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Johnson pushes to get House GOP holdouts to back tax bill
**Johnson Pushes to Get House GOP Holdouts to Back Tax Bill** House Speaker Mike Johnson is intensifying efforts to rally support among Republican holdouts in the House of Representatives as the GOP attempts to pass a significant tax package. The bill, which has been a priority for House Republicans, includes extensions of business tax breaks, increases in the child tax credit, and measures aimed at economic growth. However, internal party divisions have threatened its passage, with several conservative members withholding their support.
By GLOBAL NEWS8 months ago in The Swamp
Navigating Competing Priorities in the Senate's Tax Debate
As President Donald Trump's ambitious "Big, Beautiful Bill" landed in the Senate, the Republican Party finds itself at a critical juncture, grappling with a complex web of internal divisions and competing demands. What began as a seemingly unified push for comprehensive tax reform has evolved into a legislative gauntlet, revealing deep ideological rifts and pragmatic concerns within the GOP ranks. The bill, a sprawling collection of tax breaks, spending cuts, and national security initiatives, is intended to make permanent many of the tax cuts from Trump's first term, alongside new proposals that aim to reshape the American economic landscape. However, the path to passage is proving to be anything but smooth, with the looming July 4th deadline amplifying the pressure on Republican leadership.
By Tallgirl8 months ago in The Swamp
“The July Revolution 2024: A New Dawn That Shook Bangladesh”
In July 2024, Bangladesh experienced a watershed moment. What started out as a protest by students turned into a national call for justice. The “July Revolution” wasn’t just another movement—it was the awakening of a nation’s suppressed hopes. With youthful leaders at the helm and a united chorus of “justice, not the state,” this was a moment when courage lit the way forward.
By kaykobad8 months ago in The Swamp
The World’s Most Powerful Bunker-Buster Bomb — Capable of Destroying Iran’s Deep Underground Nuclear Sites
🌍 The World’s Most Powerful Bunker-Buster Bomb — Capable of Destroying Iran’s Deep Underground Nuclear Sites The United States possesses a secretive and devastating weapon — one that has never been used in any war so far. But if it were ever unleashed, it could turn deeply buried nuclear bunkers into dust and rubble, even those hidden under rugged mountains.
By Ikram Ullah8 months ago in The Swamp
Oikophobia, or How the Left Learned to Hate Its Own Reflection
Let us begin with a word that sounds like a Victorian sneeze and carries the diagnostic precision of a Freudian sideshow act: oikophobia. No, it's not an obscure Mediterranean allergy, though you'd be forgiven for imagining it's what afflicts aristocrats when confronted with the working class. Rather, it's the fashionable loathing of one's own cultural home—an ideological self-flagellation that has become the ambient theology of a disturbingly large segment of modern progressivism.
By Conrad Hannon8 months ago in The Swamp
Birthright Citizenship in America: Rights, History, and Controversy. AI-Generated.
Birthright citizenship has long been a defining element of American democracy. It ensures that anyone born on U.S. soil automatically becomes a U.S. citizen—regardless of their parents’ legal status or nationality. Enshrined in the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, this principle has shaped the nation’s diversity and identity for over 150 years. However, in recent years, birthright citizenship has become a topic of intense political debate, raising questions about immigration, constitutional interpretation, and national identity.
By Asad Ali8 months ago in The Swamp
The Meaning Of Socialism
Introduction I follow a few left-wing American commentators who do embrace Socialism in their politics but still manage to denigrate it in their posts. These are a few of the ones I am talking about, Bernie Sanders, Dean Obediah and Robert Reichs:
By Mike Singleton 💜 Mikeydred 8 months ago in The Swamp
Progress is woven, not layered
Within the 21st Century version of Capitalist “Democracies” that we all live under, especially for those of us born after 1980, so Millennials, Gen Z, etc. We’ve come to grow fond of Social Justice issues such as; LGBTQIA+ Rights, Abortion Rights, Women's Rights, Immigrant rights, etc. As much as I am also fervently in favour of all of these and much more, there is an issue with the way that we’ve gone about them, and I don’t think the issue lies with the issues themselves nor the policy changes that have been achieved in correcting them. The issue lies with what we think progress is, or how it's applied to societies. Within the “liberal” framework of things, progress is layered on top of society, and this comes with one big issue. These layered policies can be stripped away by another government, very, very, easily. And there is no buyers remorse button for many western countries, once a country has voted in a Government there is very little that can be actualised to course correct a government that’s trying to strip back these layers.
By Ashyr H.8 months ago in The Swamp
What the F#%k is wrong with people?. Content Warning.
Let’s skip the pleasantries. What the f%#k is wrong with people? I’m not talking about policy disagreements or ideological divides. I’m talking about the daily flood of soul-curdling nonsense that makes you want to walk into the sea. I’m talking about the kind of willful ignorance, cruelty-as-a-branding-strategy, and internet-addled brain rot that now passes for public discourse.
By Jeff Olen8 months ago in The Swamp
What I Learned Growing Up in a Cult. Top Story - June 2025.
Earlier this week I was talking to a coworker about life. After a while, we somehow got on the subject of religion. I had to explain that I have an aversion to most organized forms of religion, having been raised in a church that at the time was very cult-like, and later after a split, the faction that stayed with the original leader went full cult. But that begs the question.
By Atomic Historian8 months ago in The Swamp
Own It or Get the F* Out”**. Content Warning.
An Open Statement to President Trump and the American People By Jasper Blackwood I’m not here to sugarcoat anything.
By Jasper Blackwood8 months ago in The Swamp
Healing Through Cultural Disconnection and Reconnection
For many of us, culture is a quiet ache we carry. Not because we rejected it— but because we were pulled away from it. Sometimes by migration.
By Irfan Ali8 months ago in The Swamp