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OG blogger and writer for @Salon My website shows all my stomping grounds.
Fox News actively makes people dumber
Thiessen: Just so people understand wind and solar only work when there is wind and sun. We don't have technology to store the energy from wind and solar…
Investigating Trump’s ties to Jeffrey Epstein could have a chilling effect on future presidents’ ability to cover up with their rape of underage sex slaves.
Epstein’s "little black book" totals 97 pages, containing 1,571 names and roughly 5,000 phone numbers. At least 38 names are mysteriously circled, including Donald Trump's. “I got my hands on a copy,” writes Leland Nally. “I made close to 2,000 phone calls.”…
MTG: “I have a big announcement to make. My Clear Skies Act has been filed. This is my legislation to ban weather modification and geoengineering of all kinds” This has to be the dumbest timeline.
Stephen Miller: “Torture is a celebration of human life and dignity.” Leaked video shows the current White House Chief of Staff at 17, describing the torture of Iraqis in gruesome detail as the group erupts in laughter.
Do Markets Value Fed Independence? An Event Study.
The last I heard from the "experts" in his admin. it was our patriotic duty to stay healthy and not eat carrot cake if we deserve to have health care. But Coke is ok? Interesting.
In effect, the Supreme Court ruled that only it could decide issues on a national level. And then, with thousands and thousands of people waiting in limbo for resolution of many legally disputed Trump orders, the justices went on summer vacation, not to return until October.
Worth noting: Senate bill, per @USCBO, would strip health insurance from 17m people (when including impact of allowing enhanced #ACA subsidy to expire.) That means it would revoke coverage for MORE people than '17 Senate #ACA repeal that Collins/Murkowski joined w/McCain to kill
Isn't throwing $ at rural hospitals to offset the impact of Medicaid cuts that are funding tax cuts for the rich forcing the vast majority of US who live in urban/suburban areas to pay 2x-once for the tax cuts & again to buy off rural-focused Rs? Metro hospitals won't see those $
I think what makes this video so compelling is that he’s very convincing but he couldn’t convince himself.
Sen. Hawley, now a YES on ‘Big, Beautiful Bill,’ says Rs have a “lot of thinking to do” on Medicaid. “We can't be cutting healthcare for working people and for poor people in order to constantly give special tax treatment to corporations,” he told me.
JD Vance served with Alex Padilla in the United States Senate. Calling him “Jose Padilla” is not an accident.
If only Trump were president it never would have happened.
Y’all — Trump thinks the Declaration of Independence was signed after 600,000 died in the Civil War 🤦🏼
Twenty years ago the GOP stood for huge tax cuts for the rich and wars of choice in the middle east, but then Donald Trump totally remade the party and realigned American poltiics, and now the GOP stands for...huge tax cuts for the rich and wars of choice in the middle east.
A common theme at today’s protest in Santa Monica
He’s an MIT graduate. She’s a former Miss South Dakota Snow Queen who shot her dog. Her family came from Norway. His family came from Mexico. Is that the problem? He’s a former Ca. Secretary of State and US Senator, elected by 6.6 million voters. Noem was elected by 216,000…
He can barely say his name correctly. He’s dressed like a janitor. No official identification. There was no way any cop/security officer believed he was a U.S. Senator. I can’t believe it myself.
This man discovers the world anew every day. Just the other day, he realized Putin doesn’t want peace. Today’s revelation? The U.S. economy runs on immigrant labor and undocumented immigrants are not all rapists and murderers. Extraordinary !
Doocy: “What made you change your mind about targeting in California, farmers and people in the hotels and leisure business?” Trump: “Our farmers are being hurt badly. They have very good workers…They’re not citizens, but they’ve turned out to be great. And we’re going to have…
The US and Iran are supposed to hold their 6th round of nuclear talks on Sunday. This is a massive fuck you by Netanyahu to Trump, and it completely undercuts all of Trump's claims that wars would never start if he was president.
BREAKING NEWS: Israel has attacked Iran. Iranians report hearing massive explosions back to back in Tehran, ground shaking, windows rattling and people waking up terrified. Smoke and fire seen from military bases around Tehran.
The city is not burning.
McCarthy: Maybe Congress needs to look in— why didn’t the sheriff and the police come to the defense of the federal officers who needed the help. Were they told not to by political officials, were they detained from providing security to allow a city to burn..