In order for government to work, we have to elect people who want government to work and who will appoint people who want government to work. We have one party that doesn't want government to work, and is doing an excellent job destroying it.
RFK Jr. said multiple times during his house and senate hearings today that no scientists have been fired from federal agencies. Our reporting has shown that hundreds, if not thousands, of scientists have been let go from NIH/CDC/FDA
Sure, everyone under the sun is going to run in 2028—I get it.
We can walk and chew gum, but our NUMBER ONE PRIORITY must be taking back the House and Senate so we can IMPEACH and REMOVE that POS with the $400 million flying bribe —in 2026!
F the media and their love of 'horse race' coverage. Please, anyone who has influence, make them talk about the issues affecting Americans, proposed solutions and saving democracy!
If that really is their logic, then every taxpayer who doesn't have a child in school should get a tax break, right? We should all get a $7k credit because we aren't taxing the system. Clearly, it's a subsidy for religious schools.
Straw man much? Especially when Dem run cities are often attacking the housing problems by restricting vacation rentals so that units are used for long term housing.
@schatz.bsky.social@hirono.senate.gov@tokuda.house.gov - are you all aware of the beliefs our tech oligarchs have? This is a great 90 second summary. Please understand the danger these views present and help formulate a plan to prevent them from taking over our country.
Feel like I’m missing something about the political/factional pitch of abundance. If Texas is an example of a place where it’s easy to build and live, then why have decades of that being the case not turned the state blue? If anything it’s become a laboratory for the right’s most heinous policies
Having no state income taxes & few regulations, in general, has attracted a ton of libertarian money & people who want freedom for themselves - not necessarily for others. It's also heavily influenced by the petroleum / extraction industry. Sun is abundant yet solar power there isn't. Stupid.
I will say that it is funny that three positions that were the core of my youth: the current neoliberal trade regime is bad, the Iraq War is a monstrous mistake and George W Bush sucks, have now become right-wing canon.
I watched this whole thing happen w Bush! Hard to overstate the cult of personality around him! How brilliant and tough and wise he was! He turned out to be an incompetent disaster. But there was no moment of epiphany,no “wow we got that wrong” just a hard pivot (for most) into Donald Trump God King
That Republican ideology has brought us here. There's been no change. It's always been about power and money and lying to the masses. That's still the case, they have more media on their side now and the lies are harder to disprove because they've lost all trust in anything else but their media gods
One of the most insidious media messages is seen in the depiction of people wanting medical care (they paid for) in order to stay alive. Their desire to remain alive is depicted as a greedy form of "entitlement" & politicians' effort to end such "entitlements" is cast as a brave underdog cause.
A big concern is that this is the second meeting in a row where they have essentially said the big risk to our economy is stagflation...which the Fed isn't designed to fight! Their tools only work one way, so they'll have to pick the bigger challenge to fight & the rest is up to 47 and congress
Science is what allowed the US to become the pre-eminent economic powerhouse of the last century. Are we really abandoning that quest so that the richest 0.1% can have a reduced tax burden?
Here's an updated look at new awards from NSF. Comparison is between April/May of 2024 vs. this year. You can see the pause from 4/15–4/22, as well as the freeze started on 4/30. (Other flat areas are from weekends)
For folks saying,"Ignore the Pope thing! He wants to offend you! Don't you get it!" I have this rule I follow. I say what I think. I don't get into second order head games in which I think I'm outwitting someone else by strategically not saying what I think. Perhaps Im simple. But that's how I roll.
I'm not a fan of his, but sorry I'm not quite understanding the issue here. It appears that he is wearing his seatbelt and that it's not visible due to clothing. An extender will make the seat belt not tight. I've never been harassed for this. Could there be a political motive behind this?
So, Trump dropped charges against MS-13 leaders to send them back to El-Salvadore to prevent them from spilling the beans on a secret deal that Bukele had made with the gang. Oh, and Bukele's team freed them from prison in El Salvador. Sounds shady AF
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Write up the test he details and promise not to do it. But in exchange, ask for freedom to do other "fair" bowling ball tests...or ask for something big in return! Us his idiocy against him;)
Trump Offers a Private Dinner to Top 220 Investors of His Memecoin
The offer, which caused President Trump’s memecoin to surge in price, was his family’s latest effort to profit from cryptocurrencies.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/23/t...
The industry affects far more people than you, there are many others who haven't fared as well. The big question is for who's benefit? How is crypto making the world better?
I repeat, what problem does Crypto solve? Didn't say laundering. I was thinking more along the lines of rug pulls, outright theft, ridiculous promises of high interest payments without disclosing risks, and poor financial controls among crypto trading hubs. The US banking system is far more secure.
This paid Russian propagandist made hundreds of thousands from Russian sources and is now allowed to spread his (their?) narrative with questions to the White House. This is lunacy
www.cnn.com/2024/09/13/m...
Podcaster Tim Pool got the invite to the WH Press briefing in the “new media” seat, and his question is to ask Karoline Leavitt to comment on why everyone is being mean to the people in that seat for asking stupid questions.
More evidence that Elon is a terrible person and manager. These types of decisions won't help Tesla to greatness in the end. Its over-hyped valuation will fall eventually.
futurism.com/tesla-engine...
The only reason they lost all those things is because of Republican obstructionism preventing Democrats from actually passing measures that could help. Tell us Mark, what kind of messaging should Dems employ to get them to understand that?
Reading the article though, he doesn't specifically say we are in a "constitutional" crisis. He mentions all other ones. Out of curiosity and understanding, is there a reason he's not specifically verbalizing that? Or was it frustration only?
Check out this chart - it really puts the stock market crash in perspective. 90 days and Diaper Donnie has lost us about 1/3 of our stock market's value v. the rest of the world (not my creation)
I wonder if the results would be different if they preceded the questions with:
1. Given that the President was heard stating that he intends to send "homegrowns" to foreign prisons; and
2. He has ordered an investigation into the former head of CISA for saying the 2020 election wasn't stolen...
The New York Times has a history of enabling fascism. They ignored the Holocaust when it was happening. During that time, they ran 24,000 front page articles and something like 26 of them mentioned anything Holocaust related (1 out of 1000).
teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/silence...
NEW @npr.org EXCLUSIVE: A whistleblower tells Congress and NPR that DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data from the NLRB and hid its tracks.
It's possible that the data included sensitive info on unions, ongoing legal cases and corporate secrets.
A must-read from @jennamclaughlin.bsky.social:
Citizens United seemed to so narrowly define bribery and even the appearance of impropriety that I would say no. They said it has to be specific and explicit, here's X in exchange for Y.
I'm not a lawyer, just a very disappointed citizen.
A town hall for Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia on Tuesday quickly deteriorated into chaos, as police officers forcibly removed several protesters and subdued two of them with stun guns.
Read more: nyti.ms/42MLMZV
The DOGE team turned off multi-factor authentication and changed security settings to allow logins from outside the US. Within minutes of new logins being created, the logins, with correct passwords, were used to try to access the system from Russia. Evidence points to coordination, not ineptitude.
NEW @npr.org EXCLUSIVE: A whistleblower tells Congress and NPR that DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data from the NLRB and hid its tracks.
It's possible that the data included sensitive info on unions, ongoing legal cases and corporate secrets.
A must-read from @jennamclaughlin.bsky.social:
Many products sold in the U.S. are made in El Salvador. In response to the El Salvador president’s statements today, we’re calling for an immediate boycott of all Salvadoran-made goods. Please help by listing any products or brands made in El Salvador in the comments below.
