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the mainstream democrats do not want the republicans to face any consequences because they are on the same team, they are the same people, they are friends and colleages. their job is to occupy the positions of people who could actually oppose the republicans & make sure that never happens

America today is a country where regulators won't allow private companies to air interviews of the opposition on TV, but declare that taxpayer funded propaganda is fine.

“We do a Watergate twice a day” is a crazy way to confess your own corruption…

Remember when the Republicans were all like, "AOC's Green New Deal is gonna make it so you can't have hamburgers!" And now, their policy is, "You should be grateful that ground beef is 300% more expensive!"

Reporters don't talk enough about how Republicans do not consider Democratic voters to be fully American.

Again - the Roberts #SCOTUS is the Hormuz problem for Democrats or anyone concerned about democracy in U.S. It doesn’t matter what agenda Dems have, they’d be negligent if they don’t plan to act on an all out push to reform, rebalance (expand) to rein in the MAGA Court when they get back in power.

Joe Kernen comes close to having a coronary on air as Pete Buttigieg dogwalks him all over the Squawk Box studio about Trump's economic mismanagement and inflation

I feel sick to my stomach waiting around to see what atrocity Trump has in mind for the people of Iran this evening. It's hard to fathom our other elected leaders aren't able to check him in any meaningful way. It's an indictment not just of voters but of our whole system. We're ruled by a mad king.

This is the FCC Chairman, who is ostensibly a non-partisan industry regulator, openly bragging about conducting a political purge of the media.

Elizabeth Banks

"The federal government buying back its own permits because the current occupant of the White House lost a lawsuit in Scotland twenty years ago and never got over it." Recommend this deep dive by @lizdye.bsky.social into Trump's crazy obsession with wind energy.

@tolkoto.com dear Mike, I'm at a birthday party with a PS2 and the only game is The Mummy Returns. I've been playing it for two hours and have no idea how to progress. Do with this what you will.

A decent chunk of my political philosophy is embodied by the phrase "It's never okay to kill children."

things every single republican president of your lifetime has done - started a war in the middle east - completely destroyed the economy

Fascist.

Haven't seen this angle mentioned, but it's an extraordinary national security risk to have an anonymous "staffer" impersonating the president of the United States, posting racist memes, from his personal accounts, at 10 PM.

Good time to remember that Bernie Sanders is the most popular politician in America www.gelliottmorris.com/p/who-is-the...

reminder that a small handful of Republicans in the House and Senate could end this madness today

"Everything we do is legal, ethical, and moral." Don't believe ICE and their lies, please help share what's happening in Minneapolis. youtu.be/W1dyNcRGRXY

You cannot overstate how startling it is to see a politician just say the thing with clarity and poise. No fearful hemming. No overwrought qualifying down til it’s meaningless. No lingering sense that there is a loyalty to a donor class or an ideology of stasis that they’d never admit to.

Rep. @AOC: I understand that Vance believes shooting a young mother of three in the face three times is an acceptable America that he wants to live in, and I do not. That is a fundamental difference between Vance and I. I do not believe that the American people should be assassinated in the street.

Today’s jobs report shows yet more losses for construction and manufacturing, after declining for most of 2025. The working class is really getting squeezed under Trump

I am begging Democratic leadership to recognize that funding and legitimizing your authoritarian opponent’s secret police is a bad idea. This should not be a difficult concept.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

New in PN: Renee Good's killer can and must be prosecuted "There’s no path to justice that runs through this administration or the federal courts. Hell, Trump will probably give the shooter a medal, and would certainly give him a pardon. But there is a path to justice that runs through Minnesota."

"The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command"

LOLLL Trump claims he’s cutting drug prices by 600 percent, which is not possible

Trump: "I think affordability is the greatest con job."

How it started / How it’s going

These same folks extremely committed to fighting antisemitism in universities

They're going to the highest court in the land to avoid feeding children.

SNAP is not a luxury, and food banks lack the resources to make up this deficit. SNAP is a literal lifeline for 42 million people who Trump is saying he will literally break the law to see poor people starve while he remodels his bathroom and holds Gatsby-themed parties.

70% of working age SNAP recipients work full time. The companies should pay them a living wage! SNAP is corporate welfare.

Democrats can just run this clip as an ad

We are not releasing the files, but Trump's employees (including one who had to quit when it was discovered he gave a sweetheart deal to Epstein as prosecutor) vouch for him, so that should be good enough for you.

so in addition to cutting a $40 billion check of the tax payers money to his chainsaw friend in Argentina

Trump: post images of himself wearing a crown and flying a jet labeled “King Trump” NYT: I don’t where the left gets this whole “Trump wants to be a monarch” thing.

According to Russ Vought, this is essential government work that must be continued throughout the shutdown

A journalist should ask why he seems so uninformed about what's going on in the country as he is supposed to be the leader of the House.

Imagine thinking domestic violence isn’t “really serious”

Q: This has been reported for a while. Cory Mills was accused of beating a girlfriend in his DC apt. Are you concerned about these allegations? JOHNSON: You have to ask Rep. Mills about that. He's been a faithful colleague. I don't know the details. Let's talk about things that are really serious

Shorter Mike Johnson: Beating up a woman isn’t “really serious.”

That’s $5 billion more than the entire annual USAID budget. All to one country. To rescue one friend of the president’s.

Donald Trump is giving $20 billion of taxpayer money to Argentina – to help his political ally stay in power and bail out Wall Street hedge funds – while Americans at home can't afford health care or groceries.

Unprecedented corruption

In the last week, Donald Trump has insisted that there are no more stores left in war-ravaged Portland, asserted that Joe Biden was president during the January 6th insurrection, hosted conspiracy theorists for an "Antifa" summit, and said he'd consider pardoning his good friend the sex trafficker.

The Speaker of the House is telling the Fox News audience that a peaceful demonstration by Americans on the National Mall will actually be a gathering of organizations the administration has designated as violent terrorists. Seems bad?