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Extortion, pure and simple.

submitted 13 hours ago • 628 comments

Wait. It gets worse: "The new document states that the revenues will be directed to a fund in which the United States holds 100 percent financial interest, and that Ukraine should contribute to the fund until it reaches $500 billion....The US has allocated $119 billion for aid to Ukraine."

submitted 7 hours ago • 234 comments

A MUST-SEE‼️ The PayPal Mafia—Musk, Thiel, Sacks, and Botha—have ties to apartheid South Africa & a hand in US policy and the election. • Elon Musk – Unelected co-president, dismantling the government for his own gain. FUN FACT: His grandfather wanted to scrap democracy for technocrat rule. 🧵

submitted 5 hours ago • 86 comments

Right-wing censors are now "quiet banning" books that they can't removed legally. Librarians in Chicago have been finding books dealing with race, LGBTQ+ issues or Islam hidden under shelves, in trash cans or otherwise "disappeared." www.chicagotribune.com/2025/02/22/l...

submitted 5 hours ago • 147 comments

Temporary Protective Status allows immigrants fleeing violence and persecution to live and work in the U.S. without fear of deportation. Revoking TPS is not only cruel — it's unlawful.

submitted 5 hours ago • 3 comments

DOGE’s Only Public Ledger Is Riddled With Mistakes The figures from Elon Musk’s team of outsiders represent billions in government cuts. They are also full of accounting errors, outdated data and other miscalculations. nyti.ms/4i1ril4

submitted 5 hours ago • 9 comments

At what point do leaders in the GOP band together (since they seem to lack courage individually) & say enough is enough? The party of Reagan becomes the tool of Putin if they don’t, especially after last night.

submitted 6 hours ago • 480 comments

200 million dollars of waste.

submitted 8 hours ago • 1089 comments

“Controversial”?? CNN reports that this doge kid who is all up in our PII betrayed employer by stealing data and releasing it to a competitor, and “controversial” is CNN’s description?

submitted 7 hours ago • 0 comments

A defining policy battle is about to come to a head in this country. The Republican budget will force everyone - especially Congress and the White House - to make plain whether they are prepared to harm the rest of us in order to fund tax cuts for the wealthiest.

submitted 1 day ago • 702 comments

Here’s how many billions Elon Musk’s companies are making from U.S. taxpayers

submitted 1 day ago • 49 comments

"How 'just' is our justice system if people who overtly break the law, harm and even kill police officers and work to thwart our democracy are forgiven with the wave of an executive order’s wand?" Read more about who was pardoned from the Jan. 6 riot.

submitted 20 hours ago • 21 comments

There have never been kings in America. The monarchy doesn't start now.

submitted 1 day ago • 1141 comments

Compelling piece. Does a political messiah exist, with the knowledge and gravitas of @petebuttigieg.bsky.social but without the baggage of association with prior administrations? 🙏🤞🙏🤞🙏

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

If you didn't know... • Exxon • Moulton/Coors • Walmart Have funded Heritage Foundation (#Project2025) for YEARS #Boycott

submitted 1 day ago • 863 comments

Defending Trump’s power grab with the “unitary executive theory” is just a fancy way of claiming the president can rule the executive branch like a monarch. This argument has no basis in history or the Constitution.

submitted 1 day ago • 8 comments

The Senate has confirmed Kash Patel, who has published an enemies list identical to Trump's, to serve a 10-year term as FBI Director. He will be a major cog in Trump's vengeance machine to silence and intimidate critics. Be warned. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/kash-patel-in-his-own-words

submitted 1 day ago • 224 comments

* Trump: DOGE has already made “HUNDREDS of billions” of cuts * DOGE website: $55 billion * Actual amount : $8.6 billion

submitted 1 day ago • 19 comments

According to ProPublica, dozens more pregnant and postpartum women have died in Texas hospitals since abortion bans were implemented, compared with maternal deaths in the state immediately before the pandemic.

submitted 1 day ago • 290 comments

The Trump presidency is a threat to the well being of the American people.

submitted 2 days ago • 108 comments

The battle of our day is no longer about Democrats versus Republicans or left versus right. The choice right now is democracy or dictatorship. And we're sliding faster than I ever thought possible into the latter. Everyone must choose which side they’re on. Now.

submitted 2 days ago • 431 comments

"Behind the seemingly scatter-shot opening acts of his second administration, legal analysts see a common goal: to test a once-fringe legal theory which asserts that the president has unlimited power to control the actions of the four million people who make up the executive branch." --Jacob Knutson

submitted 1 day ago • 105 comments

MAGA has a bill that would disenfranchise someone you know. The SAVE Act is the GOP’s attempt at mass voter suppression disguised as an election integrity bill: indivisibleteam.medium.com/maga-has-a-b...

submitted 1 day ago • 23 comments

The Senate voted 51-49 Thursday to confirm election denier Kash Patel to be the director of the FBI. During a confirmation hearing, Patel repeatedly refused to say that President Donald Trump lost the 2020 election. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

submitted 1 day ago • 261 comments

So if you criticize Elon Musk, Trump’s DOJ will send you this letter. Members of Congress must have the right to forcefully oppose the Trump Administration. I will not be silenced.

submitted 2 days ago • 3416 comments

Taxpayer advocates and unions filed a lawsuit to block Elon Musk’s DOGE from accessing and retaining sensitive data from the IRS. Plaintiffs say "DOGE is violating multiple laws[.]"

submitted 1 day ago • 19 comments

I’m not sure the world has seen a genuine supervillain until 2025. Of course there’ve been countless monsters: hitler, Stalin, pol pot. But a real life figure who fits the Gotham/Metropolis model. Plutocrat bigwig who is actually deeply evil & wants to run the world for cartoonishly stupid reasons.

submitted 1 day ago • 535 comments

Repost if you’re NOT gonna miss this guy. 🖕👋

submitted 2 days ago • 134 comments

CARVILLE: “More deficit accumulated under Trump than any president… Trump’s approval rating lowest at this point in his presidency ever… GOP supports Putin, wants to get rid of Medicaid & Medicare…” James Carville exposed Hannity’s audience to some facts 👇🏽 Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DGUcU1c...

submitted 1 day ago • 94 comments

I have been asked by several people to share information on class action lawsuits related to termination of probationary employees. Here is a story worth a read: federalnewsnetwork.com/workforce-ri...

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Brad Schimel may be for sale — but Wisconsin isn’t.

submitted 1 day ago • 6 comments

Like a true politician, Brad Schimel is desperately trying to spin his failures on rape kits. Over two years, he tested only nine kits out of a backlog of over 6,000. While Schimel dragged his feet, rapists roamed the streets.

submitted 2 days ago • 19 comments

wearing sunglasses inside and following an event where he at times had a hard time speaking coherently, Elon Musk walks off the CPAC stage waving around a chain saw. this is the guy currently running our government. Congrats, America!

submitted 1 day ago • 1912 comments

A must-read exposé from ProPublica reveals the devastating impact of Texas’ abortion ban. Sepsis rates have doubled, putting countless lives at risk. This isn’t just politics—it’s life or death. Sepsis can cause organ failure, brain damage, and deadly complications. No one should suffer like this.

submitted 2 days ago • 13 comments

Elon Musk recently posted on his site that another lawyer and I are “undermining civilization.” He goes on to ask if we suffered childhood trauma and concludes by suggesting we are suffering from “generational trauma.” This is my response. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/my-o...

submitted 2 days ago • 1374 comments

It would be a shame to encourage folks to use banned book lists to do strange things like -check them out regularly at the library -request the library order them if they don’t have them -buy them -start or support banned book clubs -organize a banned book kids story time A real shame

submitted 2 days ago • 145 comments

New EO (link below) orders HHS to terminate the Secretary’s Advisory Committee on Long COVID (section 2iv). Share widely on all platforms. This is a perfect example of how this administration does not care about Americans. If this is efficiency, then what IS Trump's plan for people with Long COVID?

submitted 2 days ago • 40 comments