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We’re in the second Gilded Age just like the first — when America’s wealth was in the hands of a few, money corrupted politics, and working people were abused and exploited. It can be easy to feel discouraged, but the first Gilded Age teaches us lessons on how we can fight back.

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Federal and local law enforcement wearing masks is just plain unamerican. It’s a cowards move, and shows the fact that the kinds of deportations happening and the methods are, shameful and unpopular. adamkinzinger.substack.com/p/why-are-fe...

submitted 43 minutes ago • 226 comments

Boyle: For every American household that makes under $55,000 a year, they will be poorer as a result of this bill. So it's quite clear under this Republican betrayal— the poor get poorer, the rich get richer, and the middle class falling further behind. This is wrong.

submitted 1 hour ago • 32 comments

We sure need some accountability here…

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👇👇

submitted 21 hours ago • 9 comments

It’s been about 30 years since I was an Assistant U.S. Attorney. And maybe it’s just me, but I think I would remember telling my fellow prosecutors that we should ignore a court order and tell the court “fuck you.”

submitted 4 hours ago • 199 comments

Don't be distracted by Trump's Iran rhetoric; the real threat is his plan to dismantle Medicaid, and use the funds to pay for tax breaks for billionaires #DontBombMedicaid

submitted 1 day ago • 39 comments

An army of moms are are currently with Senator Cantwell in Washington DC right now rallying to stop the Big Ugly Bill and save Medicaid and SNAP. We can't let Trump's aggressive rhetoric towards Iran distract us from the fact that his budget will destroy Medicaid. #MomSky

submitted 10 hours ago • 31 comments

Trump and his flunkies might believe he has the powers of a king, but the Constitution says otherwise. The president must "take care that the laws be faithfully executed," not dissolved and defeated by a runaway executive.

submitted 6 hours ago • 66 comments

People in wheelchairs are getting arrested right now in the Russell Senate Office Building in DC. They showed up to tell Congress not to cut their Medicaid, because they cant afford health care without it. If you look closely you can see the zip ties on their hands. #WeWontGetOverLosingMedicaid

submitted 6 hours ago • 2121 comments

When Republican voters learn that the "Big Beautiful Bill" takes from the poor to give to the rich, they oppose it.

submitted 4 hours ago • 31 comments

This is so wrong and decrepit! I can’t even… Stop Ice!!!

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🚨🚨The White House is pissed off about this ad so you know what to do, share it everywhere! ICE is disappearing people just because of the color of their skin! No Warrant! No Due Process! This is not who we are as Americans! #MAGAKidnappers want an all white America, fuck that‼️

submitted 7 days ago • 816 comments

#StopTheBudgetBill in a Fun & Effective Phone Bank #ABlueView🧵1/3 Today's Indivisible's phone bank is over & I'm looking forward to TOMORROW'S @ 11:00. I've never participated in one that was as fun & successful and it's due to its unusual design.

submitted 5 hours ago • 1 comment

Abolish ICE and release all the detained immigrants.

submitted 5 hours ago • 40 comments

Something the Mamdani win demonstrates is the extent to which the reigning cadre of ancient, establishment, centrist Dems think it’s more important to be on good terms with their GOP colleagues than it is to represent their own voters, and how thoroughly sick of this literally everyone is.

submitted 17 hours ago • 73 comments

Preposterous!

submitted 4 hours ago • 0 comments

At last!!!

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Trump Cabinet Crazies say they don’t know anything abt critical elements of their job. Kennedy doesn’t know he’s doubling Amy’s going to Medicare Adv despite WF&A. Bondi doesn’t know masked ICE agents are snatching ppl off the streets. Hitler’s Govt didn’t either 1:36-2:43 youtu.be/No06Lwk_TAg?...

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submitted 22 hours ago • 36 comments

Let’s go. 👀

submitted 21 hours ago • 0 comments

Dr. King said of all the inequalities, inequality in healthcare is the most shocking & inhumane. The proposal by Republican extremists to cut YOUR Medicaid to give the wealthiest Americans a tax cut is inhumane. Light up those phone lines! (202) 224-3121 #DontBombMedicaid #DemVoice1 #wtpBLUE

submitted 1 day ago • 9 comments

Hope and solidarity won tonight, and will win again in November. Congratulations, @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social

submitted 22 hours ago • 853 comments

If the Supreme Court doesn't like the way its decisions are characterized then it could do a better job explaining itself.

submitted 1 day ago • 109 comments

@vox-n-the-cosmos.bsky.social Trump’s sudden “defense” of women’s sports reeks of transphobia, not care. Women athletes want inclusion, not his divisive lies. #TransRights #WomenInSports

submitted 21 hours ago • 0 comments

Hey everyone, just a reminder: A little more than a week ago, a Republican terrorist killed two people and injured two more in an effort to kill enough democrats to capture the Minnesota Legislature

submitted 1 day ago • 76 comments

The majority of voters in North Carolina want Congress to leave the Inflation Reduction Act well enough alone, a new poll from Data for Progress finds. The survey, which asked North Carolina voters...

submitted 22 hours ago • 0 comments

So, now ICE is beating landscapers with no criminal record who have raised 3 US Marines! Did I get that right?

submitted 22 hours ago • 101 comments

Hot take: people should be able to call the police to verify if they think they’re being kidnapped by men in masks who won’t identify themselves in unmarked cars without it being a “resisting” crime

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Damning Report Exposes Stephen Miller’s Shady Ties to Palantir

submitted 1 day ago • 103 comments

Surprisingly effective things Zohran Mamdani ran on: -free buses -rent freeze -halal cart for $8 instead of $10 -taxing the 1% -no cost childcare -city-owned grocery stores -a Department Of Community Safety for mental health programs and crisis response -building affordable housing -why Cuomo sucks

submitted 22 hours ago • 246 comments

U.S. Rep. Al Green, a Democrat from Texas, introduced a single article of impeachment, asserting that President Donald Trump violated the Constitution’s War Powers clause with his strike on nuclear sites in Iran. If all of MAGA didn't have brain rot they would see that this man speaks the truth

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Straight up. ⚡️

submitted 21 hours ago • 0 comments

VERY good point

submitted 23 hours ago • 1 comment

Earlier this month, the full bench of the 2nd Circuit turned down Trump’s request to review a separate $5 million judgment against him for sexually abusing Carroll in the 1990s and defaming her in 2022. That decision came after a three-judge panel last year upheld that verdict.

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“George Conway: “The last few days have truly been a low point for the American news media…. journalists in this country, and their corporate masters, lack the courage to say what they all know and say endlessly in private: That Trump is stupid, and nuts.” open.substack.com/pub/meidasto...

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This is extremely dangerous. ICE detained people, including a family with 3 children, in an office building basement in California without enough food or water. Rampant human rights abuses daily. Guardian article: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

submitted 1 day ago • 66 comments

Why?!!

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No, they will not!

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A judge has denied the government's motion to detain Kilmar Abrego Garcia. She added that the court "will give Abrego the due process that he is guaranteed." How soon until this judge is labeled a "nasty woman?" abcnews.go.com/Politics/jud...

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

I don't think we talk enough about how dignity is also a human right. Food, water, shelter, education, health care, representation...all of those are human rights that everyone should receive regardless of who they are. But it's also a right to not have to beg for them.

submitted 1 day ago • 31 comments

If you want to understand why LA residents feel under attack, undercover DHS agents lying about their identity and authorizations to try to kidnap LA children seems a good start. People just do not understand the attacks LA is under by Trumpists right now.

submitted 15 days ago • 132 comments