"What the U.S. is doing now is not reform. It is rejecting the very system it created." - Singapore's Prime Minister Lawrence Wong

(April 8, 2025)

Donald Trump has cancelled the $35 a month Insulin cap.

Prices are expected to almost instantly go back to $1500 a month.

Insulin costs $2 to make.

Columbia Student Hunted by ICE Sues to Prevent Deportation (Gift Article) Yunseo Chung, a legal permanent resident who has lived in the U.S. since she was 7, participated in pro-Palestinian demonstrations. Immigration agents visited residences looking for her.

A 21-year-old Columbia University student who has lived in the United States since she was a child sued President Trump and other high-ranking administration officials on Monday after immigration officials tried to arrest and deport her.

Yunseo Chung participated in a Barnard sit-in this month.

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Green card holder from New Hampshire 'interrogated' at Logan Airport, detained Originally from Germany, Fabian Schmidt was stopped on his way home from Luxembourg, questioned, and held in Rhode Island.

What. The. Actual. F.

I guess Republicans in Congress are okay with this?

“Senior described Schmidt being “violently interrogated” at Logan Airport for hours, and being stripped naked, put in a cold shower by two officials, and being put back onto a chair.”

www.wgbh.org/news/local/2...

Thanks to Trump and DOGE, the government’s barely functioning anyway.

Democrats need to vote down the Republican CR—shut it down and seize this moment they created to show them you’re not f*cking around!
@democrats.senate.gov
@schumer.senate.gov

Walz: "The idea that the secretary of education would not know what IDEA is -- individuals with disability in education act -- that's like your mechanic not knowing how to put air in your tire. And she's in charge of this nation's education progress. It is catastrophic."

Senate Democrats are waking up: Hickenlooper said this morning he was leaning towards backing the CR.

But at a town hall tonight he publicly commits to voting No — including on cloture.

Keep calling. Keep up the pressure.

Teslur!

They're going to fucking wreck the university with one of the best hospital systems in the goddam world

Basically…

One of my companies informed me they cancelled a $2m conference in Florida. Why ?

They didn’t feel they could pass on the incremental cost of tariffs. So they are cutting expenses.

That’s a city that lost a ton of tourism revenue.

The cost of tariffs isn’t just the cost of the tariff

I double dare you.

The stakes are just too high.

“Those nasty Canadians are ripping us off and are controlled by Mexican cartels. They’re poisoning us with fentanyl and need to become the 51st state or they will pay a high price” is a belief that literally ZERO Americans had six weeks ago. It’s entirely invented from scratch.

What he said about Social Security payments has been repeatedly debunked - so the question isn’t whether he’s lying about this, the question is why.

What is this a pretext for? He and the GOP have long shown interest in going after Social Security. What are they going to try?

"the government" not "my government"

Trump: Please explain to Governor Trudeau, of Canada, that when he puts on a Retaliatory Tariff on the U.S., our Reciprocal Tariff will immediately increase by a like amount!

This is just going to get worse.

Our farmers will lose billions in USAID cuts.

His tariffs will not make up the shortfall, because most of the produce coming in does not compete with local produce.

People aren't going to buy more Idaho potatoes because Mexican bananas cost more.

+ labor shortages.

The fuckening continues.

Pure fascism: the put down of the freedom of assembly.

Coward, Republican Senator Roger Marshall walked out of his town hall rather than answer a question about veterans being fired.

Republicans are fools if they think only Dems care about DOGE cuts to vets. This was a town hall in a rural Kansas deep-red district.

Opinion | Trump Is Breaking Things We Can’t Just Fix The president’s about-face on Ukraine has taught our allies a lesson they won’t be unlearning anytime soon.

Your now-regular reminder that the institutions of this economy depend on the institutions of this democracy.

www.nytimes.com/2025/03/02/o...

Rep. Tom Suozzi gets huge applause and a standing ovation after calling out Trump’s ambush of President Zelenskyy at the White House.

Suozzi is a Democrat who won a special election in a red district—more of this, please!

Every single Dem should be holding town halls across the country RIGHT NOW.

I got laid off today, with the rest of 18F.

18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it.

We made this website to tell our story:
18f.org

HERO vs ZERO
I'm in a state of shock & still trying to process yesterday's shameful, traitorous debacle in the WH: A DAY THAT WILL LIVE IN INFAMY. Our standing in the world has plummeted overnight, but the repercussions will be felt forevermore.
#SlavaUkraini🇺🇦 #ShameOnUS🇺🇸

18F was doing exactly the type of work that DOGE claims to want – yet we were eliminated shortly after midnight. Read our letter to the American people:
18f.org

Trump to order English as US official language The United States has never had an official language since it was founded nearly 250 years ago.

It wasn't enough to discriminate against who you love. Now they're targeting the language you speak:

Any psychologist or psychiatrist (or former abused spouse) will tell you that President Zelensky gave a master class today on how to deal with a malignant narcissist.

He is an amazing man. We can all learn from him.

It's good to see some reasonable billionaires in the room.

"History will remember this day— when an American President and Vice President abandoned all we stand for."