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Dem Rep. Brendan Boyle: “Republicans just voted for the largest cuts to health care in American history — cuts to Medicare, Medicaid, and the Affordable Care Act. At least 13.7 million will now lose their health care as a result. And why? To pay for tax cuts for billionaires and special interests.”

If this bill becomes law, ICE will become the best-resourced law enforcement agency in the history of the country, with more funding for detention than the entire federal Bureau of Prisons.

Do you think Lutnick wants *his* kids and grandkids spending their lives in a manufacturing plant, or are these just aspirations for "other people"?

Every big business should show customers how much Trump's tariffs are hurting their pocketbooks. People deserve to know the impact of the tariffs on their everyday costs.

Wow. Naval Academy prof to their 3-star Admiral in his letter of resignation: "your legacy will be that of a careerist who banned Maya Angelou but retained Mein Kampf"

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In mid-March, ICE started detaining immigrants in tent camps in the U.S. for the first time, built by a company once known for operating music festival facilities that is poised to make a fortune on Trump's deportation plans.

Textbook.

“One of the top MS-13 members”? This woman is an officer of the court and the Attorney General of the United States. She knows that she wields immense power and responsibility. Yet here she is on national TV, making baseless claims about a guy her boss wrongly sent to a gulag in El Salvador.

DHS is threatening to revoke Harvard’s ability to host international students and the IRS is looking at revoking their tax exemption. The “stop the weaponization of government” crowd sure is quiet as fuck on this one.

The more this goes on, the stupider it gets. 1st it was abt antisemitism. Then it was about checking their curriculum & classes. Then they threw in DEI. And now it's this. I'm sure Harvard isn't phased. It's a private institution that can do as it damn well pleases. www.cnn.com/2025/04/16/u...

Republicans are praising President Trump's executive order that bypasses Congress to change election laws and restrict ballot access. The GOP had a completely different reaction to President Biden's 2021 order expanding voter registration. www.democracydocket.com/analysis/gop...

Tax Day Reminder: If your job requires a college degree, you should be able to write-off your student loan payments as a business expense the way CEOs write off their private jets and yachts for their jobs which require neither.

Ohio Senators are considering a new bill that would allow public schools to display the Ten Commandments in classrooms. Public schools are not Sunday schools, and religious freedom thrives best when the government stays out of it. ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/04/14/f...

2/The United States Constitution does not permit the deportation of American citizens for committing a crime. That is not legal. But what’s legal doesn’t seem to matter to the Trump administration. The question is whether anything or anyone can still force him to follow the law.

1/The Trump admin has made it clear: they will have to be forced to comply with the law. They won’t do it voluntarily. It’s that simple & that complicated. Worst of all, it’s completely unsurprising we’ve come to this juncture. This was in the cards all along joycevance.substack.com/p/the-suprem...

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This. Write your name in the history books on the right side of the ledger.

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Again, this is how you know the whole DOGE thing is absolute bullshit. We’re apparently on the brink of financial ruin at all times when it comes to Social Security or healthcare or college in this country while simultaneously there’s infinite money when it comes to war.

Let that sink in.

I discuss this in my book (www.amazon.com/Rot-Revival-...). The Supreme Court and its jurisprudence don't function as a counterweight to majoritarian politics. Instead, operates as a regime enforcer. The fact that 40 years out, the Court works like a well-oiled Reaganist machine is unsurprising.

The message is: crowd large. Many politicians, administrators, and business leaders, in bowing to Trump, have drawn confidence and comfort from the perceived vibe shift. Events like this puncture that delusion.

This is the US budget. Trump/GOP say their agenda won’t cut Social Security or Medicare. They’re *expanding* military spending. And cutting taxes. Now they’re battling over whether to slash Medicaid. There’s not a lot left for savings. Shaping up to hugely increase the debt.

The biggest thing we need to do is let people know that the protests are FUN. Yelling fuck the man is fun. You will meet fun people. We also need to make them more fun. Bring grills like the French. Bring instruments like it’s Mardi Gras. Give people a reason to spend their weekend in the streets.

Massive crowd at Boston’s city hall plaza for the #HandsOff protest against Trump and Musk

Kansas City, Missouri

Never actually seen a march like this before, especially not in San Diego

This is Utah in case anyone’s wondering how pissed off people are. I have never seen anything like this.

I have never seen anything like this in NYC. 5th Ave covered from 42nd St well to the 20s. Nobody prepared for this volume. Volunteers are holding the traffic on all the side streets. No police in sight. #handsoff

This is the just the beginning

A mother and her three children were snatched by ICE from a dairy farm in Sackets Harbor, a rural town in northern New York. But the location is no coincidence—Tom Homan, Trump’s border czar, LIVES THERE. He allowed his own neighbors, including a third grader, to be jailed. Deplorable.

- Block tax cuts for billionaires - Stand with Ukraine - Secure veterans' health care They're stealing from the working class, giving to the rich, and destroying your benefits in the process. And the night is still young.

It's midnight in Washington, and in case you're catching up... So far tonight, Republicans have blocked amendments that would: – Remove tariffs hurting families – Protect disaster response and recovery - Secure Social Security benefits - Preserve federal lands (Thread 🧵)

- Raise wages for working Americans - Ensure caregivers aren't cut - Rein in the national debt - Protect Medicaid - Keep Social Security offices open - Support families on food assistance - Secure the right to organize

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This is a real exchange I just had:

Two big things are happening on Sat: Thousands of Hands Off protests will happen around the country, and the Senate will vote to give more than $5 trillion in tax breaks to the richest, which cutting over $1.5 trillion from Medicaid, nutrition assistance, and other essential services.

They want to imprison anyone for burning down a Tesla. For 20 years. How much for burning down the stock market?

3/ You see, our founders created a President with limited and checked powers. They specifically put the power of spending and taxation in the hands of the legislature. Why? Because they watched how kings and despots used spending and taxes to control their subjects.

2/ This week you will read many confused economists and political pundits who won’t understand how the tariffs make economic sense. That’s because they don’t. They aren’t designed as economic policy. The tariffs are simply a new, super dangerous political tool.

Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive. No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief. 1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.

They literally just played his own recorded testimony, in which he says, “People have bowel movements every day where they don’t completely clean themselves and we don’t fuss over [them] too much. People are allowed to be dirty. You know, I would allow him to be a little dirty for a couple of days.”

A personal note from a former DOJ lawyer who was kicked out by Trump officials.

9 police officers to protect 1 Cybertruck, this is where America's priorities are now. Imagine, if you can, that police protected trans people or black people like this or protected our children in school like this. #MAGAPriorities