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[Dead Wrong History @deadwronghist]

In 1966, Barry Goldwater told William F. Buckley Jr. that his greatest fear as a conservative was a president who would use the powers of the office to destroy everyone who disagreed with him.

[Presidential Wisdom @PrezWisdom]

Happy 200th birthday to Ulysses Grant, born #OTD 1822 in Point Pleasant, Ohio.

Ulysses Grant 🇺🇸 is the first of seven Presidents born in Ohio:
US Grant
Rutherford B. Hayes
James Garfield
Benjamin Harrison
William McKinley
William Howard Taft
Warren G. Harding
#POTUS 🎂🎈

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

134 years ago this cartoon was drawn, and in 134 years the problem has only gotten worse.

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

The SAVE Act is effectively dead in the Senate.

Thune admitted the votes were never there and moved on to "more pressing stuff."

Here's the principle: women shouldn't have to do one extra thing more than a man to vote.

Want voter ID? Fine. Issue it to every citizen for free.

The burden of proving citizenship should never fall on the voter when the government can verify it at zero cost.

Voting is a right.

Not a privilege you earn by having the right paperwork.

[Lina Khan @linamkhan]

For years, Ticketmaster/Live Nation has abused its power against musicians, fans, and venues, dominating the live music industry while worsening it for everyone else.

This jury verdict holding that the company violated state and federal antitrust laws is a key first step towards ending Live Nation’s monopolistic control and securing real relief for those it harmed.

Congratulations to the state attorneys general who kept litigating the case after the Trump DOJ settled cheaply and bailed.

[Elizabeth Warren @ewarren]

For years, Live Nation and Ticketmaster:

- Overcharged fans
- Piled on junk fees
- Provided horrible service
- Monopolized the live event industry

Today, a jury called it what it is: ILLEGAL.

[Jon Erlichman @JonErlichman]

On this day in 1977: Apple II unveiled

[Uzi @UziCryptoo]

My boomer dad paid $11,000 for his college degree.

Total. Four years.

He told me my $90,000 in student loans is because I “picked the wrong school.”

I went to a state school.

He went to a private university.

His cost less.

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

WARREN: I want to understand how slashing healthcare for families so Meta gets a $3 billion tax cut is a 'really good outcome for the American public'

IRS CEO BISIGNANO: I don't see the two as correlated

WARREN: Those tax cuts were paid for by pushing people off their healthcare. Did you not follow that?

[Elizabeth Warren @SenWarren]

If you paid even a penny in federal income tax last year, you paid more than:

Tesla
Southwest
Disney
Live Nation
HP
United
PayPal
CVS Health
Palantir
Citigroup
PG&E
3M

That's right. They paid $0 in federal income tax.

It's time for big corporations to pay their fair share.

[Daily Roman Updates @UpdatingOnRome]

The drip.

[Presidential Wisdom @PrezWisdom]

Actual conversation between Eleanor Roosevelt & Harry Truman 🇺🇸:

Eleanor Roosevelt: "Harry, the President is dead”

Harry Truman: “Is there anything I can do for you?”

Eleanor Roosevelt: "Is there anything we can do for you, Harry? For you are the one in trouble now”

#POTUS ❤️

[The Tennessee Holler @TheTNHoller]

😕🇺🇸 “the richest country in the history of the world”

The truth hurts

[History Dame @history_dame]

For generations, March 4 was America’s Inauguration Day.

From 1793 to 1933, presidents took the oath of office on this date.

In fact, more presidents were inaugurated in March than in January.
• 36 inaugurations took place in March
• 23 have taken place in January since the date changed.

From George Washington’s delayed swearing-in, to Andrew Jackson’s legendary open-house crowd that forced him out a window, to Lincoln’s stirring appeal for unity on the eve of the Civil War, each ceremony added a chapter to the American story.

The 20th Amendment later moved Inauguration Day to January 20, shortening the long gap between election and inauguration.

One president holds a strange place in history: Franklin D. Roosevelt was both the last inaugurated in March and the first in January.

[Staff Sergeant Johnson @Colonel_Myway]

A nation that can fund a war instantly but debates funding healthcare has a values problem not a budget problem...

[End Citizens United @StopBigMoney]

16 years ago, the Citizens United ruling allowed billionaires to take over our government.

In 2024, billionaires spent around $2.6 billion, which is 162 times more than what billionaires spent before the decision in the 2008 cycle.

[MOON LOVER @M1ONLOVER]

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