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"Make no mistake—our Commonwealth is at a crisis point...Trump’s federal job cuts are devastating Virginia families...Yet Governor Glenn Youngkin refuses to stand up to Trump, allowing these cuts to go unchallenged." - VA Senate Majority Leader @ssurovell.bsky.social bluevirginia.us/2025/02/toda...

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UVA Prof. @LarrySabato, a smart, highly informed and levelheaded person, warns that Orban's Hungary ("curtailed press freedom...dismantled democratic checks and balances...neutered criticism") is "a vision of our future." Disturbing. bluevirginia.us/2025/02/rep-...

submitted 16 hours ago • 1 comment

Last night's Pentagon massacre is much more than realized. Not just firing the black CJCS and first woman CNO but all the senior JAG officers and hiring a man who just joined 3 different crypto firms tied to Kushner and Thiel as Chairman. I did a deep dive into it open.substack.com/pub/fpwellma...

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But why? It’s a mystery!

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🚨BREAKING: Federal Court GRANTS sweeping nationwide injunction against Trump DEI executive orders finding that they violate First and Fifth Amendments to the Constitution. A huge victory for @democracyforward.org and its clients. A stinging loss for Trump. Visit www.democracydocket.com for details.

submitted 2 days ago • 988 comments

In addition to Congress being the place that makes the laws, pretty key thing, the constitution explicitly says Congress gets to create the postal system. It’s not left implied that that comes under law making generally. The President has no power to unilaterally abolish it and move it to commerce.

submitted 3 days ago • 298 comments

"North Carolina senator Thom Tillis told people that the FBI warned him about 'credible death threats' when he was considering voting against Pete Hegseth’s nomination for defense secretary... "Tillis ultimately provided the crucial 50th vote to confirm." www.vanityfair.com/news/story/t...

submitted 3 days ago • 1557 comments

Medicaid as % of population, Red States: 44% Louisiana: 2M 30% West Virginia: 516K N Carolina: 3M 28% Kentucky: 1.4M 27% Arkansas: 825K 25% Oklahoma: 1M 20% Alabama: 1M Missouri: 1.3M S Carolina: 1.1M Tennessee: 1.4M Mississippi: 600K 18% Georgia: 2M Credit: www.threads.net/@jahnnysmoot...

submitted 3 days ago • 18 comments

www.politico.com/news/2025/02... This is the fodder for an American revolution. Yep! It’s going to happen. #DemVoice1 #Voices4Victory

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The CDC has an ultra-competitive 2-year program to train "the best of the best" to lead public health labs. Most of the current class were terminated over the weekend. www.science.org/content/arti... (by @meredithwadman.bsky.social)

submitted 3 days ago • 581 comments

Trump endorsed the GOP plan to gut Medicaid to pay for tax cuts that will only benefit the top 1% while harming the bottom 40% They are not going to help the hard working American taxpayers. They are working for only the wealthiest of Americans.

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Care about children and want them to have a chance at a healthy life as good citizens? Then you should join me in opposing Republican plans to whack Medicaid. youtube.com/shorts/Hzk41...

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Kash Patel's confirmation by 51 Republicans is an appallingly dangerous act. Who believes what he told them in his hearings? “There will be no retributive actions taken by any FBI should I be confirmed as the FBI director," he said. And, “There should be no politics in the FBI.” Tough days ahead.

submitted 3 days ago • 94 comments

You know who Trump never calls a dictator? Putin. And he actually is a dictator. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

submitted 4 days ago • 28 comments

Kamala was right. And it only took him less than 30 days to roll over for Putin.

submitted 4 days ago • 2192 comments

Meanwhile in Russia: state TV host Vladimir Solovyov boasts that Trump's information comes straight from Putin after their 1 1/2 hour long phone call, as well as the preceding 3 1/2 hour long conversation between Putin and Trump's buddy Steve Witkoff. www.youtube.com/watch?v=RyeY...

submitted 4 days ago • 25 comments

Register to attend our March 1st event: mobilize.us/s/lvfjBF

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King declined to give the Musk-led DOGE, access to a centralized database that includes information about income, addresses, retirement benefits and sometimes even medical records for any American with a Social Security number, people familiar with the situation told The 19th.

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Trump administration firing hundreds of FAA employees despite four deadly crashes in four weeks

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“We must especially beware of that small group of selfish men who would clip the wings of the American eagle in order to feather their own nests.” -FDR, 1941

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⚡️European leaders are set to gather in Paris on Feb. 17 for an emergency summit over concerns that the U.S. is advancing peace talks with Russia without Europe, Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski announced on Feb. 15.

submitted 8 days ago • 51 comments

It is important to celebrate the wins when we get them.🥳 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/...

submitted 8 days ago • 226 comments

I think what he’s saying is he’s about to grab the country by the p*ssy and when you’re a star, Republicans in Congress let you do it.

submitted 8 days ago • 671 comments

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

submitted 9 days ago • 1758 comments

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

submitted 9 days ago • 854 comments

ATTN HHS EMPLOYEES: Firing notices are going out. I am in receipt of an email saying they will revoke your access as soon as you read the email that you've been fired. Please download everything you need before you open that email. SHARE FAR & WIDE. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/attn-hhs-e...

submitted 9 days ago • 452 comments

On the record: Fuck off, Rep. Mike Johnson. Fuck all the way off! 🤬

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

Done!

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it is genuinely incredible that all you have to do is scratch the surface and it becomes clear that each of these guys is a huge piece of shit

submitted 12 days ago • 2312 comments

Tommy Tuberville: "We gotta get rid of this nonsense of social justice."

submitted 12 days ago • 958 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 12 days ago • 991 comments

NEW VIDEO: I have never seen as many federal judges angry with the federal government as there are right now. And one judge in Rhode Island seems poised to find someone in criminal contempt. Paige and I discuss. www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVzF...

submitted 12 days ago • 514 comments

Probationary employees with less than 1 year of service at CFPB have received termination notices, but they are so hastily done that they don't have people's names, job titles, or other information. They literally say "I am removing you from your position of [JobTitle]... effective [EffectiveDate]"

submitted 12 days ago • 137 comments

Seems the "Law & Order" party is set to prosecute private companies that exercise their right to hire women, PoC, or the disabled So... is Pam Bondi not a woman, or what? She can have a job, but if your company hires a woman, you broke the law? Rules for thee... #GeorgeOrwellsParty

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Federal Judge John Bates has ordered the Trump Administration to restore all public health pages to the HHS, CDC, and FDA federal websites after they removed them in January in accordance with Trump’s executive order Thank you Judge Bates! #ProudBlue #BlueCrew

submitted 12 days ago • 45 comments

Ye, the rapper and designer formerly known as Kanye West, aired a commercial in some markets during the Super Bowl that promoted a website selling a single product: a white T-shirt with a black swastika.

submitted 12 days ago • 72 comments

If tech giant Alphabet will bend the knee and change the name of the Gulf of Mexico on Google Maps, what else are they willing to do? Asking for a few friends.

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Pete Hegseth's DOD has decided to recruit at an NRA event rather than a Black Engineering event. www.military.com/daily-news/2...

submitted 13 days ago • 355 comments

This script would get tossed because it’s too obvious.

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Nothing to see here. Just one crook helping out another. www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news...

submitted 13 days ago • 17 comments

"Gaza development plan" is such an Orwellian turn of phrase, such an abuse of language to normalize a proposed ethnic cleansing

submitted 13 days ago • 105 comments

A statement from the Kennedy Center

submitted 15 days ago • 1199 comments

Two lawyers, one Yale educated, one Harvard educated; one the VP, one a senator, suggesting that decisions made by courts aren’t legitimate if they don’t like the outcome. This is dangerous territory.

submitted 14 days ago • 1232 comments