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Last year Trump slashed funds for healthcare & food programs. Now he's spending $1 BILLION PER DAY on his war of choice in Iran.

While millions here at home can't afford their basic needs, Trump is spending billions on a regime change war that's making us less safe.

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A Distric Court judge has ruled that Kari Lake was not legally in charge of the US Agency for Global Media, and that actions she took while claiming to be in that role are also not legal, including her attempts to fire people

There's something deeply obscene and broken about the fact that Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth are bombing elementary schools in an illegal war of aggression, and there's still a sense among the opposition that it has to be explained in terms of gas prices in order to get American voters to care.

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It’s great that the Trump Administration is saying the Iran War is about seizing their oil and also a Christian effort to trigger the End Times and confirming the worst fears of every person in the region.

So according to the WSJ a US Senator conspired with another country to manipulate the US into starting a war, am I getting this right

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“No stupid rules of engagement”

This is a war for Christian nationalism.

“Some people will die. Who knows, maybe even you.”

oh hey look more proof positive that the best response to a trump lawsuit is “fuck you, make me.” hope everyone who gave in without a fight feels like the utter rubes they are.

Calling AI "slop" has been one of the most effective instances of the public rebranding a product and it pisses them off.

tomorrow is with one of the biggest election days of the year. there's so much to go over it's hard to know where to start.

so, let me help:

here are the *10* elections i'm watching the most closely, *at the state and local level* (=no federal elections included!)

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Hillary Clinton email server update:

I made this point in class the other day. Until Congress changes the name, it's the Department of Defense. It's not hard.

Pete Hegseth can call it whatever he wants. Uncle Drunky's Funtown or the He-Man Warfighters Secret Clubhouse or whatever. No one else should feel the need to follow him.

Getting Tucci instead of Trump is a hell of a trade

My team and I have been anticipating this for months. It is unconstitutional and illegal.

The media should note: Last time he issued an EO about voting, we sued and won. If Trump issues such an order we will sue again and we will win again.

BREAKING: Protests have erupted at Columbia University after the school says DHS agents detained a student after making "misrepresentations to gain entry" to building.

'O’clock’ is a contraction of "of the clock."

‘Clock’ comes from the Medieval Latin ‘clocca,’ which meant “bell.”

Church towers would ring bells to mark the passing hours.

‘Cloak’ also comes from ‘clocca’ as the garment takes a bell-like shape around the body.

Measles in South Carolina. Mumps in California and Maryland. Tuberculosis in Seattle.

Have we *noticed* you ask?

The American people are struggling under an affordability crisis.

But Donald Trump and Republicans are doing nothing to lower prices.

That's the real state of the union — no amount of lies or gaslighting can change that.

Charlie Kirk repeatedly pushed the white supremacist Great Replacement Theory and regularly made racist comments in his public statements.

If we can't call someone so explicitly racist "a racist" without getting fired, who else is off limits?

Donald Trump? Nick Fuentes? David Duke?

Again, I know it feels good to send a donation to someone who is finally going to send Mitch McConnell or Lindsey Graham packing, but you're going to see a *lot* more bang for your buck with less exciting but much more meaningful state legislative races.

This is a great way to do that:

I enjoy having an American Pope.

Particularly right now.

Judge Goodwin: "An anonymous government is no government at all. It cannot be held accountable. A masked agent freely uses force without justifying his actions, and the public cannot name him to challenge his conduct. A regime of secret policing has no place in our society."

Interestingly, this was a question asked by Judge Tunheim in the refugee case hearing in Minnesota.

I hope John Roberts signed all his mortgage paperwork correctly

Large banner of Trump unfurled at Justice Department headquarters The DOJ has traditionally operated with a degree of separation from the White House to prevent the department's powers from being abused for political purposes.

“I will scale the building myself to tear that shit down in three years," says a former J6 prosecutor. www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

Opinion | The Embarrassing Truth About Tariffs Why is Trump so upset about Federal Reserve economic research into his trade policies?

WSJ editorial: If your tariff policy is so unpopular that you have to bully the central bank into not talking about it, maybe it’s time for a new policy. www.wsj.com/opinion/kevi...