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Ms Rachel got hands

submitted 22 days ago • 21 comments

Editors, please assign a deep dive piece on the grave damage musk & doge have done to the United States, rather than how he’s feeling about it.

submitted 24 days ago • 55 comments

If we can afford to give another $664 billion in tax breaks to the top 1% and spend over $1 trillion on the Pentagon, we can afford health care for the working people of this country.

submitted 23 days ago • 155 comments

If a foreign adversary snuck into our Federal budget and cut science research and education the way we’re cutting it ourselves — strategically undermining America’s long-term health, wealth, and security — we would likely consider it an act of war.

submitted 33 days ago • 1221 comments

Pope Leo just drew a line. No names—but the message was clear: dignity for migrants, not mass deportations. Trump and Vance push fear. Leo pushes back—with moral fire. The Church isn’t staying silent this time. Collision incoming.

submitted 42 days ago • 16 comments

Remember when we said that what Signalgate is REALLY about is ensuring American pilots don't get shot down because attack plans are shared in non-secure Signal chats? Now not one but TWO F/A-18s have been lost over the Red Sea. Where is Pete Hegseth? And what is he texting?

submitted 45 days ago • 45 comments

Check out this @pbs.org documentary on public libraries now

submitted 52 days ago • 2 comments

Your periodic reminder that one way to think about privilege is: who's allowed to make mistakes?

submitted 64 days ago • 160 comments

Hey, do you know what you call a guy who never admits a mistake, who becomes President of the United States by never admitting a mistake, who then convinces his entire presidential administration to never admit—let alone correct—any mistake, leading to innocents getting life sentences? A sociopath.

submitted 67 days ago • 699 comments

@debbiedingell.house.gov

submitted 68 days ago • 16 comments

Trump and Bukele claim they can't release anyone from CECOT BUT THEY ALREADY HAVE: at least 9 detainees El Salvador released back to the US in the last 3 months NINE other people freed. Why not Abrego Garcia, who's there on an "administrative error"? DEMAND HIS FREEDOM NOW

submitted 67 days ago • 55 comments

We found the government “waste, fraud, and abuse”.

submitted 74 days ago • 802 comments

"I don't want a Disney vacation of our history! I don't a whitewashed history, I don't want a homogenized history. Tell me the wretched truth about America, because that speaks to our greatness" -- 20 hours into his speech, Cory Booker is spitting absolute 🔥

submitted 81 days ago • 1017 comments

I may be tired and a little hoarse, but as I said again and again on the Senate floor, this is a moment where we cannot afford to be silent, when we must speak up.

submitted 81 days ago • 10834 comments

The U.S is the wealthiest country in the history of the world. We should not have the highest rate of child poverty of nearly every major country on earth. We should have the lowest. It's time to end this international embarrassment & create an economy that works for all.

submitted 81 days ago • 683 comments

True facts.

submitted 103 days ago • 1320 comments

Wow this guy totally gets it

submitted 103 days ago • 187 comments

Telling Americans to “Shut Up About Egg Prices” is quite the message

submitted 105 days ago • 942 comments

So they really think I’m going to spend the next four years hanging on every word he vomits? Haha, that’s cute…and not going to happen. Anyway, tonight’s read:

submitted 109 days ago • 16 comments

“Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.” — James Baldwin

submitted 113 days ago • 64 comments

I want everyone to know that screaming match in the Oval Was all for Russia TV that was there

submitted 113 days ago • 650 comments

It’s been a long day, but in short, bullies ain’t shit! I don’t care what title you hold! This isn’t some long gone reality tv show or failed casino; it is war! How dare a draft dodging dumb dupe humiliate an ally & berate a brave man who has actually been on a battlefield for his people?!

submitted 113 days ago • 2475 comments

None of us can be sure what will “work.” You try multiple things and find your way in. Read some histories of the Civil Rights Movement by those who participated. They were never “sure” of what would work. Some campaigns fizzled out. But persistence, creativity, determination, and focus were key.

submitted 114 days ago • 491 comments

Day 1 on the left. Day 2 on the right. Don't let anyone tell you that pushback is pointless. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202... www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

submitted 115 days ago • 310 comments

House Republicans just took the first step towards passing their plans to cut health care and hike the cost of groceries for millions of people. Why? To pay for tax giveaways for billionaires and billionaire corporations. Working people won't forget this. We need to fight back.

submitted 116 days ago • 140 comments

“RESIST. DO NOT COMPLY WITH THEIR ILLEGAL MANDATES.”Judge Ortiz emailed her EEOC colleagues after the anti-trans EO. She told me, “The unknown was not as scary as being complicit and not speaking up. I can exist on cornflakes and community at the end of the day if it means that my soul is intact.”

submitted 120 days ago • 25 comments

BREAKING: Donald Trump just fired General CQ Brown (left) and has replaced him with the less qualified Lt. General Dan Caine. DEI isn’t a problem if you’re white.

submitted 120 days ago • 569 comments

This is how it’s done.

submitted 120 days ago • 2842 comments

who could’ve predicted that confirming a white nationalist, christian extremist, drunk, sexual predator, tv host to lead our country’s armed forces would end in ruin

submitted 120 days ago • 65 comments

submitted 120 days ago • 746 comments

Just look at these paragraphs from the AP story. Hegseth called Brown unqualified solely because he's Black. Then they fired him... and replaced him with a white guy so indisputably unqualified that he requires a Presidential waiver. This is what "merit" means to them. apnews.com/article/trum...

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submitted 122 days ago • 591 comments

This story can't be repeated enough. The GOP is lined up behind the guy who is so incompetent that his quasi-gov't agency did this. They're confirming his highly questionable nominees & hurting the American people. And "accidentally"? It was stupidity, not accident. www.nbcnews.com/politics/dog...

submitted 123 days ago • 1132 comments

DOGE recommended firing workers at: -FDA, which oversees Neuralink -FAA, which oversees SpaceX -USAID, which probed Starlink -CFPB, which oversees Tesla's financing arm and a potential payment platform on X. "Conflict of interest" is a severe understatement.

submitted 122 days ago • 1189 comments

They voted for the guy who said he would lower the price of eggs. Now we have no eggs.

submitted 123 days ago • 469 comments

I repeat…

submitted 125 days ago • 1030 comments

so far going anti-woke leads to less money and planes falling out of the sky

submitted 124 days ago • 2585 comments

Knowledge is power…

submitted 126 days ago • 1026 comments

from “Parable of the Talents” by Octavia Butler

submitted 126 days ago • 375 comments

submitted 126 days ago • 260 comments

European friends: Do not accept lectures on democracy & freedom of speech from an Administration that denies the 2020 election results and is now suing & intimidating news outlets whose reporting they don’t like. Stand tall against right-wing extremism. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/15/w...

submitted 126 days ago • 302 comments

the federal government is explicitly acting as if jim crow is the law!

submitted 126 days ago • 72 comments

submitted 126 days ago • 1058 comments

It should go without saying, but perhaps not: Removing uncomfortable histories because they fail to glorify the dominant group in power is not the sign of a healthy and free society.

submitted 127 days ago • 13 comments

submitted 127 days ago • 674 comments

Incompetence in Washington puts every American at risk, no matter how you voted. No one should be happy that the DOGE team - the same folks who randomly published classified U.S. security information online today - wants access to your bank account & Social Security numbers.

submitted 127 days ago • 2639 comments