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🧑‍🌾 HAYES: “Trump is bailing out Argentina as they take sales directly away from 🇺🇸farmers… a set of circumstances almost beyond parody for the so-called ‘America first’ president.” @rustygrills @GovBillLee @MarshaBlackburn @RepChrisTodd @RepFaison @RepTimBurchett @AndyOgles

Why is the Vice President of the United States so insistent on defending this inexcusable, vile behavior?

One disabled Marine veteran has not had a primary care doctor assigned to him since his previous doctor left in the winter, his wife said. The VA “was never like this before. There’s a lack of staff, empty rooms, locked doors.” (Published August)

My super modern regulatory plan is that any entity named for a thing from Tolkien has to publicly explain why Tolkien wouldn’t immediately throw it into Mount Doom

This is about 20% of a hospital’s operating budget.

Just updated this to reflect some of the great suggestions coming in about avoiding conflict with agitators (turn your back), and whether to bring your phone and what to do with settings if you do ... open.substack.com/pub/psychope...

No money for healthcare, no money for veterans, no money for farmers. But good news: Trump just doubled Argentina’s bailout to $40 billion.

Donald Trump pardoned the “Camp Auschwitz” guy, dined with Holocaust deniers, and said, “any Jewish person that votes for Democrats hates their religion.” The Young Republicans chat isn’t a coincidence. It’s a culture.

The Central Park Five—whom Trump wanted executed for a crime they did not commit—were 14 to 16 years old.

Gotta love a serenade and a bit of shade 🤭🤣 Enjoy 🤣 #SheShed

This is just another way that this administration is failing early career researchers. The hiring freeze needs to end if the United States wants to stay a leader in biomedical research.

SCOOP: Mental health workers supporting CDC employees after the August shooting at the agency's headquarters were among those laid off last week. Read the story here: www.notus.org/health-scien...

Carrying these weights takes a toll. www.closertotheedge.net/p/the-man-be...

you fucked around and now the Episcopalians are doing memes. are you happy now. are you

This is disgusting. And I can GUARANTEE you that lots of dumps are going to come out about lots of Republican electeds who are way too close to the people in these texts. www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... Provision of public goods cannot be privatized by profit seeking entities without loss of function. Not for profit is OK, for profit is not.

the broad public does not like chaos and disorder and everything you can do to emphasize that it is the federal government that is responsible for chaos and disorder is a point in your favor. it’s classic nonviolent confrontation!

"Trump is perversely helped by the fact that you can’t tell whether you should attribute a specific Trump claim to his melting brain or his melted soul." Today's Morning Shots from @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social and @eggerdc.bsky.social: www.thebulwark.com/p/is-he-lyin...

The Army exists to defend the Republic; the press exists to inform it. Together, they protect the same ideal—self-government built on public trust. Hegseth's Pentagon press restrictions would hurt the Army, the press, and us. New from @markhertling.bsky.social: www.thebulwark.com/p/locking-do...

Billionaire tax cuts are a policy choice. Cutting healthcare for millions is a policy choice. Cutting food assistance for children is a policy choice. Taking from the poor and giving to the rich is a policy choice. Make no mistake: Trump and the GOP just chose to do this.

"We have an economy where a handful of modern-day robber barons wield extraordinary power. They hold enormous control over our paychecks, our bills, our time, and our futures. ...But the good news is that nothing about any of this is inevitable." - Lina Khan

This seems more plausible than the theory of malicious compliance by Time staff. Disappointing. A girl can dream…

"To bring a democracy under authoritarian control, you need more than a strongman. You need politicians who will assure the public, as we slide toward one-man rule, that nothing odd is happening." Wouldn't you know who one of them is! New from @saletan.bsky.social www.thebulwark.com/p/speaker-mi...

The is literally nothing more American and patriotic than declaring: No Kings.

What did Tom Homan do with the $50K he took in a CAVA bag from undercover FBI agents? Just keep asking this everyday. Its a big scandal they can't escape because Pam Bondi and her DOJ killed the investigation. They're cornered on this and the Epstein Files.

Check out yesterday's Triad, if you missed it: www.thebulwark.com/p/late-stage...

Yesterday, @jvl.bsky.social wrote about late-stage capitalism. Today, he wrote about late-stage democracy. Read the latest Triad, only @thebulwark.com: www.thebulwark.com/p/is-this-wh...

Be sure to follow @ofthebraveusa.bsky.social and find your local No Kings peaceful protest at www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=h...

Even if you support massive deportation operations, under no circumstances should ANYONE be ok with US citizens being forcibly removed from their homes and detained without explanation. This is a clear violation of their constitutional rights and should universally condemned.

When they tell you they plan on throwing out the constitution, believe them.

The U.S. Dollar was worth almost 13 percent more on Jan. 19th compared to today. #EconSky

NEW: There’s a disaster unfolding in Alaska right now. And no major network is covering it. The remnants of Typhoon Halong battered western Alaska overnight. Homes, with people in them, have literally been swept into the Bering Strait. At least 20 are missing. No comment from any federal agency.

🚨The absence of media coverage of this natural disaster in Alaska, the lost/missing people, and the destruction of the aftermath is up to us to share. Please help if you can - even if it is just spreading awareness. There is no FEMA going to help them. 1/2

There it is: $20 billion for Argentina at the same time they’re taking markets away from our farmers. But no $ for health insurance for Americans?

“the conventions of political reporting today are poorly suited to capturing this naked use of sheer pretexts and the bottomless bad faith they rely upon.” @gregsargent.bsky.social is absolutely right. Big, legacy media has got to catch up to reality.

Few patients appeal a health insurance denial, but a little-known process that requires insurers and plans to seek an independent opinion can force insurers to pay for what can be lifesaving treatment. Here’s what experts say you need to know.

“their nanoparticle-based vaccine can effectively prevent melanoma, pancreatic and triple-negative breast cancer in mice. Not only did up to 88% of the vaccinated mice remain tumor-free (depending on the cancer), but the vaccine reduced—and in some cases completely prevented—the cancer’s spread.”

“I spent three nights and three days in federal custody. During that time, I was never told what I was charged with, was not allowed to shower despite being covered in tear gas and pepper spray, had no phone call to my family, and no access to an attorney.” - George Retes, U.S. citizen and veteran.

Was she undocumented? Here on a green card? A U.S. citizen? WHAT FUCKING DIFFERENCE DOES IT MAKE? SHE'S A TEENAGE GIRL WHO WAS JUST KIDNAPPED OFF THE STREETS, THROWN INTO A VAN & DISAPPEARED.

I encourage you to watch or re-watch “U.S. and the Holocaust,” a masterful three-part docuseries by Ken Burns, Lynn Novick, and Sarah Botstein. An anti-democratic and fascist extremist element is nothing new. Neither is ignoring it or its horrors. #WeThePeople stopped it— #ForThePeople. LET’S GO!

🚨🚨🚨WA Governor Bob Ferguson responds to a letter he received from AG Pam Bondi in which she threatened to place him in jail. 🧯He is on fire! 1/2

Chris Murphy: "Republicans are boycotting negotiations to reopen the govt bc they're desperate to raise premiums on people by 75% in order to finance their tax cut for the wealthy. The other reason House isn't in town? They're about to have enough votes to mandate the release of the Epstein files."

Friends — something dramatic has happened over the last two weeks.

It says a lot that Trump can find $20 billion to bail out Argentina, but won't help the millions of Americans who are in real need at home. So much for “America First.”

“America First.”