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The Trump Administration is sending billions to Amazon, Apple, Walmart, and other big corporations to refund them for Trump’s tariffs. American households were estimated to lose over $1,000 to tariff price hikes. Here's an idea: refund working families before big business.
www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/8/... When #Ice is killing innocent people in the streets then why yes Trump has gone too far on immigration. 🤬 Repost #AbolishIce #VoteBlue #Blues
Most Americans say Trump has gone too far on US immigration: Poll
Half of Americans say Trump has gone too far on deportations, though most Republicans still support his approach.
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Maine cannot fall for a last minute gesture to get reelected. Musk is now throwing money at her campaign. That tells you all you need to know. #VoteHerOut
Greg Sargent@gregsargent.bsky.social · 6d agoSusan Collins, who voted for $70 billion in no-strings-attached ICE funding, is now taking credit for securing new bodycams to distance herself from Trump and ICE. This is how Collins wins in Maine. Dems must go on offense on ICE to thwart this scam. New from me: newrepublic.com/article/2138...
Dead or alive, Mitch McConnell is on extended medical leave — on your dime. This is the same Mitch McConnell who voted against: paid family and medical leave for everyone else.
Democrats should be proud of the fact that we hold candidates to standards. Republicans will never call on this guy to resign although he clearly should have long ago. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Assault, misogyny, verbal threats: Records detail new allegations against Rep. Max Miller
Police reports and filings in a bitter custody dispute raise new questions about the conduct of an Ohio Republican as he campaigns for a third term.
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People who are suddenly deported to countries they haven’t been to for years — or, in some cases, have NEVER been to — are incredibly vulnerable. We are going to be reading stories like this for years. God have mercy on their three little girls.
Adam Sawyer@adamjst.bsky.social · last wk.“If immigration hadn't picked up my brother, my sister-in-law would still be alive, and the children wouldn't be going through this sorrow,” he said. “Unfortunately, immigration — the [U.S.] government — doesn't see that. It makes no difference to them.” www.stlpr.org/law-order/20...
Every person this administration wrongly deported should be granted asylum and a path to citizenship. Won’t even begin to right wrongs like this. But it’s a place to start.
Gillian Brockell@gillianbrockell.com · last wk.People who are suddenly deported to countries they haven’t been to for years — or, in some cases, have NEVER been to — are incredibly vulnerable. We are going to be reading stories like this for years. God have mercy on their three little girls.
If you attended you are complicit in recognizing his illicit authority.
Marc Elias@marcelias.bsky.social · 2w agoIf you were "stunned" by Trump's hateful rambling performance, then you haven't been paying attention for the last decade. If you sat in "silence" while Trump attacked democracy and elections, then you have learned nothing. We need an independent, pro-democracy media. demdock.com/4w6emld
I guess they don’t count as Iran War casualties then. These things are important to Trump - for his scorecard.
Interesting that BJ's in West Lebanon isn't displaying their gas prices.
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." -Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953
Can't get numb to this: The United States is stuck in a war it started, cannot end, and may further escalate to no avail, having dismantled its diplomatic apparatus, depleted its military stockpile, and destroyed its credibility. A historic strategic mistake harming millions in many different ways.
Richard Gere: “Trump uses the same words that Hitler did. Calls them vermin. They’re not vermin. These are human beings. I’ve met them. He’s never met a refugee or a migrant. These are human beings like us who are usually running from a fire of one kind or another” @marcofoster.bsky.social
Jon Ossoff sums it up: “This is the cruelest & most arrogant group of people who ever ascended to high office - their cruelty & arrogance are only matched by their incompetence."
The bigger question isn’t who’s paying. It’s why Trump keeps getting away with treating the White House like it’s his personal property. He doesn’t own it. The American people do.
The US built the greatest talent magnet ever, attracting the smart, skilled, and striving. They’d come to study, then stay and build things here, or leave with positive impressions and fruitful connections. Helped make the US wealthy and powerful. Then America chose to throw it away. And for what?
Ben Allen@evodynamics.bsky.social · 3w agoCongrats we just made it impossible to come here for a PhD www.bostonglobe.com/2026/07/16/m...
Bad idea. This will mess up sleep patterns terribly. Didn’t we try this before and failed? If any change should be made permanently, it should be to standard time because that aligns more with our bodies. #blues
House passes bill to 'ditch the switch' and make daylight saving time permanent
The Senate would also have to pass the bill before it could be signed into law, but it’s unclear if it will do so. States could opt out if their respective legislatures act to do so before the bill's ...
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Please do keep in mind: Trump has but one goal: to gain and keep power. When he has power he can steal and con money, when he has power he can get revenge, and most important--being in power is his get out of jail free card. He is desperate to stay in power. He will do anything.
This morning in Biddeford, Maine, a 26-year-old man said goodbye to his wife and daughter and left for work. Moments later he was dead, shot in the head by ICE agents, the second man ICE has killed in six days. ICE is killing our neighbors. ICE cannot be reformed. Abolish ICE.
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A Democratic majority in Congress and the White House won’t be enough to bring progressive change, @briantylercohen.bsky.social says. “There is no world in which this Supreme Court … is not going to upend any progressive legislation the second they get their hands on it.” https://bit.ly/4qskS3m
"In effect, for every $1 cut from programs for low-income Americans, the wealthiest 1% will get about $1 back in tax breaks." Reverse Robin Hood. https://www.nbcnews.com/specials/trump-big-beautiful-bill-act-tax-medicaid-snap-one-year/
How Trump’s ‘big, beautiful bill’ changed America
President Donald Trump signed his “big, beautiful bill” a year ago. It unleashed the biggest ever rollback of federal pr
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A growing outbreak of the Cyclospora parasite, which causes severe diarrhea, has sickened more than 1,200 people across the U.S. Experts say the true number is much higher. In March 2025, RFK Jr. dissolved the CDC’s Division of Parasitic Diseases and Malaria, which monitored parasitic diseases
An unfit president shouldn’t stay in power without a real independent process to remove them. Push Congress to pass Raskin’s bill. #TrumpsWarOfChoice actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...
Tell Congress: Pass Raskin’s Bill to Create 25th Amendment Commission
Contact Congress today!
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People are right to be mad about the predictable Platner fiasco, but it's worth remembering that last year a ton of establishment Democrats supported disgraced sexual harasser Andrew Cuomo against clean-as-a-whistle Zohran. Tolerating problem men is an issue across the ideological spectrum.
If Barack Obama had accepted an airplane as a personal gift from a middle eastern country, retrofitted it on our dime & started using it for official presidential business, Republicans would have called for his immediate removal from office & Fox would be screaming about it 24/7.
Diversity is not only what makes America great, it's what makes America America, which is what drives people like Trump, Miller and Vance crazy.
Gerry Doyle@mgerrydoyle.bsky.social · last mo.the u.s. is an *incredibly* diverse place and that's what makes it great. I think that has been on display especially during the world cup, showcasing a global sport
