Massie goes full beast mode today. Gets on the house floor, shreds the DOJ and starts naming names from the Epstein files.
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The US immigrant population generated more in taxes than they received in benefits from all levels of government every year from 1994 to 2023. The Cato study provides the first-ever 30-year analysis of the fiscal effects of immigration on government budgets. https://ow.ly/jy8a50Y8kM3
Listen. No other words needed. #ChoosePeaceNotChaos
Now seems like a swell time to point out that Frontline just released this excellent 11-minute mini-documentary about what happened inside CECOT.
Surviving CECOT (full documentary) | Deported to a Maximum-Security Prison | FRONTLINE + ProPublica
YouTube video by FRONTLINE PBS | Official
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MAGAZINER: How many veterans have you deported? NOEM: We haven't deported veterans MAGAZINER: We are now joined on Zoom by a combat veteran you deported to Korea
Since Stephen Miller is in the midst of another of his Aryans-only trantrums, we should note that his family are 20th century immigrants from the shtetl of Antopol (Антопаль) then in the Hrodna gubernia of Russia. Applying his immigration rules, they would all have perished in the Holocaust.
Stephen Miller Is an Immigration Hypocrite. I Know Because I’m His Uncle.
If my nephew’s ideas on immigration had been in force a century ago, our family would have been wiped out.
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The U.S. government is now inarguably spreading medical disinformation that is going to kill babies preferentially. Period. This is an INTOLERABLE. UNPRECEDENTED. DANGEROUS. ATTACK. ON ALL OF US.
This relative advantage means that, even if they are relying on government programs like welfare or Medicaid, Trump supporters can see themselves as the "deserving" poor while disparaging others who are worse off than they are for being "lazy" and making "bad choices." 1/
Melody Schreiber@melodyschreiber.com · 10mo agoHere's what I wish people understood: Trump supporters in poorer areas are generally the wealthy people in those areas -- the people who have kept their neighbors poor.
Walmart, McDonalds and Amazon are the largest employers of people who require SNAP assistance. The CEOs earned between 18-40 million last year, 1000x their median employee income. They took billions in profits, while their workers relied on SNAP to survive. Wanna fix fraud and abuse? Fix that.
Last chance to turn it off. On Monday, November 3rd, Microsoft will start using your LinkedIn data for AI training. And remember, you're opted in by default. To toggle it off 👉 Account - Settings & Privacy > Data privacy > Data for Generative AI Improvement.
BREAKING from PP We found immigration agents have held more than 170 *citizens* The govt doesn't track citizens held. So we did. We tallied: Nearly 20 kids, two w/ cancer More than 20 citizens held for day or more, incommunicado www.propublica.org/article/immi... by @nicolefoy.bsky.social
More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.
The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...
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A terrific AFP fact check uses reverse image searches to expose how a White House video took scenes from Florida, Texas, South Carolina and Nebraska and lied that they showed "Chicago is in chaos." factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com....
Here's a montage of Trump talking about cutting Social Security and Medicare. It would be a shame if everybody shared this on Social Security's 90th birthday, today! #HandsOffOurSocialSecurity
The only crime I've been a victim of in Washington, DC, CAME AT THE HANDS OF A DONALD TRUMP SUPPORTER!!!
1/ How does a lie become “common sense” & eventually the law? Not by truth, but rather by coordination. Here’s how a fake claim goes from one think tank to local news, to churches, to Congress, to your uncle’s Facebook, until it feels like fact. #Voices4Victory #DemVoice1 #USDemocracy #ProudBlue
I just really need everybody to understand that everything that’s happening in and to the global economy now (and all the businesses and people in it) is the entirely predictable result of the intentional decisions of one guy who doesn’t understand how the global economy works.
Full clip of "Murphy To Secretary Of Homeland Security Kristi Noem: Your Department Is Out Of Control"
Murphy To Secretary Of Homeland Security Kristi Noem: Your Department Is Out Of Control
YouTube video by Senator Chris Murphy
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Another day of reminding everyone of Carl Sagan’s eerily accurate warning about the dangers of not being able to ask skeptical scientific questions to those in power or authority.
youtu.be/AREEE-jX3cs #sheldonwhitehouse May 5 | Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) takes to the Senate Floor to expose months of flat-out lies from Trump and Musk to degrade public confidence in Social Security.
Misinformation with a Motive: Whitehouse Reveals Trump's Plot to Wreck Social Security
YouTube video by Senator Sheldon Whitehouse
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‘This Is What We Were Always Scared of’: DOGE Is Building a Surveillance State www.nytimes.com/2025/04/30/o...
Opinion | Elon Musk’s Legacy: DOGE’s Construction of a Surveillance State
DOGE is rapidly assembling a sprawling monitoring system, the foundation of many authoritarian regimes.
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Watch this, and note how many of these errors were brought to light by the hard work of mainstream reporters, and how “outcry” from you led to reversals. The First Amendment is still at work. Don’t give up! Truth telling and protest remain our best hope.
Larry Tenney@larrytenney.bsky.social · last yr.Trump's First 100 Days: Oopsie! Maddow spends 15 minutes going nonstop through a litany of Trump•Musk•DOGE screw-ups and walk-backs 1/9 youtu.be/bFKxLJuJPZA?...
Good reporting here. Student paper gets what the bigs have missed. White House is actually threatening to defund all of bostons major hospitals www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
Trump Admin’s $9 Billion Review of Harvard’s Grants Could Hit Boston’s Hospitals Hardest | News | The Harvard Crimson
The Trump administration’s sweeping federal review of nearly $9 billion in multi-year research funding tied to Harvard has sparked uncertainty across the University — but the brunt of the planned cuts...
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“Coal in the US is now being economically outmatched by renewables to such an extent that it’s more expensive for 99% of the country’s coal-fired power plants to keep running than it is to build an entirely new solar or wind energy operation nearby, a new analysis has found.”
Governor Jay Inslee@govjayinslee.bsky.social · last yr.Reality is actually very uplifting. While Trump is afraid of anything even possibly good for our health, clean energy is now more economical than coal, and all Trump’s bombastic proclamations will not change this reality. Our states will continue this progress. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023...
Important for all of us but especially journalists.
David Slack@slack2thefuture.bsky.social · last yr.Kidnapping. Capturing a person against their will without due process is called kidnapping. Transporting them to another country without due process is called human trafficking. A squalid extrajudicial prison for people found guilty of no crime is called a concentration camp.
Do not normalize children dying from measles. Measles was previously eliminated in the US, thanks to vaccines. When children die from measles, it means that adults have catastrophically failed to protect them because they have rejected basic science.
A tricky thing about modern society is that no one has any idea when they don’t die. Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.
MMR vaccine doesn’t just prevent measles, mumps, and rubella. It also prevents RFK Jr. from showing up at your child’s funeral to exploit your grief at your most vulnerable moment.
You may be fearing your 401k is no longer enough for you to retire. But with all the cuts to NIH and Medicare you also won't live as long. So the policies are integrated.
