MAGA extremist Congressman Tom Tiffany has voted to make your healthcare more expensive for over a decade. https://www.wausaudailyherald.com/story/opinion/2014/08/28/tiffany-accepting-medicaid-funds-wrong/14754605/

Tiffany: Why accepting Medicaid funds is wrong

We need to think not just about the next election but the next generation.

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I gotta say, Jon Ossoff is getting more negative press for noting that Trump enjoys traveling with the one aide who (as he's remarked) actually cares deeply about him—a fact Trump wouldn't even deny—than Trump has ever gotten for calling for his political opponents to be executed

Democrats always clean shite up

Hoodlum 🇺🇸@nothoodlum.bsky.social · 16h ago

Just posting this because, as of yesterday, the US national debt surpassed $40 trillion for the first time. The GOP: the party of fiscal responsibility. 🥴

Wrecking a 73-to-1 investment and sending the bill to fishermen, farmers, and families. Just crazy. www.forbes.com/sites/alanoh...

DOGE Broke America’s Weather Machine. Now Fishermen, Insurers And Farmers Are Paying For It

Elon Musk’s DOGE gutted staffing and budgets at NOAA and the National Weather Service early last year. It left fishing fleets, farmers and insurers exposed to the fallout

forbes.com

NOAA launches the weather balloons, floats the ocean buoys, flies the satellites, and staffs the forecasters that tell us when storms are coming. That data supports about two-thirds of the economy, roughly $1.3 trillion a year, and it paid us back $73 for every dollar we spent on it.

Wisconsin Republicans are trying to give the Dem governor nominee a nickname alleging he’s for data centers. But the GOP elite knows which side they’re on. Hope Dem leaders figure out where they better be, SOON.

Matthew Gertz@mattgertz.bsky.social · yesterday

Just hours after this Axios story was published, Fox & Friends ran a segment seeking to negatively polarize viewers against data center opposition by portraying it as a “culture war” position favored by the “far left.” www.mediamatters.org/artificial-i...

A Texas program has poured billions into cancer research. Ken Paxton voted against it.

A Texas program has poured billions into cancer research. Ken Paxton voted against It.

And it wasn't the only anti-cancer initiative he opposed.

motherjones.com

The most severe paywalls in the USA are newspapers that deliver the essential information required for a democracy to function. This isn't working. There must be a better model. We need facts, but the free press is now a private country club.

NEW: Teen boys are using smart glasses — mainly Meta's AI Glasses — to film themselves harassing classmates at school, following girls around and "rizzing" them or "ragebaiting" them w/ insults. In several videos we reviewed, girls plead w/ the poster to stop filming. futurism.com/artificial-i...

Teen Boys Are Using Meta Glasses to Harass and Bully Girls at High Schools and Middle Schools

Teen boys are using Meta's AI glasses to harass and bully victims -- overwhelmingly girls -- at middle schools and high schools.

futurism.com

⚠️ The Trump administration has deleted or altered nearly 400 federal datasets. Health data appears to be the most affected by the administration’s attempt to wipe findings that don’t align with its priorities.

Trump 2.0 has deleted or altered nearly 400 US datasets, endangering public health, education and more

Health data appears to be most affected by administration’s attempt to wipe findings that don’t align with its priorities, tracker shows

theguardian.com

Trump-endorsed senate candidate Darlene Graham: “There’s 50 million people in SC.” The population of SC is 5.5 million.

106 years ago today, the 19th Amendment was ratified, guaranteeing women's right to vote—a historic step forward in the ongoing pursuit of fulfilling our nation’s founding ideals. We will fight for equity at the ballot box until the right to vote is protected for all Americans.

This article notes two different faculty members have responded to Texas Tech's program of conservative correctness by taking jobs at other colleges. These crackdowns reduce the quality of education and drive good faculty away. If I were a TTU alum, I'd be furious at the devaluing of my degree.

Todd Moye@moye.bsky.social · 2d ago

Some are indeed saying this.

David Crowley, building a Wisconsin that works for all of us.

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com President Trump often boasts about the “greatest economy we’ve ever had.” His record says otherwise. These 11 charts highlight his unkept promises on gas prices, housing costs and more.

Opinion | Trump’s Economic Record Doesn’t Come Close to His Campaign Promises

The president likes to boast about the “greatest economy we’ve ever had.” His record falls far short.

nyti.ms

A top Democrat wants answers about how the Trump administration stripped millions from Ivy League schools being investigated for antisemitism – before the probes had even concluded. Read more from Ken Dilanian:

Whistleblower says probes into antisemitism at colleges were ploys to harass and strip millions

A former Justice Department lawyer says the Trump investigations squeezed Ivy League universities for millions before they were even concluded. A top Democrat is demanding answers.

bit.ly

I’m just a small-town international relations professor, but I think it should be a huge, presidency-ending scandal that the President of the 🇺🇸 regularly violates the UN Charter by threatening the territorial conquest of other UN member-states & our NATO treaty allies: www.un.org/en/about-us/...

Eric Columbus@ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 2d ago

Places Trump has talked/posted about acquiring for the U.S. since returning to the presidency: Canada Cuba Gaza Greenland Panama Canal Strait of Hormuz Venezuela

Last year, Republicans slashed $1 trillion from Medicaid while giving the top 1% a $1 trillion tax cut. It’s shameful. In 77 days, we will vote them out.

Trump Administration Moves Closer to Pacific Seabed Mining Lease Sale gcaptain.com/trump-admini... Instead of doing this, we should simply not do this.

Trump Administration Moves Closer to Pacific Seabed Mining Lease Sale

The Trump administration is moving closer to a potential offshore critical minerals lease sale near the Northern Mariana Islands, advancing another piece of its broader effort to develop seabed…

gcaptain.com

An endless daily stream of news stories detailing new deals between the fossil fuel industry and the tech industry. If you are one of the people still insisting that "data centres help the energy transition" or "AI will solve climate change", you have formally run out of excuses or defences.

Americans are no longer buying what Trump is selling. Support slips to 33%.

Massive Trump merchandise store goes out of business - because nobody is shopping

‘We’re not busy anymore,’ one employee of the Trump store admitted

independent.co.uk

The national debt is expected to hit a milestone as soon as this week, crossing a major threshold of $40 trillion. https://to.pbs.org/4ifsapr

National debt nears $40 trillion: How we got here and why it matters

The national debt is expected to hit a record high as soon as this week, crossing a major threshold of $40 trillion. Congressional correspondent Lisa Desjardins explains why that milestone is a warnin...

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California’s new tire efficiency rules could save drivers $1B a year

California’s new tire efficiency rules could save drivers $1B a year

The nation’s first tire efficiency standards target an overlooked drag on fuel economy that can cost drivers more at the pump.

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It would be nice to have a Secretary of State

Again, I invite you to consider the National Conversation™️ we would be having if Hunter Biden were openly monetizing the presidency on behalf of his father’s businesses & conducting diplomacy for the US government in place of Anthony Blinken.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3d ago

It would be nice to have a Secretary of State

I have a question. Do they “teach” the 10 Commandments? And starting in what grade? Like with Flash Cards defining: graven images, adultery, false witness, and what coveting thy neighbor’s manservant, etc. all mean

SCOTUSblog@scotusblog.com · 3d ago

Texas families ask Supreme Court to take up challenge to Ten Commandments in schools

ICE is now arresting people outside church food banks in Austin. Let that sink in. Families going to get the basics, handcuffed and detained. Know your rights and look out for your neighbors.

Tom Tiffany thinks affordability is a buzzword.

Mining executives bought stock in their own firm days before Trump shrank Bears Ears

Mining executives bought stock in their own firm days before Trump shrank Bears Ears

House Democrats have opened an investigation for insider trading.

dlvr.it

As Trump condemned Colorado for incarcerating election denier Tina Peters, the White House organized an urgent "brainstorm call" with federal agencies — to explore ways to curtail federal support to Colorado. The next day, agencies canceled hundreds of millions of dollars in grants for Colorado.

New evidence suggests White House took steps to punish Colorado over Tina Peters case

“I’ve never seen anything like it,” a federal district court judge said about a newly disclosed email. “I’ve never even imagined something like it.”

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