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A man who screamed “Kill ’em!” at police during the January 6 riot now works for the Department of Justice. And the DOJ says they “appreciate his contributions.” If you’re not chilled by that, you’re not paying attention. adamkinzinger.substack.com/p/the-doj-ju...

Some government expenditures are good and very important, actually

The fact that so many people think celebrating the end of slavery in the US is “DEI” is actually clarifying of what they mean when they use DEI. amp.cnn.com/cnn/2025/06/...

LA RESIDENT: “The cruelty is staggering. People are hiding in their homes from the federal government like Anne Frank. If you’re a Christian and you’re still supporting this you’ve lost your mind. You’re not gonna get a job because of what they’re doing. Absolute brutality.”

Would you look at that.

Double.

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.

Rick Scott committed massive Medicare fraud 25 years ago. Told he’s telling you to make people stop committing Medicare fraud. 🫠

The correct way to connect the authoritarian presence in LA and the Big Beautiful Bill is that the bill gives the government the resources to do this in dozens of cities at once. So if you don't like what's happening in LA, it's coming to your town if the bill passes.

Wellman: When I served in Iraq.. I heard about how Saddam Hussein divided them. Different sects fought each other. But you know -- Saddam and his family sat laughing at all of them. They divided them against each other and kept their power for 35 years. Does this sound familiar to anybody?

Chris Christie: “He’s got categories of pardons…But all of them have one thing in common, which is you’ve got to be whole hog for Donald Trump. Never before we have we seen a president who makes it a gate to getting to a pardon to be a political supporter of his, a vocal current political supporter”

"Getting rid of USAID is a very easy way of winning headlines... But if your one accomplishment in government is to rip funds away from the neediest, so that they can die, so they can be unmedicated, so that they can starve, that is a moral stain that I hope will haunt you 'til the day you die."

Civics 101: presidents are not kings…

"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." -FDR, 1937

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South Carolina folks: this is for you!!

Her stats line up with CDC data…

The traitor that sold America out to the lowest bidder

Biden was the only person who beat Trump. Biden's sin was not sitting for an interview. So the mainstream American media chose to normalize the convicted CRIMINAL felon. The American mainstream media betrayed democracy for ratings and clicks and, in the process, became Trump's Fifth column 🤷‍♀️

You know you fucked up when mom isn’t mad anymore, she’s just disappointed in you.

"Americans who make less than $51,000 a year would see their after-tax income fall as a result of the Republican proposal beginning in 2026." "Americans making less than $15,000 — the poorest of the poor — will pay 53% more in taxes than they do now www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

Helping the U.S. gets you banned, being white gets you a welcome mat. Got it.

Red food dye isn’t the number one killer of kids. Guns are…

Trump: “Maybe the children will have two dolls instead of 30 dolls…They don’t need 250 pencils, they can have 5.” Also Trump: accepts new Air Force One worth $400M from Qatari royal family.

Pam Bondi’s last job was as a lobbyist for Qatar at $115,000 per month… So, of course, she says the $400 million gold-plated 747 isn’t a bribe or emolument…

If you have to repeatedly break the law to arrest those you claim have broken the law, you’re not enforcing the law. ICE has morphed into a terrorizing Gestapo-like goon squad. They must be held accountable.

TANK vs TESLA "We've crushed fascism before and we'll crush it again" - ⁠WW2 veteran Ken, 98, in the tank

Linda McMahon, Secretary of Education, sent Harvard a letter. They graded it. Bwahahaha.

If as President you answer “I don’t know” when asked if you’ll follow the Constitution, you have violated your oath of office and should be removed.

THIRTY MILLION for dying while committing an act of terrorism?! We can’t fund cancer research, but we can fund domestic terrorism?! You have got to be fucking kidding.

"I do solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States."

Putting Mike Waltz through Senate confirmation for UN Secretary is a loyalty test for Republicans. Call your Senators!

🔥 “There’s something wrong in this country… everything has gone up but wages… how many yachts and houses does one person need? — They want us to stay poor, stay hidden, and die silently.” 🇺🇸 #FightTheOligarchy H/T @violadavis.bsky.social

In a humiliating loss for Trump and major victory against anti-transgender bigots and bullies everywhere, Maine has reached a settlement with the Trump regime to unfreeze funding primarily used to feed schoolchildren in need. Read more here: bit.ly/4lYjUtq #ResistTrump

DOGE initially promised to save taxpayers $2 trillion.  Now it admits it's only delivered $160B in cuts. And even those minimal savings are nearly wiped out by the cost of implementing DOGE's cuts: $135B. We're losing vital government services for basically nothing in return.

Average global CEO pay has skyrocketed 50% since 2019 to $4.3M. By contrast, average worker pay has risen just 0.9% over that same time period.  Why do we always hear "we can't afford to pay our workers more" but never "we can't afford to pay our CEO more"?

The lethal high-powered rifles I carried during my military service were designed for war.   Not our streets. Not our neighborhoods. Certainly not our schools.   Senate Democrats introduced legislation to revive the nationwide assault weapons ban.   It’s long overdue.

NEW: Farmers are dying by suicide at the third-highest rate by vocation in Utah. But after a federal program offering mental health support ran out of money, the state did not continue it. By @jessicamiller.bsky.social, with @sltrib.com

We’re in a constitutional crisis, the markets are tanking, unemployment is on the rise, his tariff extortions are a disaster, a nasty recession looms on the horizon, and he’s polling lower than salmonella… …so naturally, he thinks it’s time to glam up Columbus Day.

Just remember Stalin followed Lenin. It isn’t necessarily the first one that’s the worst, the first just gets it started.

Their war against the judiciary…has begun. www.cnbc.com/2025/04/25/f...

Maddow: 88% of the country says no, no, he cannot defy a supreme court ruling. Only 9% say yes he can. And you know, it's not the same thing. But I should mention that 9% is also the proportion of Americans who told yougov this week that they have a favorable view of the black plague

I want politics to be about a better everyday life. Here's what that can look like:

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📌UNDERSTAND: Now that we have learned Pete Hegseth shared classified information about imminent strikes in Yemen in another group chat that included his wife, brother and personal lawyer, he should be arrested. 📌This was no one-off, this was treason.