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Foreign food safety inspections have hit a historic low after Trump staffing cuts. The dramatic shift in oversight comes as the U.S. has never been more reliant on foreign food. “It’s only a matter of time before people die,” one expert said. (Published Nov. 2025)

WATCH: “Proof the SAVE Act = voter suppression… if you’re trying to exercise your right to vote, Republicans want you to jump over all these hurdles + pay💰— but if they want to draft you to die in Trump’s war of choice, they’ll automatically sign you up.”

Really cool tool from VoteView that shows you which congressional districts have included your address (or any address) historically. So you can see what district you were in, or would have been in, and who represented you over time, all the way back to 1789! voteview.com/district

WTAF www.nytimes.com/2026/03/20/u... 🎁link to share the misery

"Staffers from DOGE are revamping rules in ways to ease regulations and provide financial breaks for industry." --what could go wrong?

A great post about fertilizer prices — and the 2nd/3rd/4th order effects:

List of stations to avoid if you don't want to be exposed to state media propaganda: www.nexstar.tv/stations/

this is really bad news

The people who cancelled Jimmy Kimmel after Charlie Kirk's assassination will now control television stations that reach 80% of Americans, twice that what was legally allowed before Trump's takeover. The state capture of network television is almost complete.

Financial documents compiled by ProPublica reveal a myriad of relationships among Trump and his team that could create conflicts of interest — including ties between appointees and industries their agencies frequently interact with. Explore our database 👇

“.. Since the President’s inauguration last year, national debt has climbed by around $2.8 trillion.” @time.com time.com/article/2026...

Aid to Ukraine from 2022-2026 was a rounding error. We used more in the first two weeks of the Iran war than we provided in the 4 years of aid to Ukraine.

who really knows without reporting, of course. but intuit is a company that relies entirely on corruption as a business model, and the main purpose of the executive order was to screw over POC, just like everything else this regime does. just saying!

Where’s our money, Donald?

According to a new assessment by V-Dem, democracy is back at 1978 levels for the average global citizen. The gains of the third wave of democratization since the mid-1970s are almost eradicated. The U.S. is downgraded from liberal to electoral democracy. www.democracywithoutborders.org/41651/

The SAVE Act would block millions of eligible voters. This is voter suppression, not security. Tell your senators: Vote NO to protect our democracy!

As he said on Covid: ‘If we stop testing right now, we’d have very few cases, if any.’ Same principle. He knows that those coffins will create a visual that every news channel will carry for days.

Had the Defense Department’s harm-reduction plan not been axed by the Trump administration, the policies almost certainly would’ve reduced the number of noncombatants harmed over the past year, current and former officials tell ProPublica.

Better yet, just send ICE over there to fight the war themselves. Tons of money, with military-grade arms they do not need for immigration enforcement, and a bunch of goons begging for a fight.

WELP fortune.com/2026/03/18/h...

Transportation industry money has been pouring into the congressional campaign of Michael Alfonso, a 26-year-old political unknown from Wisconsin whose father-in-law happens to be Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy. www.propublica.org/article/sean...

With measles surging in Florida, DeSantis gets vaccine pushback | Column

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republicans have been starving the USPS for years. Why do they hate mail (and their rural constituents!) so much?

Senate Majority Leader John Thune plans to bring the so-called “SAVE America” Act up for a vote this week. To support their resistance, Democratic senators will be looking for real stories from Americans whose right to vote would be affected. 📞 U.S. Capitol: +1 (202) 224-3121 #SAVEAmericaAct

Wild conflicts of interest: “Tucked in the 2026 Farm Bill is a provision to reimburse 🧑‍🌾 90% of adopting AI & precision ag tech… standards set by the industry… Trojan horse for big tech to take advantage of farmers/wrest control of the food system…” fortune.com/2026/03/14/f...

If you are an American who has bills, you are the last of the Trump administration's concerns. Their words, not mine.

Butterfly Effect 🦋 @notus.com www.notus.org/trump-white-...

Fossil fuel company owners see that they can't compete with clean energy They need public power to force Americans to choke down their high prices & pollution They gave Trump's campaign $1B as he promised to protect their profit Now he's using public $ to do it bsky.app/profile/deva...

The Trump administration plans to convene the so-called God Squad, a high-level federal panel that has the power to override protections under the Endangered Species Act, for a meeting related to oil and gas in the Gulf of Mexico. nyti.ms/4ryiffG

Here’s my big writeup www.americanprogress.org/article/tax-...

Here’s a graph I made backing up the second claim bsky.app/profile/bbko...

Immigrants pay more into the system than they receive in benefits. Stephen Miller is lying because he is deeply impure of heart. The real reason debt/GDP is going up is because of the Bush and Trump tax cuts. Without them, we’d have enough revenue to support our aging population indefinitely.

Get to know some of the Democrats who want to challenge Anna Paulina Luna

"...Belfer, a lawyer for the Trump administration, argued that Mr. Kennedy and the committee had “unreviewable”—or absolute—authority to make vaccine policies, even if that included recommending that people become infected with measles instead of getting vaccinated." www.nytimes.com/2026/03/16/h...

When the Trump era is over, this will be the business school 101 lesson of what happened, who blew it, and who didn't: www.cnn.com/2026/03/16/b...

Last year, Republicans kicked millions off of their health care: 📈 Premiums increased by an average of 114% 📉 Over $1 trillion in health care cuts This is the Republican health care plan in action: skipped meals just to afford medicine.

ah yes let’s extort literally one of the poorest countries in the world (per capita GDP in Zambia is ~$4k/year) by denying them medicine so we can steal their minerals. Christian Nationalism folks.

Bad, dumb, and a massive green light for fraud.

Genuinely just bonkers to watch the USA do this to one of the most successful and innovative hubs of scientific research the world has ever seen. All those years of Free Speech On Campus debates and it turns out they actually wanted less cancer research. Absurd.

Some in his outer circle are calling him "a fucking idiot" who has "fucked everything up".

The Trump administration lowered the authorization level for lethal force, broadened target categories, inflated threat assessments and fired inspectors general, according to more than a dozen current and former national security personnel.

The Democrats tried to fund TSA itself but the Republicans blocked it (at least FIVE TIMES), insisting that ICE also gets funded. If you don’t like the lines, tell your Republican Senators and Congressmen to let TSA get funded without ICE. And ICE already has plenty of funding anyway.

Republicans voted down a bill to pay TSA this week. That should be the first sentence of every TSA post.

How can any Democrat justify voting for Trump’s new DHS nominee when they continue to break the law using taxpayer dollars and resources for partisan politics?

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the trump administration is siding with Live Nation, by the way