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The end goal is to make education a privilege for children born into wealth while destroying the meritocracy that is at the center of the American dream.

submitted 22 hours ago • 101 comments

Truer words were never spoken.

submitted 10 hours ago • 1332 comments

I think this was from Chapter 4 of Mein Kampf.

submitted 12 hours ago • 2436 comments

AOC: I want to live in an America that guarantees healthcare to every person. I want to live in an America that has a living wage for every person I want to live in an America where you have free speech to express yourself and not be afraid of being put on a list or deported.

submitted 21 hours ago • 1189 comments

AOC: What they like to call as radical, I believe is common sense. I believe that when a person gets sick, they shouldn’t go bankrupt in the wealthiest country in the history of the world. Common sense I believe that a minimum wage should cover the minimum cost to live. Common sense...

submitted 1 day ago • 1126 comments

Canada must speak up against the arbitrary detention of travellers. Canadians and other nationals have been kidnapped by ICE. These are not the actions of a democratic nation. This is the creep of fascism. I am calling on Canadians to avoid all travel to the USA. www.youtube.com/watch?v=lt_q...

submitted 1 day ago • 353 comments

This is the story that Karoline Leavitt said probably wasn’t accurate when it was first reported by Reuters because she said they aren’t reliable.

submitted 1 day ago • 1026 comments

Harriet Hageman got booed to oblivion last night in her own town hall for pumping up Doge so hard that even her loyal suckers woke up and smelled the bullshit—about five months too late!

submitted 1 day ago • 2941 comments

Jawdropping. You would expect this in a dictatorship, not the United States. This country is unrecognizable.

submitted 1 day ago • 1469 comments

The administration is removing phone support for Soc Security recipients. Making it more difficult for seniors to get their checks. It’s a back door way to cut SS benefits. Horrific. If you know anyone who is impacted, please help them get online to get their benefits approved

submitted 2 days ago • 3342 comments

Something to think about

submitted 2 days ago • 710 comments

"I’m the Canadian who was detained by Ice for two weeks. It felt like I had been kidnapped" www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Very brave. I only represent Republicans, not all Americans in my district. Hopefully those independent voters will let him know how they feel about this when he runs for Senate.

submitted 3 days ago • 915 comments

MINNESOTA: state senator Justin Eichorn, who co-sponsored a bill to classify ‘Trump Derangement Syndrome’ as a mental illness… jailed for allegedly soliciting a teen for sex.” www.startribune.com/justin-eicho...

submitted 3 days ago • 143 comments

Would like to report some gang tattoos.

submitted 3 days ago • 93 comments

When Donald Trump lawlessly went after ordinary Americans, Chief Justice John Roberts didn't care. But now that Trump is taking aim at Roberts' fellow judges, Roberts suddenly cares. It's always the same with conservatives, they don't care until something affects them.

submitted 3 days ago • 266 comments

1/ For many Americans, deporting violent gang members will sound like a good idea, constitutional niceties be damned. They are the perfect group of people for a government test case. joycevance.substack.com/p/deportatio...

submitted 3 days ago • 288 comments

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DOGE is plotting to cut Social Security phone support, according to leaked memo provided to Axios. The richest man in the word going after grandparents trying to get access to their own money is vile.

submitted 4 days ago • 289 comments

🔥🔥🔥

submitted 4 days ago • 100 comments

The TESLA (a/k/a "TESLER") TAKEDOWN is working... WORLDWIDE! Turns out people really resent an unelected weirdo running our Government & creating economic chaos. Hit Elmo where it really hurts: in his big, fat wallet. If we #TankTesla, It's Ex-X! (a/k/a Twitter) #WinWin Visit www.takedowntesla.com

submitted 4 days ago • 2380 comments

Wow. What a bunch of garbage. He can’t explain it. They will need to outline something real in court.

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submitted 9 days ago • 126 comments

It’s not going to be a fun week.

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submitted 5 days ago • 42 comments

This power grab is unprecedented, unbounded, and unconstitutional.

submitted 5 days ago • 1347 comments

Auchincloss on Fox News Sunday: "This economy is inflationary right now...you know what the GOP response is? Their response is, 'Well, get ready for a rocky ride & by the way, we're gonna give tax cuts to the top 20% of earners & pay for it by taking away healthcare from people who need healthcare'"

submitted 5 days ago • 784 comments

The eventual fate of the GOP

submitted 5 days ago • 2111 comments

I cannot keep up if you are in MS, AL & GA I’d have this guy on in the background this storm system is getting huge. Meet Ryan Hall. He is live on YouTube NOW. www.youtube.com/live/bDuYNgW...

submitted 6 days ago • 28 comments

His track record speaks for itself. While we continue to resist, we should take comfort in that he is deeply incompetent, not very bright & his policies are hurting even his most devoted supporters. Let's not get in the way of his inevitable self-destruction.

submitted 6 days ago • 2621 comments

No lies detected from Jamie Raskin! 👇 #TraitorTrump

submitted 6 days ago • 393 comments

@marcelias.bsky.social's message to Trump after attacking Marc by name at the DOJ: "I wear your scorn as a badge of honor."

submitted 6 days ago • 412 comments

I think some in the Senate have convinced themselves that the backlash to folding will be limited to “the left” and therefore ignorable. Those people are deeply and profoundly misreading the moment and the stakes. Virtually every swing district House Dem walked the plank to vote NO for a reason.

submitted 7 days ago • 5268 comments

📌I can't tell you how much heart I am taking from these Jewish protestors who have marched on Trump Tower today to oppose the administration's kidnapping of Mahmoud Khalil, saying forcefully and rightfully, "Opposing fascism is a Jewish tradition." RIGHT ON ✊🏼

submitted 8 days ago • 76 comments

Finally someone from the 2024 campaign is speaking up and doing something. It is a start but we still need a Wartime General.

submitted 8 days ago • 92 comments

Keep this in mind: The internment of Japanese Americans during World War II was carried out by executive order—from the President of the United States. 🧵

submitted 8 days ago • 561 comments

one thing i keep thinking about is how there is simply no way to design a constitutional system that can resist authoritarian incursion if participants in that system do not actually care that much

submitted 9 days ago • 1218 comments

Greenland says No to joining the US www.politico.eu/article/gree...

submitted 9 days ago • 91 comments

Military chiefs from most NATO and EU countries met in Paris yesterday to discuss new security arrangements. The US wasn’t invited. It was a closed door meeting and there’s been no announcement of outcome but with both Australia and Japan in attendance we seem to be seeing a new alliance forming.

submitted 9 days ago • 660 comments

More of this!

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He is lying. I was on Columbia's campus the day Johnson visited, April 24. The congressional delegation spoke from the steps of the Low Library, hundreds of feet from the pro-divestment encampment. No one could even hear Johnson– only press microphones. He was heckled. That's all.

submitted 10 days ago • 157 comments

Elon Musk called Senator Mark Kelly a coward after he visited Ukraine. Kelly: "It's a free country. But I've launched into orbit 4 times, I flew 39 combat missions in Desert Storm, and I held my wife's hand in the hospital after she was shot in the head.... I don't really care what he thinks of me."

submitted 10 days ago • 28 comments

He was a few months ahead of himself.

submitted 11 days ago • 822 comments

One of my companies informed me they cancelled a $2m conference in Florida. Why ? They didn’t feel they could pass on the incremental cost of tariffs. So they are cutting expenses. That’s a city that lost a ton of tourism revenue. The cost of tariffs isn’t just the cost of the tariff

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submitted 12 days ago • 258 comments

They do seem like inconsistent positions, but the attacks on teachers was really about dismantling public schools to get taxpayer dollars for home schoolers and private charter schools run by charlatans.

submitted 12 days ago • 556 comments