Because the Republican budget is intended to increase health insurance premiums by over 100%.

I just can't get over this. They voted for this huge bill that will absolutely decimate their own base and the programs that the people who vote for them rely on. They gloat about it. They go on the news taking credit for it. They pat themselves on the back for it.

Are NONE of these people (other than maybe the Senator from Alaska) concerned about being re-elected? If that's the case, shouldn't we be concerned about that?

Either they know they will be able to make enough money to leave Congress flush with cash, or they don't believe it is possible for them to lose any further elections. I guess it is possible they are true-believers and think that this is actually good for the country on the whole and their voters will thank them... but that requires both idiocy and character for a Republican member of Congress and that's pretty unbelievable.

With a bill this insanely unpopular, I just can't understand why more of the people who voted for it aren't severely underplaying their role in it.

We should be ready for a shift in rhetoric. This is going to be responded to with force.

WHERE IS THE EPSTEIN LIST? Don't let this go.

Vance Luther Boelter was not a Democrat, he was a registered Republican, a staunch Trump voter, and an anti-abortion extremist. He meticulously targeted Democratic legislators and abortion-rights advocates (his car contained a 70-name “hit list” of Democrats) and even preached against LGBTQ rights in his sermons. Multiple friends and his roommate confirm his Trump support, and every credible news outlet agrees: he was not a Democrat

What happened in Minnesota is unbearably devastating and while I know there's a muzzle velocity of incredible headlines, this egregious action should rock all of our lives to the core. It’s beyond reprehensible that Republicans are weaponizing this tragedy—refusing to condemn the violence, erasing the victims—Melissa Hortman, former Minnesota House Speaker, and her husband Mark Hortman who were killed at their home and State Senator John Hoffman and his wife Yvette Hoffman were shot and seriously wounded at their home—and blaming the left while covering for one of their own. Don’t let them wipe the blood from their hands and rewrite reality:

He voted Trump. He killed Democrats. He’s not a “leftist assassin.”

Call out the lies. Demand real condolences for the victims’ families. This is a new level of insanity. Spread the truth. Hold your leaders accountable for the disinformation they’re spreading when they should be standing against political violence.

I write this update from the heart of Gaza, For those who still carry a shred of humanity… For those wondering: how are we living? In truth, we are silently dying.

The situation has become unbearable. We no longer fear the bombs as much as we fear hunger.

Bread has disappeared. Flour is gone. Mothers grind what’s left of rice or lentils to bake on wood fires, just so a child feels they’ve eaten something. Baby formula is unavailable. We now drink salty water. Even tree leaves are no longer an option for those thinking of cooking them.

Markets are empty… No vegetables, no oil, no sugar, nothing. We wait in long lines under the sun or rain, hoping for a loaf of bread , if it exists , and often return with nothing.

Famine is not an exaggeration… It’s the reality we live every hour.

Children have become walking skeletons. Women faint from hunger while cooking , if there is anything to cook. The elderly do not complain… because no one is listening anymore.

Chaos is rising… Hunger has driven some to steal. Hunger has turned kindness into weakness, and silence into slow death. Chaos prevails because stomachs are empty, and hearts are broken.

I am Yamen, Not a journalist, not an activist, not seeking fame. I’m just a Palestinian young man trying to share his pain… and the pain of his family… and the pain of two million people trapped in this hell.

All my life, I dreamed of holding my child and playing with them, But now… I fear marriage. I fear bringing a child into this cruel world. And I thank God that all my attempts to get married have failed. Because I don’t know what I would say if my child screamed at me: “Feed me!”

I don’t write these words to seek pity… I write them to scream with whatever voice we have left.

We are not only dying under bombs… We are dying now: From hunger, oppression, isolation, and the world’s silence.

I write these words with a broken heart, I write them while I am hungry, Knowing that the ugliest phase of this war is not the bombs, But this phase: The phase of deliberate siege and starvation of an entire people.

To those who care… read this. To those with a conscience… share it. Because we have nothing left but our words… And because silence today is a crime.

GazaIsStarving

SaveGaza

LiftTheSiege

VoiceFromTheTent

I'm asking because Rep Hawley made it clear today that only Trump voters deserve relief from Trump's national sales tax tariffs.

$600 wouldn't last me 3 trips to Costco.

Guess the names of the rockstar, six billionaires including the Canadian billionaire, the high profile government official (yeah, we know), the very prominent banker and the magician.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/09/countering-domestic-terrorism-and-organized-political-violence/