The House voted 214-208 to pass a war powers resolution directing the president to remove U.S. armed forces from hostilities with Iran. This is the second time the House has voted to rein in the president’s war powers over Iran.
Nobody in the U.S. Senate is more responsible for the overturning of Roe v. Wade than Susan Collins. In November, we will defeat her.
Our bipartisan housing bill is now the law. For every family where the American Dream of owning your own home feels like it's slipping out of reach, this is for you.
Erling Haaland and the rest of the Norwegian men's team are paid the same as the women's team. In 2017, they took a voluntary pay cut to allow the women's pay to be increased. The move came from the players' union, not management.
Mainstream Respectable opinion is that people joking about a bad person's death represents a culture of cruelty, but really it represents a culture of impunity. It's a coping mechanism for watching someone do evil their whole life and never seeing consequences
The misogynistic smearing of a former First Lady at a White House event sanctioned by a President … is a stain that will not be removable
1,000 New Yorkers won our lottery for affordable tickets to the World Cup. Today, we celebrated in the stands for the first NY/NJ game of the tournament. The beautiful game belongs to everyone.
This is personalized medicine taken to a different level. 69% of melanoma patients treated w/ combination therapy (Keytruda + vaccine) were cancer free. If you haven't noticed yet, vaccines are the new wave of next gen cancer therapeutics. Thank #NIH funding. 🧪 www.npr.org/2026/06/01/n...
A cancer vaccine made just for you. mRNA is back and it's fighting melanoma
A study finds that an mRNA vaccine is highly effective at preventing recurrence of this dangerous skin cancer, when used in combination with Keytruda, an immunotherapy drug.
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Rep. McBride: “I assume you’re aware that Greenland is indeed part of Denmark.” Rubio: “For now.”
Friends, I’ve been around politics for over 50 years. I’ve never seen anything as brazenly crooked and corrupt as what Trump and his cronies did today.
STACEY ABRAMS, democracy champion and founder of Fair Fight, calls out the TNGOP racial gerrymander that splits Memphis across three congressional districts. She warned this map returns Tennessee to a “vicious past” that silenced voters. #handsoffmemphis #jimcrow #Tennessee
Authoritarians are, at their core, narcissists, and all narcissists crave adoration. Reverence is their lifeblood, accolades the air they breathe... johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/this-meme-...
This Meme Kills Fascists: The Mockery of Messiah Trump Shows Us That We're Winning
This week, Donald Trump committed blasphememe.
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apnews.com/article/trum... counterterrorism official Kent resigns over Trump's Iran war, says Iran posed no imminent threat
Top counterterrorism official Kent resigns over Trump's Iran war, says Iran posed no imminent threat
President Donald Trump is pushing back against claims by the director of the National Counterterrorism Center about the motivations for the Iran war.
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It’s pretty clear that, until the midterm elections, the federal courts are the only guard rails left. Every so often it’s important to remember to honor the constitution. Judge Strikes Down Kennedy’s Vaccine Policies www.nytimes.com/2026/03/16/h...
Judge Strikes Down Kennedy’s Vaccine Policies
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Sen. Murray: "I'm just sickened by this. To go into this war unprepared, to use outdated data, and to have this horrific thing happen where children were killed in a school sends a horrible message to those that are in a war with us and to our own constituents about what America's values are."
Congratulations to my friend and our newest State Senator from Tarrant County, Taylor Rehmet! I met Taylor years ago through labor organizing. Don’t tell us what can’t be done in Texas. When we show up #TexasTough, we change the game. Today we proved what we’ve known all along: Texas is in play.
A reminder that Bad Bunny performs in front of the biggest audience on earth in seven days
✶ MarcusD ✶@marcusd.bsky.social · 6mo agoIce out
this is what it has come to for Mexican restaurants in the Twin Cities
Enraged by the killing of Renee Good and the increased presence of federal agents in Minneapolis, local protesters are going face-to-face with heavily armed agents in a high stakes environment. trib.al/vekqQ69
This is the sort of statement that was expected from every university president and law firm partner over the last year. That those statements weren’t made played a huge part in where we are now and people will remember.
Joshua J. Friedman@joshuajfriedman.com · 7mo agoJerome Powell: "This is about whether the Fed will be able to continue to set interest rates based on evidence and economic conditions—or whether instead monetary policy will be directed by political pressure or intimidation."
I’m not even going to publish a copy of Trumps comments about Reiner and his wife. But occasionally he reminds me that he is simply one of the worst, most degenerate individuals who has ever existed in American public life. Hard to think of any more vicious, vile and sociopathic.
FYI: the “disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan” was negotiated and begun by…. Donald Trump
Important piece on how we got here. Brownstone raised millions to undermine COVID prevention policies. Now at least 8 people with ties to Brownstone hold senior positions at federal health agencies, where they are restricting vaccines and cutting science funding.
A Small Texas Think Tank Cultivated Covid Dissidents. Now They’re Running US Health Policy. - KFF Health News
Fueled by covid backlash, a libertarian author created the Brownstone Institute in 2021. In recent months, people with ties to the group have catapulted to the highest levels of U.S. government, exerc...
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I really hate it when scientists keep saying that “we need to rebuild trust in science,” because it implies that scientists are to blame for the mistrust rather than the millions of dollars of dark money that have funded political attacks on science in order to advance a far right agenda.
Americans are a decent people, by and large. The president is not.
Former first lady Michelle Obama said the U.S. has “a lot of growing up to do” to be ready for a female president. “There’s still, sadly, a lot of men who do not feel like they can be led by a woman. And we saw it,” Obama said. https://wapo.st/48kepjO
