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As Donald Trump leads America down the path to becoming a failed state, we have lost 24/7 weather services in parts of the country. Along with massive deterioration in Social Security services caused by Musk, American decline at the hands of billionaires couldn't be more stark.

Three days ago: theonion.com/sean-combs-a...

The actual drop is 12.7% — not 97%, not 98%. But who’s really paying attention anymore. 🤡

its genuinely insane to see the press on a "democrats must self flagellate over biden being old" when this shit is happening

He’s selling gold shoes for $400 and Bibles for $60. bsky.app/profile/atru...

My "This is not Theranos 2.0” statement has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my statement. www.npr.org/2025/05/10/n...

This isn't a racist dogwhistle. This is a stack of concert-quality speakers blaring racism into an arena.

A program started by a Republican administration, beloved by consumers and industry alike, that costs government $30 million a year to yield an estimated $40 BILLION in savings for consumers.

Legality aside, how pathetic for the American head of state to fly around in the plane he got as a valentine from the Emir of Qatar. A kept little man.

how every dem elected official isn’t losing their damn mind right now is beyond me. they want to arrest all of you!!!!

The House spent a whole week on Gulf of America and Senate Republicans won’t even bring it to the floor for a vote. Another productive week for the Republican Congress.

There’s something almost religious, cultlike, about the bizarrely contrived language of the police talking about killing someone. The ritualistic passive voice with indistinct causality just popping up in there like a mantra. Dudes try “SO THE OFFICER SHOT HIM”

Wow crazy you guys must be giving her a big raise, right?

I know very little about Star Wars but I am pretty sure the red light sabers are for the evil Sith guys…

The $7.25 federal minimum wage is a poverty wage in every state. Meanwhile S&P 500 CEOs made $40k/hr in 2024. There’s a minimum wage because employers would pay less if they could, but no maximum wage because the rich write our laws to benefit the rich.

Trump has set up a new club where CEOs, tech bros, and foreign oligarchs can pay $500,000 to join in order to get access to the Trump Cabinet who will all be there regularly. Just because the grift is all public doesn’t mean this isn’t the most corrupt White House in history.

April 25

Given the literal definition of deportation is removing a foreigner or noncitizen from the country, we - journalists, media orgs - should probably all stop referring to the ‘deportation’ of a 2 year old US citizen. It’s NOT a deportation. I’m not sure what it is. A kidnapping?

Turns out woke was holding the planes together torontosun.com/news/world/d...

Every single day this unqualified trainwreck stays in this job is another day our troops are at greater risk. Hegseth needs to be fired before these security breaches get someone killed. apnews.com/article/hegs...

NEW: A federal judge raised alarm Friday that the Trump administration appeared to have deported a 2-year-old U.S. citizen to Honduras with "no meaningful process" — even as her father was fighting to keep her in the country. Details w/ @joshgerstein.bsky.social www.politico.com/news/2025/04...

How did we get from "Do not use Wikipedia as a source" to "ask hallucinating chatbot everything"?

As a person who has studied history, an autism registry is a five alarm fire.

They are not part of normal discourse. BUT "Skew-T" diagrams that come from soundings w weather balloons are *irreplaceable* as guides to weather in general, dangerous weather in particular. Pilots use them for icing/clouds. Everyone else, for tornado/ derecho/ etc alerts. Now being cut. Insanity

This is getting fewer headlines than it should. After coming to power promising to help working people, the president is revealing his real priorities by actively making it easier for banks to rip people off.

Americans are entitled to and should demand better than this from the President of the United States.

Spot the American. Is it someone who speaks his mind and does the work to get citizenship? Or is it someone born into citizenship who covers his face while abducting people in a Черный ворон?

Hey @durbin.senate.gov @duckworth.senate.gov @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social @schumer.senate.gov the constitution crisis is here. What are you doing about it?!?!

We're in a full-blown constitutional crisis now. It's really hard to focus on anything else.

The FDA is asking laid-off employees to temporarily return after mass cuts decimated the agency’s ability to penalize stores that sell cigarettes and vapes to minors.

Has anyone in the Trump admin that claims to care so much about antisemitism said a single word about this?!

Tomorrow El Salvadoran President Bukele will visit the White House. Can’t he bring Abrego Garcia with him?!?!?

republicans are disappearing people under the guise of fighting antisemitism and can’t even pretend to give a fuck when a jewish governor’s house gets firebombed on passover

We're moving down the road to tyranny very quickly here

Previously, the arrests of pro-Palestinian voices on university campuses would’ve drawn instant attention from the DHS civil rights office’s First Amendment watchdogs, attorneys in the compliance branch said. That guardrail is gone. By @davidmcswane.bsky.social & @hannahallam.bsky.social

Nice puff piece on a young fascist. Maybe a Palestinian student activist can get one of these profiles in the NYT one day. Alas. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/11/s...

weird, what could explain this

I was told these people were “free speech absolutists”

EVERY STATE ALREADY REQUIRES PROOF OF CITIZENSHIP WHEN REGISTERING TO VOTE. No one is registering to vote without proving their citizenship status.

one of the most accurate memes out there

It cannot be overstated how insane and dangerous this argument is. They're saying that the government can illegally abduct and imprison people—and even admit that it screwed up!—and then remove the ability of any court to intervene by shipping the victim to a foreign gulag.

Begging news organizations to not parrot the Trump admin’s claims these are “reciprocal” tariffs when they are very clearly not reciprocal

Protest just getting started here in Chicago.