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“The people are what matter to government, and a government should aim to give all the people under its jurisdiction the best possible life.” Words from Frances Perkins, FDR's labor secretary and an architect of Social Security. Remember this as the program is under attack.

submitted 104 days ago • 128 comments

Elon Musk slandered Social Security over the weekend by calling the vital and beloved program a criminal Ponzi scheme, the same lie Donald Trump used before he decided to run for president. Musk has recently begun the wholesale dismantling of our Social Security system.

submitted 104 days ago • 25 comments

#Trump said we’d be tired of winning. What he meant was we’d be tired of #Putin winning.

submitted 104 days ago • 1 comment

All part of the GOP plan.

submitted 104 days ago • 19 comments

Our stock market is crashing. Our economy is contracting. Our government is dismantling. Our allies are fleeing. Our grocery prices are rising. But at least we now call it "The Gulf of America." So it all evens out.

submitted 104 days ago • 819 comments

Breaking news: President Donald Trump has decided to pause all future deliveries of U.S. military assistance to Ukraine in an extraordinary move aimed at pressuring Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to the negotiating table with Russia.

submitted 104 days ago • 721 comments

In its 60 years, Medicaid has grown from a small program that provided medical care to poor Americans receiving cash assistance to the largest source of public insurance, covering 72 million people. Here is where enrollment in the program is highest. nyti.ms/4intZxz

submitted 107 days ago • 37 comments

Trump administration takes aim at bird flu. For now, the cattle will have to wait www.statnews.com/2025/02/26/t... via @statnews.com

submitted 107 days ago • 1 comment

This is awesome! LOLOL

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The most shameful betrayal of an ally by a U.S. President in modern history.

submitted 111 days ago • 250 comments

There are many veterans with disabilities. They are included in DEI. Americans with disabilities warn protections are vanishing in Trump's DEI rollback www.axios.com/2025/02/23/t...

submitted 112 days ago • 73 comments

Australian billionaire Clive Palmer dreams of becoming an oligarch, he's launched a political party Trumpet of Patriots, feeling directly inspired by US autocrat Trump. #OpCanary #E3 #EndOligarchy www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...

submitted 112 days ago • 58 comments

United States support for Ukraine was never about securing mineral rights. Or providing security for money. It was about democracy and sovereignty. And a willingness to defend our allies and oppose our enemies. Trump is betraying Ukraine, but also our values. Our history and our legacy.

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🚨 Stay Prepared, Stay Empowered! We’ve created a Citizen Guide to help you navigate extreme situations like Martial Law- not to alarm, but to inform. 🌐💡Again - not sounding an alarm, just informing. Print it out or save it offline so you can access it anytime, even without the internet.

submitted 113 days ago • 56 comments

Ticket sales dropped roughly 50 percent week-over-week after Trump announced his takeover, sources said. Meanwhile, performers are mulling their options.

submitted 113 days ago • 79 comments

This is resistance.

submitted 113 days ago • 150 comments

“New Social Security chief was being investigated when Musk team tapped him” www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

submitted 113 days ago • 28 comments

DOGE’s expenses have risen above 40 million, with weekly costs now exceeding 10 million. We will release an updated DOGE staff list soon.

submitted 113 days ago • 401 comments

The politics of spite are alive and well in Donald Trump's Washington. This compelling piece from The Big Picture explores how the MAGA Republican Party has transformed obstruction into an electoral strategy and what Democrats can do to counter this trend.

submitted 114 days ago • 93 comments

Todd Blanche, Trump’s criminal defense lawyer, promised he would follow the advice of career ethics officials at the Department of Justice. Then they fired the career ethics officials. Piece by piece they are destroying the Justice Dept. And any hope of justice along with it.

submitted 114 days ago • 86 comments

It’s been a long first 30 days. And there’s been a lot of bad news lately. So how about some good news for a change? There’s a shift in public opinion over Trump’s aggressive moves. Check out the evidence in my piece today: https://buff.ly/4beyVCE

submitted 114 days ago • 24 comments

Trump - with his devotion to Putin, abandonment of Ukraine, and lies about history- is the antithesis of everything Ronald Reagan stood for. He is aligning America with the enemies of the very freedom that generations have fought and died to defend.

submitted 116 days ago • 302 comments

Georgia protestors on day 84 of mass protests stand in solidarity with Ukraine: "Glory to Ukraine, glory to Georgia, fire to oligarchy" (📹 @mariamnikuradze.bsky.social ) #3E #Georgiaprotests #EndImpunity #EndOligarchy #StandWithUkraine #Feb19

submitted 116 days ago • 45 comments

The State Department has ordered the cancellation of all news subscriptions deemed “non-mission critical,” according to internal email guidance viewed by The Post. The move aligns with the Trump administration’s crackdown on media companies that count the U.S. government as paying customers.

submitted 116 days ago • 66 comments

The Kennedy Center, currently run by gay quisling and Trump toady Richard Grenell, has cancelled the concert by the Gay Men’s Chorus of Washington, DC, performing alongside the National Symphony Orchestra previously scheduled for May. Their hate has no shame. www.washingtonian.com/2025/02/18/k...

submitted 116 days ago • 253 comments

Trump will finish his Presidency by making Putin great again. Not America, not our allies, but Putin. Europe’s Leaders, Dazed by an Ally Acting Like an Adversary, Recalculate www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/w...

submitted 117 days ago • 34 comments

Senator Bill Cassidy (R-LA), a physician, is sounding the alarm over a massive measles outbreak in neighboring Texas. Cassidy fucked around and voted to confirm anti-vaxxer RFK Jr as head of HHS. Now Louisianans, and all Americans, get to find out about deadly outbreaks of containable diseases.

submitted 117 days ago • 56 comments

This is horrifying www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...

submitted 117 days ago • 13 comments

MAGA in a nutshell: "Please only viciously hurt other people for giggles and kicks!!!"

submitted 118 days ago • 448 comments

January 22.

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The incompetent engineers at SpaceX who create aircraft that explode after takeoff are going to take control of the FAA to make aviation safer. Nothing to see. Everything is fine. GIRL, TAKE GREYHOUND!!!

submitted 118 days ago • 470 comments