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While we're talking about Dwight Eisenhower...

When I say the system is broken, this is what I mean.

James Talarico: False claims got millions of views — and this is an example of what I call the ‘rage economy.’ Billionaires who own these platforms get rich, we get angry, and nobody’s life gets better. Conspiracy theories don’t put food on the table, put gas in the tank, or improve our communities.

Our local Young Republicans group hosted them and then boldly posted on Facebook as it nothing at all was wrong with the idea that LEGAL immigrants should be deported.

POINTS AT CHEST - “And that’s my Meritorious Service Medal from Operation Green Bloom. Saw a lot of good polyurethane strips die that day. Wasn’t sure we were gonna make it, but we kept our water filters locked and loaded. I can still hear the paramecium screaming in my sleep.”

Your reminder that fairy tales are full of stepmothers because women once routinely died in childbirth, from postpartum sepsis, or from other infectious diseases and left behind housefuls of motherless children. Stable nuclear families are made possible by vaccines, antibiotics, and safe abortions.

If you were to count out a million seconds, it would take you 11 and a half days. A billion seconds would take you 31.7 years. But a trillion seconds would take 31,700 years — to reach that point today, you would have needed to start counting around the time that neanderthals went extinct.

#CDC learned of 2 more pediatric #flu deaths in the 2025-26 season last week, bringing the season-to-date total to 174 peds deaths. This number will continue to rise; reports are often delayed; eg. these kids died in late Jan & late Feb. CDC estimates 85% of these kids weren't fully vaxed for flu.

I saw chaos inside and outside of the ICE detention center Delaney Hall today. Detainees protesting the lack of due process, the disgusting food and poor treatment while their families and advocates stood outside calling for help. 1/4

Why is a 76-year-old man doing all the hard work in this moment? Where are the Millennial/Gen Z artists (ahem, Taylor Swift) to shake their audiences into sobriety about what is going on? open.substack.com/pub/saltypol...

Out like a light

RFK JR on Hantavirus: We have it under control. We’re not worried about it.

-Trump wants to gut WIC's fruit and vegetable benefit for new and expecting moms -His EPA has rolled back environmental protections that keep air and water clean -His big, ugly bill sparked the closure of over 40 maternity care providers Trump never actually cared about moms or maternal health.

A SCOTUS that believes that the Constitution protects the political rights of corporations more than it does those of non-White Americans is fundamentally illegitimate and its rulings should be treated as such

This photo should be on the front page of every single newspaper in America today.

Voter ID? How about Donor ID? Nobody can spend a dime influencing our politics, be it elections or governing unless they are human beings & American citizens.

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They think you're stupid.

Articles about Jared Kushner's diplomatic role with Iran that mention Kushner has received billions from the Saudi government (2/28-4/19): NYT: 5 of 58 WashPost: 1 of 43 WSJ: 0 of 40 AP: 0 of 26 CNN Wire: 0 of 18 NY Post: 0 of 17 Chicago Tribune: 0 of 4 LA Times: 0 of 4 Boston Globe: 0 of 2

RFK Jr. hearing is in recess, so I wanted to take a minute to address his stated belief that Black Americans died of COVID19 at higher rates than others because, he said: 1. Family members couldn’t visit them in the hospital, so 2. Hospitals had no incentive to care for these patients properly

Dems running for the Senate posted some massive fundraising hauls in the first quarter. The most striking number so far: James Talarico brought in $27 million over the past three months.

Gen X!! WYD!!

Benjamin Netanyahu is a war criminal terrorist.

The Middle East is full of religious extremists who blindly revere evil men. Oops! I meant *The United States* not The Middle East.

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Ex Deputy National Security Advisor for Strategic Communications and Speechwriting under Obama👇🏽

Brian Donovan had persuaded high school teachers and education researchers that prejudice might be ended by changing how genetics is taught. www.statnews.com/2026/04/07/b...

Yup. bsky.app/profile/funm...

So $44 Billion and thousands dead (including 🇺🇸 soldiers) later Iran will get a better deal than the one that was being negotiated initially? (After pulling out of the JCPOA with Obama that kept Iran from getting nukes)

Why do we live in such a childish, stupid country? A country that wastes its money on useless billion dollar aircraft carriers, when it could be spending those tax dollars to actually help its citizens like sane countries.

First Amendment violation, Brendan. I wonder if a class-action lawsuit (with 320 million of us being the injured class) might change your mind. Do this and ALL of us will see you in court.

Nothing says “everything is under control” like someone constantly yelling at everyone not to panic

Let there be as much outrage from politicians in Washington when kids go hungry as there is when I break bread with New Yorkers.

James Talarico: No one's ever asked me about the cost of housing. The only thing the media wants to ask me about are trans athletes. The only minority destroying this country is the billionaires. Trans people are 1% of the population. We are focused on the wrong 1%.

Who would have guessed that the legal system in America was so fragile that a single crazy president could ignore the whole thing, from the Constitution right down to state laws? Why does the Supreme Court and Congress let this demented moron act like the dictator of a banana republic?

How dare her!! 🧐🤨 "When people like Kamala Harris send our sons and daughters, our young people, to fight in stupid wars, it is the young generation that carries the burden of that. We're gonna stop sending our young people to far away lands. We are not the policemen of the world."

The same people pretending that they need to "protect children" from trans women in bathrooms are now saying that 160 girls killed in a senseless war is just collateral damage.

A year ago we were supposed to be getting $2,000 rebate checks, DOGE was going to find $2 trillion in waste to balance the budget, we were going to pay no income taxes because tariffs would pay for everything, gas and home electric bills would be cut in half, and no new wars.

Our nation is again at war, not because we had to but because the president recklessly chose to. Now we must recognize who pays the price: not the president and his wealthy allies, but service members and ordinary Americans.

Watch this. 19 minutes and $12 to get meds at a public Chinese hospital. Without insurance. As we slash Medicaid to start unnecessary wars and cut taxes for the rich. 🇺🇸 We should all be so much angrier than we are. It doesn’t have to be this way. #MedicareForAllNOW

“No more wars” 🤷🏼