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By the way, one of the reasons it’s terrible all of these people lie all of the time about meaningless things is it makes it impossible to believe them when they’re talking about incredibly consequential things.

submitted 4 days ago • 106 comments

In recent weeks the Trump regime arrested, handcuffed/decked: • Judge • Member of Congress • US Senator • Mayor • Mayoral Candidate/city official of NYC. Schumer's Sen. Dems have returned the favor by voting with Republicans to gift Trump a massive shady crypto bill to sign making him richer.

submitted 9 days ago • 15 comments

We feed you. They hunt us.

submitted 15 days ago • 1252 comments

Someone was up late in Senate Approps minority staff going through detailed Trump Friday night news dump. Here's a rundown of cuts proposed his FY26 budget. Like all presidential budgets-it is DOA. Congress will revise. But still, what Trum proposed www.appropriations.senate.gov/news/minorit...

submitted 26 days ago • 5 comments

Frost: Tonight the people stealing are not folks with tattoos and hoodies but people wearing suits and ties and congressional pins sitting in the capitol now, not in some alley wrapped in darkness but the United States congress wrapped in the flag. It is disgusting and we will never forget this.

submitted 35 days ago • 613 comments

Dear Americans, Republicans in the House just passed the largest transfer of wealth in history to the top 1%. Those of us with the least amount of money will suffer the most.

submitted 35 days ago • 17 comments

I said it would get worse very quickly. By tomorrow we will have completed the most dangerous & frightening 24 hours thus far of Trump 2.0. Just to name a few: 1. Defiance of a court order by sending migrants to Sudan without due process (despite clear DP decision SCOTUS) & Dist. CT. order.

submitted 36 days ago • 164 comments

We're witnessing the United States' demise as the most powerful force for innovation in science, health, and technology in the 21st century. China will usurp that position.

submitted 81 days ago • 10 comments

Breaking News: President Trump plans to accept a luxury Boeing 747 from Qatar that he will use as Air Force One and will keep using after he leaves office. The plan — involving possibly the biggest foreign gift ever received by the U.S. government — raises substantial ethical issues.

submitted 46 days ago • 1005 comments

I remain shocked by the fathomless stupidity and ignorance of this administration. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/28/c...

submitted 58 days ago • 2 comments

wrote about the importance of ambition and political leadership

submitted 64 days ago • 70 comments

I don't really care what the "political consequences" are of fighting for the proposition that everyone is entitled to due process before they are removed from the United States and sent to a Salvadoran prison. It's not really a principle if you only adhere to it when it's politically expedient.

submitted 69 days ago • 412 comments

AOC: I saw on Fox, Jeanine Pirro says that they found so many babies and two year olds and four year olds receiving social security. I got a notice for you Jeanine Pirro: those babies receive social security because their parents died. That’s not a waste. That’s humanity. That’s America.

submitted 71 days ago • 1130 comments

Calling this the New Jim Crow does not adequately name what this is. Angola, America’s largest maximum-security prison, sits on 18,000 acres in Angola, Louisiana. Incarcerated workers in Louisiana prisons earn between $0.02 and $0.40 an hour for their labor. www.pbs.org/newshour/nat...

submitted 74 days ago • 17 comments

Just a reminder that these are the people purporting to be outraged by antisemitism on campus. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/11/u...

submitted 76 days ago • 32 comments

Mahmoud's case is a litmus test for the right to free speech in our country. This ruling jeopardizes dissent. Attacks on the First Amendment will not stop with student activists advocating for Palestinian rights. www.cbsnews.com/news/mahmoud...

submitted 76 days ago • 53 comments

News: Diana Greene Foster, the MacArthur-winning author of the Turnaway Study, learned her NIH grant — funding a multi-year study on Dobbs' impact — has been pulled. She was told its bc the govt won't study "gender identity." Her work has shaped our understanding of abortion bans' consequences.

submitted 78 days ago • 21 comments

Netanyahu loves Trump's plan to force 2 million people from Gaza & turn it into a billionaires’ Riviera. He calls it "voluntary migration.” It's not voluntary if you bomb & starve those who stay. It’s ethnic cleansing. It's a war crime. No more military aid to Netanyahu.

submitted 78 days ago • 159 comments

A tricky thing about modern society is that no one has any idea when they don’t die. Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.

submitted 80 days ago • 1108 comments

#HandsOff Westerly, RI 💪

submitted 82 days ago • 1 comment

🧵1/ With rising STI rates across the U.S., the very programs that protect us were slashed. Cuts to CDC’s Division of STD Prevention gut a system built to stop syphilis, gonorrhea, HIV, and more. Here’s what we’re losing and why it matters to everyone. #IDSky #PublicHealthSky

submitted 82 days ago • 4 comments

A budget is a statement of your values. Here’s the Republican budget proposal: - At least $4.6T more for tax cuts for the ultra rich - $175B more for ICE - $150B more for military - Increase the deficit by trillions - Cuts to programs benefiting the working-class

submitted 83 days ago • 17 comments

We simply had to intentionally destroy the world’s strongest economy while dismantling our scientific and educational infrastructure to ensure that a team with a trans girl would never finish second place in the Mountain West volleyball standings again

submitted 85 days ago • 156 comments

Just today, three next-gen leaders jumped into big races - Mallory McMorrow for Senate in MI, & Jake Rakov and Deja Foxx for US House in CA & AZ. The Democratic Party will be changing, whether the leadership & establishment likes it or not.

submitted 85 days ago • 19 comments

Are you listening? It’s the least you can do. Powerful, substantive, passionate. A clarion call to stand. www.youtube.com/live/rCUK2Vb...

submitted 86 days ago • 361 comments

"The Trump approach is dumb power. Instead of a strong America using all our strengths to lead the world and confront our adversaries, Mr. Trump’s America will be increasingly blind and blundering, feeble and friendless."

submitted 90 days ago • 5 comments

there is absolutely nothing standing in the way of more moderate democrats being aggressive opponents of the white house and holding public events highlighting their opposition

submitted 92 days ago • 323 comments

We posted a list of all the officials on the text chain who suggested criminal charges in the past for Clinton and Biden. Pete Hegseth in 2016: “People have gone to jail for 1/100th of what – even 1/1,000th of what Hillary Clinton did... It's all criminal." www.cnn.com/2025/03/25/p...

submitted 93 days ago • 42 comments

there are like three overlapping scandals with signalgate — illegal distribution of sensitive government materials by top members of the administration, illegal attempt to circumvent records laws and possible unlawful use of military force — and democrats should be screaming about them all

submitted 93 days ago • 253 comments

Netanyahu has not allowed any food, water, or fuel into Gaza in two weeks. Now he has resumed bombing, killing hundreds of people and breaking the ceasefire that had given Gaza a chance to live again. NO MORE MILITARY AID TO ISRAEL.

submitted 100 days ago • 437 comments

They're called public records for a reason. Starting today, WIRED will stop paywalling articles that are primarily based on public records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, becoming the first publication to partner with @freedom.press to offer this for our new coverage.

submitted 100 days ago • 1676 comments

A US-born citizen was walking near Chicago in January. ICE snatched him off the street, handcuffed him, threw into a van. His wallet, which contained his ID, was confiscated. He was detained for 10 hours before being released without a record of what occurred. immigrantjustice.org/sites/defaul...

submitted 101 days ago • 1324 comments

Jeffries: "The average Social Security recipient in the US receives about $65 a day in benefits. Elon Musk in his contracts with the federal government gets about $8 million a day. If they were really interested in waste, fraud, and abuse, they would start there ... but they're going after grandma"

submitted 102 days ago • 375 comments

In 2021, McConnell successfully filibustered a Democratic CR ahead of a government shutdown and forced them to accept a clean one instead. What happened this week - a total cave on a totally partisan long-term funding bill - hasn’t happened in the 20 years I’ve covered Congress.

submitted 103 days ago • 255 comments

whether they’re retiring or not this should be the last term for each of them

submitted 104 days ago • 363 comments

Republicans’ partisan spending bill turns the federal government into a slush fund for Donald Trump and Elon Musk. It’s unthinkable that any Senate Democrat would hand them a blank check by voting for cloture.

submitted 104 days ago • 629 comments

There was a lot of #AcademicFreedom, good scholarship, and independent thought in German universities before Hitler. After Hitler had risen to power, many academics fled the country. Some resisted the Nazi regime and were persecuted. Most adapted to a new situation. Here are some examples. 1/n

submitted 157 days ago • 59 comments

The Democratic leadership needs to be cleaned out. They're controlled opposition. They will not save you. The sooner everyone realizes this the better.

submitted 111 days ago • 90 comments

COLBERT, on Rep. Al Green’s removal: “Some people questioned why so much muscle was needed to remove an old man with a cane. But it turns out it was for a serious reason. When security searched him, they found that he smuggled in a spine." @latenightercom.bsky.social

submitted 113 days ago • 216 comments

Democrats can’t even match the organizing power of a private Facebook group in a little Rhode Island town 🙄 Elected Democrats need to get it together or get out of the way. We deserve to be represented by people who are willing to put skin in the game and fight.

submitted 113 days ago • 1 comment

Federal education funds are: 📚 7.5M kids getting the extra classroom help they need 🛠️ 12M students training for careers 🎓 10M high school seniors headed to college All at risk if Trump kills the Dept. of Education. This isn’t policy—it’s sabotage. #ProtectOurKids

submitted 114 days ago • 6 comments