I wish journalists would stop framing political news as wins or losses for politicians or political parties. It’s an abrogation of our mission. Why do we keep doing this? Is the spending bill a win or loss for the American people? Who does it help? Who does it hurt? Is it sound policy? Fiscally?
Now we know why he didn’t have his hand on the Bible when he took the Oath of Office.
“That they should be the ones to welcome Pope Francis’s coffin in the basilica is because these people are those who represented the focus of his mission,” said Father Giulio Albanese, head of missionary cooperation and communications for the Vicariate of Rome. “They are those who live on the peripheries, geographical and existential peripheries.”
The final honor guard for Pope Francis included migrants, prisoners, transgender people, the homeless and others selected by the Vicariate of Rome as a symbol of the late pope’s mission of inclusion and outreach.
Read more from the funeral: wapo.st/3YdDGqM
People spend a lot of time wondering why the left is worse at using independent media to control the national narrative.
A useful exercise is to ask why the left is also worse at selling snake oil and pyramid schemes, because I think the reasons are basically exactly the same.
The dumbest cherry on the tariff sundae.
Mum - I'm in my mid 40s and I'm from Maine, USA.
"I didn't vote for" you did. Sorry. You did. Should have listened to the woke libtards instead of your roided out imaginary friends who told you kids were pooping in kitty litter at school
For the better part of the last decade, a great many people have tried really hard to make Donald Trump make sense in some broader political and historical context. But at the end of the day he's exactly what he appears to be: a rich psycho who's failed at everything in life except self-promotion.
The huge baby formula plant whose ’22 closure led to a shortage is failing to properly fix leaks and clean, workers told me.
“I can’t have this on my conscience,” said one, who worries a child will get sick.
Abbott called the workers’ accounts “untrue or misleading.” tinyurl.com/5ybj2k6e
THIS IS A KIDNAPPING. AN ABDUCTION. A DISAPPEARING.
Language matters more than ever.
the endgame here is him withholding federal tax dollars from blue states entirely unless they let him personally rewrite all their laws
it is the end of the “states’ rights” conservatives claimed to believe in so fervently in favor of absolute dictatorship
1/2 “Each time we show solidarity with others, or support those who are protecting the rule of law, helping the targeted, or exposing the lies and the corruption, we are standing up for democratic values of justice, accountability, equality, and more.”
— Ruth Ben-Ghiat
The Seattle Times "There's nothing you need to do - we've deducted the funds from LEONARD A. JOHNSON's account." Uh oh. It itemized how $5,201 had been stricken from their bank account, on the grounds that Ned wasn't justified to get those benefits - because he was dead. That was for payments he'd received in December and January. Ned found that his February Social Security check hadn't been paid, and he's yet to receive his March check, either. His Medicare insurance had been canceled. He also learned that when you die, your credit score gets marked as "deceased, do not issue credit," which makes it tough to get a loan.
DOGE/SSA marked this person dead and *removed his savings from his bank account,* cancelled his social security and Medicare. #seattle https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/heres-a-dead-person-on-social-security-in-seattle-with-plenty-to-say/
If annexed, the Canadians would not be Democrats.
They would be insurgents.
It’s fitting that such a dystopian situation would be brought about by a movement taken with nostalgic fantasies about the joys of beef tallow & trad wives. Back in that imagined, bucolic past with little state or institutional capacity, if your kid got cancer they just died. This is now our future.
Over the next four years, if these absolutely staggering numbers hold, Elon Musk would be responsible for roughly 13 million deaths, or two Holocausts and change. Genuinely monstrous actions
I really like her
Can’t know specifically why this happened. But the DOGE boys were leafing thru the files and canceling some individual accounts that didn’t look right to them and there have been daily computer crashes at SSA after DOGErs canceled a number of the computer servicing/maintenance contracts
American politics makes a lot more sense when you realize that the GOP is afraid of pissing off the GOP base, and the Dems are afraid of pissing off the GOP base, but neither party is afraid of pissing off the Dem base.
Former 🇺🇸 ambassador to Russia 👇🏽
Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage
Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage
PSA: When media reports on President Trump's expected invocation of Alien Enemies Act, it would be good to remind the reader/listener:
The Act also includes summary deportation of permanent legal residents and other immigrants who are lawfully present as well.
It's that extreme an emergency power.
Arlington National Cemetery has scrubbed information about prominent Black, Hispanic and female service members and topics such as the Civil War from its website, part of an effort across the Defense Department to remove all references to diversity, equity and inclusion from its online presence.
By voting for the CR, Rep Jared Golden just gave the GOP a talking point of “bipartisan bill” and he also just voted to give up all leverage in pushing back against the administration. The spending power is congress’ only power. While i usually applaud bipartisanship, this is a travesty
Beyer And DelBene Blast Republicans’ Hidden Tariff Provision Washington, March 11, 2025 U.S. Representatives Don Beyer (D-VA) and Suzan DelBene (D-WA), who serve on the House Ways and Means Subcommittee on Trade, today issued a joint statement on a House vote on a provision hidden in a Republican rule that would effectively surrender congressional power over raising taxes and tariffs on the American people to Trump. The vote comes on a day when Trump announced huge new tariffs on one of America’s closest allies, amid widening economic damage from his chaotic trade policy. Beyer and DelBene said: “Every House Republican who votes for this measure is voting to give Trump expanded powers to raise taxes on American households through tariffs with full knowledge of how he is using those powers, and every Republican will own the economic consequences of that vote. It speaks volumes that Republicans are sneaking this provision into a procedural measure hidden from the American people. “Today Trump is further endangering the U.S. economy and hiking prices on the American people by increasing his destructive and pointless tariffs on Canada. There can be no doubt about how he will use the power Republicans are about to give him, and about the disastrous economic effects we have already seen from Trump’s tariffs. While he babbles about making Canada the 51st state, your groceries and housing are getting more expensive and your retirement accounts are getting crushed- and House Republicans are supporting him every step of the way. “The Constitution delegates authority setting tariffs, which are taxes, to Congress, and Congress retains the power to stop Trump from wrecking our economy. Yet House Republicans are choosing to surrender the power of their own votes to a reckless president, putting politics over the country and their constituents. We will continue urging our colleagues to come to their senses and save our economy from Trump’s tariff chaos.”
Republicans just snuck a provision surrendering power to revoke Trump's tariffs into a procedural vote. All Dems opposed. Every Republican who voted for this will own the economic consequences of expanding Trump's tariff powers. Statement with @repdelbene.bsky.social:
beyer.house.gov/news/documen...
JPMORGAN becomes the first big desk to cut #GDP forecasts for the year.
“.. we are increasingly concerned about the uncertainty shock to business investment .. and have started to recalibrate our forecasts in response .. we’ve lowered our 1Q GDP forecast from 1.5%ar to 1%ar.” 🇺🇸
This is the second time USAID/State is punishing people revealing the truth that Marco is killing children. They're quite desperate to hide this fact, as if the reporters in Africa or court declarations are making it up.
