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A new report from the Joint Economic Committee found that small businesses have lost over 366,000 jobs since the President took office. We need to reverse the tariff taxes and fight for policies that lift small businesses up, not leave them behind.

Stephen Miller’s group has requested Michigan state attorney general open an investigation into Henry Ford Health for its DEI practices. The Detroit area’s largest healthcare system broke ground in 2024 on a $2.2 billion hospital tower, with support from its partners at the NBA Detroit Pistons.

"Masked security forces captured an opposition leader in the coastal province of New Jersey as regime officials continue their months-long crack-down against pro-democracy elements in the embattled United States. The arrest comes as the regime issued calls for summary detentions without trial."

Every book published in the United States is sent to the Library of Congress. Also, if you are under 16 you cannot use the reading room or order books.

It can’t be overstated: Stephen Miller is deeply, deeply disturbed.

Sen. John Fetterman, who is facing scrutiny after former staffers have raised concerns about his mental health, has missed nearly every committee hearing and regularly skips votes.

NEW: Trump administration arrests Newark mayor

"Siri, what does an American secret police look like?"

Republicans in Congress are exploring ways to make Medicaid recipients pay higher fees and co-pays for insurance. They want to make the poorest Americans pay more for healthcare. Why? To help pay for tax cuts that will disproportionately go to their rich donors.

Trump just fired him.

The evangelical MAGA freak out when the new Pope follows the teachings of Jesus instead of following the rambling hate and grifts of Trump.

Acting head of FEMA to Congress on Wednesday: “I do not believe it is in the best interests of the American people to eliminate the Federal Emergency Management Agency,” On Thursday, he is fired. thehill.com/homenews/adm...

Something that I think is really important to highlight here: Congress fully funded Head Start. The Trump administration legally has to send that money out to programs. It's not. prospect.org/health/2025-...

Which Trump officials will be on Fox today blaming Biden for stuff when they should be doing actual work for the American people at their agencies? At this point, taxpayers are just paying the salaries for a bunch of daily Fox contributors.

* VANCE: THERE IS A BIG GULF BETWEEN WHERE UKRAINIANS AND RUSSIANS ARE * U.S. VICE PRESIDENT VANCE: WE THINK RUSSIANS ARE ASKING FOR TOO MUCH @reuters.com

Under the guise of saving taxpayer money, Kari Lake is using free content from the conspiracy-laden, oft-sued OAN network to substitute for actual journalism from VOA reporters. Via @davidfolkenflik.bsky.social www.npr.org/2025/05/07/n...

This is fascism.

Hey, is life imprisonment with no chance of parole a normal sentence for crossing the border illegally or

Vaccination rates need to be 95% in order to prevent outbreaks because measles is unbelievably contagious

Rep. Jim Jordan declared with a straight face that under the Trump admin. subpoenas are processed quickly. Jordan famously openly defied the Jan. 6th Committee's subpoena to testify as part of its investigation. Rep. Eric Swalwell frequently reminded him of this.

This is not a person who believes in the rule of law. This is Trump's fascist enforcer.

Contrasted with NYT, here's a newspaper exercising responsible editorial judgment.

But her emails....

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We will be eliminating funding for Head Start, PBS, childhood vaccines, and student loans. However, we will be offering a one-time $5000 check to new parents. All right, young women: Start making those babies! by J.D. Vance and Elon Musk

This is what fascism looks like. Mike Lawler supports an authoritarian regime.

My latest, for @kffhealthnews.org and @cbsnews.com: Social Security is cracking. It's declaring people wrongly dead. Beneficiaries and lawyers say records are getting misplaced. Checks are getting sent to the wrong address. The agency is getting worse, they think, at sending money to people:

This is dead right--we do have a mad king problem, and notwithstanding the 25th Amendment and the Impeachment Clause, have abandoned any mechanism for dealing with it. The situation is so bizarrely anomalous for constitutional and republican government that the whole system is failing.

Every single homily in every single Catholic church tomorrow should, be about how vile this image is. Silence isn’t neutrality, it’s consent in disguise.

RFK is not OK.

It really tells you everything you need to know about the Democratic Party that they can't go after Trump for the most blatant corruption scandal in the history of the presidency because some of them are in bed with the same corruption coin guys.

One way to think about the current political situation: the Democratic and Republican parties are both too big to fail. We need more parties in government to fix it. We need to change the electoral system to proportional representation, so more, new parties can challenge the existing incumbents.

The sleepwalk into authoritarianism continues

This is nuts! Seriously nuts.

19 years old and this moral-imbecile is allowed to play with the intricate controls of the ship of state.

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First Germany. Then Canada. Now Australia. The whole world is REJECTING Trump and Putin — and all their radical right-wing fascist parties and politics.

BUFFETT this am: “Trade should not be a weapon. In the United States, we've won. I mean, we have become an incredibly important country starting from nothing 250 years ago. There’s nothing like it.”

✅ DEI Update of the Day™ Shareholders from these 11 corporations have voted to reject anti-DEI proposals in 2025: American Express Apple Boeing Coca-Cola Costco John Deere Disney Goldman Sachs Levi Strauss Pfizer Visa

Rep. Mike Collins, R-Ga., is outraged that a House cafeteria is replacing Steak n Shake with a Pakistani restaurant. To Collins, it’s “equivalent to the Muslim conquest of Jerusalem in the 7th century.” I don't think he’s joking. (Better not tell him Steak n Shake is owned by an Iranian American.)

He went to Carter’s funeral and acted like a petulant child and lashed out at the bishop and now he has gone to the pope’s funeral and is doing this. He cannot stand good men who people look up to for having compassion so he needs to mock them. And to destroy religion because there can only be him.

When Democrats retake power, after Trump has pardoned everyone, the Dem president should just ignore the pardons via executive order, arrest former Trump officials anyway, then ship them to Guantanamo. They should start promising to do this now.

I am at a loss to understand why the Trump WH is so committed to weakening US intelligience operations - or why my Republican colleagues who long prided themselves on being the “daddy party” are so quiet on this. But it’s a BFD, and not limited to CIA cuts. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/02/u...

I thought the GOP was the party of states' rights?!? A federal official threatened to arrest Wisconsin's Governor for "distributing guidance that asked state agency employees to consult with an attorney if federal agents show up at state buildings with legal documents." bsky.app/profile/nick...

The fact is that running the Pentagon is not just about "warfighting" - there's also a lot of slow, boring managerial expertise that makes it all work.