Zelensky said more Patriots were used in 3 days fighting Iran than used by Ukraine since 2022. Imagine how much Ukrainian energy infrastructure—and how many Ukrainian civilians—might have survived the winter if Trump had sent more Patriots to Ukraine rather than to a “war of whim.” wapo.st/4ui9QzJ
I’m sure Trump will figure it out.
Sen. Booker’s centerpiece proposal is a very costly expansion of the standard deduction that flows high up the income scale, but also includes critical provisions for supporting low-income families w/ kids and people working for very low pay, as well as sound offsets. x.com/DavidABergst...
I served 3 combat tours over our 20 years of war in the Middle East. Trump had an entire SOTU address to make the case for going to war in Iran. He did not.
Congress is absent, & for years, it has ceded its war making powers. Now, Trump has started another foreign war.
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I am sure JD Vance will resign in protest, right?
The strikes on Iran are blatantly illegal. I explained in June why the strikes on Iran's nuclear facilities were unlawful under US and international law. Everything I wrote then is true today, but this is a far larger assault with far graver consequences.
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Trump wants to use Anthropic's AI to spy on American citizens and to direct robotic warfare without human judgments. Anthropic says the use must be consistent with law. Trump then announces that he will destroy Anthropic. More evidence that Trump's America is not a rule-of-law state.
Please read this article to the end. Even before ICE got involved, this started because this *blind man who speaks no English and uses a curtain rod as a walking stick* got lost on a walk and some Karen called the police on him and they tasered and beat him bc he didn’t drop the rod. WTF
A serious effort to detect fraud against Medicaid would not dump data online with no context.
CMS itself indicates elsewhere on their website that in 22 states the underlying data that was dumped by the Trump Administration was “unusable” or of “high concern”.
One major concern about the recent CMS release of #Medicaid provider-level data is it's intended to invite false fraud claims against certain providers especially targeting by race/ethnicity or those in politically disfavored states. Trump Admin is already trying to withhold Medicaid $ from MN & CA.
No, the OBBBA did not "lift people off food stamps."
Aliya Rahman, woman who was dragged out of car by ICE in Minneapolis: "I've spent the last month learning the names of the tendons in my shoulder, because both of my shoulders are torn -- cartilage and tendons. But what I haven't learned is the names of the people who did this to me."
Dr. Casey Means, a prominent voice in the “Make America Healthy Again” movement, is facing sharp questions from senators in a bid to become the nation’s top doctor. https://cnn.it/4qZlYme
The president says he wants to protect Medicaid but the Congressional Budget Office scored the One Big Beautiful Bill at $990 billion in #Medicaid cuts and 7.5 million people losing coverage #sotu
The president said he would "protect Medicaid." But the One Big Beautiful Bill Act cut Medicaid by almost $1 trillion in 2025. #SOTU2026 #SOTU
The House Agriculture Committee's farm bill proposal fails to address the unfolding hunger crisis as the Republican megabill (H.R. 1)’s unprecedented #SNAP cuts go into effect. But the bill also falls short in other important ways. Let’s dig into some examples. 🧵
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This is an important piece. Epstein was a consummate social climber and courted academics as a way of building social clout. Brockman and “the edge” illuminate just how that worked.
Musk advocates white monoculturalism
We must speak plainly about the agenda Elon Musk & other MAGA leaders are pushing. It’s white nationalism.
There’s no room for Black, Hispanic/Latino, Asian, Native, Jewish or all other Americans in Musk’s monocultural vision.
Multiculturalism is superior. We can’t allow Musk & others to end it.
When the MAGA standard is “I don’t care if the numbers aren’t precisely right,” you’re telling every future strongman that all they have to do is lie with a smile. This is how a party becomes a personality cult and how authoritarianism takes over.
“The bigger worry is what will be left to reclaim of the Justice Department once Bondi and Trump are done.” Corruption at MAGA DOJ is epidemic.
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Tillis: "I think the president has some advisers around him -- you've heard me talk about Stephen Miller, you know my opinion about Kristi Noem -- these are people that don't look around corners and are not taking care of this president's legacy. And I intend to."
When the U.S. House passed the SAVE Act last year, historians told us it was Congress’ worst attack on voting rights ever. Well, this week the House approved an even worse one. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Actor Wagner Moura on the idea that truth is over, killing someone twice, and the horrors of the Trump regime.
This is what ICE does every day. Hunt little kids who are here legally. They get sent to a place called the “baby jail” in Texas. Very little of it ends up on video like this. But it’s routine. And disgusting.
Are we great yet? Our children are running terrorized because armed deadly agents of the state are chasing them and terrorizing them. This is modern day slave catcher mentality. This is not freedom. This is fascism. This must be abolished. Abolish ICE. Period.
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@ezraklein.bsky.social writes about the "class solidarity" of the Epstein class & @anandwrites.bsky.social says modern courage is taking them on & being willing to burn the bridge.
Rep. Massie & I are fighting to hold the Epstein class accountable.
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ICE has now spent over half a BILLION dollars just on purchasing warehouses around the country to convert into detention camps.
If these mega-camps are utilized to the full capacity ICE intends, they'll be the largest prisons in the country, with little real oversight. www.ajc.com/politics/202...
Crockett: "The US is falling apart, partially bc he's allowing for killings in the street, but also bc we have a 34 count convicted felon being shielded from any type of accountability as it relates to a child sex trafficking ring. I don't understand why we're pretending any of this is normal."
The Arc's new toolkit helps state advocates protect people with disabilities from losing #Medicaid through work requirements thearc.resourcespace.com/pages/downlo...
