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Why did Congressional Republicans jam through an unpopular budget with the largest Medicaid cuts in history? It could be because nearly 70% of them would financially benefit from the bill's extension of Trump's tax cuts for the rich. Reverse Robin Hood.

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Today more than 300 people in Gaza were killed by Israeli strikes

submitted 13 days ago • 43 comments

So let me get this straight: Donald Trump gets to fly around in a $400 million luxury jet while the rest of us have to worry about whether our plane will make it off the ground?

submitted 16 days ago • 197 comments

"Stick to comedy" they say, as an unelected emerald mine trust fund baby guts the entire infrastructure of the United States and whatnot.

submitted 65 days ago • 146 comments

The Trump regime will round you up off the street and arrest you because you spoke your mind. And federal agents in plain clothes and unmarked cars who refuse to identify themselves will be the ones to do it. It's fascism. Call it what it is.

submitted 65 days ago • 297 comments

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submitted 66 days ago • 11 comments

Prominent Columbia University protest leader Mahmoud Khalil, who is a legal permanent resident, was arrested by Department of Homeland Security agents over the weekend. Today, scores of protesters took to the streets of New York in protest. Our @hurwitz.bsky.social and Najib Aminy were there ⬇️

submitted 82 days ago • 23 comments

Remember: If unions didn’t matter, powerful corporations wouldn’t spend millions of dollars every year to stop them from forming. Keep up the fight.

submitted 83 days ago • 119 comments

“ I don’t trust the United States at all. I don’t trust how they act, I don’t trust US policies. These people are out of their minds to be provoking us towards nuclear war.” - Jeffrey Sachs American economist, and professor at Columbia University

submitted 87 days ago • 6 comments

The Trump-Vance-Musk regime is not only undermining democracy in the US. It is laying the foundation for undermining democracies around the world. The emerging battle will be global democracy vs. a global oligarchy. The US is emerging on the side of global oligarchy.

submitted 91 days ago • 292 comments

🇺🇸 U.S. Aid to 🇮🇱 Israel Surpasses Ukraine, Exceeding $191 Billion 💰

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Trump officials start dismantling civil rights offices, as part of DOGE's secret plan Legal experts said that unwinding a civil-rights-era bulwark designed to safeguard employees' rights removes a crucial check on institutional power www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

submitted 91 days ago • 14 comments

Trump on Friday transported back to Florida with him boxes of documents that the FBI had seized from Mar-a-Lago after executing a court-ordered search warrant in August 2022. www.cnn.com/2025/02/28/p...

submitted 91 days ago • 234 comments

As Elon Musk guts entire government agencies and fires thousands of federal workers that deliver vital services to the country, remember that his corporations have received at least $38 billion in government contracts over the past 20 years. Yet will any of this be touched by DOGE? Of course not.

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Bit rich from a nation of colonisers. English wealth and power was built on invasion, slavery and subjugation. Just ask Ireland, India, South Africa, Kenya, Australia, NZ, Hong Kong, Singapore, Canada, West Indies….etc. etc.

submitted 96 days ago • 0 comments

If our democracy survives, we are gonna need strong guard rails to protect it from the next treasonous thug who wants to be a dictator

submitted 96 days ago • 151 comments

So does this mean Israel and the USA pay for rebuilding Gaza, the West Bsnk and Sth Lebanon?

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Trump's attacks on the USPS aren't new. For decades, the GOP has been trying to privatize the Post Office and other crucial public services — all to pad the profits of their wealthy corporate donors.

submitted 98 days ago • 112 comments

10,000 King Soopers workers are currently on strike for better pay and working conditions. Instead of negotiating in good faith, parent company Kroger has been using scabs and prioritized $7.5B in stock buybacks. Don't tell me they can't afford to pay a living wage.

submitted 101 days ago • 193 comments

Yesterday it was revealed that the Trump administration is expected to purchase $400 million worth of armored Tesla vehicles. After the story broke, the State Department's procurement document removed mention of Tesla. "Transparency."

submitted 107 days ago • 183 comments

The Senate has officially confirmed RFK Jr. to lead the Department of Health and Human Services. As @davidcorn.bsky.social wrote last month, this is the appointment that "could be the most dangerous act of Trump’s presidency."

submitted 107 days ago • 134 comments

What about Palestine?

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BREAKING: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is confirmed as US Health Secretary after a close Senate vote Heaven help America

submitted 107 days ago • 139 comments

If Trump simply ignores high court rulings, is that the end of law? My latest for The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/feb/12/trump-lawless-president

submitted 107 days ago • 188 comments

🇵🇸 Palestinians from around the world have the right to return to their homeland, which was destroyed by the Israeli occupation, via Egypt 🇪🇬, Jordan 🇯🇴, Lebanon 🇱🇧, and Syria 🇸🇾

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Trump has NO right to take Gaza & displace its 2 M+ people so that a greedy brutal lawless idiot can build Trump hotels. Gazans have been thru hell. They love their land & their community. Gaza is a sovereign territory belonging to its people. This wd be ethnic cleansing.

submitted 109 days ago • 79 comments

Jail the thieving gangster.

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The great Paul Krugman explains why, after 25 yrs he left NY Times. “in 2024 the editing of my regular columns went from light touch to extremely intrusive.” with an “sometimes doing substantial rewrites” “toning down, introducing unnecessary qualifiers” contrarian.substack.com/p/departing-...

submitted 120 days ago • 29 comments

DCA staffing on Wednesday was reportedly not normal — with one air traffic controller handling the job of two people. These shortages will only be worsened by federal budget cuts and Trump's hiring freeze. We should be investing in public workers, not attacking them.

submitted 120 days ago • 58 comments

If UK news shows are going to give Nigel Farage a platform to spout this absolute boll**** about Brexit & the vaccine rollout (unchallenged) I’ll happily come back every week to correct it We cannot allow them to rewrite history. If you agree share this FACT CHECK widely youtu.be/MUrf7addcTA?...

submitted 119 days ago • 129 comments

Press Releases Ranking Member Raskin’s Statement on Trump’s Lawless and Dangerous Purge of FBI Agents and DOJ Prosecutors democrats-judiciary.house.gov/news/documen...

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Trump's first two weeks back in office has been filled with chaos and dysfunction. But none of it is random. It's part of a plot to spread cynicism and get you to check out. Oligarchs don't want you to keep paying attention. That's how they win. Don't tune out. Don't let them win.

submitted 120 days ago • 192 comments

War criminals 😡

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If 🇮🇱 Israel has hidden crimes against humanity in Gaza through propaganda, does this also raise the question of re-investigating the Holocaust?

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As I keep saying, we need to make @bsky.app the biggest social media platform on the planet, we need to do it with urgency & we need to send Elon Musk packing The number of BlueSky users tonight stands at 29,477,992. WE CAN DO THIS!

submitted 126 days ago • 28 comments

A convicted felon who assaulted women, did all he could to overthrow our 2020 elections, lied that he had won, stole our counties nuclear secrets, lied about that & showed them to foreign billionaires. Nothing to celebrate. Its sickening.

submitted 133 days ago • 92 comments

Amazon, Meta, GM, Google, and Microsoft have donated millions to Trump's inauguration. America's largest corporations and wealthiest executives are showering Trump's inaugural with cash for one simple reason: to ensure they receive another round of trickle-down tax cuts.

submitted 134 days ago • 185 comments

You could write this in a movie but people would say it was too dark and unrealistic

submitted 134 days ago • 289 comments

Shameful.

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