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The police union’s response to @councilorkanal.bsky.social proposed changes to police oversight & accountability borders on hysteria. My union — @cwa7901.bsky.social — endorsed Kanal and this is exactly the kind of leadership we were looking for. Show up and support his amendments!

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

Glad you voted for your Putin overlord, America? When will you wake up?

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BREAKING: MSNBC racist purge escalates. Ayman Mohyeldin, Katie Phang and Jonathan Capehart ousted along with Joy Reid and Alex Wagner nypost.com/2025/02/24/m...

submitted 4 days ago • 477 comments

Beyond betrayal.

submitted 7 days ago • 62 comments

Firing all the JAGs is very very bad

submitted 7 days ago • 71 comments

If you’re wondering why I declined to talk to the NYTimes, then you haven’t been following my account for very long. They bear a direct responsibility for the current situation we find ourselves in, and I responded by laying out my position and that I would only talk to @jamellebouie.net

submitted 8 days ago • 1576 comments

In a new development, the Department of Justice said Trump's pardon of Jan. 6 defendants should apply more broadly and include separate gun charges, as well.

submitted 7 days ago • 172 comments

The federal health department escalated the Trump administration’s campaign against transgender protections, releasing public guidance that asserts a person’s sex is “unchangeable” and launching a website that promotes orders aimed at transgender people.

submitted 8 days ago • 52 comments

Vance Day — who once made headlines for refusing to wed gay couples, and for hanging a picture of Hitler in the courthouse — has been hired by the Trump administration. www.oregonlive.com/politics/202...

submitted 9 days ago • 14 comments

REVEALED: we identified the operator of an overtly racist X account, "GlomarResponder," as ICE Assistant Chief Counsel James Rodden, based on an overwhelming number of biographical details matched through publicly available documents, other social media activity, and courtroom observation.

submitted 9 days ago • 1006 comments

The Trump official currently dismantling USAID was caught in a secret meeting with a group of pro-Russian separatists in the Balkans. Those he met with are under American sanctions for trying to restart the Bosnian war in the name of Christian nationalism. 1/

submitted 12 days ago • 118 comments

seems like it is a big deal that the unifying ideology of the doge team is neo nazism

submitted 12 days ago • 494 comments

The Trump administration has fired a quarter of the federal employees in a central program office responsible for coordinating the tracking and monitoring of the growing bird flu outbreak.

submitted 12 days ago • 43 comments

An amazing resignation letter to Bove from an AUSA who worked on the Adams case. Money quote: “I expect you will eventually find someone who is enough of a fool, or enough of a coward, to file your motion. But it was never going to be me.”

submitted 14 days ago • 842 comments

Chris Murphy: "I think this is the most serious constitutional crisis the country has faced, certainly since Watergate. The president is attempting to seize control of power, and for corrupt purposes ... he's trying to crush his opposition ... this is a red alert moment ... our democracy is at risk"

submitted 19 days ago • 694 comments

the first good post i think i've ever seen from a democratic committee account

submitted 22 days ago • 720 comments

It’s important to stand up and fight back on anti-immigrant hate on all fronts. This is an important part of the fight and I’m grateful for the Mayor’s leadership here. www.portland.gov/hello/news/2...

submitted 21 days ago • 2 comments

Trump is expected to close the office as he cuts programs to help poor and minority communities that are disproportionately affected by pollution. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/06/c...

submitted 21 days ago • 6 comments

Received a letter from POTUS today purporting to remove me as Commissioner and Chair of the FEC. There's a legal way to replace FEC commissioners-this isn't it. I've been so fortunate to serve the American people and stir up some good trouble along the way. That's not changing anytime soon.

submitted 22 days ago • 6588 comments

By illegally neutering the National Labor Relations Board, Trump has enabled Jeff Bezos to ignore the union victory at Whole Foods in Philadelphia. Trump has given the green light to corporations to violate labor law with impunity. Unacceptable. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

submitted 22 days ago • 175 comments

Trump installed Bessent to run the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, and he moved quickly to halt all its work. Deconstructing the government from within.

submitted 25 days ago • 5 comments

What beautiful irony: the Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church now controls the name Proud Boys, the trademark, and rights to any monies from merch. 👏👏 www.nytimes.com/2025/02/03/u...

submitted 24 days ago • 31 comments

Key votes are scheduled this week for some of Trump’s most dangerous nominees: Russell Vought, Robert Kennedy Jr., and Tulsi Gabbard. No matter where you live, it’s important for your senators to hear from you ASAP — and we’ve made it easy with options to call or email. 👇

submitted 25 days ago • 26 comments

Another awards show, another onslaught by Israel against Palestinians.

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

More than 8,000 web pages across more than a dozen U.S. government websites have been taken down since Friday afternoon, a New York Times analysis found. The purges have removed information about vaccines, veterans’ care, hate crimes, scientific research and more.

submitted 26 days ago • 212 comments

I’ve had ppl say they wrote hundreds of letters, knocked hundreds of doors, donated etc to get Congresswoman Bynum elected. It’s great data for me that people are upset, but you need to tell HER! Especially if you helped on the campaign, especially if you live in district. bynum.house.gov/contact

submitted 26 days ago • 4 comments

As the Israeli military swept into a string of Syrian villages in December, the soldiers assured locals that the presence would be temporary. But the earthmoving vehicles that followed suggest a more permanent presence.

submitted 26 days ago • 29 comments

President Trump on Saturday signed executive orders imposing sweeping tariffs on Canada, Mexico and China, the country’s three largest trading partners. Tariffs could lead to higher prices for consumers. Here’s what to know.

submitted 26 days ago • 101 comments

"A letter submitted to the Senate sent by 'physicians' in support of Kennedy's nomination includes names of doctors who have had their licenses revoked, suspended or faced other discipline, the AP has found..." www.huffpost.com/entry/rfk-jr...

submitted 27 days ago • 567 comments

The Trump-Trudeau-Mavs-Lakers-Beyoncé trajectory of this Saturday night is unreal.

submitted 27 days ago • 17 comments

is it good or bad that a billionaire oligarch with close ties to foreign dictators is currently downloading the most sensitive information the us federal government has about its citizens to his own private servers?

submitted 27 days ago • 1094 comments

This is pure insanity

submitted 28 days ago • 61 comments

NEW: ICE official Mellissa Harper has been tapped to lead the Office of Refugee Resettlement. Her hire has concerned experts and advocates that information about children and their families could be shared for arrests and deportations. By @anniewaldman.bsky.social & @micarosenberg.bsky.social

submitted 28 days ago • 18 comments

I just heard from a source as well that this is happening imminently.

submitted 28 days ago • 12 comments

Checking in on Kash Patel’s confirmation hearing:

submitted 29 days ago • 1077 comments

President Trump signed an executive order this week to push colleges and universities to combat antisemitism specifically by monitoring and reporting international students, so that those students or staff members could be investigated or deported as noncitizens.

submitted 29 days ago • 59 comments

only appropriate political response here is to demand the white house explain how its actions aren’t responsible www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

submitted 30 days ago • 840 comments

Yes, this administration is dangerous and cruel, but they are also shockingly dim and incompetent. Opportunities are everywhere. Make everything as hard as possible. Resist every demand. Refuse entry without a warrant. Don’t take the buyout. Their problem solving skills are 📉

submitted 30 days ago • 3792 comments

It’s a fucking shit show taking place in a clown car that’s inside a dumpster fire.

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

Unions and attorneys who represent federal employees are telling workers not to take the offer from the Trump administration to resign from their jobs by Feb. 6 and still be paid through September.

submitted 30 days ago • 67 comments

Reporters: Please stop calling things DEI that are not DEI. This is only cementing the propaganda being used to legitimize the dismantling of all types of initiatives that are not DEI as well as legitimize efforts to end civil rights enforcement. Be specific with your language. Be accurate.

submitted 30 days ago • 234 comments

The only two groups that I've seen who deeply understand the spiritual peril we are in: Black women and Jewish women. I'm talking about feeling it in the cells, our bones. Like, making emergency exit plans. I'm not trying to be hyperbolic, just saying the truth.

submitted 30 days ago • 140 comments

Breaking News: President Trump said his administration would prepare to hold tens of thousands of migrants at the U.S. Navy base at Guantánamo Bay.

submitted 30 days ago • 177 comments