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This is how it’s done.

submitted 23 hours ago • 2742 comments

who could’ve predicted that confirming a white nationalist, christian extremist, drunk, sexual predator, tv host to lead our country’s armed forces would end in ruin

submitted 19 hours ago • 63 comments

submitted 7 hours ago • 486 comments

Just look at these paragraphs from the AP story. Hegseth called Brown unqualified solely because he's Black. Then they fired him... and replaced him with a white guy so indisputably unqualified that he requires a Presidential waiver. This is what "merit" means to them. apnews.com/article/trum...

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This story can't be repeated enough. The GOP is lined up behind the guy who is so incompetent that his quasi-gov't agency did this. They're confirming his highly questionable nominees & hurting the American people. And "accidentally"? It was stupidity, not accident. www.nbcnews.com/politics/dog...

submitted 3 days ago • 1155 comments

DOGE recommended firing workers at: -FDA, which oversees Neuralink -FAA, which oversees SpaceX -USAID, which probed Starlink -CFPB, which oversees Tesla's financing arm and a potential payment platform on X. "Conflict of interest" is a severe understatement.

submitted 3 days ago • 1213 comments

They voted for the guy who said he would lower the price of eggs. Now we have no eggs.

submitted 3 days ago • 480 comments

I repeat…

submitted 5 days ago • 1041 comments

so far going anti-woke leads to less money and planes falling out of the sky

submitted 5 days ago • 2644 comments

Knowledge is power…

submitted 6 days ago • 1041 comments

from “Parable of the Talents” by Octavia Butler

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European friends: Do not accept lectures on democracy & freedom of speech from an Administration that denies the 2020 election results and is now suing & intimidating news outlets whose reporting they don’t like. Stand tall against right-wing extremism. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/15/w...

submitted 7 days ago • 302 comments

the federal government is explicitly acting as if jim crow is the law!

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submitted 7 days ago • 1085 comments

It should go without saying, but perhaps not: Removing uncomfortable histories because they fail to glorify the dominant group in power is not the sign of a healthy and free society.

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submitted 7 days ago • 688 comments

Incompetence in Washington puts every American at risk, no matter how you voted. No one should be happy that the DOGE team - the same folks who randomly published classified U.S. security information online today - wants access to your bank account & Social Security numbers.

submitted 7 days ago • 2698 comments

Automatically assuming that a heavily women and non-white workforce is less qualified — even to make coffee — is definitionally racist and sexist. But further, it never occurred to him that the racial/gender make up is because most jobs at Starbucks pay low wages? Let’s see data on management!

submitted 8 days ago • 20 comments

these cabinet announcements are like an advent calendar counting down to the apocalypse

submitted 9 days ago • 377 comments

BREAKING - Inflation JUMPS back up to 3.1% One of the factors? Egg prices SKYROCKETED -- 15% in one month alone! What happened to Trump's promise to "SLASH prices" on "DAY ONE -- so fast it'll make their heads spin"? Trump LIED -- and we're all paying it for now. Literally.

submitted 9 days ago • 49 comments

That Super Bowl was a gift for black artists. Kendrick showed us a way forward in this time of facism. Coded language. Storytelling. Aggressive humor and joy. Elevated artistry in the place of mere entertainment. Not obeying in advance. Saying the thing that respectability doesn’t want us say.

submitted 10 days ago • 152 comments

BREAKING - Elon Musk slated to win $400 MILLION govt contract to make "armored Tesla" -- after $38 MILLION SpaceX contract yesterday Musk's plan: -- Shut down parts of the govt investigating him -- Claim that he's stopping government spending -- Give himself all the money

submitted 9 days ago • 177 comments

“Palestinians do not need President Trump to talk about Gaza as if it were an empty hotel room that needs redesigning,” Mosab Abu Toha writes. “What we need is for the rest of the world to hear about Gaza’s basic, immediate necessities.”

submitted 10 days ago • 17 comments

This is like a bank robber getting to fire the cops and disable the alarms just before he strolls into the bank lobby.

submitted 10 days ago • 767 comments

The top health care companies in America spent 95% of their profits to make their CEOs & stockholders obscenely rich. How many Americans would be alive today if those companies spent $2.6 trillion on disease prevention and primary care, instead of stock buybacks and dividends?

submitted 10 days ago • 261 comments

This is Oligarchy. The three richest men in the world have become $196 BILLION richer since Donald Trump was elected. $196 billion for three men in 99 days. Meanwhile, 60% of Americans live paycheck to paycheck.

submitted 10 days ago • 256 comments

CFPB - closed USAID - closed Medicaid - under attack NIH cancer funding - frozen Department of Education - under attack But do you know who just got a NEW government contract for $38,858,978 literally today? SpaceX — owned by Elon Musk

submitted 10 days ago • 382 comments

Yup. If the President can unilaterally stop Congressional appropriations, then we're past any 'guardrails.' Congress is now an advisory body; it does not control the power of the purse.

submitted 11 days ago • 114 comments

👇🦋💪

submitted 12 days ago • 394 comments

Libraries are great for the books, sure, but it's also nice to have a quiet and safe space to sit and think- a place where no one is trying to sell you anything.

submitted 12 days ago • 115 comments

Senate Democrats launched a new portal for federal employees to blow the whistle on illegal or illicit activities being done in the federal government under the purview of Donald Trump, Elon Musk, or DOGE.

submitted 12 days ago • 334 comments

47,000+ Palestinians killed. 111,000 injured. Trump’s response? Forcibly expel Palestinians to make Gaza “a real estate development for the future. A beautiful piece of land.” No. Gaza must be rebuilt for the Palestinian people, not billionaire tourists.

submitted 12 days ago • 243 comments

Trump’s education cuts could eliminate 72,000 teachers. I agree—Rep. Rosa DeLauro warns this means overcrowded classrooms, slashed special ed, and gutted Pell Grants. Musk calls it “efficiency”—but it’s really the billionaires’ plan to dismantle public education and leave working families behind.

submitted 12 days ago • 31 comments

You are not powerless, and he is not unstoppable. Look at, and learn from, the funding freeze and how quickly he was forced to surrender.

submitted 12 days ago • 3913 comments

You wouldn't dismantle the agency that protects consumers for corporate abuse and scams unless you wanted your rich buddies to be able to abuse and scam consumers.

submitted 13 days ago • 703 comments