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This week: - social security website is down - admin is mass emailing demands for self deportation after scanning social media and detecting political activity - admin is destroying all upper edu funding as we know it - threatening Greenland & Canada - black-bagging legal residents - bombing Yemen

submitted 14 hours ago • 30 comments

Not getting much attention, but the Senate GOP is about to start voting - to make sure banks can charge higher overdraft fees. Seriously. Good time to let your Senators know what you think of that.

submitted 3 days ago • 1716 comments

I don’t know who needs to hear this, but “I was only following orders” was rejected as a defense at the Nuremberg Trials.

submitted 7 days ago • 328 comments

Other people are still at "is it a constitutional crisis yet?" and I'm at "the crisis was several exits ago, the car has crashed, we're now just seeing how many cars end up in the pileup and how high the casualty count is" or "the house is actively burning down, the question is what's left after."

submitted 12 days ago • 181 comments

I think some in the Senate have convinced themselves that the backlash to folding will be limited to “the left” and therefore ignorable. Those people are deeply and profoundly misreading the moment and the stakes. Virtually every swing district House Dem walked the plank to vote NO for a reason.

submitted 16 days ago • 5246 comments

Per @johnleguizamo.bsky.social: “Medicaid is called by different names in different states! Stay awake America you lose everything you rely on!”

submitted 17 days ago • 332 comments

There were howls of protest and denial from the GOP any time we pointed out that Republicans want to cut Social Security. Now the most powerful official in the White House goes on TV and calls it "the big one to eliminate."

submitted 19 days ago • 1520 comments

This is it, right here. 🔥 “I’m always curious what exactly conservatives mean when they say they love America because you hate most of the people who live here.”

submitted 25 days ago • 295 comments

Couptastic

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

📌NOTE: Immediately after the vile attack on Zelensky by Putin's puppets Friday, Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries should have called a joint press conference and explained to the American public the significance, heinousness and danger of that sickening surrender. 📌They should STILL be talking now.

submitted 28 days ago • 2510 comments

What if I try to "Be the change" and I'm a psychopath? Shouldn't some very bad people just NOT do that? Stay in your lane serial killers! Activism in government is for folks that believe in empathy and ethics, public good.

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

This is INSANE. Even if you think Zelenskyy was out of line or rude or whatever in the Oval, the US government is going to just throw the entire country of Ukraine under the (Russian) bus over this? Toddlers in kindergarten behave better, and more strategically, than this.

submitted 29 days ago • 381 comments

If they're not Russian assets what would Russian assets be doing differently?

submitted 29 days ago • 14 comments

Obama and Biden may think they are honoring the office of the presidency by keeping quiet at a moment like this — if so that’s just preening vanity — they owe it to the office and to the Republic that until last month it served to speak up loudly and clearly and without relent.

submitted 29 days ago • 519 comments

What happened in the Oval office today with our traitorous "leaders" and Zelensky was the most disgusting thing I think I've ever seen. Damn every single person who voted for them. I hope your children are the ones who have to fight a war on Putin's behalf.

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

submitted 30 days ago • 1525 comments

This....

submitted 32 days ago • 665 comments

Disgusting.

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

Teachers teach. We need a leaderful movement, and there are leaders all around us.

submitted 36 days ago • 564 comments

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submitted 37 days ago • 758 comments

Trump is a traitor, to no one's surprise

submitted 38 days ago • 0 comments

I’m George Takei and I approve of this message.

submitted 38 days ago • 2367 comments

Don’t buy stuff on February 28. Money’s the only thing these dicks understand. #resist

submitted 42 days ago • 2798 comments

I. 💙. 🇨🇦

submitted 54 days ago • 119 comments

Their faith lets them worship power while they’re offended by mercy. It’s not Christianity they’re practicing.

submitted 65 days ago • 774 comments

On inauguration day 2017, I joined thousands of people to hold hands across the Golden Gate Bridge, a joyous distraction that took away at least some of his beloved attention. Why is nothing like that happening this year? Does it seem naive now? Are we finally too cynical, just bracing for impact?

submitted 74 days ago • 1 comment

My take on Joe Biden pardoning his son: Democrats need to be spending every minute between now and the end of the year confirming judges, and if they lose out on their holiday plans for it, tough. It's your job.