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“The Court gives the President a power unknown even to the English Crown against which the Founders revolted.” ~ Supreme Court Justice Sonya Sotomayor
What SCOTUS did today:
SCOTUS overturned Humphrey’s Executor, the 91-year-old precedent that protected independent agency heads from presidential firing. 6-3: the president can now fire the heads of ALL independent agencies at will. FTC, EEOC, NLRB, SEC, CFPB, CFTC, FCC, NRC, CPSC… every independent regulatory agency created by Congress since 1887 is now under direct presidential control.
Roberts: “If anything more is left of Humphrey’s, the Court overrules it.” Congress can still create agencies, but it can NO LONGER protect their independence from the president.
The ONLY exception: the Federal Reserve Board of Governors, protected 5-4 (Roberts joining the three liberals + one conservative) citing “our Nation’s tradition of central banking.” Lisa Cook stays, for now. But four justices would have let Trump fire her too. One retirement away from presidential control of the Fed.
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South Florida weatherman tells viewers he can't accurately predict hurricanes because of government cuts
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🚨 She *warned* us in just 3 minutes.
Federalizing the National Guard in California isn’t “normal.” It’s the first move.
Kamala Harris called it: Trump wants unchecked power and praised Hitler’s generals.
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This is devastating. A dedicated park ranger, fired overnight, left wondering how to support his family. Public servants shouldn’t be political casualties. Our national parks and the people who protect them deserve better. #ProtectPublicService #NationalParks
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Florida man (64-year-old Trump supporter) discovers he’s not here legally
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Here’s Vem Miller, the guy that tried to assassinate Trump at Coachella yesterday.
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Two German teenage girls were strip-searched, jailed and deported by ICE officials in Hawaii. Conditions described included sleeping on moldy mattresses, using rudimentary toilets, and being warned by guards to avoid expired food.
beatofhawaii.com/why-these-h… #Travel
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🚨 Trump’s Plan to Sell Off Public Lands 🚨
Trump just signed an executive order to create a Sovereign Wealth Fund — and he wants to pay for it by selling off America’s public lands.
This means:
🔴 National parks, forests, and wildlife areas could be sold to the highest bidder.
🔴 Rural communities lose tourism, hunting, and recreation income.
🔴 Private companies get control over public resources.
🔴 Environmental damage from unchecked exploitation.
This isn’t about paying down debt. It’s about privatizing public lands for profit.
Public lands belong to ALL Americans, not just the wealthy.
#NationalParks
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Ivanka Trump Is Now Under Criminal Investigation In New York politicususa.com/2021/05/19/…
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🚨 The 99-Page Republican Budget Just Dropped And It’s Brutal
House Republicans just unveiled their 99-page budget, and the numbers don’t lie, it’s packed with cuts that hurt everyday Americans. Here’s what’s getting slashed:
🔴 VA Healthcare ⬇️ $15 BILLION – Less funding for medical services & private care. Veterans get longer wait times. 🇺🇸
🔴 Rural Broadband ⬇️ $50 MILLION – Internet expansion for rural communities? Not a priority. 🚜
🔴 Food Assistance for Seniors ⬇️ $100 MILLION – Cuts to the Commodity Supplemental Food Program. Seniors struggling to eat? Too bad. 🥫
🔴 Medicaid Hospital Funding ⬇️ $8 BILLION – Payments to hospitals serving low-income patients delayed & reduced. Expect closures in rural & urban areas. 🏥
🔴 Affordable Housing ⬇️ $34 MILLION – Less rental assistance for low-income families, veterans, & seniors. Homelessness? On the rise. 🏠
🔴 Border Security ⬇️ No New Hiring – No extra Border Patrol funding. So much for “secure the border.” 🤷
🔴 Cybersecurity ⬇️ No Increase – No boost in funding to combat China, Russia, & North Korea’s cyberattacks. National security? Who needs it. 💻 🇺🇸
🔴 WIC (Women, Infants, & Children Program) ⬇️ $1.5 BILLION UNDER REQUESTED LEVELS – Nutritional aid for struggling mothers & kids—not a priority.
🔴 Flood Prevention & Disaster Relief ⬇️ $500 MILLION – Less funding to protect red states from floods & hurricanes. Florida, Texas, Louisiana… good luck. 🌊
The bottom line: These aren’t just numbers—they’re real people losing healthcare, housing, and security. And yet, some in Congress will brag about this budget.
Ask them: “Which of these cuts are you proud of?” 🤨
#Veterans #Farmers #AARP
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The #WomensMarch on Washington has sister marches in over 75 countries rawstory.com/2017/01/the-wom… #TheResistance
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This is Rep Mike Coffman. He is the first Republican member of Congress to officially call on the FCC to cancel their vote to repeal #netneutrality. Let's thank him. We have 24 hours to get more Republicans to join him. #TheResistance
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Meet The 106 House Republicans Who Think SCOTUS Should Overturn The Election For Trump politicususa.com/2020/12/10/…
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Someone fainted at Trump’s rally, a person in the crowd close to him urgently asked for water, and Trump nodded... then DRANK it himself?! 😬😳
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America in 2016. 3 siblings picking up their daily allowance of bottled water from the Fire Dept in Flint, MI
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🚨 30000 rural farmers facing bankruptcy from federal funding freeze
🌾 Nearly 30,000 farmers denied reimbursement.
💸 $1 trillion+ in congressionally approved funds frozen.
⚖️ Cities & nonprofits from across the country are suing, claiming the executive orders are unconstitutional.
Groups like Pasa, Agrarian Trust, and even cities like Columbus, Nashville, and San Diego are pushing back—hard. Why? Because grant freezes mean real people go under. Farmers go bankrupt. Local food systems collapse.
“This isn’t a shake-up. It’s a shakedown.”
– Hannah Smith-Brubaker, Pasa
Federal agencies can’t just ignore Congress because it’s politically convenient. This isn’t just about agriculture, it’s about how democracy functions.
Watch this case. It’s big.
#Farmers #Farming #AgPolicy
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Instant Classic Picture Catches Mitch McConnell Ignoring Jon Stewart In Senate Hallway j.mp/2XY5cvi
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Ah yes, because the local police department—who already struggles with understaffing and limited cybercrime training—is totally equipped to handle multi-billion-dollar international scam networks.
This wasn’t just about “giving a class,” it was about educating vulnerable populations on evolving fraud tactics directly from the people investigating them. But hey, why let facts get in the way of a bad take?
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The Orange Idiot giving the finger to other heads of state like a 4 year old child. #TheResistance
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Trump Removed Himself And Don Jr. From The Board Of His Social Media Company Just Before The Feds Arrived politicususa.com/2022/07/07/…
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Fewer police killed during Obama admin. than any president in our lifetime dailykos.com/story/2015/09/1… #p2 #tcot
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Tim Walz claps back at Elon Musk: “You cry over your stock, we cry over retirees losing Social Security. Guess which one matters more.”
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After Ranting For 16 Minutes About Biden Cognitive Decline, Sean Hannity Introduces Kellyanne Conway As Kellyanne Trump politicususa.com/2022/03/29/…
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Biden Masterfully Takes Down Peter Doocy And Fox News Misinformation politicususa.com/2022/03/28/…
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Man Killed by ICE After Spending 40 Years in the US, Working and Raising a Family
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𝗧𝗿𝘂𝗺𝗽’𝘀 𝗼𝗯𝘀𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝘁𝗮𝗿𝗶𝗳𝗳𝘀?
Turns out it started with a 𝗳𝗮𝗸𝗲 𝗺𝗲𝗺𝗼
from a 𝗳𝗮𝗸𝗲 𝗽𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗼𝗻
with a 𝗳𝗮𝗸𝗲 𝗲𝗺𝗮𝗶𝗹.
𝗥𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗹 𝗠𝗮𝗱𝗱𝗼𝘄 breaks down how economic policy got hijacked by bad fanfiction.
𝗕𝘂𝗰𝗸𝗹𝗲 𝘂𝗽. 𝗜𝘁’𝘀 𝗱𝘂𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝗻 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗸.
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CARROLL SCORES: Judge orders unsealing of Trump deposition in sexual assault case occupydemocrats.com/2023/01/…
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Rep. Jamie Raskin Obliterates Peter Navarro And Boldly Defends Democracy politicususa.com/2022/03/28/…
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#MerylStreep just decimated Donald Trump at the Golden Globes without even uttering his name
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Farmer silences oil and gas committee with invitation to drink water tainted by #fracking: rawstory.com/rs/2015/03/watc…
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Pelosi Calls Trump’s Bluff And Says The House Is Ready To Increase Stimulus Checks To $2,000 politicususa.com/2020/12/22/…
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Retweet if you think @realDonaldTrump should share his tax returns with us before he officially takes office on Jan. 20th
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Marco Rubio And Steve Daines Jeopardize Zelensky’s Life By Tweeting Screenshots From Meeting politicususa.com/2022/03/05/…
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‘Scary’: Stephen King frightened by Trump ‘living in a fantasy world’ — while he has the nuclear codes rawstory.com/2020/11/scary-s…
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How ironic, 50 yrs ago this couple would face the same type of intolerance they are so proudly championing #LGBT
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Biden Shows America What A Real President Who Gets Things Done Looks Like politicususa.com/2021/11/06/…
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House Democrats Could Refuse To Seat The 126 Republicans Who Are Trying To Overturn The Election politicususa.com/2020/12/11/…
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Oz Crudite Video Backfires And Raises $500,000 For John Fetterman In A Day politicususa.com/2022/08/16/…
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I don't care if these monstrous ICE raids are a "federal operation". This is authoritarian violence, plain and simple. Just because Stephen Miller has kidnapping quotas for brown people he doesn't want to see on the street doesn't mean we have to think it's okay.
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That chart is a scam. They took 2–3 rare trans cases, divided by a tiny population, and pretended it’s an epidemic. Reality: 98% of U.S. mass shooters are straight men—mostly white. If you need cooked math to blame trans folks, you’ve already lost.
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Rachel Maddow Rips The Mask Off Of Doug Mastriano’s Christian Nationalism politicususa.com/2022/07/25/…
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Marco Rubio Seems To Suggest Americans Don’t Need COVID Vaccine After He Got Vaccinated politicususa.com/2020/12/27/…
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White House Press Secretary Leavitt confirms that Elon Musk’s team is investigating SignalGate… because who better to secure national secrets than the guy who hosts Twitter spaces with Kremlin propagandists? 🙃
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Jim Acosta Tells Ron DeSantis To Send His Election Police Force Over To Mar-a-Lago politicususa.com/2022/01/22/…
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Elmo just killed the debt ceiling bill.
Federal employees? No paychecks.
Seniors on Social Security? Good luck.
Disabled Americans on assistance? Sorry!
Military families? Coal for Christmas.
But hey, at least the billionaires are doing fine. Vox Populi, Vox Dei, right? 🙃 #Muskonomics #ElonCrash #Veterans
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Check out this prescient and clip from Mark Cuban seven years ago. He called it way back then: Did Egypt Give Trump a $10 Million Bribe? The FBI Was Investigating, Then AG Barr Closed Case. democracynow.org/2024/8/5/tr…
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President Obama Called Trump A Racist, Sexist, Lunatic, Corrupt MFer According To New Book politicususa.com/2021/05/20/…
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DOGE just canceled emergency food deliveries to deep red Kansas: eggs, milk, chicken, turkey. Gone.
One in eight Kansans is food insecure. And now, food banks like #Harvesters will lose 30% of what they give families.
This isn’t “government efficiency.” It’s cruelty by spreadsheet.
And it hits hardest on working families, caregivers, the elderly, the people one flat tire away from crisis.
If you think this won’t reach your community, just wait.
#kansas #Farmers
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Rachel Maddow Shreds Rep. Barry Loudermilk And His Story On Leading Capitol Tours politicususa.com/2022/05/23/…
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Happy 57th Birthday President Obama!
Here's a photo of a young Barack Obama riding a tricycle, circa 1965 with a pretty wicked looking Pontiac Tempest in the background!
#ObamaDay
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Rachel Maddow Rips Donald Trump Jr. And The GOP For Celebrating Pelosi Attack politicususa.com/2022/10/31/…
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Sure, ‘cause UR local sheriff’s department totally has the resources, jurisdiction, and cybercrime expertise to track down an international scam ring operating out of a call center in India, Romania, or Nigeria. Totally.
But sure, let’s pretend a rural police department with a budget smaller than a McDonald’s payroll is going to single-handedly dismantle billion-dollar fraud networks. Maybe next they can take down the cartels while they’re at it?
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Wild how they scream about the debt, but instead of paying it down, they’re handing out tax cuts to billionaires while leaving regular folks with nothing. If they actually cared, they’d close loopholes, not cut veterans’ healthcare & food aid. But hey, gotta keep the yachts afloat, right? 🚢💰
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Even Newsmax Refuses To Cover Dinesh D’Souza’s 2000 Mules Movie politicususa.com/2022/05/09/…
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The 1/6 Committee Has Bombshell Evidence That Trump Was Ready To Declare A National Emergency To Stay In Power politicususa.com/2021/12/09/…
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Obama sits alone in a classroom rewriting his remarks before speaking at the memorial service for victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting. Taken 2 days after the shooting on Dec. 12, 2012
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Sen. Ron Johnson Was Just Implicated In The Fake Elector Plot politicususa.com/2022/06/21/…
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Cuban is spot on closing 47 SSA offices and cutting 12% of staff doesn’t “fight corruption,” it blocks access to benefits millions rely on.
💡 Key Facts:
📉 47 SSA offices closing—
mostly in rural & low-income areas.
🚨 60,000 staff reduced to 50,000 meaning longer wait times & delays in benefits processing.
📞 More phone & online-only services but millions of seniors don’t have internet access.
Not everyone can just “go online” to update their benefits. Many elderly, disabled, and low-income Americans rely on in-person assistance. These cuts make it harder for them to get what they already earned.
This isn’t about “efficiency” it’s a backdoor way to deny services to those who need them most. Cuban is asking the right questions: Who actually benefits from these closures?
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Airplanes full of women are flying into Washington, DC, to protest President Trump vox.com/identities/2017/1/20… #WomensMarch
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A Marabou Stork seeking shelter from #HurricaneMatthew in a St. Augustine, FL Alligator Farm restroom #photo via Imgur
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African Americans Outreach' Trump Edition': That One Time He Called For The Execution of 5 Innocent Men #p2
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Your weather forecast is about to get a lot worse. Do you realize how many thousands of balloons it takes to predict the weather? vox.com/climate/412458/weath…
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