BREAKING: New estimates reveal that between 4-6 million Americans participated in the anti-Trump protests yesterday. That’s nearly 2% of the entire United States. This is huge.
First, hard-working immigrant families, then peaceful protesters, now US Senators….America, time to stand up and stand firm against tyrants and their minions!
BREAKING: Democratic Senator Alex Padilla was just detained by Trump's agents for attending Kristi Noem's press conference. This is what dictatorship looks like. Make sure everyone sees this.
Rightfully, the cuts to Medicaid (over 10M people will lose their health care) and the tax cuts for the rich have been the story of the disastrous Republican budget bill.
But I read the whole thing. And there are some hidden rats in there you need to know about.
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Bridget Brink, who recently quit her post as U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, tells @margbrennan she left because the Trump administration's policy "was to put pressure on the victim, Ukraine, rather than on the aggressor, Russia."
"It wasn't a hasty, rash decision. It was one that I took over the first three months of the administration," Brink says, adding "the first sign" was the Oval Office meeting in February between President Trump and President Zelenskyy.
I’m selling my entire Star Wars collection for charity. Bidding begins on May the 4th. Take a look and may the Force be with you. https://t.co/qx9YSNjpBM
I've loved One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest my whole life, it's a perfect movie and Brad Dourif absolutely breaks your heart. Happy Birthday, Billy Bibbit.
Polish Nobel Peace Prize winner Lech Wałęsa and 38 other former political prisoners of Poland's communist regime have condemned Donald Trump's treatment of Volodymyr Zelensky on Friday, which they said reminded them of communist interrogation techniques https://t.co/HUgCqVzlLz
"It's a shocking turn of events that this is an administration that is in line, according to the Russians and according to the Kremlin's own statements, with their policies. Their views of the world are converging." @AVindman says on @InsidePolitics as President Trump says "America will not put up with" Ukrainian President Zelensky much longer.