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“Bill Owens took an American stand, and by doing so, he sent a message that will stand the test of time, and be remembered as a moment when the fascists could not break the rock.” steveschmidt.substack.com/p/bill-owens...

submitted 21 hours ago • 3 comments

The GOP whined about the BEAD infrastructure broadband grant program taking too long, so now they're... extending the deadline primarily so they can redirect money from better, more affordable options (like community owned fiber networks and cooperatives) to Elon Musk's expensive, congested Starlink

submitted 20 hours ago • 8 comments

Getting rid of safeguards designed to limit civilian harm from U.S. military operations & ensure compliance with international humanitarian law undermines our credibility, jeopardizes our missions & raises the risk of natl security threats.

submitted 1 day ago • 19 comments

Donald Trump and Elon Musk are bending the law so they can fire thousands of Social Security workers. They want to get rid of the people who make sure you get your monthly checks and help out if there’s a problem.

submitted 1 day ago • 117 comments

“Department of Government Efficiency.”

submitted 7 days ago • 399 comments

They are deadly serious about this. They are planning to throw millions of people off their insurance in order to afford a trillion dollar tax cut for the wealthiest 1%.

submitted 2 days ago • 98 comments

"The Agriculture Department will not require poultry companies to limit salmonella bacteria in their products, halting a Biden Administration effort to prevent food poisoning from contaminated meat." www.seattletimes.com/business/usd...

submitted 1 day ago • 469 comments

Head Start helps give millions of kids in this country a better shot at success. Eliminating this lifeline to fund tax cuts for billionaires is a new level of cruel. If Republicans and Trump jam their budget through, our children will pay the price.

submitted 1 day ago • 16 comments

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth had an unsecured internet line set up in his office to connect to Signal, AP sources say.

submitted 1 day ago • 110 comments

The party of family values doesn’t care if more kids kill thenselves. Horrifying.

submitted 2 days ago • 57 comments

I needed to write about something that’s giving me hope, so I wrote about Independent Bookstore Day which is this Saturday. lithub.com/something-go...

submitted 2 days ago • 22 comments

BREAKING: we won! A federal judge has enjoined the administration's shut down of Voice of America Another success for the Constitution and for us @sddaction.bsky.social & our many wonderful partners & clients More details to follow--stay tuned!

submitted 3 days ago • 653 comments

Every single ICE agent is a terrorist. At a point might as will need to hide instead of volunteering at their concentration camp relocation appointments.

submitted 4 days ago • 83 comments

Almost every line of this story would have been simply unbelievable a few months ago: —Pioneering cancer researcher; —Arrested at airport in Boston; —Now indefinite ICE detention in Louisiana; —"Crime": not declaring some frog-embryo samples for research. Read it. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

submitted 4 days ago • 751 comments

“It's hypocrisy to call yourself a Christian and chase away a refugee or someone seeking help, someone who is hungry or thirsty, toss out someone who is in need of my help. If I say I am Christian, but do these things, I'm a hypocrite." -Pope Francis

submitted 5 days ago • 218 comments

The Justice Department has granted Elon Musk’s staffers access to one of its most sensitive immigration databases, raising serious concerns about privacy, abuse of power, and political retaliation.

submitted 4 days ago • 83 comments

The CFPB has returned BILLIONS to consumers who were victims of financial schemes, but the richest man in the world wants to destroy it. A judge paused Musk’s plan because it would “decimate the agency.” This pause must become a full STOP.

submitted 4 days ago • 19 comments

This is getting fewer headlines than it should. After coming to power promising to help working people, the president is revealing his real priorities by actively making it easier for banks to rip people off.

submitted 7 days ago • 922 comments

Staple this to RFK Jr’s forehead.

submitted 6 days ago • 394 comments

“You can’t say people are our most important product and then treat them like shit.” - Jim Sinegal, co-founder of Costco

submitted 6 days ago • 547 comments

RFK Jr. is very loud and very WRONG about Autism. 1. It’s not a disease 2. There are thousands of people with Autism Spectrum Disorder who pay taxes, have jobs, can use the bathroom on their own, and are thriving in life.

submitted 8 days ago • 1296 comments

RFK Jr.’s lies about autism are disgraceful — and I won't share them to spread misinformation. He consistently undermines public health and reinforces dangerous myths. In Illinois, we stand with those with autism, and I’ll keep fighting for inclusion, science, and the truth.

submitted 8 days ago • 527 comments

WATCH: Dr. Kevin Hall is departing NIH after 21 years at his “dream job.” He says his research findings were being censored under RFK Jr. "What is it going to be like if they want to start actually meddling in the research itself?"

submitted 8 days ago • 24 comments

"Her $60 million contract with the NIH had supported an international network of researchers and clinicians who had produced pathbreaking work on a disease that infects a quarter of the world’s population and kills more than 1 million people per year."

submitted 10 days ago • 75 comments

Just a baby—Cookie #A5669923 is facing more than any puppy should. At only 9 months old, she arrived at the Baldwin Park shelter CA back in February, and she's been steadily losing weight since. Now nearing the front of the TBK list, she's in desperate need of a family to escape death.

submitted 10 days ago • 6 comments

AOC: I saw on Fox, Jeanine Pirro says that they found so many babies and two year olds and four year olds receiving social security. I got a notice for you Jeanine Pirro: those babies receive social security because their parents died. That’s not a waste. That’s humanity. That’s America.

submitted 10 days ago • 1115 comments

Today, I went to our Social Security Office to conduct Oversight and was denied access to meet with officials. Instead, we were given a generic phone number in another state and denied entry past the waiting room. Here’s what we found out ⬇️

submitted 11 days ago • 140 comments

ICYMI: Trump wants to ELIMINATE Head Start. This president thinks we can't afford to help families get preschool or help kids get basic health services, but we can afford trillions of dollars more in tax breaks for billionaires. It's offensive & just plain wrong.

submitted 11 days ago • 10 comments

3 days ago RFK Jr. told the CDC to stop recommending water fluoridation, claiming it was a neurotoxin (this is a lie). Turns out he also just eliminated the CDC’s entire Lead Program, and now lead poisoned children in Milwaukee are just on their own. Lead IS a neurotoxin and harms brain development

submitted 14 days ago • 872 comments

Today would be a great day to ban members of Congress and their families from trading stocks.

submitted 15 days ago • 987 comments

Are you a woman who changed your name when you got married? Congress is considering a bill that could make it much harder for you to vote. Call your rep—this is not a drill. indivisible.org/resource/cal...

submitted 16 days ago • 1523 comments

🆕 Nearly 500,000 children could die from AIDS-related causes by 2030 without stable PEPFAR programmes, expert policy analysis estimates. bit.ly/4ltNtTB

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submitted 18 days ago • 255 comments

"Our words and actions mean everything. Every day comes clearer that individuals too must fight. Must carve out their place in all this. It is only in the aggregate we lose ourselves. But it is also only in the aggregate we can truly be saved." - Andrew Silberstein abovethelaw.com/2025/04/asso...

submitted 18 days ago • 53 comments

Social Security might not mean much to an unelected billionaire, but it’s a lifeline for the rest of us. www.startribune.com/minnesota-re...

submitted 18 days ago • 75 comments

A lot happened last week, but I hope people, especially in Indiana, remember Sen. Jim Banks’ appalling comments to a fired federal worker. abcnews.go.com/Politics/gop...

submitted 19 days ago • 83 comments

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submitted 19 days ago • 109 comments

“Kennedy’s team requested that Marks turn over data on cases of brain swelling and deaths caused by the measles vaccine—data that Marks said doesn’t exist because there have been no such confirmed cases in the U.S.” www.wsj.com/health/healt...

submitted 21 days ago • 220 comments

🚨🚨Calling all North Carolina voters!! Here is a list of every voter that Jefferson Griffin is trying to disenfranchise, please if you are a NC voter check to see if your name is on here, you have 15 days to cure your ballot to make sure your vote counts. thegriffinlist.com/assets/griff...

submitted 21 days ago • 240 comments

Murphy: "It's not designed as economic policy. It's designed as political policy. Because Trump gets really excited when people have to come to him, petition the king for relief. That's what he's doing with law firms, doing with universities. That may be what he's doing with businesses."