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.
Dialysis units. Emergency rooms. Clinics that have served small towns for decades.
Pete Ricketts voted to cut $1 trillion from Medicaid so he could give himself and his billionaire friends a tax cut.
Nebraska's rural communities deserve better than this.
The CEO of Southern Poverty Law Center said the nonprofit is "unsurprised to be the latest organization targeted by this administration."
The Infowars news is funny, yes. But more importantly, it is an outright rebuke of Alex Jones' evil.
It's testament to the strength and resilience of the Sandy Hook families who survived this bullshit for more than a decade as well as the Onion, which didn't give up on this for the last 18 months.
Infowars/Onion combo logo in rainbow saying “I support the onion’s hostile media takeover.”
It’s finally happened. After 18 months. Finally, a media merger you can root for.
Mamdani: "What are we fighting for?. When you look back at the history books of our party, 100 years ago we had a very clear vision of what we were fighting for. It's sad that for too many Americans, when they want to look for ambition in the Democratic Party, then have to turn to a history book."
My sense of the House right now on impeachment is that a lot of members very clearly want it but the members actually good at understanding the institution are in leadership.
And they do not want this.
A tweet from Representative Thomas Massie that reads: I just viewed 2 Top Secret FISA docs. 1) FISA Court opinion that raises serious concerns about FBI implementation of FISA 702. 2) letter by Senator Wyden describing a secret government interpretation of FISA law. The Constitution requires I vote No on FISA 702 reauthorization.
I sent a classified letter to House and Senate colleagues about a secret interpretation of surveillance law that every American should be concerned about.
Representative Massie is right. The Constitution requires EVERY member to vote against a clean reauthorization.
"The rise of extreme wealth is one of the clearest signs of this imbalance. In 1987, billionaires held wealth equal to 3% of global GDP. Today this tiny elite, just 0.0001% of the world population, owns the equivalent of *16%* of world GDP in wealth."
Gov. Abigail Spanberger of Virginia has signed into law a bill to end tax exemptions for a slate of Confederacy-related organizations in the state.
BREAKING: Senate Republicans blocked my War Powers Resolution that would have ended Trump's unnecessary, unjustified war against Iran.
These cowards have had four chances to stop this chaos in the Middle East.
And they put Trump's ego before America.
Every damn time.
"The committee’s vice chair later told Stiehler in an email that she should 'know when to shut up,' and he asked her to send her husband and colleague to testify instead."
Awesome reporting (as always) from @anna-writes.bsky.social.
kansasreflector.com/2026/04/14/k...
#KSLeg
Day three in our series: Republicans routinely brushed aside concerns about the projected costs of policies as a way of hushing objections, undermining the work of nonpartisan budget analysts and distorting the findings of a 2023 audit #ksleg kansasreflector.com/2026/04/15/k...
NEW: Kansas lawmakers override governor's veto to enact SAVE Kansas Act, which will make it more difficult to register to vote, but easier to get purged.
This makes Kansas just the latest state to pass its own version of Trump’s agenda of restricting ballot access and suppressing voter turnout.
“They will not last for ever, & we need to think about what happens when they’re gone – to talk about the kind of reconstruction the US will face for the first time since the civil war, the reconstruction a ravaged & corrupted country has to go through to return to functionality. But not to return…
Why have Democrats recently struggled to connect with working-class and rural voters – and what would it take to change that? @akilahhughes.com talks with journalist @heyjohnrussell.bsky.social about class politics in America in this week's How Is This Better.
Selected Federal Agencies With Budgets Less Than the $117 Billion 2026 Tax Cut for the Richest 1% Table with 2 columns and 15 rows. Agency 2026 spending Department of Agriculture $89.2 billion Department of Education $46.9 billion Department of Transportation $30.3 billion Department of Housing and Urban Development $26.5 billion Department of Labor $22.7 billion Department of Energy $20.0 billion Department of Justice $18.8 billion Department of the Interior $9.6 billion Department of State $8.7 billion National Aeronautics and Space Administration $6.8 billion Department of Commerce $4.5 billion Agency for International Development $3.4 billion Environmental Protection Agency $3.0 billion National Endowment for the Humanities $100 million National Endowment for the Arts $30 million
The richest 1% are set to receive a $117 BILLION tax break next year.
That's more than almost every federal agency receives to serve the public.
Wow.
Buttigieg: "The big thing that's different now is that in many periods in American history, you have inflation and then the administration does things to reduce it. Right now, we have the administration actively making prices higher."
One flew east, one flew west, one flew over the cuckoo’s nest.
Two ways to read Trump’s unprecedented threat that Iran’s “whole civilization will die:" trib.al/QUSctRO
1. As a threat to drop a nuclear weapon on a nation with which he started a war
2. A sign of such desperation that he uttered the most murderous words an American president has ever spoken.
The war failed to achieve most of its goals—from installing a new regime to permanently ensuring no nuclear weapons program in Iran. Trump was left basically begging, and polls suggest the conflict is the latest anchor on his already plunging poll numbers. trib.al/uFtbzmI
Trump Budget Request Cuts Nearly $5 Billion From USDA
The White House has proposed a 19% cut in the U.S. Department of Agriculture budget for the upcoming fiscal year, with an increase in spending for the agency’s reorganization efforts. ➡️ buff.ly/EmxXJtw
"The terminations don’t just cut off individual grants, they sever relationships built over years between farmers, landowners, lenders, and the community organizations that made those connections possible,” writes Amanda Koehler, manager of the Land, Capital, and Market Access Network, in an op-ed.
Op-ed: The government has abandoned the next generation of food producers—and the future of farming.
I guess we're just waiting around to see if this demented psychopath kills everyone: defector.com/i-guess-were...
We're on strike! Don't visit propublica.org on April 8
We’re on strike today! Support our fight for a fair contract by NOT visiting the @propublica.org website or engaging with ProPublica stories today.
Tell ProPublica’s management you won’t cross the picket line: actionnetwork.org/petitions/te...
