More Than Half of Senate Democrats Help GOP Pass $925 Billion Pentagon Bill
It also contains anti-trans riders and no limits on domestic deployment of US troops, points out journalist Erin Reed.| Articles – Truthout
The government shutdown began last week after Republicans and Democrats couldn’t agree on extending subsidies for the Affordable Care Act.| NewsOne
In the same period, support for the mass deportation promised by Trump declined 9%, from 47% in June 2024, to 38% in June 2025.| Stu Bykofsky
As the federal government enters the ninth day of a shutdown sparked by Congress’ failure to pass a continuing resolution which would fund the government for around two more months—with hundreds of thousands of workers going unpaid, federal loans to small businesses on hold, and the future of SNAP benefits at risk for coming months […]| Mother Jones
WASHINGTON (AP) – The White House budget office said Friday that mass firings of federal workers have started in an attempt to exert more pressure on Democratic lawmakers as the government shutdown continues. Russ Vought, the director of the Office of Management and Budget, said on the social media site X that the “RIFs have begun,” referring […]| Providence Business News
It also contains anti-trans riders and no limits on domestic deployment of US troops, points out journalist Erin Reed.| Articles – Truthout
Virginia’s nominee for attorney general sent violent texts about shooting an opponent The post The Democrat who fantasized about killing a Republican appeared first on The Spectator World.| The Spectator World
Republicans’ budget bill will stick Americans with thousands more in insurance costs while giving tax cuts to the rich.| Articles – Truthout
Last week, the federal government “shut down” because the Senate could not get the required 60 votes to invoke cloture and pass a continuing resolution to keep the government funded. The CR had passed the House, was supported by a majority of the Senate, and would have been signed into law by President Trump. It... Read more about: Preserving Majority Rule Requires Limiting the Senate Filibuster The post Preserving Majority Rule Requires Limiting the Senate Filibuster appeared first on Th...| The American Mind
President Donald Trump’s approval on guns is faltering, but that hasn’t sunk his party just yet. A collection of the latest polling shows Americans are increasingly unhappy with the President’s handling of guns. But they also show that dissatisfaction hasn’t transferred to the Republican Party as a whole. And the issue remains a relatively low […]| The Reload
Senate Democrats don’t have to separate the crackdown in Los Angeles and the Republican bill in Washington. The latter will allow for more of the former.| The American Prospect
Donald Trump just blew up every right-wing talking point on Jimmy Kimmel’s suspension, threatening the late-night host again as he returned to television.| The New Republic
By Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell ~ Conservative youth organizer Charlie Kirk laid the groundwork for President Donald Trump’s historic presidential victories, supporters recalled in the wake of his t…| PA Pundits International
By Olivia Pero ~ Vice President JD Vance joined “My View with Lara Trump” Saturday where he discussed everything from his best-selling book “Hillbilly Elegy” to whether he will run for president in…| PA Pundits International
This cannot be what President Donald Trump had in mind.Authorities made an arrest in connection with the heinous assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk. The suspect is Tyler Robinson, a 22-year-old white, male Utah State University student, the son of registered Republican voters from t...| Raw Story
Abbott pledged that public schools would be kept fully funded, and he couched his support...| San Antonio Express-News
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History is filled with reminders that enemies of democracy rarely interpret promises to forgive and forget as reasons to unite and heal.| Crooked Media
It's time to look in the mirror, America: We chose catastrophe — there's no one else to blame| Salon.com
It’s yet another Trump action that also hurts his own voters.| South Side Weekly
Polling report on reactions to Texas lawmakers attempts to redraw the state’s congressional maps.| Navigator
There’s a shameless stunt at the heart of the Texas redistricting fight. It’s not the quorum-break.| Mother Jones
The GOP wants to fund billionaire tax cuts—and let disabled Americans pay the price.| Mother Jones
Dugan will appear on the ballots as a Republican thanks to write-in voters in May. By Melissa S. Finley| Broad + Liberty
U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz and other Texas Republicans are lobbying President Donald Trump to...| Houston Chronicle
Here’s the text of a memo obtained by The New Republic, written by Philip Hegseth, senior adviser to Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and DHS liason to the Department of Defense.| The New Republic
Musk doesn’t seem to care about what the president has to say.| The New Republic
The map may produce a ‘dummymander’ that threatens more GOP incumbents than Democratic ones.| The American Prospect
Side agreements with the House Freedom Caucus will make most clean-energy projects unviable and leave the U.S. with not enough power to meet demand.| The American Prospect
Today on TAP: His new nominees come from the management side or—worse—are suffused with management’s ethos.| The American Prospect
Passage of the Big Beautiful Bill will force mandatory sequestration that will mean half a trillion dollars in Medicare cuts.| The American Prospect
Despite President Donald Trump’s immigration agenda, some lawmakers have helped immigrants as part of their constituent casework.| Times of San Diego
By Jacob Adams ~ A freshman congressman explains the Florida way as it relates to effectively stewarding taxpayer dollars to deal with quality-of-life issues in America. Rep. Jimmy Patronis, R-Fla.…| PA Pundits International
House Republicans didn’t even want to allow debate on whether the Trump administration should be required to release the files.| The New Republic
“The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.” — FDR, Inaugural Address, J…| Envisioning The American Dream
The Trump administration says there’s been a serious increase in assaults of ICE agents. Here are the actual numbers.| The New Republic
Martin “Marty” Young, senior managing partner at M3 Partners, has filed a statement of candidacy to seek the Republican nomination […]| Broad + Liberty
(The Center Square) – House Republicans issued a petition to discharge Senate Bill 9, known as the Save Women’s Sports […]| Broad + Liberty
Polling report on Americans’ views of Medicaid cuts in the Republican tax bill.| Navigator
The virulence with which Republicans — including a number of […]| The Bipartisan Press
Polling report on the perceptions of the budget bill recently passed by House Republicans.| Navigator
By Fred Lucas ~ President Donald Trump declared it the “most successful 100 days” in American history. “They all want to come back to Michigan and build cars again. You know why, because of our tax…| PA Pundits International
Donald Trump’s defense for accepting a $400 million private jet from Qatar is that Ronald Reagan did the same thing. Here’s the truth.| The New Republic
60 Minutes has looked into the records of the immigrants deported to El Salvador’s megaprison. They’re not who Trump claims.| The New Republic
If you think mass protests can’t combat evil, remember what we did in the 1980s.| Mother Jones
Pretty alarming!| The New Republic
Poppy explores why British egotism is misplaced this election cycle, and the reality is that Britain is not void of threatening Trump-like politics| The Gryphon
b. traven Donald Trump will soon leave the White House, either on his own, or escorted by authorities. As the song says, he’ll “go where the goblins go, below, below, below.” It&#…| The Contrary Perspective
ROSS PEROT LEFT 100 MILLION OF HIS FORTUNE TO THE TRUMP 2020 CAMPAIGN| Word-Drum
Donald Trump appears to have been celebrating Project 2025 from the very beginning, according to a recently unearthed video.| The New Republic
By Rylie Oswald John Kenneth White, author of Grand Old Unraveling, talks about combating political conspiracy theories during election season in a Author John Kenneth White talks about combatting conspiracy theories in a digital age.| University Press of Kansas
Conservative media personalities and advocates will weigh in on the next update to Oklahoma's academic standards for social studies.| Oklahoma Voice
As conspiracy theories flourish, context is missing on Trump's injury, the shooter's motive, and more.| Mother Jones
In its first official platform since 2016, the Grand Old Party (GOP) slashed all mention of its gun policy positions.| The Reload
Former Ohio Democratic Party head David Pepper has a dire warning: Rigged state legislatures are destroying America| Salon
This is what happened when MAGA people thought I was one of them.| Mother Jones
“Wilhoit’s Law” was coined by a different Frank Wilhoit.| Slate Magazine
I'm still processing last night's "debate" in my head, but I'd just like to say this: Did Mitt Romney actually call his kids liars on one of the most-watched shows on national TV? Since when was such behavior acceptable?| Moderates of all Nations, Unite!
I recently found out about a blog titled Smirking Mitt Walking Away from Stuff. The title explains it all: photographs of significant events, with the image of Mitt Romney, smirking as he walks away from reporters after accusing President Obama of "sympathizing" with the people who murdered our Ambassador in Benghazi, pasted onto them. So now we have Smirking Mitt Romney Walking Away From: our troops, firehosing of civil-rights demonstrators in Alabama, his own Bain Capital record, demonstr...| Moderates of all Nations, Unite!
Today is Tuesday, September 11, 2012; and just like that Tuesday eleven years ago, it's a beautiful sunny morning, with barely a cloud in the sky, and the first serious hint that summer is over, vacation time is over, and it's time to retire the shorts and sandals and put on warmer clothing.| Moderates of all Nations, Unite!
Only one day after a Congreswoman was critically wounded and six others (including a nine-year-old girl) were murdered in cold blood, our so-called news media are already reverting to their reflexive practice of mindlessly shielding both themselves and their Republican clients from an honest discussion of the causes of this latest mayhem.| Moderates of all Nations, Unite!
Following is a comment I posted elsewhere. Sorry for the hasty post...| Moderates of all Nations, Unite!
I have spent the better part of a month pondering what to make of the House Education and Workforce Committee’s December 5 public flogging of the presidents of Harvard, the University of Pennsylvan…| After Class
This is a list of how US Representatives voted on Net Neutrality in 2018: Credit to reddit user truefalseequivalence Senate Vote for Net Neutrality| Chris Bergerons Tech Blog
I've always known that the belief that Republicans are "better" or "stronger" than Democrats in the area of foreign policy is a myth, and has been since 1941, if not earlier. (Democrats: WW-II and the Marshall Plan. Republicans: McCarthyism and Iraq.) I've also known that today's Republican Party…| motherwell.livejournal.com
Happy New Year everyone! It's 2012, the year when Obama the Antichrist is supposed to bring about the end of the world. You Israelis are getting shitloads of US aid, no questions asked, thanks to our loony-right End-Times bigots, so you'd better step up and do your part to fulfill their apocalyptic…| motherwell.livejournal.com
On the one hand, it is perfectly obvious by now that the factors that drove Jared Laughner to fire into a crowd at a political event Tuscon, AZ, killing six, were purely psyciatric, and not at all political. If there's a political agenda to be discerned from his words and actions, it is one wholly…| motherwell.livejournal.com
