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"No client ever had money enough to bribe my conscience or to stop its utterance against wrong, and oppression. My conscience is my own - my creators - not man's." -- Abraham Lincoln

submitted 19 days ago • 113 comments

GDP looks bad? So what if we just change how we calculate it to make it look better? Is that how we should process this information? www.nytimes.com/2025/03/04/b...

submitted 24 days ago • 48 comments

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submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

Your tips are still getting taxed. Your overtime is still getting taxed. Your Social Security is still getting taxed. Trump and Republicans have changed NOTHING — NONE of those changes were in the resolution they passed. Don’t let them lie to you.

submitted 29 days ago • 84 comments

Cartoon by Nick Anderson

submitted 29 days ago • 181 comments

This is what House Republicans voted for tonight. Another reminder that we have socialism for the rich, harsh capitalism for the rest.

submitted 30 days ago • 251 comments

This 👇

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

Everything they do is corrupt

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

New in PN: Despite the hype, DOGE hasn't found a shred of fraud "With nothing to show for its efforts to find actual fraud, it has become clear that DOGE is the enforcement arm of a Trump administration that has no interest in working with Congress to implement its policy priorities."

submitted 32 days ago • 413 comments

Trump and Musk are literally looking to ram through a budget that would give billionaires like them a MASSIVE tax cut -- while eliminating healthcare for the poorest Americans, and jacking up YOUR taxes They're going to take a TRILLION of your dollars and give it to themselves

submitted 31 days ago • 98 comments

We’re so f*cked

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

Folks are asking, “what should I do in this moment?” One of the most passionate, progressive voices in Congress for 30 years, Oregon Sen. Ron Wyden answers that question. Here’s our conversation, inside a replica of the Senate chamber at the Edward M. Kennedy Institute: youtu.be/n_nQ-Moa9fI?...

submitted 34 days ago • 211 comments

Got courage?

submitted 34 days ago • 3 comments

Nothing to see here. Totally fine. Not corrupt at all.

submitted 38 days ago • 0 comments

Tesla's stock is ridiculously overvalued, and even a modest consumer boycott could tank the company, which accounts for the majority of Elon Musk's wealth. The divestment movement weakened apartheid South Africa. Let's do that again. slate.com/business/202...

submitted 44 days ago • 238 comments

NEW: President Trump's hiring freeze has stopped the onboarding of seasonal federal firefighters, including those who work for agencies called on to help battle the devastating L.A. fires, creating a potential shortfall ahead of the next fire season. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

submitted 50 days ago • 101 comments

The richest man on earth, Elon Musk is trying to kill a department, USAID, that helps the poorest people on earth Because USAID has been investigating Musk and his Starlink company — and their ties to Vladimir Putin and Russia THAT is why Musk is attacking USAID

submitted 48 days ago • 226 comments

Musk's latest power grab: your Medicare benefits. Elon - you're looking in the wrong place. Private insurers in Medicare Advantage overcharged taxpayers by at least $83 billion in 2024 alone.

submitted 50 days ago • 319 comments

I mean it’s just the agency tasked with nuclear security, how bad can it be?

submitted 49 days ago • 236 comments

Two weeks into President Trump’s sweeping freeze on foreign aid, H.I.V. groups abroad have not received any funding, jeopardizing the health of more than 20 million people, including 500,000 children. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/h...

submitted 51 days ago • 35 comments

to call this a clown show is unfair to clowns. pure madness. like playing russian roulette with a machine gun. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/u...

submitted 50 days ago • 841 comments

I’m more of a North Face guy but this seems a bit extreme

submitted 61 days ago • 837 comments

"At this point, we do not believe the actions taken are legally sufficient to dismiss Presidentially Appointed, Senate Confirmed Inspectors General" writes Hannibal “Mike” Ware, Council of Inspectors on Integrity and Efficiency

submitted 62 days ago • 67 comments

submitted 62 days ago • 3003 comments

This is infuriating. This beautiful melting pot of a country full of immigrants, and we have a selfish narcissist pitting uninformed people against “others” instead of trying to unite and care for each other. And it’s all for money and power, not a greater good.

submitted 63 days ago • 0 comments

REPORTER: You would agree it's never acceptable to assault police officers? TRUMP: Sure REPORTER: Among those you pardoned is a guy who used a stun gun on a police officer. Why does he deserve a pardon? TRUMP: Well, I don't know

submitted 66 days ago • 1160 comments

to be clear, Trump's position is that violence against cops is unacceptable, but pardoning people convicted of violence against cops is the right thing to do because hey look over there!

submitted 66 days ago • 137 comments

This Land Is Your Land by Woody Guthrie

submitted 68 days ago • 75 comments

Mountain #bikecommuter rig!

submitted 73 days ago • 0 comments

Who bike commutes three days a week or more? 🙋‍♂️ What type of distance? What’s your commuter rig? What’s the gear you can’t live without?

submitted 74 days ago • 5 comments

Testing

submitted 80 days ago • 0 comments