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  • When Will Americans Realize the Truth? Republicans Wreck the Economy.

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  • We had a real chance to start building an economy that works for most people by building on top of the emergency anti-poverty measures COVID forced governments to put in place, but as soon as a Dem moved into the white house again Republicans all suddenly remembered they hate that stuff and Dems figured they'd get applauded for being "responsible" or some bullshit by doing exactly what they wanted (because that worked out so well for us when Obama did austerity, or when Clinton cut welfare, or etc.)

  • When Will Americans Realize the Truth? Republicans Wreck the Economy.

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  • Except household hunger measures started to improve in 2021 (arc) but then they reversed course and got worse every other year Biden was in office, in large part because he terminated enhanced UI and killed stimulus checks and a bunch of other pandemic aid that never should have ended. Americans didn't suffer under Biden because of COVID, it was intentional policy choices his administration made because they wanted to say things were "back to normal".

  • When Will Americans Realize the Truth? Republicans Wreck the Economy.

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  • Donald Trump inherited an economy from Joe Biden that was perhaps not firing on all cylinders but was in pretty good shape all the same.

    Meanwhile, in reality (arc)

    the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) released its Household Food Security in the United States report, assessing that 13.7 percent of U.S. households were food insecure in 2024, marking the highest prevalence of U.S. food insecurity in nearly a decade.

    Biden's "perhaps not firing on all cylinders" economy was crap for poor people. "But whatabout the Republicans" will get you 2-4 years in office to leave your constituency twisting in the wind while you tell them things are actually good, and then your campaigns will collapse just like Harris did and Republicans will win by default yet again.

    If you really want to break that cycle, we need better policies and we need to communicate the fact that we understand that Biden's economy was crap. Arguing with the voters that it was actually pretty good is just a ticket out of office.

  • Trump Administration Live Updates: $1.8 Billion Fund Could Funnel Money to Trump Allies

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  • Insane and outrageous attempted corruption, but if there isn't at least a lawsuit filed about this by the end of the day bringing this whole thing right back to the judicial scrutiny they're trying to worm out of I will be amazed

    Not that I have much more faith in federal courts than I do in the executive branch at this point, but hopefully the optics of this are too toxic for even them

  • ‘The party has sailed its ship’: ex-Republican runs as Democrat for Georgia governor’s seat

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  • Seriously, them and all their rich friends can go give fancy speeches about nothing and raise money for museums or animal shelters for retired dressage horses or some other rich weirdo thing and that actually would be doing public service in a more real way than they ever have before

  • ‘The party has sailed its ship’: ex-Republican runs as Democrat for Georgia governor’s seat

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  • Also, how about he considers what's best for the country? Like, what, I'm supposed to care if a bunch of Republican leaders end up unemployed? Worse things happen to better people all the time in the world they have built.

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    George Conway’s Campaign Platform, In Full: Trump Is Hitler In The Bunker And Must Be Impeached Before He Destroys The Country | George Conway on a podcast doing George Conway things.

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  • Trump is a symptom, not the cause. The underlying cause is a Republican party that abandoned political decency decades ago when they welcomed Dixecrats into their parties in the 1960s as a way of shoehorning unpopular anti-tax and deregulatory politics into a democratic political system that had rejected those things. It was a problem when John McCain was complaining about making MLK day a holiday, it was a problem when George HW ran the Willie Horton ad, it was a problem when Newt Gingrich was saying racist crap about welfare queens, it was a problem when George W Bush blamed 9/11 on Iraq because they were brown, and on and on.

    George Conway was a happy member of that party for most of his life and is only now recognizing the problems with what he built in the most superficial of ways. Ultimately he just represents a previous step on a path that was always inevitably going to end up here. The answer isn't trying to go back, it's about getting on a whole new path.

  • Can a Republican defy Donald Trump and survive? Kentucky voters will decide

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  • Masie is an idiot and an asshole who hasn't been at all effective in stopping Trump because at the end of the day in spite of his empty complaining about Trump he's still a crazy ass John Bircher who would rather have a fascist dictator than a moderate non-Republican president of any kind

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    As AIPAC Spends Millions to Oust Him, Massie Unveils Bill Requiring Pro-Israel Lobby to Register as Foreign Agent

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  • reasonable Republican

    The more people pretend this fiction is real the worse the country gets

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    As AIPAC Spends Millions to Oust Him, Massie Unveils Bill Requiring Pro-Israel Lobby to Register as Foreign Agent

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  • It's legislation written by a Republican, it's going to be full of loopholes and also somehow send a bunch of taxpayer money to one of his buddies

  • USDA Employees Sue Secretary Over ‘Christ Is Risen’ Email

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  • Yeah, unfortunately that probably is how it's going to go, but it will still be a good thing to see people who are alerting the public to religious bigotry in our government are well compensated

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    What we learned from the cringey courtroom drama between Elon Musk and Sam Altman

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  • I would vote for someone who promised to legalize duels again. Having roughly half as many bloated egos to deal with seems way more manageable.

  • TIL that reading scores have plummeted in school districts around the U.S.

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  • Only if there are no paywalls or surveillance crap on the articles posted there

  • It's caves all the way up.

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  • Fetterman frustrates Democrats with pro-Trump remarks on Fox News

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  • In a Wednesday appearance on Sean Hannity’s Fox News show, Fetterman [attempted to] cut into Democratic attacks on Trump’s remarks that he is not focused on the financial situations of Americans while negotiating with the Iranian government, arguing Trump’s comments were “clipped.”

    Fuck the Hill for making me add that, moving on,

    “He said something that got clipped … saying, ‘I’m not thinking about American people financially,’ but what he really was saying — he did say — is, ‘I’m really thinking that we can’t ever let Iran building a bomb,’” Fetterman told Hannity.

    A) He really did say "I don’t think about Americans’ financial situation." He did not ever say "I’m really thinking that we can’t etc." or any other more polished statement you wished he did say. B) If you're really so concerned about putting Trump's comments into full context, Trump said Iran's ability to build a bomb was already "totally obliterated" last year. But you're not, you're not even cherry picking stuff, you're just straight making shit up to make Trump look good because you're a scumbag like that.

  • USDA Employees Sue Secretary Over ‘Christ Is Risen’ Email

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  • Hey, if he wants to keep feeding evidence of their bigotry and hostility towards these employees so their attorneys can really ratchet those punitive damages up I say let him

  • Why Ben Shapiro’s Media Empire Is Collapsing

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  • In a better world this would be the reason, but he always was and never did and it didn't stop him from making an obscene amount of money off of his BS previously

  • Why Ben Shapiro’s Media Empire Is Collapsing

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  • From the ideology that gave us Jeff Sessions saying he liked the KKK until he found out they smoked weed, "I liked Israel until I found out they were Jewish" sounds about right

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    Americans overwhelmingly believe the cost of living, from groceries to housing, was lower under Biden

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  • I think I remember reading that the act of remembering something is neurologically indistinguishable from just straight up imagining something, but I might be making that up

    For real tho, everyone's memory is crap and most people won't/can't take the time to research things they think they remember

  • Labor leaders call collective bargaining veto a ‘betrayal’ by Virginia governor

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  • I mean,

    Union leaders say the veto is an about-face from promises she made on the campaign trail. In February, a month after entering office, the governor attended a rally in support of the bill held by the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), according to the Virginia Mercury.

    but yeah, their endorsement of her looks pretty silly now

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    In Washington Crackdown, Making a Federal Case Out of Low-Level Arrests

    www.nytimes.com /2025/08/24/us/politics/trump-dc-crime-takeover-federal-court.html
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    Opposition to Mid-Cycle Redistricting

    lwvc.org /opposition-mid-cycle-redistricting/
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    The Texas Democratic Walkout Is a Strong Opening Move

    jacobin.com /2025/08/texas-democrats-walkout-gerrymandering-redistricting
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    Democrats are ready to fight in the mud with Trump. It could get messy.

    www.msnbc.com /opinion/msnbc-opinion/trump-texas-redistricting-democrats-california-newsom-hochul-rcna223530
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    Democrats can’t gerrymander themselves out of their gerrymandering problem

    www.bostonglobe.com /2025/08/06/opinion/gerrymandering-democrats-house-districts/
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    Democrats in Southeast Virginia Endorse “Pro-Trump, Pro-ICE” Sheriff

    boltsmag.org /chesapeake-sheriff-election-democratic-endorsement-rosado/
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    Spanish broadcaster RNE breaks open RSS apps

    podnews.net /article/rne-blocks-open-rss
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    How Clinton and Obama helped build Trump’s mass deportation machine

    www.phoenixnewtimes.com /news/how-past-presidents-paved-road-for-trumps-mass-deportations-21896135
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    Senate Democrats Are Letting Trump’s Judicial Nominees Off the Hook

    ballsandstrikes.org /nominations/trump-judicial-nominees-senate-democrats-off-the-hook/
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    Medicaid keeps getting more popular as Republicans aim to cut it by $800 billion

    www.npr.org /sections/shots-health-news/2025/06/17/nx-s1-5435312/medicaid-cuts-big-beautiful-bill-trump-kff-poll
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    Judge Sides With NY City Council, Blocks Mayor From Allowing ICE Office on Rikers Island

    www.thecity.nyc /2025/06/13/judge-blocks-mayor-from-allowing-ice-on-rikers/
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    Justice Department's early moves on voting and elections signal a shift from its traditional role

    apnews.com /article/trump-justice-department-voting-elections-democrats-efa955a7785fdaddbf6d28956d1072ff
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    Broward County sheriff doesn’t want to focus on immigration crackdown. Attorney General Uthmeier says he must.

    floridaphoenix.com /2025/06/09/broward-county-sheriff-doesnt-want-to-focus-on-immigration-crackdown-uthmeier-says-he-must/
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    Eric Adams calls for broader protest mask ban in NYC after ‘No Kings’ march

    gothamist.com /news/mayor-adams-calls-for-broader-protest-mask-ban-after-no-kings-march
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    Federal Monitor Slams NYPD Unit Whose Aggressive Policing ProPublica Exposed

    www.propublica.org /article/nyc-nypd-police-community-response-team-stop-frisk
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    A North Carolina County Wanted New Court to Stem Its Opioid Crisis. Then Came Trump’s Cuts.

    www.themarshallproject.org /2025/06/17/north-carolina-recovery-court-trump-funding-cuts
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    How a city in Nebraska is recovering after the state's largest worksite immigration raid

    www.nbcnews.com /news/us-news/omaha-immigration-workplace-raid-aftermath-rcna212931
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    Trump officials reverse guidance exempting farms, hotels from immigration raids

    www.washingtonpost.com /immigration/2025/06/16/trump-farms-hotels-immigration-raids/
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    After El Paso joined Abbott’s border crackdown, the number of dead migrants in the New Mexico desert surged

    www.texastribune.org /2025/06/16/texas-operation-lone-star-border-el-paso-deaths-migrants-new-mexico/
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    Rep. Melissa Hortman, killed in targeted attack, was a champion for Minnesotan families

    19thnews.org /2025/06/rep-melissa-hortman-killed-in-targeted-attack-was-a-champion-for-minnesotan-families/