Instead of addressing violence & crime, Trump has closed the Office of Gun Violence Prevention, cut $300M for community violence interruption, and legalized the sale of devices that turn semi-automatic weapons into machine guns.
He has chosen the gun lobby over American families. #StateoftheUnion
Trump is lying.
Coffee is up 18.3%
Ground beef is up 17.2%
Cereal is up 6.2
Bananas are up 5.4%
Fish is up 5.1%
Cookies are up 5%
1) Violent crime is horrific and unacceptable no matter where it occurs.
2) DC's violent crime rate is at a 30-year low.
3) Presidents have no authority to unilaterally take control of DC. Congress would have to pass a law, and I won't let the current effort get that far.
Very important and disturbing point
Declaring a state of emergency when there isn't an actual emergency is authoritarianism 101.
A teenage 4channer was beat up by two 15 year olds in DC, which was spotted and quickly stopped by nearby police. He told his friends, the richest man in the world and the Vice President of the United States, that he was pummeled by a dozen adult Romanians. A week later, Trump federalized DC police.
Breaking News: Trump Speaks for One Hour Without Explaining Where U.S. Citizens Arrested in D.C. for Being Homeless Will Be Taken When He Puts Them in Custody and Sends Them "Far Away"
“A former FBI agent who was charged with encouraging the [Jan. 6] mob to kill police officers has been named as an adviser to the [DOJ] task force that President Trump established to seek retribution against his political enemies.”
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Long COVID is Now the Number One Chronic Illness in Children
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Donald Trump does NOT want you to share this footage of his pathetically tiny birthday parade crowd.
Showing your child affection improves their mental and physical well-being, increases brain development, and might even one day save the American taxpayers forty-five million dollars.
In May 1992, seven U.S. Marines joined two local police officers as they responded to a domestic violence call in the waning days of the Los Angeles riots. Deployed to the city alongside several thousand other federal troops after President George H. W. Bush invoked the Insurrection Act, these Marines now found themselves playing a role for which they had little training: that of civilian law enforcement officer. At the scene, as the police officers prepared to enter the home, someone inside fired a shotgun through the door. One of the officers shouted to the Marines, "Cover me" — a request, in law enforcement parlance, that they raise their weapons and be ready to fire if necessary. But the Marines, in accordance with their own training, took it as a request for suppressing fire. They riddled the home with more than 200 bullets. Miraculously, no one was killed.
Does anyone remember when the Marines were deployed to Los Angeles during the 1992 riots? In response to a domestic violence call, they fired more than 200 bullets into a house…
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On the left, residents cleaning up their streets.
On the right, federalized Guard arriving to quell "violent mobs."
You can see some holding their assault rifles.
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06...
really illustrates just what a pathetic bit of theater this is
there are simply not large scale riots going on, there’s a clusterfuck of an ICE operation that went badly in one place yesterday
if LA was full on rioting I promise everyone would know
I'm just glad one of these men has the nuclear codes and the other has all our personal data.
The Catholic Church is doing more to improve public health than the Dept of Health and Human Services
"A decision to pursue a career in public health is a noble and worthwhile decision. ...To do so especially right now is in and of itself an act of radical courage." Something hopeful from @pressley.house.gov, in the midst of so much destruction in Public Health. www.bu.edu/sph/news/art...
Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” would:
🩺 Strip Medicaid from 13.7M people
🥣 Cut SNAP by $300B
🏫 Deny aid to 5M college students
🎒 Funnel $20B into private school vouchers
All to fund tax breaks for the rich.
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THIS!!! 👇👇👇
Sounds like the wealthy consulting firm received more of Georgia's Medicaid money than the poor people it is supposed to help
The Library of Congress is a research library.
The Congressional Research Service researches for Congress.
Scholars & researchers apply for passes to research.
NO children’s section.
Even the general public has very limited access.
Father Nathan Monk posted on Facebook a message. This is a screenshot of the message, which says, "You are about to watch the whole world respect a chosen name. It's that easy."
It really is this simple.
#TransRightsAreHumanRights
Cory Booker has broken Strom Thurmond’s record. “I’m here despite his speech,” Booker said.
Keep going @booker.senate.gov !!!
This is the latest person decreed by Marco Rubio to be a foreign policy threat and thus now subject to deportation:
JUST IN: Citibank reveals in a court filing that it has been asked to freeze funds for a Biden-era climate program by:
-The FBI
-The EPA administrator
-The EPA IG
-Treasury
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Only 5 of the agency’s civil rights offices remain nationwide. Those who are still with the department say it will now be “virtually impossible” to resolve discrimination complaints.
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1. Finally some fight.
"Have you no decency!?" asked Rep. Keating after a Republican rep called Sarah McBride "Mr. McBride" repeatedly.
McBride shot back, calling the chairman "Madam Chairman."
Fireworks erupted, Dems protested, and the hearing was cancelled.
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What he said about Social Security payments has been repeatedly debunked - so the question isn’t whether he’s lying about this, the question is why.
What is this a pretext for? He and the GOP have long shown interest in going after Social Security. What are they going to try?
Turns out Zelenskyy is good at standing up against dictators.
