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CEO pay is up 1,085% since 1978, while typical worker pay is up just 24%. Why do we always hear "we can't afford to pay our workers more" but never "we can't afford to pay our CEO more"?

submitted 20 hours ago • 479 comments

Start every day with this reality: EVERY HOUSE SEAT and 33 Senate seats are up for election in 2026. THAT must be the focus. Let’s get disciplined. #LeaveNoPowerOnTheTable ballotpedia.org/United_State...

submitted 13 hours ago • 498 comments

DeSantis is in some big, big trouble

submitted 17 hours ago • 89 comments

Bruce Springsteen called Trump ‘treasonous.’ Trump proved him right.

submitted 13 hours ago • 14 comments

Republicans moved at such lightning speed that even they don't know how many people would lose health insurance!

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submitted 14 hours ago • 445 comments

That's Exactly What He Did And It Was All Illegal!!

submitted 3 days ago • 580 comments

I got a vasectomy because I didn’t want to have kids Didn’t work though, they were still there when I got home from the procedure

submitted 3 days ago • 54 comments

Since a Minneapolis police officer murdered George Floyd in 2020, the number of people killed by the police each year has continued to rise — and Black Americans are still killed in disproportionate numbers. Our data reporter explains his findings. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/24/u...

submitted 16 hours ago • 285 comments

Donald Trump accusing the Black President of South Africa--who was actually an anti-apartheid leader and had been arrested for that--of Apartheid has to be a low-point in the history of the Oval Office, rivaled only by his shameful and disgraceful treatment of Zelensky.

submitted 3 days ago • 39 comments

If it was a “personal” and not a “presidential” meeting, why the presidential seal?

submitted 1 day ago • 905 comments

The Trump administration is building a central online marketplace for the Intelligence Community to buy private information about individuals from unregulated data brokers — coming soon to www.icdata.gov theintercept.com/2025/05/22/i...

submitted 2 days ago • 33 comments

House Republicans don’t want you to watch their 1:00 AM hearing to kick millions of Americans off their health insurance and rip away food and basic nutrition from millions of kids and seniors. Defy the billionaires and watch anyway:

submitted 4 days ago • 68 comments

John Ewing Jr. has boldly transformed Omaha by defeating the longest-serving GOP mayor in the country, making history as the city’s first Black mayor.

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

The Emoluments Clause was written specifically to stop foreign governments from buying American leaders. Trump is openly selling access via crypto coin dinners and taking planes from foreign regimes. If that’s not a national security threat, what the fuck is?

submitted 11 days ago • 6 comments

BREAKING: The scene at the Rayburn Building is pure rebellion. Protesters are swarming in during live hearings on Medicaid cuts. Security’s losing control. Because when the government wages war on the poor, the poor fight back.

submitted 11 days ago • 1297 comments

Support public broadcasting. "If a society wants to toughen the fabric of democracy, it’s essential to nurture a citizenry that can think critically and consume information with a sustained attention span. The last thing someone intent on derailing a democracy wants is a thoughtful electorate."

submitted 12 days ago • 3 comments

#handsoff #nokings 25th Ammendment

submitted 11 days ago • 5 comments

It's A Straight Up Bribe!

submitted 11 days ago • 257 comments

IMPORTANT: The Dutch invested €595 million annually on urban biking, resulting in €19 BILLION saved in public health care costs alone. That’s how smart governments do the math on investing in better mobility. Let’s be clear— it wastes public money to NOT do it. #CityMakingMath HT @modacitylife.com

submitted 11 days ago • 25 comments

yeah this is a good tomato frog

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

Sean Duffy changed his wife's flight on Monday to avoid Newark Airport and then made a TV appearance on Tuesday insisting it's safe to fly from there.

submitted 11 days ago • 196 comments

I'm a fan of AI, but this👇 is insane! The tech bros are coercing the republicans into legislating to not legislate on AI for the next ten years. They're tying future regulators into not regulating. Castrate yourself in advance? Full story www.rawstory.com/gop-budget-2...

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

Ed Martin, the incoming "captain" of DOJ's "Weaponization Working Group," said that he'll "name" and "shame" individuals who committed no criminal conduct in what would be a major departure from longstanding Justice Department protocols. www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

submitted 11 days ago • 76 comments

apparently diversity in America is now defined as a range between “white backwoods redneck” and “white South African vetted by Nazi pronatalist Elon Musk”

submitted 14 days ago • 1 comment

Every book published in the United States is sent to the Library of Congress. Also, if you are under 16 you cannot use the reading room or order books.

submitted 15 days ago • 706 comments

You’re allowed to argue that black people and women are genetically inferior. But you’re NOT allowed to argue they are NOT inferior because that’s divisive. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/09/u...

submitted 14 days ago • 138 comments

the neck gaiter pulled up over the nose is the SS uniform of the Trump regime

submitted 15 days ago • 95 comments

Please spread the correct information about Mayor Baraka's arrest. He had apparently been trying for a few days to visit the ICE prison and was rebuffed. Then the members of Congress tried to visit today and were made to wait in the waiting area for 90 minutes. Then 20 ICE Gestapo showed up...

submitted 15 days ago • 86 comments

[Mali] CHILD LABOR ON GOLD MINING SITES: An alarming phenomenon that concerns us all 🥺😢

submitted 16 days ago • 3 comments

If guilty people don't have Due Process rights, then innocent people don't have Due Process rights, because we don't know if they're innocent or guilty until we have a trial or hearing.

submitted 17 days ago • 386 comments

🔥 GOV. WALZ: “When did government get to tell you how many dolls your child has? Government just big enough to fit in your bedroom, womb, and apparently now your toy chest… Trump is picking the winners and losers — the billionaires are winning and the rest of us are losing.”

submitted 17 days ago • 31 comments

Should remain the top story.

submitted 17 days ago • 52 comments

There's actually a bunch of families whose kids were injured and even killed by raw milk and if i were an editor I might try to interview them right now.

submitted 17 days ago • 64 comments

Both parties ARE NOT the same. These men would be facing no accountability for what they did to Tyre Nichols if Pam Bondi had been AG. Remember that the ofcr who shot Walter Scott in the back in N. Charleston is only in prison b/c of the federal prosecution. The state trial ended in a hung jury.

submitted 17 days ago • 28 comments

Louder for the voters in the back!

submitted 19 days ago • 401 comments

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submitted 19 days ago • 1 comment

Sure, Pam.

submitted 23 days ago • 99 comments

If you've ever found yourself thinking, 'That can’t be constitutional' after one of Trump’s executive orders or deportations, you're not wrong. This piece breaks down the five core constitutional principles Trump has taken a wrecking ball to, so we can better fight back against the threat he poses.

submitted 23 days ago • 86 comments

There's a tweet for every lie that comes out of his mouth.

submitted 23 days ago • 71 comments

First, never believe anything he says. Second, why is he giving his political rally speech to graduating seniors?

submitted 22 days ago • 644 comments

Under Trump, they’re allowed to start resegregating schools in Louisiana. This must be stopped.

submitted 22 days ago • 157 comments

We must fight to save PBS and NPR.

submitted 22 days ago • 566 comments

Elon Musk works 180 hours a week (a week has 168 hours) Trump’s BMI is exactly the same as some NFL draft picks Over 2/3 of Americans would’ve died in the last few months if not for Trump The absurd obviousness of the lie shows it’s a middle finger, an attack on truth, not an effort to convince.

submitted 24 days ago • 15 comments