Fox Business reports that cutting Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid is "on the table" for Republicans
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House Republicans are talking very openly about cutting Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid
Happy 3rd Anniversary Black People 💪🏽✊🏽 August 5th, 2023 is a day in Black History that will NEVER be forgotten! #AlabamaBoatBrawl
President Donald Trump is seeking to stave off a court order that requires him to begin giving the BBC financial details on his business empire by Thursday in connection with a defamation lawsuit he is pressing against the network. www.politico.com/news/2026/08...
Trump seeks to shield his business finances from BBC in libel lawsuit
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Trump Ag Secretary Brooke Rollins just called his SNAP cuts a "pretty big win". Throwing 5 million struggling Americans — including families with children — off food aid to fund tax cuts for the rich isn't a "win". It's a national disgrace.
"My daughter will say stuff. Daddy angry. Daddy's house is scary," Emily Moreno, ex-wife of embattled Rep. Max Miller, who denies these claims, told Ohio detectives in Feb. Watch more footage of Moreno and Miller's February interviews with law enforcement obtained by our @abbyvesoulis.bsky.social:
Police footage shows Rep. Max Miller downplaying his daughter’s broken collarbone.
Go inside the room as detectives probe the abuse allegations.
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"Officers also recovered seven adults, and two underage sex workers — including a 16-year-old who had been missing from San Bernardino county — all who were allegedly sex trafficking victims."
Dozens of sex buyers busted after capitalizing on San Diego Comic-Con: ‘Ugly truth’
A sting operation conducted during San Diego’s Comic Con resulted in dozens of arrests of alleged sex buyers, along alleged sex workers.
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A California man who was arrested at President Donald Trump's Los Angeles-area golf course was pretending to be part of the security detail preparing for Trump's visit and had a stash of illegal weapons in his car and home, authorities said. https://to.pbs.org/4fXLrco
Man arrested at Trump's California golf course faces illegal weapons charges
A California man who was arrested at President Donald Trump’s Los Angeles-area golf course was pretending to be part of the security detail preparing for Trump’s visit and had a stash of illegal weapo...
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Yo, Michigan Democrats. I expect you to vote blue no matter who.
A new article in the Guardian reports that while the world burns major oil firms made $93bn profits amid war and climate crisis. Aramco, BP, Shell, Equinor, TotalEnergies, Eni, Chevron and ExxonMobil - made more than $700,000 of profit every minute over the spring quarter
JD Vance: "We don't want the next administration, whoever -- god forbid you're gonna have President El-Sayed in three years ... "
First of all, this is a stupid lie. Second, Donald is intentionally *raising* the cost of prescriptions. He is cruelly about to cut Medicare subsidies for drugs.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 5h agoTrump: "I don't get credit for anything. Even prescription drug prices, where they're down 600 percent."
Who is Rick Scott? #Fraud #RickScott Oversaw the largest Medicare FRAUD in US history youtu.be/FwSfto6SYOs?...
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A trans couple has been brutalized by a mob, and then the trans woman ended up being arrested afterwards, at a public bathroom in Louisiana. EITM writer S Baum investigates this horrible act of violence in our latest piece. www.erininthemorning.com/p/trans-coup...
Trans Couple Brutalized At Louisiana Park Bathroom, Then Charged By Police
An angry mob allegedly beat them. The police charged them. The municipality voted for one of the most severe anti-trans bathroom ordinances in the country.
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yall remember the Texas Fox News poll? yeah it’s real. they’re on the money
Wow guys maybe spending months gleefully tormenting brown people isn't gonna shake out so good in the states with lots of brown people??? Huge if true
ashley 🌹@clearlyashley.bsky.social · yesterdayyall remember the Texas Fox News poll? yeah it’s real. they’re on the money
HIGHLY RECOMMEND doing this right now. Also for the foreseeable future, might want to avoid platforms like Threads which don't let users disable autoplay gifs/videos. I'm scrolling half-asleep & accidentally saw something I really, really didn't want to see 😞
Benny Six-Cats@teeveeben.bsky.social · 24h agoHey guys, Perez Hilton performed self-harm and may have attempted a suicide on TikTok and screenshots are flying around, so if you are sensitive, go put "Perez Hilton" in your mutes right now.
Recent US primaries have revealed Democratic Party rift between progressives and centrists over US support for Israel.
Michigan, Missouri, Washington primary elections: Key takeaways
Recent US primaries have revealed Democratic Party rift between progressives and centrists over US support for Israel.
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It's weird living in the "just because someone is a nazi doesn't mean they're antisemitic, maybe YOU'RE antisemitic for pointing it out" era.
Thats really not true and doesn't in the slightest reflect reality in multiple ways! 1. Gender reassignment surgery is not a surgery you can just go book whenever you want! Its the end of a long road of therapy taking 1-3 years. Once you have a surgical referral there is a handful of surgeons..
Republican Senators are voting to confirm Trump’s lawyer to be AG when it just came out that Capital One shut down Trump’s accounts under suspicion of money laundering and Trump wants exemption from being investigated for tax fraud. THESE PEOPLE ARE CRIMINALS.
These are the question that need to be answered. Democrat politicians: How am I going to afford groceries? How am I going to afford my housing cost? What if I get sick, how am I going to afford a doctors visit? What about time off work for injury or illness? Will I every be able to afford a home?
Whitehouse: "Today I think is a sad and embarrassing day for this committee as it looks like on a party-line vote we are going to advance out of this committee probably the most discreditable person ever to seek the office of attorney general. Let's start with the Epstein files ... "
American Healthcare Systems is the company that owns Vista Medical Center East. Court records, tax bills, and hospital inspections indicate that AHS has been sinking hospitals into financial chaos, leaving millions in unpaid bills—while its mansion-collecting CEO gallivants on a private jet.
Lake & McHenry County Scanner@lakemchenryscanner.bsky.social · 2d agoOver 30 employees were laid off after a staffing agency ended its contracts with Vista Medical Center East in Waukegan after the hospital failed to pay the company for its services. www.lakemchenryscanner.com/2026/08/03/o...