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I want to report some good news from LA: ICE picked a hotel in Pasadena to be their headquarters for this side of the city. The residents of Pasadena (myself included) would not stand for this and protested all yesterday in front of the hotel until, eventually, the hotel kicked out ICE!!

submitted 11 days ago • 608 comments

The correct way to connect the authoritarian presence in LA and the Big Beautiful Bill is that the bill gives the government the resources to do this in dozens of cities at once. So if you don't like what's happening in LA, it's coming to your town if the bill passes.

submitted 11 days ago • 205 comments

I'm not sure how I feel about the news Karine Jean-Pierre has decided to leave the Dem Party to become an Independent. It seems opportunistic to me - especially as she's using it as a reason to cash in on a new book. There's a lot of speculation, but I want to hear her reason(s).

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

The new top voting lawyer at the Department of Justice was until recently an attorney and activist for a leading anti-voting legal group that has worked for years to spread fear about illegal voting and press election officials to tighten voting rules. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

submitted 18 days ago • 286 comments

Let me introduce you to Josh Divine, a Trump judicial nominee who as a student newspaper opinion columnist explained opposition to homosexuality by grouping it with bestiality, polygamy, and “any form of sex that goes against the biological design of procreation and the nurturing of a family.”

submitted 18 days ago • 79 comments

Law enforcement officers should never cover their faces when making arrests or conceal their identities (unless they are working undercover). They work for us. We have a right to know who they are. These face coverings are frightening & unAmerican, as though they're ashamed of what they're doing.

submitted 19 days ago • 1278 comments

Here's something everybody should be paying attention to: Congressional Republicans are trying to weaken the Affordable Care Act and put millions of people at risk of losing their health care. Call your Senators and tell them we can't let that happen.

submitted 18 days ago • 1047 comments

Flash bangs on civilians, handcuffs on congressional staffers, aggressive raids in places that dare oppose them. DHS is accountable only to an unaccountable president. Gift link: wapo.st/3FBTxJp

submitted 18 days ago • 13 comments

Castor: They told Heidy Sánchez, ‘Come in early—we want to check on your status.’ And she did the right thing… And at that ICE meeting, they took her. They took her away from her child. This is a breastfeeding mother. They flew her to another detention center in Miami, and then onto a plane to Cuba.

submitted 18 days ago • 305 comments

"The problem with a delayed response is that the more power leaders with authoritarian tendencies accumulate, the harder it is to mount an effective resistance. The opposition is thus more likely to succeed if it acts early..." www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...

submitted 81 days ago • 783 comments

Hi, BlueSky. It's Hillary. I've joined up here to help get the word out about an important election in Wisconsin tomorrow, and other ways to defend our democracy against those who think votes can be bought.

submitted 81 days ago • 7321 comments

Musk is blaming "Herbert Sandler," among others, for secretly financing the protests and Tesla dealerships over the last few weeks. Sandler died in 2019.

submitted 104 days ago • 1090 comments

Stellar job, MAGA /RFK Jr!

submitted 114 days ago • 0 comments

Arizona AG Kris Mayes, New Mexico AG Raul Torrez, and Oregon AG Dan Rayfield will begin holding Community Impact Hearings — a national series of townhalls "to hear from the public about the impact of federal firings and DOGE funding freezes across the country." The first will be in Phoenix March 5.

submitted 114 days ago • 747 comments

💥 BREAKING: At John Deere's annual shareholders meeting today, shareholders overwhelmingly rejected an anti-DEI proposal brought by the same group that targeted Costco and Apple. An anti-DEI proposal from the NCPPR received less than 1 percent of votes. Deere shareholders: DEI is in. Bigots are out

submitted 114 days ago • 1327 comments

Just heard from a friend who is a true hero veteran. His company was destroyed in 30 days by the VA when they canceled 5 contracts without notice. 23 Americans mostly veterans out of work and a veteran owned small business destroyed. For nothing. They're dismantling the VA not "reforming" it.

submitted 114 days ago • 1226 comments

This vote was to start the process of the cuts. It WILL come back for a final vote. There are some chances to slow or potentially stop it. Need constant pressure on GOP Focus on GOP swing seats & key committees. Energy & Commerce is where the Medicaid fight will go down. Ways&Means for tax fight.

submitted 115 days ago • 1211 comments

$19,000,000,000,000.00

submitted 115 days ago • 1595 comments

NYT: “DOGE deleted the top five highest savings claims on its ‘wall of receipts’ leaderboard after variousnews outlets pointed out multiple errors in its calculations…” newrepublic.com/post/191973/...

submitted 115 days ago • 512 comments

Are you ready?

submitted 115 days ago • 35 comments

I miss DEI

submitted 115 days ago • 2221 comments

Budzinski: "We saw just yesterday another round of layoffs at the VA -- 1,400 more people. When we're trying to address veterans suicide rates, when you're cutting jobs for folks that are actually answering those suicide hotlines, how is that in the service of our veterans?"

submitted 115 days ago • 425 comments

If you feel this way, you're not along. And together, we're going to keep the Republic. Pass it on.

submitted 115 days ago • 736 comments

Why is no one asking Trump why he's not asking Israel to repay the US the billions we've sent them to fight Hamas? Why is he only interested in extorting Ukraine?

submitted 116 days ago • 0 comments

MAGA has been crying about DEI & demanded jobs be based on meritocracy. Really? Not one single Trump cabinet member got their jobs based on merit. The only thing that mattered was their devotion & loyalty to Trump. Meritocracy, my ass.

submitted 116 days ago • 0 comments

This is great. www.theverge.com/news/617014/...

submitted 116 days ago • 83 comments

Lawyer at Musk’s X warned major ad company: get your clients to spend more on X, or else. Was a reminder that the ad company’s recently announced merger could be torpedoed, or at least slowed down, by the Trump administration, given Musk’s powerful role in the federal government

submitted 116 days ago • 57 comments

@chrismurphyct.bsky.social why are you not posting on here first ? You have some great things to say. You are trying some great things. Yet you post on X where 100pct of the replies are meaningless and hateful. It's not all roses here, but the engagement has depth and real convos happen

submitted 117 days ago • 1429 comments

Dear Dems. This is a reminder that Donald Trump rescinded the ethics rules preventing gifts to executive branch employees. Now would be a good time to propose legislation formalizing the prevention into a law Time to do things that make him react to you. apnews.com/article/trum...

submitted 117 days ago • 2580 comments

By replacing the black 4-star general with a less-qualified white guy, Trump & MAGA are showing us they want DEI as long as it's applied the 'right' way.

submitted 117 days ago • 0 comments

“More than a quarter of the contracts listed by DOGE were actually already paid, the Journal found, saving no money. For instance, DOGE listed $168,000 in savings for terminating a contract with HHS for an Anthony Fauci museum exhibit. It had already been fully paid.” Beyond parody.

submitted 117 days ago • 683 comments

ICONIC: Yosemite National Park workers just hung an upside-down American flag—THOUSANDS of feet up on El Capitan. That’s not decoration. That’s a distress signal. They’re telling us the country is in danger. Are you paying attention? www.sfchronicle.com/outdoors/art...

submitted 117 days ago • 405 comments

Members of the military are supposed to be loyal to the Constitution, not the president. Changing that seems to have been the point of the Friday Night Massacre. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

submitted 118 days ago • 561 comments

Many are asking what should we do now? “We use our power, organize, mobilize, educate…the American story will not be written by who occupies the White House or by the wealthiest among us…it will be written by you, by ‘we the people.’” -fmr VP Kamala Harris receiving the NAACP Chairman’s Award.

submitted 118 days ago • 672 comments

FOX NEWS: You are against people bringing in eggs that have not been-- I mean, we have the USDA for a reason. These could be contaminated and bring illnesses in. GALLEGO: Absolutely. This is why we shouldn't be firing USDA inspectors that are actually doing oversight over avian flu

submitted 119 days ago • 594 comments

Dear OPM FOIA staff - Remember to preserve all of these email responses, as we will be submitting FOIA requests for this consolidated compilation of information on what the entire federal government did last week. Thx - FOIA community

submitted 118 days ago • 160 comments

The overwhelming majority of people applauding Elon's request for federal employees to list what they did last week, are folks that won't be impacted. They can afford to talk tough bcuz their job isn't on the line. They won't gaf about anyone/anything until Trump/Elon's actions finally hit home.

submitted 118 days ago • 0 comments

I continue to be amazed that so many magats believed Trump's destruction would only apply to Democrats. They're literally crying bcuz they're being fired or programs they benefit from have been gutted/suspended. They fucked around & now they're finding out Trump dgaf about them.

submitted 118 days ago • 0 comments

Someone needs to interview Merrick Garland & pointedly ask him if he feels any guilt for failing to act with urgency, which has led to the chaos & destruction of our institutions & rule of law. If not for him, spineless Repubs & corrupt Supreme Ct, trump would be facing jail time not be in the WH.

submitted 118 days ago • 0 comments

It feels like people are waking up

submitted 118 days ago • 1625 comments

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submitted 118 days ago • 3 comments

Also if you feel strongly about Eric Adams, you should call your city councilmember to express that and ask for their position. You’d be surprised. Hochul’s stance is highly disappointing but it doesn’t come from nowhere. Press all your electeds. City elections are in 5 months. Ask candidates too.

submitted 118 days ago • 833 comments