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Defunding LSC would strip grant funding that supports 130 legal aid providers that do vital work assisting low-income people facing urgent civil legal problems that could cause them to lose their home, income, healthcare, custody of their children or an order of protection from an abuser.

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$PLTR

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I don’t see a provision in the One Big Beautiful Bill that will extend the tax treatment of student loan forgiveness. The provision that is in the American Rescue Plan of 2021 is going to expire at the end of 2025. @warren.senate.gov

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Yes!

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On this anniversary of the US Supreme Court’s Brown v Board decision, vouchers are expanding rapidly.

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BREAKING: A sweeping ProPublica report reveals the U.S. State Department is interfering with foreign countries on behalf of Elon Musk. Officials in both Washington and Gambia have aggressively pushed for the West African country to approve a license for Starlink, of which Musk owns a $150B stake.

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👀⚖️👇🏾

submitted 17 days ago • 28 comments

it’s absolutely intentional. federal employment was one of the largest drivers of the growing black middle class, especially post jim crow

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Holy shiitake! Trump fired Shira Perlmutter, the Director of the US Copyrights Office apparently because she refused to let Elon Musk raid the place to steal author’s intellectual property rights democrats-cha.house.gov/media/press-...

submitted 21 days ago • 137 comments

There are people I know in the national security community who are terrified that the US government is sleepwalking into a 9/11-level catastrophe. Focusing finite resources on nonsense like this instead of credible threats -- that is the reason they're so worried. www.wsj.com/world/greenl...

submitted 25 days ago • 115 comments

Donald Trump's "Unleash the Cops" executive order is being rightly read as a prelude to martial law. But don't miss the other thing its doing: making the cops functionally unaccountable when they commit crimes. My latest in @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/poli...

submitted 31 days ago • 45 comments

This argument working with voters relies on historical illiteracy. This admin knows very well that the Gilded Age was marked by extreme wealth disparities - that’s why it appeals to them. But for it to work, voters need to know nothing. More evidence for why history education is goddamned vital.

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NYT: One estimate finds that DOGE’s “firings, re-hirings, lost productivity and paid leave of thousands of workers” will actually COST taxpayers “upward of $135 billion this fiscal year.” @nytimes.com 🤡 www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/u...

submitted 36 days ago • 303 comments

Well the NIH has cancelled the Women's Health Initiative, the largest study of women in history It has been running continuously since 1991 and has provided massive key knowledge about diseases in women Unreal www.science.org/content/arti...

submitted 38 days ago • 135 comments

The administration’s war on DEI is actually a war on basic medical research.

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APOLLO: “It normally takes 18 months on average for the US to negotiate a trade deal. .. While markets wait for trade negotiations with 90 countries at the same time, global trade is grinding to a standstill .. if current policies do not change, then the probability of a US recession in 2025 is 90%”

submitted 41 days ago • 161 comments

We are nearing the end.

submitted 44 days ago • 685 comments

This ProPublica story by my colleagues seems really relevant: Trump HUD Pick Scott Turner Has Opposed Efforts to Aid the Poor www.propublica.org/article/scot...

submitted 44 days ago • 15 comments

Elon Musk said he’d cut the federal budget by $2 trillion Quickly lowered this to $1 trillion Now he’s down to $150 billion And even THAT appears to be an overestimate of $92 billion So-after firing thousands of workers and destroying government services This clown will cut $58 billion Maybe

submitted 48 days ago • 372 comments

Hello! The US housing market has gotten very expensive, but I still dream of one day owning a home in a walkable neighborhood. In that spirit, I'm offering my consulting services. If you support the Trump tariffs, I can help you find US suppliers. Let me show you some examples. 🧵

submitted 57 days ago • 101 comments

"Trump administration orders half of national forests open for logging... "An emergency order removes protections covering more than half the land managed by the U.S. Forest Service..." www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

submitted 53 days ago • 1326 comments

they are segregationists, it has been obvious from the jump, and i think that pundits who dismissed the charge as hyperbolic should explain why they couldn’t see the fact pattern

submitted 55 days ago • 164 comments

Mark my words and please understand: They erase your history so that they can erase your rights.

submitted 56 days ago • 67 comments

🚨 If you’re continuously stunned by the behavior of gerrymandered GOP representatives in the world of Citizens United, don’t be. Here’s how to think of them: They are no longer public servants. Improving public outcomes is not their goal. Nor do they do better in life… 1/

submitted 56 days ago • 86 comments

Why would we believe jobs numbers from this administration?

submitted 57 days ago • 1148 comments

Sundae, meet cherry. 🍒 www.reuters.com/business/hea...

submitted 57 days ago • 13 comments

Americans should be the ones in control of our personal data – not shady middlemen who harvest our most sensitive information and auction it off to the highest bidder. I just reintroduced the DELETE Act to put power back where it belongs: in the hands of consumers.

submitted 59 days ago • 12 comments

NEW — After putting all Institute of Museum & Library Services (IMLS) employees on administrative leave Monday, I'm told DOGE is canceling congressionally-appropriated grants to state libraries across the entire country. Libraries are getting notice that funding was canceled as of 4/1. More here:

submitted 58 days ago • 62 comments

Oh, so you mean it’s not about waste, fraud, and abuse? But about political retribution, hurting real Americans. Got it. ⬇️

submitted 59 days ago • 21 comments

This skeet goes in the time capsule.

submitted 59 days ago • 9 comments

Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive. No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief. 1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.

submitted 59 days ago • 951 comments

The hits keep coming: Republicans are quietly preparing to sell off public lands – owned by the taxpayers – to pay for their tax breaks for billionaires.

submitted 59 days ago • 194 comments

NEW: Following reporting by ProPublica, three Democrats on the House Financial Services Committee have warned HUD against using crypto, which they said could be “dangerous, speculative, and harmful to working families.” By @jessecoburn.bsky.social

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Good morning. Listen, you have to just decide. They are not taking the Black Smithsonian. Resolve it in your spirit.

submitted 62 days ago • 375 comments

We need to keep our eyes on the laws they are trying to pass while we are looking the other direction!

submitted 64 days ago • 45 comments

America destroyed itself due to greed and racism. It tracks. The two original sins the country was unable or unwilling to ever confront and conquer.

submitted 64 days ago • 333 comments

Dear Democratic Members of Congress, Stop telling me about what he's doing. We can all see it. Start telling me about what you're doing to stop it! Signed, Americans

submitted 64 days ago • 939 comments

Elon Musk is flooding a Wisconsin Supreme Court election with millions of dollars. “The level of corruption at play here, the level of money at play here, really is a warning sign for what's happening to our democracy," says @ariberman.bsky.social of @motherjones.com.

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The reason for the mass proliferation of sports gambling, crypto scams, and Robinhood options trading is because every decade it gets harder to make it in America. The people aren’t stupid, they know the game is rigged and so they are taking insane risks rather than play straight up.

submitted 67 days ago • 16 comments

The PEPPER Act would give the president and other executive officials an exclusive pass protecting them from any state or federal prosecutions. That sounds like a dangerous lack of accountability so we're calling on Congress to reject this bill.

submitted 66 days ago • 6 comments

This is part of what I've been worried about. They aren't acting like they might be accountable to voters. They aren't planning to be.

submitted 67 days ago • 2 comments