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We're beginning to suspect Kash Patel was a DUI hire

1 hour ago 93 22 5 1

The Agriculture Secretary sent an agency-wide email titled "He has risen!" that told the story of Christ.

Separation of Church is just the latest Constitutional principle this administration is destroying.

The Founding Fathers are rolling in their graves.

3 hours ago 53 14 2 1

Trump's illegal war on Iran could cost American taxpayers $1 TRILLION.

This won't just be our bill, costs will be passed onto the next generation.

Rather than meet the true day-to-day needs of Americans, we're funding death and destruction, defense contractor payouts & redundant weapons systems.

22 hours ago 155 74 9 4

The IRS is expected to lose up to $479B over the next decade because of a drop in immigrant filings.

These immigrants were doing the right thing & filing taxes, but Trump is sharing IRS data with ICE.

Trump’s deportation agenda is ruining lives & costing the country billions.

1 day ago 355 151 13 9

In its first 6 days the war on Iran cost taxpayers over $11.3 BILLION.

We're now 45 days in.

That means over $84.7 BILLION of your hard-earned dollars may have been wasted on an illegal war.

In the U.S. there's always money for war, but never money for human needs.

5 days ago 83 45 5 3
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Nothing captures the ego of this administration like couch boy telling the Pope how to do theology 😭

5 days ago 49 11 2 1

Happy Tax Day!

You're paying a Big Tax Prep company like TurboTax to do your taxes because the Trump admin gutted the free and easy IRS tax filing tool DirectFile.

Meanwhile, 88 corporations with $105B in profits paid zero in federal income tax.

The system is rigged

6 days ago 94 39 1 2
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What do you mean? This is clearly an AI photo of Trump and a doctor.

6 days ago 60 5 4 0
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It looks like Noem’s fancy schmancy $70 million DHS jet (funded by your tax money, of course) is ferrying around other cabinet officials.

Meanwhile, Americans are struggling to pay for gas to get to work.

6 days ago 43 16 2 0

WTAF!

Trump said he would pardon all employees within 200 feet of the Oval Office.

He's giving his entire admin license to violate the law at will.

This lawless president doesn’t give a damn about American democracy.

6 days ago 57 18 4 0
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Another day, another Trump lawsuit blowing up in his face.

A judge dismissed his $10 billion lawsuit against the Wall Street Journal over their reporting on Epstein.

Why? The courts know to protect the First Amendment, not fragile egos.

6 days ago 78 30 0 1

United Airlines' CEO allegedly pitched a mega-merger with American Airlines during a meeting with Trump.

This level of corporate concentration would give us worse service, fewer flights & higher ticket prices.

Antitrust enforcers must end this merger talk before takeoff.

1 week ago 68 24 2 2
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While Trump is (barely) running the U.S. government, his family is raking in billions from crypto and overseas deals.

Instead of, gee I don’t know, serving the American people, he’s monetizing the presidency.

The boundary between policy and private profit? Nonexistent.

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What happens when DHS hands over BILLIONS of taxpayer dollars to unqualified companies with troubling records to run an ICE detention center?

Deaths. Abuse. Legal chaos

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Crashing out on the POPE and calling him “weak on crime” is crazy work.

All because he…opposes war and killing millions of innocent people?

This would be funny if it weren’t so disturbing to watch a president get this desperate.

1 week ago 54 12 1 0
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If you believe “concerns with the methodology” is the reason why the CDC director delayed the release of this COVID vaccine report, I have a beach house to sell you in Kansas.

We shouldn’t be left in the dark just because the MAHA grifters in charge don’t like the results.

Release the report.

1 week ago 73 32 0 0

Direct File cut costs for American families and made life more affordable by making tax filing free and easy.

But the Trump admin killed it.

Why?

So they can screw over working class people and appease Big Tax Prep corporations.

1 week ago 68 23 1 2
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The fact that Anthropic admits their own AI model is TOO DANGEROUS to be released to the public should be a massive wake-up call.

Meanwhile, Big Tech companies are telling Congress they can just regulate themselves without oversight.

This is a recipe for disaster.

1 week ago 76 28 5 1
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The White House is trying to hold their staff “accountable” and beg them to stop placing bets on the Iran war.

Shouldn't it be obvious to staff that using sensitive insider information to get richer is wrong and unethical?

I guess not in the Trump admin!

1 week ago 58 16 4 2
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Trump’s energy strategy, in a nutshell:

✅ Block cheaper clean energy
✅ Subsidize failing coal plants
✅ Stick taxpayers with the bill

In other words: higher costs, dirtier air, and more preventable deaths.

1 week ago 63 22 1 1
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A Trump-backed AI group is planning to drop $100 MILLION to influence our elections.

It's just another example of corporations using their money to buy policies that will make them richer at our expense.

What could possibly go wrong?

1 week ago 88 59 4 4
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Remember when this guy ran is whole campaign on affordability?

What a joke.

1 week ago 60 29 2 0

Gas prices have continued to increase, thanks to Trump's illegal war on Iran.

Today, the average price of a gallon has risen to $4.12.

Trump is the reason this country is facing an affordability crisis.

1 week ago 57 21 3 1

BREAKING: House Republicans blocked a resolution to end Trump's war on Iran.

The Republican presiding gaveled out the session without even calling the measure to a vote.

Under our constitution, Congress has the sole power to declare war. Refusing to even hold a vote on it is shameful & cowardly.

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You're about to be automatically eligible to die for this administration's reckless wars of choice, but in order to vote for the leader that's sending you to war, you'll need to make sure you have a plethora of documentation.

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BREAKING: PhRMA CEO Stebe Ubl announced that he will step down by the end of 2026.

Ubl helped drugmakers take money out of family's pockets & made his lifestyle by blocking medicine affordability.

Good riddance to this 'Pharma Bro' who made life worse for millions.

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Trump has named his personal attorney Todd Blanche as the new leader of the Justice Department.

But last year, Blanche shut down enforcement actions against crypto companies while he was holding over $150,000 in crypto investments.

This is an outrageous conflict of interest.

1 week ago 94 39 4 4

While 4 astronauts are on a historic trip around the moon, Trump is proposing to slash NASA's budget by almost 50%.

Everything Trump does undermines the very things that make America great.

1 week ago 124 33 8 1