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This is your periodic reminder that Democrats introduced legislation in 2021 to ban gerrymandering nationwide and every republican voted against it except two who were absent.

Over 2 million people across Italy have rallied in more than 100 cities for a one-day general strike.

Luckily, Sinclair has a helpful database of all their stations, so you can see if they're operating in your area and respond accordingly. sbgi.net/tv-stations/

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This is an enormous restructuring of our nation and what it stands for. Beyond our ability to fathom….

It’s a purple-first kind of day! 💜. IYKYK

By closing the de minimus loophole it’s going to be more obvious that it is consumers who pay the tariffs. Let’s see how this goes. TheWorld.org: theworld.org/segments/202...

This.

“Filling a crypto reserve would effectively represent a huge transfer of wealth from taxpayers,” writes James Surowiecki. In other words, “a handout for crypto holders”:

Interesting that Musk shows more respect, in terms of his dressing, when he is with the Chinese government than with the American government, but MAGA doesn’t care.

We have reached out to the company who was awarded this contract and they have confirmed the ceiling was $8 million—NOT billion. Here is their statement. The federal government is cooking the books.

Here's important news story 112 of the day 🥴😫

It’s always the people who complain the most that have the most to hide.

Whole Foods, which is owned by notorious union-buster Amazon, is arguing that Trump's dismantling of the NLRB means the company doesn't have to recognize a newly unionized store in Philadelphia. Looks like Jeff Bezos's investment in Trump is paying off.

is it woke to want to end cancer?

This is hilarious. I especially like the annexation of Green Bay and the mystery Mississippi River announcement.

As a pilot that uses the ATC system on a daily basis, I can tell you Trump is thoroughly full of shit. It's always about money with Trump. Who's going to get the massive contracts to fix something that's not broken?

Around 35% of SpaceX’s revenue comes directly from the federal govt. Less than 1% of NPR’s budget comes from the federal govt.

While we are waiting for the Democratic “resistance “ to form the rest of us can vote with our wallets to defund Musk: No X No Tesla No SpaceX No Starlink No Boring company #defundmusk

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Any news outlet reporting Mexico conceded anything to Trump to get him to delay tariffs has not done its homework. Trump boasts he got Mexico to commit to stationing 10K troops at our border. Apparently he didn't realize Mexico already has 15K troops deployed there prami.ibero.mx/informes-y-i...

Rubio can’t just proclaim that he’s acting head of USAID, and say he’ll merge it with State. This is not his decision., right. Only congress has that power, right? Anyone??

One of my party facts is that according to polls, Americans believe foreign aid is about 25% of the federal budget and on average that it *should* be about 10%. The actual number is less than 1%. Foreign aid has long been a boogey man of the right, so it's not surprising they're vilifying it now.

I’m guessing it won’t include SpaceX.

The FBI’s core values, including integrity, compassion, fairness, and allegiance to the Constitution - and oh, yeah, diversity, are being painted over at the FBI Academy. Source: NYT.

Over on the other site Elon Musk said that DOGE stopped $50M of condoms from being delivered to Gaza which Trump the repeated several times but it turns out that was the number for all contraceptive support from USAID everywhere on Earth, of which none went to Palestinians.

To review, the FAA administrator was forced out because of a business vendetta of Elon Musk’s, Trump froze the hiring of new ATCs despite staff shortages, Musk launched an underhanded attempt to hollow out the whole federal workforce, and then the first US airliner crashed in 16 years.

One line of bullshit that Trump is getting away with: "Oh, they're just assessing programs, all new Admins do." Even ignoring that, no, they don't all do that, this is the Project 2025 Hit the Ground Running implementation. They've been "assessing programs" for two years.

Well, went back on TikTok, got an ad for a bible. I think I’m out.

With TikTok, meta, corporate media, and Twitter controlled by Trump, I feel like we’re throwing sticks at a tank.

Trying to cancel a flight in Copa Airlines and getting charged $300 when I bought a refundable ticket. Anyone else experienced this? No way to do it online. When I asked where to find this policy, the guy told to google it. So mad 😡 #travel

“even after four years as president, Trump has virtually no grasp on any policy issue beyond empty talking points, most of which are lies.” www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-time...

The Trump crowd wants to kill FDIC, install tariffs *and* bring back polio? I guess all this time the magical past of American Greatness they’ve been aiming for has been the banner year of 1930. Can’t wait for the soup lines! Wheee!