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Not knowing about things doesn’t mean they’re not happening.

submitted 10 hours ago • 311 comments

🔥The so-called BBB gives no thought to consequences. “Battery storage is absolutely one of the hardest hit, if not the hardest hit." The battery supply chain is heavily reliant on Chinese minerals/components, which would kick in the foreign entity requirements. .. 1/3 www.eenews.net/articles/how...

submitted 13 hours ago • 5 comments

It's important to challenge this in the courts. It's also important to understand that Trump engages in performative behavior when he wants you to ignore something else he's doing. Don't look away.

submitted 12 hours ago • 135 comments

Please send word to your representatives using RisistBot That we need NOAA and the national weather service! resist.bot/petitions/PV...

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🚨Ready to crash Trump’s Birthday? Trump wants tanks, jets, and a $40M parade on his birthday. We're gonna remind him we don’t do kings in America. No Kings Day is June 14 across America. Our new episode breaks it all down: youtu.be/aje9Di7fYAs?...

submitted 11 hours ago • 12 comments

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submitted 19 hours ago • 321 comments

It wouldn’t be hard to protect Medicaid and funding to rural hospitals and still reduce our nation’s ballooning debt and deficit. The Rs would just have to make the wealthy and corporations pay slightly more in taxes. (PS Rs are never serious about the debt and deficit when they are in power).

submitted 1 day ago • 204 comments

Gonna say something obvious to most: real masculinity defends the defenseless, punches up not down, has compassion, and fights only on behalf of others to battle injustice or evil. It doesn’t just lift weights and tweet in all caps and listen to Rogan and grow a beard to feel accepted by other men

submitted 1 day ago • 1057 comments

As of today, Elon Musk is thought to be responsible for the death of 300,000 adults and kids due to the illegal closure of USAID (source: www.impactcounter.com/dashboard?vi...) That's a 103 deaths per hour, each day. And it will get worse. His legacy is one of death, destruction, and failure.

submitted 6 days ago • 109 comments

Elon's legacy ranges from gutting cancer research to setting in motion millions of deaths from starvation or disease. I'll be pushing for Congress to hold Elon & DOGE accountable—for every act of corruption, every disastrous consequence, and every law they have broken.

submitted 6 days ago • 233 comments

It's not a deportation if a human is removed from a country outside of a legal system. Call it what it is: human trafficking or kidnapping.

submitted 6 days ago • 14 comments

Great – looks as if the White House used AI to draft a health report and wound up inserting citations for articles that don’t exist. They put cheating high schoolers to shame. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/29/w...

submitted 6 days ago • 131 comments

Super wonky Senate precedent based rules now allow the Democrats to slow down proceedings after Republicans overruled the Senate parliamentarian

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

Someone needs to bring a big arena rock sized amplifier up in front of the White House and just put sad trombone on infinite loop.

submitted 7 days ago • 129 comments

It is easy to forget that when Paul Weiss and the other law firms that capitulated to Trump cut their deals they thought they would be viewed as savvy dealmakers. Now they look like craven fools and gutless cowards.

submitted 7 days ago • 216 comments

This article is exactly on target: "US defense giants produce exquisite systems, but often at boutique pace and boutique prices. There is no agile, scalable, layered, fast-response production network. No real surge capacity... they are not optimized for the speed or scale of modern war"

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

Breaking: HHS is canceling a $600 million contract with Moderna to develop, test, and license vaccines for flu strains that could trigger future pandemics, including the dangerous H5N1 bird flu virus.

submitted 7 days ago • 276 comments

Day 47 🇺🇸

submitted 7 days ago • 27 comments

The Trump administration uses the language of the law as cover to claim that it is complying with court orders when in fact it is not, Leah Litman and Daniel Deacon write. “We call this ‘legalistic noncompliance.’”

submitted 8 days ago • 7 comments

Slow & steady wins the race! Big win for my union AFGE. A judge granted a preliminary injunction ruling that President Trump cannot implement mass layoffs of federal workers without the approval of Congress which created these agencies. #UnionStrong ✊🏾 click.actionnetwork.org/ss/c/u001.Xa...

submitted 8 days ago • 38 comments

If you drive drunk and your negligence kills someone, you will likely be sentenced to years in prison. If you are a Boeing executive and your negligence kills 346 people, you likely will not receive any punishment at all. In America, we don't treat white collar crimes as crimes.

submitted 8 days ago • 110 comments

This is a pretty informative analysis. A nice review of the basics and then the main point: Question: Will the world economy crash? Answer: Maybe. Maybe not. Nobody knows because it all depends on Trump's whims... and that's really scary.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Can't help but feel we're living through an increasingly existential war between spectacle and substance with spectacle winning battle after battle after battle.

submitted 8 days ago • 1119 comments

Millions of Americans rely on Medicaid so they can see a doctor when they’re sick & rely on food assistance so their children won’t starve. But under Trump's proposed tax bill, these programs will be slashed to pay for more tax breaks for billionaires. #StopTheBillionaireBailout

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Even after all this, the @nytimes continues to normalize it

submitted 10 days ago • 699 comments

Is your Memorial Day barbecue more expensive this year? Maybe because just 4 firms control 85% of the beef market, 66% of the pork market, and 54% of the poultry market. Minimal competition means maximized price gouging. https://youtu.be/NuvKoe9Ilvo?si=KoAExA3HWCDTN8L3

submitted 10 days ago • 153 comments

In other words, he promised repeatedly during the campaign he had a secret plan to end the war in 24 hours and he was just bullshitting everyone because he doesn’t have the first clue what to do, he gave away all negotiating leverage months ago, and his special envoy is a dope.

submitted 10 days ago • 3159 comments

President Trump's dinner for top buyers of $TRUMP coin poses a range of ethical concerns. "The great irony here is that many of the people buying this currency would not be eligible to donate $100 to the president’s campaign," @danw329.bsky.social told @nbcnews.com

submitted 10 days ago • 23 comments

T rump A lways C hickens O ut

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WATCH: When someone you've admired and sucked up to since the 1980s does something that makes you look weak and impotent, but you don't dare confront him directly, so you feign faux surprise and clutch your pearls when a murderous dictator behaves like the murderous dictator he's always been.

submitted 10 days ago • 2 comments

Fiona Hill: Trump is terrified of Putin, I’ve seen it first-hand www.telegraph.co.uk/us/politics/...

submitted 10 days ago • 3 comments

The Wall Street Journal had a piece last night that the Judicial Conference of the United States — the policy making body for the federal judiciary — is discussing whether the Judiciary should have its own armed security force rather than rely on the U.S. Marshals for federal judges’ protection.

submitted 10 days ago • 405 comments