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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has officially announced that he is running for Senate. So here's everything you need to know about him—if you care about reality. Let's start with the fact that he had to take literal ethics classes after he was indicted for securities fraud. (1/5)

submitted 79 days ago • 579 comments

“As a matter of policy, we do not respond to reporters with pronouns in their bios,” says White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt. The petty “thought police” intolerance of the Trump regime should alarm all reasonable people.

submitted 79 days ago • 88 comments

Paxton’s wife just introduced a bill in the Texas Senate that would require photo ID to purchase a sex toy. For real. I wouldn’t joke about something like this.

submitted 79 days ago • 1139 comments

This is not good

submitted 79 days ago • 37 comments

It’s a month since the administration detained and disappeared a green card holder, a lawful permanent resident. We cannot allow this to be normalized or forgotten.

submitted 79 days ago • 781 comments

The irony of Elon accusing everyone under the sun of profiting from some nebulous slush fund is that he himself is the recipient of $38 billion in government handouts.

submitted 80 days ago • 288 comments

The Trump administration plans to fine migrants under deportation orders up to $998 a day if they fail to leave the United States and to seize their property if they do not pay, according to documents reviewed by Reuters reut.rs/3YkxKfm

submitted 80 days ago • 30 comments

If you’re a North Carolinian, you can check whether your name or the names of anyone you know is on the list of the 65K voters whose votes may be tossed. You could have an opportunity to fix it if so. thegriffinlist.com

submitted 81 days ago • 50 comments

Booker: "I've never seen an administration in my lifetime do something so monumentally wrong and that so staggering hurts American people."

submitted 81 days ago • 446 comments

Unreal: the story of an Australian MMA coach sent to a harrowing detention prison upon arriving in the US with a visa to lead a seminar. In case you had any doubt if it’s worth the risk of trying to enter the US unless absolutely necessary. www.instagram.com/p/DIEA_nBpCC...

submitted 82 days ago • 56 comments

I really do think we’re well beyond this point. If you pretend that your differences with friends and coworkers and family are about “politics” when in fact they’re about right versus wrong and fascism versus the rule of law, you’re doing your country a grave disservice.

submitted 81 days ago • 531 comments

🤔 UMMM🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔 WHO ARE THEY AND….. WHY DID THEY GIVE TRUMP $25 MILLION ON SATURDAY 🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨

submitted 81 days ago • 11 comments

Small towns all over the country depend on federal services — which is why they're pouring into the streets today to say #HandsOff! Here is Ames, Iowa 👀

submitted 82 days ago • 48 comments

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⚡️ HAPPENING NOW IN NASHVILLE — giant line to get into the Senator @elizabethwarren town hall @marshablackburn hasn’t done one in 8 years, Hagerty has never done one. So Senator Warren is here.

submitted 82 days ago • 124 comments

Canada picked a guy with a PhD in economics from Oxford. Mexico chose a woman with a degree in physics and a PhD in energy engineering. The U.S. handed the job to a carnival-barking senior citizen, with multiple felonies and six bankruptcies under his belt.

submitted 82 days ago • 146 comments

Hey NORTH CAROLINAAAAAA! There’s about 60k of you that need to find out if your ballot in the latest election was thrown out! NC Supreme Court, after an appeal by GOP bc THREE recounts confirmed dem candidate won, invalidated 60k ballots in heavy Dem districts. REPOST!!!!!!

submitted 82 days ago • 47 comments

20 years ago almost a quarter of Finland's electricity came from coal. This week Finland's last active coal-fired power and heat plant shut down. www.reuters.com/business/ene...

submitted 82 days ago • 15 comments

#HandsOff quad cities, Iowa

submitted 82 days ago • 153 comments

Trumpelstiltskin turns gold into straw. - Senator Tim Kaine

submitted 83 days ago • 13 comments

Please share!!! This is getting ridiculous—they just can’t accept a loss. Please help spread the word to North Carolina. The North Carolina Court of Appeals ruled in a 2-1 decision that over 60,000 votes cast in last year’s closely contested state Supreme Court race must be verified and recounted.

submitted 83 days ago • 460 comments

I am begging Democratic lawmakers to understand that trying to highlight any marginal upside for tariffs as a way of finding common ground in this moment is like making the argument that a compound leg fracture is good for building character. No one wants to hear that shit. Stop.

submitted 83 days ago • 184 comments

Anyone? Anyone? MAGA? Anyone?

submitted 83 days ago • 0 comments

North Carolina working hard on voter suppression is trying to steal an election. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

submitted 83 days ago • 19 comments

Curious how North Carolina voters will respond to their votes being stolen, their 401K disappearing, a shitty economy, and Trump and Republicans openly mocking them and telling them to "hank tough" and suck it up. We're about to see.

submitted 83 days ago • 46 comments

This is bad. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

submitted 83 days ago • 245 comments

🚨🚨Calling all North Carolina voters!! Here is a list of every voter that Jefferson Griffin is trying to disenfranchise, please if you are a NC voter check to see if your name is on here, you have 15 days to cure your ballot to make sure your vote counts. thegriffinlist.com/assets/griff...

submitted 83 days ago • 237 comments

This is the biggest, underreported news right now. Republicans are trying to STEAL an election in North Carolina. Straight up. This is a test case for 2026 and 2028. They will never voluntarily give up power again.

submitted 83 days ago • 80 comments

You had us at "a book of spells, the key to wonders."

submitted 83 days ago • 304 comments

Breaking: Whirlpool announces they are laying off 651 American workers in Iowa, citing the economic conditions under Trump.

submitted 84 days ago • 536 comments

NEWS: Whirlpool Corp. announces Iowa's largest layoff of 2025 in Amana manufacturing facility. Nearly 1/3 of the company’s workforce in the Iowa facility will be let go due to current market conditions.

submitted 84 days ago • 930 comments

RFK Jr is cutting Alzheimer's research to the tune of $3.9 billion. I can't state this more clearly. The fraction of the American population that is elderly and susceptible to dementia is large and growing fast. This is a critical population health crisis. It needs more attention, not less.

submitted 85 days ago • 54 comments

Wild story: the acting Social Security chief was warned that terminating data collection contracts with Maine would increase fraud. But he responded that it didn't matter because it was more important to punish Maine's governor for disagreeing with Trump. www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

submitted 85 days ago • 162 comments

This is a United States Senator MACK: I was laid off from HHS and now people aren’t getting social services, especially people with disabilities BANKS: You probably deserved it MACK: Why did I deserve it? BANKS: Because you look like a clown

submitted 85 days ago • 3944 comments

Our politicians and leaders have done more to address “fentanyl exposure,” which is not a thing, than they have to address gun violence, which is the number one killer of American children.

submitted 85 days ago • 7 comments

Exclusive: The Trump administration has fired staff who were working on the US Food and Drug Administration's bird flu response as part of its mass layoffs at the Department of Health and Human Services reut.rs/3FRLJ67

submitted 86 days ago • 21 comments

Senator Cory Booker joins me live at 9PM Eastern on MSNBC.

submitted 86 days ago • 1775 comments

Nebraska voters passed a minimum wage increase. LB258 guts it. I’m calling on the advocacy community: Boycott the businesses of senators backing it. Picket their offices. Fill the rotunda. Your vote is not theirs to undo. #NELeg

submitted 86 days ago • 2 comments

Hey hi The government sold a man into slavery in El Salvador They now admit they messed up And are refusing to figure out a way to get him back

submitted 86 days ago • 234 comments

Wisconsin folks: please, I am begging y’all to go vote today. Don’t assume this race is won. Every vote is gonna matter. We need EVERYONE to go cast a ballot for Susan Crawford. Polls close at 8pm. Go here to find out where you’re supposed to vote: myvote.wi.gov/en-us/Find-M...

submitted 86 days ago • 19 comments

Trump’s ICE just “mistakenly” kidnapped a man with protected status and no record married to a U.S. citizen with a disabled child who is a citizen and sent him to an El Salvadoran hard labor prison — and say they can’t do anything about it In our names 🇺🇸

submitted 87 days ago • 213 comments

Pete Hegseth Calls For Steep Cuts To Number Of Steps In AA Recovery

submitted 87 days ago • 1035 comments

With the abrupt shutdown of USAID funding, many clinics, including those serving women in remote areas, have shuttered. Midwives are reporting that mothers and babies are dying as a result.

submitted 87 days ago • 106 comments

Looking for corporate media coverage of the @booker.senate.gov filibuster and finding NONE. Currently live on CSPAN2 and YouTube.

submitted 87 days ago • 776 comments

Which pillar is still standing? Think hard. US citizens have been deported. That means none of us are safe. That’s right, none of us

submitted 87 days ago • 15 comments