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Tomorrow, the Senate is voting on Trump’s pick to head up Social Security. I will be voting for every American who counts on Social Security. I'm a hard NO on Frank Bisignano.

submitted 7 hours ago • 74 comments

NEWS: Prominent natsec lawyer @markzaidesq.bsky.social sues Trump for using "security clearances as a weapon on a mass scale," and he has new precedent on his side. His suit cites Judge Howell's decision blocking Trump's EO targeting Perkins Coie. Story soon, with complaint, @www.AllRiseNews.com

submitted 12 hours ago • 4 comments

A reminder: Both sheriffs and local police have the right to refuse ICE detainers. These requests are voluntary and not legally enforceable under federal law. Across the country, many sheriffs and police departments choose not to cooperate and that choice is fully within their legal rights.

submitted 12 hours ago • 165 comments

This should really be all anyone needs to know. He only cares about giant corporations and the oligarchs that fund him. Everyone else? Good luck.

submitted 1 day ago • 636 comments

Here’s a video of Bernie Sanders 21 years ago explaining how the Republicans win even though no one likes their policies. How Republicans split and divide and win. #MomSky #Voices4Victory

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Yes, Trump’s budget is a massive transfer of wealth from the poor and middle class to the rich — cutting programs for the former while cutting taxes for the latter. A budget is a moral document. The moral of his: Greed. open.substack.com/pub/donmoyni...

submitted 2 days ago • 30 comments

#ResistanceRoots Today in history, 1954: The Supreme Court unanimously rules that the Fourteenth Amendment applies to all races, nationalities and ethnicities. The decision in Hernandez v. Texas broadened civil rights laws to include Mexican Americans and other groups. /1

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Metro D.C. police officer: I could make this about me… but I’ve always been a big picture person. It’s the country that’s in unprecedented danger. I’m here to fight the lies and preserve the truth.

submitted 5 days ago • 34 comments

Anyone else find it strange that a man with a 14-year heroin addiction is railing against Narcan—the lifesaving drug that helped drive a sharp drop in overdose deaths after a federal distribution program? No one said Narcan cures addiction. It prevents funerals. That’s the point. The facts 👇🏾

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Sen. Ossoff: Who out there in the American public is sitting at home demanding that we shut down cancer research and Alzheimer's research?

submitted 5 days ago • 620 comments

NYT: 5 Places to Turn for Accurate Health Information (gift link) Changes to federal health websites have raised concerns about their reliability. These independent sources offer an alternative www.nytimes.com/2025/04/28/w...

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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.

submitted 9 days ago • 249 comments

When Pete Buttigieg speaks this clearly about authoritarian behavior, it’s a reminder: this is not normal, and it’s not acceptable. Thanks to Jon Stewart and Pete for calling it out. Every American—left, right, and center—should be alarmed. Every American should protest.

submitted 7 days ago • 30 comments

The Women, Peace and Security Act was signed into law by President Trump in 2017.

submitted 6 days ago • 549 comments

Pete Buttigieg breaks down DEI for everyday folks… “The opposite of diversity is uniformity. The opposite of equity is inequity. The opposite of inclusion is exclusion.” @petebuttigieg.bsky.social Our problem: too many value uniformity over inclusion and they’re the ones running the government. 🧵

submitted 44 days ago • 1235 comments

Make this viral.

submitted 47 days ago • 42 comments

Canada is coming to our rescue!! They have expanded their hotline for us here!! Thank you CANADA!!

submitted 8 days ago • 97 comments

This is what a rigged economy looks like: In the 1970s, CEOs made 27 times more than the average worker. In the 1980s, CEOs made 48 times more than the average worker. This decade, CEOs are making 354 times more than the average worker. That has got to change.

submitted 9 days ago • 748 comments

Donald Trump isn’t just illegally removing U.S. citizens from the country without due process. He’s illegally removing U.S. citizens who are literal children undergoing care for cancer. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

submitted 9 days ago • 275 comments

Germany arrests 2 alleged Russian spies accused of scouting U.S. military facilities for sabotage - CBS News

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In 1994, Ukraine gave up the world’s third-largest nuclear arsenal. Why? Because the US, UK, and Russia promised to respect its borders and protect its sovereignty. This deal was called the Budapest Memorandum. 🧵

submitted 12 days ago • 7 comments

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...

submitted 10 days ago • 115 comments

Let’s be clear. Trump's arrest of Judge Dugan in Milwaukee has nothing to do with immigration. This latest attack is about one thing: unchecked power. It is time for my colleagues in the Republican Party to stand up to his growing authoritarianism.

submitted 10 days ago • 273 comments

Don’t let the arrest of a Federal Judge distract you from the announcement that ICE can enter anyone’s home without a warrant to look for migrants.

submitted 10 days ago • 1506 comments

(1/4) It was America and Britain that guaranteed the sovereignty of Ukraine and its borders in return for persuading them to give up their nuclear weapons.

submitted 11 days ago • 719 comments

The US is trying to ban masks, mRNA vaccines, dismantle healthcare and social supports and arranging to keep lists of people with autism (and possibly other disabilities). This is not how you tackle the chronic illness epidemic. This is how you begin a nationwide eugenics program.

submitted 12 days ago • 17 comments

NEW: A federal judge has blocked Donald Trump's executive order trying to take over federal elections and impose an unconstitutional proof of citizenship requirement. Paige and I explain. youtu.be/fmeV1x9lQ-E

submitted 11 days ago • 78 comments

I want politics to be about a better everyday life. Here's what that can look like:

submitted 11 days ago • 1001 comments

🚨BREAKING: Federal Court BLOCKS Trump executive order seeking to impose proof of citizenship requirement for voter registration. Big victory for our clients DNC, DSCC, DCCC, DGA, Sen. Schumer and Cong. Jeffries. www.democracydocket.com/cases/washin...

submitted 11 days ago • 161 comments

Over the past 50 years, vaccines have saved 154 million lives. This World Immunization Week, let’s celebrate the scientists, researchers, and public health workers who work tirelessly to keep us healthy and disavow baseless conspiracy theories about vaccines.

submitted 11 days ago • 49 comments

1/ 🔒 Imagine a private company embedded in gov systems—processing and analyzing your health records, immigration status, and social media use. That’s Palantir, co-founded by Peter Thiel, who once said, “I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible.” Yikes. Let’s discuss 🧵

submitted 11 days ago • 50 comments

THE CIVIL RIGHTS ACT IS THE LAW OF THE LAND AND A SUPERSTATUTE AND THE PRESIDENT CANNOT UNDO IT. sincerely, a constitutional law professor who also teaches employment discrimination

submitted 12 days ago • 522 comments

If we’re serious about more efficient government and better everyday life in America - which we all should be - that means actually improving government, not cutting health care for poor people and slashing support for veterans.

submitted 11 days ago • 735 comments

One of the most shocking things I have read for a while: t.co/lg46ijHLDF

submitted 12 days ago • 2127 comments

NEW: The total loss of NOAA’s office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research —a nerve center of global climate science, data collection and modeling — represents a setback for climate preparedness that experts warn the nation may never recover from. By @abrahm.bsky.social

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ICYMI: Yesterday, we sued DOGE for systematically violating the Federal Records Act, the Admin. Procedure Act, and the Freedom of Information Act. No one in the administration has the right to cover their tracks by deleting records or impeding oversight. americanoversight.org/american-ove...

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Judge inclined to permanently ban Trump’s executive order targeting law firms who have represented his perceived adversaries. Judge Beryl Howell compared the order targeting Perkins Cole law firm to “McCarthyism and The Red Scare.” #ProudBlue#Voices4Victory apple.news/A-24qYBjqRNa...

submitted 12 days ago • 13 comments

A nonprofit watchdog group on Monday broadened a lawsuit it filed last month against several top national security officials in the Trump administration, asking a federal judge to force them to preserve all messages they have sent as part of their official business on Signal.

submitted 14 days ago • 18 comments

This

submitted 15 days ago • 905 comments

Trump is breaking the law. How is that not in the headline?

submitted 17 days ago • 359 comments

ICYMI — as seen on Maddow, a DOGE whistleblower says they took sensitive data about Americans from NLRB, and left security wide open — Russians tried to go in, with the new passwords, within minutes. 🧵: x.com/mattjay/stat...

submitted 16 days ago • 47 comments

AOC spot on , this is what leadership looks like.

submitted 97 days ago • 742 comments

If you’re changing the definition of human rights, it means you plan on violating people’s human rights.

submitted 17 days ago • 655 comments

I put a hold on Ed Martin’s nomination. He’s denied elections. Fired quality public servants. Attempted to chill free speech. Turns out he’s also carrying water for the Kremlin. So wholly unfit to be a U.S. Attorney.

submitted 19 days ago • 1939 comments

Mark Hyman is a dangerous enabler of RFK Jr. He told Bari Weiss: "The way vaccines are studied is against other vaccines; it's not against a placebo." This is blatantly false. Rubella, pneumococcus, Hib, HPV, polio, measles, Tdap, and COVID-19 vaccines have all been tested against placebo. /1

submitted 18 days ago • 5 comments

This is some scary shit—and everyone needs to pay attention because it could affect any one of us. Rachel Maddow & NPR just blew the lid off Musk’s DOGE team. A whistleblower at the NLRB says they accessed data without authorization and breached security. The potential motive is pretty shocking. 🧵

submitted 19 days ago • 146 comments

DHS is threatening to revoke Harvard’s ability to host international students and the IRS is looking at revoking their tax exemption. The “stop the weaponization of government” crowd sure is quiet as fuck on this one.

submitted 19 days ago • 160 comments