Skyline
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Skyline
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As anonymous as possible, since the internet is generally horrible. American. Public health professional.
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It makes no sense to cut SNAP because it generates $1.50 for every $1 invested. And that doesn't include the investment in children who will grow up smarter, healthier, and more productive because they didn't go hungry, or the many other benefits.
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This is correct.

His cult keeps saying “well, he was elected president, he doesn’t have to follow the rules now” but the correct attitude is “well, he was elected president, and therefore he has to follow the rules.”

He even swore an oath to do that. Honest!
He was elected president, and as president, his highest duty is to ensure that the laws of the land be executed faithfully. His job is to uphold the constitutional order, not tear it down and remake it in his image.
Look at the timing. The births start rising in Jan 21 for educated people- meaning they got pregnant in 2020. The births immediately drop in early *2020* for less educated people, which sure feels like pregnancies or babies being lost.
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I wish they said explicitly that there's $5 billion in emergency reserves they're refusing to use instead they're happy to let people - mostly children, the disabled, and elderly, starve.
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This is honestly the bare minimum of what constitutes our democracy. We’re quite literally back to taxation (and appropriation) without representation.
+1. The speaker won’t call it to session, and won’t swear in a vote determining member. We’re just doing House of Representatives theater now, and it’s been intermission for a while.
I really think that we need to talk more about the fact that Republicans have basically quietly abolished the House of Representatives
Project 2025 explicitly called for cutting SNAP - estimates showed 21 million children alone would lose benefits under their proposal.

None of this was secret. Americans voted for it.
Everyone should know: Trump is choosing to take money for food from millions of Americans.

Trump can and legally should keep SNAP running.

If you are struggling to afford groceries, it’s because Trump chose to make it that way.
'Uncharted territory': Ongoing shutdown threatens food aid for 42 million people
SNAP, the country's largest anti-hunger program, dates back to the Great Depression and has never been disrupted this way. Most recipients are seniors, families with kids, and those with disabilities.
www.npr.org
Here's our first test run for the official end of democracy.
Breaking: The Department of Justice announced it will "monitor polling sites in six jurisdictions [in New Jersey and California] ahead of the upcoming November 4, 2025, general election to ensure transparency, ballot security, and compliance with federal law." www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justi...
Justice Department to Monitor Polling Sites in California, New Jersey
WASHINGTON – Today, the Department of Justice announced that it will monitor polling sites in six jurisdictions ahead of the upcoming November 4, 2025, general election to ensure transparency, ballot ...
www.justice.gov
I'd love to ask those historical minded conservatives how they feel about the Rose Garden or East Wing.
These are the same guys that can't pass an open book exam about the law.
If my math is right, a 1% tax on 200 people is enough to cover a full year of the Medicaid cuts for all of California.

It's immoral for so few people to have so much money.
Some more details:
-a 1-time, 5% wealth tax on billionaires currently living in the state
-affects around 200 people
-moving won't matter; based on 2025 residency
-billionaires earn 7.5%/yr, they'd still come out ahead
-yields enough to cover the Medicaid gap for 5 years & have some $ left for K-12
California is readying a one-time 5% tax on billionaires for the 2026 ballot that would go toward compensating for Trump's Medicaid cuts. The architects see it as a national model.
It will be announced today.
Listen, people joining ICE don't want to learn about the law and stuff. Based on the actions of current agents, I'm not sure its doing them any good to even pass this test.
New ICE recruiting methods have resulted in half of this group of absolute winners failing AN OPEN BOOK TEST
I have a feeling Nazism will be normalized very soon anyway.
Putting a Democrat with a Nazi tattoo in the Senate normalizes Naziism in our federal politics for a long ass time.

All these recent stories about secret Nazi group chats? Anytime that happens going forward will be met with "But Platner."

It's not a purity test. Think through the consequences.
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Once you realize the NYT is trying to help him you can’t stop seeing it
It was an unrealistic promise, not a lie!
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EXCLUSIVE: One Saturday afternoon in October, my phone lit up with a notification.

I glanced down at the message.

“Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began.

So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies.

www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...
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Here's a gift link to the New York Times' coverage of the initial Tea Party rallies in April 2009 which inspired the media to treat it like a massive movement.

Check out how tiny the crowds were:

Philly: 200
DC: "several hundred"
Boston: 500
Austin: 1,000
Houston: 2,000
Tax Day Is Met With Tea Parties (Published 2009)
www.nytimes.com
We've all gotta stop pretending that Democrats are the only adults here and that there is some deal to be made with a party that is literally calling you a terrorist daily. Republicans are the ones who need to do work here; Democrats have already had their lunch money taken over and over.
Jesus, man! Democrats are about to become a permanent minority because most of you won't just *name the problem*. You're still sleepwalking into autocracy.

Not "leaders" - REPUBLICANS. They run everything and can pass a budget at any time, just like the General Assembly.
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Not a peep from Musk about this government spending. Was the chainsaw from him worth it, Elon?
My mom runs a food bank at her church in NC and she said lines have been shorter, but sounds like it might be fewer Latinos showing up.