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Folks: I am NOT affiliated with the group that is using my name to support an economic boycott. Please spread this post, if you would.

submitted 120 days ago • 420 comments

We should not be cutting health care for working families to deliver massive tax breaks for billionaires. Repost if you agree.

submitted 121 days ago • 32 comments

I'm sad to share that the trans vet that took her life outside the VA last week was apparently Elisa Rae Shupe. She's someone many of us know - she was responsible for the mass email leak that let us know how the ADF, Heritage, etc planned to enact trans eradication we see today. RIP Elisa.

submitted 122 days ago • 397 comments

Buckle up everyone this is going to be a LONG thread but if you are a current Fed you are going to want to bookmark it because it’s the roadmap for what’s coming. #SaveUSAID #SaveAmerica 1/

submitted 127 days ago • 48 comments

The FBI’s core values, including integrity, compassion, fairness, and allegiance to the Constitution - and oh, yeah, diversity, are being painted over at the FBI Academy. Source: NYT.

submitted 133 days ago • 2469 comments

NEW: “Security agents escorted the inspector general of the U.S. Department of Agriculture [Phyllis Fong] out of her office on Monday after she refused to comply with her firing by the Trump administration.” www.reuters.com/world/us/usd...

submitted 135 days ago • 276 comments

The White House seems to have rescinded its nationwide funding freeze via the obscure procedural tool known as “backsies”

submitted 135 days ago • 3 comments

TEXAS: “The Chronicle reports that in 2023, at least 100 minors had to leave Texas for abortion care; at least six of the minors were children under 12 years old.” 😳 #ForcedBirthNation www.jezebel.com/texas-aborti...

submitted 135 days ago • 141 comments

This is bad. Send info to anyone you know who works as federal employee. This is full-on Putin sh*t. Follow @altyellonatpark.org for more info. www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

submitted 137 days ago • 5 comments

I am completely unsurprised

submitted 137 days ago • 276 comments

Our new Sec of Homeland Security, Kristi Noem, promoted this anti-drug slogan as Governor of S. Dakota. I wish I were kidding.

submitted 139 days ago • 102 comments

David Fotouhi, Trump’s No. 2 EPA pick, recently challenged the agency’s ban of asbestos, which causes a deadly cancer called mesothelioma. He argued the EPA “failed to demonstrate that chrysotile asbestos presents an unreasonable risk of injury.” By @fastlerner.bsky.social

submitted 139 days ago • 132 comments

Today in Politics, Bulletin 56. Gavin Newsom crashed Trump’s visit to CA, and it did not appear to be a friendly conversation. Here is everything you need to know about what happened today in politics. open.substack.com/pub/meidasto...

submitted 140 days ago • 351 comments

Republicans own every disaster Pete Hegseth causes for eternity. A reckless choice. Someone who is susceptible to blackmail, with a slew of serious allegations against him. What an abomination.

submitted 140 days ago • 329 comments

Time flies… “The tyranny of the executive power will come in its turn, but at a more distant period.” Thomas Jefferson, quoted by Alexis de Tocqueville, 1835

submitted 140 days ago • 24 comments

Bravo, Costco!

submitted 140 days ago • 116 comments

Executive orders can't erase the truth of who we are. Transgender and intersex people deserve the freedom to do what's right for our own bodies and lives.

submitted 140 days ago • 20 comments

🚨BREAKING: Trump DOJ files letter with Supreme Court withdrawing its prior brief supporting Louisiana congressional map having a second Black opportunity district. Says this "no longer represents the position of the United States." Also withdraws request to participate in oral argument.

submitted 140 days ago • 184 comments

Republican: "i am going to fucking kill you and everyone you say you care about." Democrat: "maybe we can find some common ground here. what if you just kill everyone i say i care about?"

submitted 140 days ago • 3 comments

Newark Mayor Ras Baraka: ICE agents, during a warrantless raid, detained undocumented residents as well as citizens. “One of the detainees is a U.S. military veteran who suffered the indignity of having the legitimacy of his military documentation questioned.” www.northjersey.com/story/news/e...

submitted 141 days ago • 704 comments

The folks obsessively posting about egg prices for the past few years have gone strangely quiet just as egg prices hit an all-time high.

submitted 141 days ago • 1244 comments

We know Trump’s anti-trans executive action is creating fear, confusion, and chaos for so many in our community. Here is what we know about federal identity documents as of Thursday, Jan. 23, 2025. We will continue to provide updates from our experts as more information is released.

submitted 141 days ago • 16 comments

The goal is to overwhelm us so we give up. Don't do that!

submitted 142 days ago • 1372 comments

submitted 142 days ago • 896 comments

So I’m just curious, are there any jobs women and POC can have that aren’t DEI?

submitted 142 days ago • 515 comments

Epic courage here.

submitted 143 days ago • 1234 comments

Why will Meta let us search for Republican videos but not for Democrat videos?? What in the 1930’s Germany is this?!

submitted 143 days ago • 137 comments

The Nazis think this was a Nazi salute, but, hey, what would they know?

submitted 144 days ago • 954 comments

“What do you think the temperatures are like in Greenland, moron?”

submitted 147 days ago • 17 comments

On Monday, let’s only focus on the important event: honoring the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. www.msnbc.com/katie-phang/...

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"What happened?" "I’m stuck. It's so embarrassing." “I guess things went... a-rye?” “Please do shut up.” "You should get out of the sun." "Why?" "Otherwise, you'll be toast." "You're an asshole, Charlie." “You’re right, you deserve butter.”

submitted 146 days ago • 317 comments

January 13, 2025:

submitted 151 days ago • 28 comments

That Felony Guy makes zero sense and is only going to get worse.

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"California paid in a lot more [to the federal government] than it got back — $83 billion in total. So did Washington state and much of the Northeast. Most red states were in the reverse position, getting much more from DC than they paid in return."

submitted 151 days ago • 590 comments

Back in 2020, we looked at data showing how the number of Fall "fire weather" (high winds, low humidity) days in California will double by the end of the century.. and the fires raging in LA right now started _outside_ the standard September-November high-FWI szn.

submitted 151 days ago • 2 comments

President Zelensky: 150 Ukrainian firefighters are ready to travel to California to help combat the wildfires.🇺🇸🇺🇦

submitted 152 days ago • 1589 comments