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(video of Bugs Bunny sawing off New Hampshire and Maine)

Veterans like Sylvia know what’s at stake. We swore an oath to the Constitution, not a person.

The beaches, the bagels, and The Boss – New Jersey is simply the best. Please join me in wishing my state, a place that’s brought so much meaning to my life, a happy 238th birthday!

It almost goes without saying, but this is illegal. The name "John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts" is established by law and the board doesn't have the power to change it. 20 USC 3 §§ 76h - 76s.

Every new Trump Epstein revelation is somehow both shocking and not a surprise at all.

It gets even more pathetic— x.com/RepBeatty/st...

Because it is my lot in life, Trump can’t change the name of the Kennedy center. It needs to be authorized by Congress.

I'll call it the Kennedy Center bc it'll get changed back eventually. Nobody calls it "Ciudad Trujillo" - it's Santo Domingo.

People are not upset because they think every single member of the American elite is a mass rapist. They're upset because elites downplay and excuse mass rape while obscuring their ties to the rapists — *precisely the thing Brooks did in his column.*

Everyone calm down, it was just a dinner. It's not like Brooks wrote an entire column saying Epstein's crimes weren't a big deal and his critics are hysterical while failing to divulge his attendance!

"The Kennedy Center is a living memorial to a fallen president and named for President Kennedy by federal law," former Rep. Joe Kennedy said. "It can no sooner be renamed than can someone rename the Lincoln Memorial, no matter what anyone says."

. @teamsters.bsky.social bringing the big wheels to Starbucks HQ 🔥 Solidarity in action, baby! #NoContractNoCoffee

This this this. And if you, the public, cease to care, why should the President?

Follow up Q: Did Brooks’s editors know he had attended this 2011 event (which was 3 years after Epstein pled guilty for soliciting sex from minors) when Brooks wrote his column last month?

The Trump admin announced today that it would no longer fund health systems that accept Medicaid/Medicare and offer gender-affirming care. That will affect everyone receiving the care -- not just people *on* Medicaid/Medicare. Hospitals will likely choose Medicaid/Medicare over trans patients.

Trump and Republicans claim they want to "protect children." But they've rolled back child labor laws and environmental protections, blocked gun safety reform, and spread lies about vaccines that save children from deadly diseases. Hello?

We're endorsing @analiliafornj.bsky.social for Congress. She spent her career as an organizer leading grassroots organizations like @njwfp.bsky.social and on campaigns fighting for working families. She won a $15 minimum wage and paid sick leave in NJ. She'll take that same fight to Congress.

BREAKING: The Florida Supreme Court upheld Florida’s law, making it the only state to allow juries split 8-4 to sentence people to death. Permitting non-unanimous, divided juries to sentence people to death is unconstitutional and increases the risk of executing an innocent person.

This was a brutal presser to listen to. These new policies from RFK Jr. et al., WILL lead to death, are anti-scientific, and steeped in eugenics. This is one of many reasons we are leading the charge for RFK Jr's impeachment and removal from his cabinet position. #impeachRFKJR

THREAD: The FDA has made it difficult to find where medications are made. Today we're changing that with our latest tool. With Rx Inspector, it’s possible to see your drug’s manufacturing facility and what the FDA found during its inspections. Here's how you can use it. 1/

Trump and Republicans got rid of the CFPB’s rule to cap overdraft fees at $5. Now, big banks are taking even more money from struggling Americans to pad their own bottom lines. Trump isn’t looking out for you – he’s looking out for Wall Street.

In his column talking about how irrelevant the Epstein files are, this guy should probably have mentioned that he had socialized at least once with Epstein and might end up in the Epstein files.

David Brooks, who wrote in the NYT last month, "The Epstein Story? Count Me Out" is... in the latest Epstein photo dump published by @oversightdemocrats.house.gov. He should absolutely be fired by NYT for this. Major conflict of interest that he didn't disclose.

They booked a bunch of 14 year old models to come to a Mar A Lago party, told them to dress sexy and tried to ply them with alcohol.

You guys. No. It's named by statute. Do better.

Friends, I wrote this post that has now been plagiarized word for word. Please act accordingly. I’ll link my OP below.

As of this morning 4,500 Starbucks workers are on strike. Don’t cross their picket line. No Starbucks. NO Starbucks gift cards!

This will increase the number of trans children who will end their own lives. The intent of a policy is its most easily predictable effects. The intent of this policy is to kill children.

Average household heating costs are up 9.2% from last year, on top of rising electricity costs. Meanwhile, Trump gutted a program that helps low-income people heat their homes and is boosting construction of power-hungry AI data centers. What happened to lowering prices on Day One?

We have the signatures needed to bring a vote to extend the ACA tax credits—but MAGA Mike is canceling votes for the rest of the week, turning his back on the American people. Millions of Americans will soon see their health care premiums skyrocket because Republicans refuse to do their job.

A man so cheap he won't even pay his own donative to the Praetorians.

Susie Wiles told NYT she didn't call Elon Musk "an avowed ketamine" in one of her ELEVEN interviews with Vanity Fair. "That’s ridiculous. I wouldn’t have said it and I wouldn’t know." Vanity Fair: Cool here's a recording of you saying that. www.huffpost.com/entry/brown-...

These are our most impressive institutions and crucial for our survival as a people and a species.

Sen. BLUMENTHAL: Was the U.S. Capitol attacked on January 6, 2021? Trump nominee: *dodges* Trump nominee: *dodges* Trump nominee: Well, individuals entered the Capitol. Blumenthal: You are in fear—how will you have the courage to be fair and impartial?

i made a template you can use to think about what "frame/negation/kirby" looks like for other issues. For example: Frame: DOGE is a govt efficiency project to save $ Negation: Actually it made things less efficient and cost $ Kirby: DOGE was a project to break and privatize federal bureaucracy

This is Attorney General Pam Bondi’s ethics pledge. She was a lobbyist for Ballard — the same firm hired to lobby for both Paramount AND Netflix. But Trump’s Justice Department said Bondi will oversee the Warner Bros. merger. It reeks of corruption. Bondi must recuse herself.

I honest to Pete don’t understand the aversion to saying he lies. (Don’t give me the whole oh-we-don’t-know-his-intent malarkey)

1. Wow 2. Shocked not shocked

My take on Trump's address tonight is that he's always won in the past by staying on the attack and refusing to apologise. He didn't defend himself: he proclaimed reality, ignored all arguments to the contrary, and went back to throwing punches. This felt defensive, weak. And maybe a little scared.

I'm old enough to remember when the networks refused to carry an incredibly important speech at Independence Hall in Philadelphia by President Biden about creeping fascism in the U.S. because it was "too political". Sure, but they'll broadcast every minute of Trump's propaganda bullshit. 🙄

"I used AI to generate ideas" ys just like "Ich used pickpocketing to generate a litel pettye cash"

What would be great is if Dem members in multiple states showed up at multiple ICE facilities at 10 a.m. tomorrow armed with this injunction.

President Trump says that checks for $1,776 each are going out to nearly 1.5 million servicemembers. I have questions. + When did Congress approve such a plan? + Where is the money coming from? + How is it non-taxable? Did Congress vote to do that? I'm sure there must be specific bill text.

excited to read a longform article about the collapse of this project (est: 1-3 deaths) in eighteen months or so.

Sounds like they need humanities majors…..

Love this energy chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Its fun how science in America was annihilated to "save money," and then the ruler who did that just made a donative to ensure loyalty from the military with a price tag that completely dwarfs what was "saved" by ending research.

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"We need affirmative action for white men" sounds like a joke you would make about Republicans, but no, it is actually what the elites of the conservative intelligentsia genuinely believe.