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A grassroots movement is calling on all Americans to abstain from shopping with major retailers tomorrow, February 28, as part of an “economic blackout.” I encourage you to join. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/boycott

submitted 12 hours ago • 1228 comments

Fealty to Donald Trump will not spare you from his cruelty. It's strength — not weakness — that curbs his baser instincts. Now is the time for us to be strong.

submitted 11 hours ago • 146 comments

We need a clear narrative to fight back: DOGE and Elon Musk are not interested in efficiency. They are not interested in making this country or your life or my life better. Elon Musk is interested in destroying all barriers to increasing his wealth. (Graphic from NYTimes)

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

$200 million taxpayer dollars spent on “tell me I’m pretty” ads to stroke his own ego, while he fires people to “save money.” Sociopathic.

submitted 5 days ago • 496 comments

He nails it.

submitted 5 days ago • 1554 comments

🚨BREAKING: @democracyforward.org sues on behalf of unions, retirees to block access to personal and sensitive data at SSA. This case comes after SSA commissioner stepped down due to concerns about DOGE accessing data. Visit www.democracydocket.com for details.

submitted 5 days ago • 240 comments

Dear OPM FOIA staff - Remember to preserve all of these email responses, as we will be submitting FOIA requests for this consolidated compilation of information on what the entire federal government did last week. Thx - FOIA community

submitted 5 days ago • 164 comments

Get. Him. Out. Of. Our. Government.

submitted 5 days ago • 2876 comments

This gets my vote for tweet/post of the year. This is a RED ALERT post. This is exactly why he’s doing it.

submitted 5 days ago • 432 comments

Side note. There are eight members of the joint chiefs. the chair is black. the CNO (navy) is a woman. the other six are white guys. chair and the cno got fired tonight.

submitted 6 days ago • 1087 comments

Heroin addict and steroid abuser wants the rest of us to to make as smart decisions about our health as he has.

submitted 6 days ago • 894 comments

BREAKING: USAID contractors/aid recipients say Secretary Rubio and USAID leader Peter Marocco should be held in civil contempt for violating a court order to lift spending freeze.

submitted 8 days ago • 533 comments

Duckworth: "He essentially just surrendered to Putin."

submitted 8 days ago • 797 comments

The Republican budget plan is simple: billionaires win, families lose. Republicans say it's about border security, but it's not. They want to rip away support for working Americans, gut critical programs like Medicaid, and balloon the deficit.

submitted 8 days ago • 38 comments

Senators Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski, Joni Ernst, etc: You’ve seen Hegseth, RFK Jr, and others give worthless assurances. You’re now seeing the US appease Putin, and DOJ guardrails crumble. Are you going to let Kash Patel use the FBI against his enemies list and further destroy the rule of law?

submitted 8 days ago • 2106 comments

Baldwin: "Last night, the president said 'I'm not touching Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, VA, I'm not touching them.' By this morning, he endorsed the House budget resolution which paves the way for massive cuts to Medicaid."

submitted 8 days ago • 1465 comments

👇🏻

submitted 8 days ago • 1376 comments

"Tyranny requires your fear and your silence and your compliance. Democracy requires your courage." -- @govpritzker.illinois.gov

submitted 8 days ago • 534 comments

You don’t have to work in politics to know where this is going. www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...

submitted 8 days ago • 444 comments

Money talks

submitted 11 days ago • 2301 comments

“Russia has not achieved its military goals, its economy is under immense pressure, and combat losses continue to grow. […] Now is not the time to ease this pressure”, - former NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg

submitted 11 days ago • 5 comments

Americans have been deeply shaken by the news that RFK Jr. was confirmed and sworn in as head of the Department of Health and Human Services. Kennedy, a recovering heroine addict, now has broad control over many of the biggest federal programs in the U.S. tackling addiction: the…

submitted 11 days ago • 603 comments

I don’t see how this could possibly go wrong. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

submitted 11 days ago • 27 comments

I really don’t care, do u?

submitted 11 days ago • 3102 comments

I’m having great difficulty right now seeing how our political system doesn’t devolve into violence.

submitted 12 days ago • 6486 comments

NOAA is reportedly on the DOGE chopping block. The National Weather Service, which is part of NOAA, provides life saving weather forecasting in the US. A study found that for every $1 invested in NWS, it produces $73 in value to Americans. Again, this isn't about efficiency.

submitted 13 days ago • 545 comments

President Donald Trump’s administration halted defunding the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, after Democracy Forward, on behalf of the city of Baltimore and a nonprofit, filed a lawsuit. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

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"Look, buddy, you’re in no condition to be getting behind a desk at the Defense Department right now." theonion.com/concern...

submitted 13 days ago • 76 comments

JD Vance's speech in Munich sounds like it was literally written by the Kremlin

submitted 13 days ago • 1757 comments

NEW: The CDC is currently removing all the influenza resources from their website during the worst flu season in decades.

submitted 13 days ago • 853 comments

Even worse incompetence: they accidentally fired, then apparently today un-fired, hundreds of the people who manage America's nuclear weapons.

submitted 13 days ago • 1611 comments

If your excuse for why “leaders” aren’t speaking up…is because they might fear retaliation, you might not realize it, but if that would turn out to be the reason why, it would be evidence of having failed one of the most important tests of leadership.

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NEW VIDEO: Fourteen Democratic state AG's have sued to block DOGE in the biggest broadside on Elon Musk's efforts to reshape the federal government. Paige and I explain. www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DTQ...

submitted 13 days ago • 132 comments

⚡️'No point trying to negotiate' with Putin, Yulia Navalnaya says. "Even if you decided to negotiate with Putin, just remember he will lie," Navalnaya, widow of late Russian dissident Alexei Navalny, said at the Munich Security Conference two days before the anniversary of her husband's death.

submitted 13 days ago • 521 comments

This was one of RFK Jr.’s first orders after being sworn in. Just an astonishing denial of science and will cause so much pain to the 45 million Americans facing mental health challenges.

submitted 13 days ago • 1534 comments

Former heroin addict wants to send Americans to work camps. 👇

submitted 13 days ago • 906 comments

Vance is demanding that EU countries spend 5% of their GDP on defense. The USA spends 3.36% of its GDP on defense.

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I think we’ve come up with the name…

submitted 15 days ago • 864 comments

Bernie Sanders: "They will use the enormous media operations they own to deflect attention away from the impact of their policies while they entertain us to death."

submitted 16 days ago • 985 comments

Nailed it 🏆

submitted 16 days ago • 581 comments

Tulsi Gabbard speaks the language of falsehoods and conspiracy theories. She has spent her entire career sympathizing with the likes of Vladimir Putin and Bashar al-Assad. She is not qualified to lead America’s intelligence agencies.

submitted 16 days ago • 128 comments

It’s no secret that Chair Powell and I disagree on a lot, but today we agreed: without the CFPB, there is no federal regulator making sure giants banks don't cheat you.

submitted 16 days ago • 425 comments

my view is that as soon as the administration froze disbursement of congressional appropriations we entered constitutional crisis territory

submitted 16 days ago • 1139 comments

If you are looking for someone to say that all is lost and the courts can't help protect democracy, you are following the wrong guy. If you are looking for someone who fights hard and will never give up, I'm here for you.

submitted 16 days ago • 1852 comments

BREAKING: Judge Beryl Howell has ruled that the FBI will have to release documents related to Trump's mishandling of classified documents in a FOIA case brought by Jason Leopold. From Kyle Cheney: www.politico.com/news/2025/02...

submitted 17 days ago • 451 comments