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Just over one hour left to get your comment in! Do it now, friends - tell Trump's FDA to let us get our COVID vaccines!

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Mine is done. Too long to post the whole thing here, but I finished with: "There is no logical reason to restrict the availability of this vaccine. If we are to rely on personal choice and responsibility to protect our health, then we must be given that choice."

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

Did some crunches for the first time in a while. I guess my breathing was concerning.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

BREAKING: Judge Burroughs has granted Harvard's restraining order, barring the administration from terminating its foreign student population. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 1 day ago • 103 comments

Fascism is really exhausting.

submitted 2 days ago • 95 comments

Just a heads-up: When you a) have a political prisoner whom you've detained in violation of their right to free speech and b) have to be forced to let them hold their one-month-old baby, you're the bad guys.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

BREAKING: A federal judge blocks immigration authorities from revoking international students' legal status nationwide. Follow live updates.

submitted 2 days ago • 15 comments

Phone calls take just a few minutes. Sometimes it’s just leaving a voicemail. This budget bill is going to do so much harm to so many - on multiple fronts. Call your senators. Tell them how you feel. Tell them to vote no, to gum up the works, to do whatever is necessary to knock this down.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

The GOP murder-bill that just passed in the house is a disaster for many and a direct assault on trans people. Don't feel helpless, take action. Such as this great thread 👇

submitted 2 days ago • 12 comments

The fascist win if you lose your compassion for other people. That's part of the war. You have to keep compassion.

submitted 2 days ago • 33 comments

There are 100 terrible things in this bill. Focus like a laser on one or two of those things and start educating everyone you know on those one or two things. If each of us does that, then we'll be able to inform A LOT OF PEOPLE.

submitted 2 days ago • 17 comments

I despise legislative fights but I've unfortunately had to be part of many of them at the state level over the years. And what I can tell you is that NOTHING happens to stop bad bills unless PUBLIC PRESSURE IS RAMPED UP TO 1000%. That pressure can only build if the public is INFORMED.

submitted 2 days ago • 8 comments

There it is, they're trying to de-transition everyone on Medicaid. I wish I was surprised. I'm certainly appalled and deeply worried for all the trans people who rely on Medicaid.

submitted 3 days ago • 3 comments

All, be aware.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

If you're going to call your Representative, if you're going to ask anyone else in your network to call their Representative, you have to do it now. We expect a floor vote relatively soon — we're down to the final few hours.

submitted 3 days ago • 7 comments

i think it should be a bigger story that the president held a meeting with a foreign head of state where he ranted about the most gutter white supremacist propaganda you can find on the internet

submitted 3 days ago • 405 comments

Raise your voice! I just did. Restricting COVID-19 vaccines makes no sense whatsoever.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

I say without any irony or sarcasm: yes, thank you, we want parliamentary sabotage. Again, I'm 100% serious. It's one of the few things a minority party can do, and which Republicans themselves did. It's essential.

submitted 3 days ago • 63 comments

“Legislators shouldn’t stay in office into their 70s given the demands of the job and its high stakes” is actually a completely different sentiment than “people in their 70s are thoroughly useless and should be set adrift on ice floes”

submitted 3 days ago • 150 comments

Love a good benchslap

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

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submitted 3 days ago • 25 comments

Happy 20th to the single greatest frame in movie history

submitted 5 days ago • 37 comments

You have three days, starting today, to leave a public comment with the FDA about, say, why COVID-19 boosters should remain available to everyone and also free. "Individual consumer" is the category you most likely want (unless you are one of the other categories; if so, choose that).

submitted 4 days ago • 151 comments

Massively good news: The provision that would have let the trump administration strip the tax-exempt status of any nonprofit organization they wanted simply by declaring them to be a "terrorist supporting organization" has been removed from the budget bill. Pushing back against these people works.

submitted 4 days ago • 54 comments

It's shocking how rare it is for politicians to tell folks to call their reps. Such a basic thing, and so few dare to step on the toes of their colleagues and encourage it. So high five to Warren, and please do call your reps and tell them NO cuts to Medicaid. You can find 'em here: reps.fyi

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

A reminder that Hassan voted for Noem to be Secretary, so joke's on you, Hassan, you voted for this

submitted 4 days ago • 7 comments

Schiff and Gillbrand voting for cloture on the GENIUS Act which will further enrich crypto scammers, Booker voting to confirm Charles Kushner as Ambassador to France … why the fuck can’t Senate Democrats learn to vote NO? This is why everything feels so pointless: not even token opposition by Dems.

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

really wondering what the point of booker holding the floor for 25hr was if he's just gonna vote to advance trump's criminal nominees anyways

submitted 5 days ago • 23 comments

BREAKING: The interim U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey just announced that the charges against Newark Mayor Ras Baraka have been dismissed.

submitted 5 days ago • 31 comments

Just called Gillibrand's office AGAIN about this. New Yorkers, feel free to call her yourself: 202-224-4451 Everyone else, you can find your senators at reps.fyi

submitted 5 days ago • 3 comments

The extra-extreme members of the House Budget Committee voted "present" tonight so that the Medicaid-cuts-to-fund-tax-giveaways-for-the-rich bill could pass out of committee 17-16. Tomorrow, flood Capitol Hill switchboards to voice your opposition to this monstrosity. 202-224-3121.

submitted 6 days ago • 214 comments

My friend Rose has been through so much and she’s an incredible person. This was such whiplash and makes me so sad for her. None of this should have happened.

submitted 6 days ago • 5 comments

This is a warcrime and should be reported as such by news organizations IN THE FUCKING HEADLINE

submitted 8 days ago • 49 comments

I’m gonna be honest. This is going better than expected. #GoldenStateValkyries #WNBA

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

States rights, unless... 😉

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

The "One big beautiful bill" — I'm choking on those words — failed in committee. It didn't fail because cutting Medicaid is deeply unpopular, which it is. It failed because Republicans want to cut Medicaid more. Let that sink in.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

HAPPY #WNBA SEASON OPENER TO ALL WHO CELEBRATE. 🏀

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

This kid is 15, and so has a moral clarity and uprightness that no adult elected official would or could ever have. There aren't really and never have been two sides of this issue, but if it has to be argued as a binary thing I don't see how anything less than this could seem like the side to be on.

submitted 9 days ago • 80 comments

I get that the Trump corruption is blatant and infuriating, but the Democrats are so very bad at this. www.sun-sentinel.com/2025/05/14/d...

submitted 9 days ago • 3 comments

This thread is an amazing play by play of the 14th amendment arguments before SCOTUS

submitted 9 days ago • 2 comments

Love getting surprised by Canadian holidays as a contractor for a Canadian company. I was bad enough at remembering American holidays, and now BOOM. Victoria Day.

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

Personally I was super happy to have my tax dollars funding science, humanities, and education. Seemed like a great investment. More so than burning it all down.

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

At some point, Democrats in Congress will have to accept the Trump regime does not accept they’re a legitimate participant in government—and start acting accordingly.

submitted 10 days ago • 30 comments

so the members of congress just stopped going to el salvador and not a single person who was illegally sent there has been returned and that’s just how it is now?

submitted 10 days ago • 312 comments

I sometimes think about the former coworker who texted me outside of work hours to argue with me after I called Elon a piece of shit online. I wonder how he feels about that now.

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

Please share and give if you can

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

What is UP today?! There is a "10 year ban on regulating anything to do with AI" before the House Committee. Absolutely not! Call and write your reps and tell them why a total lack of regulation for the plagiarism machine is not in Americans' best interests.

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments