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an example of all the things included and not included in the BBB/Trump cuts rippling through the country

Major media seem flummoxed about what to do when Trump shares a fake video of Obama getting arrested. Maybe they think the options are A) take the bait, or B) ignore it. But there's a 3rd option: Gather all the crazy examples and write big, loud stories about how the president is mentally unhinged.

Red states are far different from the stereotypes... they are much, much worse, in cold fact. www.msn.com/en-us/news/u...

It’s costing taxpayers $450/M annually & Alligator Alcatraz concentration camp is already flooding. Imagine a hurricane. People are going to die. There’s always enough money to hurt folks, but when it comes to public transit, low-income housing, schools, or public healthcare, “Sorry, we’re broke.”

Make no mistake: Alligator Alcatraz IS a concentration camp, and they absolutely ARE planning genocide and ‘ethnic cleansing.’ As a white person, i don’t know what I can do to help, but if all I have is my voice, I will make sure it’s heard.

Rep. Dean: "The senators voted on this not knowing exactly what was in the bill. I bet they loved the part about no sales tax on silencers. Really, folks? We want to make silencers more plentiful in this country at the behest of the representative who owns gun stores? Conflicts of interest abound."

AOC: "On this point of tax on tips, as one of the only people in this body who has lived off of tips, I want to tell you a little bit about the scam ... the cap on that is $25,000 while you're jacking up taxes on people who make less than $50,000 across the US ... while kicking them off the ACA."

Thinking about tightening university budgets and cancelling individual subjects and whole courses as I read @adapalmer.bsky.social’s succinct account of how it took more than a century for Renaissance Italy’s scholars to develop enough expertise to make a decent translation of Homer’s poetry.

Unwelcome news: "We may have passed a tipping point and entered a new state defined by persistent sea ice decline, sustained by a newly discovered feedback loop." 🧪 theconversation.com/completely-u...

i'm no stephen hawking but i think what happens is that they cancel each other out

This is not normal

Removing info on climate impacts is dangerous: as if we’re collectively steering a car down a curving road only looking through the rearview because the windshield that enables us to look ahead to prepare for what’s coming is being painted over, as I say here 😬 More by @borenbears.bsky.social:

lol

It’s a terrible bill. It will literally kill people. The most vulnerable among us will suffer as the wealthiest benefit. It’s perverse. I wish there were something I could do. But alas, I am only a U.S. Senator from Alaska whose “no” vote would kill the bill. So I voted yes. You get it.

Opinion | Trump's 'big, beautiful bill' will end America’s time as a great power www.yahoo.com/news/opinion...

Where do murderers go, man! Who's to doom, when the judge himself is dragged to the bar?

Good thing there are no Dems alive in Congress to see this.

We have already gone off the cliff and I can't see any way back. www.msn.com/en-us/news/o...

Imagine being so ignorant and so impossibly stupid that you consistently vote for people who want to see you dead.

Modern Dem politicians are actually middle-of-the-road Republicans. When they see an actual Dem, it terrifies them.

You can protest all day every day, but with no Congress and no Courts, you are just urinating into the wind.

McGovern: "A family making less than $50,000 a year? They get less than $1 a day in tax cuts. You can't buy a damn cup of coffee with that. But those making a million dollars or more? They'll get more than $250 a day in tax breaks ... that's how rigged this bill is to benefit the wealthy."

Yes, we warned about all of it last year. Every last detail, every policy. Watched every rally speech, every interview, every campaign video. Posted thousands of clips about it all. Most completely or largely ignored by legacy media. And yes, it is going to get much worse.