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Everyone is rightly excited about the Wisconsin race, but don't sleep on what happened at the Naperville (Illinois) City Council. The fate of a giant, polluting coal plant was on the line. An anti-coal majority was elected & the plant will shut down on schedule! 🎉 www.dailyherald.com/20250401/loc...

submitted 23 hours ago • 13 comments

Need power, but want it cheap? Try solar + batteries! Need power, but want it fast? Try solar + batteries! Need power, but want it reliable & grid-friendly? Try solar + batteries! Need power, but want to boost national security & reduce imports? Try solar + batteries!

submitted 19 hours ago • 21 comments

George HW Bush marveled at a new kind of grocery scanner in 1992 and was pilloried for being out of touch. Trump — who’s repeatedly said you need to show photo ID buying food — now insists “groceries” is some obscure term he recovered from the distant past and we’ll just move right along.

submitted 19 hours ago • 134 comments

Chicago Teachers Union reached a tentative agreement with Chicago Public Schools Monday night that reaffirms sanctuary school protections, protects the ability to teach Black history, gives veteran teachers a raise, and more.

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THREAD: Last year, ProPublica started receiving tips from an unusual kind of source: flight attendants. They said they'd worked on deportation flights for ICE, and they could tell us what it was really like on board. 1/

submitted 1 day ago • 98 comments

Sen. Booker’s speech was a substantive and moral account of this moment. He did not read the phone book. He did not babble. For 24 hours @booker.senate.gov laid out a detailed, damning, and critical narrative of truth, history, politics, morality, humanity. What will you do?

submitted 1 day ago • 980 comments

Just no words for this level of cruelty and enthusiasm for inflicting suffering on the poorest in our society

submitted 1 day ago • 283 comments

what booker is doing right now is an example of what i mean when i say things like “we need more ambition right now.” there is room in american politics right now for people with ambition to take big stands and reap the rewards. he’s doing it!

submitted 1 day ago • 540 comments

We should all be terrified to live in an America where legal residents can be detained, held at gunpoint, or deported because of the color of their skin or because the President disagrees with their views.

submitted 6 days ago • 1717 comments

The number of people who think that DOGE is a good idea that just went a little wrong is ... discouraging. People really, genuinely have no idea how the federal bureaucracy is built or how it works.

submitted 7 days ago • 185 comments

Breaking: WASHINGTON (AP) - Supreme Court upholds Biden rule requiring serial numbers and background checks for nearly untraceable ghost gun kits.

submitted 8 days ago • 22 comments

Ummmmm

submitted 8 days ago • 93 comments

Jesus

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Jesus.

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So I was on a flight into DCA tonight when we had to abruptly abort our landing because, the captain said, another smaller, slower craft had been routed directly in our path. Flight logs show we were just 200 feet above the ground.

submitted 16 days ago • 13 comments

DOGE/SSA marked this person dead and removed his savings from his bank account, cancelled his social security and Medicare. #seattle https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/heres-a-dead-person-on-social-security-in-seattle-with-plenty-to-say/

submitted 19 days ago • 248 comments

As more and more Americans get their news from online shows and streamers, our analysis found that this expanding media ecosystem is overwhelmingly right-leaning. 🧵: www.mediamatters.org/google/right...

submitted 19 days ago • 131 comments

Here's something important. It's just one part of the equation. But it's a key one. This debate is being carried on on the basis of the claim that a long shutdown opens up new legal authority for Musk to fire people. For a while now I've been in contact with a lawyer with deep knowledge of ...

submitted 19 days ago • 53 comments

This is the point I keep explaining to people outside of DC that really makes their jaws drop.

submitted 19 days ago • 1 comment

Sen. Jacky Rosen (D-Nev.) says she's voting no on the House GOP's CR (temporary govt funding bill). She's been quiet on how she'd vote.

submitted 19 days ago • 36 comments

Nancy Pelosi says Schumer is wrong and the House GOP's CR is worse than a govt shutdown. "Democrats must not buy into this false choice," she says. "Let’s be clear: neither is a good option for the American people. But this false choice that some are buying instead of fighting is unacceptable."

submitted 20 days ago • 31 comments

I can’t even click in. Just this much information has broken me for today.

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These two astronauts have been stuck in space for nine months when they were supposed to be there for eight days -- and now SpaceX's flight to get them is delayed. Whaaaat. www.huffpost.com/entry/spacex...

submitted 21 days ago • 8 comments

I cant get past this: the president of the United States is selling ‘one on one’ dinner with himself for 5 million dollars www.wired.com/story/people...

submitted 27 days ago • 313 comments

Absolutely unconstitutional bullshit

submitted 27 days ago • 7 comments

This is a wildly dangerous sign — the idea that there are only five SCOTUS votes for paying congressionally mandated invoices for work already done!? This should be as basic a test of Article I as you can get. And that does not bode well for decisions to come.

submitted 29 days ago • 199 comments

congratulations to No Other Land, which may be the first film to win a major Oscar but not theatrical distribution.

submitted 31 days ago • 45 comments

This. But damn can we talk about how hot Robert Downing Jr still is. It’s really turning things around for me.

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18F was doing exactly the type of work that DOGE claims to want – yet we were eliminated shortly after midnight. Read our letter to the American people: 18f.org

submitted 32 days ago • 719 comments

Quinnipiac poll, 2/19/25 poll.qu.edu/poll-release...

submitted 33 days ago • 1 comment

People need to understand that we are in an entirely new paradigm. It is now Russia the US against Ukraine and Europe. This is not a shift in US policy, it is a transformation of what kind of country the United States is in the world

submitted 33 days ago • 129 comments

You don't have to "craft" anything, you let trans people use the bathroom they want and you ban creep behavior. That's already the policy in most public bathrooms in the US and has been for decades. Cis men pretending to be trans so they can assault women in bathrooms is vanishingly rare.

submitted 34 days ago • 109 comments

An interesting, if somewhat under-the-radar, spat is underway between Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.) and the VA Secretary over people being fired, rehired, and then more fired who help to the keep the Veterans Crisis Line up and running. www.huffpost.com/entry/donald...

submitted 34 days ago • 11 comments

senior citizens definitely love interacting with robots in customer service instead of real people. they are famously in favor of adapting to new technologies. this is going to go great

submitted 35 days ago • 14 comments

Wow those nonconfrontational savvy behind-the-scenes negotiations to address the White House blackballing the AP really paid off huh

submitted 36 days ago • 42 comments

Fucking disgusting.

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White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt announces that the White House Correspondents' Association will no longer choose the pool reporter. "Moving forward, the White House press pool will be determined by the White House press team."

submitted 36 days ago • 858 comments

This is so many words to say Trump fired the chairman of the joint chiefs because he’s black www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/u...

submitted 40 days ago • 134 comments

In 3 days, the number of measles cases in a highly unvaccinated area of Texas has doubled. There are now 48 cases, all of whom are unvaccinated, and 13 of whom have been hospitalized so far, for a hospitalization rate of 27%. This is huge figure in epidemiology. This outbreak will keep spreading.

submitted 47 days ago • 550 comments

Dropping the Adams case is so obviously corrupt and unethical that a former Scalia clerk resigned on principle. This is not a partisan issue; it's a question of whether DOJ will be weaponized by this administration on behalf of its allies and against its opponents. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/n...

submitted 48 days ago • 20 comments

Getting so pissed off at a request for your participation in public corruption that you call a reporter from the delivery ward to be like, JUST SO WE ARE CLEAR, I AM FUCKING QUITTING TOO

submitted 48 days ago • 27 comments

Remember those technologists I hired using an authority designed to bring private sector tech talent to gov, legally? They were looking into big tech. Trump just fired them. All of them. consumerfinance.gov/about-us/blog/…

submitted 48 days ago • 34 comments

BREAKING: Trump just fired an entire team of CFPB public servants who helped uncover financial wrongdoing, out-of-control AI, and consumer harm. This is a win for Big Tech & Wall Street, and a loss for everyday people.

submitted 48 days ago • 5 comments

Biden slayed inflation in a pandemic and supply chain crisis and the #BrokenTimes crucified him over the price of eggs. Trump causes inflation and the #BrokenTimes gives him slack. With High Prices Persisting, Trump Tempers Tone on Slaying Inflation www.nytimes.com/2025/02/12/b...

submitted 50 days ago • 36 comments

Yes this agency is more or less a free enormous benefit for the public and a cost to rich frauds

submitted 52 days ago • 9 comments