TINA SMITH: Secretary Kennedy, a trillion dollars in cuts according to the CBO, 7 million people losing their health insurance because of the Trump administration. That's not debatable
RFK Jr: There is nobody legally enrolled in Medicaid who is losing coverage
SMITH: That is just not true!
Rep. Jamie Raskin is demanding that Kash Patel submit to an alcohol abuse screening:
"For the sake of our own security, we need to know, for example, 'how many drinks containing alcohol do you have on a typical day when you are drinking'?"
If you attend the White House Correspondents Dinner this year, you should be legally barred from using the term "journalist" to describe yourself from that point on.
Remember, these are the guys trying to control university curriculum to eliminate wokeness...like math
In the last week, the Trump administration has taken steps to fast-track reviews of psychedelics and widen access to some peptide injections.
The approach contrasts sharply with its stance on a different area of medicine backed by far more data: vaccines.
The Trump administration, from top to bottom, is filled with spiteful malicious bullies who insist that they're innocent aggrieved victims.
Jay Bhattacharya has ordered that a paper showing the effectiveness of COVID19 vaccines in preventing severe disease and hospitalization be suppressed and hidden.
This man has been crying nonstop about political censorship for 6 years.
But he’s the one who is actually doing it.
Totally off-topic, but did y'all the know the Free State of Florida's citrus industry is basically dead??
This is quite a story:
slate.com/business/202...
There’s a moment when studying American history when you realize that with less than a handful of exceptions the Presidency has been filled with criminals, grifters, moral deviants, and
mediocrities, and the fairly recent development of treating the office like a king is a nation-shattering tragedy.
The mother and son detained in the Walmart parking lot remained at Dilley for more than three weeks. Immigration officials confiscated the boy's stuffed dinosaur toy and winter hat. At Dilley, they were provided with expired and spoiled food, which the child refused to eat. At the time they were detained, the mother was breastfeeding her youngest child, but while she was at Dilley, her milk dried up.
The physical and emotional pain our government inflicted on this mother is unbearable. We must spend the rest of our lives repairing the damage done with our tax dollars.
sahanjournal.com/immigration/...
Pulitzer-worthy reporting here from Minnesota immigrant news @sahanjournal.bsky.social.
70+ children detained during Operation MetroSurge.
30 sent to Dilley. Two dozen held >20 days, a Flores violation.
7 still detained as of March 10. ~20 have been deported.
sahanjournal.com/immigration/...
Not a penny to make life more affordable for American families, but $70 BILLION for ICE to terrorize our communities.
Congratulations, Virginia! Republicans are trying to tilt the midterm elections in their favor, but they haven’t done it yet. Thanks for showing us what it looks like to stand up for our democracy and fight back.
I would submit that a gerrymander by politicians saying fuck the voters and one by voters saying fuck the politicians are two wholly different animals
With the result in Virginia, here's what we know about how mid-decade redistricting has shifted the landscape.
Across the 7 states with new maps:
—11 districts have shifted toward Democrats;
—9 districts have shifted toward the GOP.
So much false equivalence in media on gerrymandering in Texas vs California & Virginia. California and Virginia maps approved by the voters. That's a huge difference not enough people pointing out
Thirteen U.S. troops died trying to get these people to safety — Afghan interpreters, soldiers, and the families of our service members. Veterans spent sleepless nights during the chaotic withdrawal fighting to keep them alive. Now our own government is going to abandon them.
Iran doesn’t want the Strait of Hormuz closed, they want it open so they can make $500 Million Dollars a day (which is, therefore, what they are losing if it is closed!). They only say they want it closed because I have it totally BLOCKADED (CLOSED!), so they merely want to “save face.” People approached me four days ago, saying, “Sir, Iran wants to open up the Strait, immediately.” But if we do that, there can never be a Deal with Iran, unless we blow up the rest of their Country, their leaders included! President DONALD J. TRUMP
Trump threatens Iran with potentially "blowing up the rest of their Country, their leaders included!"
A reminder while Republicans bitch about Dems finishing the redistricting fight they started: they have full control of gov’t— they can pass a law banning gerrymandering any time they want. They won’t. Republicans aren’t mad gerrymandering exists; they’re mad that they’re not the only ones using it.
OK, we have our first fully-reporting county already in Virginia. It's rural, red Matthews County.
The 'no' won 72.9% to 27.1%, so +46%.
Earle-Sears won the gov race here by 35% (on her way to losing the state by 15%), and Miyares won by 44% (on his way to losing the state by 7%).
Night Sky
Acadia National Park
Maine USA
ELIZABETH WARREN: Did Donald Trump lose the 2020 election?
KEVIN WARSH: Uhm, we try to keep politics if I'm confirmed out of the Federal Reserve
WARREN: I'm just asking a factual question
WARSH: I believe this body certified the election
WARREN: That's not the question I'm asking
The economy isn't broken—it's working exactly as designed, just not for you. Data confirms it: personal income down, savings rate 4%, debt record high. The S&P hit records for the 10% who own it. The rest of us get the bill.
#UNFTR for @meidastouch.com.
Watch the full video: youtu.be/WizQjYp87i4
“You know, we’ll be tormented by it for a long time. I will be, and I want to say I’m sorry for misleading people, and it was not intentional. That’s all I’ll say.”
Not intentional? Tucker had no idea what he doing when he was shilling for the orange grotesquerie?
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“Minutes after voting for $300 MILLION for private school vouchers, Senate Republicans voted to cut $43 MILLION for diapers for needy families.”😳
Welcome to @GovBillLee & the @TNGOP supermajority’s Tennessee, folks. A budget is a moral document.
Just a thought: How about we stop shaming the poor for buying things that may not be essential, and start shaming the rich for making a profit off things that are essential?
@stephruhle.bsky.social lists a few untrue statements President Trump has made about the Iran War in the past week.
CNN put together a montage of Trump saying as far back as March 9 that his war against Iran "is going to be finished pretty quickly," then him saying that same thing over and over for the past six weeks
Trump did this 👇🏽
