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Time to put grandpa in a home I’m sorry GOP

Democratic politicians blasting out fundraising texts less than 48 hours before millions of people lose access to food assistance isn’t the only reason they are out of touch, but it’s a pretty good example of how out of touch they are. @democrats.org

It is not about Kimmel or what he said. It is about the US government forcing a network to fire someone - no government should have that power. If the network decided this on their own, that’s one thing. But in this case they absolutely did not.

Trump just designated “Antifa” as a terrorist organization, on par with ISIS and Al Qaeda. As a reminder, “antifa” is short for “antifascist”. They will use this lie to surveil, imprison, and kill Americans on the left. This may be our Reichstag Fire moment. Wake up. www.cnn.com/2025/09/17/p...

All of this, every bit of it, traces back to the failure of the U.S. government to invest in public education for decades and expecting overworked and underpaid educators to make up the difference.

Now we know why he's been going after Apple.

sure, the world is going up in flames, there's unrest in the streets, and America has become a global punchline, but at least Trump voters made the handful of trans athletes in the country feel extra bad

It's pretty telling that the second part of the "Mamdani is a danger to Jewish new yorkers" pitch is always "so vote for sexual harasser shitbag Italian Catholic Andrew Cuomo" and not "so vote for Jewish Progressive Brad Lander"

Look, there are consequences for voting to confirm people like Rubio and Noem, for voting for the Laken Riley Act, and for doing promo photo shoots with ICE & CPB. Until now, these consequences have been felt by others. Use the power that you have to start fighting this.

Reminder that seven Democratic senators voted to confirm Kristi Noem and six Dem senators declined to vote either way. She was confirmed, 59-34. The good faith experiment is clearly over, and we need the Democratic senators who didn't stand against her nomination to be loud as hell right now.

Fuck, and I cannot stress this enough, this guy, and fuck ICE. They aren't worried about treating immigrants like real people with real families. Well, turnabout is fair play.

We're no longer the leader of the free world. We're no longer a beacon of democracy and justice. We're no longer the land of opportunity. We're no longer a nation in which no one is above the law. Our myths about ourselves are killing us. What to do? davidrothkopf.substack.com/p/we-are-not...

The all-important match winner from Ella Karolak. This goal was worth $1,223.02 for the Ruth Ellis Center in this year's Prideraiser campaign, help make the next goal be worth even more: www.prideraiser.org/campaigns/no...

Silence Is Complicity Straighten your spine Speak & live your truth

Dental insurance is absolutely useless.

#DCTID

Me when my wife asks what I accomplished at home while she was away for three days

Then what happened?

The Pope saw this and immediately died.

THIS IS THE SECOND FATHER TO MEET JD VANCE AND IMMEDIATELY DIP OUT FOREVER.

Happy Easter #socialistsunday

If Jesus had focused more on kitchen table issues and less on unpopular outcasts like lepers and prostitutes, he might have won more support from white working-class Judeans.

If Democratic congressional leadership don’t lead an en masse halt to all legislative business after today, I don’t know why they’re worth supporting. What moment could more demand a response of intractable and tedious opposition? Shut it all down, and refuse to budge.

Whitmer got a taste of national relevance and wanted to run for president so she watched Harris cater to the center, lose, and is immediately mimicking that. Incredible stupidity

When I get to the Senate, I'll support a bill to ban Congressional stock trading on day one. No elected official should be cashing in while the American people see their retirements go down the drain.

Yeah, the SAVE Act is an attack on women’s rights, and that is absolutely horrible and needs to to called out. The attack on trans rights seems to be getting lost in the shuffle, though, and should also be called out.

Every senator and member of Congress should immediately and voluntarily disclose any stock, bond, or similar trades they have made in the last ten days.

It’s incredible to watch a presidential campaign implode years before it even officially launches.

Millions of bots defending his tariffs yelling “it’s chess not checkers!” Ok buddy.

Rand Paul: "The whole [tariffs] debate is so fundamentally backwards & upside down. It's based on a fallacy & the fallacy is this: that somehow in a trade, someone must lose. That somehow when you trade with someone, someone is taking advantage of you... I have a trade deficit with my grocery store"

It’s wild to watch governors who are willing to roll up their sleeves and fight the administration while ours talks about the need for bipartisanship.

We need to focus more broadly than events in the White House. The entire GOP is working to give our Federal lands to private interests. Eliminating Federal land jobs will discourage public visitors. Extractive industries will do permanent damage. We must stop the privatization of our land.

The economy is in free fall. The markets are collapsing. Our soldiers are dying. Our sensitive information is being leaked over text message and gmail. Random people are being kidnapped and sent to foreign torture prisons. And Trump is fucking golfing.

*president crashes the stock market* Hassett: oh so it’s illegal for guys to have hobbies now?

The market is crashing, prices are soaring, and Donald Trump is golfing. You deserve a lot better than this. And it will be on us to build something new.

America just shot itself in the nuts to “own the libs”

It's not a bad idea to go to the local Walmart or big box retailer and buy lots of consumables now. From toothpaste to soap, anything you can find storage space for, buy before they have to replenish inventory. Even if it's made in the USA , they will jack up the price and blame it on tariffs.

We need new leaders in Washington. I’m running for Senate to be one. Let’s go.

Cory Booker is 23 hours in and somehow seems to be gaining strength

Booker: "I confess that I have been imperfect. I confess that I've been inadequate to the moment. I've confess that the Democratic Party has made terrible mistakes that gave a lane to this demagogue. I confess we all must look in the mirror and say 'we will do better.'"

"I don't want a Disney vacation of our history! I don't a whitewashed history, I don't want a homogenized history. Tell me the wretched truth about America, because that speaks to our greatness" -- 20 hours into his speech, Cory Booker is spitting absolute 🔥