This is the most important chart in US politics. Nothing else comes close. It's the death of American democracy. There are ways to change this, but it's an incredible uphill battle.

No matter how long I live after we get through this dark chapter, I will never get over the immorality, the amorality, the corruption, the criminality and the cruelty in service to one of the worst humans to ever walk the earth.

The Ways and Means Committee held a hearing on the impact of rising health care costs on patients and families.  We have to have serious reform of health insurers, pharmacy benefit managers, and their subsidiaries to reduce the cost of healthcare.

The Red Hats have become the Red Coats. In 1770, British soldiers who fired into the Boston crowd believed they were “just doing their job.” They enforced the law, wore the king’s uniform, and obeyed authority. History remembers them as tools of tyranny. 🧵1/4

Whoever made this election map video seriously cooked.

“Education is for the student’s benefit, not for the benefit of their future employer, and that students go to school not merely to acquire skills but to develop an entire social and intellectual life: to have something good and to have it forever” Dan Walden

The US immigrant population generated more in taxes than they received in benefits from all levels of government every year from 1994 to 2023. The Cato study provides the first-ever 30-year analysis of the fiscal effects of immigration on government budgets. Learn more from

We aren’t voting our way out of this.

‘Til the day I die, I will never understand how this wasn’t the end of it, right from the very beginning.

This video should unsettle anyone who takes the United States seriously as a nation. Because it exposes something dangerous: the trivialization of the world's most consequential office. It shows how carelessly the power, credibility, and accumulated moral authority of a

“You meet saints everywhere. They can be anywhere. They are people behaving decently in an indecent society.” — Kurt Vonnegut

New data shows that over 86% of ICE arrests didn’t involve anyone accused or convicted of a violent crime. cc: CBS News

Not only has every Republican since Eisenhower increased the deficit... But every Democrat since Carter has decreased the deficit.

The Top 1% of U.S. earners now have more wealth than the entire middle class

Immigrants and their US-born children use significantly less welfare per person than native-born American adults and their dependent children, a new report by Cato’s The Alex Nowrasteh and Jerome Famularo shows. ow.ly/aqUE50Ykxk6

For the first time ever, the U.S. is spending more on interest payments ($1.23T) than on national defense ($1.16T). The cost of past debt now exceeds the cost of protecting the nation. The bill for decades of borrowing has come due.

A good, albeit depressing, summary of healthcare in the USA.

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