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In effect what corporate agribusiness has been asking of Iowa citizens for the past ~40 years

I'm not naive enough to actually believe this will happen, but Democrats could be preparing, right now, lists of impeachment charges against (at a bare minimum) Hegseth, Kennedy, Mullin, Patel, Blanche, & Trump, as well as Bondi, Bovino, & Noem (still worth doing!) that rely purely on public facts,

“Guys, they want us to go home.” 🔥 🇫🇷 French short film about what would happen to society if all the immigrants listened to angry old racist white men and left (aka the Republican agenda)

If Dems go on offense against MAGA, you can capture the media news cycle and attention economy. Or, you can spend your time attacking the left.

@adamkinzinger.substack.com Your opinion on Iran? Did Iran pose an existential threat to US? Was this exaggeration? Iran's actual capabilities... haven't attacked beyond the middle east. No cyber attacks on US infrastructure. Seems like they were a convenient boogieman.

“We’ve got a party that is fighting for fraud and a party that is fighting against fraud." — JD Vance

Larry Ellison gave $45M to support Trump's reelection in 2024. In return, Trump has given Ellison free rein to build more AI data centers and helped him gobble up companies like Paramount, WBD, and TikTok for his business empire. This is what oligarchy looks like.

Did DoD just admit in a court filing that it used xAI's Grok Gov Model to hit the girls' school on the first day of the Iran war? Based on some passages flagged by @rgoodlaw.bsky.social in DoD's recent filing in NAACP's case against X, it looks like it did 1/

“[I]f Democrats never draw a hard-line against the bad faith of their opposition, they will resign themselves to governing under the current rules, fully rigged for the GOP.” @brianbeutler.bsky.social

Terrorist and former "people's governor of Donbas," Pavel Gubarev, confirmed that the so-called "uprising" in Ukraine's Donbas in 2014 was entirely funded and coordinated by Moscow and carried out with Russia's military involvement.

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DOGE said it was cutting government waste. So they gutted USAID — the agency that feeds starving people around the world. Meanwhile the Pentagon spent millions on lobster, ribeye, and even a $98,000 piano. open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...

I'm just amused that Davos is the new UN, and that world leaders give back-to-back speeches like it's General Assembly week. Almost like capital rules the world order or something

For any other public official, this would be criminal www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Her father faced bribery charges. She donated $2.5M to a pro-Trump Super PAC. Trump's Justice Department gave her father a lenient deal, overruling prosecutors. She gave another $1M. Now Trump has pardoned her dad. @kenvogel.bsky.social @susannecraignyt.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/01/16/u...

One of the more frustrating things about 2025 is that our society allocated $205B in wealth—nearly the combined salaries of all 2.9M civilian federal employees—to the guy who spent a few months wreaking havoc on said workforce while federal spending rose $300B anyway.

@mehdirhasan.bsky.social Can you enlighten me please. Is/has Hamas engaged Israeli forces in building to building combat? Are their numbers degraded? We don't hear much from the combat zone aside from bombing, shelling and bulldozing of buildings. Are they hiding and waiting it out?

Letting the health care tax credits expire would devastate American families — and we’re making that crystal clear by giving you the data. We’ve built graphics showing how much costs would rise in every GOP district. Let’s start with Mike Johnson (R-LA):

What the Democrats need least right now? A new think tank funded by billionaires. Some thoughts... https://robertreich.substack.com/p/what-the-democrats-need-least-a-new

1. A day after the Michigan church shooting, Republicans are silent after learning the shooter was a MAGA extremist. No investigations of Trump supporters as terrorists. No national conversations about the rights of cisgender men. The silence is deafening. Subscribe to support our journalism.

Trump’s increasingly bizarre behavior can no longer be attributed to a calculated “strategy.” Why isn’t the media reporting on Trump’s growing dementia? https://robertreich.substack.com/p/why-isnt-the-media-reporting-on-trumps-d1e

@kenwhite.bsky.social Nice work Ken! www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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How many orders of magnitude worse is Trump’s corruption than various Hunter Biden claims the right said justified his father’s impeachment: An investigation www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/ano...

Just gonna drop this here tonight wapo.st/3VKVNT2

Hiring practices at major meatpackers reshaped the demographics of middle America — and, in turn, gave rise to the nativism that produced the Trump era. @thefern.org

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CBO estimates that the reconciliation law will increase the number of uninsured by 10M in 2034. This number would rise to over 14M if enhanced premium tax credits for ACA Marketplace enrollees expire later this year: https://on.kff.org/3JiDnGB

holy shit this is a helluva ad from the Democrat running against Joni Ernst in Iowa. worth every second

@johnsides.bsky.social This editorial breaks my heart. Have you any thoughts about why working class voters in Texas continue to support Republican candidates when Republicans have been in charge of the state since 1995? www.nytimes.com/2025/08/12/o...

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Litman: The irony of this just spillth over—because the Biden administration was subject to nationwide injunction after nationwide injunction in cases that didn’t warrant it. And they asked the Supreme Court, “Guys, can you do something about this?” The Republican justices declined to do so.

I'm going to try and communicate with my Republican colleagues in a new way.

So video of this 2012 interview is popping up on other sites. Feels super relevant at the moment. Wait for the moment Rubio gets pinned to the wall about his grandfather’s deportation order… (h/t @reuben_reyñoso)

The only reason Republicans have a reputation as "fiscal hawks" is that the press refuses to tell the public basic facts about what they do when they are in office.

Los Angeles Unified School District Superintendent Alberto M. Carvalho didn't hold back when expressing his anger and "contempt" after agents with Homeland Security attempted to gain access to two elementary schools earlier this week.

But why defund schools? To curate failure — to say that public schools are broken and public school teachers are inept all in a push to privatize public schools. To dumb down the populace. To demonize a system that educates over 90% of kids in this state… open.substack.com/pub/jesspipe...

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The MAHA Report cites studies that don’t exist. W/ @emilykennard.bsky.social: www.notus.org/health-scien...

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/26/u... I put my confidence in Jesus and he’s going to take care of us,” This is where we're at in the "conservative heartland". Republicans say federal govt can't be trusted. Take care of it yourselves while you pay taxes and they make sure the rich don't!

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seems kinda bad that the House GOP is ordering half a trillion in cuts to Medicare now? Not Medicaid but Medicare. Is that bad?

Did you know that $100M in food aid is rotting in warehouses that could feed the entire population of Gaza for a month and half, but a 28-year-old at DOGE is holding it hostage? www.reuters.com/world/us-aid...