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“Trump is what happens when an imbecilic Facebook meme turns into a human and then is granted unbelievable amounts of power. “Triggering the liberals” is all these MAGA fools have left, now that the Viagra stopped working.”
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When martial law just looks lame
Trump tries to act tough — and fails again
https://salon-standingroomonly.beehiiv.com/p/when-martial-law-just-looks-lame-947e98e0ec6b12cc?_bhlid=a4ac4e6a12f951d8a17213e89be4c8727549345c
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“Far from defying history, Trump now seems set to succumb to it, as the Democratic counteroffensive coupled with voter dissatisfaction towards the president’s own policies sets the stage for Republicans to suffer potentially brutal losses in November’s midterm elections.”
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Democrats won the redistricting fight in Virginia. Was Trump’s gerrymandering war all for nothing?
The Democratic counteroffensive to GOP efforts to redraw maps sets the stage for Republicans to lose in the midterms
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/22/virgina-midterm-elections-trump?CMP=oth_b-aplnews_d-1
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“Each Cabinet ousting creates a new problem: Someone has to replace them. Those newcomers will inherit the same political environment and demands. And they will serve, like everyone before them, at the pleasure of a president who, when the walls close in, starts looking for someone else to blame.”
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Trump purges his Cabinet as his presidency faces mounting pressure
The ousting of Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer is the latest sign of a president whose second term has not gone as planned — and who is starting to make his Cabinet pay for it.
https://www.ms.now/news/trump-cabinet-chavez-deremer-bondi-noem
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TACO!!! What a loser!
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Trump extends Iran ceasefire indefinitely, says blockade will remain
President Trump announced in a Truth Social post on Tuesday that he is extending the U.S. ceasefire with Iran until Tehran comes to the negotiating table with a proposal “Based on the fact that th…
https://thehill.com/policy/international/5841910-trump-extends-iran-ceasefire/
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1/2 “We should all hope he strikes a good deal, while recognizing it will just be a different flavor of the one he ripped up eight years ago, which freed the Iranians to renew their program. I’ve always felt the principal motivation for ripping up the JCPOA was that it was an Obama achievement.
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Trump May Negotiate A Rerun Of An Obama Deal He Tore Up
Sanctions relief in return for a moratorium on nuclear fuel enrichment is the exact arrangement that Trump and many Republicans criticized for years.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-obama-iran-deal_n_69e65e81e4b09c81bf19ca51?utm_source=cordial
2 days ago
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“This is what he does: Trump lights our national house on fire, he lets it burn for 15 minutes before showing up with the fire hose, and then he demands a prize for putting out the blaze — while the rest of us stand in the smoldering ruins.”
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Once again, Trump wants credit for leaving things worse than he found them
Chris Hayes on Trump’s pattern of leaving situations worse off than he found them, including his handling of the Iran war, tariffs and Covid.
https://www.ms.now/all-in/trump-iran-israel-lebanon-ceasefire-deal-worse-off-tariffs-covid
5 days ago
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“A year ago, our country was an embarrassment,” Trump said. “All over the world, they laughed at us. And they don’t laugh anymore, they are not laughing.” No, they’re not laughing. Now they’re screaming for the insanity to stop!
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Trump, 79, Forgets Who Was President Last Year
Donald Trump accidentally insulted himself when discussing the 2025 economy.
https://newrepublic.com/post/209207/donald-trump-forget-president-last-year
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1/2 “With few exceptions, the members of the DNC have been notably unwilling to break with the Democratic party’s power structure, and they routinely aspire to rise within it.
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Why are Democratic leaders still ignoring voters on Israel? | Norman Solomon
Decisions at the latest Democratic National Committee meeting emphasized the disconnect between the party’s leadership and its base
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/apr/14/democrats-voters-israel-gaza-palestine?CMP=oth_b-aplnews_d-1
6 days ago
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1/2 “Few of the pardons have been as consequential or mystifying as the one handed to Hernández. Prosecutors presented evidence at trial that he took millions in bribes from cartels, including the vicious Sinaloa Cartel, that Trump has called a major threat to the United States.
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The former leader of Honduras got 45 years for protecting drug cartels that supplied the U.S. Trump said it was all a Biden setup.
“Justice Interrupted” examines the pardon of convicted drug trafficker — and former Honduran president — Juan Orlando Hernández, who walked out of prison after a Trump ally delivered a letter to the W...
https://www.ms.now/news/the-former-leader-of-honduras-got-45-years-for-protecting-drug-cartels-that-supplied-the-us-trump-said-it-was-all-a-biden-setup
6 days ago
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“America First-ism is not the ideology of this Presidency; Trump First-ism is. The fact that he serves up his megalomania with such an excess of dark farce only reinforces how shameful it is that this is the man for whom so many Republicans have chosen to sacrifice what remained of their integrity.”
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Trump Thinks He’s Become Orange Jesus
In Trump 1.0, people mocked the President by calling him Orange Jesus. In Trump 2.0, he actually thinks he’s become Jesus, Susan B. Glasser writes.
https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-trumps-washington/americas-orange-jesus
6 days ago
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“Jet fuel prices have roughly doubled since the start of the war in Iran, a price increase even sharper than the spikes seen in gasoline and diesel. In response, airlines around the world are cutting routes, raising fares, adding fuel surcharges and boosting baggage fees.” Thanks, trump!!!
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Jet fuel prices double, leading airlines to increase baggage fees, raise fares
Airlines are facing higher costs, and one airport group in Europe has warned of the risk of a "systemic jet fuel shortage" if traffic through the Strait of Hormuz doesn't normalize by the end of this ...
https://www.npr.org/2026/04/16/nx-s1-5785258/jet-fuel-airline-cost-iran-war-oil
7 days ago
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FactPost
8 days ago
TurboTax and H&R Block spent $7 million lobbying the Trump administration to kill Direct File. Both companies donated to Trump's 2024 campaign and inauguration committees.
add a skeleton here at some point
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1/2 “Swalwell’s case shows that current rules allow members of Congress to collect pensions and keep certain privileges even after leaving under pressure. The system does not tie benefits to the reason for departure, whether resignation or expulsion.
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MSN
https://www.msn.com/en-us/politics/elections/eric-swalwell-to-enjoy-22-620-annually-in-taxpayers-money-after-resigning/ar-AA20T58p
8 days ago
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Americans for Tax Fairness
8 days ago
BREAKING: In just the 16 months since Trump was reelected, the collective fortune of billionaires has grown by $1.96 trillion. More than half of that growth comes from just the top 15 billionaires, who alone grew their collective wealth by over $1 trillion.
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Chris Hayes
8 days ago
Oh cool, her husband was also texting the same staffer.
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Chris Hayes
8 days ago
“In an April 2025 exchange provided to investigators, Ms. Chavez-DeRemer’s father, Richard Chavez, wrote to a young female staff member: ‘Hearing u/r in town. Wishing you would let me know. I could have made some excuses to get out and show u around. Please keep this private.’”
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Chris Hayes
8 days ago
“Ms. Chavez-DeRemer’s husband exchanged text messages with young female staff members, as did her father.” Come on, now.
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/15/u...
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Labor Dept. Investigates Texts Among Secretary’s Family and Staff
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/15/us/politics/labor-secretary-text-messages.html?unlocked_article_code=1.bFA.Ztp6.woZ2bRVjbEm7&smid=nytcore-ios-share
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Robert Reich
8 days ago
Disney's new CEO, whose pay package is worth nearly $45M, just announced 1,000 layoffs. Reminder that Disney paid an effective federal income tax rate of ZERO in 2025 and aims to buy back $7B of its own stock in 2026. This is what corporate greed looks like.
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1/2 “As Trump grasps for a way to end the Iran war, his torching of the country’s credibility has come to a head. He has no concessions from Tehran, little allied support and few good ways to get out of the situation. And this problem will outlast not only this war, but Trump’s time in office.
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Opinion | Trump’s credibility problem is now America’s
Neither the president’s threats nor his promises nor his deals can be taken at face value.
https://www.ms.now/opinion/iran-war-strait-hormuz-diplomacy-trump
8 days ago
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“Everyone can read the transcript of the president’s attempt to extort President Zelenskyy. That was an impeachable offense, and no amount of dust-kicking and sycophancy can obscure it.”
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Gabbard revives ‘deep state’ conspiracy claims, alarming Democrats who see a pattern
The director of national intelligence released documents alleging a conspiracy behind Trump’s first impeachment — but they fell short of her claims, the latest in a pattern that alarms Democratic lawm...
https://www.ms.now/news/gabbard-revives-deep-state-conspiracy-claims-alarming-democrats-who-see-a-pattern
8 days ago
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“The move to undo the most serious convictions stemming from the assault on the Capitol marks the latest step in President Donald Trump’s quest to rewrite the event’s violent history.”
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DOJ moves to undo Jan. 6 rioters’ convictions for seditious conspiracy
President Donald Trump last year commuted the prison sentences of 12 members of the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2026/04/14/january-6-convictions-seditious-conspiracy/
8 days ago
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9 days ago
when biden was in office & oil went higher due to a war that he didnt start - all these idiots hammered him for causing higher fuel prices and were helped by the press now for a war trump did start causing fuel prices to go higher its "transitory" and "short term" and cnbc is helping launder that
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1/2 “The clearest sign that the anti-antifa program is about amassing political power and not about safety is that government and academic data show that right-wing political violence is a far more serious security threat than left-wing political violence in the U.S.
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Opinion | Trump is trying to build an international coalition to destroy the anti-fascist left
A new report sheds light on the Trump administration’s efforts to crack down on the far left abroad and at home.
https://www.ms.now/opinion/trump-antifa-terrorism-summit-gorka
10 days ago
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“Because President Trump has not plausibly alleged that defendants published the article with actual malice, both Counts must be dismissed.”
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Federal judge rejects Trump’s dubious defamation lawsuit against The Wall Street Journal
The demise of the president’s case is a demonstration of the benefits of fighting back — and of the folly of appeasement.
https://www.ms.now/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/judge-dismisses-trump-wall-street-journal-epstein-case
10 days ago
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Wow! Orban lost and the Iran negotiations fell apart. Vance is 0-2 just this weekend, proving once again how beyond useless he is!
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1/2 “Like many wannabe authoritarians, he’s interested in ‘Conquest.’ Indeed, the dream of foreign conquest seems to have become a more central part of Trump’s personal sense of grandiosity, not to say megalomania, than it was earlier in his career.
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Trump looks ahead to next military “conquest” amid efforts to preserve a ceasefire in Iran
The president once denounced those hellbent on “conquest.” Now, he believes the military that he commands is “looking forward ... to its next Conquest.”
https://www.ms.now/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/trump-looks-ahead-to-next-military-conquest-amid-efforts-to-preserve-a-ceasefire-in-iran
11 days ago
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1/3 “It’s the antidemocratic weaknesses in our system that created the vulnerabilities that let this happen – the electoral college and voter suppression that gave Trump a minority victory in 2016, the gerrymandering that has given a minority party majority power in Congress and statehouses,
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The United States is destroying itself | Rebecca Solnit
The daily news can’t adequately convey the administration’s sabotaging of our government, economy, alliances and environment
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/apr/12/united-states-trump-destruction?CMP=oth_b-aplnews_d-1
11 days ago
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“Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Ron Wyden sent a letter to Bill Pulte, the director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, to demand information about a mysterious Pulte donation that raises questions about whether Pulte’s nonprofit sent money to Trump while disguising it as charity to the poor.”
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Senators demand Bill Pulte explain allegations from Mother Jones story
Our reporting uncovered a strange donation made by Pulte's charity.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/04/bill-pulte-warren-wyden-letter-charity-donation-investigation/
13 days ago
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1/2 “The comments from the surviving soldiers echo similar reports that emerged shortly after the deadly attack, which accused U.S. military officials of stationing troops within Iranian missile range in a facility that had little to no protection against aerial attacks.
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American survivors of deadly Kuwait attack dispute Hegseth’s account of events
Tactical operations center was compared to shipping container-style building with no air defense capabilities
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/kuwait-attack-pete-hegseth-american-survivors-b2954785.html
14 days ago
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1/3 “Dhillon admits that her overall vision is not just slowing down civil rights in America but “turning the train around and driving in the opposite direction,” as she told the conservative Federalist Society after her appointment as head of the division.
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The truth about Harmeet Dhillon, Trump's likely pick for attorney general
She's now assistant AG for civil rights but is intent on reversing civil rights.
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-truth-about-harmeet-dhillon-trumps?publication_id=365422
14 days ago
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1/2 “Removing customs processing from cities deemed hostile to Trump’s agenda would likely be met with immediate lawsuits and an outcry from most Americans, not just over the economic impact but also because people who don’t live near these airports often depend on them for connecting flights.
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New DHS Secretary Threatens to Sabotage America’s Biggest Airports
Markwayne Mullin has a plan to go after airports in “sanctuary cities.”
https://newrepublic.com/post/208713/dhs-secretary-mullin-sabotage-america-biggest-airports
15 days ago
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1/3 “In the best case scenario, Trump struck a deal to reopen a Strait that was open before the pointless war he started, with [Iran] demonstrating its control over the Strait and potentially extracting fees plus sanctions relief. Thousands of innocents—including hundreds of children—dead in Lebanon
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April 7, 2026
At 5:06 this morning, President Donald J.
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/april-7-2026?publication_id=20533
15 days ago
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The regime change the world needs is in Israel and the United States!!!
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NYT: Top Trump Officials Privately Warned Him About Netanyahu 'Bulls**t' Before War
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/latest-updates_n_69d3a02fe4b05537a7f1b1ba/liveblog_69d538b3e4b06b69686d09b0?utm_source=cordial
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1/3 “It is not hard to see how we got to where we are. The temptation now will be to rationalize this brush with disaster, even for Republicans to cheer Trump’s “negotiating prowess” or “restraint.” That would be a grotesque error. Dodging one calamity but ignoring the underlying pathology and
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What Comes From the Failure to Confront Insanity
Trump’s religious zealotry advocating war crimes is the inevitable result
https://www.contrariannews.org/p/what-comes-from-the-failure-to-confront?publication_id=3719374
15 days ago
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I do NOT appreciate my tax dollars being used to send the Vice President of the United States to campaign for an authoritarian dictator!!!
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'What we saw was extraordinary': David French breaks down the significance of Vance's Hungary trip
Vice President JD Vance is in Hungary as a show of support for Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and his reelection campaign. The Morning Joe panel discusses.
https://www.ms.now/morning-joe/watch/what-we-saw-was-extraordinary-david-french-breaks-down-the-significance-of-vance-s-hungary-trip-2495523395871
15 days ago
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Acyn
16 days ago
Garcia: We have a president threatening to destroy an entire population…yet the Republican Party and the Speaker who control our government are doing absolutely nothing.
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Rex Huppke
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Someday there will be a study done on how anxiety from the Trump years affected people's overall health, and I bet those results will add a significant amount of blood to his already bloody hands.
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Rep. Kevin Mullin
16 days ago
Enough is enough. House Republicans must join Democrats in stopping this madness and ending Trump's reckless war with Iran.
kevinmullin.house.gov/2026/04/07/r...
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Rep. Jason Crow
16 days ago
Speaker Johnson must immediately call Congress back to end this war and stop Donald Trump’s madness.
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1/2 “In reality, Trump has no problem with fraud as long as it’s committed by the right people. Whether it’s Noem, FBI Director Kash Patel using government-owned jets as personal Ubers, Donald Trump Jr.’s work from within the suspiciously unregulated Kalshi and Polymarket, Eric Trump’s
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Trump’s New Attorney General Refuses to Investigate Ally’s Fraud
Sounds like Kristi Noem and her friends are about to get away with a big win.
https://newrepublic.com/post/208734/donald-trump-attorney-general-todd-blanche-kristi-noem-fraud
16 days ago
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“The biggest absurdity here is that Trump is now focusing his war’s endgame on Iran’s willingness to open the strait. But the strait was open before Trump attacked Iran on February 28. Iran blocked it in retaliation for that attack.”
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Trump has really, seriously, frighteningly lost his mind
His latest threat is bonkers
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/trump-has-really-seriously-frighteningly?publication_id=365422
16 days ago
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Frank Figliuzzi
18 days ago
The American president has lost his mind.
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“Republicans would rather incinerate billions of dollars by going into a war that no one wants instead of doing things that would benefit Americans. For all their talk of “America first” it seems like they’d rather focus their attention on an overseas conflict that wasn’t even approved by Congress.”
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Trump bails on his biggest promise just in time for midterms | Opinion
Democrats can reverse Trump's mess in the November midterm elections – and they should be advertising that very clearly.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2026/04/06/trump-iran-war-expense-medicaid-medicare-daycare/89451928007/
17 days ago
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Former US air force master sergeant pleads guilty to defrauding military out of $37m
Alan Hayward James, who called himself ‘Al Capone’, admitted to rigging bids for IT contracts with Pentagon
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/04/air-force-master-sergeant-pleads-guilty-defrauding-military?CMP=oth_b-aplnews_d-1
18 days ago
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1/2 “The package that my generation enjoyed was no happy accident, and it’s misleading to contend that “the boomers took it all.” Measured by per capita GDP, the economy on average is more than four times as rich as it was during the postwar boom. Today’s problem is distribution.
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Notes for Next Time - The American Prospect
We may well survive Trump. But without a renewed commitment to broad economic possibility, we risk losing a democracy that serves the people.
https://prospect.org/2026/03/31/notes-for-next-time-economic-opportunity-democrats-maga/?emci=ab7f4256-3730-f111-9a48-000d3a14b640
19 days ago
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Senator Bernie Sanders
19 days ago
Trump’s obscene budget.
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“The vision President Trump has outlined for America in his budget is bleak and unacceptable. He wants to slash medical research to fund costly foreign wars. It doesn’t get more backward than that, and the only responsible thing to do with a budget this morally bankrupt is to toss it in the trash.”
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Trump’s military spending bonanza has Republicans overlooking the debt
The president’s fiscal 2027 budget proposal seeks a more than 40% increase in defense spending, paired with cuts to medical research, national parks and the TSA. As for the debt? The data’s nowhere to...
https://www.ms.now/news/trump-defense-budget-cuts-debt-2027
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1/3 “A Data for Progress survey found that 70% of respondents across age and party lines agreed that “our economic system is rigged in favor of corporations and the wealthy.” It’s for good reason. In 2017 and 2025, Trump championed and signed off on tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans,
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Billionaire fortunes have reached all-time highs under Trump. So has the movement to tax them
Residents in at least 10 states are organizing campaigns to tax wealth in order to fund schools and other social services
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/03/tax-billionaires?CMP=oth_b-aplnews_d-1
20 days ago
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““The Trump Administration – home to the biggest fraudsters on Earth – is trying to blame California for issues with THEIR federal programs,” Newsom said. “Glad to see the Feds finally taking seriously the fraud in the programs they themselves manage…only 15 months after Trump took office.”
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Trump announces ‘fraud’ crackdown in Democratic states as arrests begin in California
US president makes baseless claims about fraud in blue states and says JD Vance will lead clampdown as ‘fraud czar’
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/03/trump-vance-fraud-arrest-crackdown-california?CMP=oth_b-aplnews_d-1
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1/2 ““Trump and his valet at the Defense Department, Secretary of Physical Training Pete Hegseth, are now making a dedicated run at turning the men and women of the armed forces into Trump’s personal and partisan army.”
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Hegseth’s intervention in Kid Rock flyby fiasco is part of a more serious problem
Even Donald Trump conceded that the helicopter pilots “probably shouldn’t” have done what they did. His defense secretary came to a different conclusion.
https://www.ms.now/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/kid-rock-helicopter-hegseth-trump
20 days ago
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“It was as if Trump threw all the possible things that might calm some Americans’ worries together and stitched it together like a foreign policy Frankenstein. In response, the price of oil surged and stock market futures tumbled.”
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Unbothered by Reality, Trump Gives Disjointed Update on Iran War
The President offered a meandering series of statements that were as contradictory as they were unhelpful to his attempt to rally the world behind the military operation against Iran.
https://time.com/article/2026/04/02/unbothered-by-reality-trump-gives-disjointed-update-on-iran-war/?xid=homepage
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