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Good read: Democrats, Stop Hiding. Start Fighting. Democrats can’t afford to sit back and wait for power — they need to seize the narrative and make their presence unavoidable every single day.

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Name one thing more disgusting than this: The House GOP just passed a $4.5 trillion tax cut for ultra wealthy billionaires. They want to pay for it with hundreds of billions in cuts to Medicare, Medicaid, and SNAP.

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Murphy: "The destruction of our democracy is part of this story ... this is super unpopular, what they are doing. Nobody wants their healthcare to disappear ... so how do you get away with it? You try to destroy our democracy. You try to crush dissent. You threaten members of Congress with arrest."

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Moms are freedom of speech & Medicaid. NOT this: “We’ve got to be a little aggressive with some of these folks here.Your voice is meaningless right now.I can talk over all of you.” -Told to a woman for Medicaid at an Idaho Town Hall as she was illegally dragged by 3 men. cdapress.com/news/2025/fe...

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Fascism is now a pandemic

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Adam Serwer (@adamserwer.bsky.social) is so gifted at distilling key political themes. Trump 1.0 was "The Cruelty Is The Point"; this piece explains how the admin is now pursuing "The Great Resegregation." It captures so much of what's happening. READ IT! www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

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“ The comedian Hasan Minhaj recently described him as having the look of a McKinsey consultant, “just blending into congressional crowds of white men like an arctic fox.” “ 🦊 🌨️ www.nytimes.com/2025/02/23/u...

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Good for these federal workers, concerned about the sabotage of a functioning, safe park, for us and for nature. www.sfchronicle.com/outdoors/art...

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Nothing says "do your own research" like dismantling the institutions that make research possible. @politico.com www.politico.com/news/2025/02...

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🚨BREAKING: Federal Court GRANTS sweeping nationwide injunction against Trump DEI executive orders finding that they violate First and Fifth Amendments to the Constitution. A huge victory for @democracyforward.org and its clients. A stinging loss for Trump. Visit www.democracydocket.com for details.

submitted 5 days ago • 988 comments

The Trump-Vance-Musk regime is not only undermining democracy in the US. It is laying the foundation for undermining democracies around the world. The emerging battle will be global democracy vs. a global oligarchy. The US is emerging on the side of global oligarchy.

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Murphy: "There's no separation between the Kremlin & the White House right now. The White House is a full-time Kremlin propaganda operation..there's a real probability American troops are going to have fight abroad to protect the global world order & our allies & perhaps American sovereignty itself"

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"Most Americans don’t want to believe that their government is taking lifesaving medicine away from sick people in Africa, or betraying Afghans who sacrificed for this country" But it is. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

submitted 6 days ago • 59 comments

🚨NEW: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is planning to fire Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff C.Q. Brown, a 4-Star General and 41-year veteran of the Air Force who flew over 130 hours in combat as a fighter pilot. REPOST if you stand with General C.Q. Brown against Hegseth!

submitted 6 days ago • 1998 comments

Tyranny requires your fear, your silence, and your compliance. Democracy requires your courage.

submitted 7 days ago • 1974 comments

PETE: “What we have to do now is make clear we do want government to work differently and better than it has, but burning it to the ground won’t do that for anyone.”

submitted 7 days ago • 307 comments

Did y’all see the look on Rubio’s face after that Russia meeting??? Man looked like a ghost—as he should. Dude sold America out to Russia for less than a bag of airline peanuts, and he knows that’ll be all history remembers him for. Just pathetic.

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🗣️ @aoc.bsky.social out fighting for the people & federal workers: “Every day our job is to wake up and say ‘what can I do today?’ — There is no act too small. Every action matters.” 🇺🇸

submitted 7 days ago • 973 comments

I am one of more than 750 political scientists who signed this statement "express[ing] our urgent concern about threats to the basic design of American government and democracy" drive.google.com/file/d/1lGk2...

submitted 8 days ago • 82 comments

You need to watch this great and important speech from Governor Pritzker www.tiktok.com/t/ZT2fhPXAs/

submitted 7 days ago • 54 comments

Truth

submitted 7 days ago • 59 comments

February 19, 2025

submitted 7 days ago • 86 comments

They were never going to lower prices. They never cared about egg prices. It's the same lie as CRT. They want us chasing their bullshit while the real mission is to disassemble the government so the rich can get richer. They are on a mission to destroy it all. It's beyond a coup.

submitted 8 days ago • 483 comments

"In less than a month’s time, Rubio has presided over America’s willing abdication as leader of the free world. It’s a shameful legacy that cuts against everything he once proclaimed to stand for."

submitted 8 days ago • 990 comments

💥 “We’re tired of the executive branch putting us at risk! We need our fellow Americans to stand up with us! We need Congress to take action!! It is essential to stand up against Autocracy!” It’s time to unite and make our voices heard! h/t Alejandro Alvarez in DC

submitted 9 days ago • 218 comments

This country has seen some bad moments in the 61 years, 5 months, 16 days I’ve been on this Earth. But it has never, ever before come close to the supertoxic level of stupidity, mendacity, narcissism, nihilism, and moral apathy that threaten to destroy it today.

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What these nihilistic vandals are doing to dismantle science & medicine—generations of expertise & public service & life improving benefits—is cultural revolution level national self harm. No foreign foe could inflict such brutal damage & senseless suffering on US so fast & effectively & unresisted.

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DISEASES ERADICATED OR DECIMATED BY SCIENCE: 1. Chickenpox 2. Diphtheria 3. Measles 4. Pertussis 5. Pneumococcal Infection 6. Polio 7. Tetanus 8. Typhoid 9. Yellow Fever 10. Smallpox DISEASES ERADICATED OR DECIMATED BY RFK JR. OR PRAYER: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

submitted 14 days ago • 1247 comments

in what meaningful way can we say that the constitution is in effect when an unelected and unaccountable billionaire is wielding state power to unilaterally cancel congressional appropriations?

submitted 16 days ago • 490 comments

Clearly.

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Elon—the richest man on Earth—is gutting the world’s largest provider of food aid. He could end world hunger single-handedly and still be the richest man alive. But he won’t. Instead, he spent 40 million on Super Bowl ads attacking USAID! Stand with USAID: share this counter-ad…

submitted 17 days ago • 381 comments

Call your Senators and MOC Click below for a call script and access to the phone numbers! Like and Repost to share widely. #StopTheCoup

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Can your Congressperson and Senators 202-224-3121. Congress needs to investigate this immediately. Private mercenaries are not (legally) allowed to block Members of Congress.

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I will NOT be erased!

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Schools in at least 10 states have closed because of flu outbreaks. 41+ states are currently reporting "very high" or "high" influenza activity with ER visits surging. This comes after Donald Trump paused the CDC from issuing external communications to the public, halting health advisories.

submitted 20 days ago • 62 comments

This is huge. It's a concrete sign that we can fight back, that the fascists and the oligarchs and the white supremacists know that if they push too far too fast and get caught that the American people may still come for them. Keep it up.

submitted 20 days ago • 14 comments

Don’t know her, but I know I love her politics! Kudos to her. 💙

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Elon Musk is the single biggest beneficiary of U.S. government contracts. Taxpayers are subsidizing the “fire hose of hate and falsehoods” that now appear on X that Musk bought for $44 billion two years ago. Do you see a pattern here? Does this make you angry?

submitted 21 days ago • 260 comments

Take the time to read this important analysis. We are in exactly the situation that laws, Constitutin and basic common sense should prevent. And yet. www.techdirt.com/2025/02/05/t...

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