to pay TSA workers. Republicans have now blocked TSA pay SEVEN times. It’s a slap in the face to the men and women who have been working without a paycheck for weeks.

🧵1 “ICE agents at checkpoints can use more force than TSA checkpoint staff, with less chance of legal sanctions, even if you can afford to sue them.” TSA can’t physically prevent you from leaving, ICE can. … viewfromthewing.com/ice-is-showi...

The DOGE assholes saved no money and did a lot of damage to good programs and workers’ lives. And now they want to blow $200 billion on this lunacy?

Ossoff: "The American people need to know that the president is fundraising for his political campaign and his PAC using images of American service members killed in action, and it's a disgrace"

Putin must be so happy with his puppet

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Nine months ago, the United States "completely and totally obliterated" Iran's nuclear program. Tonight, we're attacking Iran to disrupt their nuclear program. A sizable percentage of this country thinks that's normal.

With Trump, there's always a tweet.

This should be a bigger story. More than 15,000 American farms shut down in 2025.

www.thewrap.com/media-platfo... Brendan Carr may help flip Texas

"When Lewandowski was told Noem's personal items had been left behind, including a heated blanket, he yelled at Coast Guard staff The pilot came out of cockpit to see what was happening & Lewandowski insisted plane return to collect Noem's items When he refused, Lewandowski announced he was fired"

A former Democratic colleague of hers once told me that Susan Collins is “usually there when you don’t need her and never there when you actually do.” The moderate brand she projects is entirely performative. It’s always surprised me that Maine voters don’t seem to care.

In just a few moments, I will vote against the so-called SAVE America Act and I am a strong no. That's because this bill would place unnecessary burdens on millions of women and eligible citizens to register to vote and make their voices heard. It is un-American & undermines our democracy.

Lordy! What a bitch

The ‘American Sovereignty’ ads trying to convince us ICE is full of family people are not working. We can see that ICE is made up of vicious sadistic thugs who want to hurt anyone not like them. They are hired for their cruelty and ignorant stupidity.

“No formal plans,” they say. But they “can’t guarantee” ICE won’t be near polls. That’s the move: you don’t need action to shift behavior, you just need uncertainty.

@houserepublicans.bsky.social We The People know.

“Imagine if we had to follow the law”

This is what Nicolás Maduro did in Venezuela. Nationalize voting, then clamp down on journalists and appoint only partisan judges. Becoming a dictator one step at a time. 🗽

Seems like a good video for his trial

Videos prove the administration is lying. Words matter.