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Time for action everyone! Call your reps and save Medicaid!!

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SAVE THE DATE!!! #NoKings #june14 #strongertogether

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

$47 billion for a wall be fucking for real now

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submitted 16 days ago • 11 comments

This line is going to stick with me for a very long time. “One of them is a 4-year-old with Stage 4 cancer who was deported without medication or the ability to contact their doctors…”

submitted 15 days ago • 316 comments

People spend a lot of time wondering why the left is worse at using independent media to control the national narrative. A useful exercise is to ask why the left is also worse at selling snake oil and pyramid schemes, because I think the reasons are basically exactly the same.

submitted 21 days ago • 1022 comments

From Pope Francis’s last address, RIP: How much contempt is stirred up at times towards the vulnerable, the marginalized & migrants! On this day, I would like all of us to hope anew & to revive our trust in others, including those who are different than ourselves…For all of us are children of God!

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

Judge Xinis in Tuesday eve order homes in on key issue: "Abrego Garcia appears to remain inexplicably detained in CECOT." She cites text in written agreement with El Salvador showing US control: That detainees are kept in CECOT “pending the United States’ decision on their long-term disposition.”

submitted 26 days ago • 317 comments

talking to my friends in real life these days is fascinating. they tell me about reality tv shows and I tell them about how we now live under fascism

submitted 27 days ago • 38 comments

Oh dear you’re going to want to read this. Looks like DOGErs were caught exfiltrating NLRB data, likely on unions, for private (seemingly Elony) use. This is must read. What we’ve all suspected. But now details. www.npr.org/2025/04/15/n...

submitted 27 days ago • 365 comments

Huge new illegal action from OMB in pursuit of carrying out Project 2025. Sounds boring but super important. OMB has illegally stopped sharing info whose entire purpose is to help ensure they follow budget laws. They're breaking a reporting law to facilitate breaking spending laws. Technical 🧵

submitted 27 days ago • 22 comments

The Trump Administration has made a shocking claim: that it can declare living people dead to cut off their access to government benefits and the broader U.S. financial system. Thread on my colleagues’ new blog 🧵 www.cbpp.org/blog/trump-a...

submitted 26 days ago • 5 comments

DOGE is a criminal conspiracy to defraud the people of the United States

submitted 27 days ago • 565 comments

New— Trump's crusade against the American Bar Association continues, this time terminating all grants via DOJ's Office of Violence Against Women. This morning a webinar on trauma-informed representation was canceled moments before starting. ABA sent email attachment to participants (shared w/ me):

submitted 27 days ago • 84 comments

I want to tell you why the case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia should matter to you. The one power you cannot give the executive is the ability to imprison or expel anyone regardless of their legal rights. That is our key check against autocracy. And we are watching it disappear.

submitted 26 days ago • 1495 comments

If the U.S. government is going to take the position that, once removed from the United States, folks can’t be brought back, then it sure seems to me that federal courts should be reflexively and categorically barring all removals until they’re 100 percent certain that the removals are lawful.

submitted 28 days ago • 1324 comments

Reminder: the Social Security Administration has detailed cradle-to-grave data on every American. Private medical information on 10s of Ms. DOGE gained access to it, a court order pushed them out, and now—according to this am’s Post—they’re openly defying it. Terrifying.

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

Barnes & Noble in Georgetown with a stark “Bohemian Rhapsody”-referencing book display this weekend.

submitted 28 days ago • 240 comments

Trump is forcing Americans who are seeking their earned benefits to sign up for Elon Musk's app. Pure corruption.

submitted 30 days ago • 520 comments

60 Minutes found no criminal record for 75% of the Venezuelan migrants the U.S. sent to a mega-prison in El Salvador. https://cbsn.ws/4lC4Vp5

submitted 35 days ago • 1095 comments

How it started // how it's going

submitted 41 days ago • 1061 comments

Here is my best guidance for action, rendered beautifully by the great John Lithgow. I first published these lessons more than eight years ago, in late 2016. They open the twenty chapters of "On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century." snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...

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Brad Schimel wants to bring back the 1849 law that bans all abortions with no exceptions. He let domestic abusers walk with no jail time. And he’s the one who let 6,000 rape kits sit untested for two years. That’s Brad Schimel. Too extreme for WI. VOTE Susan Crawford.

submitted 44 days ago • 71 comments

Teen Warned Not To Accept Group Chat Invites From National Security Advisors She Doesn’t Know

submitted 47 days ago • 368 comments

BREAKING: The Supreme Court holds that ATF's restrictions on the sale of ghost guns does NOT violate federal law, reversing the 5th Circuit. It is 7–2, with Gorsuch (!) writing the majority opinion. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

submitted 47 days ago • 90 comments

JUST IN: American Oversight is suing Hegseth, Gabbard, Ratcliffe et al, saying their messaging via Signal is a violation of the Federal Records Act. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 47 days ago • 1057 comments

Holy shit. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential... He's actually doing it. Consolidating all payments under the Tsy. Not to toot my own horn too much, but this is exactly what my paper is trying to address and oppose. We need a strong digital fisc vision to counter this.

submitted 47 days ago • 72 comments

If the White House is insisting that there was no classified or secret information in the Signal chat, does that mean Jeffrey Goldberg can publish it all?

submitted 48 days ago • 1181 comments

"There was no access to a toilet, so guards told the women – whose accounts in some cases occurred on different days or different buses – to urinate or defecate on the floor... " www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...

submitted 49 days ago • 1282 comments

🚨 NEW 🚨 The IRS is on the cusp of an agreement with ICE to assist with deportations. The IRS would use confidential taxpayer information to verify addresses of suspected undocumented immigrants ICE is attempting to locate, @jeffstein.bsky.social & I can report.

submitted 50 days ago • 88 comments

“One young man sobbed when a guard pushed him to the floor. He said, ‘I’m not a gang member. I’m gay. I’m a barber.’ I believed him. *** He “began to whimper,” as his head was roughly shaved, “folding his hands in prayer as his hair fell.” He “asked for his mother & cried as he was slapped again.”

submitted 50 days ago • 1558 comments

So look at that. DOGE has cost the US Treasury fucking half a trillion dollars. HALF A TRILLION DOLLARS. This is your cost savings.

submitted 50 days ago • 190 comments

I guess it was too good to be true, on st Patrick’s day!! Hopefully I keep my guards up from now on and only share verified stories.

submitted 50 days ago • 0 comments

“People should be turning out in droves…This should be the bunker hill upon which the Democratic Party should be willing to die” @democrats.org did you hear that? We are already out there. You better be done strategizing.

submitted 51 days ago • 0 comments

The president is trying to illegally fire me. Who does this help? Does it help you? Or does it help the billionaires over the president’s shoulder at the inauguration?

submitted 54 days ago • 52 comments

USIP owns their building. DOGE is vandalizing a building the federal government DOES NOT OWN.

submitted 54 days ago • 223 comments

Resistance doesn’t guarantee victory—it makes it possible. Every movement began with someone refusing to back down. Power counts on silence, but history remembers those who stand up. Keep pushing. Change starts here. #Resistance #StandUp #Change

submitted 54 days ago • 6 comments

NEW: DOJ files an emergency motion in the hopes of avoiding a noon deadline to provide more info to Judge Boasberg, in private, about deportation flights that appear to have violated the court's orders. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 54 days ago • 152 comments

Growing up, I don't know what my family would have done if it weren't for Social Security survivor benefits. Social Security is an earned benefit, one that is delivered without fail every month. Not a dime should be cut from Social Security. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

submitted 67 days ago • 4 comments

The latest threats to Social Security underscore what we already know. More from Ranking Member @neal.house.gov: democrats-waysandmeans.house.gov/media-center...

submitted 54 days ago • 6 comments

Mahmoud Khalil finally gets the chance to speak for himself: “My arrest was a direct consequence of exercising my right to free speech as I advocated for a free Palestine and an end to the genocide in Gaza, which resumed in full force Monday night.”

submitted 54 days ago • 19 comments

This is so much illegal bullshit and, more to the point, an obvious payback to the tech billionaires who lined up like pathetic props at the inauguration. FTC chair Andrew Ferguson is exactly the unctuous toady to oligarchs l expected him to be www.politico.com/news/2025/03...

submitted 54 days ago • 90 comments

You really don't need a formal modeling analysis to understand that gutting Medicaid and SNAP to pay for tax cuts to wealthy individuals and corporations will "actively transfer money from low-income people to the top 0.1% of income earners," but good to have solid numbers.

submitted 54 days ago • 8 comments