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Rep. Senator Rick Scott's Net Worth is $548.99M and he wants to eliminate Medicaid, Medicare and Social Security? www.quiverquant.com/congresstrad...

I will be damned if I allow a bunch of Confederate-waving January 6th apologists give the American people a lecture on flag waving. There is ZERO reason to enter an argument about patriotism with people who still worship traitors to America 150+ years later. They. Are. Breaking. The. Law.

Trump doesn't want legit international students, but he's ok with peddling access to foreigners paying into his crypto biz! It's un-American & its wrong I discussed @cnn @erinburnett.bsky.social @cnn.com

Scores of staffers at the White House National Security Council have been abruptly dismissed as part of a sweeping overhaul that slashes the staff from over 300 to just 50. The move shifts the NSC’s role from policymaking to simply carrying out the president’s directives.

The cruelty is the point.

“What the heck’s the commissioner of Social Security?" That's a real question from Frank Bisignano...the commissioner of Social Security. Millions of Americans depend on Social Security. They should be able to trust that the head of the agency even knows what the job is.

Watch what they do, not what they say.

Autogenocide is a word nerd's word, no doubt. But it is remarkably descriptive of the situation we find ourselves in. Credit to Heather Marsh for "insisting" that this is the right word.

Emergency #3E protest: May 22, in Washington D.C., at every State Capitol, City Hall, and Town Hall. "A bill that strips people of food and health care is not a tax policy, it is autogenocide." "They are stealing from the bottom 10% and transferring it to the top 10%" #3E #StopTheBillionaireBailout

Speaker Pro Tempore: You are to direct your comments to the chair. Jeffries: You know what's interesting? Every time I come on this floor, I can use sharp language, he can use sharp language, you choose to admonish me. I don't work for you sir. I work for the American people.

Here’s an idea: Stop acting like the Gestapo.

Warnock: You literally have, in real time, the leader of another nation-state—in this case, South Africa—there to talk to him about trade, and he’s saying, “Sorry, Mr. President, we don’t have a plane to offer you.” And you see why we have an Emoluments Clause in the first place.

To understand what the GOP is forcing through at midnight: •Gutting $880 billion from Medicaid •Gutting $500 billion from Medicare •Gutting funding for SNAP (food assistance) •Gutting clean energy protections, which will also cost 400,000 jobs 1/2

"You read books, eh?" A 1949 red scare Herblock cartoon about pressures on teachers that hits hard once again.

Frost: Tonight the people stealing are not folks with tattoos and hoodies but people wearing suits and ties and congressional pins sitting in the capitol now, not in some alley wrapped in darkness but the United States congress wrapped in the flag. It is disgusting and we will never forget this.

Our team of CDC'ers and public health supporters, thought this moment was notable, too! We are proud to have you, @drtomfrieden.bsky.social, with us in the fight for public health and CDC. #CDCsaveslives #saveCDC

BREAKING: MeidasTouch, the nation’s top independent pro-democracy media network, is proud to announce that attorney and renowned legal analyst Katie Phang has launched a brand-new YouTube channel in partnership with MeidasTouch. Subscribe now: youtube.com/@katiephangnews

That's Exactly What He Did And It Was All Illegal!!

So you’re telling us the radical transparency people are against… transparency? www.politico.com/news/2025/05...

MUST WATCH: They didn’t just burn Tulsa — they burned proof. Black wealth. Black futures. Gone. And now they’re banning books so you never learn it happened. 📚 ERASED tells the truth they’re scared of. Read it before they erase that too: stan.store/gxldsociety/...

Hayes: Every provision in this program is cruel and they know it. That's why none of them spoke on it in committee. That's why they have no response. That's why they don't hold town halls. That's why they don't answer questions. All they do is tweet, repeat, and hide in the back until they vote yes

Federal judge dresses down Alina Habba: "Your role is not to secure convictions at all costs, nor to satisfy public clamor, nor to advance political agendas. Your allegiance is to the impartial application of the law, to the pursuit of truth and to the upholding of due process for all."

@warren.senate.gov: "They're fighting over how many children should go hungry so that Mark Zuckerberg can buy another Hawaiian island."

Adriana Smith’s story MUST be told so America can understand what’s at stake when draconian abortion laws like the one in GA keep a brain dead pregnant woman on life support just so the fetus can be delivered. What kind of dystopian hellscape has Dobbs created? m.youtube.com/watch?v=wNYT...

Is it too much to ask for an IRS Commissioner who understands the law?

This is perhaps the best essay on this sad and fateful mess www.politico.com/news/magazin...

Fact checking alone isn't enough when these people speak Fact-twist-checking is the new gold standard. Sheesh.

McGovern: "This is not a governing philosophy. It is a scam. I wasn't sent here to vote for trash. I can't understand why you'd choose a career of public service to do this -- to rip away the healthcare & food assistance of working & middle class Americans. Is that really what you came here to do?"

The entire federal government has been mobilized for SeashellGate. It’s all hands on deck.

If people don’t get *preventative* care, they will have worse health outcomes because, hear me out here, they will develop issues that were PREVENTABLE. Healthcare isn’t a right just for those with money, it’s a human right.

www.thedailybeast.com/kid-rocks-re...

AOC: If anyone is breaking the law in this situation, it’s not members of Congress — it’s DHS. It’s people like Tom Homan and Secretary Kristi Noem. You lay a finger on Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman or any of the Representatives that were there… we’re going to have a problem.

MERKLEY: Are you gonna launch an investigation of the reported violation of the due process of several hundred people? P: It is not for me to call the balls & strikes M: You haven't read the Constitution? It says 'all persons'...it concerns me you're not familiar w/the core concept of due process

DISGRACEFUL! IT WAS ONLY A MATTER OF TIME... To get rid of the supposed DEI hire and replace Hayden, the first African American and woman to hold that position, with most likely a right-wing conservative white guy loyal to the ideology of the Felon-In-Chief www.npr.org/2025/05/09/g...

Mark Zuckerberg’s charity quietly cuts funding for affordable housing, homelessness groups

“Do not mock us.”

This isn't hypothetical. The coming days are bringing higher prices and disrupted supply chains, this time not because of a pandemic or a war, but self-inflicted by our country's government under this president.

We must fight to save PBS and NPR.

Trump’s EO defunding PBS and NPR will likely be struck down as an abuse of executive power, but it is another example of Trump’s attack on the free press. www.washingtonpost.com/style/media/...

AOC: Tom Homan said he was going to refer me to DOJ because I’m using my free speech rights in order to advise people of their constitutional protections… to that I say: Come for me… Do I look like I care? There’s nothing illegal about it and if they want to make it illegal, they can come take me.

Elon Musk and DOGE have spent the past 100 days threatening the nonpartisan civil service who deliver essential services to all Americans. We’ve spent the past 100 days in court, bringing 59 legal actions against the Trump administration. And we’re just getting started.

Walz: You have a situation where the Secretary of Health basically said it and was speaking with the language of eugenics, that some people just don't matter. People like Deanna's son or my son or those of you listening tonight. So look, this is a fight we must win.

Thank you Greyhound!