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Today at least two judges were arrested for acts that are not criminally illegal and a two year old U.S. citizen was kidnapped and shipped to Honduras by ICE, who called it a "deportation." Are we great again yet?

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Judge blocks Trump administration from nixing collective bargaining for most federal employees

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BREAKING: The country of Norway just entered a bill to give transgender Americans asylum in the country of Norway… LGBTQ+ STRONG! 🌈✨

submitted 23 days ago • 1059 comments

DOGE is struggling to find any fraud in Social Security – but they’re still going to delay your benefits.

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Trump and Elon are coming after Social Security and USPS. Federal workers are being fired and the systems are being gutted. Tell the heartless administration to keep their HANDS OFF Social Security and our Postal Service. Spread the message: fedupstudio.etsy.com

submitted 32 days ago • 46 comments

Every system in SSA is currently down, internally & externally. It's happening people - we've got to scream louder! Contact your representatives immediately. @warren.senate.gov @timwalzparody.bsky.social @repjasmine.bsky.social @housedemocrats.bsky.social @sanders.senate.gov

submitted 33 days ago • 1 comment

Whatever lies Donald Trump and Elon Musk tell our seniors and people with disabilities about protecting their benefits will not change the simple fact: they are making cuts to Social Security. Now is the time to stand up and speak up like Marla is.

submitted 36 days ago • 21 comments

Trump is trying to strip the bargaining rights of roughly 1 million unionized federal workers. He claims it's a matter of "national security." Rubbish. Organized labor is standing up to Trump's authoritarian power grab. Tyrants will do anything to crush dissent.

submitted 36 days ago • 104 comments

SCOOP: DOGE wants to rebuild SSA's codebase in months, risking benefits and system collapse, sources tell me. The plan is to migrate all systems off COBOL quickly which would likely require the use of generative AI. www.wired.com/story/doge-r...

submitted 37 days ago • 647 comments

Local KNOXVILLE friends - my friend is looking for recommendations for a local attorney to help recover with losses associated with a car accident. Do we know anyone who handles this type of stuff?

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you think hegseth is bad, one time I accidentally added the country I was about to invade to the chat and then I had to be like omg Iran no lol total typo I did not mean YOU, we're gonna invade Iraq again haha just autocorrect. it was sooo mortifying tbh and then we had to invade both?? full cringe

submitted 40 days ago • 18 comments

FLAG: Top Trump officials including JD Vance, Marco Rubio, Pete Hegseth, and Tulsi Gabbard planned military strikes on Yemen's Houthis in a Signal messaging group — a group to which they accidentally added The Atlantic editor in chief Jeffrey Goldberg. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

submitted 40 days ago • 112 comments

The insane security fail, the law-breaking, the incompetence, the hypocrisy after 2016's "but her emails" -- all of this is absolutely fucking absurd & infuriating, but the cherry on top is the use of emoji reactions when planning acts of war. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

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THIS IS INSANE: A thread 🧵👇 Yesterday, the acting commissioner of the Social Secrity Administration, Lelnd Dudek, notified Rep. George Latmier that he rejected his and Rep. Lawler's bipartisan effort to keep the only Social Security hearing office in the Hudson Valley open.

submitted 44 days ago • 154 comments

🚨ALARM DOGE and the Social Security Administrator are quietly CLOSING SS offices making it much harder for people to maintain their benefits. Please help spread the word.

submitted 43 days ago • 67 comments

Bert "how old is he, 30?" 😂😂😂#GoVols

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Medicaid covers over 70 million people—1 in 5 Americans. It funds 50% of nursing home care and 40% of all births. But Republicans want to slash $2 trillion from the budget, putting this lifesaving care at risk. We can’t let them. #HandsOffMedicaid

submitted 59 days ago • 10 comments

The institutional power of this movement is matched only by the smallness of the men leading it.

submitted 63 days ago • 1 comment

This is the disgusting person Trump wanted released to the United States despite his heinous human trafficking charges. Listen to him describe how he’d grab women by the neck. MAGA can officially shut the fuck up about the Epstein files.

submitted 65 days ago • 874 comments

"Cuts have no apparent regard for civil society or opportunity costs or long-term strategic thinking. Their targets are Elon Musk’s and Project 2025’s targets. They have found no fraud, just democracy at work. They’re apparently eager to see what happens when it no longer does." Brian Barrett:

submitted 65 days ago • 72 comments

My latest:

submitted 66 days ago • 55 comments

1) If you changed nothing in current law about federal spending and taxes, that would have lower budget deficits than the proposed House GOP budget outline. 2) Neither option is anywhere close to a balanced budget.

submitted 68 days ago • 1 comment

In the fine print of a new executive order on DOGE is a 30-day freeze on the use of all U.S. government credit cards

submitted 66 days ago • 10 comments

The war on the poor is stronger than ever. Already vulnerable and disenfranchised, this is who they target.

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👇🏽 💰

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Congress is about to vote on a Republican budget that would destroy Medicaid. These 17 House Republicans won by fewer votes than the number of people they want to steal health care from. We are sending billboards to their districts to demand they vote NO on the budget.

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First they came for the federal employees, And I did not speak out, Because I was not a federal employee ... You know the rest of the poem. Act accordingly.

submitted 69 days ago • 326 comments

This is for @gtconway.bsky.social Five things I did last week. 1. Took too much ketamine 2. Danced onstage with a chainsaw 3. Ignored my new baby momma 4. Laughed at my own jokes. 5. Neglected all of my children except for the one I use as a human shield.

submitted 70 days ago • 390 comments