Melissimo

Melissimo

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The White House normally gets $2.5 million a year for maintenance. Trump’s team has allocated $875 million.   That’s 350 years’ worth of the usual budget spent by a single administration.

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In 2024, ProPublica and @documented.net obtained 14+ hours of videos from Project 2025’s Presidential Administration Academy, intended to train the next conservative administration’s political appointees “to be ready on day one.” Check to see how Trump 2.0 is deploying this playbook:

propublica.orgWatch: 14 Hours of Never-Before-Published Videos From Project 2025’s Presidential Administration AcademyThe videos are part of an ongoing effort to recruit and train thousands of future conservative appointees. Despite Donald Trump’s efforts to disavow Project 2025, most of the speakers in the videos ha...

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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?

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A worker making $50,000 a year contributes to Social Security on 100% of their income. A CEO making $20 million a year contributes to Social Security on less than 1% of their income. Instead of raising the retirement age, we should scrap the Social Security tax cap.

Social Security Works@socialsecurityworks.org

BREAKING: Trump's head of Social Security says raising the retirement age "will be considered." That's a betrayal of Trump's campaign promise to protect Social Security.

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Republicans want to cut Medicaid and SNAP—so that this dude can have a tax cut. But tell us again how they’re the party of working people. #WeWontGetOverLosingMedicaid

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Holy shit. There’s 150k of you here now. Let me reintroduce myself. I’m Santiago Mayer, I’m a 22yo immigrant and the Executive Director of @votersoftomorrow.org. I’ve spent 6 years working to mobilize Gen Z and stop MAGA and have no plans to stop. Can you repost and follow to help reach others?

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