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The GOP passed a budget resolution last night that will gut Medicaid, SNAP, and other vital programs — as 60% of Americans live paycheck to paycheck. Why? To finance tax cuts for the top 1%. We have socialism in this country for the rich, harsh capitalism for everyone else.

submitted 3 hours ago • 79 comments

"The U.S. government spent more during President Donald Trump's first month in office than it did during the same period a year ago"

submitted 2 hours ago • 15 comments

On this day in 1919, Grand Canyon National Park was established by President Woodrow Wilson. We were fortunate to be able to call this place home for a small while and it still makes me say wow every time I see it. #grandcanyon #nationalparks #arizona #landscape #photography #sunset #nikon

submitted 9 hours ago • 9 comments

Trump is now proposing to sell a $5 million "gold card" that will provide a fast-track to citizenship for the ultra-wealthy. He's doing this as he tries to place restrictions on certain forms legal immigration, including pausing admission to refugees displaced by violence.

submitted 9 hours ago • 65 comments

So increasing the minimum wage to a livable wage is “socialism”? But Amazon union busting, keeping wages low, and forcing workers onto public assistance while its founder increases his net worth by $7.9M an hour is the "free market"? Perhaps this could be a WaPo opinion piece.

submitted 5 hours ago • 663 comments

Remember: Tyranny cannot prevail over people who refuse to succumb to it. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-meaning-of-tyranny

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Bankrupt? Republicans just advanced a budget that will add $4 trillion to the debt! They’re not preventing bankruptcy, they’re expediting it.

submitted 9 hours ago • 258 comments

Absolutely overwhelmed to be in the presence of the first-ever printed book to use the Cherokee syllabary, the Cherokee Constitution of 1827. At the American Antiquarian Society.

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This is what fascism looks like. Billionaires owning all the sources of information and controlling them to become propaganda for power and money.

submitted 10 hours ago • 3 comments

After Trump embraced crypto, Coinbase gave millions to PACs backing pro-Trump candidates. After Trump's win, they gave $1M to his inaugural and listed his meme coin. Now, Trump's SEC has dropped a major lawsuit against Coinbase. See how this works?

submitted 6 hours ago • 91 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.

submitted 8 hours ago • 74 comments

This is what anti-fascism looks like; real people saying “no.”

submitted 10 hours ago • 1 comment

My heart goes out to the recent suicides of fired federal workers. When you have a corrupt psychopath as a leader, your death is just a statistic to them.

submitted 6 hours ago • 0 comments

Whoa...

submitted 7 hours ago • 19 comments

Some thoughts on Jeff Bezos's idea of “personal liberties and free markets.” https://robertreich.substack.com/p/its-the-oligarchy-stupid

submitted 7 hours ago • 235 comments

BREAKING Project 2025 leader and current OMB head Russ Vought directs all agencies to create plans for large-scale layoffs ("Reductions in Force") by March 13.

submitted 8 hours ago • 955 comments

Some 1,000 NPS employees were fired, and hiring for seasonal positions was delayed. Here's what to know about the impacts already being felt at parks, and what it could mean for the busy season.

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Seems like the relevance of this Reagan-era Herblock cartoon has risen by 200%. Washington Post, 12/22/1988.

submitted 15 hours ago • 200 comments

How Trump and the GOP Fixed the 2026 Election — Yes, 2026: Here’s how they are already stealing it… hartmannreport.com/p/how-trump-...

submitted 12 hours ago • 10 comments

"The United States is already spending $75 billion annually—the equivalent of two Manhattan Projects every year—on new nuclear weapons until at least 2032." "What Trump got right about nuclear weapons—and how to step back from the brink," by @lucasruiz4.bsky.social and @nuclearwilson.bsky.social.

submitted 11 hours ago • 4 comments

Bezos bends the knee. Pathetic.

submitted 11 hours ago • 1339 comments

The GOP passed a budget resolution tonight that will gut Medicaid, SNAP, and other vital programs — as 60% of Americans live paycheck to paycheck. Why? To finance more tax cuts for the top 1%. We have socialism in this country for the rich, harsh capitalism for everyone else.

submitted 23 hours ago • 282 comments

Another plane incident in DC: An American Airlines flight from Boston had to abort its landing at DCA airport this morning to avoid another plane that was taking off on the same runway, authorities said.

submitted 11 hours ago • 830 comments

:There was a coup in America, and no one noticed. It was a slow-moving coup, decades in the making, forged by redefining laws and loyalty until the contours of betrayal blurred." --THEY KNEW (2022)

submitted 13 hours ago • 345 comments

Coming Up Today Wednesday, February 26, 2025

submitted 11 hours ago • 7 comments

The Democrats forced the House Republicans to use every one of their votes, all their moderates just voted to steal health care from more people than their margin of victory.

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

This vote was to start the process of the cuts. It WILL come back for a final vote. There are some chances to slow or potentially stop it. Need constant pressure on GOP Focus on GOP swing seats & key committees. Energy & Commerce is where the Medicaid fight will go down. Ways&Means for tax fight.

submitted 1 day ago • 1167 comments

Musk explicitly says he wants to turn America into El Salvador where a strongman has consolidated power, undermined judicial independence, harassed journalists, and suspended constitutional rights

submitted 23 hours ago • 323 comments

You first.

submitted 1 day ago • 5731 comments

Essential. Endangered. Extremely chatty. The characteristic howls of Red Wolves usually include a series of barks, yips, + sometimes growling, especially when voiced in alarm. The Red Wolf’s howl sounds somewhat similar to a coyote’s, but is often lower pitched + lasts longer.

submitted 1 day ago • 53 comments

The billionaires and their puppets in Congress are coming for your benefits.

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Trump says his 25 percent tariffs on all Canadian and Mexican goods will begin next week. Reminder: tariffs aren't paid by other countries. They're eventually paid by us at the checkout line.

submitted 1 day ago • 146 comments

As plane crashes are happening on a near-daily basis, Elon Musk now appears to be saying he wants to interfere with flight paths because he thinks he knows better than pilots. What could go wrong 🤷‍♂️

submitted 1 day ago • 688 comments

Former Blackwater CEO Erik Prince wants the Trump administration to let private military contractors take over mass deportations. None of this is about making America safe. It's about using human suffering to enrich the border-industrial complex.

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Vital services and protections for everyday Americans are being gutted thanks to DOGE. And this is happening in exchange for renewing one of the biggest tax cuts in American history that will predominantly benefit people like...you guessed it...Elon Musk. See the problem here?

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A fantastic article that lays out many of the uncomfortable truths that most people don’t want to face—and for the most part, the media refuses to report. “Around 18 percent of all U.S. adults have had Long COVID…according to the [CDC].” www.citybureau.org/newswire/lon...

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Trump FIRES Top Military Lawyers - The Army, Navy & Air Force JAGS. This WILL Backfire on Trump! youtu.be/q2E4akfUz-Q?...

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Bulletin tech editor @saragoud.bsky.social interviewed @profsanderlinden.bsky.social on misinformation and how people can better protect themselves from falling for falsehoods. "How to inoculate yourself (and others) against viral misinformation." ⬇️

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U.S. President Donald Trump has claimed that the U.S. spent $350 billion on assistance for Ukraine. The Kyiv Independent provides a detailed breakdown of the aid provided, how it was measured, and what has happened to it since.

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Remember: Wealth can’t be separated from power. Power begets wealth and wealth begets power. We're seeing in real time how the extreme concentration of wealth is distorting our politics, rigging our markets, and granting unprecedented power to a handful of billionaires.