If Barack Obama had accepted an airplane as a personal gift from a middle eastern country, retrofitted it on our dime & started using it for official presidential business, Republicans would have called for his immediate removal from office & Fox would be screaming about it 24/7.
When we found out Eric Swalwell was a sexual predator, we ran him out of Congress within 2 weeks
SCOTUS officially defined Trump as an adjudicated rapist & his name is in the Epstein Files almost as much as Jeffrey Epstein’s, yet Republicans remain loyal
We are not the same🤬
As a European, I don't understand how the sitting U.S. president—who has to pay $5 million to a woman he r@ped and defamed—can remain in office after everything he's done.
When the country finds out how many children Trump raped, along with the details, know that Republican lawmakers already knew about all of it, and worked overtime to help him get away with it.
Republican Rep. Tom Kean Jr. took four months off from Congress, fully paid, to treat depression. Time and again, he’s voted against paid sick leave legislation.
What a goddamn hypocrite. 😡
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BREAKING: Governor Josh Shapiro just announced that he is suing the Trump Administration over their efforts to rip Medicaid away from Pennsylvanians in need. This is big.
WATCH: Here’s Major Jason Watson of the US Air Force holding a sign that reads:
Impeach/Convict/Remove!
You can see him getting arrested for protesting in uniform at the Capitol.
This guy’s a hero!
Let’s give him a medal for his service and bravery!
Just got off the phone with my college roommate.
His daughter was diagnosed with leukemia in January.
He has insurance. Good insurance. The kind you feel safe having.
7 months later:
Savings: wiped out. 401k: cashed early. Penalties and all. House: refinanced to cover the gaps insurance decided weren’t their problem.
He told me he’s not the same person anymore.
Said watching your child fight for her life while simultaneously fighting an insurance company over coverage codes does something to you that doesn’t go away.
They did everything right.
Two incomes. No debt. Responsible their whole lives.
One diagnosis undid all of it in 7 months.
And somewhere a health insurance CEO is getting a $30 million bonus this quarter.
I don’t know how people defend this system with a straight face.
I really don’t.
When people say that immigrants should adopt "our" culture. They ARE our culture.
Rock and roll, jazz, country, blues, and most of our music was derived from "Call and response," which came from Africa.
Irving Berlin, who wrote the song "God Bless America," was born in Russia.
Our food comes from Europe and all over the world. Apple pie comes from Holland. Burgers and hot dogs come from Germany. Pizza comes from Italy. Barbecue and most "southern food" came from slaves.
Sitcoms are derived from vaudeville, which was brought by the Irish and many other immigrants. Hollywood and Broadway are what they are because of Eastern European Jews.
Sports? Baseball was inspired by cricket. American football came from rugby. Basketball was invented by a Canadian.
Our railroads were built by the Chinese, Mexicans, freed American slaves, the Irish, and other immigrants.
The New York City skyline was largely built by Italian immigrants.
Science? Einstein and Tesla were immigrants. Andrew Grove, who we owe for the semiconductor, came from Hungary. Sergey Brin, from Russia, cofounded Google.
Levi Strauss, from Germany, gave us denim. Jonas Salk, whose parents were immigrants, gave us the polio vaccine. Ukraine's Selma Waksin developed the first treatment for tuberculosis.
More recently, Katalin Karikó helped develop mRNA vaccines.
John Shalikashvili, former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, came from Poland.
And you know something about every wave of immigrants? There were people then, just like now, who complained they would never assimilate.
American culture isn't something immigrants assimilate TO; it is the assimilation OF immigration.
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President Trump reaped a stunning windfall in his first year back in the White House, including about $1.4 billion from his family’s cryptocurrency businesses, a new filing shows.
Trump pulled in at least $2.2 billion, a figure that includes other parts of his vast holdings, such as his real estate assets. That compares to a minimum of $622 million his enterprises pulled in for all of 2024, before he returned to the presidency.
The president’s finances, which had been something of a mystery, highlight a conflict in his crypto business: Trump is a major crypto industry operator and its top policymaker.
It is hardly the only issue to arise from having a businessman serve as president. At the link in our bio, read more details from the mandatory financial disclosure.
You're working harder than ever, paying more for groceries, prescriptions, and rent. And Trump wants to use your tax dollars to build his ballroom and start a slush fund to pay off his friends. This is a level of corruption we’ve never seen before.
It’s never a good sign when you are 84 years old and have been hospitalized for two weeks, as Mitch McConnell has been. It’s time for him to be replaced. We need age limits for Congress.